Daily Archives: April 6th, 2006 «

 

WordPress upgrade

Posted by: ST on April 6, 2006 at 11:54 pm » 7 Comments

Sometime tonight or in the wee hours in the morning Friday I am having my current WordPress upgraded to the latest version … so if you experience any site access issues or if things look funny for a few minutes, it’s probably due to the upgrade. Hopefully the upgrade will be smooth but I wanted [...]

 

“Hoops for Troops” – I love it!

Posted by: ST on April 6, 2006 at 10:24 pm » 1 Comment

Here’s one more reason to adore Coach K (of Duke Blue Devil basketball coaching fame): WASHINGTON, April 6, 2006 – Servicemembers’ children had a chance to shoot hoops with some of the nation’s top basketball stars at the Pentagon Athletic Center today. USA Basketball, the governing body for U.S. men’s and women’s basketball, came to [...]

 

Pro-America Rally At Lowell High School

Posted by: ST on April 6, 2006 at 9:17 pm » 4 Comments

This is a repost of a blogpost from Cal over at California Conservative (in response to this issue). From his blog: Cindy Sheehan shouldn’t be the only voice heard. via KSFO’s Melanie Morgan: We are bringing Mark Crowley, Gold Star father, to Lowell on Friday. I’m putting out a call on the air tomorrow for [...]

 

Plamegate update

Posted by: ST on April 6, 2006 at 3:54 pm » 20 Comments

The blogosphere is buzzing today over this story from the NY Sun that has the headline “Bush Authorized Leak to Times, Libby Told Grand Jury” – here’s a brief snippet from the story: A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he [...]

 

High school baseball coach: “We gots 2 show the U.S. that they aint (expletive) with out us”

Posted by: ST on April 6, 2006 at 2:48 pm » 7 Comments

A JV baseball coach has been cought trying to stir up Latino students against the proposed illegal immigration bill. Via the Houston Chronicle (emphasis added): Rudy Rios was stripped of his duties as junior varsity baseball coach at Chavez High School last week after using a district copying machine to make a flier encouraging Latino [...]

 

McKinney apologizes

Posted by: ST on April 6, 2006 at 2:14 pm » 30 Comments

But what is really an apology for what she’s accused of doing, or an apology that the news about it has reached a national level? Watch and decide (transcript below in case you can’t listen to/watch the video at the moment): REP. MCKINNEY: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I come before this body to personally express [...]

 

Judge’s recital of pledge leads to recusal

Posted by: ST on April 6, 2006 at 10:36 am » 20 Comments

This ought to get your blood boiling this morning: A flap over reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in court has resulted in a Gwinnett County judge’s recusing himself from a case. Late last year, Magistrate Judge Mark A. Lewis was assigned to preside over a civil contempt case in Gwinnett Superior Court. As he does [...]

 

Bad news for Democrats in Maryland

Posted by: ST on April 6, 2006 at 10:15 am » 4 Comments

They are finding out that a sizeable number of black Democrats in Maryland are open to voting for Senate candidate and current Lt. Gov. of Maryland Michael Steele: An internal document prepared by a top Democratic strategist warns that a majority of African American voters in Maryland are open to supporting Republican Senate candidate Michael [...]