The end of the year is nearly upon us, and the stock market is having an historic rally. After a bumpy first 10 months of the year, the DOW Jones Industrial Average has been on an incredible upswing these last two months, gaining nearly 5,000 points. For the first time in history, the DOW broke 37,000. Most of this increase ...
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Disneyland Paris Drone Show Company Moving to Orlando, Sparking Hope for A Disney World Drone Show
It’s rare for Disney fans in America to have Disney Parks envy. What exactly is that? It’s when another Disney Park around the world gets a show or attraction we don’t have here in America. But recently, Disney Parks envy has gotten out of control as Disney has set out to expand its global parks with some incredible experiences. When ...
Read More »Tired of Disney’s ‘Woke’? Texas Has Something For You
When Disney’s feud with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis started, several states vied for the jobs and investment the Walt Disney Company provided to Florida. North and South Carolina made pitches to Disney, hoping to attract them to their state, but Texas was the loudest. But that was mainly from a man who claimed that Disney was coming, only to steal ...
Read More »Disney Has a Majors Problems and No Good Way Out of It
The Walt Disney Company has a problem. To be more precise, The Walt Disney Company has several issues, but let’s just focus on one of them for now. That problem is Marvel Studios. Before the pandemic, putting out a Marvel film was a license to print money. So far, 10 Marvel films have made over $1 billion at the box ...
Read More »DeSantis Just Put Aside $1 Million In State Funds For Another Disney Lawsuit
There is a scene in the movie Concussion (2015) where Alec Baldwin’s character, Dr. Julian Bailes, is trying to explain America’s obsession with football to Will Smith’s Nigerian-born character, Dr. Bennett Omalu. Bailes held us two fingers and said, “my daddy, a Louisiana judge, always said that in the South God is first.” He then switched his hand to hold ...
Read More »Reedy Creek Once Ruled the Kingdom, Then It All Went Away
After former Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek spoke out against Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, known by its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had very few options to retaliate. After all, Walt Disney World was one of the state’s largest employers and taxpayers. So, what could be done? Governor Desantis could organize ...
Read More »South Carolina Joins Florida in a $105 Million Blow to ‘Woke’ Disney
When the Walt Disney Company’s feud with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis first started, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley invited Disney to move Walt Disney World to the Palmetto State. It wasn’t so much a serious offer, but Haley was ribbing her opponent for the Republican nomination for president. As much as the rest of us did, Haley knew that ...
Read More »DeSantis Disney District Administrator Tells Employees To Prepare for a Massive Tax Bill
Will the last person to leave the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District please turn out the lights? Since the new Board took over in February, more than 40 employees have left the District, taking more than 400 years of service to the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Employees who have left the District have reported that it has become “politicized” and ...
Read More »New Report Accuses Disney of Buying Influence With Reedy Creek Board
Back in August, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District paid conservative law professor Donald Kochan to write a report on the history of the Reedy Creek Improvement District and its relationship with Walt Disney World over its 56 years of existence. For his efforts, the Board paid Kochan $115,000. But right from the beginning, Kochan’s report aimed to find any ...
Read More »Twenty-Year-Old Britney Spears Interview Has the Internet Wanting to Cancel Diane Sawyer
It’s been nearly a decade since famed television anchor Diane Sawyer was an everyday regular on air. In 2015, Sawyer left ABC World News Tonight, ending a historic career that started in the late 1960s as a weather anchor in Louisville, Kentucky, and saw her become the first correspondent at 60 Minutes. But throughout her storied career, she made several enemies. ...
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