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FITSNews For Now: The Canadians Are Coming (For Sic)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:15:18 -0500

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Our founding editor is once again in hot water – this time with the Canadian government.

After posting a humorous (we thought) article last week about Canada fighting terrorism by using nude girls on its currency (the article was a spoof, people), we received the following [...]

S.C. Real Estate News: South Carolina Lawmakers Consider New Property Tax Laws

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:11:00 -0500

- The Post and Courier South Carolina's property tax revisions of 2006 were set up to benefit homeowners and those who own the same property for many years, but those same changes resulted in big...

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S.C. Real Estate News: Foreclosures Down More Than 10% Across South Carolina

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:57:00 -0500

- GSA Business Across South Carolina, foreclosures have decreased by 10.58% in the past month, according to data released by a national real estate tracking firm. RealtyTrac, which issues monthly...

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S.C. Real Estate News: Two Redevelopment Proposals Submitted For Old Greer Hospital Site

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:48:00 -0500

- Greenville News Greer has received two proposals — both of them health-care-related — for reuse of the seven-acre former Allen Bennett Memorial Hospital campus on Wade Hampton Boulevard, according...

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FITSNews For Now: Local Politician Calls Wilson A “Wussy”

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:42:59 -0500

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A City Council member from Lexington, S.C. has reportedly called U.S. Rep. Addison Graves “Joe” Wilson a “wussy” for opposing a $5.5 million road project.

According to a blog post from Americans for Prosperity, Lexington City Councilman Danny Frazier made the comment shortly after [...]

FITSNews For Now: Meet The Clemson Rowing Team

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:11:54 -0500

Number of comments: 2

Didn’t know they had a Women’s Rowing team at Clemson University?

Neither did we, but thanks to our buds at Deadspin, the Tiger Crew (isn’t that what they call rowing teams?) has become internationally famous … and for something other than their strong finish at [...]

Cedar Posts and Barbwire Fences: CMPD Command Staff Makeover the White Shirts!

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:50:00 -0500

Cedar Posts Reported back in March that Chief Monroe wanted to improve the image of his command staff, (Chief Monroe's Extreme Makeover) to set them apart from the rest of the crowd.

But by the time the new command staff uniforms were ready to ship, the CMPD budget [...]

Patrick's Place: Monday’s Morals – Episode 22

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:28:43 -0500

CNN caught a little criticism last week about an ad for TravelZoo that was designed to look exactly like a clickable thumbnail for one of its top story windows. The ad mimicked the size and even the headline style of the two legitimate news stories to the left of it. Everybody [...]

FITSNews For Now: Carrie Prejean: Our Favorite Mistake

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:17:53 -0500

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Like the rest of the country, we were snowed into thinking that former Miss California Carrie Prejean was a good, God-fearing girl who was unjustly punished for her defense of family values.

We don’t have any family values, mind you, but we’ve always supported [...]

FITSNews For Now: New Ad Targets Graham

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:47:54 -0500

Number of comments: 7

A new television ad criticizing U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for his support of a controversial energy tax hike hit South Carolina airwaves on Monday morning, part of an effort to answer the recent barrage of pro-Graham ads paid for by the nation’s liberal environmental establishment.

The TV [...]

The Palmetto Scoop: Dave Woodard: SC’s Doc-in-a-Box

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:31:44 -0500

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PROFESSOR MAY BE RUNNING ‘QUOTES FOR HIRE’ RACKET AT CLEMSON UNIVERSITY

When former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich allegedly tried to sell a U.S. Senate seat, he was brought down by the “pay to play” scandal. Well, here in South Carolina, we have an equally venal racket that some [...]

Eye of Polyphemus: Star Trek: The Next Generation-- "The Perfect Mate"

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:13:00 -0500

This makes two episodes in a row featuring an ill advised wedding. It is definitely odd the installments were not spaced apart more wisely. “The Perfect Mate“ is not that great an episode, but I give it higher marks than I normally would because of its unintentional [...]

Eye of Polyphemus: Anne Hathaway

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:25:00 -0500

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New Wars: Corvettes Should be Good and Plenty

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:00:19 -0500

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The lineage of the modern corvette can be found in the fast attack craft (FAC) from the 1960s, notably those built by the Soviet Union and transferred to scores of Third World navies. The notion that the “little Davids” armed with the new cruise missiles like Styx could sink the [...]

The Voice for School Choice: Calls to End the Education Oversight Committee (EOC)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:26 -0500

Classroom teachers, not consultants and bureaucrats, ought to be the top priority in the South Carolina public school budgets.

That realization led State Representative Bakari Sellers (D-Bamberg) to call for the phase-out of South Carolina’s expensive and controversial Educational Oversight [...]

FITSNews For Now: Colts Comeback!

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:46:28 -0500

Stirring memories of their epic comeback win in the AFC Championship Game three seasons ago, the Indianapolis Colts pulled another rabbit out of their hats Sunday night against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots – capping another exhilarating edition of the NFL’s marquee rivalry.

Trailing [...]

Waldo Lydecker's Journal.: DeMint: my litmus test for the GOP is...me!

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:43:00 -0500

What a busy fellow Jim DeMint is: in addition to his taxpayer-funded website, and his campaign website, he also has the Senate Conservatives Fund website, for a PAC he founded last year. It was mentioned in a NYT story (posted below) about how DeMint wants to handpick senators from other [...]

Waldo Lydecker's Journal.: The purge rages on, always needing fresh meat to feed the rabble

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:29:00 -0500

Now Jim DeMint's going after Florida governor Charlie Crist's Senate campaign:

“Some of the Republicans who’ve been around a long time, they’re the big spenders, they’re the big government people,” said Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, who as chairman of [...]

Waldo Lydecker's Journal.: In Jim DeMint's GOP, apologies when necessary, but consequences? Never.

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:16:00 -0500

So the chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party gave an interview to a radio host. The party chair is gay. Towleroad picks up the narrative:

RADIO HOST TO GAY NH DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR RAY BUCKLEY: 'YEAH YOU FAGGOT. THAT'S RIGHT I SAID IT AND I [...]

Waldo Lydecker's Journal.: Git 'er done...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:44:00 -0500

A new poll says southern Republicans love Joe Wilson for baring his fat ass in a joint session of Congress. [...]

Waldo Lydecker's Journal.: "The Penguin for President? Holy Civil Liberties, Batman!"

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:29:00 -0500

Dick Cheney's got his daughter out on the corner again:

2012Dick Cheney In 2012? Daughter Liz Floats Idea

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Waldo Lydecker's Journal.: There's still the long skirts of the Catholic Church

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:23:00 -0500

Box Turtle Bulletin finds evidence of a split in the No 'Mo Ranks now that the LDS Church has come out for a form of gay rights legislation: the Haters may start to be seen as what they are:

Another Reason To RejoiceJim BurrowayNovember 14th, 2009There’s another' [...]

Waldo Lydecker's Journal.: The Sunday Palin Alert

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:19:00 -0500

So the movie 2012 is out. It's based on the idea that some Mayan calendar predicts the world will end December 21, 2012.

If true, it will, if nothing else mean that the most Sarah Palin will ever be is President-elect.

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Waldo Lydecker's Journal.: The nocturnal sex habits of liberals revealed.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:02:00 -0500

Out on Planet Gay Patriot, where being a good conservative trumps having a functioning brain stem, and where everybody but they are unpatriotic (well, except the right wing of the GOP, which steadfastly refuses to admit them despite their right-wingery), they are saying the United States federal courts cannot [...]

Snead 303: The Snead Reader

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:13:00 -0500

When I picked out the format and design of this blog, I really liked the empty box at the top of the page, something I could fill in with permanent text of my own or change on a whim. When I first moved things over here from the [...]

Wolfe Reports: Polling: Same as it ever was

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:10:07 -0500

Barring some very bizarre events in the next three weeks, we’ve got your Top Six and guarantees for the major bowl games. Alabama, Florida, Texas, TCU, Cincinnati and Boise State will all likely head into the first week of December undefeated. Either the Crimson Tide [...]

Waldo Lydecker's Journal.: On another off streak, Savonarola picks up his widget and goes home.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:48:00 -0500

Waldo's noticed an interesting thing over at The Sunlit Uplands, which Waldo reads, you could say, "religiously."

Savonarola had a long run as SC's most influential blog according to Blognetnews.com. He had their "#1" widget up there at the top right side of the page.

While [...]

Wolfe Reports: Tack on another ‘L’ for Carolina

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:55:10 -0500

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Remember when Carolina was 5-1? And ranked? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

But seriously, the Gamecocks are now 6-5, having gone 1-4 since mid-October. Florida was the latest conquerer, coming into Columbia No. 1 and leaving the same, winning by 10. And here’s the seriously galling part [...]

Sacraments Wholesale: The 24th Sunday After Pentecost Year B

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:22:00 -0500

Proper 28B/Ordinary 33B/Pentecost 24 November 15, 2009 From Certainty to Faith Daniel 12:1-3 Hebrews 10:11-25 Mark 13:1-8 I used to run my fingers over its embossed cover. Like a secret cipher, the raised relief contained a hidden universe: where days were years and beasts were kings and numbers didn't add up the way they do' [...]

Wolfe Reports: WR SEC Power Poll, Week 11

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:58:22 -0500

We’re participating in Southeastern Conference sports site SECRivals‘ weekly SEC power poll this season. Let’s see what’s happening.

Week 11
No. 1. Alabama
No. 2. Florida
No. 3. LSU
No. 4. Georgia
No. 5. Auburn
No. 6. Ole Miss
No. 7. Tennessee
No. 8. Arkansas
No. [...]

Cedar Posts and Barbwire Fences: Charlotte Crime Numbers Plunge Again

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:05:00 -0500

RoMo's team reported October crime numbers on November 10th with none of the fan fair of 12 months ago. Perhaps RoMo senses that the public is on to his sham, as nationally crime is down considerably without any quantifiable explanation.

Washington and Baltimore,' [...]

Eye of Polyphemus: Doctor Who "The End of Time" Trailer

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:26:00 -0500

David Tennant's swan song looks pretty cool.' [...]

Sacraments Wholesale: The Bishops Candidates: Will They Speak Out Against Uganda?

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:32:00 -0500

The Lambeth Conference, that diennial display of purple that purportedly defines who is Anglican and who is not, made a promise at its 1988 gathering: to “listen pastorally to the experience of homosexual persons and ... to assure them that they are loved by God...” and to “minister pastorally and [...]

Patrick's Place: Thirty Years Later, Green Gets His Award

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:30:47 -0500

It was 1979. A commercial premiered featuring a limping football player forced to leave the game early, and a little boy who regarded him as a hero sneaking behind him to offer him a Coke. After drinking the Coke, the tough-guy football player offers his jersey to the boy. Thanks to [...]

Cedar Posts and Barbwire Fences: Observer Reports a Shooting with Knives

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:59:00 -0500

"Shooting leaves one dead, two injured"

Reads the Observer Headline*, but the rest of the story says stabbing.

I know budget cuts, staff layoffs and the usual excuse, "In order to get the story on line we sometimes make mistakes" are all nice reasons for shoddy work. [...]