Posts Tagged Current Events
MoveOn.org Gets Discount Rate for ‘Betray Us’ Advocacy Ad
Posted by Lane in Politics & Religion on September 13, 2007
Despite claims of “journalistic integrity”, the fact is that media bias is a reality. You just wouldn’t think an entity as large as the New York Times would be so blatant about it:
Jake Tapper at ABC News reported that MoveOn.org paid $65,000 for its full page anti-war advocacy sliming of General David Petraeus. This figure raised the suspicions of attentive blogger Confederate Yankee whose intuition appears to be correct. While looking up the current New York Times rate book he discovered that MoveOn.org received a $102,000 discount on the standard political advocacy rate that is advertised at $167,157.
For a newspaper that pretends to be objective purveyors of news this discount seems a bit steep for the deep pocketed liberal advocacy group. In fact the amount MoveOn paid is less than any rate listed in the New York Times schedule.
Good grief
Posted by Lane in Uncategorized on October 18, 2006
School bans tag, other chase games
Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they’ll get hurt and hold the school liable.
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Another Willett parent, Celeste D’Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. “I’ve witnessed enough near collisions,” she said.
Oh no! Not a “near collision” on a playground! Whatever shall we do to protect our fragile little lambs? You gotta be kidding me. Of course, this is from the same school district that outlawed dodgeball a few years ago.
Disgusting
Posted by Lane in Uncategorized on September 2, 2005
CNN has been on at work all day, and I have to say I am completely disgusted at everyone that is trying to turn the Hurricane Katrina issue into a political/racial fight. Not to mention the apparent glee with which they keep rebroadcasting the New Orleans mayor saying “G_d D__n” over and over again.
Convooooooy
Posted by Lane in Uncategorized on September 1, 2005
Driving to work today, I saw at least 15 “cherry picker” trucks heading south on I65, one after the other. I wonder if they were heading to the region affected by Hurricane Katrina….
The REAL Election Results
Posted by Lane in Uncategorized on November 3, 2004
Thanks to BTR for the image 
Seriously, things were a little tense for a while, but thankfully Ohio didn’t turn into another Florida. And my (admittedly little) respect for John Kerry has grown significantly considering the way he handled it. He could have contested Ohio if he really felt like it, but thankfully common sense got the better of him.
Local elections went well… Maury County overwhelmingly (87%) voted *not* to have a county sales tax. Who thought this would ever pass? Tennessee already has the highest sales tax in the nation, and they want to *increase* it? Riiiiight.
Disgusting
Posted by Lane in Uncategorized on October 11, 2004
Well, Christopher Reeve hasn’t been dead for 24 hours, and already people are trying to use his death for their own political gains regarding stem cell research.
Please read up on the *facts* and the differences between adult and embryonic stem cell research (a distinction the left purposefully ignores in order to push their agenda).
Edit: Another link
Christopher Reeve, dead at 52.
Posted by Lane in Entertainment on October 11, 2004
The man who was responsible for the definitive portrayal of the definitive superhero died last night…
Christopher Reeve, the star of the “Superman” movies whose near-fatal riding accident nine years ago turned him into a worldwide advocate for spinal cord research, died Sunday of heart failure, his publicist said. He was 52.