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  • Maine’s public schools purchased taxpayer-subsidized electric buses but say they are defective

    02/23/2024 9:05:34 AM PST · by george76 · 39 replies
    Just the News ^ | February 23, 2024 | Kevin Killough
    Maine’s Department of Education is reportedly urging school districts to stop using taxpayer-subsidized electric school buses that were purchased within the last year. The districts reported problems with the new buses, which were supplied by Canada-based Lion Electric Co., last fall ... The windshields on the buses would leak whenever it rained, as the glass didn’t appear to be securely in place. concerns about mixing electricity and water from the leaking windshields led them to stop driving some of the buses. The buses, which cost about $345,000 each, were also sold with misaligned or incorrect lettering on the sides, and...
  • Dixie Chick Natalie Maines' husband charged with DUI

    02/22/2010 9:32:26 PM PST · by truthandlife · 91 replies · 3,316+ views
    <p>Court records show actor Adrian Pasdar has been charged with drunken driving, and his arraignment is scheduled for later this week.</p> <p>The 44-year-old actor was arrested Jan. 27 after authorities say they spotted him speeding and veering over two lanes of traffic on a Los Angeles freeway.</p>
  • Natalie Maines Gets the Runs (Thick Dixie Chick )

    06/08/2009 5:07:08 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 66 replies · 3,010+ views
    tmz.com ^ | June 8, 2009
    Dixie Chick Natalie Maines worked on her fitness by hiking in L.A. this weekend. The recently shorn 34-year-old mother of two is not ashamed to break a sweat in public.
  • Natalie Maines joins LR protest for imprisoned 3

    12/20/2007 5:30:45 PM PST · by george76 · 67 replies · 196+ views
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ^ | December 20, 2007 | CATHY FRYE
    The voice of Natalie Maines, lead singer for the Dixie Chicks, floated across the state Capitol grounds Wednesday as a line of “West Memphis Three” supporters snaked up the steps with a giant banner. Maines was due to arrive any minute. Meanwhile, those rallying for the release of three men convicted in the 1993 slayings of three 8-year-old boys listened to a recording of the Dixie Chicks’ 2006 hit, Not Ready to Make Nice Forgive, sounds good Forget, I’m not sure I could They say time heals everything But I’m still waiting... About 150 people — including national media and...
  • Vanity - Looking for the FR Black List. Please help (It lists the Dixie Chicks as our #1 enemy)

    10/27/2006 2:08:50 PM PDT · by Eagle of Liberty · 134 replies · 2,486+ views
    Free Republic ^ | October 27, 2006 | Kerretarded
    Natalie Maines was recently interviewed by Chris Matthews and the following took place: Matthews: "Well, who were the people that were, let me go back to Natalie, who started this all because you were the voice that spoke? Who went out there and really tried to exploit this against you? Were there any commercial forces that compete with you that said, here's a chance to bring down the Dixie Chicks and, and take the money they'd be getting? I know it sounds Machiavellian but that's the way I am. I'm thinking who is gaining by your demise?" Natalie Maines: "Well,...
  • DFU SONG: In Dreams (BWAHAHAHA...Natalie Maines says she is FReepers' wet dream)

    09/14/2006 10:00:04 PM PDT · by doug from upland · 9 replies · 580+ views
    DFU SONGS ^ | 9-2006 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland
    Writing the history of our time in song. MIDI - IN DREAMS She was a country star who had been shining I would think about her at night About me I sometimes heard friends whisper They knew that something was not quite right I'd close my eyes and I'd drift away All night inside my mind with her I'd play Things would get hot...dreams sometimes do Oh, dear chunk butt Natalie, I'm wanting you Wet dreams you give to me Wet dreams, wet as could be And that is why they put me in a mental facility But just before...
  • Celebrities Display Indifference Toward American Sovereignty

    06/26/2006 6:57:43 AM PDT · by CyberAnt · 16 replies · 1,407+ views
    GOPUSA.com ^ | Doug Patton
    My son argues with me almost every time I use the word "treason" to describe the actions of liberals. His response to my use of the word in a recent column was to e-mail me the following: "Treason is very much in the realm of specific acts pertaining to the national security of the nation, and I don't think being a whiny liberal qualifies as treason." Perhaps, but it comes close. Take, for example, the senseless comments of Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks. Maines created a firestorm a couple of years ago by telling a British audience...
  • Ditsy Chicks foul the nest

    05/27/2006 2:02:23 AM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 83 replies · 3,335+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Saturday, May 27, 2006 | Pat Boone
    Time magazine? The cover? Are you kidding me? Is this some kind of joke? A girls group that, yes, was very big a couple of years ago, but who self-destructed faster than a "Mission Impossible" tape recorder with one inexcusable utterance? A trio of talented girls who have been extremely fortunate, incredibly blessed, but who kissed off the great majority of their fans in an audacious display of hubris, poor taste and grievously un-American disdain for the twice-elected leader of the free world? Yep, there they are – with clothes on this time – unlike the infamous magazine cover they...
  • Bush Gets No Respect From Chicks' Maines

    05/21/2006 9:31:33 AM PDT · by Nachum · 39 replies · 1,117+ views
    iwon news ^ | May 21, 06 | AP
    NEW YORK (AP) - The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines apologized for disrespecting President Bush during a London concert in 2003. But now, she's taking it back. "I don't feel that way anymore," she told Time magazine for its issue hitting newsstands Monday. "I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever." As war in Iraq loomed, Maines told the London audience: "Just so you know, we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas." The remarks led to death threats and a backlash from other country stars, including a high-profile spat with Toby Keith. It also stalled...
  • Dixie Chicks don't stick at country radio

    05/20/2006 11:44:36 AM PDT · by West Coast Conservative · 308 replies · 8,458+ views
    Reuters ^ | May 19, 2006 | Phyllis Stark
    Disappointing airplay for the first two singles from the new album by the Dixie Chicks exposes a deep -- and seemingly growing -- rift between the trio and the country radio market that helped turn the group into superstars. "Taking the Long Way," due out May 23, is the band's first album since singer Natalie Maines sparked a major controversy in 2003 by declaring that she was ashamed to hail from the same state as fellow Texan President George W. Bush. Radio boycotts ensued, and many fans abandoned the band. The first single, "Not Ready to Make Nice," peaked at...
  • NYT: Indecency on the Air, Evolution Atop the F.C.C.

    12/23/2004 7:19:37 AM PST · by OESY · 2 replies · 399+ views
    New York Times ^ | December 23, 2004 | STEPHEN LABATON
    WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 - Shortly before becoming chairman of the Federal Communications Commission nearly four years ago, Michael K. Powell said it was time to eliminate the double standard that allowed the government to subject broadcasters, unlike their competitors in cable and satellite television, to indecency and other speech regulations. At the time, Mr. Powell received a Freedom of Speech Award for advancing what broadcasters and civil liberties groups viewed as a courageously principled position. Now, he is being harshly criticized for significantly expanding the indecency rules. He blames a quest for higher ratings for the "increasing coarseness" of programming...
  • Natalie Maines (Dixie Chick with BIG Mouth) Now doing ads for the ACLU

    06/14/2004 9:23:33 AM PDT · by TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa · 57 replies · 307+ views
    CMT.com ^ | Fri. June 11.2004 8:08 PM EDT | cmt.com
    Natalie Maines, the Dixie Chicks' lead singer, is pictured in a full-page ad on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union in the June 14 issue of The New Yorker.
  • Polling Stoned: New Magazine for Whiney Leftist Celebrities

    12/02/2003 8:24:27 PM PST · by Prime Choice · 9 replies · 251+ views
    Sacred Cow Burgers ^ | 11/29/2003 | Sacred Cow Burgers
    So the anti-Bush celebrities think they have a "responsibility to speak out" and think that — just because they're celebrities — people should take their opinions seriously in the coming Presidential election. Whatever these yahoos are smoking, they need to lower their dose...
  • Country music in battle over patriotism, free speech (liberal alert)

    06/02/2003 3:30:13 PM PDT · by GailA · 73 replies · 399+ views
    The Tennessean ^ | 6/2/03 | CRAIG HAVIGHURST
    <p>American flags are everywhere as Toby Keith, center, performs Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue at the Academy of Country Music Awards last year in Los Angeles.</p> <p>As thousands of country fans stream into Nashville this week for Fan Fair, the country music community is wrestling, perhaps as never before, over issues of patriotism and free speech.</p>
  • Pat Buchanan Observes the "Radicalization" of Middle America

    05/28/2003 7:00:16 AM PDT · by Theodore R. · 11 replies · 311+ views
    Patrick Buchanan Column ^ | 05-28-03 | Buchanan, Patrick J.
    The radicalization of Middle America Posted: May 28, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc. "A well-heeled audience booed the Dixie Chicks plenty during country music's biggest night of the year Wednesday – proof that patriotism continues to run deep through America." So writes Jennifer Harper, embedded correspondent of the culture wars for the Washington Times, about the reception given the famous girl group every time their name came up at the Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. "They're still all riled up," writes Harper. Indeed, America is "all riled up," and something is going on out there....
  • A Soldiers letter to Natilie Maines

    03/14/2003 12:16:03 PM PST · by Newbomb Turk · 74 replies · 533+ views
    CMT Comment Board ^ | 03/14/2003
    Dear Ms. Maines, I've been a loyal fan of your group for many years now, own every album you've made, and have been to several concerts, but today I'm terribly disappointed. I am an officer in the US Army and a devoted patriot to the United States of America. I’ve listened to country music all of my life because that genre of music best supports my religion, values, and ideals. I am from the Midwest, was raised with cherished values, and am proud of both my country and of the military in which I serve. I’ve served in combat on...