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New York Times Gives Texas Tribune a Halloween Trick But No Treat
NewsBusters ^ | October 31, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 10/31/2014 1:09:52 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Trick or treat! Okay, forget about the treat. The New York Times has only a trick for the Texas Tribune in the form of the termination of their partnership.

Is this just a coincidence that the Halloween announcement which appeared in the Texas Tribune is happening just before the election in which it appears that the campaign of Democrat gubernatorial candidate appears to have imploded, destroying what many suspect was the not so subtle effort by the Texas Tribune to turn that state blue? We shall look into that effort but first the Halloween trick just handed to the Texas Tribune:

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: texastribune
For the past three years NO kids have come by our home on Halloween Trick or Treating so this year I bought no candy. With my luck, this will be the year they come by.
1 posted on 10/31/2014 1:09:52 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

same here


2 posted on 10/31/2014 1:11:27 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: PJ-Comix; GeronL

Oh my. I quit counting last year at 68 and those were just the ones that live on my street and the two adjoining ones!


3 posted on 10/31/2014 1:17:24 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Wow. We typically get between 70 and 130 kids each year (last year was 91). Part of it might be word of mouth that we’re generous with the candy, but I suspect we would get a decent wave regardless.


4 posted on 10/31/2014 1:18:37 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: PJ-Comix
Texas Tribune is like some tiny circulation weekly that nobody actually reads.
5 posted on 10/31/2014 1:19:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

Is George Soros Funding at Work at “ Non Partisan” Texas Tribune

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2766495/posts


6 posted on 10/31/2014 1:31:40 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

non-partisan my big toe


7 posted on 10/31/2014 1:32:49 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: jimbo123

I guess it has served its purpose for the NY Times and WashPost and they no longer need it as a source.


8 posted on 10/31/2014 1:37:04 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: PJ-Comix

We normally have 60 plus, have had 90. We do have some from other neighborhoods.


9 posted on 10/31/2014 2:07:22 PM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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We had about a dozen little kids last year, and a few greedy teenagers who didn't even bother to dress up.

We have two new families with small children on the block, so we may have an uptick this year.

10 posted on 10/31/2014 2:41:42 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

I have none of my own so I don’t bother.


11 posted on 10/31/2014 2:46:45 PM PDT by darkangel82
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Ours are grown and gone, but we still have fun. I wear my Königin der Nacht costume (sometimes the grownups recognize the aria - I always quit before I get to the high F) and my husband dresses up as the Mad Scientist, complete with slide rule and a frog in his pocket.


12 posted on 10/31/2014 3:10:38 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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This time last year I had just been to the dentist a week earlier so I sat out. Today I don’t have that problem but it’s just me here anyway.


13 posted on 10/31/2014 3:15:48 PM PDT by darkangel82
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To: darkangel82

Nobody says you have to participate! My husband had foot surgery recently, so I’ll be manning the door . . .


14 posted on 10/31/2014 3:20:22 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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Well, I loved Halloween growing up, and the kids in costumes are cute but no one comes on our street anyway.


15 posted on 10/31/2014 3:25:55 PM PDT by darkangel82
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After action report -

Right at sunset we had a cold rain set in . . . we got 8 or 10 hardy trick-or-treaters but that was all!

I recently wound up with a very large Chinese gong - I rang it nice and loud when I opened the door - everybody liked that!

16 posted on 11/01/2014 9:45:21 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: PJ-Comix

It’s going to rain - possibly very heavily - in TX on election day.


17 posted on 11/01/2014 9:52:05 AM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Have you seen this?

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/10/new-ad-takes-on-liberal-media.php


18 posted on 11/01/2014 9:54:31 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Are You More Likely to be Infected or Beheaded Today Than You Were 6 Years Ago? freeperPROCON)
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To: duffee

Well, Halloween came and went and NO kids showed up last night Trick or Treating so I guess I figured right not to buy candy.


19 posted on 11/01/2014 10:17:54 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Kim Jong Un last seen on a buffet line)
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We had 98, it started slow, we usually have toddlers before it gets dark. Last night we got our first 3 at 6:55 and two minutes later a group 16. We shut down shortly after 8. 98 not couting parents and oloder children escorting younger siblings. Better and more elaborate costumes than normal and no hazmat suits or islamic terrorists.


20 posted on 11/01/2014 10:30:59 AM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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