Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede. This is horrible. This is exactly the kind of mass hysteria that I avoid every year, when I choose to work the day after Thanksgiving instead of shop. The nice thing about working the day after Thanksgiving is that unless one works in retail, nothing ever happens, because everyone else is off work. It’s just a mellow day, in comparison to a day of insanity if one braves the shopping experience.
This is just scary parenting. I don’t know what else to say. As a lifelong gamer, I can certainly appreciate the lure of playing video games over going to school, but if I’d ever told my parents I wanted to do this, they’d have (rightly) spanked me silly. From the article:
Mike and Hunter do not believe in one-size-fits-all parenting.
That is not to say that it was an easy decision for them to let Blake leave school last September. They would have preferred that he stay in high school with his brother. But he bugged them until they let him quit.
“We couldn’t take the complaining anymore,” says Hunter. “He always told me that he thought school was a waste of time.”
Wow. A kid who gets whatever he complains enough for. That’s one kid who’s destined for a rough time in life.
How convenient. Since Obama’s “change you can believe in” has turned into lots of dollar bills he can believe in, he’s opting out of public financing. I picked a good day to wear my Obama shirt.
Every day, I hear people using “high gas prices” as the justification for all sorts of ridiculous choices and they’ve been doing so for what feels like ages. I’m starting to feel as though we lack the ability to do simple arithmetic. Continue reading ‘Gas Prices: Can people do math?’ »
This article was a really interesting read. I have no doubt that people might debate the usefulness of the sources cited in some cases, but even if someone were to discount half of the issues here, there are still a mountain of questions that need answering.
Here’s McCain’s recent address to AIPAC, which deals in part with Iran. A choice quote from it is as follows:
The Iranians have spent years working toward a nuclear program. And the idea that they now seek nuclear weapons because we refuse to engage in presidential-level talks is a serious misreading of history. In reality, a series of administrations have tried to talk to Iran, and none tried harder than the Clinton administration. In 1998, the secretary of state made a public overture to the Iranians, laid out a roadmap to normal relations, and for two years tried to engage. The Clinton administration even lifted some sanctions, and Secretary Albright apologized for American actions going back to the 1950s. But even under President Khatami – a man by all accounts less radical than the current president – Iran rejected these overtures.
Even so, we hear talk of a meeting with the Iranian leadership offered up as if it were some sudden inspiration, a bold new idea that somehow nobody has ever thought of before. Yet it’s hard to see what such a summit with President Ahmadinejad would actually gain, except an earful of anti-Semitic rants, and a worldwide audience for a man who denies one Holocaust and talks before frenzied crowds about starting another. Such a spectacle would harm Iranian moderates and dissidents, as the radicals and hardliners strengthen their position and suddenly acquire the appearance of respectability.
I must announce that the Zionist regime (Israel), with a 60-year record of genocide, plunder, invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene. Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United States has come and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started.