Monthly Archives: June 2009

Just Charge It On The Government Credit Card

Short on cash to pay for health care costs?  Well one FAA Official Charged $3,700 Eye Surgery to His Government Credit Card according to CNS News.  No one knows if this person was short on change or just short on integrity.  And certainly short on believing he or she would have been caught. 

But if that does not surprise you, than consider the Department of Defense official who was remibursed about $10,000 for thirteen, yes 13 airline tickets never used!

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Lou Pritchett’s Concerns About President

Email in circulation.

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

By Lou Pritchett

Dear President Obama:

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Sotomayor Claimed Death Penalty Racist

Sotomayor Failed to Disclose to Senate Memo in Which She Argued Death Penalty Is ‘Racist’ at CNS News. 

Will this be discussed beyond the blogosphere?

Memorandum to the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rican legal Defense and Educational Fund.  from the Task Force on the bill to Restore the Death Penalty in New York State.  March 24, 1981.

Capital punishment is  associated with evident racism in our society.  The number of minorities and the poor executed or awaiting execution is out of proportion to their numbers in the population.

The problem of crime and violence in American society is so complex, it is unreasonable to think that capital punishment will result in preventing it or diminishing it.

Our present perspective on the meaning of our values in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and the state of humanistic thinking in the world judge capital punishment as a violation of those values.

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90-Year Old Gets High School Diploma For Birthday

73 years, 15 kids later, Eleanor is a high school grad at Chicago Sun Times.

Even age provides enough life experiences.  Coupled with schooling just a few months shy of formal graduation back in 1934.  And a family and a school secretary on a mission to rectify their 90-year old matriarch’s greatest disappointment in life. 

A high school diploma.

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Frustrating Co-Worker Habits

Nasty Habits video at Australia’s Herald Sun via Courier Mail

Click here for a video that will make you realize some problems are more commonplace that you might think.  A video that might send a message to certain co-workers.

Are you sick and tired of your colleagues rude and insensitive behaviour?

Key smasher… Paid for nothing… Lucifer’s Lunch… Foghorn Phone Voice… Space Invaders…

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Dutch Notebook Video Animation

Evelien Lohbeck from The Netherlands brings us a fascinating look at her notebook.  Stop  motion video.  A different dimension to animation.

In my work, I like to confuse the reality and challenge the expectations of the audience.

And she does it exceedingly well.

Noteboek

July 29, 2008

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America At Uncle Sam’s Plantation Doorstep

Star Parker put up a great piece that is well worth the read, as it explores America’s attitude and acceptance between socialism and capitalism.

Back on Uncle Sam’s Plantation - The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city schools, and broken black families.

It’s not complicated. Americans can accept Barack Obama’s invitation to move onto the plantation. Or they can choose personal responsibility and freedom.

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D-Day Normandy 1944 And WWII Color Video

Operation Overlord.  The Normandy invasion on D-Day, June 6, 1944.  And other videos to tell the larger story of World War II.   

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Sonia Sotomayor’s Identity Politics

Senator John Cornyn has some concerns now about SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor and her “identity politics.”

Seems like the wise woman and wise latina woman reference has been uttered more than once.  There were speeches made between 1994 to 2003.  Culled from CQP Sotomayor Repeatedly Referenced ‘Wise Woman’ in Speeches, the Senate Questionnaire, and BG.

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Eating Fetal Pig Parts In Dallas

Plano teen eats fetal pig parts on classmates’ dare at DMN.

“It was just like swallowing a pill,” said the 15-year-old…

The prize for gulping down the formaldehyde testicles?  $50. 

Read the story to understand why this kid will go down in the annals of his high school.   

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