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Reuters and Truth

Reuters says much of the federal government is shut down. Right.

I was taking a break from work while I waited for my computer to update and reboot when I saw on Reuters (HT: Google News) that much of the US government is shuttered. 😯

Seriously? I thought it was only 17%. 😳 Reuters? Are Cowan and Reid stretching things?

Or maybe there’s a subliminal message intended:

Non-essential personnel were furloughed.
That’s “much of the U.S. government.”

Maybe that’s the explanation. 🙄 Richard? Tim? Am I on the right track? 😉

Well, here’s my screen capture of the report in question: Read it all

Hutterites vs National Geographic

Looks like National Geographic ran afoul of the Hutterian Brethren (aka Hutterites).

Or more specifically, some Hutterite bishops have chastised National Geographic Channel.

The point of contention is how NGC portrayed the Hutterites in a TV series: Read it all

Did President Obama Say That About Israel?

Some of what President Obama had to say today regarding Israel is extremely alarming (though hardly surprising) to me.

But my quibble in this post is with what is being reported about part of what he said.

Did he really call for “Israel’s return to pre-1967 borders” as the headline states above?

I didn’t listen to the speech, so I’ll stick my neck out and quote the President from the story headlined above:

“We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.”

That seems to me to say something different than what the headline says.

What say you?

Some Christians and May 21?

What do you think of this headline?

Is it distorted? Somehow?

Only *some* Christians dismiss the May 21, 2011, prophecy?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

How accurate is Some in this context?

Or might it reflect an anti-Christian bias?

Buried: Sifra and Ocean

I do not live in a news vacuum. But I just learned this: Florida teen murders street preachers.

Titus Sifra and Steven Ocean have been buried. I assume.

So has the story of their murder and apparent martyrdom. I just used Google to search the Web for stories mentioning both of their names. Results: 64 pages. So I did a news search. Results: 3 pages. Finally I did a blog search. Results: 5 pages.

Everyday hundreds of people fall victim to street violence in the US. On the evening of Jan. 30, Steven Ocean, 23, and Titus Sifra, 24, became victims as well when Jeriah Woody, 18, shot and killed them at point-blank range after they shared the message of Christ with him, according to a witness.

The witness said Woody got a phone call and said he “had to go” after listening to the two for 15 minutes. He turned and started walking in the other direction, but then he suddenly turned back towards the three men wielding a gun. He shot Sufra at point-blank range. When the Ocean ran, he chased after him, shot him from behind, walked up to him and shot him in the head execution style. The witness ran in the other direction and escaped.

However, although the case is almost two weeks old now, there has been little media coverage.

Did you know?

Drudge Fudges

Did I miss the inauguration?

Did Bush finally give in to all his enemies and resign early? 😯

What’s with this?

As far as I know, neither of those pictures match the accompanying headlines.

I guess ole Matt came down with the fever. 🙄

Oh well. 😆

Note: above screen captured roughly ten minutes ago. I did no doctoring to it.

Never Mind the Stories

I didn’t read them.

But I did read these headlines “above the fold” at Drudge:

And this one at Rosenberg’s blog:

An Israeli news service is reporting this morning that an earthquake in Iran last weekend may have been triggered by an Iranian nuclear weapons test, citing an Iranian nuclear scientist working on the project as its source.

Oh, and does www.mediasplatters.com stand for Media Splatters or Media’s Platters?