Opposite Day

Ever see a kid play "opposite day" and tease others by calling them beautiful?

Chris Matthews hasn't grown up.

Either that or he left his audio copy of 1984 running in a continuous loop while he slept.

Matthews is in a panic over the improving Iraq situation. Things look so good he is going through machinations to redefine victory; in his parallel universe World War II is now a loss and and Vietnam a victory. It's the only way he can ensure Iraq is tallied a loss.

In Matthews dictionary "a defeat is you can‘t leave."

Iraq is in good company:

• New Orleans (War of 1812)
• California (Mexican War - though it is still a toss-up)
• South Carolina (Civil War)
• Philippines/Puerto Rico (Spanish American War)
• Germany (WWII)
• Korea (do I have to spell it out?)

War's where we left:

• Vietnam
• Grenada... this must be the one Matthews remembered!

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 29, 2007

Not News to Conservatives…

…that modern liberalism and fascism are two peas in a pod. For you liberal readers, a bit of free education from Dictionary.com:

fas•cism [fash-iz-uh m] a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

Hillary Care comes to mind - remember she would have made it a crime for doctors to work independently (Canada is beginning to throw off that burden but they seem to be well on the way to forcibly suppress opposition and criticism). And don’t forget the pillars of tolerance, our American Universities.

Old news to conservatives; but are some liberals getting it? Publisher’s Weekly, which leans a bit left, showed some surprise at liberal/fascist connections in their review of Jonah Goldberg’s new book “The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”:

In this provocative and well-researched book, Goldberg probes modern liberalism's spooky origins in early 20th-century fascist politics…

He lays low such lights of liberal history as Margaret Sanger, apparently a radical eugenicist, and JFK, whose cult of personality, according to Goldberg, reeks of fascist political theater. Much of this will be music to conservatives' ears, but other readers may be stopped cold by the parallels Goldberg draws between Nazi Germany and the New Deal.

The author of this piece didn’t know the mother of the abortion movement was a radical eugenicist? Do they know she was racist too? The surprise Publisher’s Weekly shows is fascinating - they are supposedly in the business of reading books. If this is also news to other liberals, who somehow missed this during their university days, maybe they need to check that fascism definition again about suppression of opposition and criticism.

h/t Glenn Reynolds

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 28, 2007

Accents

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
The Midland
Boston
North Central
Philadelphia
The Northeast
The South
The Inland North
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

H/T Mick

Ahab and Jezebel Moved to Boulder

They call themselves Richard and Edith now, but this time they have their eyes on Don and Susie Kirlin’s property:

Despite owning the land, despite living only 200 yards from the property, despite hiking past it every week with their three dogs, despite spraying for weeds and fixing fences, despite paying homeowner association dues and property taxes each year, someone else had taken a shine to it. Someone powerful.

Former Boulder District Judge, Boulder Mayor, RTD board member - among other elected positions - Richard McLean and his wife, attorney Edith Stevens, used an arcane common law called "adverse possession" to claim the land for their own.

David Harsanyi chronicles:

The story is so absurd, so unfair, so ludicrous, I had a difficult time believing that it could actually happen - even in Boulder.

Actually Boulder is a natural. Or any other locale leftists congregate. In Monterey County CA, for instance, they control property they don’t own “to preserve open space and their quality of life”:

While environmentalists and farmers battled and little new housing was built, immigrants suffered, with more and more workers living in difficult conditions.

Harsanyi finds this absurd. It is when measured against the Judeo-Christian ethics most of this nation shares. Stealing land is less likely to occur where these values are still respected. But it is not hard to believe left wing sanctuaries, such as Boulder, known for luminaries like Marxist Ward Churchill, have less compunction about it. Liberals have been liberating themselves from old fashioned virtues, but not without replacing them with even older vices.

More at boingboing.

h/t Instapundit

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 22, 2007

Romney Unfazed by Redford

Speaking of staying on message - Robert Redford makes the obligatory reference to plastic Mormons while peddling his latest movie about the war in Afghanistan:

"They are very adept at not being fazed and speaking fluently and gracefully. Why? Because every single male who's a Mormon goes on a mission for two years when they're 19 or 20," he says. "They learn how to deflect blows and stay on message. No wonder Utah is the place that all these Republican senators go. It's perfect. So when you see Mitt Romney, he's already been practicing how to deflect blows and stay on message. But it's plastic."

Mitt fluently and gracefully deflects the blow:

Well, I’m not going to worry too much about Robert Redford. You know, I must admit that I learned a great deal as I had the chance to serve my Church, and that was how many years ago? 40 years ago?

Back when Redford was still married to a Mormon.

Maybe Bob meant he liked it when Mormons spend plastic

Meanwhile, he probably wishes fazed Harry Reid had been a Mormon when he was 19 or 20 and picked up some of that fluidity and grace. Harry thought he said "Plastination."

Bainbridge detects a doublestandard

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 17, 2007

Wallace is Dead

But he wasn't shot dead.

I enjoy reading Daniel Henninger but he had a major error in fact in today's print edition of the WSJ. He listed a littany of events that happened in 1968 and ended with this:

On Nov. 4 having absorbed all this, the people of the United States voted. They gave 43.3% of their vote to Richard Nixon and 42.7% to Hubert Humphrey. Alabama Gov. George Wallace got 13.5%. Four years later, George Wallace was shot dead while running for president. 1968 lasted a long time.

Wallace wound up paralyzed, not dead. He actually died at the age of 79 in 1998. The online version has been corrected to omit the word dead. Maybe a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan clued them in:

In Birmingham they love the governor Now we all did what we could do Now Watergate does not bother me Does your conscience bother you? Tell the truth

The point of Hennigers column, "1968: The Long Goodbye" is that the sixties are dead. A younger generation wants to get off the psychedelic bus:

In 1968, Nicolas Sarkosy was 13 years old. John McCain was 32 and Hillary Clinton was 21. Barack Obama was 7. It is not beyond imagining that the precocious Messrs. Sarkozy and Obama were alert to events in 1968 but for the first wave of baby boomers just touching adulthood that year, it was the beginning of a strange journey.

I doubt Obama was keyed into those 1968 events. I was also 7 then; I don't know where he was, but I was a second grader in Valdosta Georgia. Our teacher conducted a class "vote" during the '68 presidential campaign. I cast the deciding vote for George Wallace. Not because it reflected my parents views (it didn't - but I didn't know at the time) I did it because that's who my friends voted for. My one and only time being a Dixiecrat.

Four years later I was pretty cognizant of politics. I stayed up to watch the election returns; but I didn't need to stay up late to see another George was going to recieve a pounding. It was the sixties that died in 1972 - not George Wallace. But it has been the Democrats that have been paralyzed ever since then.

UPDATE: Powerline makes additional corrections and comments.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 15, 2007

Color Coded Corruption

The U.S. is orange. It would be interesting to get a chart by individual states.

from Captain Capitalism

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 13, 2007

Lack of Negative Coverage to Blame

From the Politico I read this gem:

The Democratic base’s negative view of the war also has lessened of late.

This summer, CBS News found that 57 percent of Democrats thought the
war was going “very badly.”

Today, the number has fallen by 12 points, to 45 percent.

The changing views probably have little to do with Congress, said Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“You have also had the near absence of the war coverage in the last months, and since the coverage is generally negative, the less coverage, the less negative communications that reaches people’s living rooms.”

Biddle's analysis seems to imply that absence of media coverage is the only reason negative stories aren't being reported from Iraq. It doesn't seem to occur to him that maybe there are less negative things to report.

via Glen Reynolds

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 13, 2007

Angling

My wife didn’t know I liked to fish till we moved to Utah. In our previous seventeen years of marriage I never went fishing. When she asked why now, I told her because we hadn’t lived near mountain streams earlier. I grew up angling in the Rocky Mountains and Alaska. Fishing and mountains were like bread and butter; I didn’t do one without the other.

About three years ago my wife signed me up for this course where I learned to “nymph”, a technique of fly fishing using “flies” that simulate nymphs and other water insects. These nymphs bounce along the bottom of streams and into the mouths of waiting trout lying on the stream bed. When a trout mouths a fly-fishing nymph, it detects it isn’t edible and turns its head to allow the current to wash it away. The trick is to be able to detect the moment when a trout mouths a nymph and set the hook. Sometimes the line hesitates, but mainly you start to develop a sixth sense. I’ve never had more success fishing so it is about the only type of angling I do.

Today being Veterans Day, I was able to get an hour and a half of fishing on the Weber River. I caught one brown trout on a sow bug and two browns and a white fish using a bead head pheasant tail pattern.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 12, 2007

Mom's a Maverick Too

Mom might not be making the talking head circuit for a while after MSNBC's Chris Matthews asked her opinion of Mitt Romney:

"As far as the Salt Lake City thing, he's a Mormon and the Mormons of Salt Lake City had caused that scandal. And to clean that up, again, it's not a subject," Roberta McCain said.

John McCain quickly stepped in: "The views of my mother's are not necessarily the views of mine."

"Well, that's my view and you asked me," Roberta answered.

I haven't met anyone in their nineties who didn't speak what was on their mind - good, bad, or ugly; McCain's mother reinforces my observation. I don't think McCain expected his Mom's response - he looked pretty uncomfortable.

Even at ninety-five Mrs McCain displayed a "mother Bear" instinct to defend her son from a perceived threat.

Will the gaffe matter to Mormons? Probably not. Too much. The Utah Governer, Jon Huntsman Jr. is a McCain supporter. His father, who I consider more influental however, is a key supporter of Mitt Romney.

Will Mrs McCain's disparaging remarks about Mormons increase his support in the Bible belt state of South Carolina? Hard to tell, but I would hope not.

Also, listen to Matthews. Twice he refers to John McCain as Roberta McCain's husband. I was beginning to think he didn't know better.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 9, 2007

I Can Read Afterall

I still get the dead tree edition of my local paper. It is a breakfast tradition. I read the headlines and editorials, the kids read the comics.

Yesterday I read the headline at the right, "A Quarter of Veterans in US are Homeless" and immediately found it unbelievable. So I decided to write a blog entry about it. And like any good blogger, I linked to the electronic version so you the reader could have your own look. Except the headline changed, but I didn't pay attention as I cut and pasted it into my post.

When I calculated there would be 8 million homeless veterans (based on about 33 Million total veterans), I knew an error had been made somewhere. I rechecked the electronic article, saw the headline and assumed I misread it (which I did). I noted the error and moved on.

I didn't realize the dead tree version had a different headline till I glanced at it as I tossed it into the recycling pile today. So I'm partially relieved that I read one of them right. The Deseret News just made a simple error; their editor caught it later and had the e-version corrected.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 9, 2007

Hillary as Sister Souljah

Peggy Noonan constrasts Margaret Thacher's leadership with Hillary Clinton's lack thereof. Noonan mentions Hillary's attempt to portray herself as a victim of sexism during the last Democrat presidential debate and comments on the reaction:

It's all kind of wonderful, isn't it? Someone indulged in special pleading and America didn't buy it. It's as if the country this week made it official: We now formally declare that the woman who uses the fact of her sex to manipulate circumstances is a jerk.

Dare we say this was Hillary's Sister Souljah moment - even if she was the Sister Souljah?

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 9, 2007

Popcorn Popping

A few of our readers might be interested to know that the composer of the cheery "Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree" passed away this week:

The woman whose light-hearted song about springtime blossoms is known to millions of Latter-day Saints has died at her home in Salt Lake City. Georgia Wahlin Bello, 83, died Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, surrounded by her family after a three-year battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Mrs. Bello plucked out the melody and words for the LDS children's Primary song, "Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree," using her daughter's one-octave, toy piano in the late 1950s. Her daughter, Joanne Foster, said the song was composed several years after her brother Kenneth — then 3 years old — pointed out the window of their home in Magna and exclaimed, "Look Mom, popcorn popping on the apricot tree."

The song she composed became a favorite in "Primary" (Sunday School for Mormon children), though it isn't imbued with any overt religious message. In fact it is incorporated into this pre-school plan for teaching about plants.

Some folks have taken a few liberties with the song such as this young man:



Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 9, 2007

Order of Battle

When Karl Rove left the White House, many short-sighted Democrats thought the architect of their hell was gone. I think they would have been better off if he remained - now he he has a free hand with no need for Presidential restraint. In the WSJ he outlines a littany of failures from the Democrat controlled congress:

"Democrats criticized Congress for dragging its feet on the budget and pledged that they would do better. Instead, they did worse. The new fiscal year started Oct. 1--five weeks ago--but Democrats have yet to send the president a single annual appropriations bill."

"...all their talk about "fiscal discipline" is just that--talk. They're proposing to spend $205 billion more than the president has proposed over the next five years."

"Let's also be clear about what it means to roll back the president's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts...- Every income-tax payer will pay more as all tax rates rise.
- Families will pay $500 more per child as they lose the child tax credit.
- Taxes on small businesses would go up by an average of about $4,000.
- Retirees will pay higher taxes on investment retirement income.
- And now we have the $1 trillion tax increase proposed as "tax reform" by
the Democrats' chief tax writer last month."

"Beholden to MoveOn.org and other left-wing groups..."

"After promising on the campaign trail to "support our troops," Democrats tried to cut off funding for our military while our soldiers and Marines are under fire from the enemy."

"Their presidential candidates fell all over each other in a recent debate to pledge an end to the Terrorist Surveillance Program."

They "have launched more than 400 investigations and made more than 675
requests for documents, interviews or testimony"

" refused a bipartisan compromise on an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program"

Think Karl Rove is compiling anecdotes for his memoirs?

The Democratic victory in 2006 was narrow. They won the House by 85,961 votes out of over 80 million cast and the Senate by a mere 3,562 out of over 62 million cast. A party that wins control by that narrow margin can quickly see its fortunes reversed when it fails to act responsibly, fails to fulfill its promises, and fails to lead.

Looks more like a battle plan.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 9, 2007

More Press Release Journalism

I find this headline highly unlikely:

Over 1/4 of U.S. homeless are veterans

Why do I question it? That means one out of the four people I served with are on the street - I think I would have noticed. And just in case you are wondering, I'm not writing this from the homeless shelter.

I'll go out on a limb and state the number probably relies on dubious estimates or methods. I don't know yet just a hunch. I've downloaded the report and I'll check it out. I doubt the AP writer has done that much; I note most of her story was just lifted from the National Alliance to End Homelessness press release. It is not like I've seen critical thinking missing from a reprint of other advocacy group press releases.

I'll let you know what I find.

UPDATE: I see I'm not reading the headline correctly. The figure is 1/4 of the U.S. homeless are veterans. I misread that to be 1/4 of all veterans. Certainly a smaller number. In the words of Roseanne Roseannadanna: "Never Mind". My apologies to the AP reporter.

I'll still read the report anyway.

MORE: Don Surber does the math - "99.4% of us [i.e. Vets] have homes" and notes:

194,254 homeless vets are a problem. America is dealing with it.

The VA has a very serious program that is now in its 20th year. But AP reported the number of homeless vets has dropped only by 50,000 or so in that time.

The VA budget has nearly doubled on Bush’s watch. He sought $39.5 billion for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 (the Democratic Congress has failed to meet the Sept. 30 deadline for sending even one of the 13 appropriations bills to the president — but that is a whole ’nother story).

It is cynically dishonest for VA bureaucrats to trot out this 1-in-4 statistic to shake down even more money. It makes it seem as though 1-in-4 veterans are homeless, when we are not.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 8, 2007

Students Know Less History After 4 College Years

Well it is four years older.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 5, 2007

Wag the Dog in Reverse

The Iraq war is petering out, so the Democrats need President Bush to start a new one so they can have something to run against:

But what happens if President Bush does not bomb Iran? That is good news for the world, but potentially terrible news for the Democrats. If we do go to war in Iran, the election will indeed be a referendum on the results, which the Republican Party will own no matter whom it nominates for president. But if we don’t, the Democratic standard-bearer will have to take a clear stand on the defining issue of the race. As we saw once again at Tuesday night’s debate, the front-runner, Hillary Clinton, does not have one.

As Don Surber wrote: "Suppose they gave a protest and nobody warred?"

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 4, 2007

When Victory is an Orphan

The London Times wonders why declining violence in Iraq isn't making the news. Conservatives don't want to be premature; the left is probably trying to resuscitate defeat.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 3, 2007

Declining Academic Standards

One more sign of academic decline - Professors no longer require students to stretch:

A University of Maine student alleges her former professor offered extra credit to class members if they burned the American flag or the U.S. Constitution or were arrested defending free speech.

Who gets arrested for burning the U.S flag anymore? The professor is out of touch or a softy. For real excitement he ought to give extra credit for desecrating a Hezbollah flag:

...At a small anti-terrorism rally in October 2006, several members of the College Republicans stomped on pieces of paper they had painted to look like flags of the radical Islamic organizations Hezbollah and Hamas, copying the designs from images on the Internet. A few days later, a Muslim student filed a complaint, on the grounds that the Arabic script on the Hezbollah and Hamas flags contained the word “Allah.” The university pressed charges, accusing the blasphemers of “incivility” and creating “a hostile environment.”

You don't even have to wait for the police or the terrorists to get you; your own university will prosecute you. For extra thrills, try doing this with a flag actually owned by the terrorists.

H/T Liberty Pundit via Don Surber

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 3, 2007

The Numbers Behind Casualty Rates

James Taranto points out that 20% percent of Iraq War casualties are due to non-combat causes. Accidents, sickness, suicide, and the occasional love triangle murder. You wouldn’t get that insight reading the NYT:

The Department of Defense has identified 3,825 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Tuesday: CAMACHO, Anamarie Sannicolas, 20, Seaman, Navy; Panama City, Fla.; Naval Support Activity. GRESHAM, Genesia Mattril, 19, Seaman, Navy; Lithonia, Ga.; Naval Support Activity.

Here is what Taranto fills in:

Anamarie Sannicolas Camacho, 20, and her colleague Genesia Mattril Gresham, 19, were shot dead at the Naval Support Activity Base, Juffair, at around 5am on October 22. Their alleged killer, fellow serviceman Clarence Jackson, 20, is still clinging to life after apparently shooting himself in the head immediately after the murders. He is now at the National Naval Medical Centre in Bethesda, Maryland, US, after being transferred to the US from a specialist hospital in Germany. . . .

Taranto had to find this info courtesy of the Gulf Daily News, a Bahraini paper.

I subscribe to the Defense Departments press releases and consequently get all casualty notices. I don’t read all of DoD’s press releases but I read every casualty notice. A significant number of deaths are non-combat related. It is sad, but these non-combat deaths are similiar to the types of items you read in the obituary for those who die prematurely. The NYT, however, isn't careful to differentiate. The next time they see a casualty report from a training accident at Fort Hood, don't be surprised to see NYT editors call for a troop withdrawal from Texas.

H/T Instapundit

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Oct 30, 2007

United States of Europe, Take Two

What do you do when the voters dump your constitution? Change the title and don't make the mistake of taking it to the voters again:

The new EU Reform Treaty is effectively the same as the constitution it was designed to replace, according to a leading architect of the constitution.

The treaty differs from the abandoned constitution in "approach rather than content", says former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing.

Mr Giscard d'Estaing led a committee drafting the constitution, rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2004.

Several European governments hope to avoid a referendum on the new treaty.

I wonder how this will work, however:

Mr Giscard d'Estaing points out that the UK will not be bound by the treaty's
rules on human rights and judicial harmonisation, and would retain the right to
"duck in and out of the system as it pleases".

Duck in and out as it pleases? Constitution lite - why didn't South Carolina think of that? Still, there are some sceptics:

British Euro-sceptics want the government to hold a referendum on the treaty,
arguing it is no different to the constitution.

Euro-sceptics. I thought those were conservative Americans.

Independent's article here.

h/t Astuteblogger

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Oct 30, 2007

Smart Mobbing

The NYT blog "The Caucus" seems a little miffed that Moveon.org helped stack the deck in an on-line poll to select a question for an MTV Q&A forum for Senator Obama:

But, TechPresident, which produces 10Questions, says MoveOn sent an e-mail to 60,000 members urging them to vote for Mr. Niederberger’s video question, "Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to reinstate net neutrality as the law of the land?” Within a day, usage on the 10Questions site surged, and Mr. Niederberger’s entry won with about 5,300 votes. The second-place question about medicinal marijuana got only 2,600 votes.

This is news? That’s what happens with internet polls. Never begin to take them seriously.

One of the funniest instances of “smart-mobbing” was a decade ago when Mustafa Ataturk, Turkey’s “George Washington”, was voted a “better singer than Elvis” in the top entertainer category of a series of top 100 lists. Ironically the poll was sponsored by the New York Times. Turns out the Greeks, who have a strong dislike for Turks, were stuffing the ballots in the entertainer category in response to the Turks ballot stuffing in the top leader category.
Meanwhile, 10Questions.com certainly wasn't bothered:

By today, TechPresident’s Micah Sifry reported: “Participation on 10Questions.com has surged, with the total number of voters topping 15,000 (that’s up about 9,000 from Friday), the total number of votes hitting 46,000 (up 19,000) and the total unique visits for the weekend at 17,000, more than 10 times Friday’s traffic.”

I just wonder what Moveon thought was so important about their question.

h/t Hugh Hewitt

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Oct 29, 2007

Ogden River

Spent the morning cheering 5K runners along the Ogden River Parkway (Ogden, UT) and had the chance to snap this photo.

I didn't stick around for dinner, but two good steak restaurants lie at the West and East ends of the trail, the Prairie Schooner and the Timbermine. Weber State University, which gained some 2nd amendment visibility this week, is a few blocks South. Also of Ogden fame is the 70,000 beer can house. At least they weren't tossed into the river.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Oct 27, 2007

Bent Spear Investigation Results

The Air Force didn't shine during their press conference they held concerning their investigation into the snafu with the six nuclear warheads. Major General Newton, the operations chief for Air Combat Command, identified five procedural errors that caused airmen to lose accountability of the weapons. They wound up on a B-52 flown from Minot AFB, in North Dakota, to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana.

General Newton called this an "isolated incident" but later mentioned there "has been an erosion of adherence to weapons-handling standards at Minot Air Force Base and at Barksdale Air Force Base". Not generally known is that these bases are the only two main operating bases for B-52s. "Isolated" seems to cover the whole operational fleet. Indeed Commanders from both bases were fired. This would include the chain of command at Minot from the munitions commander to his wing commander two levels higher, and the hapless operations commander at Barksdale who had charge of the B-52 navigator who only checked half the pylons on his plane. Some times in the Air Force bad stuff rolls uphill.

While commanders were relieved, things will be worse for the airmen who actually committed the five errors. I expect some will face a court martial for violating procedures. These aren't suggestions; each procedure is documented in a book called a "Technical Order" - literally meaning an "order" from the Air Force Chief of Staff.

The Q&A period at the end of the briefing shows the AF still isn't media savvy. A lot of questions about storage procedures were met with the stock answer "The weapons were stored in the facilities per DOD guidelines and Air Force guidelines as well". I know this is due to operational security, but a little explanation of that fact would help reporters understand the situation. Instead, the General comes accross like he is stone-walling.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Oct 25, 2007

I Hope They Have Two Meeting Halls

It's not unusual to see solicitations for ministers to meet the needs of the military and Federal prisoners, but I had to chuckle a bit seeing ads for a Rabbi and an Imam on the same day from the same prison.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Oct 25, 2007

Collegiate Bass Fishing

I never tried out for college sports but then they never had this when I was in college. Definately a scholarship worth pursuing.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Oct 25, 2007

Federal Earmark Program

Looking for the next Jack Abramoff the City of South Jordan, Utah, released this solicitation for "professional consultation services for the purpose of obtaining Federal Earmark Funds."

It's just another federal program, right?

What they need is a Murtha Mystery. I won't even charge them for the consult.