Power to the people!

Judge: Web-Surfing Worker Can't Be Fired: "NEW YORK
Saying surfing the web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge has suggested that only a reprimand is appropriate as punishment for a city worker accused of failing to heed warnings to stay off the Internet.
Administrative Law Judge John Spooner reached his decision in the case of Toquir Choudhri, a 14-year veteran of the Department of Education who had been accused of ignoring supervisors who told him to stop browsing the Internet at work.
The ruling came after Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired a worker in the city's legislative office in Albany earlier this year after he saw the man playing a game of solitaire on his computer."
Who the heck do his supervisors think they are, Supervisors?

CIA Leaker is from MSU

I'm so proud!

CIA Leaker is from MSU - SpartanTailgate.com - Michigan State Spartans Forums:
Washington -- National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger announced une 16 the appointment of Mary O'Neil McCarthy as Special Assistant
to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs.
She succeeds Rand Beers in that post, an announcement by the office of
the White House Press Secretary said.....
McCarthy has a B.A. and M.A. in history from Michigan State University
and an M.A and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota."

More Hero photos

2006 Pulitzer Prizes-FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY, Works

Gob bless our heros and their families

These made my cry at work.
These photos were among those that won the Pulitzer Prize in photography this year.

Everyone count your blessings and when you want to complain, think about these two pictures.
















Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News
When 2nd Lt. James Cathey's body arrived at the Reno Airport, Marines climbed into the cargo hold of the plane and draped the flag over his casket as passengers watched the family gather on the tarmac. During the arrival of another Marine's casket last year at Denver International Airport, Major Steve Beck described the scene as one of the most powerful in the process: "See the people in the windows? They'll sit right there in the plane, watching those Marines. You gotta wonder what's going through their minds, knowing that they're on the plane that brought him home," he said. "They're going to remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives. They're going to remember bringing that Marine home. And they should."
















Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News
The night before the burial of her husband's body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of 'Cat,' and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. "I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it," she said. "I think that's what he would have wanted."

Slow results are convenient as heck!

Betsy's Page: "Well, Isn't that Convenient?

District Attorney Nifong says that the results from the second set of DNA tests won't be back before May 15. That is when the next court date is for the two indicted players. And it's almost two weeks past the primary election for DA in which Nifong is in a tight fight to keep his job. Apparently, the defense attorneys thought that the results would be back next week and the media kept reporting that. If those results had come back negative again, it would have definitely been good night for Nifong."

Bush's fault?

Vote for Mayor Points to Change in New Orleans - New York Times: "Black residents, whose neighborhoods were the most devastated by the storm, voted in much smaller numbers than whites did on Saturday, even more so than usual"
Maybe they all were at the Duke "rape" protest?

TigerHawk

TigerHawk: "Apart from the list's comic aspects, it is fascinating for its omissions. Why didn't bin Laden talk about Iraq?

Less than 2 1/2 years ago, al Qaeda broke the news to the Taliban that it was diverting resources to Iraq so as to humiliate the American 'Crusaders.'

All this was on the orders of bin Laden himself, the sources said. Why? Because the terror chieftain and his top lieutenants see a great opportunity for killing Americans and their allies in Iraq and neighboring countries such as Turkey, according to Taliban sources who complain that their own movement will suffer... Bin Laden believes that Iraq is becoming the perfect battlefield to fight the �American crusaders� and that the Iraqi insurgency has been �100 percent successful so far,� according to a Taliban participant at the mid-November meeting who goes by the nom de guerre Sharafullah.

Al Qaeda drew a line in the sands of the Sunni Triangle, and the United States Army and Marines walked right across it. First, al Qaeda tried to kill Americans, per bin Laden's orders. It largely failed. Then al Qaeda went after America's allies, and succeeded only in turning public opinion against itself in every Muslim country it attacked. After thirty months of battlefield defeats and political embarrassments, bin Laden won't even mention Iraq in one of his rare public utterances, and he rallies his troops to fight a war where American soldiers aren't. How humiliating. How delightful.

Al Qaeda has lost in Iraq, and bin Laden is desperate to change the subject. He and his organization are at grave risk of being discredited, and when that happens it will be much harder for al Qaeda to attract recruits, raise money, or deal with governments."

So that's what was in her glass......

The Observer Magazine Julian Dibbell repors on 'women's viagra': "Horn of rhinoceros. Penis of tiger. Root of sea holly. Husk of the emerald-green blister beetle known as the Spanish fly. So colourful and exotic is the list of substances that have been claimed to heighten sexual appetite that it is hard not to feel a twinge of disappointment on first beholding the latest entry - a small, white plastic nasal inhaler containing an odourless, colourless synthetic chemical called PT-141. Plain as it is, however, there is one thing that distinguishes PT-141 from the 4,000 years' worth of recorded medicinal aphrodisiacs that precede it: this one actually works."

"Thou reeky knotty-pated bugbear!"

Shakespearean Insulter:
Thou'rt by no means valiant;For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork of a poor worm.
I think Shakey is talking about democrats....

Tennis surprise?

Nadal the next SuperStar?
My Way - Sports News: "Rafael Nadal beat top-ranked Roger Federer 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 7-6 (5) Sunday to win the Monte Carlo Masters for the second straight year.
The second-ranked Spaniard extended his winning streak on clay to 42 matches, beating the seven-time Grand Slam champion for the second time this year. Federer, who had 78 unforced errors on his least-favorite surface, is now 28-2. "

Global Climate Change High Priests....

...... don't seem to like "infidels".
OpinionJournal - Extra: "But there is a more sinister side to this feeding frenzy. Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis."
I thought "our diversity is our strength" was an academic principle.

White cop in love!

San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year: "Cynthia McKinney is a friend of mine. Until the day I die, she will be a friend of mine. More than that, she will be a role model and an inspiration that I don't ever expect to be equaled, let alone surpassed"
One would hope!

Turn Lincoln Park into Baghdad?

Debbie Schlussel: "But the name of the company is clearly 'Fitness USA,' not 'Allah's Gym USA.' A Detroit Free Press article, written by resident Islamist reporter Niraj Warikoo, does not tell the whole story, but it is useful as background (if you can read between the lines)."
What's next? "BurkaDay" at Lowes-No Men Allowed!
What ever happened to assimilation?

A boy named Sue?

Boy dies in fall from high-rise: "The child, whom police identified as 16-month-old Saviour God-Scientific Allah, had tumbled out of a bedroom window of a seventh-floor apartment at the North Park Place apartment complex in Southfield"
Sad story but any parent who names their child "Saviour God-Scientific Allah" deserves a bit of extra scrutiny.

No. Not Roosevelt Park....yet....

Charlotte Observer 04/21/2006 House beautiful now house befouled: "The noise, she said, sounded like an elephant belching.'Just braaaaaap,' Meg McCormick said. 'And then it was just...' She searched for words. 'It wasn't oozing, it wasn't rising, it was shooting.'
She was standing at the kitchen counter that night, having just been assured, she said, that the clog removal wouldn't do anything to her house. Now, from the counter, she could see into one of her bathrooms, and black gook was shooting skyward two feet from the bottom of the toilet bowl.
'It was,' she said, 'like we'd struck a small oil well.'"
Sorta like The Beverly Hillbillies without the money and the chick in the skimpy shorts.

Dang! We're doomed again!

Nothing to fear but the climate change alarmists: "Why did the Earth cool between 1940 and 1970?
Beats me. Hitler? Hiroshima? Maybe we need to nuke someone every couple of decades".
OK, I think I've got it.
"New Ice Age", out!
"Nuclear Winter", out.
"Global Warming", out.
"Global Climate Change", in.
I suppose the only real sign of the approaching apocalypse is this new movie STARRING AlGore.
Steyn skewers the junk scientists again.

Mr. Yoest's Ten Simple Rules for Dating My Daughters

Jack Yoest at Yoest.org: "Rule Four:
I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without using a 'barrier method' of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you."
I kinda agree but am real glad I don't have any daughters.

We're doomed!

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph."
We're all gonna blow off!
Well, it's as believable as second hand smoke causing cancer and republicans causing global warming.....

When did this change?

Big Lizards:Blog:Main: "What seems to be misplaced is the lost journalists' ethic of simply conveying the relevant facts -- rather than trying to force a certain reader reaction (of despair, in this case), no matter how inappropriate it may be."
Sad....

United 93- the movie

April 16, 2006 - April 22, 2006 Archives: "I won't tell all the action, but I will say that when they beat down that first terrorist, it was quite possibly the most satisfying, cinematic moment I've ever experienced. I'm not sure what that says about me, but it felt good.
Watching the terrorists' faces drop as they realize they won't be able to complete their mission for god-- priceless. The terrorists are portrayed mercilessly."
Great movie review! My kind of woman!

Loose lips reveal demo's duplicity.

Legislator: 'Illegals' will fill jobs: "West Michigan legislator Doug Bennett believes school districts in West Michigan that privatize their custodian and bus driving jobs will be getting rid of 'everyone you trust,' and giving those jobs to 'illegal immigrants.'
Bennett, a Democrat representing the northern Muskegon County district that includes the Reeths-Puffer school district, repeated his remarks three times during a public rally to protest privatization of school jobs.....
'We all know what's going to happen -- they are going to hire illegal immigrants to fill the jobs,' Bennett told Kathie Oakes..........'It's all about money,' he said.
Bennett attempted to clarify his statements after realizing Oakes was standing next to a Chronicle reporter.
The state legislator said his comments shouldn't be misconstrued as anti-immigrant. He also said he wasn't accusing Reeths-Puffer school officials of knowingly planning to hire illegal immigrants to fill custodial jobs.
Bennett said the likelihood of illegal immigrants working as custodians in the district will increase because the board voted to contract those jobs with Enviro-Clean Services of Holland, said Bennett.
Holland, he said, is known for having many illegal immigrants living there.
This guy is an elected State Rep? PANDERER!

I'm embarrassed....

.... to say I agree with the LA Times.
The pay's the thing - Los Angeles Times: "When people like McGuire have $1.4 billion worth of unused stock options, the whole system of incentives is seriously out of whack. "
Senior executive pay is way out of line. I just know the government can't make it fairer.

We have met the enemy and they are journalists!

Collaborators!
Read the whole thing.
The title tells all.
Seems like the left wants accolades more than victory over those who would, and will continue to, kill Americans. Sickening.....
Reporting so good it's criminal?
April 22, 2006
THERE are a lot of ways to react to the annual award of the Pulitzer Prizes, which occurred this week.
You could congratulate the winners, fulsomely or, as is often the case, through the gritted teeth of a strained smile. You could argue angrily that work more worthy should have won. You could shrug in weary indifference and get on with more important things, like moisturizing the cat. You could quite sensibly ignore the whole thing.
This year, though, there was another reaction, one that speaks in a particular way to this nation's extreme polarization and to the new realities of doing journalism in such an environment.
A number of prominent commentators called for jailing three of the prize winners.

Only on FOX!

The Secret War Against President Bush - John Gibson Judge Napolitano John Gibson Big Story Weekend: "What is really going on here is the secret war by CIA-types against President Bush and his policies. This is the group inside the CIA, think Valerie Plame, who think their opinions and analysis of the world should trump whatever it is the president thinks. If the president goes against their opinion, they call The New York Times and start leaking embarrassing stuff.
It's a war against Bush, waged by Americans.
It's wrong, it's illegal and people are going to start going to jail"
These traitors are working for our enemies while we are at war!

Crooks lose county contract?

Arrests could kill body contract: "A body-removal business could be cut loose by Muskegon County following recent arrests of the owner and two employees and the company's failure to provide required documentation."
Another sweet county deal gone bad. Anyone checkin' where the bodies went?

The truth about gas prices

Blogcritics.org: A Thought On Gasoline Prices - Rats ... Maybe They Sorta Make Sense: "Instead of listening to talking heads or talk show callers to learn about gasoline prices I decided to just sit down for ten minutes and do a little math. You know...the kind of math we learned in elementary school?"
G Gordon Cal sends this link. He's interested in the facts. Too bad so many care less about facts and more about punishing oil companies. Maybe the US Postal Service should bring us gasoline instead of Exxon?

Nazi tactics in GR!

WOODTV.com & WOOD TV8 - Grand Rapids news and weather - GR man denies neo-Nazi ties: "Residents in a northeast side neighborhood stood outside a home on Grove Street Thursday night and passed out fliers that claimed the man who lives there is the Southwest Unit Leader for a neo-Nazi group."
Um, isn't this what the Brown Shirts did to the Jews in 1930s Germany?

No Pulitzer for this reporter

Bill Clinton Decimated the CIA: "Upon taking power in 1993, Risen reports, the Clinton administration 'began slashing the intelligence budget in search of a peace dividend, and Bill Clinton showed almost no interest in intelligence matters.'"
Let's see. Bill Clinton destroys the CIA. The CIA gives George Bush flawed info about Iraq. The drive by media reports "Bush Lied". And no one seems interested in fixing the CIA.

Culture of corruption!

Senior Democrat Exits House Ethics Panel: "The top Democrat on the House ethics committee, Alan Mollohan, will leave the panel _ at least temporarily _ while he defends his own financial conduct, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday. "
Top democrat ain't got no ethics? I'm shocked!

Heebee jeebie alert!

'NYT' Sunday Preview: Madeleine Albright Can Leg-Press 400 Pounds: "NEW YORK In an interview in the The New York Times Magazine that will appear this coming Sunday, Madeleine Albright reveals, among other things, that even at 68, she works out three times a week 'and I can leg-press up to 400 pounds.' This follows a discussion of how she does not expect to re-marry, partly because, as she says, 'I'm intimidating, don't you think?'"
Not the first thought that comes to mind....