November 5, 2005
Ma & Pa go to the Art Exhibit
Ma and Pa went to the big city and visited an art exhibit.
As the old couple was viewing the displays one contemporary painting caught Pa's eye. Now Pa appreciates art like Norman Rockwell paintings on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
"What on earth," he inquired of the artist standing nearby, "is that suppose to be?"
The artist smiled condescendingly. "That, my dear sir, is supposed to be a mother and her child."
"Well, then," snapped Pa "why ain't it?"
Ma and Pa went to the big city and visited an art exhibit.
As the old couple was viewing the displays one contemporary painting caught Pa's eye. Now Pa appreciates art like Norman Rockwell paintings on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
"What on earth," he inquired of the artist standing nearby, "is that suppose to be?"
The artist smiled condescendingly. "That, my dear sir, is supposed to be a mother and her child."
"Well, then," snapped Pa "why ain't it?"
~~~~~~~~~
All the news that’s fit to distort
The New York Times Cuts Patriotism from Dead Marine's Letter
Nov. 4, 2005 The New York Times cut patriotic comments from a letter written by a U.S. Marine before he was killed in Iraq.
The family of Cpl. Jeffrey Starr slammed the Times for selectively excerpting the letter he wrote to his girlfriend, intending for her to read it in the event of his death.
A November 2 Times story about soldiers killed while serving multiple tours of duty mentioned 22-year-old Starr, who was serving his third tour of duty when he died, and included this excerpt from his letter:
"I kind of predicted this ... A third time just seemed like I’m pushing my chances.”
Actually, the letter read in its entirety:
"I kind of predicted this, that is why I’m writing this in November. A third time just seemed like I’m pushing my chances. I don’t regret going, everybody dies but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it’s not to me. I’m here helping these people, so that they can live the way we live. Not have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. To do what they want with their lives. To me that is why I died. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark.”
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/4/161021.shtml
Where Has All the Tobacco Money Gone?
Nov. 4, 2005- Less than three percent of the $250 billion settlement between the tobacco companies and the fifty states has been used to fund anti-smoking campaigns.
When the tobacco industry settled out of court with the 50 states seven years ago this month, state officials said the money would be used to prevent kids from starting to smoke.
...in Virginia, a large portion of the tobacco money has been used to improve an auto speedway while in New York, it was invested in a golf course sprinkler system.
New tobacco warehouses were built with the money in North Carolina, and in Lincoln, Neb., officials used the money to enforce the pooper-scooper law. In Kentucky, cattle farmers received the money through farm subsidies. …Despite what officials promised in 1998, 97 percent of the funds won by the states from the tobacco companies went for anything but anti-smoking campaigns.
...In Buffalo, N.Y., county officials chose to take less than half what they were due so that they could receive all of the money up front. According to County Executive Joe Giambra, most of that money has since gone to fund civic improvements. "Not a penny," Giambra said of the tobacco money. "We have not spent any money specifically from this settlement agreement."
(we all knew in the beginning it was never really about stopping kids from smoking, it has always been about politicians finding new sources of $$ to spend, just like lottery money rarely goes towards what it was originally intended for.)
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1282675
School Superintendent Criticizes Parents' Motives
says “we apologized, but how dare you look into school business anyway.”
November 04, 2005 On Wednesday, a three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit Court dismissed the appeal filed by parents who had sued the Palmdale School District over a sex survey handed to students in the 1st, 3rd and 5th grades. The court, in upholding a lower court decision, ruled that "there is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children."...Palmdale School Superintendent Dr. Jack Gyves told Cybercast News Service Friday that the school district accepted responsibility for the "inappropriate survey" and apologized to parents before it ever went to court….He also criticized the parents who took the case to court despite the school district's apology. "If they had just sought remedy without monetary damages I would give them more credit for being altruistic," Gyves said, "but when you put money into the equation it makes you wonder." (then why are liberal causes always suing for monetary damages?)In terms of a possible precedent being established by the 9th Circuit Court decision, Gyves said he thinks the ruling addresses an important question of parental involvement. "I think the constitutionality, and I'm not an expert on constitutional law, but the constitutionality deals with the rights of parents to control curriculum for all children as opposed to adjudicating the appropriateness of curriculum for their own." …Parents should be involved in their children's education, Gyves said, but "the question is to what degree."http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200511\CUL20051104c.html
The news from Iraq that's not fit to print
November 04, 2005 On Wednesday, a three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit Court dismissed the appeal filed by parents who had sued the Palmdale School District over a sex survey handed to students in the 1st, 3rd and 5th grades. The court, in upholding a lower court decision, ruled that "there is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children."...Palmdale School Superintendent Dr. Jack Gyves told Cybercast News Service Friday that the school district accepted responsibility for the "inappropriate survey" and apologized to parents before it ever went to court….He also criticized the parents who took the case to court despite the school district's apology. "If they had just sought remedy without monetary damages I would give them more credit for being altruistic," Gyves said, "but when you put money into the equation it makes you wonder." (then why are liberal causes always suing for monetary damages?)In terms of a possible precedent being established by the 9th Circuit Court decision, Gyves said he thinks the ruling addresses an important question of parental involvement. "I think the constitutionality, and I'm not an expert on constitutional law, but the constitutionality deals with the rights of parents to control curriculum for all children as opposed to adjudicating the appropriateness of curriculum for their own." …Parents should be involved in their children's education, Gyves said, but "the question is to what degree."http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200511\CUL20051104c.html
The news from Iraq that's not fit to print
Nov 3, 2005 by Jeff Jacoby at: http://townhall.com/opinion/columns/jeffjacoby/2005/11/03/174092.html
Al Franken Threatens to Sue 'Do As I Say' Author
Nov. 3, 2005 Al Franken is threatening to sue the author of a bestselling new book that alleges he doesn't practice what he preaches when it comes to affirmative action, according to the author.
Peter Schweizer, author of "Do As I Say, Not as I Do," told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly Wednesday night:
"Before the book came out, his agent, Jonathan Lazear, called my editor at Doubleday and said they consider the material in the book to be 'legally actionable.' They then followed up with a letter demanding to know where I got all this, 'private information' on Al Franken."
In "Do As I Say," Schweizer reports that Franken has hired 112 employees over the years and only one was black - news that Franken was not pleased to see in print.
But according to Schweizer, Franken isn't denying the charge, telling O'Reilly, "They haven't questioned the validity of the information. They want to know how I got access to private information. And the interesting thing, Bill, is they've said nothing publicly. This is all done behind the scenes. He's not challenged one thing."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/3/140021.shtml
Saddam's WMD Have Been Found
April 26, 2004 (note date)
New evidence out of Iraq suggests that the U.S. effort to track down Saddam Hussein's missing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is having better success than is being reported. Key assertions by the intelligence community that were widely judged in the media and by critics of President George W. Bush as having been false are turning out to have been true after all. But this stunning news has received little attention from the major media, and the president's critics continue to insist that "no weapons" have been found.
Full article at http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=670120
(I saw gas for $2.13 today)
Oil profits, prices and politics
Nov 3, 2005
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/column/alanreynolds/2005/11/03/174128.html
IBM slows light
IBM has created a chip that can slow down light, the latest advance in an industrywide effort to develop computers that will use only a fraction of the energy of today's machines.
The chip, called a photonic silicon waveguide, is a piece of silicon dotted with arrays of tiny holes. Scattered systematically by the holes, light shown on the chip slows down to 1/300th of its ordinary speed of 186,000 miles per second. In a computer system, slower light pulses could carry data rapidly, but in an orderly fashion. The light can be further slowed by applying an electric field to the waveguide.
Researchers at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, have slowed light in laboratories. IBM, though, claims that its light-slowing device is the first to be fashioned out of fairly standard materials, potentially paving the way toward commercial adoption.
http://news.zdnet.com/IBM+slows+light,+readies+it+for+networking/2100-9584_22-5928541.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn
Press Still Insists Valerie Plame 'Covert'
Nov. 4, 2005 A week after Leakgate Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald announced that his investigation had been unable to establish that Valerie Plame was a "covert" CIA agent at the time she was "outed" by columnist Robert Novak, the press continues to refer to her using the bogus term.
In the last six days, there have been 261 references to Plame's "covert" status in mainstream media accounts, according to a Lexis Nexis search. The wave of erroneous reporting continues despite Fitzgerald's clear denials during his press conference last Friday after announcing Lewis "Scooter" Libby's indictment.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/4/120953.shtml
Leakgate: What about Wilson's credibility?
By Larry Elder Nov 3, 2005
http://townhall.com/opinion/columns/larr
Al Franken Threatens to Sue 'Do As I Say' Author
Nov. 3, 2005 Al Franken is threatening to sue the author of a bestselling new book that alleges he doesn't practice what he preaches when it comes to affirmative action, according to the author.
Peter Schweizer, author of "Do As I Say, Not as I Do," told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly Wednesday night:
"Before the book came out, his agent, Jonathan Lazear, called my editor at Doubleday and said they consider the material in the book to be 'legally actionable.' They then followed up with a letter demanding to know where I got all this, 'private information' on Al Franken."
In "Do As I Say," Schweizer reports that Franken has hired 112 employees over the years and only one was black - news that Franken was not pleased to see in print.
But according to Schweizer, Franken isn't denying the charge, telling O'Reilly, "They haven't questioned the validity of the information. They want to know how I got access to private information. And the interesting thing, Bill, is they've said nothing publicly. This is all done behind the scenes. He's not challenged one thing."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/3/140021.shtml
Saddam's WMD Have Been Found
April 26, 2004 (note date)
New evidence out of Iraq suggests that the U.S. effort to track down Saddam Hussein's missing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is having better success than is being reported. Key assertions by the intelligence community that were widely judged in the media and by critics of President George W. Bush as having been false are turning out to have been true after all. But this stunning news has received little attention from the major media, and the president's critics continue to insist that "no weapons" have been found.
Full article at http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=670120
(I saw gas for $2.13 today)
Oil profits, prices and politics
Nov 3, 2005
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/column/alanreynolds/2005/11/03/174128.html
IBM slows light
IBM has created a chip that can slow down light, the latest advance in an industrywide effort to develop computers that will use only a fraction of the energy of today's machines.
The chip, called a photonic silicon waveguide, is a piece of silicon dotted with arrays of tiny holes. Scattered systematically by the holes, light shown on the chip slows down to 1/300th of its ordinary speed of 186,000 miles per second. In a computer system, slower light pulses could carry data rapidly, but in an orderly fashion. The light can be further slowed by applying an electric field to the waveguide.
Researchers at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, have slowed light in laboratories. IBM, though, claims that its light-slowing device is the first to be fashioned out of fairly standard materials, potentially paving the way toward commercial adoption.
http://news.zdnet.com/IBM+slows+light,+readies+it+for+networking/2100-9584_22-5928541.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn
Press Still Insists Valerie Plame 'Covert'
Nov. 4, 2005 A week after Leakgate Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald announced that his investigation had been unable to establish that Valerie Plame was a "covert" CIA agent at the time she was "outed" by columnist Robert Novak, the press continues to refer to her using the bogus term.
In the last six days, there have been 261 references to Plame's "covert" status in mainstream media accounts, according to a Lexis Nexis search. The wave of erroneous reporting continues despite Fitzgerald's clear denials during his press conference last Friday after announcing Lewis "Scooter" Libby's indictment.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/4/120953.shtml
Leakgate: What about Wilson's credibility?
By Larry Elder Nov 3, 2005
http://townhall.com/opinion/columns/larr
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