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Ok Kids, let's play the entitlement game. Get tattoos all over you body and when nobody wants to hire you, start a advocacy group and cry discrimination! Its that easy!
Karol at Alarming News has the story.
You want to be a rebel? Better be prepared to take all that comes with it.
All the money spent and we still can't get our airport security straightened out.
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O'Hare is one of the busiest airports in the nation, and may be one of the most vulnerable. The 2 Investigators have learned that 47 more employee access badges are missing, bringing the total we've discovered to 3,807 – the biggest security failure involving access badges ever to be exposed. |
3,807 badges that grant access to various restricted parts of the airport. Reading the story, you can definitely imagine bitter ex-employees selling their access badges or just "losing" them to make their former employer look bad. There had to be accountability, for security, the airlines and the employees.
The article focuses on the account of Marcia Pinkston, a former employee of Mesa Airlines whose access badges recently went missing. What the article doesn't explain is how her badge went missing after it was in her possession. The airline never asked her for her badge so what did she do with it? The article paints her as the whistle-blower, but isn't she responsible as well? I'm hoping they just left this info out but I wouldn't count on it.
Via Drudge
Surprised? Me Neither.
Next time you get your news, know where the reporter's allegiance is.
Pakistan's religious affairs minister Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq on the knighthood of Salman Rushdie, "If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so unless the British government apologises and withdraws the 'sir' title."
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
Poll: 56% of atheists find radical Christianity as threatening as radical Islam
A Virginia middle school has banned all physical contact.
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All touching -- not only fighting or inappropriate touching -- is against the rules at Kilmer Middle School in Vienna. Hand-holding, handshakes and high-fives? Banned. The rule has been conveyed to students this way: "NO PHYSICAL CONTACT!!!!!" School officials say the rule helps keep crowded hallways and lunchrooms safe and orderly, and ensures that all students are comfortable. |
Nice. What could be more comfortable than having no human contact for the whole day? Next they'll be prohibited form making eye contact. Dirty looks can make people "uncomfortable", so let's just have everyone wear goggles that black out their eyes.
When did isolation become an acceptable way of encouraging healthy social behavior? We'll be raising a bunch of social misfits, unprepared to deal with the world of physical contact. When and where are young men and women supposed to learn what is appropriate an inappropriate? Interacting with fellow students is part of the education process, not to be excluded because administrators don't want to deal with the "grey area".
Via Drudge
Senator Joe Leiberman writes about his visit to Iraq. His focus on Iran is worth noting.
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[A]s terrible as the continuing human cost of fighting this war in Iraq is--the human cost of losing it would be even greater. |
Today is Flag Day, commemorating the adoption of the flag of the United States in 1777.
NRO has a great story on the history of our flag.
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On June 14, 1777, John Adams introduced a resolution to Congress “that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.” The measure passed unanimously. Word was rushed to Middlebrook Heights, N.J., where General George Washington was encamped with the Continental Army, which coincidentally was exactly two years old that day. The next morning Washington raised a flag that met congressional specifications over his headquarters. |
Thanks to CK for sending in the sotry.
Incredible. They question the timing ,so they bury the story as if it was meaningless.
Apparently she was released from jail because she was depressed. Um, you're in jail, you should be depressed. The following quote did make me laugh.
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"It's so cruel what has happened to her," the friend told OK! "She wasn't allowed to wax or use a moisturizer. Her skin is so dry right now!" |
Also, take a look at Lenore Skenazy's article, Has Prison Lost Its Capacity To Shame?, where she asks, "is prison the new pornography? You know — something that used to be shameful, but has lately become hip and cool and a possible career booster to boot?"
Sixty three years ago today Allied forced landed on five separate beaches in Normandy, France with the goal of liberating Europe from the Nazi Reich. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the Battle of Normandy would have nearly 1.5 million Allied soldiers in battle by the end of July. Without victory, the world would be a very different place.
The survivors and those who sacrificed their lives should always be remembered. Their legacy should be a standard for future generations.
A troubling observation: if you're looking for any programming related to D-Day, you might not find it.
It's been said, by me, that all polls measure is how effective the media has been at propagandizing the public to its point of view.
For example, the media frequently reports that the public favors "gay" rights and a woman's "right-to-choose" and disfavors the war in Iraq.
Do you ever wonder what the polls would say if the questions were put to the public without resorting to euphemisms?
Such as:
Are you in favor of anal sex? Should schools teach your children to be tolerant of anal sex? Do you think there is a relationship between anal sex and AIDS?
Do you support a woman's right to kill her baby for any reason, or no reason, at all? Should taxpayers pay for killing babies?
Do you have a vision of what a terrorist victory will mean for your country? Do you expect that they will then become "nice guys" and tolerate you?