Posts belonging to Category 'Titanic Cliches'
August 2, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
Writing in the Journal Gazette Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui had this to say about trying to fix the old post office: The debate over potential changes at the U.S. Postal Service is like a fight over the dessert bar on the Titanic. Raising first-class postage rates and eliminating Saturday delivery won’t matter much when [...]
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June 21, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
John Hendricks writing in the Ukiah Daily Journal about corruption wrote the following: The helmsman of the Titanic was advised of a small ice flow off the bow. Not to worry. This ship is unsinkable. So we think of the governments of the United States. We best think again. Our politicians make P.T. Barnum and [...]
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June 16, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
There have several Titanic cliches in the past few days. Time to give them their due! First up is Hal Steger, vice president of marketing at Funambol who said: “Symbian is a great platform, but it’s also huge. It’s the Titanic of mobile operating systems… lets hope it doesn’t suffer the same fate,” said Hal [...]
Categories: Titanic Cliches | Tags: Bruce Babbit, Funambol, Hal Steger, Jesse Kline, Ken Salazar, Reason Online, Rev. James Merritt, Southern Baptists, Symbian | Comments Off
June 10, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
According to New York Observer, Governor Patterson is on the attack against a fellow Democrat in the state senate. Senate Majority Leader Espada has stated that he would not vote for cuts that are slipped into weekly emergency budget extenders. This caused Paterson to throw some verbal bombs and naturally Titanic was invoked. “That is [...]
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June 4, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
The New Jersey Sports Authority, like many government agencies these days, is bleeding red. And they need lots of money to keep from going broke. Of course that means taxpayers get to foot the bill despite a $1.3 million cut in the payroll. To that the Star Ledger notes in its editorial: The NJSEA says [...]
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June 2, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
Sholom Rubashkin, former CEO of the Glatt kosher Agriprocessors slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa is on trial for violating child labor laws. The trial is winding down and the prosecutor made a connection to Titanic in closing arguments. “The string quartet was playing on the deck of the Titanic as the ship went down. Because this [...]
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May 30, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
Titanic is getting lots of use these days in politics. Left, right, middle, anarchists. So it comes as no surprise that at a meeting of the Socialist International that someone would bring up Titanic. And that someone was the former Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Sergey Stanishev: “The situation in Bulgaria could be compared with the [...]
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May 7, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
Poor Captain Smith. At one time a well respected sea captain and commodore of the White Star Line. Now just an afterthought for commentators searching for ways to include Titanic into their writing. Take the case of Newsweek. It is for sale and the editor, Jon Meacham, is out making the rounds that it was [...]
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May 5, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
Rob Neyer at ESPN blogs about Joe Posnanski’s comments on the Royals sending down Alex Gordon to Triple A. Posnanski refers to Titanic: This isn’t just rearranging furniture on the Titanic. It’s rearranging furniture on the Titanic to make room for the wagon wheel coffee table. ESPN, Have Royals Given Up On Alex Gordon?, 3 [...]
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March 31, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
Titanic has become so common in political/economic conversation these days it now called “T-word.” Kevin Riordan at the Philadelphia Inquirer coined the phrase in a recent column. In reporting his interview with Ken Hartman he writes: “About five minutes into our chat about public school funding, Ken Hartman goes for the T-word.” Not just once [...]
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