Daily Archives: November 21st, 2006 «

 

A different kind of discussion about Thanksgiving

Posted by: ST on November 21, 2006 at 10:26 pm » 14 Comments

Check out how some elementary school teachers are approaching discussions about Thanksgiving to their students: LONG BEACH, Calif. – Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong [...]

 

The Texas Rainmaker site has been hacked

Posted by: ST on November 21, 2006 at 3:54 pm » 11 Comments

I just got news that the Texas Rainmaker blog has been hacked. I’ve linked up to him here in the past, but I won’t in this post, because the site has an embedded virus. Jason’s asked that people not visit his site until he’s given the all clear – I’m sure he’ll send an email [...]

 

Tuesday open thread

Posted by: ST on November 21, 2006 at 3:04 pm » 10 Comments

Howdy ya’ll. I’ll add my misc. pre-holiday ramblings to the open thread: The weather is downright icky here today. This morning it started sleeting around 10ish and then graduated later to freezing rain. And the wind is so strong you feel like it could pick you up and drop you 10 feet away. It feels [...]

 

Judge rules that classified documents should remain, well, classified

Posted by: ST on November 21, 2006 at 11:05 am » 5 Comments

Via AP: WASHINGTON Nov 20, 2006 (AP)— The National Security Agency is not required to release details about its secret wiretapping program, a federal judge said Monday. The People for the American Way Foundation, a liberal advocacy group, sued to obtain records under the Freedom of Information Act. The group sought to find out how [...]

 

Anti-Syria Christian cabinet minister assassinated in Lebanon

Posted by: ST on November 21, 2006 at 10:07 am » 6 Comments

I wonder who did it? Well, not really, as it’s easy to guess, but here’s the story nevertheless: BEIRUT, Lebanon – Prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday, his Phalange Party radio station and Lebanon’s official news agency reported. The shooting will certainly heighten the political tension [...]

 

Is the political climate so bad that the issues can’t be discussed rationally anymore?

Posted by: ST on November 21, 2006 at 9:04 am » 2 Comments

Thomas Sowell writes this morning that politics in DC have gotten so divisive and nasty, that it’s almost impossible to have real discussions about the important issues due to the viciousness of the attacks against people who disagree with each other: Whether Donald Rumsfeld’s policies were mistaken or not, that is no reason to accept [...]

 

What happened at Minneapolis/St. Paul International airport?

Posted by: ST on November 21, 2006 at 1:06 am » 10 Comments

I’m surprised this story hasn’t gotten more attention: 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned that federal investigators and airport police are questioning six Middle Eastern men who had to be escorted off of a plane Monday afternoon at Minneapolis/St. Paul International. U.S. Airway officials tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS’ Aviation Expert Bob McNaney that Monday while Flight [...]

 

Bolton and the Democrats

Posted by: ST on November 21, 2006 at 12:49 am » 1 Comment

This cartoon aptly sums up US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton and the Democrats who oppose him. He stands for what’s right, while Democrats don’t want to rock the boat. They don’t mind trashing him, but flip out when he tells the UN like it is (video here). He projects stength where Congresional Democrats [...]

 

MSM, once pushy for a withdraw from a Iraq, now singing “give war a chance” post-election

Posted by: ST on November 21, 2006 at 12:28 am » 3 Comments

Noel Sheppard wrote yesterday in The American Thinker about how the press, among others, are now all of a sudden on the “give war a chance” bandwagon in post-election Democratic-win USA … and how the Democratic party is now engaged in a full-scale make-over attempt on the issue of Iraq, which isn’t pleasing their hardcore [...]