Published by jen June 8th, 2007
in Uncategorized.
This epitomizes the bad administrative decisions at UT. After years of students being the only ones around to support men’s basketball at the University, the athletic department pays them back by cutting student seating once a few winning seasons and newfound fans arrive. Why does every decision the administration and athletic department makes revolve more around those who have no connection to the university other than putting on an orange tee shirt when a winning season rolls around than the actual students and alumni the university serves?
And they wonder why we call it “the big orange screw.”
UT Athletic Dept. cuts student seating for men’s basketball games
Published by jen June 8th, 2007
in Uncategorized.
“Face his accusers, he must!” –The Constitution as read by Yoda
In a sign that Palpatine is indeed dead or at the very least a lame duck, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-8 in favor of a bill that would restore habeas corpus to terrorism suspects previously denied under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. The Military Commissions Act, stripped the federal court system of jurisdiction and essentially allowed for the indefinite detention without trial of anyone the government declared a terror suspect.
Continue reading ‘Palpatine is Dead: Habeus Corpus and the Constitution Making a Comeback!’
Published by jen June 7th, 2007
in National.
Apparently Giuliani’s staffer didn’t like the questions he was being asked about 9/11 and decided to have a reporter removed from the New Hampshire Republican Debate. To make matters worse, the reporter had the nerve to be asking his question during a press conference. The reporter, Matt Lepacek is a freelancer associated with Alex Jones’s Infowars.com (a group that explores issues outside of the mainstream press and pursues alternate explanations to the official accounts of what took place during 9/11).
Continue reading ‘Giuliani Campaign Arrests the Press’
Published by jen June 6th, 2007
in National and State.
First the University of Tennessee turned down the RIAA/Napster music tax in 2004 that would’ve forced each student to pay a mandatory $9.99 per month fee regardless of whether or not the student wanted or ever used the service (given the university’s size that would’ve added up to almost $2 million dollars a month for a service no one wanted). The tax proposed was a mob-like protection money scheme that amounted to “you pay us X amount per month for the use of our services (Napster is a rental service and songs expire when you stop paying) and we (the RIAA) won’t sue.”
Continue reading ‘List of TN Lawmakers that sold out to RIAA’
Published by jen June 4th, 2007
in National.
There’s still no global boycott on consumables but the Food and Drug Administration is finally doing something to protect American consumers from the growing list of poisonous products from China. They issued an import alert and warning to consumers to not only avoid Chinese toothpaste but also to throw any that you may have on hand out.
The toothpastes on the list may contain (DEG) or diethylene glycol, a component in antifreeze, and also referred to as diglycol and diglycol stearate. It is the same chemical that was unknowingly mixed into 260,000 bottles of cough syrup by Panamanian officials that had imported cold medicine from China. The tainted cough syrup killed at least 100 in Panama, most of them children, and is suspected in many more deaths in Panama and several thousands around the world .
Continue reading ‘Finally, FDA Issues Warning on Chinese Toothpaste’
Published by jen June 1st, 2007
in National.
As a populist myself, I must admit that I was at first glance taken in by Lou Dobbs’s clarion call that there was indeed a war on the middle class. He was a voice in the wilderness decrying the exploitation of American workers at the hands of big business at a time when income disparities were rising to levels unseen in the US since the Gilded Age. While Dobbs shouted about the shrinking middle class, the disparities and every day problems of the average American and the American working poor were being ignored by both parties (save candidate John Edwards) and glossed over by much of our media, respun by Wall Street and business reporters as “a great time to be rich,” or buried on page eleven.
Continue reading ‘Lou Dobbs and Leprosy: What’s Really Eating America?’
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