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Sniper-Smearing in Hollywood By Conservative L. Brent Bozell

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Starting today the City County Observer shall be providing our readers with Conservative and Liberal points of view.  Today we begin the CCO  newly launched “Opinion Section” with Brent Bozell.   L. Brent Bozell is the President of the Conservative Media Research Center think tank.  He is one of the most popular Conservative writer in America today.

Tomorrow we shall be publishing the Liberal opinions of Mark Shields a well known national TV personality.

We hope you appreciate our effort to give you both the Conservative and Liberal points of view.

In order for the CCO to provide our readers with a more diverse publication we also are adding “Ann Landers Classic” column, Comics section, Entertainment-Wine and Cooking articles, Crossword Puzzles, “Life Style Lil” local society happenings.

Oh, don’t be surprised to read in the near future that the CCO may be publishing a free weekly in print publication distributed throughout Vanderburgh proper.

 

Sniper-Smearing in Hollywood By Conservative L. Brent Bozell

Clint Eastwood’s movie “American Sniper” dominated the box office race over the long Martin Luther King weekend with a gross of $103.5 million. That’s more than twice as high as the previous January opening weekend record. It received a rare “A+” CinemaScore from people who saw it, suggesting word-of-mouth will be wildly positive.

This movie wasn’t very controversial — until, that is, the film earned six Oscar nominations and had that amazing weekend at the box office. That’s when the hostility erupted from leftist Hollywood types on Twitter, hell-bent on pushing back against the wave.

Radical director Michael Moore slammed American snipers in general on Twitter: “My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren’t heroes.” Moore hasn’t made a real movie in six years. He sounded almost desperate for attention.

Moore added to his smear campaign on his Facebook page, connecting it to the MLK holiday: “Lots of talk about snipers this weekend (the holiday weekend of a great man, killed by a sniper) … Hopefully not on this weekend when we remember that man in Memphis, Tennessee, who was killed by a sniper’s bullet.”

Actor Seth Rogen — so recently lionized for being at the center of a free-speech fight with North Korea over his comedy “The Interview” — showed he was no First Amendment hero. “American Sniper kind of reminds me of the (Nazi propaganda) movie that’s showing in the third act of Inglorious Basterds.” Quentin Tarantino’s World War II movie featured a fake film about a German sniper killing Allied soldiers from a clock tower.

This knee-jerk liberal tendency to compare our bravest, most dedicated soldiers to Nazis reminds us of NBC “Parenthood” star Dax Shepard’s Twitter rant about the 2012 movie “Act of Valor,” a movie that starred actual Navy SEALs.

He cracked: “Saw ‘Triumph of The Will’ tonight, oh wait, I mean ‘Act of Valor.’ great action.”The network news reported on the furor with alarming “objectivity,” considering the nature of the smears, but some network stars praised the movie. CBS morning host Gayle King said, “I really loved the movie and at the end of the day he saved a lot of lives. Chris Kyle saved a lot of lives.” On MSNBC, Mika Brzezinski praised the movie, saying veterans told her it was a very accurate reflection on the difficulties veterans and their families go through.

Faced with the hornet’s nest they kicked, Moore and Rogen quickly backtracked, lamely claiming their comments were taken out of context, which they weren’t. Live by the tweet, die by the tweet. Moore said he wasn’t directly referring to the new movie, which is a bald-faced lie.

Rogen protested that he actually liked the film and wrote a new tweet Monday saying he wasn’t directly comparing “American Sniper” with a satire of Nazi films. “Big difference between comparing and reminding,” he wrote. “Apples remind me of oranges. Can’t compare them, though.” Earth to Rogen: If you had said Martin Luther King “reminded” you of a communist, you couldn’t dig out of it by saying you were just comparing apples and oranges.

Movies raging against the Iraq war have failed, dud after dud after dud. But it should be no shock that American audiences like movies about American heroes, complete with their highs and lows. “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Lone Survivor” opened in the same post-Christmas slot in 2013 and 2014, respectively, and they grossed $95 million and $125 million at the box office.

“American Sniper” is now expected to surpass $200 million in ticket sales, demonstrating that the American public has a lot more gratitude for the sacrifices our troops make for freedom than the loudest mouths in Tinseltown.

L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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ST. MARY’S HEALTH FOUNDATION TO HOLD 22nd ANNUAL ST. MARY’S WARRICK HOSPITAL GALA

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The St. Mary’s Health Foundation will hold its 22nd Annual St. Mary’s Warrick Hospital Gala on March 13th, 2015 at the St. Mary’s Manor Auditorium. The event begins at 6:00 p.m. with a cocktail reception, followed by dinner, a live dessert auction and the program. This year’s Gala will pay tribute to the services and commitment of St. Mary’s Health in Warrick County, which includes St. Mary’s Warrick Hospital, St. Mary’s Epworth Crossing, the newly opened St. Mary’s Urgent Care Boonville and St. Mary’s Warrick Emergency Medical Services.

Ron Rhodes, Meteorologist at Eyewitness News, will return to emcee this year’s Gala, which will once again feature the unique and popular “Eat It Now! Dessert Auction.” Gala attendees bid on locally made desserts to share with the guests at their table.  This is one of the only places you’ll see a cake selling for $1,000!

The Gala raises money to support St. Mary’s Warrick Hospital, which helps fund a wide range of hospital-related initiatives, all focused on helping those in need such as new equipment, staff education, hospital remodeling and care of the poor in the community.

Tickets are $75 each and must be purchased in advance by February 23rd. Table sponsorships are also available starting at $1,200. For more information and to reserve tickets, please contact Brooke Wagner, St. Mary’s Health Foundation Development Coordinator, at 812.485.5850 or brooke.wagner@stmarys.org.

Romance in the Rainforest kicks off Orchid Escape at  Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden

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Orchids are arriving in Evansville by the hundreds in time for the annual Orchid Escape exhibit at Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden.  The approximately 6-week long exhibition kicks-off with a unique opportunity to preview the blooms while enjoying food, cocktails, dessert and more during Romance in the Rainforest on February 6, 2015 from 6 pm to 8:30 pm.

Attendees to Romance in the Rainforest will enjoy a dinner of traditional South American dishes, a chocolate fountain dessert bar and cocktails.  With a 20,000-square-foot indoor rainforest as a backdrop, music, art demonstrations and a silent auction will round out the evening.  Reservations are required and tickets can be purchased online-only for $49per person with all proceeds benefiting the Evansville Zoological Society.  The event is for ages 21 and over. Visitwww.meskerparkzoo.com to purchase tickets and for complete details, including a hotel package from Le Merigot Hotel for attendees.

Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden is open 365 days a year.  Orchid Escape opens to the public on February 7, 2015 and runs daily until March 16, 2015,  regular admission rates apply.  For additional information on Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden, including details on zoo membership and admission prices, visit w

Two EVSC Teacher Projects Funded Through Donor’s Choose and Horace Mann Insurance

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The EVSC and Horace Mann Insurance Agent Nathan Hillyard, have partnered to help fund teacher projects via DonorsChoose.org, an online non-profit organization allowing individuals to donate directly to classroom projects.

The projects funded were both art related – one at Washington Middle School and one at the Academy for Innovative Studies-First Avenue.

Audrey Kavanaugh, art teacher at Washington Middle School, had a Pop Art project funded.  Kavanaugh wanted to introduce her students to Pop Art – and the likes of artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.  Kavanaugh requested funding for gel plates that could be re-used indefinitely with her students, to allow them the opportunity to try their hand at Pop Art styles. “These plates can be used over and over with many students for many projects. These printing plates will allow the students to have a hands-on experience actually creating multiple prints just as a real printmaker would.  This allows for more engagement in their learning because they are actually following the steps and completing the process not just reading about it in a book or me telling them about it from a presentation.”

Lisa Powers, art teacher at the Academy for Innovative Studies, had funding provided for materials to be able to mount projects for the city’s High School Art Show.  In order for the flat artwork – prints, paintings, etc. — to be accepted, it is required that they be mounted on mat board and covered in acetate, which was not available for the students.  Now, that her project has been funded, students are excited about the opportunity to showcase and submit their work for the show. “This will give them the valuable experience in submitting work when they enter higher education.  I am honored Horace Mann selected our project,” she said.

Hillyard and Horace Mann are pledging $500 a month for 2015. A local committee will select projects on DonorsChoose.org to fund with that money – but the more individuals who donate to DonorsChoose.org,  Hillyard said, the more projects that will be funded and the greater the benefit for students. Hillyard, who owns Itus and Abucus, LLC, the local Horace Mann company, said his desire, and that of his company and the EVSC is to increase educational opportunities for students.  He would like to see teacher awareness of the DonorsChoose.orgwebsite as a possibility for project funding; and he would like to increase public awareness of the site, so that more projects are funded.

DonorsChoose began in 2000, when a new social studies teacher in New York, talked with colleagues about materials and experiences they wanted their students to have, for which they had no funding support.  He created the online charity, as a way for individuals to donate directly to classrooms in need.  If a project is fully funded, DonorsChoose ships the materials directly to the school, and provides donors photos of the project taking place, and supply a cost report showing how every dollar was spent.

 

USI’s Archive Librarian Taking Part in WNIN’s “Picture This” Series

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Jennifer Greene, university archives and reference librarian, will be featured in a new television series called “Picture This” which will air on the local PBS channel [WNIN]. The series, which began airing on January 22, can be seen on Thursday evenings at 8:30 p.m. For a complete list of broadcast dates and times please visit the WNIN programming schedule.

Greene will be featured in five episodes and will share and discuss photos that are part of Evansville history, including prints of the riverfront, Main Street, the flood of 1937, World War II and the shipyard. The photos contributed by Greene for the show are all part of the University of Southern Indiana’s Archives. In addition to USI’s photos, the show also will feature photographs from Willard Library and the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library archive collections. Greene is thrilled to be a part of the program and hopes to see it become a regular series. She described her experience taping the first episode as a fun time, filled with laughing and spontaneous conversation, while exploring the city’s local history with other experts from around the area.

Already a huge supporter of public television and radio, Greene believes programs such as “Picture This” on WNIN will provide the community with in-depth stories that mainstream TV can’t offer. She credits WNIN with being in tune with the community and responding to the needs of area viewers by making the public aware of the wonderful resources that are locally available to them. USI alone has over 300 personal collections, in addition to the University Archives, including civil war letters, scrapbooks, autograph books, business receipts and photographs. Along with the physical collections, the Rice Library also has an ongoing digitization project in which over 40,000 images have already been scanned and placed in an online database. Greene wants to encourage members of the USI community and beyond to utilize the Rice Library Digital Collections and invites users to help identify people and locations in the photos by posting comments below the photos. Anyone wishing to visit the library and view any photo or collection in person can do so during normal business hours.

For more information about the USI Archive photos that appear on the “Picture This” series, or about the Archives in general, contact Jennifer Greene, reference/archives librarian at jagreene@usi.edu or 812-464-1832.

Indiana HIP 2.0 waiver approved

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Working in the health care industry, I know how important it is to have the best health care options available. As the country continues to struggle with the changes under the Affordable Care Act, Indiana has made strides by offering a consumer-driven health care program, known as the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP).

HIP empowers Hoosiers to take charge of their health care options and promotes preventative care to reduce emergency room visits. It also has a high satisfaction rate among those who participate in the program. However, under the guidelines of HIP, a large number of uninsured Hoosiers were not eligible to receive it.

That is why I applaud Governor Mike Pence for his dedication to expanding HIP, referred to as HIP 2.0, to offer health care options to those uninsured Hoosiers. However, in order to move forward with HIP 2.0, it required approval from the federal government.

Back in June, the state submitted a waiver application to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to allow us to expand this program as an alternative to the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. This week, Indiana’s waiver request was granted, further opening the door for Hoosiers who cannot receive Medicaid, but still fall under the federal poverty line, to receive health insurance. With this approval, Indiana will continue to offer the first-ever consumer-driven health care plan for a low income population.

Specifically, HIP 2.0 will add new pathways for coverage that promote employer-sponsored coverage and continue HIP’s private market model, which incentivizes members to take accountability for their health.

Starting now, Hoosiers can apply at any time to see if they qualify for this program in the state or federal marketplace. For those of you who are already on HIP, you will automatically be rolled into HIP 2.0 once it becomes fully implemented, with the same coverage and no breaks in your plan.

 

While HIP 2.0 is health care oriented, at its very core, it is about personal responsibility. Not only does it place important decision making in the hands of Hoosiers, but it also links any Hoosier who completes the application for HIP coverage to job training and job search programs presented by the state of Indiana.

 

Since the idea first surfaced, I have been an out-spoken critic of the Affordable Care Act, and I could not be more pleased that we have a governor who is willing to stand up for our state in the face of a federal mandate and defend what is best for the people of Indiana. Not only does this mean that 350,000 uninsured Hoosiers now have access to quality care, but it also means that more Hoosiers will be able to receive the care they need, at a price they can afford.

 

HIP 2.0 is a step in the right direction for all Hoosiers and places important personal health decisions in the hands of the people, not the government. This proven model for Medicaid reform will ensure that more tax dollars stay in Indiana to improve the health and well-being of its citizens and is a win-win for our state. If you or someone you know would like to enroll, please visit HIP.IN.gov or call 1-877-GET-HIP-9.

 

IS IT TRUE February 2, 2015

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IS IT TRUE the City County Observer was stunned to hear about the decision of the Metropolitan Evansville Transit System (METS) to increase the fee for a ride into the stops in unincorporated Vanderburgh County from $5 per trip to $15 per trip?…these routes have been challenged to get any riders with the $10 round trip fare to employers in the County like Ameriqual at $10 per day and the latest increase will be the death blow to the routes because is will no longer be even close to cost effective?…at $10 per round trip it would cost a rider $200 per month to commute by METS to the hinterlands of the unincorporated county?…the $5 per trip cost was just about a break even proposition for a worker when choosing between a solitary commute in a private car or riding the METS bus?…at $30 per day the monthly cost will be $600 which will eat up more than 25% of the earning of most of the workers and will cost double what it would cost to buy an inexpensive economy car and put the gas in it to commute?…rather than going to the trouble of raising the price to $15 each way it would have made more sense to just declare the routes to be too expensive to continue and cancel them?…cancellation is at least an honest way to defeat the whole purpose of public transportation which is to provide cost effective, safe, and reliable transportation to the general public?…it seems as though Evansville and METS are not quite ready to provide the kind of public transportation that is provided in real cities?…judging by the ridership, the population may not be ready for it either?

IS IT TRUE the front page attention that the shell game of paying one account with the other and serially overdrawing some accounts by the City of Evansville should raise lots of people’s eyebrows about the state of the City’s finances?…it is a well established fact that the total of the available cash in the City of Evansville accounts has been falling in recent history?…it has also been common practice to rob Peter to pay Paul who then robs Mark to pay Luke who then robs everyone in sight to pay Judas?…we could have gone on and on with that one but since there were only 12 apostles and the City of Evansville has some 40 separate accounts we would have run out of pseudonyms for the various accounts?…it seems as though a competent planning a funding process for the 40 accounts (assuming they are all really needed) would eliminate the need for all of this robbing and paying that looks more like a ponzi scheme to a non-governmental observer?…while we understand that in a world of federal grants and federal rules there are some mandates for this sort of nonsense, it certainly is inefficient and cash wasting to spend the time and effort to keep up with all of this robbing and paying?…such a system is a good poster child for not only what is wrong with Evansville’s mess of finances but it applies to the United States of America as well?…if the books were reconciled and the line items were continuously solvent this complex shell game would be entirely unnecessary?

IS IT TRUE it is now pretty close to official that the Evansville Mayor’s race will come down to a choice between incumbent Republican Lloyd Winnecke and Democrat challenger Representative Gail Riecken?…with the obstacles that have emerged to the independent candidacy of Steve Wozniak, there is a low probability that he will be on the ballot?…it is a shame that there is such a low probability that there will be a third person on the ballot to challenge the ingrained campaign between two stalwarts in local politics for over 20 years?…some new ideas from a new face would have been good for the campaign?…perhaps there will be another aspiring Mayor come forth with some curve balls for the major party candidates?

IS IT TRUE the plans to renovate the former Riverhouse seem to be having the same level of success as the plans to renovate the McCurdy Hotel and to build a new downtown convention hotel?…the stark reality is that there is no proforma to be constructed for a hotel in downtown Evansville that will be a profitable venture?…it was also made abundantly clear with the failure of the heavily subsidized attempt to finance a downtown convention hotel that even with nearly half of the project cost consisting of handouts of some type there is still no home in downtown Evansville for a financially successful hotel?…we guess we will see the next rendition from the rooftop martini crowd in March when the Mayor and his minions roll out there latest cross between Buckner Towers and the Riverhouse in a last ditch effort to get something that rents by the night to support the ghost conventions that they are confident on bringing to town?

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