April 19, 2006
Here's why men don't like to ask for directions...
Man Asks for Directions, Gets Carjacked
Apr 18 -COLUMBUS, Ga.-A Columbus man asked for directions early Monday, but the two pedestrians from whom he sought help stole his car instead...http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/18/D8H2PBNO0.html
What other countries are paying for gasoline:
Weekly Retail Premium Gasoline Prices (Including Taxes)
(U.S. Dollars per Gallon)
Date Belgium France Germany Italy Holland England U.S.
4/10/06 6.10 5.80 5.96 5.91 6.73 6.13 2.88
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas1.html
The skinny on fat oil company profits
* Local taxes per a gallon of gas generally run from .5 to 5 cents/gal.
* State Taxes on a gallon of gas is between 18-30 cents/gal.
* Federal tax is 18.4 cents/gallon
http://www.gaspricewatch.com/usgastaxes.asp
* Local, State and Federal Gas Taxes Consume 45.9 Cents Per Gallon on Averagehttp://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/1054.html
(Note: this doesn't take into account the severance tax most States impose when oil (or gas or another natural resource) is produced from property within their territory.)http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/oil_market_basics/Price_taxes.htm
* compared to 9 cents a gallon the oil companies make.
Maybe the question we should be asking is why is the government profiting from the misery of the people as they deal with high gas prices. Makes “Big Oil” look like the nice guys…
Annual Average Crude Oil PricesU.S. Average (in $/bbl.)
Ave Annual
Year Nominal Inflation Adj.
Price Price
1979 $25.10 $67.42
1980 $37.42 $89.48
1981 $35.75 $77.49
1982 $31.83 $64.96
1983 $29.08 $57.48
1984 $28.75 $54.48
1985 $26.92 $49.25
http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/Historical_Oil_Prices_Table.asp
Book-banning 'gay' profs forced to drop allegations
April 19, 2006- Ohio State University- After the entire faculty voted, with no dissenters, to brand their head librarian as a sexual harasser because he recommended the bestselling book "The Marketing of Evil" as required reading for freshmen, Ohio State University has finally dropped its controversial charges in the glare of national media attention.
…As a member of the university's First Year Reading Experience Committee, Savage had suggested four books be considered as required reading for incoming freshmen: "The Marketing of Evil" by David Kupelian, "The Professors" by David Horowitz, "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis" by Bat Ye'or, and "It Takes a Family" by Sen. Rick Santorum. Savage made the recommendations after other committee members had suggested a series of books with a left-wing perspective, by authors such as Jimmy Carter and Maria Shriver.
However, three professors – two of them openly homosexual – filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment, contending Kupelian's book was "hate literature" which "threatened" them and made them feel "unsafe" on campus. After a 21-0 faculty vote (with 9 abstentions) on March 13, the school's Office of Human Resources put Savage under "investigation." The full-faculty vote was rescinded two days later for legal reasons, and the three offended professors filed the harassment complaint.
The professors who filed the complaint against Savage are Hannibal Hamlin, Norman Jones and J.K. Buckley. Jones teaches courses in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature, and according to his bio, "his current research focuses on sexuality and spirituality, particularly exploring the phenomenon of the 'post-secular queer' in contemporary literature." Buckley has written "The Social Critic: The Rise of Queer Performance Within the Demise of Transcendentalism" as well as "articles on sexual orientation in Hemingway and Melville."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49809
Kentucky Literature Prof Removed for Vandalizing Pro-life Display
Prof was head of NKU Women's Studies Program
April 18, 2006- Sally Jacobsen, a professor of language and literature at Northern Kentucky University (NKU) has been dismissed from her post after she incited a group of students to destroy an approved pro-life display erected by a campus pro-life student group.
Jacobsen, who also headed the NKU women’s studies program for three years, told the Kentucky Enquirer she had become so emotional at the sight of a field of white crosses planted as a symbolic cemetery for aborted children, that her strong feelings justified her action.
“Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged,” Jacobsen said.
...Jacobsen admitted to inciting students: “I did, outside of class during the break, invite students to express their freedom-of-speech rights to destroy the display if they wished to.”
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06041804.html
Dutch Proposal to Penalize Stay-At-Home Moms
April 19, 2006- (AgapePress) - ...The Institute's vice president of communications, Joseph D'Agostino, says a prominent female Dutch Parliament member has proposed fining college-educated women for opting to stay at home and take care of their children rather than to get jobs. Apparently, Member of Parliament Sharon Dijksma considers that choice a waste of a government-sponsored education.
...But D'Agostino feels the Dutch legislature would be sending the wrong message by approving the MP's proposal. He says the Dutch government should be rewarding women -- not punishing them -- for choosing to stay home with their children because, for one thing, those women are more likely to have more than [one] child.
Currently, the Institute spokesman notes, the birthrate of the Netherlands is plummeting. ...not even high enough to replace the country's current population. Since housewives are more likely to have larger families than career-oriented women, he believes a better policy for the Dutch government would be to encourage women who choose stay-at-home parenting.
Also, D'Agostino contends, the government should realize there is nothing wasteful about women with college educations staying home with their kids. "I think that children can very much benefit from having an educated person with them all day every day," he says, "and if that person is their mother, all the better. I don't really understand how that would be a waste."
That is especially true at the present time, "when home schooling has become so common and so popular because our schools are so awful," the population research official notes. "And so it's really important that whoever is taking care of the children should really have that kind of education, because the schools themselves are so bad that people just can't send their kids there."
..."In the Netherlands people are very heavily taxed," he explains, "and then people get some of their money back in the form of certain benefits, like free college tuition."
... this kind of socialist system that the Netherlands employs, with its offers of "free" services and benefits, unfortunately allows the government and its agents "to then try to take over your life."
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/192006d.asp
Retired general told Congress Saddam likely had nuke program
April 18, 2006 - The most prominent of the retired generals calling for the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appears to have reversed his estimation of the former Saddam regime's threat to the world.
Anthony Zinni, former CENTCOM commander in the Clinton administration, says now that in the Iraq, "What bothered me ... [was that] I was hearing a depiction of the intelligence that didn't fit what I knew. There was no solid proof, that I ever saw, that Saddam had WMD."
But as noted by Fox News Channel host Brit Hume, Zinni told Congress in 2000, "Iraq remains the most significant near-term threat to U.S. interests in the Arabian Gulf region."
The general told lawmakers that Iraq "probably is continuing clandestine nuclear research, [and] retains stocks of chemical and biological munitions."
Even if Baghdad "reversed its course and surrendered all WMD capabilities," Zinni said in 2000, "it retains scientific, technical, and industrial infrastructure to replace agents and munitions within weeks or months."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49796
Gen. Anthony Zinni: USS Cole Blunder Is My Fault
April 18, 2006- Former CENTCOM Commander, Gen. Anthony Zinni - who has called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign because of Rumsfeld's alleged incompetence in running the Iraq war - admitted six years ago that he made the disastrous decision to have the USS Cole use the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling, where the ship was blown up by al-Qaida terrorists.
Worse still, at least one report indicates that Gen. Zinni may have played a role in an August 1998 leak that tipped off Osama bin Laden to an impending U.S. cruise missile attack - allowing the top terrorist to escape...
...Gen. Zinni said that cutbacks in the size of the Navy's fleet during the Clinton years made it necessary to use regional ports for refueling, noting: "Ten years ago, we did all refueling at sea" using Navy oilers.
Still, prior to the Cole attack, there's no record that Gen. Zinni ever complained about Clinton era defense cuts.
In what may be an even more troubling development, a report indicates that the leading Rumsfeld critic may have inadvertently played a role in tipping off Osama bin Laden to an impending U.S. cruise missile attack two years before the Cole episode.
Two days after President Clinton ordered the attack on bin Laden's encampment in Khost Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported:
"Kuwait's Al-Watan newspaper, quoting unidentified sources in London today, reported that Pakistan leaked to bin Laden news about an impending U.S. strike. The sources said the leak was aimed at limiting casualties, so that bin Laden would have less justification for a counterattack.
"A Pakistani government source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Gen. Anthony Zinni, commander of the U.S. Central Command, was in Peshawar the day before the attack to meet with Pakistani officials.
"Other Pakistani sources said Zinni came with a team of U.S. intelligence experts whose task was to pinpoint the camps and determine bin Laden's exact whereabouts." http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/18/121216.shtml?s=ic
Man Asks for Directions, Gets Carjacked
Apr 18 -COLUMBUS, Ga.-A Columbus man asked for directions early Monday, but the two pedestrians from whom he sought help stole his car instead...http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/18/D8H2PBNO0.html
What other countries are paying for gasoline:
Weekly Retail Premium Gasoline Prices (Including Taxes)
(U.S. Dollars per Gallon)
Date Belgium France Germany Italy Holland England U.S.
4/10/06 6.10 5.80 5.96 5.91 6.73 6.13 2.88
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas1.html
The skinny on fat oil company profits
* Local taxes per a gallon of gas generally run from .5 to 5 cents/gal.
* State Taxes on a gallon of gas is between 18-30 cents/gal.
* Federal tax is 18.4 cents/gallon
http://www.gaspricewatch.com/usgastaxes.asp
* Local, State and Federal Gas Taxes Consume 45.9 Cents Per Gallon on Averagehttp://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/1054.html
(Note: this doesn't take into account the severance tax most States impose when oil (or gas or another natural resource) is produced from property within their territory.)http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/oil_market_basics/Price_taxes.htm
* compared to 9 cents a gallon the oil companies make.
Maybe the question we should be asking is why is the government profiting from the misery of the people as they deal with high gas prices. Makes “Big Oil” look like the nice guys…
Annual Average Crude Oil PricesU.S. Average (in $/bbl.)
Ave Annual
Year Nominal Inflation Adj.
Price Price
1979 $25.10 $67.42
1980 $37.42 $89.48
1981 $35.75 $77.49
1982 $31.83 $64.96
1983 $29.08 $57.48
1984 $28.75 $54.48
1985 $26.92 $49.25
http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/Historical_Oil_Prices_Table.asp
Book-banning 'gay' profs forced to drop allegations
April 19, 2006- Ohio State University- After the entire faculty voted, with no dissenters, to brand their head librarian as a sexual harasser because he recommended the bestselling book "The Marketing of Evil" as required reading for freshmen, Ohio State University has finally dropped its controversial charges in the glare of national media attention.
…As a member of the university's First Year Reading Experience Committee, Savage had suggested four books be considered as required reading for incoming freshmen: "The Marketing of Evil" by David Kupelian, "The Professors" by David Horowitz, "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis" by Bat Ye'or, and "It Takes a Family" by Sen. Rick Santorum. Savage made the recommendations after other committee members had suggested a series of books with a left-wing perspective, by authors such as Jimmy Carter and Maria Shriver.
However, three professors – two of them openly homosexual – filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment, contending Kupelian's book was "hate literature" which "threatened" them and made them feel "unsafe" on campus. After a 21-0 faculty vote (with 9 abstentions) on March 13, the school's Office of Human Resources put Savage under "investigation." The full-faculty vote was rescinded two days later for legal reasons, and the three offended professors filed the harassment complaint.
The professors who filed the complaint against Savage are Hannibal Hamlin, Norman Jones and J.K. Buckley. Jones teaches courses in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature, and according to his bio, "his current research focuses on sexuality and spirituality, particularly exploring the phenomenon of the 'post-secular queer' in contemporary literature." Buckley has written "The Social Critic: The Rise of Queer Performance Within the Demise of Transcendentalism" as well as "articles on sexual orientation in Hemingway and Melville."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49809
Kentucky Literature Prof Removed for Vandalizing Pro-life Display
Prof was head of NKU Women's Studies Program
April 18, 2006- Sally Jacobsen, a professor of language and literature at Northern Kentucky University (NKU) has been dismissed from her post after she incited a group of students to destroy an approved pro-life display erected by a campus pro-life student group.
Jacobsen, who also headed the NKU women’s studies program for three years, told the Kentucky Enquirer she had become so emotional at the sight of a field of white crosses planted as a symbolic cemetery for aborted children, that her strong feelings justified her action.
“Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged,” Jacobsen said.
...Jacobsen admitted to inciting students: “I did, outside of class during the break, invite students to express their freedom-of-speech rights to destroy the display if they wished to.”
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06041804.html
Dutch Proposal to Penalize Stay-At-Home Moms
April 19, 2006- (AgapePress) - ...The Institute's vice president of communications, Joseph D'Agostino, says a prominent female Dutch Parliament member has proposed fining college-educated women for opting to stay at home and take care of their children rather than to get jobs. Apparently, Member of Parliament Sharon Dijksma considers that choice a waste of a government-sponsored education.
...But D'Agostino feels the Dutch legislature would be sending the wrong message by approving the MP's proposal. He says the Dutch government should be rewarding women -- not punishing them -- for choosing to stay home with their children because, for one thing, those women are more likely to have more than [one] child.
Currently, the Institute spokesman notes, the birthrate of the Netherlands is plummeting. ...not even high enough to replace the country's current population. Since housewives are more likely to have larger families than career-oriented women, he believes a better policy for the Dutch government would be to encourage women who choose stay-at-home parenting.
Also, D'Agostino contends, the government should realize there is nothing wasteful about women with college educations staying home with their kids. "I think that children can very much benefit from having an educated person with them all day every day," he says, "and if that person is their mother, all the better. I don't really understand how that would be a waste."
That is especially true at the present time, "when home schooling has become so common and so popular because our schools are so awful," the population research official notes. "And so it's really important that whoever is taking care of the children should really have that kind of education, because the schools themselves are so bad that people just can't send their kids there."
..."In the Netherlands people are very heavily taxed," he explains, "and then people get some of their money back in the form of certain benefits, like free college tuition."
... this kind of socialist system that the Netherlands employs, with its offers of "free" services and benefits, unfortunately allows the government and its agents "to then try to take over your life."
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/192006d.asp
Retired general told Congress Saddam likely had nuke program
April 18, 2006 - The most prominent of the retired generals calling for the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appears to have reversed his estimation of the former Saddam regime's threat to the world.
Anthony Zinni, former CENTCOM commander in the Clinton administration, says now that in the Iraq, "What bothered me ... [was that] I was hearing a depiction of the intelligence that didn't fit what I knew. There was no solid proof, that I ever saw, that Saddam had WMD."
But as noted by Fox News Channel host Brit Hume, Zinni told Congress in 2000, "Iraq remains the most significant near-term threat to U.S. interests in the Arabian Gulf region."
The general told lawmakers that Iraq "probably is continuing clandestine nuclear research, [and] retains stocks of chemical and biological munitions."
Even if Baghdad "reversed its course and surrendered all WMD capabilities," Zinni said in 2000, "it retains scientific, technical, and industrial infrastructure to replace agents and munitions within weeks or months."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49796
Gen. Anthony Zinni: USS Cole Blunder Is My Fault
April 18, 2006- Former CENTCOM Commander, Gen. Anthony Zinni - who has called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign because of Rumsfeld's alleged incompetence in running the Iraq war - admitted six years ago that he made the disastrous decision to have the USS Cole use the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling, where the ship was blown up by al-Qaida terrorists.
Worse still, at least one report indicates that Gen. Zinni may have played a role in an August 1998 leak that tipped off Osama bin Laden to an impending U.S. cruise missile attack - allowing the top terrorist to escape...
...Gen. Zinni said that cutbacks in the size of the Navy's fleet during the Clinton years made it necessary to use regional ports for refueling, noting: "Ten years ago, we did all refueling at sea" using Navy oilers.
Still, prior to the Cole attack, there's no record that Gen. Zinni ever complained about Clinton era defense cuts.
In what may be an even more troubling development, a report indicates that the leading Rumsfeld critic may have inadvertently played a role in tipping off Osama bin Laden to an impending U.S. cruise missile attack two years before the Cole episode.
Two days after President Clinton ordered the attack on bin Laden's encampment in Khost Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported:
"Kuwait's Al-Watan newspaper, quoting unidentified sources in London today, reported that Pakistan leaked to bin Laden news about an impending U.S. strike. The sources said the leak was aimed at limiting casualties, so that bin Laden would have less justification for a counterattack.
"A Pakistani government source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Gen. Anthony Zinni, commander of the U.S. Central Command, was in Peshawar the day before the attack to meet with Pakistani officials.
"Other Pakistani sources said Zinni came with a team of U.S. intelligence experts whose task was to pinpoint the camps and determine bin Laden's exact whereabouts." http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/18/121216.shtml?s=ic
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