Archive for November, 2009

Dan Calabrese

The Associated Press, which practiced so-called “accountability journalism” until George W. Bush left office, now does little more than parrot the line of Democrats in the White House and on Capitol Hill.

Today’s missive on ObamaCare by Richard Alonso-Zaldivar is one of the most egregious examples yet. The bold passages are my doing:

All propaganda.

There’s no clear course for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to steer legislation through Congress to President Barack Obama. You can’t make history unless you reach 60 votes, and don’t count on Republicans helping him.

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Gregory D. Lee

The refusal of the departments of the Army and Defense to call the killing of 12 Ft. Hood soldiers – a civilian employee – and the wounding of at least 30 others an act of terrorism is the latest example of political correctness gone amuck.

No judging!

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, and the Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., refused to label the actions of devout Muslim Major Nidal Malik Hasan an act of Islamic terrorism despite mounds of evidence to the contrary. In recent congressional hearings, Defense Secretary Dr. Robert M. Gates said, “I’m not going there,” when asked if he thought Hasan had committed an act of terrorism.

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Bob Franken

I’m sorry. I can’t contain myself. I have to write about this:

It is probably not true that when President Obama announces Tuesday he’ll be ordering thousands more Americans to Afghanistan, the first two to go will be the couple that crashed the White House State Dinner. But there are probably some people here who would applaud the idea.

Giving the Secret Service heartburn.

Let’s face it, Tareq and Michaele Salahi have left a lot of powerful figures bent out of shape and looking for some way to punish them for their embarrassing stunt Tuesday night. There’s even talk of legal action.

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Dan Sherrier

Political correctness not only plagues the United States, but Italy as well.

According to CNN, a European panel of judges has advised the Italian government to consider taking down the Christian cross in some public spaces, particularly schools. It’s not a mandate at the moment, just a suggestion.

If it bothers you, just pretend it's the letter 't.'

The rationale: “Saying the cross violated the principle of secular education in public school, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg said the display of Christian crosses, which is common but not mandatory in Italian schools, could be ‘disturbing’ for children of other faiths,” CNN reports.

Why would it disturb children of other faiths? If you’re not Christian, isn’t it simply a t-shaped object, utterly meaningless one way or the other?

I’m a Christian, but if the Jewish Star of David was hanging up in my classrooms as a kid, I wouldn’t know what to make of it, for good or bad. It would just be a six-pointed star that carried little, if any, effect on my life. At most, I might’ve learned something new about another religion. Read the rest of this entry »

Bob Batz

Some people are destined to go through life slowly.

What I mean is those people spend most of their lives waiting for this or that.

I’m one of them.

I've got nowhere else to be...oh wait!

Every time I go into a grocery store, for example, I get in line behind someone who is there to buy $345 worth of lunch meat. To make things worse, that someone always wants the lunch meat custom sliced.

“I’d like the garlic bologna in one-eighth inch slices, the boiled ham in one-quarter-inch slices and the pickle loaf in three-eighth-inch slices,” the shopper tells the guy or gal behind the meat counter. Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Calabrese

If Dubai World is having trouble making its debt payments, who do you think is a sure bet to escape such troubles?

Exactly.

Trust us. We are the world!

Dubai World is the conglomerate for which money has pretty much fallen out of the sky since its inception three years ago. They invest in real estate. They manage real estate investments. They deal in commodities. They do shipping. They’re in the yachting business. And of course, they manage ports, except in countries where people go inexplicably ballistic at the thought of their presence.

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Bob Maistros

News Flash, 2050:  A new series of emails among scientific proponents of global warming theories has been intercepted.  In another exclusive, this reporter has obtained the confidential missives, and we excerpt them here:

SUBJECT:       Climate Change Data

Atlanta 2050

I’m getting a bit frustrated.  Where the heck is global warming?  The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment, and it is a travesty that we can’t …

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Bob Franken

Those Humane Society commercials on behalf of neglected, abused and hungry dogs and cats are heart-wrenching to me. No one loves animals more than me, nor dotes more on his own pets.

Feed him first.

HOWEVER: Don’t we need a similar campaign for human children? Given the new study that shows one fourth of young Americans face the possibility of going to bed hungry every night, could we show video of just some of them with someone to somehow touch our sadness and anger over their circumstance too?

How can we be blase about their plight? How could those of us more fortunate not rush out and share our bounty? This is not sharing wealth. This is about guaranteeing the right to basic sustenance. And Thanksgiving is the very day we should think about this.

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