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I would think Francis Peak would be on this list.

A University Past It’s Prime

The university that has the notable distinction of participating in the education of John Adams cannot now tolerate diversity of thought and inquiry - even with its president.

Skipping class

I have a hard time believing this story but its AP and they’re never wrong, right? Students paid $1 a day to skip gym. Six students supposedly paid $230. To skip gym? What’s wrong with them. If they were paying to skip math that would be more believable. The story says the teacher may have collected thousands of dollars, but the scheme was only from September to December. Lets see… a typical school year runs 180 days (this is America, right?) half that gets me say 90 days. One student, one semester = $90. Just over 11 students would net a thousand dollars. So for two thousand dollars (the story did use the plural) one would see 22 students running around loose. But if there were six periods that would only be 3 to 4 students blending in with the legitimate hall pass crowd each period. O.K. maybe it wouldn’t have been noticible.

Pre-foreclosure?

I saw an advertisement in the DesNews this morning about "How to Find Hidden Profits Buying Pre-foreclosure Properties". Don't we call that the regular real estate market?

Labor Saving Device?

We got about a foot of snow in my area yesterday and today. I enjoy it, even when I’ve got to shovel the walks and driveway. Several of my neighbors have snow blowers. When they clear their walks they continue down the neighborhood sidewalks and driveways. I appreciate it when they beat me to my sidewalk. I find it ironic that they bought the snow blowers to save time and then they still spend just as much time clearing snow as they did with a shovel – only they do 10 times as much. Good on 'em.

Is CNN Hypocrisy Really News?

I can understand why a large media organization like CNN won’t publish cartoons deemed “offensive” by militant Muslims. It’s not an easy call to put your life on the line. But spare us their explanations about Muslim sensitivities. CNN is certainly willing to inflame the same Muslims with pictures from Abu Ghraib when they endanger US servicemen. (H/T Powerline)

CNNs actions underscore who they really think would target journalists.

Inside Scoop of Humor in the Muslim World

Omar from, Iraq the model, points out that Muslims do have a sense of humor:

You know that those cartoons were published for the 1st time months ago and we here in the Middle East have tonnes of jokes about Allah, the prophets and the angels that are way more offensive, funny and obscene than those poorly-made cartoons, yet no one ever got shot for telling one of those jokes or at least we had never seen rallies and protests against those infidel joke-tellers.

What I want to say is that I think the reactions were planned to be exaggerated this time by some Middle Eastern regimes and are not mere public reaction.And I think Syria and Iran have the motives to trigger such reactions in order to get away from the pressures applied by the international community on those regimes.However, I cannot claim that Muslim community is innocent for there have been outrageous reactions outside the range of Syria's or Iran's influence but again, these protests and threats are more political than religious in nature.

H/T Powerline

Eye of the Beholder

There is an old joke about a young kindergartner drawing a picture during art time. Her teacher, watching, asks what the girl is drawing.

“I’m drawing a picture of God”

“Oh,” replies the teacher, “But no one knows what God looks like.”

“Yeah” says the child, “But they’ll know in a few minutes.”

It’s still a funny joke to me. On the other hand there's probably a crank out there who'll insist these are fighting words worthy of inciting a riot.

Contract with Al Qaeda

(H/T Powerline)

The Democratic plan to take over Congress…

Extending the Logic...

So U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts maintains former EPA Chief, Christina Todd Whitman, should not be granted immunity in a lawsuit regarding the safety of Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks, stating “No reasonable person would have thought that telling thousands of people that it was safe to return to lower Manhattan”.

So by extension, is the Judge making a case that the people filing the lawsuit are also unreasonable for returning to lower Manhatten?

A Bad Trip

The next pair will tie with Velcro…

H/T small dead animals

Hammas Wins

Dog Catches Car