It may well be that Levi Johnston will end up with as many children to his credit as Democrats have Congressional Black Caucus members under ethical probes. He and Bristol announced just a couple of weeks ago that they were back together and would be married over her parents’ objections. But according to Levi’s ex-girlfriend,… [Read more…]
July 31, 2010
Anne Rice, author of all of our favorite vampire books such as Interview With The Vampire has left Christianity. In her own words: she refuses to be “anti-gay,” “anti-feminist,” “anti-science” and “anti-Democrat.” Rice wrote, “For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian … It’s simply impossible for… [Read more…]
July 31, 2010
Here is the most frequent argument made against those (primarily Republicans) who insist a resolution to border security come before tackling the complex and emotional issue of amnesty and how it will be implemented. …[C]alling for tighter borders is a tried-and-true tactic of politicians unwilling to confront the realities of a growing illegal population. Sean… [Read more…]
July 30, 2010
They’ve all gone to the best schools, they all have the right kinds of friends, they live in all the right places and they are moneyed – but they are not Republican – they are Democrats and they are currently running the country. Democrats don’t call Republicans racist and elitist from a position on the… [Read more…]
July 30, 2010
From the President to the press, months of broadly categorizing the GOP as racist and in linking it to the Tea Party, may have finally paid off. After Andrew Breitbart at Big Government, a noted Conservative blogger, published a post citing Shirley Sherrod of the Department of Agriculture as racist based on a portion of… [Read more…]
July 27, 2010
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For two days last week, Iran’s mercurial President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, railed against Russian President Dimitry Medvedev for what he perceived as the Russian leader’s having joined the US in a propaganda effort against Iran and its nuclear program. TEHRAN, IRAN — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Russia’s president on Friday of turning against Tehran and… [Read more…]
July 27, 2010
29 years ago July 29, 2010, Lady Diana Spencer was driven in the famous Glass Coach from Clarence House with her father, The Earl Spencer, to St. Paul’s Cathedral, London for her wedding to Charles Arthur Philip George, the Prince of Wales. Later, in her nervousness during the service, Diana did not say his names… [Read more…]
July 27, 2010
Wikileaks.org published classified military documents last week. The hacker who turned in the US soldier who is the alleged “leak” of both a classified 2007 video in June, 2010 and the classified US documents known as the Afghanistan War Logs, believes that the young Private could not have acted alone. Adrian Lamo, a convicted hacker, … [Read more…]
July 27, 2010
YouTube videos of the Brown Berets, a Latino activist group, that arrive at Tea Party and other white protests with megaphones and tell everyone to go home to Europe are unsettling. But aren’t the Brown Berets at least 1/2 European? Aren’t most Mexicans mestizo? Not necessarily. But most are and the native heritage seems to… [Read more…]
July 26, 2010
Three things a young person does not want to hear: 1. Grandma is coming to live with us. 2. Someone else’s grandma is coming to live with us (we need the money) 3. You will be going to live with someone else’s grandma. This evening, I went grocery shopping with a young man from Korea… [Read more…]
July 26, 2010
Recently we received the good word that asteroids knock out life on earth roughly every 27 million years and it is calculated that we have about 16 million years left before another round of it. It was the asteroids that helped make mammals supreme having last time around focused on killing dinosaurs. [CNN] No worries,… [Read more…]
July 26, 2010
I have not yet read the book, Reading Lolita in Tehran but a synopses of it will entice you to read it as it has me: Nabokov could not have wished for more attentive students than those who met on Thursday mornings in 1995 at the Tehran apartment of Azar Nafisi to study English literature.… [Read more…]
July 25, 2010
Two of CNN’s morning hosts who will remain anonymous (why give them any more publicity, eh?) have in all seriousness proposed an end to or regulation of anonymous blogging that seems to encourage smearing and slander. This they say is the “teachable moment” of the Shirley Sherrod affair. [Newsbusters] Hello. Andrew Breitbart is not an… [Read more…]
July 25, 2010
[HT Voting Female -considers it may be a hoax] There have been conflicting reports about an alleged takeover of 2 ranches in Laredo, TX by the Los Zetas drug cartel. Nothing can be confirmed by a major news outlet. The Hispanic News Network has traced the origins of the story that may be found here. … [Read more…]
July 25, 2010
Things had been rather quiet on the Fergie Front and quite honestly, it seemed a good thing. There was every hope that she would get some counseling but apparently, like Diana, she did not. Things have, according to the press, gone confusingly along. The reports just don’t seem to mesh. Here are the latest fuzzy… [Read more…]
July 31, 2010
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