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OK kids, with all apologies to Winn, some of us pushed his subject aside & that's just not right.  But the question of media bias is still a fair topic, so let's open up the forum & investigate.

On one hand, we have had for quite some time, those who claim media bias, not considering the news from what they consider a liberal publication as valid.  Fair enough.  You may correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall seeing any complaints from anyone @ media bias against the right, with the possible exception of mentioning O'Reilly & Limbaugh.  It would seem that some people really have a problem with the media.  Fair enough.

I've never been much for hockey.  At best, a casual observer.  But the godess & I were at the kitchen table, watching the news.  The sports segment came on & they were showing an NHL playoff game.  Let me describe.

Between one of the nets & the back wall, 4 or 5 players from both teams were holding a social in a rather physical manner, as hockey players are known to do from time to time.  Sociable types, I guess.  While this is going on, the goalie was standing on the opposite side of the goal where he usually is.  Standing there!  Watching & nothing else.  A player from the opposing team decides to give him the hockey version of a Welcome Wagon, or maybe a Tupper Ware party, rears up  & takes a full swing with his stick across the upper chest/throat area, thereby dropping said goalie.

I came across an interesting article in the Daytona Beach news Journal this AM & thought some of you might be interested.  I did a copy & paste so that the article in my post would be as accurate as I could get it.  It is as follows.

May 06, 2008

Family First bill deserves veto

Amid the clamor of Florida's 2008 legislative session, a bill slipped through nearly unnoticed -- yet within the next 18 months, every person who registers a vehicle in this state will know about it. At least, they'll know enough to wonder "What's 'Family First?' "

As Ron Littlepage likes to say, "While Clicking Around the News Dial,"  I came across this article in the Gainseville Sun, Capitol Bureau, by Joe Follick, printed 05.05.08.  It has to do with the "Truck Nutz," issue & the wedge issues of abortion & evolution.  I think it pretty much sums up a lot of feelings.

"I think it's just an indication of a growing sentiment that the Legislature is out of touch with where people really are,'' said Rep. Keith Fitzgerald, D-Sarasota. "We're up here debating these highly emotional and symbolic and sometimes just downright silly bills when there are real and immediate problems that people want us to be addressing. What I'm getting is striking anger on the part of moderates.''

Yes, that was said in my best best Jamaican accent.  You'll just have to take my word on it.

I know that I've touched upon this subject last year & others have commented on it before, but recent events have confirmed my claims. With these blogs, we do have a treasure in our midst.  Why, you ask?  Let Uncle Rich splain it to you.

As I have mentioned, my to favorite topics are politics & religion.  As I have also mentioned, I've tapped into other blogs on these subjects.  To give you an example, I've tapped into the NY Times, Washington Post & a few other little known blog sites.  I've tried to listen to Rush a bit more & if I had a late softball game, I caught some guy on the radio from San Francisco by the name of Savage, if that is the correct spelling. 

CCC, Smuncey,

I came across this little item in the news this morning & almost spewed coffee all over the computer screen keyboard & myself.

Found it on the news site, Common dreams, taken from Ted Rall, dated 04.30.08.  FYI, I don't know who Ted Rall is. It starts off pleasantly enough with the headline:  ARREST BUSH!  Obviously, that got my attention.  It seems that this guy, Rall, is calling for the arrest, trial & conviction of not only Bush, but Cheney, Rumsfesld, Powell, Rice, Tenet, & Ashcroft.  Why, oh why, do you ask?  Since all of these people were present in the White House when all the torture was being planned & approved, & since Bush publically confessed to ordering the torture, & since the US is is a core signatory of the UN Convention Against Torture Act, they all broke the law.  Call the DC cops, read them their rights, book 'em Danno & haul them all off to the hoosegow.

That world was going to hell in a raggety handbasket, that way too many politicians are scumbags, that people are stupid, mean & whatever else.......you come across this.  At least I hope you will.  I came across this on CNNHLN this AM.

College girls softball team.  One young lady hits her very first home run.  Running around the bases, her knee buckles under her & she can't continue.  Two members of the OPPOSING team pick her up, carry her around the rest of the bases so she can touch them & the run counts, EVEN THOUGH THE OPPOSING PLAYERS KNEW THEY WOULD LOOSE THE GAME!

After absorbing some news items, it occured to me that some people could use some helpful hints.  Feel free to add to the list kids.

If you don't want to burn your hand, don't put it in the fire.

If you don't want to drown, don't get in water over your head.

If you don't want to get hit by a vehicle, look before you leap.

If you don't want to get bitten by a shark, don't go where the sharks are.

If you don't want to get flooded out, don't live next to a lake or river.

If you don't want to be embarassed by getting caught in a lie, don't tell a lie.

You ever have an itch that you just couldn't ged rid of to your satisfaction?  The continuing debate with evolution & the Academic Freedom Act is kind of like that.  I know that this subject is a redo, but it just won't go away.  Two items blipped on my radar.

An article appeared in the Palm Beach Post, Capitol Bureau, which started off, "Florida House lawmakers approved a bill Monday that would require teachers to point out the flaws in evolution."  Now that is a fairly innocuous, fact based sentance.  Until you read between the lines.   This is nothing new.  This has been one of the main itchy points by opponents to evolution.  But if one thinks @ it, there is a thinly veiled implication.  That implication is that teachers of evolution have been less than truthful & NOT telling students that there are things that evolution haven't been able to explain, that there are indeed, gaps & that there are ideas which have not been proven.  funny thing though.  Scientists have been pointing out gaps & unexplained things since day one.  They have always realised that there is nothing wrong in telling the world that they just don't know yet.

OK kids, we need something a little lighter to balance comments on torture, putting leashes on cats, (why not unruly kids?) not to mention dis, dat & de udder tings.

Came across this on about.com.geography today.  Now some of you might want to sit down, perhaps with a favorite adult beverage, do some deep breathing or whatever blows up your shorts & makes you grin. 

A conference called, "Mecca, the Center of the Earth, Theory & Practice," was held in Quatar. Muslim religious & scientific leaders called upon the world to change Coordinated Universal Time from Greenwich, UK to that of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.  The delegates agreed (That's mighty generous of them) that Mecca is the "true" center of the earth.