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Entries Tagged as 'Discrimination'

Everybody Is Still Freaking Out About The Gays

May 10th, 2012 · No Comments

What the hell is wrong with people!? A city commissioner has resigned and a police investigation has begun since tires and other debris were unearthed in city-owned Spring Hill Cemetery. [H-L] Really, what was that, again, about racist rednecks not voting against President Barack Obama because he’s black? [Wonkette] That’s right – A Kentucky Newspaper’s [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Discrimination · Eastern Kentucky · Hypocrisy · Jobs · John Yarmuth · Mainstream Mistake · Presidential Race · The Gays

Their Ignorance Leads To Some Horrible Stories

May 9th, 2012 · 23 Comments

People like Keith Hall, Bob Damron, Jim Gooch, Ancel Smith, Richard Henderson and Larry Clark spend their entire lives fighting against what they perceive to be a demon – the gays – because it’s impossible to wrap their little minds around anything that doesn’t involve locking women away in the kitchen and forcing others to [...]

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Tags: Discrimination · The Gays

What’ll Adam Edelen Uncover Next In Kentucky?

May 8th, 2012 · 1 Comment

A Floriduh judge denied a new trial to a lady standing her ground but totally not because she’s black. [Wonkette] The burden of air pollution and asthma is not evenly shared among U.S. children. [HuffPo] Folks love to hate David Williams and some of that hate is well-deserved. But he helped make this thing in [...]

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Tags: Adam Edelen · David L. Williams · Discrimination · Eastern Kentucky · Economy · Education · Environment · Hal Rogers · Kentucky Business · Kentucky Tourism · KY-4 · Poverty · Presidential Race · Takin yer guns! · The Gays · Youth

One Of Many Audits Crit SHOULD Have Conducted

May 7th, 2012 · No Comments

This wasn’t exactly the right story to be featuring on the front of the paper on the biggest tourism weekend of the year in Kentucky. Especially when it’s a hit on one of the state’s signature industries and sources of tax revenue. [The 'Ville Voice] A majority of Kentuckians favor a statewide smoking ban. Interesting [...]

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Tags: Crit Luallen · Discrimination · Economy · FEAR! · Flashback · Investigation · Jack Conway · Kentucky Business · Kentucky Tourism · Mainstream Mistake · Polling · Presidential Race · Richie Farmer · The Gays

Papaw? Deal With Medicaid Scandal? HAHA, Right

May 7th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Ouch, this editorial took Steve Beshear to task over his growing Medicaid scandal. Beshear can’t outsource responsibility for poor, sick Kentuckians to low-bidding out-of-state companies or the courts, as much as he might wish he could. [H-L] At the bottom of its press releases the US Postal Service brags that if it were a private [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan · Corruption · Discrimination · Eastern Kentucky · Economy · FEAR! · Health Care · Jobs · Stats · Steve Beshear · Taxes · The Gays

Really? Sex With A Horse? The World Is Ending

May 2nd, 2012 · No Comments

The Kentucky Division of Water is seeking public comments on its updated plan to deal with water pollution. [WFPL] Two former Kentucky attorneys were properly convicted of scamming their clients out of $94.6 million from a $200 million settlement over the diet drug fen-phen in a case in which “evidence of the defendant’s guilt was [...]

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Tags: Campaign Finance · Corruption · Discrimination · Economy · Environment · FEAR! · Flashback · Jobs · Kentucky Business · Kentucky Tourism · Mitch McConnell · Presidential Race · Richie Farmer

At Least Richie Has One (Paid) Person On His Side

May 1st, 2012 · 2 Comments

Wow, the information we published about Cordish Cos. in Louisville yesterday has allowed a lot of local business owners to come out of the woodwork. Yet another issue involving Greg Fischer’s pat-a-caking and trying to throw money at a lost cause. [The 'Ville Voice] Now you know why there was so much drama with the [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Corruption · Crit Luallen · Discrimination · Eastern Kentucky · Flashback · Greg Fischer · Jack Conway · Military · Mitch McConnell · Presidential Race · Richie Farmer · Rumor · Steve Beshear · The Gays · Wasted Money

Some Clarity On That War On Women Event

April 27th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Curt Morrison alleges Morgan McGarvey bullied Amy Shoemaker out of an event about “War on Women.” McGarvey tries to bump woman speaker at rally for, oh dear… Candidate Amy Shoemaker may not get to speak, or introduce Representative John Yarmuth this weekend at Saturday’s UNITE AGAINST WAR ON WOMEN rally, and you’ll never guess why. [...]

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Tags: Discrimination · Flashback · John Yarmuth · Rumor

Nothing To See Here, Move Long, Economy Is Fine

April 25th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Lawmakers in Kentucky support career and technical education. They just don’t support the funding, apparently. [WFPL] The report about poor old Reeeeechie Farmer’s shenanigans is due to hit soon. Start popping that popcorn now. [FOX41] Read this first sentence and you’ll learn again why Eastern Kentucky can’t have nice things: A 2-year-old boy was struck [...]

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Tags: Campaign Finance · Corruption · Discrimination · Eastern Kentucky · Economy · Education · Flashback · Hal Rogers · KY-4 · Military · Mitch McConnell · Richie Farmer · The Gays

Maybe Magic Fairies Helped Write That Sypher Book

April 24th, 2012 · 2 Comments

You’ll be surprised to see who supports Sarah Lynn Cunningham. She’s the Metro Sewer District whistleblower that the Besehar and Conway crews are working against. She’s running for the State Senate in the 19th District. [The 'Ville Voice] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday morning agreed in [...]

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Tags: Corruption · Discrimination · Education · FEAR! · KDP · Kentucky Tourism · Mitch McConnell · Senate