Time Magazine says Jack Conway outperforms Daniel Mongiardo. [TIME'S Real Clear Politics]
Isn’t it cute how I can run a blurb from a two-day-old press release from the University of Louisville and then, blam, the Courier-Journal publishes a story about it? Heh. [C-J]
Photographs of U.S. war dead in Afghanistan are now officially banned. Welcome back to the Bush Misadministration. [Editor & Publisher]
Are you reading this while in the car? Kentucky is allegedly kicking off a campaign to cut down on distracted driving. [WHAS11]
HAHAHA! “PageOne Kentucky seems to be concentrating on the homosexual political agenda and promoting Little Jackie Conway’s Senate bid and ripping Mongiardo’s campaign at every turn. Barefoot and Progressive has become a loopy conglomerate of out-of-touch liberals, abortion advocates and atheists.” Clearly, the only thing I ever talk about – all 4,200 posts or whatever? The scary homosexual agenda! FEAR! [Bitter Republicans]
Kathy Groob confidant Roger Auge has been accused of fondling a student. Auge filed numerous campaign finance complaints against Jack Westwood on behalf of Groob and is an appointed (by Governor Steve Beshear) AARP representative for the Council on Aging. [Enquirer]
Why Ben Chandler is going to lose re-election. [Blue in the Bluegrass]
When is Lt. Dan gonna get off his Florida drug kick and realize that the battles that need to be fought on the front of the pill war are in KENTUCKY? [HuffPo]
The Fayette County jail whistleblower says retaliation continues. [H-L]
What do you MEAN health insurers cherry-pick facts? Woah! Shocking. [AP via Google]
5 responses so far ↓
1 Novena // Oct 15, 2009 at 8:18 am
“Ben Makes Real Dems Red”
If I had the Democratic heritage of Ben Chandler, I would be ashamed of myself. He goes to Congress on a silver platter and does little to support Democratic values. He needs a wake-up call, and it might be nice if the GOP gave it to him this time.
2 Conservative // Oct 15, 2009 at 8:31 am
Actually, Novena, Ben is not living up to his heritage. Happy is rolling over in his grave at Ben’s vote on crap and trade, for example. No way would Happy have cast a vote against Kentucky’s coal industry and our relatively inexpensive electricity. He is supporting Democratic values — the Democratic values of Democrats in California or Massachusetts, not Democrats in Kentucky.
3 Thurston // Oct 15, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Ummm… Actually, Mongiardo is spot on about pills coming from Florida. Kentucky’s taken great strides to monitor prescriptions and prevent pill shopping around the state.
All this shit comes from Florida. It’s fucking insane how easy people can get pills down there. And because of their lax legislation, they are effectively fucking our state hard.
4 Ryan // Oct 15, 2009 at 11:01 pm
On the war casualty photos – this is not changing the fact that the war dead can be photographed as their caskets are unloaded. That is still the regulation. This is a ban on embedded photographers from taking/publishing photos of the soldiers dead bodies, in the field, immediately after they died.
I’m against the war, and want Americans to wake up and realize this war isn’t worth the cost, in almost any way possible. But as a brother to a Marine, I agree, the government should not be a part of showing dead soldiers lying in the field. I know if (God forbid) my brother dies in combat (5 years in marines and somehow avoided deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan so far, got to have some sort of luck) I don’t want to see his body in the paper. I would hope his wife would allow his casket to be photographed when his body is returned, but I’d never want to see his bloody body laying in a ditch torn in two.
And this isn’t a ban on the practice, not exactly, it’s a ban on embedded journalist from doing so. The military has a special set of rules for embedded journalist. In exchange for following them, they get all of the benefits of embedding (access, protection). This isn’t censorship, in so far as a photojournalist who travels on his own, without military assistance, can’t be prevented from photographing war dead and publishing it. That’s important to me, as it’s a first amendment issue. A ban would be unconstitutional, on its face. But the military does have the right to set rules for embedded journalist (It’s another argument wether it’s ethical for journalist to be embedded and accept those conditions, I tend to say no, but if they didn’t, how much would we be missing, hard call).
5 J. R. // Oct 16, 2009 at 4:22 am
I agree with Ryan. My youngest brother is being deployed to Afghanistan sometime after Thanksgiving. I wouldn’t want a picture of him being shown in his dying moments for all the world to see.
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