Monthly Archives: October 2009

Storm Clouds Brewing at Animal Services

October 23, 2009 – 9:54 pm

Last Wednesday, during what should have been a routine Government Accountability and Oversight Committee hearing at City Hall, the latest chapter in the convoluted saga(s) emanating from Louisville Metro Animal Services unfolded in such spectacular fashion that the sound of collective-eyebrow raising could be heard from blocks away. When it was over, television crews were still [...]

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Galbraith Campaign Lights Up Facebook

October 23, 2009 – 1:58 pm

Yesterday in Frankfort, independent gubernatorial candidate Gatewood Galbraith made a funny: [Galbraith] told members of the United Mine Workers of America that people suggested 30 years ago that he was 30 years ahead of his time, then drew laughs when he added: “Here we are.” [AP, via WLKY] Haw! Sources also tell us that the tireless libertarian [...]

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Lunchbox: Fairness today

October 23, 2009 – 1:00 pm

Don’t Tase me bro: The maker of Taser stun guns sent word to law enforcement agencies that use their product to avoid hitting suspects in the chest, partly “to minimize controversy.” Louisville Metro Police will send out a memo to all officers advising of the change,which will encourage officers to aim for the abdomen, legs [...]

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Fossil Fuels’ Hidden Costs: $6 Million Per Life

October 20, 2009 – 12:49 pm

A number-filled report released yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that our current fossil fuel-based transportation economy isn’t as cheap as we think it to be — yet it’s just as crude. (Ha!) According to The New York Times‘ summary of this report, the United States loses approximately $120 billion every year due [...]

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Lunchbox: Politics is a dirty game

October 20, 2009 – 12:01 pm

Mud bath: Kentucky Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo’s U.S. Senate campaign is accusing Attorney General Jack Conway of being somehow involved in the infamous “Mongiardo Tapes”, which are posted all over the Internet. In both recordings Mongiardo can be heard cursing and criticizing Gov. Steve Beshear, at one point saying that being Beshear’s lieutenant governor is [...]

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GOP Death Watch: Day 36,041

October 20, 2009 – 11:48 am

I like numbers. Although I often don’t understand them, they can be helpful little things, especially when they are used to make “polls.” In this case, we have an ABC/Washington Post poll, which shows that only 20 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans — the lowest GOP party ID in over 25 years. Only [...]

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Belle of Louisville Runs Afoul of Ground, Sobriety (?)

October 19, 2009 – 5:56 pm

Perhaps the biggest local news over the weekend was the Belle of Louisville’s apparent torpedoing at the hands of German U-Boats… What’s that you say, paper of record? Everyone was drunk? And we were not invited?

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Human Clown Cries Tears of Insanity, Again

October 19, 2009 – 4:52 pm

Real-life Howard Beale Glennifer Beckingston unleashes the waterworks, yet again, over many topics, including: being tired, America, Marxism, pot (?) and America. As the planet continues to “burn,” Mr. Beck does what he does best in the following video: Boil down complex political situations into emotive, psychotic diatribes while crying like a fat, pumpkin-headed baby.

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Bridges Project Limps Forward In Frankfort

October 19, 2009 – 2:10 pm

According to The Courier-Journal, Kentucky’s newly minted “infrastructure authority” — whose primary task will be oversight of the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project, which was designed by monkeys in the late 20th century — will hold its first public hearing this Thursday in Room 106 of the shiny Kentucky Transportation Cabinet building in downtown [...]

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Lunchbox: Death battle over between life enhancers

October 19, 2009 – 12:25 pm

Feeling healthy again?: A super-bitchy major health care provider and its super-bitchy nemesis insurer have finally agreed to disagree. With the end of the Norton-Anthem dispute — in which services between the two were halted July 1, after Norton demanded double-digit increases in reimbursements and Anthem said no — comes reinstatement of patients’ full, hard-earned [...]

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