Archive for November, 2008

Nov 30

As expected, the New York Times tries to give Obama and liberals credit for Iraq success

Posted at 11:01 pm in Barack Obama & Iraq & Military

As far as the folks at the New York Times are concerned, the success in Iraq is due to the efforts of Barack Obama and the liberals, at least that’s what they are arguing. Take a look at Thomas Friedman’s opinion piece from yesterday:
In the last year, though, the U.S. troop surge and the backlash [...]

Nov 30

Wal-Mart stampede death update

Posted at 12:01 am in Society

The police are looking at video to try to identify the shoppers who trampled a Wal-Mart employee to death.

Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down.
Criminal [...]

Nov 28

Wal-Mart employee dies after being trampled by shoppers

Posted at 12:03 pm in Society

Things are getting out of control, don’t you think? No Christmas gift is so important that it’s worth stampeding someone to death:
A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.
The 34-year-old worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, [...]

Nov 26

US Constitution says Hillary Clinton can’t serve as Secretary of State

Posted at 9:06 am in Congress & Hillary Clinton & Politicians

It’s certainly not a well known portion of the Constitution, but it’s there, clear as crystal. From Article I Section 6:
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof [...]

Nov 25

Sarah Palin campaigns for Saxby Chambliss in Georgia senate runoff

Posted at 6:45 pm in Politics

Chambliss didn’t win 50% of the vote on November 4th, so he’s in a runoff with the man who came in second, a Democrat. At this point, Chambliss is leading by a mere 3 points. Now, we’re talking Georgia here. He should be ahead by at least 10 points. So to help him out a [...]

Nov 25

Four more Joe the Plumber snoops get their wrists slapped

Posted at 10:08 am in Politics

The Columbus Dispatch writes that four more Ohio senior managers were “punished” for engaging in illegal and unethical searches on Joe Wurzelbacher. As Helen Jones-Kelley before them, instead of being fired, they were suspended without pay.
Jan Allen, acting agency director, announced yesterday that deputy child-support director Doug Thompson and assistant agency director Fred Williams would [...]

Nov 21

Sarah Palin’s turkey interview

Posted at 5:00 pm in Sarah Palin

Liberals are all atwitter about Sarah Palin’s interview at a turkey slaughter house. She was there to pick out her family’s turkey for Thanksgiving. The obviously sheltered folks at Huffington Post are just outraged at Palin’s cavalier attitude as turkeys are slaughtered in the background. The liberals’ dismay is quite funny actually but not as [...]

Nov 21

Helen Jones-Kelley suspended without pay for illegal Joe the Plumber searches

Posted at 11:03 am in Politics

Governor Ted Strickland suspended Helen Jones-Kelley for one month without pay for her role in requesting improper searches on Joe “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher. Not exactly a stiff sentence by any means. She should have lost her job.
Suspended Director Helen Jones-Kelley of the Job and Family Services Department said Thursday, Nov. 20, she should [...]

Nov 20

And we’re back

Posted at 11:30 pm in Blogging

Thank you, Natalie, for getting me back up and running!

Nov 20

We’re experiencing some technical difficulty

Posted at 6:01 pm in Blogging

Sorry, folks, but I messed up my upgrade and none of my links work. I’m working on it and I hope to have the site working again, soon.

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