Current Affairs

I'm sure my liberal friends will be glad to say when they stopped taking the right seriously. Perhaps it was the Schiavo case or maybe just the idea of Rush Limbaugh on the radio. Maybe it was stem cells or global warming. I can pinpoint exactly when I thought the left had very little I wanted to listen to anymore -- the Elian Gonzalez case. Let every illegal immigrant in this country have a pass, but chase out this kid whose mother died getting him here. Glad to see it's worked out so well?

I'd fire every one of these "educators":

OCEANSIDE, Calif.—On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend.

Classmates wept. Some became hysterical.

So who's guilty of pushing obscene material here?

LOS ANGELES - What violates community obscenity standards in the nation's reputed pornography capital? Federal prosecutors think they have a case.

Well, they're paying attention to what happens in flyover country now, aren't they?

Raging floodwaters that have swallowed homes, bridges and roads across the Midwest this week now threaten to stunt the region's economy and raise already heightened food prices.

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At least Indiana University isn't the only school with a basketball-program recruiting controversy:

Michael Avery's recent announcement that he will play basketball at Kentucky created quite a stir.

Avery is considered a talented guard with good size at 6-4, but none of that contributed to the buzz.

I'm getting so tired of Bush and Obama and McCain and gas prices and Iran and flooding and taxes and all that silly stuff. Thank God I stumbled across a cable news outlet last night and learned about something really important: the Hulk Hogan crisis:

But what is the legal status of these aliens? They weren't invited, so they must be ordered to return home:

A man who has shown a video of what he claims is an alien visitor to earth to bolster his case for greater public scrutiny of UFOs is to take his campaign to the Democratic Party convention in August, where Barack Obama will formally win the presidential nomination.

 The overreaction continues:

McDonald's Corp, the world's biggest restaurant chain, has pulled raw sliced tomatoes from its sandwiches and has no immediate plans to bring them back.

There goes my Big N' Tasty. Never mind that only a few types of tomatoes from a few areas are suspect; let's just get rid of all of them of all types from every state in the union from all restaurants and supermarkets.

Oh, well, natural fear reaction, I suppose.

Today's apology watch.

An actor is sorry he called soldiers wimps:

Rupert Everett, the actor, has made an unreserved apology for calling soldiers "wimps" and suggesting they went into the Army to torture prisoners.

Doh!

The counties where motorists spend the highest percentage of their income on gasoline tend to be in poor, rural areas.

But that would mean that poor people have less discretionary income than rich people! Who knew?

(Via FARK.com)