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And board member Fields, who started the controversy, tried to blame - big surprise here - the media! Fields told the Tribune, via e-mail, that she didn't realize there would be a story "on the front page of the Ledger indicating that I opposed evolution." Yes, it's definitely the Ledger's fault for letting the public know what a publicly elected school official told the newspaper, on record, about a public education issue.
I couldn't agree more. It's shameful the way our liberal, America-hating media try to destroy the careers of God-fearing patriots like Fields by resorting to such dirty tricks as accurately reporting about them. Sometimes, in extreme cases of character assassination such as this one, the media will even stoop to conveying things than at elected official said, verbatim, in quotation marks. It makes me sick.
Oh, wait...is this littlegreenfootballs.com?
by TheNightfly on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 04:29:38 AM PDT
But in all seriousness, it's nice to see a local newspaper actually doing its job.
by davidkc on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 04:34:24 AM PDT
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and locally owned and operated, newspapers.
They live there too. So it's not just some abstract story to them - it's going to affect them. If the kids graduating are idiots, it means they won't be able to find people to work for them. It might even mean that THEIR kids will have to go to crappy schools.
Most local newspaper owners aren't Murdoch level rich - they probably are comfortable, and live well, but they don't have private jets and islands.
Which is why we NEED locally owned and operated media. Not multinational conglomerates.
by mmacdDE on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 06:08:46 AM PDT
they'd be the same as before, only with a bit of extra useless bullshit stuck in their memories.
Sort of the same way I'm stuck with the lyrics to "Louie Louie" and, believe it or not, I was taught that the earth "tilted" on it's axis causing winter and summer. (NYC in the 1960's)
Now, can we prevent schools from Prteaching "creationism"? We'd better, but not because the kids would turn into idiots, that's the wrong argument.
We have to stop the Fundies from their crusade of stealthy elections to school boards.
Unless we can do that, there's not going to be much of a difference between schools and churches.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. Thomas Jefferson 6/11/1807
by Patriot4peace on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 06:59:34 AM PDT
you the Earth wobbled around like a slowing top?!
by Indexer on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 07:59:09 AM PDT
We had a table top solar system with pulleys and gears that rotated around a large central yellow "sun" when you cranked the handle.
The "blue" orb would literally tilt its top half towards the sun representing late spring in the northern hemisphere, then at a point exactly opposite the winter solstice, it would start to tilt the other way until it got back to the original point in the orbit.
It was very intricate, with the earth making more revolutions than the outer planets, and even had Mercury in a fixed orbit without rotation.
By the time I was in High School learning physics and inertia, I asked how something that weighed 30 trillion tons could stop twice a year without flinging off all the passengers. It was one of those "stupid question" moments, and when it was explained to the class, a few of my classmates admitted they'd been taught the same thing I was.
It might be a regional thing - I was in the NYC public school system back then.
I wish someone would explain to me now why Republicans can't understand that Global Warming is a dire threat to life on earth.
by Patriot4peace on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 09:18:34 AM PDT
model maker!
by Indexer on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 02:26:23 PM PDT
by nu on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 01:40:57 PM PDT
25,000 years for one cycle, I'd guess not.
by Indexer on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 02:24:59 PM PDT
Ironically the two best news stations here are locally operated/owned.
a CBS and Fox affiliate are owned by a local company, and they have had, consistantly, the best local news for 30 years, in spite of the ABC & NBC stations being owned by ABC and NBC with all the muscle that might represent. The only news competition they have is a cable-run 24-hour local news channel, run by the local cable franchise.
We have no desire to offend you -- unless you are a twit!
by ScrewySquirrel on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 07:20:53 AM PDT
Sounds like time for a vigorous round of whining by the ID crowd about how their religion is being persecuted by the secular progressives.
It's a well known fact that anytime a fundamentalist doesn't get his or her way, Christianity itself is under attack.
Hanoi didn't break John McCain, but Washington did.
by Dallasdoc on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 07:20:42 AM PDT
But what's odd is that they ID believer were whining about being exposed as ID believers, which to me is a sad statement of their current state of affairs.
by davidkc on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 07:31:45 AM PDT
Polk County has the TOP HIGH SCHOOL IN THE US in prepared college students... the IB program in BARTOW!
"Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance (liberally)" Jude 2 Brother of Jesus
by pinkpanther on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 04:40:33 PM PDT
the state is definitely a study in contrasts. You have every and any type of person and community in Florida, all jumbled up and spread out in a seemingly nonsensical way.
by davidkc on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 05:17:39 PM PDT
Can the persecution whining be far behind? Sounds like time for a vigorous round of whining by the ID crowd about how their religion is being persecuted by the secular progressives. It's a well known fact that anytime a fundamentalist doesn't get his or her way, Christianity itself is under attack.
Can the persecution whining be far behind? Sounds like time for a vigorous round of whining by the ID crowd about how their religion is being persecuted by the secular progressives.
Until the reign of Emperor Constantine, those who made the sign of the cross risked being nailed to one. What has happened in the 17 centuries since that has made Christian belief so fragile that being taught science amounts to persecution?
I'm not asking you to take the country back, I'm asking you to take it forward-Van Jones.
by Judge Moonbox on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 09:20:35 AM PDT
on the Roman empire last night was saying the rulers of rome basically ignored the christian movement as best as they could EXCEPT that the christians of the time had zero tolerance of other religions and it was causing real problems.
Things haven't changed much except the power brokers are now using them to create social and political division within a corporatist agenda framework.
Orwell meet George the 43rd
by FreeTradeIsYourEpitaph on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 12:47:50 PM PDT
what will happen next?
Now up: What are you reading? Mystery mania!
by plf515 on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 07:57:43 AM PDT
It's shameful the way our liberal, America-hating media try to destroy the careers of God-fearing patriots like Fields by resorting to such dirty tricks as accurately reporting about them. Sometimes, in extreme cases of character assassination such as this one, the media will even stoop to conveying things than at elected official said, verbatim, in quotation marks. It makes me sick. Oh, wait...is this littlegreenfootballs.com?
It's shameful the way our liberal, America-hating media try to destroy the careers of God-fearing patriots like Fields by resorting to such dirty tricks as accurately reporting about them. Sometimes, in extreme cases of character assassination such as this one, the media will even stoop to conveying things than at elected official said, verbatim, in quotation marks. It makes me sick.
You would think that by now, the media would have learned that their job is to bend over backwards as far as they can. Hadn't they heard Stephen Colbert explain that the Truth is Liberally biased?
by Judge Moonbox on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 09:16:34 AM PDT
wide narrow
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