October 27, 2005
Bubba and Billy Bob, who are both from Fayetteville, Arkansas, traveled to Grand Lake, Oklahoma for a vacation. While walking along a busy downtown street, they see a sign in a store window which reads, "Suits $5.00 each, Shirts $2.00 each, and Trousers $2.50 a pair."
Bubba says to Billy Bob, "Lookee here! We could buy a whole gob of these clothes, take 'em back to Arkansas, sell 'em to all our friends, and make a fortune fer us."
Bubba continues, "Now when we go in there, don't you say a word, okay?
Just let me do the talkin', 'cause if they hear your accent, they might think we're ignorant, and they won't wanna sell them clothes to us. Now, I'll talk in a slow Oklahoma drawl so's they won't know."
They go in, and Bubba says with his best fake Oklahoma drawl, "I'll take 50 of them there suits at $5.00 each, 100 of them there shirts at $2.00 each, and 50 pairs of them there trousers at $2.50 each. I'll just back up my pickup and..."
The owner of the shop interrupts, "Ya'll from Arkansas, ain't you?"
"Well... yeah," says a surprised Bubba. "How come'd you know that?"
The owner replies, "Cause this here's a dry-cleaners."
Happy Birth Day Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt while Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he resigned during the Spanish-American War to organized the first Voluntary Cavalry, known as the "Rough Riders," which captured Cuba's San Juan Hill. He was Vice-President under William McKinley and in 1901 became America's youngest President.
Teddy Roosevelt was born this day, October 27, 1858. President Roosevelt warned in 1909: "The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us."
www.AmericanMinute.com
Rosa Parks and history By Thomas Sowell
Excellent article. See:
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2005/10/27/173033.html
Israel should be ‘wiped off the map’ says Iran
October 26 2005 Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, Iran’s president, on Wednesday declared that Israel should be “wiped off the map” and warned Arab countries against developing economic ties with Israel in response to its withdrawal from Gaza.
His remarks, delivered at a conference in Tehran entitled “A World without Zionism”, led to diplomatic protests by the UK, France and Spain, while Shimon Peres, Israel’s deputy prime minister, said Iran should be expelled from the United Nations…
…US analysts noted that the president’s remarks were not a departure from hardline Iranian rhetoric and did not represent new policy.
But they said the rhetoric was aggressive and badly timed, and would serve to confirm western suspicions of Iran’s more confrontational approach that were raised by the new president’s speeches at the United Nations last month.
...The president told an audience of students there was “no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world”.
“Anybody who recognises Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury,” he said, in remarks aimed at Arab states.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/14ee1ccc-465b-11da-8880-00000e2511c8.html
Campus Paper's Publications Targeted by Tolerance Vandals
October 25, 2005 (AgapePress) - The publisher of a conservative student newspaper at the University of Georgia says he finds it ironic that liberal students who champion tolerance on campus have apparently demonstrated extreme intolerance by vandalizing his fliers and newspapers.
David Kirby, publisher of the campus paper the Georgia Guard Dawg, says he recently put up 30 flyers advertising "Conservative Coming Out Day," a national holiday that recognizes how conservative views are often kept out of classrooms. But within a day of posting his flyers, he reports, all but three had been torn down.
In addition, Kirby says he discovered about 25 copies of the Guard Dawg had been removed from a distribution bin and tossed in a trash can. So far, no individual or group has yet been implicated in the vandalism against the fliers or the newspaper.
..."The homosexual rights group -- this was Gay Pride Week here at the university -- were really preaching tolerance," the campus paper publisher says. "They were saying, 'We all need to be tolerant to other viewpoints.' And yet, it was during this week that those who disagree with us -- namely the homosexual group -- were the ones who tore down our flyers. They were the intolerant ones, and that was the point of my column in the Red and Black."
The Red and Black to which Kirby refers is another student newspaper on campus, which recently published a column of his entitled "Conservative Views Kept Out of Class." In it he delineated a problem that he feels goes well beyond the university's classrooms to pervade many other aspects of campus life.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/252005g.asp
Hillary Clinton Proposes Massive Energy Tax
Oct. 26, 2005- Likely presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said yesterday that she backs a plan to hike gasoline taxes through the roof.
Speaking to a group of alternative energy investors in Washington, D.C., Clinton proposed to sock oil companies with $20 billion in new fees that would be used to fund research on clean energy - driving up costs for oil producers that they would inevitably pass along to consumers.
...Mrs. Clinton's whopping tax hike proposal comes just as prices at the pump are beginning to decline from records highs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which caused a bump in energy inflation that experts warned could tip the economy into recession.
Mrs. Clinton insisted that her $20 billion fee plan was "not about new energy taxes on consumers" - but she declined to say how oil companies would absorb the additional costs without charging consumers.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/26/115730.shtml
Bubba says to Billy Bob, "Lookee here! We could buy a whole gob of these clothes, take 'em back to Arkansas, sell 'em to all our friends, and make a fortune fer us."
Bubba continues, "Now when we go in there, don't you say a word, okay?
Just let me do the talkin', 'cause if they hear your accent, they might think we're ignorant, and they won't wanna sell them clothes to us. Now, I'll talk in a slow Oklahoma drawl so's they won't know."
They go in, and Bubba says with his best fake Oklahoma drawl, "I'll take 50 of them there suits at $5.00 each, 100 of them there shirts at $2.00 each, and 50 pairs of them there trousers at $2.50 each. I'll just back up my pickup and..."
The owner of the shop interrupts, "Ya'll from Arkansas, ain't you?"
"Well... yeah," says a surprised Bubba. "How come'd you know that?"
The owner replies, "Cause this here's a dry-cleaners."
Happy Birth Day Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt while Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he resigned during the Spanish-American War to organized the first Voluntary Cavalry, known as the "Rough Riders," which captured Cuba's San Juan Hill. He was Vice-President under William McKinley and in 1901 became America's youngest President.
Teddy Roosevelt was born this day, October 27, 1858. President Roosevelt warned in 1909: "The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us."
www.AmericanMinute.com
Rosa Parks and history By Thomas Sowell
Excellent article. See:
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2005/10/27/173033.html
Israel should be ‘wiped off the map’ says Iran
October 26 2005 Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, Iran’s president, on Wednesday declared that Israel should be “wiped off the map” and warned Arab countries against developing economic ties with Israel in response to its withdrawal from Gaza.
His remarks, delivered at a conference in Tehran entitled “A World without Zionism”, led to diplomatic protests by the UK, France and Spain, while Shimon Peres, Israel’s deputy prime minister, said Iran should be expelled from the United Nations…
…US analysts noted that the president’s remarks were not a departure from hardline Iranian rhetoric and did not represent new policy.
But they said the rhetoric was aggressive and badly timed, and would serve to confirm western suspicions of Iran’s more confrontational approach that were raised by the new president’s speeches at the United Nations last month.
...The president told an audience of students there was “no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world”.
“Anybody who recognises Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury,” he said, in remarks aimed at Arab states.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/14ee1ccc-465b-11da-8880-00000e2511c8.html
Campus Paper's Publications Targeted by Tolerance Vandals
October 25, 2005 (AgapePress) - The publisher of a conservative student newspaper at the University of Georgia says he finds it ironic that liberal students who champion tolerance on campus have apparently demonstrated extreme intolerance by vandalizing his fliers and newspapers.
David Kirby, publisher of the campus paper the Georgia Guard Dawg, says he recently put up 30 flyers advertising "Conservative Coming Out Day," a national holiday that recognizes how conservative views are often kept out of classrooms. But within a day of posting his flyers, he reports, all but three had been torn down.
In addition, Kirby says he discovered about 25 copies of the Guard Dawg had been removed from a distribution bin and tossed in a trash can. So far, no individual or group has yet been implicated in the vandalism against the fliers or the newspaper.
..."The homosexual rights group -- this was Gay Pride Week here at the university -- were really preaching tolerance," the campus paper publisher says. "They were saying, 'We all need to be tolerant to other viewpoints.' And yet, it was during this week that those who disagree with us -- namely the homosexual group -- were the ones who tore down our flyers. They were the intolerant ones, and that was the point of my column in the Red and Black."
The Red and Black to which Kirby refers is another student newspaper on campus, which recently published a column of his entitled "Conservative Views Kept Out of Class." In it he delineated a problem that he feels goes well beyond the university's classrooms to pervade many other aspects of campus life.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/252005g.asp
Hillary Clinton Proposes Massive Energy Tax
Oct. 26, 2005- Likely presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said yesterday that she backs a plan to hike gasoline taxes through the roof.
Speaking to a group of alternative energy investors in Washington, D.C., Clinton proposed to sock oil companies with $20 billion in new fees that would be used to fund research on clean energy - driving up costs for oil producers that they would inevitably pass along to consumers.
...Mrs. Clinton's whopping tax hike proposal comes just as prices at the pump are beginning to decline from records highs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which caused a bump in energy inflation that experts warned could tip the economy into recession.
Mrs. Clinton insisted that her $20 billion fee plan was "not about new energy taxes on consumers" - but she declined to say how oil companies would absorb the additional costs without charging consumers.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/26/115730.shtml
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