CNN's Soledad: Rev. Wright Speech a 'Home-Run'
"Only black children 50 years ago were singled out as speaking bad English. In the 1961, it's been all over the internet now. John Kennedy could stand at the inauguration and say [attempting to imitate JFK's Boston accent]: 'ask not what your country can do for you. Ask rather what you can do for your country.' How do you spell 'ask'? [which Wright pronounced 'esk' in supposed imitation of JFK]."
So, encouraging black youngsters to continue "Detroit speak" isn't child abuse?
How can they get any job outside of Detroit?
Monday, April 28, 2008
Detroit is a national disgrace!
DETNEWS Weblog Daniel Howes' Blog: "This weekend's Wall Street Journal, arguably the most influential newspaper on the planet, offers yet another exhibit in the case to prove why Detroit is a national laughingstock."
State senator drops plan to flunk third-graders who can't read
"Hudsonville Superintendent Roxanne DeWeerd said ......
'Early intervention makes sense, but I'd be surprised if there are districts not already doing that. It's a common practice,' DeWeerd said. 'Teachers check for progress along the way. We don't wait for the MEAP scores to tell us there's a problem.'"
'Early intervention makes sense, but I'd be surprised if there are districts not already doing that. It's a common practice,' DeWeerd said. 'Teachers check for progress along the way. We don't wait for the MEAP scores to tell us there's a problem.'"
So we "graduate" illiterate third graders to the next grade (where they don't teach 3rd grade reading anymore)?
And we can be assured that "educators" are right on the problem and "don't wait for MEAP scores" to fix the problem.
Yeah, right.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
TorontoSun.com - Feeling a little green, are we?
Feeling a little green, are we?: "Indeed, it seems like only yesterday I awoke to my Saturday, January 27, 2007 Globe to be greeted by the hysterical, front-page headline 'Welcome to the new climate,' under a politically correct green masthead, declaring at the bottom: 'We want action. We're ready for sacrifices.'"
Medical marijuana patients face transplant hurdles
Medical marijuana patients face transplant hurdles: "But Garon's been refused a spot on the transplant list, largely because he has used marijuana,"
The needles and hard core drug use probably never came up as a discussion?
The needles and hard core drug use probably never came up as a discussion?
Laketon Township veteran among thousands exposed to atomic-bomb radiation - mlive.com
Laketon Township veteran among thousands exposed to atomic-bomb radiation - mlive.com: "Stafford was exposed to unknown doses of nuclear radiation with unknown long-term health effects."
Mark Steyn on Time & Global Warming on National Review Online
Mark Steyn on Time & Global Warming on National Review Online: "Where to begin? For the last ten years, we have, in fact, been not warming but slightly cooling, which is why the eco-warriors have adopted the all-purpose bogeyman of “climate change.” But let’s take it that the editors of Time are referring not to the century we live in but the previous one, when there was a measurable rise of temperature of approximately one degree. That’s the “war”: one degree."
Working poor vignette: Chuck and Deb Fles
Working poor vignette: Chuck and Deb Fles
A sad case of our liberal Chronicle obsessing on the life of the sad ... rather than those who are succeeding in our town.
Sad but predictable.
A sad case of our liberal Chronicle obsessing on the life of the sad ... rather than those who are succeeding in our town.
Sad but predictable.
Granholm touts green energy while others are skeptical
Granholm touts green energy while others are skeptical
"Costs eventually show up on the monthly bills of residents and businesses.
And in Michigan, some opposition stems from a philosophical dislike of government mandates. The 52-megawatt farm visited by Granholm exists without an RPS, for instance, and developers already have proposed an additional 3,000 megawatts of wind power in 16 Michigan counties.
Others question the job-creation potential since wind farms don't employ many workers after construction is complete. Patterson agrees more jobs will be created if Michigan taps into the potential of making turbine blades, 'but the question is at what cost to the rest of the state?"...
"Costs eventually show up on the monthly bills of residents and businesses.
And in Michigan, some opposition stems from a philosophical dislike of government mandates. The 52-megawatt farm visited by Granholm exists without an RPS, for instance, and developers already have proposed an additional 3,000 megawatts of wind power in 16 Michigan counties.
Others question the job-creation potential since wind farms don't employ many workers after construction is complete. Patterson agrees more jobs will be created if Michigan taps into the potential of making turbine blades, 'but the question is at what cost to the rest of the state?"...
And in Michigan, some opposition stems from a philosophical dislike of government mandates."
Well yeah.... didn't our forefathers have a "tea-party" about that mandate thing?
Lansing resident comes after Peace Corps stint
Lansing resident comes after Peace Corps stint: "Emily Sterk spent two years in the Peace Corps teaching people in the southern African nation of Zambia about health."
Two years seems like a long time to ......typical chick....
Two years seems like a long time to ......typical chick....
(actually the headline mispelled "residence" as "residents". Anyone wonder why newspaper readership is........ Titanic-ing! ("sinking" for you newswriters))
Nadal!
The end of an era?
"Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer 7-5, 7-5 Sunday to win the Monte Carlo Masters for a fourth consecutive year."
"Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer 7-5, 7-5 Sunday to win the Monte Carlo Masters for a fourth consecutive year."
Climate Consensus Busted?- Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog
Climate Consensus Busted? Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog: "To many scientists and students of scientific history, there really is no such thing as a consensus. There is a preponderant view at any one point in time, but it is largely defined by disagreement, not agreement."
Climate change: The Deniers
Climate change: The Deniers: "The Post's series on scientists who buck the conventional wisdom on climate science. Here is the series so far:"
This is a great resource to fight the Gorbal Warmongers.
This is a great resource to fight the Gorbal Warmongers.
More wasted spending by our bankrupt state
State grant allows police to watch your driving
"Officers are working with a $504,399 grant through the Office of Highway Safety Planning spread among 11 area departments to conduct enforcement efforts involving youth alcohol, intersections, drunken driving and seat belts. The funds also are being used to buy equipment, such as portable Breathalyzers and child safety seats.
The funding assigns $315,000 to drunken driving and seat belt patrols, $135,000 to intersection enforcement and $21,000 to youth alcohol enforcement."
"Officers are working with a $504,399 grant through the Office of Highway Safety Planning spread among 11 area departments to conduct enforcement efforts involving youth alcohol, intersections, drunken driving and seat belts. The funds also are being used to buy equipment, such as portable Breathalyzers and child safety seats.
The funding assigns $315,000 to drunken driving and seat belt patrols, $135,000 to intersection enforcement and $21,000 to youth alcohol enforcement."
This is pure pork to spread out to Jenny's favorites.
Where are our newspapers who might expose this fraud?
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Sharpton vows to 'close this city' after officer acquittals
Sharpton vows to 'close this city' after officer acquittals: "Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to 'close this city down' to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.
'We strategically know how to stop the city"
'We strategically know how to stop the city"
What a nifty way for the city of New York to save money!
Shut down the court system and let Rev. "Hangin' Al decide guilt....
Jury pool changes will make for better justice
Jury pool changes will make for better justice
"The public at large has responded very favorably to a new Muskegon County juror questionnaire created in direct response to lackluster participation in this vital facet of the justice system. The result will be more representative juries and, we expect, an even better judicial system."
How is our judicial system made better by "drafting" jury dodgers who want nothing to do with our judicial system?
"The public at large has responded very favorably to a new Muskegon County juror questionnaire created in direct response to lackluster participation in this vital facet of the justice system. The result will be more representative juries and, we expect, an even better judicial system."
How is our judicial system made better by "drafting" jury dodgers who want nothing to do with our judicial system?
Democrats can't let McCain win - mlive.com
Democrats can't let McCain win - mlive.com: "Hoekstra ignorant of the Constitution
I listened to your congressman the other night on TV. He wouldn't know the Constitution and the Bill of Rights from a dirty diaper.
If he truly believes in giving up the right to be secure in e-mails then I guess it would be OK to just 'check' his U.S. Postal Service mail and everyone else's just to make sure we don't associate with any of 'those possible terrorists.'
Stephen A. Verchinski
Albuquerque, N.M.
Cul-de-sac's end all-too-real and sad
The powers that be of Norton Shores decided that our wonderful cul-de-sac on Sternberg be eliminated. Prior to this, children would ride their bikes freely up and down the road. They would create beautiful parades and lemonade stands.
Once the road went through to Henry, Norton Shores decided that an 'island' would slow traffic down. We, the residents of Sternberg, offered to place nice trees and shrubs on this 'island.' Shores decided that concrete, made to resemble cheap tile, would be appropriate. Now we have people speeding down our once quiet road.
Some neighbors believe that the speed limit is 35, and some go even faster. I am afraid for the children who are used to playing on a cul-de-sac. Since Norton Shores has decided to make our lovely road into a speedway, could they at least put up signs that say the speed limit is 25?
Sheri Costello"
I listened to your congressman the other night on TV. He wouldn't know the Constitution and the Bill of Rights from a dirty diaper.
If he truly believes in giving up the right to be secure in e-mails then I guess it would be OK to just 'check' his U.S. Postal Service mail and everyone else's just to make sure we don't associate with any of 'those possible terrorists.'
Stephen A. Verchinski
Albuquerque, N.M.
Cul-de-sac's end all-too-real and sad
The powers that be of Norton Shores decided that our wonderful cul-de-sac on Sternberg be eliminated. Prior to this, children would ride their bikes freely up and down the road. They would create beautiful parades and lemonade stands.
Once the road went through to Henry, Norton Shores decided that an 'island' would slow traffic down. We, the residents of Sternberg, offered to place nice trees and shrubs on this 'island.' Shores decided that concrete, made to resemble cheap tile, would be appropriate. Now we have people speeding down our once quiet road.
Some neighbors believe that the speed limit is 35, and some go even faster. I am afraid for the children who are used to playing on a cul-de-sac. Since Norton Shores has decided to make our lovely road into a speedway, could they at least put up signs that say the speed limit is 25?
Sheri Costello"
At U. of Georgia, Furor Over Clarence Thomas
"Now some faculty members say that having Thomas as the undergraduate commencement speaker sends the wrong message at a time when the university is in the midst of a process that could change the way sexual harassment is dealt with in the campus judicial system.
“Given all of this work, and what felt like progress, the news that Justice Clarence Thomas is to give the commencement address this year has been met by dismay,” said Chris Cuomo, director of the Institute for Women’s Studies and a professor of philosophy, in an e-mail message. “Members of the UGA community who are concerned about the problems with enforcement of the university’s own policies against harassment wonder if the university administration is sending an intentional message that they believe matters of sexual harassment and gender equity are trivial.”"
“Given all of this work, and what felt like progress, the news that Justice Clarence Thomas is to give the commencement address this year has been met by dismay,” said Chris Cuomo, director of the Institute for Women’s Studies and a professor of philosophy, in an e-mail message. “Members of the UGA community who are concerned about the problems with enforcement of the university’s own policies against harassment wonder if the university administration is sending an intentional message that they believe matters of sexual harassment and gender equity are trivial.”"
They don't seem to have the same problem with Slick Willy or Ms Lewinski....
Why are we wasting $$$$ on idiot programs like "women's studies"?
Commencement Speaker Controversies
Commencement Speaker Controversies
"If you ask me, they oughta try to switch 'em around because it seems to me that based on their low-class behavior, the protesting UGA faculty deserves to have Jerry Springer as their Commencement speaker."
"If you ask me, they oughta try to switch 'em around because it seems to me that based on their low-class behavior, the protesting UGA faculty deserves to have Jerry Springer as their Commencement speaker."
Indianapolis Bank Teller Katherin Shuffield Loses Twins After Being Shot During Robbery
Indianapolis Bank Teller Katherin Shuffield Loses Twins After Being Shot During Robbery: "one twin was born dead and the other died after birth, said Marion County's chief deputy coroner, Alfarena Ballew."
How can a "fetus" be born dead"?
Maybe it was a "baby" who was killed in the mother's body?
How can a "fetus" be born dead"?
Maybe it was a "baby" who was killed in the mother's body?
(the photo is an 8 week old "fetus".
A baby human being.)
For a Pinball Survivor, the Game Isn’t Over - New York Times
For a Pinball Survivor, the Game Isn’t Over - New York Times: "But this place, Stern Pinball Inc., is the last of its kind in the world. A range of companies once mass produced pinball machines, especially in the Chicago area, the one-time capital of the business. Now there is only Stern. And even the dinging and flipping here has slowed: Stern, which used to crank out 27,000 pinball machines each year, is down to around 10,000."
South Africa becoming like the rest of Africa?
US moves SA staff due to crime: South Africa:
"Crime concerns have prompted the embassy to terminate residential leases in stand-alone houses in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. The US plans to move embassy families to multi-unit security complexes.
Letters of termination have already been sent to some landlords and rental agents have advised them that US Embassy staff and their families will vacate stand-alone houses within 90 days.
'The US Embassy has taken a decision to move from stand-alone residences to compound residential units due to increased security concerns,' reads a letter sent to one rental agent in Pretoria."
Not too much international outrage when blacks kill blacks.....
"Crime concerns have prompted the embassy to terminate residential leases in stand-alone houses in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. The US plans to move embassy families to multi-unit security complexes.
Letters of termination have already been sent to some landlords and rental agents have advised them that US Embassy staff and their families will vacate stand-alone houses within 90 days.
'The US Embassy has taken a decision to move from stand-alone residences to compound residential units due to increased security concerns,' reads a letter sent to one rental agent in Pretoria."
Not too much international outrage when blacks kill blacks.....
Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices - New York Times
Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices - New York Times: "The students who learned the math abstractly did well with figuring out the rules of the game. Those who had learned through examples using measuring cups or tennis balls performed little better than might be expected if they were simply guessing."
Opinion: Gas up your Prius, starve a peasant
Opinion: Gas up your Prius, starve a peasant
"it has become the habit of progressive opinion to appropriate the language of war for everything but actual war."
"it has become the habit of progressive opinion to appropriate the language of war for everything but actual war."
Muskegon fattie trades blubber for TV "15 seconds"
A transformation -
"She will tell the nation about it on the Joy Fit Club segment of NBC's Today show between 10 and 11 a.m. Monday. She left for New York City at 6 a.m. today.
Had Hartman not seen the scale register a 'a whopping 307 pounds,' she said she might never have changed her eating and exercise habits."
"She will tell the nation about it on the Joy Fit Club segment of NBC's Today show between 10 and 11 a.m. Monday. She left for New York City at 6 a.m. today.
Had Hartman not seen the scale register a 'a whopping 307 pounds,' she said she might never have changed her eating and exercise habits."
Forum addresses 'Politics and Environment'
Forum addresses 'Politics and Environment'
"The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Progressive Women's Alliance-Lakeshore. It is scheduled to run from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Christ Community Church, located on M-104 in Spring Lake."
"The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Progressive Women's Alliance-Lakeshore. It is scheduled to run from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Christ Community Church, located on M-104 in Spring Lake."
Chicago carnage continues!
Semi's deadly crash into Chicago station probed: "Without warning, the truck barreled into a street-level bus shelter, ending part of the way up the station's north stairwell. Two women died on the scene and at least 21 others were injured, authorities said."
and this:
Police planned to increase patrols and put SWAT officers and specialized units on the streets over the weekend, a show of force aimed at deterring violence like the three dozen shootings that left nine people dead last weekend.
and this:
Police planned to increase patrols and put SWAT officers and specialized units on the streets over the weekend, a show of force aimed at deterring violence like the three dozen shootings that left nine people dead last weekend.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sun spot love-- See Gore, See Spot
-- See Gore, See Spot: "'the rout of Napoleon's Grand Army from Moscow was at least partly due to the lack of sunspots.'
This is more than a historical footnote. The same pattern of solar activity that doomed Napoleon is occurring as we speak."
This is more than a historical footnote. The same pattern of solar activity that doomed Napoleon is occurring as we speak."
Back To The '70s?
IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Back To The '70s?: "Oil Shock: When it comes to energy policy, Democrats always talk a good game. But look at their actual record while in control of Congress in the last year and a half. It's been nothing short of disastrous.
Wasn't it two years ago that then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi vowed, if her party took over Congress, to cut energy prices — especially gasoline?
'Democrats have a common-sense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price-gouging; rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies; and increasing production of alternative fuels,' Pelosi wrote back in April 2006, as part of her efforts to convince Americans to elect Democrats."
Wasn't it two years ago that then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi vowed, if her party took over Congress, to cut energy prices — especially gasoline?
'Democrats have a common-sense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price-gouging; rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies; and increasing production of alternative fuels,' Pelosi wrote back in April 2006, as part of her efforts to convince Americans to elect Democrats."
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