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Date: January 19th, 2009

Did you see that hit in yesterday’s Steelers/Ravens game?

19 January, 2009 (22:51) | Human Interest | By: ricjames

For anyone else who had to miss the game yesterday, go have a look at this post containing a link to a devastating hit on Raven’s Willis McGahee. Honestly, it looks like he had his bell rung into next year.

Breitbart lays it down, on target.

19 January, 2009 (22:29) | GWOT, Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

I and close to 100% of the Republican, non-Obama-groupies I know have had the same thing to say about the election of Obama back in November. Disappointing, to the say the least. But we’re Americans and we accept the democratic process even when we’re not on the winning side of the decision. I sincerely hope [...]

Bush commutes the sentences of Border Patrol agents that shot a Mexican drug runner

19 January, 2009 (21:44) | GWOT, Immigration, Politics | By: ricjames

The two Border Patrol agents were, in my view, doing their jobs when they intercepted a Mexican national engaged in smuggling drugs into the United States. They stopped him and, as he was trying to make a run for it, they shot him. In the ass. Literally. For this, they were tried and convicted then [...]

Ayers denied entrance to Canada

19 January, 2009 (21:30) | Politics | By: ricjames

At least the Canadians show some sense in who they allow in: Jeffrey Kugler, the executive director for the Center for Urban Schooling at the University of Toronto, said Ayers was deemed not admissible after being pulled aside by Canadian immigration officials while trying to clear customs at the Toronto airport. Ayers had been invited [...]

Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.

19 January, 2009 (10:29) | History, Human Interest, Politics | By: ricjames

At Mass yesterday our Pastor spoke of honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today, 19 January 2009. While that wasn’t the specific point of the sermon, he lauded Dr. King’s perseverance and refusal to accept the status quo and laws of men when those laws sat squarely at odds with God’s own. In Dr. King’s [...]