This just in from the disturbingly amusing department: if your job was being a telephone ringer and all you were allowed to say was “ring,” this is what you’d likely start sounding like after day-in, day-out being ignored. I know it’s bizarre but it’s gotten several chuckles out of me today.
So, how about them MoveOn.org creds, now? The Obama Administration has made a decision on the Constitutional rights and court access of those unlawful combatants being held at Bagram AB in Afghanistan: Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says. The justice department [...]
Feeling a bit battered, lately? Victor Davis Hanson hears what you’re saying.
I’ve just been advised that the mother of our Parochial Vicar Father Bryan Belli, Mrs. Clara Belli, has passed away after a prolonged illness. I don’t have the details as yet regarding the funeral and/or memorial service. Father Belli has been the story of a man coming to Christ and dedicating his life to His [...]
Driving straight ahead into a decision using information generally recognized to be factually incorrect at best and fraudulently wrong at worst is not a recipe for success. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is saying that the Senate will move on global warming legislation this year, likely later in the summer. (Ed.: I can’t help thinking the [...]
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has yet another of those little gotchas that made their way into the “emergency stimulus bill.” Quoting Byron York over at the DC Examiner: You’ve heard a lot about the astonishing spending in the $787 billion economic stimulus bill, signed into law this week by President Barack Obama. But you [...]
I note that the smoking ban in Virginia has passed the Senate. It’s on its way to Governor Kaine who has said he’ll sign it. Looks like that’s going to be the law in Virginia come December.
Oklahoma legislators responded to a spate of employee firings where companies had an issue with the employee having a firearm locked in their personal vehicles while parked on company parking lots by passing a law making the practice illegal. Employees who were otherwise permitted to own and carry firearms were to be allowed to keep [...]
In the continuing investigation of CO3407 after its crash in a Buffalo neighborhood more evidence has come to light indicating that pilot error, not ice, might have been the proximate cause. According to investigators, the data recorder shows that the aircraft slowed down during its approach. It slowed so much, in fact, that the ship [...]
Back in mid-December when the 1st auto-maker bailout was being considered, I thought it was a bad idea. Starting off with an anecdote about my wife’s work at a telecom company back when the WorldCom fiasco was in progress: Which is what caused her to remark to me the one day that WorldCom, in spite [...]
