April 15, 2007
At least Howard Kurtz raises the question of what the media should do now.
The combination of race, crime, sports and a blue-chip university proved irresistible for a business that thrives on creating national soap operas. Did the indictments, as the team's lacrosse season was canceled, have to be covered? Of course. But media outlets framed the story as one of privilege vs. poverty, black vs. white, athletes above the law -- if, of course, it happened.Television showed the homes of the players' parents. Newsweek put two of the defendants' mug shots on the cover. Sometimes the word "alleged" was dropped in the process. "I'm so glad they didn't miss a lacrosse game over a little thing like gang rape," Headline News host Nancy Grace said.
Once discrepancies surfaced in the accuser's account, some local and national outlets did a good job of bird-dogging the case. But by then the presumption of innocence had virtually vanished.
The three players were not choir boys -- the team had, after all, invited a pair of strippers to a midnight party -- but they hardly deserved the national scorn of being loudly trumpeted as accused rapists.
The accuser got to make her charges from behind a curtain of anonymity, which is entirely proper in sexual assault cases. But I'm not so sure the media should continue to shield her now that investigators have determined her to be a liar. The New York Post, Washington Times, and Raleigh News & Observer have all identified the woman.
How about an apology -- and a serious reexamination of the notion that accusers in sexual assault cases deserve anonymity while the names and faces of the accused are displayed for all to see and vilify?
And we won't get into the question of what so-called civil rights leaders owe these victims of racial injustice -- because after all, it was Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and others at the head of the lynch mob.
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SNOWS are melting in central Afghanistan and roads to the town of Bamiyan have reopened after unseasonal rain - meaning work on restoring the giant Buddha statues destroyed by the Taleban can resume.Piles of rubble lie below two gaping niches in the red-brown cliff facing the town where the statues had stood since the sixth century until the Taleban brought them down in 2001, branding them unIslamic.
The larger, identified chunks of stone from the standing Buddhas have been stored or covered, but thousands of fragments and rubble lie in the open. "It's impossible to work here for at least six months of the year," said Habiba Sarabi, the governor of Bamiyan. "We hope work will resume by June."
She said reconstruction of at least one statue - the larger one, which stood 174ft tall - would begin after a request from the federal government to UNESCO.
Reconstructed bits of statue will be mixed with clay in a process called anastylosis, pieced together and bonded back on to the cliff face. It is an immense task and experts are divided on whether reconstruction is feasible or even necessary.
A team has been clearing the site of mines, but its work is not complete. Hundreds of poor people live in caves on the cliffside, and preventing encroachment into the World Heritage Site is a key issue.
Preliminary estimates of the cost of rebuilding the larger statue are £25 million, and it is debatable whether that might be better used elsewhere in the war-ravaged and impoverished nation.
Whenever work starts, it will take years - perhaps a decade - to complete. "There are at least 3,000 pieces of the larger Buddha and 1,500 from the smaller one," said Ms Sarabi.
These statues are a part of the heritage of all humanity -- their reconstruction needs to be a priority. Especially if we are to send a clear signal to the Islamists that WE WILL NOT SUBMIT!
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In what is shaping up as a repeat of an unsuccessful but expensive legal battle to stop the Main Street rail line, opponents of light rail on Richmond have gone to court. Perhaps preliminary to a full-blown lawsuit, a single business owner has asked a state district judge to compel Metro officials to answer questions about plans for the westward extension of the system.The request raises a familiar issue often cited by rail opponents. In a 2003 referendum, Houston voters narrowly approved a plan authorizing Metro to expand the rail system with seven additional lines, including a route, labeled Westpark, running from Wheeler Station at Main to the Hillcroft Transit Center. Opponents of rail anywhere on Richmond argue that any route except one along Westpark requires fresh approval from the voters.
Metro officials correctly contend the names of the proposed routes were general and open to change. They point to additional wording on the ballot, repeated three times: "Final scope, length of rail segments or lines or other details, together with implementation schedule, will be based upon demand and completion of the project development process, including community input."
Interestingly enough, community input on the proposed Richmond line has been negative -- but that isn't slowing Metro down. Then again, every other claim made by Metro about the accident-prone train to nowhere has been demonstrated to be false -- so why not the routes we get as well?
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As Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton seeks to reassemble the Democratic money machine her husband built, some of its major fund-raisers have already signed on with Senator Barack Obama.Among the biggest fund-raisers for Mr. ObamaÂ’s campaign are as many as a half-dozen former guests of the Clinton White House. At least two are close enough to the Clintons to have slept in the Lincoln bedroom.
At minimum, a dozen were major fund-raisers for President Bill Clinton. At least four worked in the administration and one, James Rubin, is a son of a former Clinton Treasury Secretary, Robert E. Rubin. About two dozen of the top Obama fund-raisers have contributed to Mrs. ClintonÂ’s Senate campaigns or political action committee, some as recently as a few months ago.
A list of Mr. ObamaÂ’s top fund-raisers released Sunday showed the extent to which the Democratic Party establishment, once presumed to back Mrs. Clinton, has become more fragmented and drifted into her rivalÂ’s camp, lending the early stages of the Democratic primary campaign the feeling of a family feud. Some of the movement would have been inevitable given Mr. ClintonÂ’s former dominance of the party.
The donors helped Mr. Obama, a first-term senator little known outside Illinois four years ago, best Mrs. Clinton in the first quarter of fund-raising for the Democratic primary by $5.7 million, according to reports filed Sunday with the Federal Election Commission.
But her campaign proved it still had the support of some deep pockets. About 5,100 big contributors accounted for about three quarters of the $26 million combined that she raised for the primary and general election, pulling her very slightly ahead of Mr. Obama by just $200,000 in total fund-raising for the quarter. And, with $10 million rolling over to her primary campaign from her last Senate race in New York, Mrs. Clinton was well ahead in cash in the bank.
Half of Americans reject Hillary as a potential president -- why would the Democrats want to nominate her?
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There is a new brain tumor treatment out there called the Gamma Knife. I'm not a medical expert to give you details, but I do hope and pray it measures up to the website's claims. After all, I long for the day when there will be no more Tammys -- because I still believe, with all my heart, that kids are not supposed to die.
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A parade of Republican White House candidates appealed for support from over 1,000 Iowa Republicans on Saturday, with two of their leading candidates — Senator John McCain and Rudolph W. Giuliani — assailing Democrats in Washington for pressing legislation that would set a timetable for bringing American troops back from Iraq.It was the first time that the major Republican candidates had appeared at the same event — the annual Lincoln Day dinner, held in the sprawling ballroom of a downtown convention center here. For more than three hours, an audience of the state’s most active Republicans listened attentively as candidates proclaimed their strong opposition to abortion rights, called for a crackdown against illegal immigrants and warned that a Democratic return to the White House would result in higher taxes.
Although the event was called a “Unity Dinner,” the speeches reflected divisions among the Republicans on various issues, in particular abortion. Several candidates, including Mr. McCain of Arizona and Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, presented themselves as lifelong opponents of abortion rights, drawing clear if unspoken contrasts with Mr. Giuliani, who supports abortion rights, and Mr. Romney, who once supported abortion rights but now opposes them.
But the strongest divisions emerged between the parties, as Mr. Giuliani and Mr. McCain offered attacks on Democrats for their efforts to bring an end to the war in Iraq. Apart from his remark about abortions — and a warm-up joke that involved Zsa Zsa Gabor — Mr. McCain devoted almost his entire nine-minute speech to arguing in support of the war, and attacking Democrats for opposing it.
America is in a fight for its survival -- and the other party wants to surrender. Are you surprised that the GOP would be more concerned about that than the issues that we spar over within the party?
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The former football player, Genarlow Wilson, is serving 10 years without parole for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl at a New YearÂ’s Eve party, an offense that constituted aggravated child molesting even though he was 17 at the time.The mandatory sentence shocked even the jury that convicted him. State law has since been changed to make most consensual sex between teenagers a misdemeanor.
But the courts have ruled that the new law does not apply to Mr. Wilson, and the district attorney in his case, David McDade of Douglas County, has opposed efforts this session to pass a law that would allow judges to review earlier cases and to revise sentences.
“Six young men basically gang-raped a 17-year-old and had repeated sex acts with a 15-year-old,” Mr. McDade, told Channel 11, the local NBC affiliate, in March. “There’s no member of the legislature that I think would condone that behavior.”
But the jury in Mr. WilsonÂ’s case disagreed with Mr. McDadeÂ’s depiction. After being repeatedly shown a home videotape of sex, drugs and alcohol at the New YearÂ’s Eve party in a hotel room in Douglas County, they acquitted Mr. Wilson of rape. The five other young men at the party have pleaded guilty to lesser charges. None have been convicted of rape.
“This is the same thing that happened in the Duke rape case, where some prosecutor exaggerated the facts out of self-interest,” said B. J. Bernstein, Mr. Wilson’s lawyer. The attorney general in North Carolina, Roy A. Cooper, called the prosecutor there, Michael B. Nifong, a “rogue.” Ms. Bernstein has called on Georgia’s attorney general, Thurbert E. Baker, to review the Wilson case and not to oppose a habeas corpus petition she filed last week.
I'm not saying that the activity that went on was right -- morally it wasn't -- but it clearly was not a felony that merits a decade in prison.
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The Vatican's ambassador to Israel will attend a Holocaust memorial service at the Yad Vashem museum, reversing an earlier decision to boycott the event, officials said Sunday.Vatican officials had said they would skip the Sunday event because of a caption at the Holocaust museum describing the wartime conduct of Pope Pius XII.
Officials from Yad Vashem, the Vatican's Embassy and the Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed Sunday that the ambassador, Monsignor Antonio Franco, would attend.
The caption next to the picture of Pius reads, "even when reports about the murder of Jews reached the Vatican, the pope did not protest."
Pius "maintained his neutral position" with two exceptions, the caption says, criticizing "his silence and absence of guidelines." The exceptions were appeals to the rulers of Hungary and Slovakia toward the end of the war.
The boycott had threatened to upset fragile relations between Israel and the Vatican.
As I've said, this is a bad move, because the original decision was the correct one. Such blood libel should not be allowed to stand -- and no nation should participate in any event at Vad Yashem as long as such a lie appears.
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PRINCE William's five-year romance with Kate Middleton was dramatically killed off at a secret royal summit when the Queen said: "Don't rush down the aisle—we don't want another Diana."Her Majesty issued the shock advice around 10 days ago after William sensationally confessed his doubts at a top-level family conference.
The prince told other royals, including Prince Charles and the Duke of Edinburgh, that he didn't want to commit to marriage in the near future and preferred to put his Army and state duties first.
Of course, this all came after he indicated he was not ready to marry her -- and his grandfather, Prince Phillip, offered what may have been the best piece of advice out there.
The final death blow to Wills' relationship with his university sweetheart was delivered by grandfather Prince Philip.He declared: "You can't string her along for ever."
And if you aren't ready to marry someone after five years, are you ever going to be ready to take that step?
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Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:
| Votes | Council link |
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| 2 1/3 | Don't Know Your Enemy Cheat Seeking Missiles |
| 2 | The Black Flag Flying: The Arabs and Iran Ally Against the West Joshuapundit |
| 1 2/3 | Strangers Eternity Road |
| 1 1/3 | Al-Qaeda in Iraq Committing Institutional Suicide Big Lizards |
| 1 1/3 | Heart-rending Stories Bookworm Room |
| 2/3 | Securing the Food Supply III The Glittering Eye |
| 1/3 | Some Thoughts On Mockingbird Rhymes With Right |
| 1/3 | Why Does Jewish Come Before Democrat? Soccer Dad |
| 1/3 | Who'd a Thunk It? Done With Mirrors |
| Votes | Non-council link |
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| 3 | Orwell, the Left, and 9/11 American Future |
| 2 | Iraq: A Place of Ambivalence The Huffington Post |
| 1 1/3 | Britain On Its Knees Melanie Phillips |
| 1 | We Were Slaves ShrinkWrapped |
| 2/3 | BabyÂ’s Life Hangs on Texas Law Texas Fred's |
| 2/3 | Elizabeth Edwards Embraces Her Inner Rosie The Anchoress |
| 2/3 | Just in Case the Easter Bunny Goes Psycho... Kobayashi Maru |
| 2/3 | What Kind of Marriage Makes Women Happiest? Oz Conservative |
| 1/3 | "Model Race Preference Statute" Power, Politics, & Money |
| 1/3 | An Example of the Sex-Stupid "Politics" of the Left Ace of Spades HQ |
| 1/3 | How Much Contact Did There Have To Be Between al Qaeda and Saddam for the U.S. To Be Legitimately Concerned? Power Line |
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According to Ruby K. Payne, a consultant to school systems locally and nationwide, teachers should know a few things about poor people.The Texas-based author says in her book "A Framework for Understanding Poverty": Parents in poverty typically discipline children by beating or verbally chastising them; poor mothers may turn to sex for money and favors; poor students laugh when they get in trouble at school; and low-income parents tend to "beat around the bush" during parent-teacher conferences, instead of getting to the point.
In the past several years, at least five school systems in the Washington area have turned to Payne's lessons, books and workshops.
But many academics say her works are riddled with unverifiable assertions. At the American Educational Research Association's annual conference in Chicago last week, professors from the University of Texas at Austin delivered a report on Payne that argued that more than 600 of her descriptions of poverty in "Framework" cannot be proved true.
"She claims there is a single culture of poverty that people live in. It's an idea that's been discredited since at least the 1960s," said report co-author Randy Bomer.
My biggest criticism of her is that she is as much about instilling stereotypes as she is about tearing them down -- and many of those stereotypes are not healthy.
"She seems to be always stereotyping," Natialy Walker, Prince William's professional development supervisor, said during a staff meeting about Payne last month. "If only we could get away from all the labels and move beyond that."
I teach kids who are poor and minority -- nearly 70% of our kids are on free and reduced lunch, and we are only 12.5% white. And I've found that many of these stereotypes are false -- and get in the way of communicating with students and parents. This is especially true when we deal with Hispanic kids, because they often come from a very different culture from that upon which Payne bases her stereotypes.
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The remains of a World War II navigator listed as missing in action for almost 63 years have been identified two years after they were found in Croatia, the brother of the deceased pilot said.Air Force 1st Lt. Archibald Kelly's B-24 crashed on July 22, 1944, south of Dubrovnik, Croatia, near the Adriatic Sea. The plane carrying 10 crew members was returning from a bombing raid on oil fields in Romania.
Fellow crew members who survived the crash told Sam Kelly that his brother was the first to jump from the damaged aircraft, but he was struggling to straighten out his parachute and crashed into a mountain. He was 23.
''The irony is that my brother had been on 45 missions and had five more to go and he would have been discharged,'' Sam Kelly, 83, told The Oakland Press.
Kelly said he and his wife, Katie, were notified in February by the Defense Department that dental records matched the skeletal remains found in a shallow grave near the village of Cavtat.
The remains, first discovered by children in 2005, also included a button from an American military uniform, said Capt. Robert Frazer, a casualty assistance officer.
Kelly's remains were being held in a military facility in Hawaii and until they are shipped to Michigan for a May 12 funeral.
We have so many American patriots willing to show up to provide an honor guard for our dead from the current conflict which was thrust upon us by the Islamists -- I hope that some of these are available to provide a fitting homecoming for 1st Lt. Archibald Kelly when he returns home to his permanent place of rest.
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April 14, 2007
Gov. Rick Perry asked Texas Southern University's regents to resign Friday in favor of a single conservator with extraordinary powers to make changes at the financially troubled school.The governor did not announce who the conservator would be, but campus leaders have heard the name of Kerney Laday, a TXU Corp. board member and retired Xerox Corp. executive.
Pending Senate confirmation, Laday, 65, would be placed in charge of the university's spending, with the ability to fire any employee, hire new people and change the administrative structure. The conservator would likely be in place for a year, said Krista Moody, a spokeswoman for the governor.
The proposed move comes after a series of financial missteps and a spending scandal that led to criminal charges against the university's former president, Priscilla Slade, and three aides.
The state Senate and House leadership first must appoint a committee to authorize Perry's recommendation of conservatorship. Confirmation of his choice would come later.
"Conservatorship will bring a strong leader to the forefront of the university to reinstate accountability, take immediate and decisive action to correct mismanagement, and make the fiscal decisions necessary to get TSU back on track," the governor said in a statement.
I still have a better idea -- merge the school with the well-run, academically strong University of Houston, which is a matter of blocks away. That will strengthen the school and provide it with a much more stable source of leadership and funding. Keep it as a separate entity in the UH system, at a bare minimum, but provide such a step will provide it with the sort of support the institution really needs -- and keep it from continuing to be little more than a community college with a law school and a graduate program.
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Nothing can prevent a passenger who believes he has been wronged by the screening process from filing a lawsuit. What is outrageous is to hold good Samaritans liable simply for doing what any reasonable person observing suspicious activity should do. This is pure and simple intimidation.In the interests of national security, Congress cannot allow this to happen. While the House has taken the initiative to insert protective language in a public transportation bill, that bill does not go far enough. Such protection needs to be comprehensive, extending to the public at large rather than just those using airplanes or other public transportation. (Obviously, such a law should not protect anyone whose motivation is based on personal profiling.)
The good Samaritan law in “Seinfeld” created a duty to act. In the real world, such a law would obviously fail judicial scrutiny. Not even in fighting the war on terrorism could a legal duty to report suspicious activities be imposed upon observers — although, one would hope, good citizens would feel a moral obligation to do so.
What can be legislated, however, is a good Samaritan federal law to protect anyone motivated to report concerns in good faith from suffering the consequences of civil liability for speaking up. We need to understand that it takes a collective effort to keep us safe, and we need to protect those who act with that in mind.
And let's remember what the folks targeted in the Flying Imams case believed they were seeing.
Witnesses described conduct that suggested something ominous might in fact be in the offing. The imams, the passengers reported, prayed loudly in the open terminal before boarding, sat in different seats on the plane from those assigned, positioned themselves near exits, asked for unneeded seatbelt extensions (which they then placed under their seats) and, most disturbingly, made anti-American comments.
Do we want to encourage or discourage the reporting of such unusual behavior on aircraft and in airports? While any single element of their behavior could be seen as innocent, taken together they should at least raise a red flag or two in the mind of even the most trusting, pro-Muslim passenger.
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A civil rights leader in Alabama today accused former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani of flip-flopping and pandering on the confederate flag during his visit to the state capitol earlier in the week.Giuliani, currently the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, has in the past seemed to voice personal opposition to the flag, which to many African-Americans is an offensive symbol of bigotry and slavery.
But when the former New York mayor visited Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday he said simply that the matter was a state issue.
Edward Vaughn, the president of the NAACP Alabama State Conference, who was in Montgomery that day, told ABC News that Giuliani's remarks disappointed him.
"Giuliani is posturing himself to try to get the conservative, right-wing, Southern white vote in Alabama," Vaughn said. "He used to oppose the flag, but now he's backtracked because he's running for president."
The Giuliani campaign responded that the mayor's position has consistently been that this issue should be decided by each individual state.
Personally, I have no objection to such displays -- simply as a matter of historical acknowledgment of the Civil War in the interest of accuracy. As such, I oppose efforts at historical revisionism by BOTH SIDES of the controversy.
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IncParadise.com does it all -- though their major business is in Nevada. When I went to their FAQ, they seemed to be all about Nevada corporations. But since Nevada corporations seem to be the latest legal structure of preference in the business world today, one might choose to consider that option. But regardless of where you choose to incorporate, IncParadise.com seems well-situated to help you out. The site is easy to use, intuitive in its operation and the material you need is available at just a click or two -- something that is often a problem on business websites for interstate businesses. And best of all, there are loads of links that discuss why you might want to incorporate and the advantages/disadvantages of different sorts of corporate structures. For a layman like me without a lot of business experience, this site is a godsend. Who knows, maybe one of these days Rhymes With Right will be Rhymes With Right, LLC or Rhymes With Right, Inc.
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Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton have ended their four-year relationship, dashing hopes of a royal wedding to rival that of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.The Sun newspaper reported Saturday that the couple had reached an "amicable agreement" to separate. Sources confirmed the split to the Press Association news agency.
William's Clarence House office refused to comment, saying it did not discuss the prince's private life, but royal sources did not deny the report, tacitly acknowledging it was true.
The newspaper said the split was caused by the huge pressures on the young couple and by William's career in the army. The second in line to the throne graduated from Sandhurst military academy in December and is undergoing further training at an army base in rural England.
News of the break-up took many royal-watchers by surprise. It was widely thought the couple would soon announce their engagement; one bookmaker was so certain of a royal wedding it had stopped taking bets on it.
Prince William has a military commitment, and his former girlfriend seems not to have been willing to share him with those duties.
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How do you manage to get Greenberg's shorts? By winning an auction sponsored by an online backgammon site that has been sponsoring Greenberg for some time. They are looking to raise money for a charity that will help Arab and Israeli children in distress. Who knows -- amybe buying these shorts will be the start of peace in the Middle East!
Of course, you may ant to know who Roman Greenberg is. Roman Greenberg is a 24-year-old Russian-born Jewish boxer training and competing as a heavyweight boxer. The online backgammon purchased his shorts to help him raise money for training as he seeks to become one of boxing's elite -- if he can take on a top 5 WBO contender this year, he will become recognized as the talented prospect he is, especially if he wins. He already has an undefeated record of 25-0 with 17 KO’s, so he seems to be going places.
How will the shorts be auctioned? BackgammonMasters will sponsor a tournament in which the accumulated winnings will be used to bid on Roman Greenberg's boxing shorts. The opening bid? $100,000. Expect the price to go much higher,a s folks seek to gain this collector's item -- the shorts of a possible future heavyweight champion. So if you love to play backgammon online, consider entering. Who knows -- you could end up in Roman Greenberg's shorts!
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A federal judge in Baltimore is ordering Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church to pay more than $3,000 in costs related to the funeral of a Marine the group picketed.Albert Snyder of York, Pennsylvania, is suing because church
members demonstrated at the funeral of his son, Lance Corporal
Matthew Snyder. Church members also posted pictures of the protest
on their Web site.Corporal Snyder was killed in Iraq in March.
The lawsuit was filed in June. It says church members violated
the family's right to privacy and defamed the Marine and his family
at the funeral and on the church's Web site.Court documents say the church has 30 days to make the payment
to Snyder.
I respectfully disagree -- and would argue that the political and religious speech these lowlifes engaged are fully protected by the First Amendment -- and that laws, lawsuits, and other efforts to prevent these hell-bound hatemongers from speaking are much more anti-American than the protests of the Phelps klan.
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April 13, 2007
Consider some of the awards that are being voted on.
* Best Blog About Blogging
* Best Blog Design
* Best Blog of All Time
* Best Blogging Host
* Best Business Blog
* Best Celebrity Blogger
* Best Educational Blog
* Best Parenting Blog
* Best Political Blog
* Best Pop Culture Blog
* Best Religion Blog
* Best Video Blogger
* Freakiest Blogger
* Most Obnoxious Blogger
* The "Blogitzer"
* Worst Blog of All Time
And those are only some of the awards that I find particularly interesting! There are a bunch more, covering a lot of other areas. Drop by and take a look.
One of the great things about the BCA contest is that it is not ideologically drive. The folks seem to be on the up-and-up, accepting all comers and not skewing the categories towards one end of the ideological spectrum or another. And with that genuine commitment to inclusion, I think we may see some real fairness in the competition. That will separate it from so many of the other blog competitions out there, and hopefully allow for a real honest evaluation of sites.
So go by and nominate someone today -- and vote for your favorites. Competition runs through May 22.
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April 12, 2007
Bowing to a national outcry and internal protest, CBS Radio said yesterday it would end Don Imus's morning program "immediately," possibly bringing the sometimes inflammatory broadcaster's four-decade career to a swift and ignominious end.CBS followed NBC, which Wednesday canceled the MSNBC simulcast of Imus's radio show. Imus touched off a conflagration last week when he made racist and sexist comments.
Imus -- as well as CBS and NBC -- struggled for the past eight days to craft an effective response to widespread criticism after he called the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos." But neither repeated apologies nor a two-week suspension imposed this week by the two media companies quelled the furor. Advertisers deserted Imus's show and protests continued, inside and outside the companies.
Imus was a repeat offender on this score, and thre was no defending what he said, No interpretation could make his comments acceptable.
Now, let's get after the rappers and other members of the "nigga bitch ho" pop culture that glorify such racism and degradation of women in the name of making the almighty dollar. I see its effects ever so clearly on a daily basis in my school, and want them held accountable as well.
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The Durham County district attorney apologized Thursday to the three former Duke University lacrosse players he had charged with sexually assaulting a stripper.“To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students that were wrongly accused,” the district attorney, Michael B. Nifong, wrote in a three-paragraph statement a day after the state attorney general, Roy A. Cooper, dismissed all the charges and called him a “rogue” prosecutor.
“I also understand that when someone has been wrongly accused, the harm caused by the accusations might not be immediately undone merely by dismissing them,” Mr. Nifong wrote. “It is my sincere desire that the actions of Attorney General Cooper will serve to remedy any remaining injury that has resulted from these cases.”
The apology was rebuffed by lawyers for the former students, whose families are seeking Mr. NifongÂ’s ouster and considering suing him for damages. The North Carolina State Bar has formally accused Mr. Nifong of numerous ethical violations.
“I still haven’t heard him admit he did anything wrong,” said James P. Cooney III, a lawyer for Reade W. Seligmann, one of the three. “I think the most concrete way he could apologize to everybody is to resign his office.”
No admission of wrong-doing, combined with an attempt to take credit for the dismissal of all charges by pointing out that he turned the case over to the NC attorney general -- but only after he was brought up on ethics charges. Add to that his efforts to intimidate the cabbie who helped clear one of the players and you see nothing but a corrupt prosecutor who would not know the truth if it walked up and bit him on the ass.
Mike Nifong needs to be in jail -- and so does Crystal Gail Mangum, the lying sack of crap whose false claims set off this entire tragedy. And both need to be sued into oblivion by the falsely accused and irresponsibly charged players.
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A federal grand jury indicted an Ohio man on charges of joining al-Qaida and conspiring to bomb European tourist resorts and U.S. government facilities and military bases overseas, officials announced Thursday.Christopher Paul, 43, a U.S. citizen and resident of Columbus, spent time learning hand-to-hand fighting and how to use grenades and assault rifles at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan in the early 1990s, according to a federal grand jury indictment. He then joined the terrorist group in Pakistan and told al-Qaida members he was dedicated to committing violent jihad.
The investigation into Paul and his activities spanned four years, three continents and at least eight countries, FBI agent Tim Murphy said Thursday, shortly before Paul appeared before a federal judge.
"The indictment of Christopher Paul paints a disturbing picture of an American who traveled overseas to train as a violent jihadist, joined the ranks of al-Qaida and provided military instruction and support to radical cohorts both here and abroad," Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein said in a statement.
Bill Hunt, first assistant U.S. attorney, declined to say whether any of the alleged plots were carried out. People whom Paul associated with in Europe have been arrested, he said.
Paul, who was arrested Wednesday outside his apartment, is charged with providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide support to terrorists and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, which carries the most serious penalty of up to life in prison.
Have a nice stay in the big house, you jihadi pig.
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Gov. Jon S. Corzine underwent surgery on Thursday night after a car accident in which he broke his left leg, sternum, collarbone, six ribs on each side and a lower vertebra, state police and other government officials said. He was in critical but stable condition at midnight, sedated and on a breathing tube.Mr. Corzine was in the front passenger seat when his state police vehicle swerved to avoid an apparently out-of-control driver on the Garden State Parkway and hit a guardrail. He was flown by helicopter to Cooper University Hospital in Camden, where he received seven units of blood and a metal rod in his leg during a two-hour operation that ended about 11:30 p.m.
“He has what we call multisystemic injuries,” Robert F. Ostrum, Cooper’s director of orthopedic trauma, who led the surgical team, said in a midnight briefing for reporters here. “Injuries to his chest, lungs, to his legs, and he lost a significant amount of blood.” Asked whether Mr. Corzine was lucky to be alive, Dr. Ostrum said: “Yes.”
Mr. Corzine is scheduled for two more operations, Saturday and Monday, to clean up the wounds, Dr. Ostrum said, adding that it would be “days to weeks” until he was lucid enough to conduct state business, and three to six months before he could get around fairly well. Though the governor sustained a cut on his forehead, Dr. Ostrum said a CAT scan showed no brain injury.
Sounds bad, but it appears the governor will recover. I'm thankful for that -- because political disagreement doesn't constitute a basis for a death wish.
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Secured loans, though, are not the only sort of personal loans you might need. many loans are unsecured -- especially as we look at credit card debt, which has run rampant in modern society as folks are extended credit well beyond their means to ever pay back. These folks often then find themselves taking out a Debt Consolidation Loan in the hopes of lowering payments and interest rates, as well as extending the time one has to pay off the debt. This can be a great move -- provided one has the self-discipline to not run up additional debt while clearing up the old mess.
My advice? Borrow only when you have to, and only to the degree that you can afford to pay back. Otherwise you face bankruptcy -- with all the credit and personal implications that implies.
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The Vatican and Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial got into a public spat Thursday over the wartime conduct of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi genocide, threatening to upset fragile relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish state.Separately, church officials announced new developments Thursday in the Vatican's case to make Pius a saint. A massive dossier on Pius' virtues _ some six volumes of 3,000 pages _ was handed over to a panel of bishops and cardinals earlier this month to study, they said.
At issue in the Yad Vashem-Vatican dispute is a photograph of Pius in Yad Vashem's museum in Jerusalem with the caption: "Even when reports about the murder of Jews reached the Vatican, the pope did not protest," refusing to sign a 1942 Allied condemnation of the massacre of Jews during World War II.
Pius "maintained his neutral position" with two exceptions, the caption reads, criticizing "his silence and absence of guidelines." The exceptions were appeals to the rulers of Hungary and Slovakia toward the end of the war, the caption says.
The Vatican's ambassador to Israel, Monsignor Antonio Franco, confirmed Thursday that he would not attend Yad Vashem's annual memorial service for Holocaust victims next week because of the Pius photograph.
"I don't intend to go to Yad Vashem if things remain the way they do," he said.
The memorial service is traditionally attended by all foreign ambassadors to Israel or their representatives. Yad Vashem said this would mark the first case in which a foreign emissary deliberately skipped the ceremony.
Yad Vashem is "shocked and disappointed" by Franco's decision, said spokeswoman Iris Rosenberg.
I'm shocked and disappointed by Israel's decision to include a blood-libel against a man universally recognized as a friend of the Jews during the holocaust -- by both the Jews and the Nazis. I wish more ambassadors had the integrity to stay away from the memorial service in recognition that the exhibit defames a good and decent man who did more than any other world leader to safeguard those targeted for death by the Nazi genocide machine.
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Because after all, there is a lot to keep track of and do. There are contacts, listings, buyers, finances, appointments, and tasks that need to be dealt with on a daily basis just to keep the business of selling a property going. There are also flyers to create and letters to send. What you need is software package that serves as a date book, spreadsheet, file cabinet, word processor and graphics program all at the same time. Where can you find such a program -- and how much is it going to set you back financially?
Well, what you need is AgentOrganizer Real Estate Software. AgentOrganizer does all those tasks mentioned above, and for a reasonable sum. Best of all, it is simple to use, which means you don't need to be a computer genius to make it work for you.
Even better -- you can try AgentOrganizer out for free for 15 days, and I mean the full version, not just a stripped down sample.
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On the Democrats' Senate campaign Web site, Texan John Cornyn is labeled the least popular U.S. senator in the crop of Republican incumbents running for re-election next year.He's also identified as the administration's most loyal ally on Capitol Hill, which could be an uncomfortable title to wear at a time of flagging public confidence in President Bush and the war in Iraq.
But Democrats have yet to field a challenger or offer any sign that the race should be shifted out of the "solid Republican" category where political handicappers have it listed. Meanwhile, Cornyn is busily working to build a $20 million campaign war chest.
"If there were credible senior Democrats in Texas, this would be a race to look at," said Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University. "But I don't see that person on the horizon here in Texas."
Democrats in Austin and Washington insist they'll field an attractive candidate. And while their bench of proven statewide vote-getters is thin, the Democrats argue that the race will be made competitive by demographic and political trends that are inexorably weakening the GOP's dominance of Texas.
"Given his record, given his approval ratings, we do believe that John Cornyn is vulnerable and Texas Democrats are going to work to challenge him at every corner," Texas Democratic Party spokeswoman Amber Moon said.
Though party officials are reluctant to publicly discuss potential candidates, the names mentioned include former Comptroller John Sharp; state Rep. Rick Noriega, of Houston; state Rep. Pete Gallego, of Alpine; and Barbara Ann Radnofsky, the 2006 Senate nominee against Kay Bailey Hutchison. U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson, who earned celebrity in his party for claiming the seat formerly held by Republican Tom DeLay, also has been mentioned, along with former U.S. Rep. Jim Turner, of Crockett.
There isn’t a single credible Democrat in the bunch mentioned – with perhaps one exception.
Radnofsky? She got crushed by Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Gallego? Good guy, but not a household name.
Sharp? Out of office for years – though his name ID is high due to being part of the Texas equivalent of the Kennedy family.
Lampson? Well, he does hold DeLay’s seat – but then again, he will actually have to face an opponent on the ballot if he runs for Senate against Cornyn. Besides, he has already been rejected by the voters of two Texas congressional districts, and is likely to lose the CD22 seat in 2008, when he will actually have a GOP opponent on the ballot in our heavily GOP district.
Indeed, there only one on that list who I find to be of potential concern is Rick Noriega, whose balancing of legislative responsibilities and his duty as an officer in the Reserves has earned him the respect of many of us on the GOP side of the aisle.
But Cornyn is very popular in this state, especially among Texas Republicans – more than Kay Bailey Hutchison, to be honest about it. And if Texans get to decide the outcome of this race, we will certainly reelect this former state Attorney General and former Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court – and maybe send him to the White House in the future.
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Most of a group of 20 endangered rabbits that were reintroduced to the wild with great fanfare last month have been killed by predators, state officials said.Only four of the rabbits released on March 13 remained at the Sagebrush Flat Wildlife Area as of Tuesday, said David Hays, pygmy rabbit coordinator for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Hays said two males were removed earlier this month and will be returned at the end of April. The other 14 rabbits are believed to have fallen victim to predators, mainly coyotes, but also hawks and owls, Hays said.
The rabbits, small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, eat sagebrush and are the only rabbits in the United States that dig their own burrows.
The Sagebrush Flat Wildlife Area, about 10 miles north of Ephrata, is considered the last native home of the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit. The rabbit was listed as a state endangered species in 1993 and federally protected in 2003.
Wouldn’t this be an example of the law of “survival of the fittest” at work?
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Locks of 3,200-year-old hair from the pharaoh Ramses II have been unveiled at the Egyptian Museum, returned to Egypt after being stolen 30 years ago in France and put up for sale on the Internet.The small tufts of brown hair were displayed alongside pieces of linen bandages and 11 pieces of resin used in the mummification of Ramses and his son Merneptah in a glass display case. Photographers mobbed the case as Egypt's culture minister and antiquities chief showed off the returned items. The hair will eventually be displayed next to Ramses' mummy at the museum.
The theft was discovered when the pieces of hair were put up for sale on a Web site last November by a French postman, Jean-Michel Diebolt, who gave the hair a price tag of $2,600.
Diebolt is the son of a French researcher who examined the 3,200-year-old mummy when it was brought to France in 1976 for treatment to stop the spread of a rare fungus. Diebolt is being investigated in France for allegedly possessing stolen goods.
Egyptian antiquities official Ahmed Saleh traveled to Paris last week to retrieve the stolen items.
"It was wonderful mission. I felt very great when I had the lock of hair of Ramses II in my hand," said Saleh.
Ramses II, who ruled from 1270 to 1213 B.C., is one of ancient Egypt's most famous pharaohs, known for building some of its grandest monuments. Some believe him to be the pharaoh at the time of Moses.
This is clearly stolen property, by any definition. I therefore think it is proper to return the lock of hair to the Egyptians.
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Tatyana McFadden has spent the last two years fighting for inclusion. The 17-year-old Paralympic wheelchair racer wants a chance, she said, to compete like anybody else: alongside able-bodied teammates, with results that count for Atholton High School's track and field team.And now, after so much work, she feels more ostracized than ever before.
What began as a disabled athlete's hopeful journey to break down barriers has evolved into an unsentimental debate about whether all barriers need to be broken down. McFadden considers her equal participation a civil right; many track athletes and coaches consider it an unnecessary threat to the integrity of their sport.
In March, McFadden filed a federal lawsuit demanding that the state of Maryland treat her the same as all athletes at the state track and field championships -- her second lawsuit in a year. In doing so, she has forced Maryland to consider how to best combine wheelchair races and runners, a dilemma that thousands of road races face each year. McFadden's court date has yet to be determined, but Maryland's track community already has rendered its verdict.
Teammates worry about safety while running on the track while McFadden is racing, reaching speeds up to 20 mph. Competitors think Atholton, a public school in Columbia, will dominate meets because of the points the high school junior would earn by racing in a wheelchair division that consists of only herself. On Internet message boards and in private conversations, runners pose various forms of the same question: For McFadden, who won two medals at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens and continues to travel the world to compete, is a spot on the high school track team worth this much tumult?
And to be honest, I don't have an answer to these questions -- and I'm glad I don't have to be the one to answer them. I'm throwing this one out for you folks to discuss -- what do you think?
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Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.Mr. Vonnegut suffered irreversible brain injuries as a result of a fall several weeks ago, according to his wife, Jill Krementz.
Mr. Vonnegut wrote plays, essays and short fiction. But it was his novels that became classics of the American counterculture, making him a literary idol, particularly to students in the 1960s and Â’70s. Dog-eared paperback copies of his books could be found in the back pockets of blue jeans and in dorm rooms on campuses throughout the United States.
My personal favorite among the works of Kurt Vonnegut -- which I commend to you as my form of tribute to the great author -- is Harrison Bergeron.
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The Cooperative Bank offers its customers a choice of both debit and ATM cards with a £250 a day limit for cash machine withdrawals and the ability to pay for purchases using the cards. Customers can get customer service by internet and by telephone 24 hours a day.
One of the neat things, though, is that the bank operates on the following principles.
Through our investments, we seek to support the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.In line with this, we will not invest in:
* any government or business which fails to uphold basic human rights within its sphere of influence.
* any business whose links to an oppressive regime are a continuing cause for concern.
Now I would be interested in understanding a little bit better how they make the determinations about the regimes deemed "oppressive", but presuming they are acting in an ethical fashion I believe that I could actively support that policy. I'm a little bit less excited about certain other aspects of their ethical policy, but fully support the right of consumers to seek out services from businesses that follow their moral values.
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Aides to Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) have begun making structural changes to the space in his Hart Senate Office building suites in anticipation of his return to the Capitol following a serious illness. They are widening walkways so that the offices will be accessible by wheel chair.Julianne Fisher, Johnson's spokeswoman, sent a memo to all Democratic press secretaries today explaining the changes to come, while tamping down expectations of when he will return from his rehabilitation after suffering a brain hemorrhage in a mid-December while on a conference call to South Dakota reporters. Johnson, according to Fisher, is still undergoing in-patient rehabilitation and must shift to out-patient rehab before he can return to work.
But the decision to restructure the office is the clearest sign yet that Johnson is recovering enough to return to the Senate, where his absence has left the Democrats with a razor-thin 50-49 majority. Had he declared he was incapable of returning to work, a Republican governor would have replaced Johnson for the remainder of his term through 2008, creating the potential for the Senate to be 50-50 and flip back to Republican control because of Vice President Cheney's tie-breaking vote.
Let's continue to pray for the Senator's recovery.
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My father was in the military when I was a kid, so when I turned 16 my father immediately got me car insurance through the same military-oriented insuarnce company that he used. I've just never switched, given that every time I've looked the rates have been better than any of the companies out there -- even the one with the cute lizard mascot.
So when I got Home Insurance, i immediately wen with them -- and have, on balance, been happy with the same old company, which beats everyone else by over $100 every year.
Now I don't get travel insurance because I don't travel, nor do I get pet insurance for our dearest doggie due tot he availability of a wellness plan with our vet. But i don't doubt that my favorite company would best meet my needs, including the great claims service I've come to expect.
Still, it is important to shop around for good insurance.
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NBC News dropped Don Imus yesterday, canceling his talk show on its MSNBC cable news channel a week after Mr. Imus made racially disparaging remarks about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.The move came after several days of widening calls for Mr. Imus to lose his job both on MSNBC, which simulcasts the “Imus in the Morning” show, and CBS Radio, which originates the show.
CBS Radio, which is Mr. ImusÂ’s main employer, said in a statement last night that it would stick by the two-week suspension of the program, which begins Monday, that it and NBC news announced earlier.
But CBS said it would, in the interim, “continue to speak with all concerned parties and monitor the situation closely.”
The demands that Mr. Imus be fired had grown in intensity every day since last Wednesday when he made the comments, in which he labeled the women “nappy-headed hos.”
And ultimately, this is how things should work -- the market, not the government, has demanded the removal of Don Imus. He has the right to say as many stupid things as he wants, but no right to a privately-owned forum to spew them. The government can't punish you for your speech, but your employer can.
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Now mahjong itself is an ancient Chinese game that dates back many centuries -- and it has been adapted into a solitaire game which has been made very popular on computers. A grid of 144 tiles is established, each with a different design on it. The goal? To match pairs, removing them from the board until it is empty or there are no more exposed tiles to match up. It makes for an interesting variation on many of the solitaire games out there, and also on the traditional game of mahjong played with partners.
Interested in more? Give Mahjong Solitaire a try!
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Prosecutors dropped all charges Wednesday against the three Duke lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a stripper at a party, saying the athletes were innocent victims of a "tragic rush to accuse" by an overreaching district attorney."There were many points in the case where caution would have served justice better than bravado," North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said in a blistering assessment of Durham County District Mike Nifong's handling of the case.
Cooper, who took over the case after Nifong was charged with ethics violations that could get him disbarred, said his own investigation concluded not only that the evidence against the young men was insufficient, but that no attack took place.
If this determination does not give rise to some sort of civil rights action against Nifong and civil damages for the actual victims in this case, Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, then justice will not have been done.
And we need criminal charges brought against the false accuser – and that includes an end to the media practice of not naming this liar whose criminal actions have forever harmed these three INNOCENT young men and their teammates.
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