Archive for April, 2008
April 26th, 2008
U.S. Army Specialist Jeremy Hall has filed a LAWSUIT alleging that soldiers attending a meeting of atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq were confronted by a major who threatened to bring charges against them.
According to a sworn statement quoted in the lawsuit, Major Freddy J. Welborn (pictured above) told the soldiers: “People like you are not holding up the Constitution and are going against what the founding fathers, who were Christians, wanted for America.”
Specialist Hall was sent home from Iraq early because of threats from his fellow soldiers.
Onward Christian soldiers!
April 26th, 2008
It’s probably sacrilege to raise this question here in America’s Corn Belt, but ya gotta wonder.
THIS GUY says biofuels, especially ethanol, pose the threat of widespread famine.
POSTSCRIPT: THIS OTHER GUY said last year that corn-based ethanol as a substitute for gasoline is not a good energy policy.
POSTSCRIPT II: Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison REGRETS what she calls “America’s Ethanol Mistake.”
April 26th, 2008
The Washington Post REPORTS today that a growing number of major financial backers of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign have had it with her sliming of Barack Obama.
Said one: “I think she’s destroying the Democratic Party.”
April 25th, 2008
THIS GUY figures that if Barack Obama drops out now, Hillary Clinton will take a fractured Democratic Party down to defeat in November — and Obama will win the presidency in 2012.
It’s a crazy notion, for sure, but it’s fascinating to ponder.
April 25th, 2008
The 500th post on this blog came along a couple of days ago without my immediately noticing the milestone.
That’s a pretty good record, if I say so myself, for a part-time enterprise that was born barely 16 weeks ago.
The comments here (including my own addled rejoinders) now number more than 1,320, and the page-views have been measured in the tens of thousands.
I’m sincerely grateful to those of you who visit here regularly — and especially to those who bravely offer comments. I say “bravely” because you risk incurring my wrath if you catch me in a foul mood — which is not uncommon, owing to the fact that relatively few commenters agree with me on anything.
April 25th, 2008
The bureaucrats ARGUE that anti-Islamic references “may actually boost support for radicals among Arab and Muslim audiences by giving them a veneer of religious credibility or by causing offense to moderates.”
A spokesman for John McCain’s campaign scoffs at the admonition.
April 25th, 2008
Actor Wesley Snipes, who was SENTENCED the other day to three years in prison for tax evasion, had subscribed to the nutty theory that there is no law requiring you to pay income taxes.
This theory is often heard on talk radio, and I once interviewed a GUY whose passionate belief in it landed him in the pokey on more than one occasion.
The truth of the matter regarding the law and income taxes can be found HERE.
April 25th, 2008
The latest USA Today-Gallup Poll SHOWS that 63 percent of Americans think it was a mistake to send U.S. troops to Iraq, the highest such reading during any American military conflict.
Moreover, Gallup analysts say “majority opposition to the Iraq war is basically cemented.”
April 24th, 2008
The radio blabber says the inevitable POLITICAL AFTERMATH of the violence would be “the best damn thing that can happen to this country, as far as I can think.”
As far as he can think? That covers a lot of ugly stuff, doesn’t it?
Can you say “brownshirt,” boys and girls?
POSTSCRIPT: The Violent Radicalisation and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, which passed the House by a wide margin last year and likely will soon gain Senate passage, would make it unlawful to incite “the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual… to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”
But, of course, this Act would take effect after Limbaugh’s rant, which presumably leaves him in the clear (unless he repeats this irresponsible stuff). The would-be lawyer in me wonders if the law, once in effect, would cover people who approvingly spread Limbaugh’s dangerous message — and figure, perhaps wrongly, that they can’t get in trouble using his words.
POSTSCRIPT II: There’s a Colorado state law that says: “Any person who incites, urges, instructs, or signals a group of five or more persons to engage in a riot and injury to a person or damage to property results therefrom commits a class 5 felony.”
April 24th, 2008
It’s a 14-year-old video of the Leningrad Cowboys, a Finnish band, and the Red Army Choir incongruously performing an American Southern rock classic:
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