Archive for December, 2006


The World is Flat, We Get It Already

S.C. GOVERNOR NEEDS A NEW FAVORITE BOOK FOR HIS SECOND TERM FITSNews - December 23, 2006 - S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford's first term in office might as well have been a publicity tour for The World is Flat, author Thomas Friedman's best-selling treatise on globalization. South Carolina's chart-toting professor-in-chief

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‘Canes Winning – But Who’s Watching?

CAROLINA WINS 18TH GAME BEHIND CAM WARD'S SOLID GOALTENDING ... BUT ARE SOUTHERNERS PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO ICE HOCKEY? FITSNews - December 23, 2006 - It always gives us great pleasure at FITS to remind our Yankee friends that the Stanley Cup - hockey's ultimate prize and the most difficult championship

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Another Day, Another Beauty Queen Scandal

RASH OF PARIS HILTON WANNA-BE'S INFILTRATING AMERICA'S BEAUTY PAGEANTS FITSNews - December 22 - It used to be that our beauty queens sang Whitney Houston songs, giggled about kittens and wished for world peace. Now, after a few years of Paris Hilton, America's princesses are turning into a bunch of

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Islamophobia?

MUSLIM REPRESENTATIVE'S SPAT WITH VIRGINIA REDNECK LATEST CHAPTER IN AMERICA'S POLITICALLY-CORRECT SOAP OPERA FITSNews - December 22, 2006 - Newly-elected Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison has clearly never met a Twinkie he didn't like. Oh, he's also the first Muslim ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives,

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There’s Something About ‘Tara’

EVERYWHERE WE TURN IS PROOF THAT NAME IS SYNONYMOUS WITH INCREDIBLY HOT WOMEN FITSNews – December 21, 2006 – With all the totally pointless stuff America “researches” using federal grant money, you’d think one of these days we’d actually get some dollars appropriated

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Heidi Klum Is Looking Kind of Rough

HER AND SEAL'S BABY MAY HAVE ALSO JOINED THE KU KLUX KLAN, OR IT COULD BE THAT ITS HOODIE IS JUST STICKING UP FITSNews - December 21, 2006 - We hear all the time how supermodels aren't beautiful every second of the day, right? Turns out that statement is in fact true, and Splash News Online proves

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How Washington Keeps Classified Secrets

FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HID TOP SECRET FILES UNDER CONSTRUCTION TRAILER FITSNews - December 21, 2006 - It's not exactly Whittaker Chambers and the Pumpkin Patch, but somehow the notion that a former National Security Advisor would lift a bunch of top secret files from the National Archives

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Team Hillary Gets “Serviced”

WE DON'T KNOW WHO JOHN WEAVER IS, BUT HE JUST BROKE ONE OFF ON TEAM HILLARY FITSNews - December 21, 2006 - So we were reading our daily fix from Washington Post blogger extraordinaire Chris Cillizza today when we came upon this story about Sen. Hillary Clinton's people criticizing Sen. John McCain over

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Don’t Worry Baby … It’s Just Justin

CONTEST TO DETERMINE TIMBERLAKE'S STRIPPING SINGING PARTNER AT 2007 GRAMMY AWARDS FITSNews - December 21, 2006 - In perhaps the worst promotional idea since music was invented, "The Recording Company" and CBS are holding a contest to select a singing partner for former N'Sync star Justin Timberlake

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WTF, Gerald?

SENATOR MALLOY STILL OUR ACE BOOM CUZ, EVEN IF HIS OFFICE IS TAKING CREDIT FOR SPENDING OUR TAX DOLLARS FITSNews - December 20, 2006 - We love State Sen. Gerald Malloy. And he loves FITSNews. In fact, anytime we are spotted hanging out together in public people have been known to stop and remark how

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Uhhh …

THERE ARE A LOT OF DEAD DUCKS IN THIS PICTURE FOR SOME REASON FITSNews - December 20, 2006 - OK, this is either a) someone playing a really, really (really) bad joke or b) Karen Floyd's 2006 Family Christmas Card. In case you were wondering, it says "Hurry, Santa, Hurry ... The Floyds are out of Shells." Because

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Wall Street Journal Taking Blogs Way Too Seriously

NEWSPAPER STILL MAKES GOOD POINTS EVEN AS IT SHOVES IT UP THE BLOGOSPHERE'S YIN-YANG FITSNews - December 20 - We love the Wall Street Journal, we really do. They are truly our brothers in the fiscal conservative struggle and probably the only paper in North America that prints what actually happened

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