news |n(y)oōz|nounnewly received or noteworthy information, esp. about recent or important events :I've got some good news for you.• ( the news) a broadcast or published report of news : he was back in the news again.• ( news to) informal information not previously known to someone : this was hardly news to her.• a person or thing considered interesting enough to be reported in the news :Chanel became the hottest news in fashion.PHRASESmake news become a story in the news : stolen babies make news.no news is good news proverb without information to the contrary you can assume that all is well.ORIGIN late Middle English : plural of new , translating Old French noveles or medieval Latin nova ‘new things.’Today we'll examine all the news that's fit to print (digitally, of course) with an eye toward finding a silver lining in the malaise caused by being exposed to it.
1. No Noose is Good Noose
2. Cable News
3. Good News
4. What Goes Around Comes Around
5. This just in from a friend in Israel via Facebook...
6. We can't hear you, so you might as well not complain about Congressional inaction.
7. Because Americans want to be entertained...
8. It was news to him.
9. When in the course of human events...
10. Not so fast, grandpa! Things haven't changed all that much.
As I recall from my study of history, taxes had quite a bit to do with it.
The colonists didn't think that they should have to pay a tax on tea to help defray the cost of the French and Indian War, which essentially prevented a French takeover. Their demand for a tax cut came in the form of a "tea party" where they dressed up as Indians and dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
Despite what folks like to believe, it was good-old-fashioned greed, not patriotism, which motivated them to do this.
If Americans knew their history as well as the myths they've been told about the Boston Tea Party, they'd realize that today's Tea Party "patriots" are peddling the same tax-dodging agenda and for the same reason. They simply refuse to pay taxes to help anyone but themselves.
11. Entrenched Self-Interest is as American as The Boston Tea Party
(Re-read the commentary in the previous item.)
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