Graduation season rolls around once more, and the hunt goes out for significant, influential names to fill the cards as inspirational speakers. According to Bill O’Reilley’s article last week, the liberal Left has been honored time and again, with (accepted) invitations for Hillary to speak the Truths As She Knows Them at Adelphi University, while Chuck Schumer’s hateful venting will doubtlessly motivate and inspire the fiery youth at Buffalo State. Barbara Boxer will spout her rhetoric at...
So TV Guide thinks George Clooney deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his spotlighting of the Darfour situation, do they? Darfour is the new---or rather, present---Celebrity Cause of the Moment. What will it be tomorrow? Granted, what’s happening in that area is a human tragedy of unimaginable proportions, but I guess it takes something that big to pierce the plastic bubble around Hollywood. It takes something so huge to get their attention and show them that there’s suffering in the world w...
On April 5th, a young Pittsburgh area boy was walking down the hall when a black-and-brown painted squirt gun slipped from his backpack and sent waves of hyperventillating panic through his elementary school. Police were called and his fate was ultimately thrown to the mercy of the district School Board. From WPXI.com: ~~~5th-Grader Expelled For Toy Gun Parents Plan To Appeal Decision PENN HILLS, Pa. -- A Penn Hills student who brought a toy gun to school will not be allowed back i...
When I was a kid, back in the 70s, I used to really like Johnny Cash. His style, his voice; he was cool. Not sure why, but I kind of got away from him as I entered my teens. The 80s Pop thing had me, and my old favorites kind of faded into the background. In their place came Men at Work, AC/DC, etc. In my later years, however, I'm happy to say that my attitudes have aged somewhat; I've rediscovered my old favorite, and my appreciation has matured as well. I got a little life experience u...
I work two jobs; 3 evenings a week, I work 5 hours at a Dollar General. On the counter beside the registers are boxes of those "ribbon" magnets..... red, white and blue, star-bedecked "God Bless America", "Pray for our troops", etc. Also in the box, in the interest of fairness perhaps, are ones (mainly) for those who don't support the current trend toward patriotic militarism These are plain, bland, baby-blue magnets which read "Bring our troops home safely". Nothing at all wrong with that ...
Which superhero would you send after Osama? I mean, Let’s face it, the guy meets all the accepted criteria to be considered a supervillain right out of the comics, movies or action/adventure literature. Let’s review, shall we? 1. He has more money than God. 2. He could be considered an evil genius. 3. He has seemingly innumerable, completely disposable and nameless yet well-armed henchmen who seem to be relatively easily dispensed with, especially when faced with anyone other tha...
Which superhero would you send after Osama? I mean, Let’s face it, the guy meets all the accepted criteria to be considered a supervillain right out of the comics, movies or action/adventure literature. Let’s review, shall we? 1. He has more money than God. 2. He could be considered an evil genius. 3. He has seemingly innumerable, completely disposable and nameless yet well-armed henchmen who seem to be relatively easily dispensed with, especially when faced with anyone other tha...
Which superhero would you send after Osama? I mean, Let’s face it, the guy meets all the accepted criteria to be considered a supervillain right out of the comics, movies or action/adventure literature. Let’s review, shall we? 1. He has more money than God. 2. He could be considered an evil genius. 3. He has seemingly innumerable, completely disposable and nameless yet well-armed henchmen who seem to be relatively easily dispensed with, especially when faced with anyone other tha...
Which superhero would you send after Osama? I mean, Let’s face it, the guy meets all the accepted criteria to be considered a supervillain right out of the comics, movies or action/adventure literature. Let’s review, shall we? 1. He has more money than God. 2. He could be considered an evil genius. 3. He has seemingly innumerable, completely disposable and nameless yet well-armed henchmen who seem to be relatively easily dispensed with, especially when faced with anyone other tha...
In a little over four months, five years will have passed since those dark hours on September 11th, 2001. It's already been nearly half a decade. Time flies. Since then, we've invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, two pillars of the ideal known as Islamic Terrorism. Debate that point all you want, but that's why we're there. Bin-Laden is still at large, of course, sending, to our "allies" at al-Jazeera, his infrequent messages and threats. Al-Jazeera also gleefully plays the threats and messages se...
Mexican Myth or Texas Terror? by Holly Fenner Is a local Texas television station desperate for ratings or is there something behind the legend of the Chupacabra? A recent home video of an unidentified animal has Texas residents again pointing fingers at the famed Mexican blood sucker. This isn't the first or even second time this suspected "blood-sucking thing from beyond" has claimed fame in the Lonestar State. WOAI Channel 4 first broadcast the discovery of the Texas Chupacabra in J...
This article, I suppose, should really be posted in the "Religion" forum, but since it involves an aspect of the "Liberal/Conservative" thing, I thought I'd post it here, in "Politics". I brought this subject up a few weeks ago in my Sunday School class, which is instructed by our church's Worship Leader, Lynne. She is also the Pastor's wife, and is very passionate in her faith. I liked what she had to say, and asked her to write it down and forward it to me for posting here. I'm waitin...
Okay, Lefites.....sorry to be the one to pour salt on yet another of your snails, but the "failed" government in Iraq is at last beginning to take shape. All it takes is time, which you are not at all willing to give. Of course, this being an AP report, they had to temper this good news with a body count, but what else can we expect from the MSM? Iraqi Leaders End Deadlock Amid Violence By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's president designated Shiite politician ...
Okay, Lefites.....sorry to be the one to pour salt on yet another of your snails, but the "failed" government in Iraq is at last beginning to take shape. All it takes is time, which you are not at all willing to give. Of course, this being an AP report, they had to temper this good news with a body count, but what else can we expect from the MSM? Iraqi Leaders End Deadlock Amid Violence By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's president designated Shiite politician ...
Hot off the AP wire: President George W. Bush has just announced that he WILL NOT be running in the 2008 Presidential Election. That’s right, America, he will NOT! "It saddens me to know that will not be running in the next election," Bush said. "I will no longer be your President from 2009 on. It will be someone else’s time." The Democrats, having focused and based their entire platform on the defeat of Bush in ’08, are said to be experiencing emotions ranging from flabbergasted and stun...