MuskegonPundit

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Getting to Know John McCain

"For example, in 1991 Cindy McCain was visiting Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh when a dying infant was thrust into her hands. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save her life, so Mrs. McCain brought the child home to America with her. She was met at the airport by her husband, who asked what all this was about.
Mrs. McCain replied that the child desperately needed surgery and years of rehabilitation. 'I hope she can stay with us,' she told her husband. Mr. McCain agreed. Today that child is their teenage daughter Bridget."

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Drink a beer and lose the fear - study

Drink a beer and lose the fear - study
"DRINKING alcohol dulls the brain's ability to detect threats, US researchers said today in a study that helps explain why drunk people get into bar fights and drive their cars."

Australian banned from taking food to Beijing Olympics | NEWS.com.au

Australian banned from taking food to Beijing Olympics NEWS.com.au: "In another example of the iron-clad control Beijing is trying to exert on foreigners, Games organisers have told Australia it must source all food from within China."

Incumbent judges running unopposed - Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com

Incumbent judges running unopposed - Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com: "Muskegon County will see no judicial contests in this year's elections.
No challengers filed by Tuesday's 4 p.m. deadline to be a candidate"

Townhall.com::Blog

Townhall.com::Blog: "Providing Context For Reverend Wright: The New Audio Of His Sermons"

America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree

America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree
"the killer statistic: Among high-school students who graduated in the bottom 40 percent of their classes, and whose first institutions were four-year colleges, two-thirds had not earned diplomas eight and a half years later. ......... Yet four-year colleges admit and take money from hundreds of thousands of such students each year!
Even worse, most of those college dropouts leave the campus having learned little of value, and with a mountain of debt and devastated self-esteem from their unsuccessful struggles. Perhaps worst of all, even those who do manage to graduate too rarely end up in careers that require a college education."

Truth In Jazz Orchestra-Tuesday April 29, 7:30

Truth In Jazz Orchestra - Home Page

Muskegon Parks survey

Lake water levels. How low will it go?

How low will it go? - mlive.com: "The International Joint Commission, a U.S.-Canadian panel that advises the two nations on Great Lakes issues, is studying water levels in lakes Michigan, Huron, Superior and Erie. A committee working on the IJC's International Upper Great Lakes Study will host a public hearing on lake levels Sunday, from 10 a.m. to noon, at Grand Valley State University's Annis Water Resources Institute, 740 W. Shoreline."

The Truth About Tuskgegee

VDARE.COM
"The Truth About Tuskegee"

By Jared Taylor
The Tuskegee syphilis study ranks almost with slavery and lynching as a symbol of America's racist past. There is probably not one black American adult who does not know—or thinks he knows—about an experiment from the 1930s in which government health authorities deliberately withheld treatment from 400 black syphilitics just to see what would happen to them.

click the links above or click "comments" below to see the entire article.

A Victory Against Voter Fraud - WSJ.com

A Victory Against Voter Fraud - WSJ.com: "So we have the irony of two liberal icons in sharp disagreement over yesterday's Supreme Court decision. Justice Stevens, the real reformer, believes voter ID laws are justified to prevent fraud. Barack Obama, the faux reformer, hauls out discredited rhetoric that they disenfranchise voters."

Climate: The great hockey stick debate - earth - 18 March 2006 - New Scientist Environment

Monday, April 28, 2008

Operation Chaos! AP Poll: Clinton leads McCain by 9 points

AP Poll: Clinton leads McCain by 9 points: "Hillary Rodham Clinton now leads John McCain by 9 points in a head-to-head presidential matchup, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll that bolsters her argument that she is more electable than Democratic rival Barack Obama. Obama and Republican McCain are running about even."

Oh my GOD!

The super-dems MUST vote for MrsBill if they have any hope to win the national election........ OpChaos....still .... tickin'........... heh... heh. heh...

The Muskegon Chronicle... Racial diversity disappearing?

The Muskegon Chronicle... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Things are gettin' kinda "racist" at The Chronicle.... if you define "racist" as gettin' rid of the "folks of color" and replacing them with them with white breads.

Facts are dangerous things......

YouTube - Barack Obama & Jeremiah Wright- Amerikkkan foreign policy

Muskegon principal talks about recent school studies - mlive.com

Muskegon principal talks about recent school studies - mlive.com: "The best way to say it is that Johns Hopkins holds all schools in contention for that. In other words, they're looking at schools no matter whether you have 300 students and you come from an economically successful area, or whether you have, in our case, about 5,000 kids in the total district and it's considered an economically-distressed area. So they're weighing the entire group, the entire spectrum of schools. For a school that fits our profile, we're doing well. But we are not considering ourselves based against schools like ours; we need to compete with schools in general. So we're trying to compete with those proficient schools as much as anybody else."

A very sad NON-ANSWER to the question of why the Muskegon HS kids do so poorly in reedin', ritin' and nummers.

Ya can't fix it if ya deny it's broken.

Voter ID card cost

SOS - Michigan Personal Identification Card Fees:
"The fee for a personal identification card is $10.
No fee will be charged for applicants 65 years of age or older, to individuals whose license has been revoked, suspended, or denied because of physical or mental disability, or for persons who are legally blind."

Of course, Michigan law does NOT require a person to present photo ID of any kind in order to vote.

Mars! Deeper pocks than earlier thought!

Yahoo! Finance: "Mars, Buffett, Cooperate in $23 Billion Bid for Wrigley"

Moon outbid again!
heh....

Pacifist?

Instapundit.com -: "A collection of essays, including one on a particular breed of pacifist that Chesterton saw as new in the 20th Century: 'He does not so much believe in his own conscience as disbelieve in the common conscience which is the soul of any society. His hatred for patriotism is very much plainer than his love for peace.'"

Steep Decline at 'NYT' While 'WSJ' Gains

Steep Decline at 'NYT' While 'WSJ' Gains: "Print circulation continues on its steep downward slide, the Audit Bureau of Circulations revealed this morning in releasing the latest numbers for some of the country's largest dailies in the six-month period ending March 31, 2008. When a full analysis appears it is expected to find, according to sources, the biggest dip yet, about 3.5% daily and 4.5 for Sunday."

The Funk Brothers

Kim Komando's Video of the Day -
"The band backed up popular singers, including the Temptations, the Supremes, Stevie Wonder and many more. They reportedly played on more No. 1 records than the Beatles, Elvis, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys combined."

Time to Compromise on Gun Control::By Mike S. Adams

Time to Compromise on Gun Control::By Mike S. Adams: "unfortunately, the political science professor let his feelings get the better of him, which led directly to my change of heart on gun control. He began hurling epithets like “stupid, ignorant, and crazy” to the nineteen year old Millage. He so badly disrupted the event that the College Republican President called me in my office asking that I come over to try and calm him down.
I gladly complied with her request – largely because I know that these events generate intelligent debate until the first professor shows up."

Another excellent column exposing the "free speech for me but not for thee" atmosphere that is the American University today.

Read to the end where Mr Adams makes a controversial proposal on gun control.

Supreme Court upholds photo ID law for voters in Indiana

Supreme Court upholds photo ID law for voters in Indiana
"The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws."

Imagine a party that opposed this logical method of preventing voter fraud.... The Democrat Party!

Yes, there are serious differences between the two political parties.

In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana's strict photo ID requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups said would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots. Its backers said it was needed to deter fraud.

The poor liberal writing this "painful" piece shows their bias with the "splintered" definition of a solid 6-3 vote.

Disgusting and just more proof of the MSM's slavish liberalism.

CNN's Soledad: Rev. Wright Speech a 'Home-Run'

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?

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.'"

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.'"