There has literally been weeks of bad news coming from the Mid-East. But I wanted to interrupt those negative stories for a minute and focus your consideration on one of God’s great creatures from the region. Perhaps you already know this stuff, I sure didn’t, and I find this stuff fascinating. Plus it is a welcome distraction. Meet the Very Technical, Highly Engineered Dromedary Camel. (more…)
h/t JenniferH (PajamasMedia) – It is becoming clear that the Wisconsin battle was a strategic political blunder for President Obama and the Democratic Party. The decision by the Democratic Party and its allies to draw a line in the sand in Wisconsin was the wrong strategy, in the wrong state, at the wrong time, on the wrong issue, and executed in the wrong way. (more…)
Glass houses, stones, etc. (Vail Daily) — First lady Michelle Obama enjoyed locally grown fare at a Vail restaurant Saturday night before hitting the slopes of Vail Mountain early Sunday. Obama and her two daughters, 9-year-old Sasha and 12-year-old Malia — together with some family friends — are spending the Presidents Day holiday weekend in Vail. President Obama did not make the trip. (more…)
*Update #3 (from Daily Mail)
Protesters appear to have taken control of second city Benghazi
*Update 1* (Daily Mail) — Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is believed to have fled the capital Tripoli after anti-government demonstrators breached the state television building and set government property alight. Protesters appear to have gained a foothold in Tripoli as banks and government buildings were looted while demonstrators have claimed they have taken control of the second city Benghazi. (more…)
(Daily Mail) — As Lara Logan recovers from her attack in Cairo on February 11, more details are emerging of her terrifying ordeal at the hands of a frenzied mob. The 39-year-old foreign correspondent for CBS News show 60 Minutes was separated from her film crew and was surrounded by as many as 200 men in Tahrir Square at the height of the anti-Mubarak demonstrations. (more…)
Whats on your mind today? In Wisconsin it is the official “Take your Teacher To Work Day”…. Hope everyone had a great weekend. 🙂 Been workin’ on some decorations and stuff…. do you like the visuals or is it too busy? Be honest.
Yikes, as if Academia needs more leftist progressive avenues… (via NewsBusters) Controversial schlockumentarian Michael Moore this week unveiled a new website giving high school students a venue to have their views published.
Under the headline “Join My High School Newspaper” were words destined to frighten parents across the fruited plain: (more…)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A Wisconsin senator says he does not believe Senate Democrats will return to work unless Gov. Scott Walker shows a willingness to negotiate on his plan to effectively eliminate union rights for most public employees. Sen. Jon Erpenbach of Middleton said Sunday he remains at a Chicago hotel. He says Senate Democrats scattered outside of Wisconsin had a conference call Saturday night and remain united in their tactic to try to slow down the bill.
He says the delay has allowed for the public to be informed about the stakes of Walker’s plan. He says unions agreed to make concessions on health care and pension benefits and now it’s time for Walker to back off his plan to take away their ability to collectively bargain for benefits and working conditions. (more…)
More frilliance from the world of (IamDangy) aka… Ann Barnhardt – Ann Barnhardt is an islamophobe – I am encouraged lately to read more and more articles and essays wherein an honest discussion of islam, its nature and its core characteristics is enjoined. Yet almost every essay hedges, usually near the conclusion, with even the boldest of authors pleading and insisting that they are NOT islamophobic. I find this to be morally and intellectually dishonest, and extremely cowardly.
We all know that the root “phobia” means “fear”, and thus X-phobia means to have a fear of X. Given that, I would like to state plainly, unequivocally, and in no uncertain terms that I am an islamophobe. I fear anyone who identifies as muslim. (more…)