Archive for January 10th, 2007
I see a lot of bloggers are experimenting with new themes. It is always interesting to check out the new looks. I had been half considering a new one myself, but I haven’t been using the current one for very long. Instead, I decided to go with a minor tweak. I dug through my collection of photos and decided a header facelift was in order. The header is based on the photo below.
I had been considering using my photo of the South Grand Island bridges, pictured below. After thinking about it, I thought staying with a “North Buffalo” picture would be more appropriate. In case anyone does not recognize the new header shot, it is the satellite dishes for WIVB on Elmwood.
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Normally, I’m not a fan of the vitriol spewed by Ann Coulter. In this case, she managed to nail the subject perfectly.
About a month after members of the Duke lacrosse team were falsely accused of raping a stripper last year, 88 members of the Duke faculty fanned the flames of hysteria by signing a letter announcing that they were “listening” to students “who know themselves to be objects of racism and sexism.”
Maybe they should have been listening to the accused, several of whom had iron-clad alibis. Now the professors are going to need a new example of “racism and sexism” at Duke since their case in chief has turned out to be a fraud.
In lieu of a gang rape perpetrated by high-stepping white male athletes against a poor black woman, the Duke lacrosse case has turned out to be another in a long string of hoax hate crimes in which whites are falsely accused.
The lacrosse players denied that any rape had occurred and immediately submitted their DNA to the state, confident that the DNA would prove them innocent.
It did: Not a trace of DNA from any of the lacrosse players was found on the accuser, though this girl had more DNA in her than a refrigerator at a fertility clinic.
Read it all: Stripper Lied … White Boys Fried by Ann Coulter - HUMAN EVENTS
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“It’s tempting to think of higher minimum wages as an anti-poverty weapon, but such an idea doesn’t even pass the smell test. After all, if higher minimum wages could cure poverty, we could easily end worldwide poverty simply by telling poor nations to legislate higher minimum wages.”
Source: Townhall.com::Sticking it to low-skilled workers::By John Stossel
Commentary on Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats and the first 100 hours.
Brian Doherty | January 8, 2007
What we’ve gotten, then, is a lot of self-glorifying pomp at public expense, some attempts to ensure certain people can’t get jobs at wages other people are willing to pay them, new spending programs on items of supposed great commercial promise, no real action to effectively and permanently hobble the enormous welfare and warfare states that promise to suck all our wealth, and no sign of dedicated action on the political issue most important to Americans, the war—the issue that makes most vivid our own ultimate impotence regarding how the power of the state is used to propel our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor around the globe, no matter how many elections we suffer through.
While Pete Townshend’s cynical/wise declaration “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” has become a painfully predictable epigram to summon, it’s unfortunately a perfectly apt reaction to the painful predictability of political reality. Pelosi is the first woman to be speaker of the House—but ultimately, 100 hours of work from now or 1,000, just another speaker of the House.
Read it all: Reason Magazine - One Hundred Hours Down the Drain
Tehran is now two weeks into a 60-day deadline to answer a Security Council resolution directing it to cease enriching uranium. While the sanctions are mild, the resolution passed unanimously and gives Bush the U.N. cover he used to wage war on Iraq. If Iran defies the United Nations, Bush will demand further sanctions. Up the escalator we go.
. . . on Dec. 30, retired Gen. Oded Tira, who headed up all Israeli artillery units, burst into print with this admonition:
“As an American air strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help (Bush) pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and U.S. newspaper editors. We need to do this in order to turn the Iranian issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq failure.”
“Bush lacks the political power to attack Iran,” writes Tira. Thus, Israel and its U.S. lobbying arm “must turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential candidates in the Democratic Party so that they publicly support immediate action by Bush against Iran.”
“The Americans must act,” Tira concludes. “If they don’t, we’ll do it ourselves … (and) we must immediately start preparing for an Iranian response to an attack.”
(read the rest here)
Goalies no longer talk to their goalposts. Gone are most of the quirks, the bizarre rituals and the unwritten rule that goalies were not to be talked to or joked with. Their corner of the hockey world was considered a sort of mental-health quarantine.
“Goalies are much more normal now,” said Darren Pang, a former goalie and now a broadcaster for the Phoenix Coyotes. “Where did all the crazy ones go?”
Coaches once told skaters not to talk to them. The art of stopping shots was a mystery, so goalies lived in their own world, the pressure and isolation combining to turn them into a colorful society of basket cases.
Read the rest: Goalies Gone Normal: A Little South of Sanity - New York Times
