Midtown Facts
Although Midtown is a rather vague term for an area in Memphis, it basically entails Central Gardens, Overton Park, Hein Park near Rhodes College, Cooper Young, Annesdale Snowden, Little Hanoi and the Parkway.
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- February 21, 2012 - Chi Town Gets Gas Break - The Chicago area, which usually leads the nation's highest gas prices, is getting a break at the pump. - Patrick DeHaan, a senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com, says Chicago's apparent discounted gas prices are partly due to local refineries clearing out the winter blend gas to make room for cleaner-burning summer blend. - "Prices across Chicago continue to buck the national trend and have gone down in the last week," said DeHaan. "The national average has gone up 5 cents last week and Chicago dropped about 9 cents a gallon last... More →
- February 19, 2012 - Michelle on Vacation - Again - Michelle Obama has embarked on a skiing vacation with her daughters in Aspen, Colorado, according to the Aspen Daily News. The first lady, who just returned last month from 17 days of relaxation in Hawaii, is skiing in Colorado on Presidents' Day Weekend for the second year in a row. Last year she went to... More →
- February 19, 2012 - Muslim Warned Us - As reported at Gatewaypundit: On May 10, 2008, Sheik Muhammad ABu Al Qat said on TV, "let me bring good tidings to the Muslims: Allah willing, the American empire will very soon collapse...This won’t happen as a result of war. Not at all. Allah will send to America an American Gorbachev, from within. Gorbachev, who brought about the USSR collapse, was one of them. Everybody knows this story. An American Gorbachev will surface in America, and he will destroy this... More →
- February 18, 2012 - For It, But They Don't Want to Pay It - As orthodox Catholic author Steve Kellmeyer points out (in americanthinker.com): - On the one hand, the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) is attacking Obama for forcing them (the bishops) to pay for contraception. On the other hand, the USCCB is pushing forward the idea that taxpayers should pay to extend unemployment insurance (again). - And that's just the beginning of the rich irony. You see, almost none of the parishes in the United States pay unemployment insurance. They get dispensed from the mandate to do so because they are religious organizations. So, if you are employed by a Catholic parish and you get laid off, so long, sucker. You can't collect unemployment because your bishop hasn't paid into unemployment for you.... - Read more:... More →
- February 17, 2012 - Uh Oh - This note from Zerohedge blog: - while we know that total debt to GDP is already over 100% and unlikely to ever decline back to double digits, thus putting into question the marginal utility of debt to generate further economic growth, another just as important question is what is the incremental utility of tax revenue relative to debt issuance, i.e., is America now issuing more debt than it is collecting from tax revenues: a step which would further cement its status as a banana debt... More →
- February 15, 2012 - Not Prepped for This - Sipsey Street Irregulars blog has this item: - "Just days after appearing on the National Geographic TV Show Doomsday Prepper, a prepper from Tennessee has been declared Mentally Defective and his guns have been seized by the government." His first mistake? -- Going on TV and expecting anything different than what he got. Not that this isn't an outrage, just... More →
Drive By Journalism on 5 By Georgeann King, on January 26th, 2012 Tuesday night at Channel 5′s 10 p.m. newscast, I was aghast to hear Joe Birch read this nugget: “Tea Party activists in Tennessee want to ban the word slavery (he dropped that word as heavily as a two volume encyclopedia onto a library floor) from Tennessee school textbooks. This comes more than one year after Texas schools made massive changes to put slavery in a positive light in textbooks, according to the Huffington Post. Activists also want to remove mentions of the country’s founders being slave owners. Groups in Texas are fighting this measure. We reached out to the local chapter of the NAACP. They had no comment.”
Wow! If you just heard that story like some kind of background noise, you’d think something unbelievably wrong was happening. But is it?
I’m not defending removing the word slavery from textbooks at all. I just wonder if this is true. First, it’s sensational. Often that means that they want to manipulate you into being shocked.
The second dubious statement is Tea Party activists. Doesn’t that seem just a little too convenient for their liberal views? What Tea Party activists? They didn’t name one. Was it one working in his basement, unaffiliated with any national group or was it the chairman for the Tennessee Tea Party? The fact that they don’t identify who wants to ban it arouses my suspicions. This is another version of the anonymous source. Sorry, but that doesn’t wash with me either.
Isn’t it interesting, too, and convenient, to drag Texas into this story? Texas is in liberal crosshairs since they are a successful conservative state. Again I have to ask, what “massive changes?” How did they put slavery “in a positive light?” Am I expected to believe it just because they say so? Why not have an example?
And the Huffington Post as a source? That’s laughable. It’s like uber lefty, George Soros world headquarters. They shoot down every conservative person they can on an hourly basis. Who wrote the story at the Huffington Post? Again, Mr. Anonymous? He sure has been a busy guy.
Mr. Anonymous has anonymous “groups in Texas fighting this measure.” Again, no attribution.
I wasn’t surprised when Birch ended his information free tirade by saying the local NAACP “had no comment.” How could they? There wasn’t anything substantive to comment on.
This was just an everyday example of the kind of disgraceful journalism being practiced today. An anchor spews this story out, gives very little true information, impresses upon the listener that someone is doing something bad, then moves on to the next story. The damage they intended has been done. Onto the next victim.
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