Angry Sudanese protesters hold a newspaper carrying a photo of British teacher Gillian Gibbons during a protest in Khartoum, Sudan, on Nov. 30, 2007. (AP Photos/Abd Raouf)
A Sudanese court convicted a British teacher this week of insulting Islam, and sentenced her to 15 days in prison, followed by deportation.
Her crime was allowing her students [...]
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Why were two trains on the same track at the same time?
It just seems odd that an Amtrak train would collide with a freight train on the same track.
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Posted in Cyberspace on December 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m not sure what I’m going to do here…lol
At least for the short term, I’m going to attempt cross posting from here to there, or the other way around.
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There is a lot of buzz out there, some folks poking fun. Others, more serious.
I’m just glad the pictures are blurred, because this must have been bloody. This is a 24-year-old woman, Sujatha Vagawanam, on a mission to kill a Sri Lankan cabinet member. First few photos show her sitting calmly in the [...]
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This is a disgusting, tragic and horrific story.
Three soldiers have been relieved of duty pending an investigation into the strange death last month of Sgt. Gerald Cassidy who was found alone in his room, slumped in a chair. The autopsy revealed he’d been dead for hours before his body was discovered, and may have [...]
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Posted in News, tagged , cultural icon, Evil Knievel on December 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Evil Knievel died on Friday, November 30. He was 69 years old.
I can remember his daredevilish adventures from the coverage of them on television. I never understood someone who would risk his life for foolishness. But this article explains it in a way that I can understand.
he toughened up a generation of [...]
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This is a running list of interesting posts about a two-pronged subject which destroys a blog and seems to be a trend in the blogosphere and on the internet. These are problems for sites that aren’t blogs, too.
Blocking badly behaving bots
That thread produced a very interesting code to insert to an .htaccess file [...]
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“General” Gay Keith, the Clinton plant, was not a Brigadier General, but a reservist.
So we have another one to add to the list.
Jimmy Massey
Jesse MacBeth
Scott Beauchamp
Gay Keith Kerr
Kerr, according to Townhall’s Jonathan Garthwaite (see great videos here), is actually a member of Hillary Clinton’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Steering [...]
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Posted in Leftists, News, tagged , Congress, IRS, taxes on December 2, 2007 | 3 Comments »
How odd.
Congress has been dawdling all year on a tax bill, and as a result, millions of early filers could have to wait extra weeks for refunds that averaged last year at $2,291.
The Internal Revenue Service is looking hard at delaying the start of its filing season, set to kick off on Jan. 14, if [...]
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‘Do you know who I am? I’m a big star, and I can look you up … blow you up’
It must be something they learn in “How to behave like a celebrity 101″; how to behave like a jerk. He attacked Courtney Scott, a student intern working as a reporter for the Savannah [...]
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To my newest fan who is one of the first few to send me a trackback. Thank you so much. And please visit Che Mart, brought to you by the commie progressives at The People’s Cube.
Isn’t it wonderful that people from the other side of the aisle would give little [...]
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Mary Bomar’s fraudulent investigation
In April 2006, Park Service Director Mary Bomar ordered an internal investigation into claims that the planned Flight 93 Memorial is actually a terrorist memorial mosque, built around a giant Mecca-oriented crescent. Bomar’s investigation was a total fraud, concluding, for instance, that it isn’t possible to calculate the orientation of the crescent [...]
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Good questions…if at the very least, are thought-provoking.
clipped from www.townhall.com
Here are some of the questions that the media probably won’t ask the professional HIV/AIDS lobby, which grows ever fatter while the human tragedy rises:
A woman lights a candle next to an AIDS ribbon marking the eve of World AIDS Day in front of the [...]
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It’s not really Chicago…Rockford is closer to the Wisconsin border. But anyway, Derrick Shareef, who wanted to throw a grenade into a crowded mall near Rockford, Illinois during Christmas of last year, was convicted at the end of November 2007. He was caught in 2006 through a sting operation when he tried to [...]
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Abbas is irrelevant to his own people, says Brigitte Gabriel, founder of American Congress for Truth. “Peace” efforts in the region have only resulted in more violence.
Isn’t that true of every “Peace” movement?
“They have done a mighty fine job without America’s involvement. It wasn’t until America started getting involved in Israel and twisting Israel’s [...]
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