Day: December 2, 2005

Custom made for a Friday afternoon, there’s nothing better than a news story about how fractured the Democrats are on the subject of Iraq. The item includes this quote from “Mr. Nuance” which effectively illustrates the ‘clear as mud’ message being broadcast from the dems:

Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.): “If you just continue along the road we’re going now without a more concrete transfer of responsibility — a target schedule by which you begin to turn over provinces, by which you specifically begin to shift the responsibility — I think a lot of people fear that it’s going to be more of the same.”

What in the world is he’s talking about?

Happy Friday!

Sorry Steve, but as long as people can do this, Wikipedia won’t become the next Google.

Can you guess what happened after this photo op?

Baisers d’âne. It’s the price one must pay to interpret the constitution.

Filed under today’s “Duh” category – Sending threats via text message is a stupid thing to do.

A 16-year-old Santa Teresa High School student was arrested after police said he sent text messages to a teenage girl threatening to kill her and her friends at Orchard Elementary School.

The boy sent the text messages to the 13-year-old girl’s cell phone Tuesday afternoon, said San Jose Police Officer Enrique Garcia.

In the message, he reportedly said he was going to the school to shoot the girl and her 13-year-old friend and anyone else who got in his way, Garcia said.

The girl and two friends reported the incident to the school Wednesday and the boy was taken into custody at Juvenile Hall, where he was booked on suspicion of making terrorist threats.

The cell phones were seized as evidence.

Good!

This kind of thing drives me batty. The whole ‘kid with a cell phone glued to an ear’ fad has run amok. Even the name ‘cell phone’ is a misnomer. Most teens I see with cellular phones are using them to take pictures of themselves, listening to the latest ringtone they downloaded for $1.99 (ripoff), or sending useless text messages that eat up bandwidth. And if they do make a phone call, it’s to a friend they see in person 1000 times per day already.

And parents don’t know why their kids are doing poorly in school.

If I had my way, elementary, middle school, junior high and high school students would be forced to check in and store their cell phones when they arrive at school and get them back when they leave. I would bet that average test scores would rise as a result.

This is the most obscene thing I’ve seen in a long time.

Is this really Canada?

Nova Scotia town bans use of names like ‘holiday’ tree and the phrase ‘happy holidays’. From here on out, it’s Merry Christmas.

Still smarting from a much-publicized bureaucratic bid to rename a famous Nova Scotia Christmas tree a “holiday” tree, leaders in this town of 1,300 say they’re sick of state-sanctioned attempts to secularize the Christian holiday.

Earlier this week, councillors passed a motion banning the use of other names to describe Christmas, chief among them “holiday,” which is a huge pet peeve of Mayor Lloyd Jenkins.

“We’re getting fed up with the term,” Mr. Jenkins said in an interview. “And the holiday tree was just the climax.”

Way to go, eh?