Thursday open thread and misc. linkage

—- Thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the eight victims of today’s deadly tornado strike at a mobile home park in the small town of Riegelwood, NC. When I was little girl, we lived in Riegelwood for a short time – in a mobile home.

—- Indonesia: Voodoo Practitioner Tries to Jinx Bush. I thought he already did that last week?

—- Idiot criminal news: Kidnap suspect accidentally shoots himself, ahem, where the sun don’t shine.

—- More idiot criminal news: Man steals TV, returns later to steal the remote. Is there anything a man won’t do for a remote control?

—- Desperately seeking more info on this story: Man arrested at the Detroit Metro airport had $79K and a laptop containing info on nuclear materials and cyanide.

—- Did ya hear that former Dallas Cowboys football star Emmitt Smith won this year’s Dancing With The Stars competition? Watch some of Emmitt’s dance floor moves here. Go Emmitt!

—- Dems in bed with Abramoff? Deny! Deny! Deny!

—- John Edwards is a Wal-mart critic hypocrite.

5 Responses to "Thursday open thread and misc. linkage"

sanity says:

November 16, 2006 at 9:08 pm

I want to share something I ran across that seems to be an interesting twist on fight of removing everything “religous” from anything governmental…..

THE LAW IS THE LAW So Be It!

So if the US government determines that it is against the law for the words “under God” to be on our money, then, so be it.

And if that same government decides that the “Ten Commandments” are not to be used in or on a government installation, then, so be it.

I say, “so be it,” because I would like to be a law abiding US citizen.

I say, “so be it,” because I would like to think that smarter people than I are in positions to make good decisions

I would like to think that those people have the American public’s best interests at heart.

BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I’D LIKE?

Since we can’t pray to God, can’t Trust in God and cannot post His Commandments in Government buildings, I don’t believe the Government and its employees should participate in the Easter and Christmas celebrations which honor the God that our government is eliminating from many facets of American life.

I’d like my mail delivered on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter. After all, it’s just another day.

I’d like the US Supreme Court to be in session on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter as well as Sundays. After all, it’s just another day.

I’d like the Senate and the House of Representatives to not have to worry about getting home for the ” Christmas Break.” After all it’s just another day.

I’m thinking that a lot of my taxpayer dollars could be saved, if all government offices & services would work on Christmas, Good Friday & Easter. It shouldn’t cost any overtime since those would be just like any other day of the week to a government that is trying to be “politically correct.”

In fact…

I think that our government should work on Sundays (initially set aside for worshipping God…) because, after all, our government says that it should be just another day….

What do you all think????

If this idea gets to enough people, maybe our elected officials will stop giving in to the minority opinions and begin, once again, to represent the ‘majority’ of ALL of the American people.

SO BE IT……….

These are definitely things I never thought about but from now on, I will be sure to questions those in government who support these changes.

Seen as a post of The Life of a Neurotic Mom

And it makes a helluva lot a sense.

In all of what we fight for, the crosses on tombstones, in God we trust…..I have NEVER heard anyone mentioning if that is what they really want to do, then they should not be doing the above, taking sundays off, Christmas breaks…ect.

Interesting twist I say.
Mwalimu Daidi says:

November 16, 2006 at 9:49 pm

Indonesia: Voodoo Practitioner Tries to Jinx Bush.

Who says the Democrats ain’t got that Old Tyme Religion?
Mwalimu Daudi says:

November 16, 2006 at 10:06 pm

Things are getting dicey in the People’s Republic of Lower Vulgaria.
Marshall Art says:

November 17, 2006 at 12:10 am

Sanity,

Awesome post. I never thought of it that way. Makes perfect sense.
Francis W. Porretto says:

November 18, 2006 at 6:58 am

Concerning remotes: there was once a rising young comedian named Charles Zettler whose schtick included what one might call a “generic personality inventory” of the adult male. Zettler opined that a man wants three things:
— sex;
— toys;
— to be left the BLEEP! alone!

He followed that by asking his audience: “Do you know why guys keep such a grip on the remote control? Because it’s the only socially acceptable thing you can have in your hand all day.”

Truer words were…well, seldom spoken.

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