No Duke DNA says DA!

My Way - Sports News: "DNA testing failed to connect any members of the Duke University lacrosse team to the alleged rape of a striper, attorneys for the athletes said Monday.
Citing DNA test results delivered by the state crime lab to police and prosecutors a few hours earlier, the attorneys said the test results prove their clients did not sexually assault and beat a stripper hired to perform at a March 13 team party"
The DA says no DNA.
Sure sounding like Tawana Brawley redux.

This explains alot

New York Daily News - News & Views - All play, no pay for Page Fix: "The New York Post 'Page Fix' scandal grew yesterday as those familiar with the gossip page painted a picture of an out-of-control institution where lavish gifts are routinely bestowed on columnist Richard Johnson and his staffers.
Johnson was feted at a bachelor party last month that cost in excess of $50,000 hosted by soft-core porn (Girls Gone Wild) king Joe Francis at his palatial estate in Punta Mita, on Mexico's glorious Pacific coast. More than 2,000 miles from New York, the resort area boasts 343 days of 80-degree sunshine."
Payolla in the print media! Who'd of guessed!

Follow the money!

Property tax breaks trim Detroit's revenue: "DETROIT A newspaper's analysis says Detroit loses more than 63 (M) million dollars a year in revenue because of property tax breaks for people moving into new houses, condominiums and lofts.
The Detroit News says the tax breaks have cost the city and Detroit Public Schools more than 400 (M) million dollars since 2000.
City planners say the tax breaks are necessary because Detroit's property tax rate can make living in the city unaffordable.
Maybe someone ought to be lookin' at who gave the taxbreaks and who got the tax breaks? Hmmm......

New Treasurer for Michigan

Reality - More about Granholm appointee, Robert Kleine, surfaces: "He thought the SBT was a perfectly good tax in its original form
He thought the Governor's SBT proposal was the "best one that I've seen yet"
He thinks the Governor's tax on insurers was too much.
But he thinks it's sound policy to punish success in the marketplace because "manufacturers are mobile, they can move to other states. Service businesses can't"
He thinks Michigan has "the worst economy in the country"
He believes we should raise business and personal taxes because "our taxes now are at a 40 year low"
TheRealMichigan does some nice homework on this idiot.
Read the rest.

Well, duh!

Study: Obese People Lack Health Awareness: "Obese people have a blind spot when it comes to their own weight problem, according to a study that showed only 15 percent of people in that category view themselves as obese.
Such a lack of self-awareness can be deadly.
The "official" definition of obesity is 20% over some money grubbing researcher's definition of the "perfect" weight. Most folks think 20% overweight is, well overweight not "OFFICIALLY OBESE". Ahnold is obese by these standards. Much like the definition of "THE POOR", another worthless study imparting zero wisdom.

Stunning!

lgf: Ahmadinejad Will Visit Germany: "Ahmadinejad Will Visit Germany
You might think that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with his talk of �wiping Israel off the map� and his insane Holocaust denial, would not be welcome in Germany�of all places.
But you�d be wrong, because in the interest of being �a good host,� Germany will welcome Ahmadinejad to the World Cup soccer games: Appeasing Oppressors: A Proud German Tradition Continues."

When are parents going to reclaim their children's education?

I'm worried the answer is ....never...
Read the entire article. Even if you wake up every morning hating "W", this vapid, idiology-as-education has got to make anyone who cares for their child's future quake in their boots.
Montgomery Is Criticized Over Credit for Students:The Montgomery County schools' decision to grant students community service credit for attending Monday's immigration rights protest is raising concern among some parents as well as activists who say officials should focus on education, not political advocacy. "Montgomery is the only Washington area school system offering students credit for taking part in the event, to be held on the Mall -- a decision Superintendent Jerry D. Weast said is consistent with how the system has operated."

"We hope you survive"

The American Princess: Welcome To Detroit: "Welcome To Detroit
We hope you survive. "
The American Princess notes the descent of Detroit. Maybe if more speak out the people of Detroit might have a chance at The American Dream? Does anyone see the fine folks from NBC anywhere?

A city run by criminals!

Where is the outrage? Is this what liberals expect from a city run by afro-Americans?
toledoblade.com -: "Little bang, big bucks.
MAD at your own city council? Consider Detroit's and you'll feel a little better. .....Estimates of the city budget deficit are as high as $400 million. The city's population, less than half what it was 50 years ago, is still fleeing at the rate of 1,000 people a month.
But in a stubborn denial of reality, Detroit City Council is asking for a 23 percent budget increase. The nine councilmen say they need that money, bad. Why? They have to pay for increased pensions and health care costs for their own bloated staffs.
'As long as you don't go crazy and do something illegal, you can spend that money as you see fit,' Council President Kenneth Cockrel, Jr., said.
Earlier this year, the council nearly put the Detroit Zoo out of business after one councilwoman, fresh from a bar fight, held up plans to transfer the zoo to a private society. She said she thought General Motors should be asked to pay to support the elephants. The Detroit Zoo doesn't have elephants. (This councilwoman is the wife of Congressman John Conyers)
As calculated by the Detroit News last week, New York's city council costs residents $6.18 a citizen. Chicagoans pay $6.49. Detroit, the nation's poorest big city, has a council that costs every citizen $17.33.
That will go up, of course, after they vote themselves a raise.
The old saying is "you get what you pay for." Detroit should be so lucky.

This is the SECOND crook-teacher to get caught!

Fla. Teacher Accused of Taking Bribes: "A second middle school teacher was arrested for allegedly letting students skip gym class if they paid $1 each day.
Tamara B. Tootle, 39, turned herself in Thursday and faces six counts of bribery, the Escambia County Sheriff's Office said.
Authorities said she told students at Ernest Ward Middle School during the 2004-05 school year that they didn't have to dress for her physical education class but would still receive a 100 percent for participation for a bribe. "

Maybe the no-gym kids were "investing" their money in this nifty class for 13 year olds? http://www.escambia.k12.fl.us/schscnts/wardm/home.html
Winner of Florida Stock Market Game for the 97-98 & 98-99 School Years.

Gordo's Rule

Gordo's Rule-If an MSM news story ignores or buries the party affiliation of a perp, the perp is not Republican.
Instapundit.com -: "UPDATE: Reader Peter Malloy emails:
I hate to turn a good Porkbuster story into an anti-NYT screed (well, not really), but did you notice that the NYT front page (online) story does not get around to stating that Mollohan is a Democrat until the 8th paragraph? You can be certain that it it were a Republican, that fact would be in the headline."

World progress?

Only one demonstrator killed? Certainly not good news but it seems to be the trend worldwide that mowing down dozens of innocents just isn't acceptable anymore. At least it's a positive trend.
My Way News: "Nepali troops killed a demonstrator on Saturday west of the capital when they opened fire on massive protests against King Gyanendra's absolute rule."

Jimmah's giant bunny is back?

My Way News: "'They call it the monster. It's very big -- it's nearly the size of a dog,' said Joan Smith, whose son Jeff owns one of the plots under attack.
'It's eating everything, all the vegetables,' she told Reuters. 'They are trying to shoot it. They go along hoping to catch it but I think it's too crafty.'"

Why does NBC want phoney racial tension?

Despicable! NBC looks to "prove" racism, can't find any and just tries harder. They don't seem too interested in sending a white guy in a suit to stroll around Detroit on an August evening, do they. Race baiters!



Daily Pundit: NBC newsmagazine 'Dateline' says it will send Muslims to the NASCAR event at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend, in an attempt to record discrimination or harassment.

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

U�ba - F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: "I did found these pictures in a chinese site (wpeu.net), can't really tell about it's acurracy.

Below follows the Wikipedia entry about the F35 From Wikipedia:
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a military fighter aircraft designed by the United States and the United Kingdom. It is intended to replace the current generation of strike fighters, particularly the vertical take off and landing Harrier jump jets : the AV-8 Harrier II (US), Harrier GR7/9 (UK), and the Sea Harrier (UK), along with the conventional A-10 Thunderbolt II, F/A-18 Hornet and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. The F-35, expected to be ready for service in 2011."

Which picture will cause outrage in the Muslim world?

Triple blasts kill 70-plus at Baghdad mosque - Apr 7, 2006: "Three suicide bombers -- two of whom were disguised as Shiite women -- struck a Baghdad mosque affiliated with a major Shiite political party Friday, killing at least 74 people, according to the Iraqi Health Ministry.
Another 140 people were wounded, authorities said."
A religion of peace......

"eliminate the PROBLEM"?

Mlive.com's Printer-Friendly Page: "Commissioner Bill Gill, a black Democrat, noted that information gathered for the 2000 U.S. Census revealed that Michigan has five of the most racially segregated communities in the nation.
'Muskegon is one of them,' Gill told his colleagues.
'We have a lot of work to do.' Commissioner John Snider, a white Republican, concurred.
'We need to recognize what a lot of people tell us, that we are a segregated community, and as a board must try to come up with a plan, and provide more leadership, to help eliminate that problem,' Snider said. "
Amazing! People decide, on their own, in a free society, where they want to live and our County Commissioners want to "eliminate that problem"! More Kum-by-ya drivel from the feel-good crowd.
When they have a summit on the criminally disfunctional Heights School system and the racist crooks who have run that city into the ground.......... Oh, that would be racist to bring that up, sorry....

Seriously, Is anyone checking the IQ of these administrators?

Embezzlement case delayed two weeks: "The former principal of Otsego Baptist Academy will have to wait in jail two more weeks to find out whether he will stand trial on charges he embezzled up to $80,000 from the school to invest in a Nigerian Internet scam. "
I suspect this isn't his first super-bozo move.

Is a lapdancer just a "dancer"?

Alleged Rape Victim Had Past Brush With Law: "New information about the victim has been divulged, concerning charges arising from an incident that occurred several years ago. According to a 2002 police report, the woman, currently a 27-year-old student at North Carolina Central University, gave a taxi driver a lap dance at a Durham strip club. Subsequently, according to the report, she stole the man's car and led deputies on a high-speed chase that ended in Wake County.
Apparently, the deputy thought the chase was over when the woman turned down a dead-end road near Brier Creek, but instead she tried to run over him, according to the police report."
Naive young mother dancing to pay for college....right. Something's starting to smell like a set-up here.

The US economy rocks!

Employers Boost March Payrolls by 211,000: "The unemployment rate, which dropped from February's 4.8 percent, ended up matching January's jobless rate, which was the lowest in 4 1/2 years.....
Employment was stronger in March than economists were expecting. ......
Employees' average hourly earnings, meanwhile, were $16.49 in March.
When will Michigan dump Jennie and join the fun?

If you care about this country READ This!

Michelle Malkin: THE MESS AT DHS: "Among Maxwell's other devastating charges are that CIS continues to recklessly ram through applications of all kinds in an attempt to rid itself of a massive backlog........ As I reported in Invasion, immigration agents across the country received bonuses when they met quotas for approving applications. According to documents I've obtained, those national security-undermining incentives and bonuses remain in place today.
Scroll down Michelle's site to see the proof that INS/CIS is simply movin' bodies through the system...now. Wait until "amnesty" is declared. E or write your congerssman and senators.

Global warming!

Yahoo! News Photo: "A sudden Spring snow falls on St. Albans Park in Queens, Wednesday, April 5, 2006, in New York"

For those junk scientists out there.

Bono to address economic idiots.

Bono to address economic club: "'He's a serious person,' O'Neill said. 'He cares deeply about these issues, and you know what? He knows a lot about them.'
The same year, Bono co-founded DATA, a nonprofit group dedicated to fighting poverty in Africa. Over the years, it has focused world attention on that troubled continent on the issue of debt relief for the world's poorest nations. "
This Bozo won't tell his adoring fans that "debt relief for the world's poorest nations" simply means bailing out New York banks, encouraging more ill concieved loans and guaranteeing that the US/UN supported dictators of those "poor" countries maintain their grip on the miserable citizens under their control.
Feel good liberalism at its worst!

What is wrong with our leaders?

What Bush fails to see at the border Editorials/Op-Ed The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "What is happening on the southern border is unprecedented. Not only in our own history, but in the history of the world. No country at any time anywhere has sustained the influx of tens of millions of foreigners across its borders. A wave of anti-American leftism is sweeping Latin America. A socialist radical may soon be elected as the president of Mexico, a country which officially encourages its emigrants to vote in Mexican elections, urging them to think of themselves as Mexican first and perhaps only. The eventual outcome is plain for anyone with eyes to see. This is invasion masquerading as immigration. "

Interesting concept

Educators support trimester concept: "Schools in Newaygo County have switched to trimesters as has Spring Lake High School.
In Holton's case, students will take five 71-minute classes rather than the current seven 51-minute classes. Trimesters consist of three annual terms of 12 weeks, compared to the current two 18-week semesters. At Orchard View, where trimesters also will be 12 weeks, students will take five rather than the current six classes. "

Abba and The Bee Gees!

Festival's tribute bands should leave you dancin': "After 12 years, Coast Guard Festival officials have decided not to bring back the Beatles coverband, '1964' The Tribute, at least this year. In its place, organizers have tapped Abbamania, which tours heavily across England and Ireland doing songs by the Swedish supergroup Abba.
That same night, Aug. 3, another tribute band will perform as well: Stayin' Alive, which covers songs by The Bee Gees. "

Finally!

Detroit Sold For Scrap The Onion - America's Finest News Source: "The OnionSearch News Archives
THE ONION DISPATCH
Detroit Sold For Scrap
April 5, 2006
Detroit, a former industrial metropolis in southeastern Michigan with a population of just under 1 million, was sold at auction Tuesday to bulk scrap dealers and smelting foundries across the United States.

Site of the former Detroit Museum of African-American History, which took in over $135.'This is what's best for Detroit,' Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick said. 'We must act now, while we can still get a little something for it.'"

When bunnies make movies.....

Angry Alien Productions, Sase and Topsie
Go here when you need a laugh!

Another reason for school choice

Boy turns in knife but may still be expelled IndyStar.com: "A Far-Eastside couple say they are stunned that a Warren Township Schools principal suspended their son and recommended his expulsion for possession of a pocketknife even though he turned the knife in to the office as soon as he arrived at school.
After turning in the knife, the eighth-grader was suspended from Stonybrook Middle School for 10 days and may be expelled."
Why would anyone send their children to a school whose leaders have such miserable judgement?

Interesting

Heritage Tidbits: Manufacturing Myths about China . . . and the United States: "The US is still the top manufacturing nation, producing almost a quarter of global output, the same as in 1994, while Japan's share has shrunk. Adjusted to reflect steady falls in the prices of manufactures relative to other goods and services, US output has doubled since 1985 and its share of gross domestic product has changed little in half a century. . . . "

There's a lot of bogus info out there.