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Liberal, KS Southwest Daily Times: Crime should be fought hard
http://www.swdtimes.com/swdtimes/2006/101106/opinion.html
Summary: Kline is tough. Morrison is not.
Kansas Democrats “Adopt” Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Why don’t Democrats use Democrat Leaders on Their Political Mailings Instead of Republican Dwight Eisenhower?
http://www.saljournal.com/blogs/?p=1406
Quote of the Day:
“I want to make the meaning of all this very clear. Modern liberalism told us that racial differences don’t matter, and on the basis of that belief, liberals then set about turning America into a multiracial, integrated, race-blind society. But now that very effort has created so much race consciousness, race conflict and race inequality, that the same liberals have concluded that the only way to overcome those problems is to merge all the races into one. The same people who have always denounced as an extremist lunatic anyone who warned about “the racial dilution of white America,” are now proposing, not just the dilution of white America, but its complete elimination. Race-blind ideology has led directly to the most race-conscious—and indeed genocidal—proposal in the history of the world.
This is the insanity that results from uncritically accepting the idea that race doesn’t matter. And the moral paralysis of whites in the face of immigration comes from the terror or distaste that they feel at saying that race does matter. There is also whites’ inability to face the fact that they are a civilizationally distinct group—comprising only 15 percent of the world’s population—that is demographically threatened by the rest of the world’s desire to live in the uniquely attractive societies that whites have created.
If whites continue to be open to nonwhites, as their race-blind moralism tells them they must, their societies will cease to exist; but if they exclude or disengage from nonwhites, that will require them to be “harsh,” “unkind,” “mean-spirited.” It will require them to say that they care about the survival of their race vis-a-vis other races. To the contemporary white person, such an idea is utterly evil and unacceptable. But the funny thing is, there is really nothing evil or horrible about it at all. It turns out to be the most reasonable and commonsensical thing in the world. It is the current race-blind ideology that is insane.” Lawrence Auster
Viva La Raza Blanco!!
Meadowmuffin,”Summary: Kline is tough. Morrison is not.”
Actually, Kline is incompetent, Morrison is not!
“Will the liberals ever admit that perhaps the Carter-Clinton ideas of diplomacy and treaties with the likes of North Korea do not work?” (Opinion Line)
Well, they’d better work, bcause Bush has all our troops tied down in Iraq, and diplomacy and treaties are about all he’s got left!
Jed,
We still have a large force in South Korea. On top of that the South Korean military is well equiped and trained compared to their North Korean counterparts.
With Japan not wanting to see anything from North Korea I am sure they would be willing to help as well.
There are other factors involved in the equation besides the US having troops in Iraq.
One of Tanker Todd’s latest ads attempts to show his support for our troops and veterans. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earlier this year, he and all the Republicans in the Kansas delegation voted to approve the Emergency appropriations bill for Iraq / Afghanistan that actually removed $2 billion from the military personnel budget. He recently voted for the defense department budget that provided for a measely 2.2% pay raise, when the Senate approvd budget provided for a 2.7% raise. From what I can see on military bills in the last 4-6 years he has yet to sponsor or act as co-sponsor on any proposed legislation that might benefit our troops or veterans. His claims to support our military are another of his weak attempts to make us believe he has been a productive member of our delegation. And oh, what exactly have you done for Kansas or economic development as he touts in an earlier ad — zip, nil, nada.
British army chief urges pullout from Iraq
Denies rift with Blair, says his comments are ‘nothing new or noteworthy’
LONDON – Britain’s top army commander said the presence of British troops in Iraq was exacerbating security problems on the ground and they should be withdrawn soon.
In an interview with the Daily Mail newspaper, Gen. Sir Richard Dannatt criticized postwar planning for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and said the British presence in Iraq also hurt British security interests abroad, which British Prime Minister Tony Blair has repeatedly denied.
The public criticism by Dannatt, extraordinary for a serving officer of his rank, was seized on by critics of the war in Iraq and Dannatt conducted a series of television and radio interviews on Friday trying to calm the storm he had triggered.
He insisted he had said “nothing new or noteworthy” in his interview with the tabloid and was just repeating policy.
“It was never my intention to have this hoo ha, which people have thoroughly enjoyed overnight, trying to suggest there is a chasm between myself and the prime minister,” he told the British Broadcasting Corp.
In the Daily Mail interview he said: “I think history will show that the planning for what happened after the initial successful war fighting phase was poor, probably based more on optimism than sound planning.”
He continued: “I don’t say that the difficulties we are experiencing round the world are caused by our presence in Iraq but undoubtedly our presence in Iraq exacerbates them.”
Britain should “get … out sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems,” Dannatt said.
Tries to clarify commentsIn his subsequent radio and television interviews, he said he was not suggesting an immediate withdrawal.
“I’m a soldier. We don’t do surrender. We don’t pull down white flags. We’re going to see this through,” he said.
“But we’ve got to get on with it. We can’t be there for years and years,” Dannatt said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15240385/
“We can’t be there for years and years” – BUT, the US is now planning for just that. Rumsfield said “months not years” but he didn’t say that meant hundreds of months!
Here’s one way to control media coverage of the war:
Coroner: U.S. killed British TV reporterMARIA HEGSTADAssociated PressOXFORD, England – A coroner ruled Friday that U.S. forces unlawfully killed a British television journalist in the opening days of the Iraq war.
Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker said he would ask the attorney general to take steps to bring to justice those responsible for the death of Terry Lloyd, 50, a veteran reporter for the British television network ITN.
Witnesses testified during the weeklong inquest that Lloyd – who was driving with fellow ITN reporters from Kuwait toward Basra, Iraq – was shot in the back by Iraqi troops who overtook his car, then died after U.S. fire hit a civilian minivan being used as an ambulance and struck him in the head.
“Terry Lloyd died following a gunshot wound to the head. The evidence this bullet was fired by the Americans is overwhelming,” Walker said. “There is no doubt that the minibus presented no threat to the American forces. There is no doubt it was an unlawful act of fire.”
ITN cameraman Daniel Demoustier, the sole survivor of the incident, told the inquest that ITN’s pair of four-wheel drive vehicles were overtaken by a truck carrying Iraqi forces and that gunfire erupted.
“The hell broke loose completely. I was absolutely sure I was going to die,” Demoustier told the inquest. Driving blindly in smoke, Demoustier said he realized the passenger door was open and Lloyd was gone.
Demoustier, a Belgian, said he jumped from his flaming car and lay in the sand, waiting for the shooting to stop. Demoustier said he tried to stand to signal U.S. tanks in the area but that they resumed firing at the clearly marked ITN vehicles.
Demoustier said he saw a Red Crescent ambulance arrive and pick up people. He was later taken to safety in the car of a British newspaper reporter.
The coroner said Friday that a civilian drove up in a minivan, pulled a U-turn and picked up four wounded Iraqi soldiers, then saw Lloyd with a press card around his neck and helped him into the van. Lloyd was shot in the head as the van drove off toward a hospital, the coroner said.
Demoustier said after the ruling that the inquest had not made clear whether the bullet that killed Lloyd was fired by a U.S. tank or helicopter. He said the forces in a tank would have been able to see that they were firing at a civilian vehicle, but a helicopter would not.
The U.S. Embassy in London said it had no immediate reaction to the ruling.
Lloyd’s widow, Lynn, in a statement read by her lawyer, said U.S. forces “allowed their soldiers to behave like trigger-happy cowboys in an area in which there were civilians traveling.”
She called the killing a war crime – “a despicable, deliberate, vengeful act.”
Lloyd and the three other ITN crew members were some of the few Western reporters who covered the fighting on their own, while most others were embedded with U.S. or British forces.
Lebanese interpreter Hussein Osman also was killed in the ITN crew, and cameraman Fred Nerac remains missing and presumed dead.
U.S. authorities didn’t allow servicemen to testify at the inquest. Several submitted statements that the coroner ruled inadmissible.
The court watched a video Tuesday, filmed by a U.S. serviceman attached to one of the tanks accused of firing at the reporters’ cars. The tape opens with images of Lloyd’s vehicle and the Iraqi truck burning amid gunfire. The tanks drive to the cars and inspect them. A minivan – possibly the ambulance – appears and more shots are fired.
At the end of the tape, a U.S. soldier shouts, “It’s some media personnel! That’s media down there!”
A forensic examiner said the first 15 minutes of the tape may have been erased.
In Britain, inquests take place when a person dies violently, unexpectedly, or of unknown causes. In the case of an overseas death, the inquest is held in the first English jurisdiction where the body is returned.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/15749941.htm
Large troops in South Korea? I thought there’s only about 35,000+, which is expected to act as tripwire to slow invasion of the million man army from DPRK, while waiting for reinforcement from bases in Japan. Granted, the North’s army is no match in sophistication in ability and technology. Japan is bound by her US-made Constitution not to interfere militarily unless there’s a direct attack to the country. And there’s a possibility that China may take the opportunity to reclaim Taiwan while the US is tied down in Korea. Just running some scenarios in my head.
AMERICA HELD HOSTAGE:DAY 2092….
Presidency held hostage:830 Days left.
Congress held hostage:85 Days left.
HAVE A NICE DAY.
I see Tiahrt has endorsement from at least one of these organizations Citizens against government waste. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061013/pl_nm/congress_abramoff_dc_1
More on Rove’s attitude toward the Christian conservatives:
Tempting Faith: Christian Conservatives Duped by BushCo. Part II
By: John Amato on Thursday, October 12th, 2006 at 6:12 PM – PDT
Last night I reported on Olbermann’s breaking story about Kuo’s new book “Tempting Faith,” which paints an ugly picture of the lies and deceit offered to the Christian Right by Rove and Bush to secure their votes. This is an explosive story with ramifications that should affect the millions of Evangelicals that have been hoodwinked by the White House. We’ll see what their reaction will be (if any) in the upcoming days. It’s politics pure and simple for Rove and he will do anything‚Äìanything to ensure a Republican victory—no matter who he hurts in the process. Tonight on “Countdown” it continued.
“Tempting Faith” also suggests that the Bush White House would use anything for politics.
http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/10/12/karl-rove-just-get-me-a-f-ing-faith-based-thing/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crooksandliars.com%2F2006%2F10%2F12%2Ftempting-faith-christian-conservatives-duped-by-bushco-part-ii%2F&frame=true
Nathan, we have 37,000 troops in South Korea. Against their million man army, that’s not a “large force”.
That’s a human sacrifice.
XXX – with our supiority in the air, sea, etc that 37,000 is quite a force. If nothing else, that would definitely suck us in.
A new Korena war would likely be devastating to both sides on the penensula. N Korea would likely receice little or no help from either China or Russia; both of those countries realize that their self-interest lies more with the US and Sough Korea than with the basket case known as N Korea.
Nobel Peace Prize – good choice IMO. Their ‘micro-loans’ have had significant impact AND they get paid back. Boring, dull as dirt – but effective:
Yunus, Grameen Bank win Peace PrizeDOUG MELLGRENAssociated PressOSLO, Norway – Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their pioneering use of tiny, seemingly insignificant loans – microcredit – to lift millions out of poverty.
Through Yunus’s efforts and those of the bank he founded, poor people around the world, especially women, have been able to buy cows, a few chickens or the cell phone they desperately needed to get ahead.
The 65-year-old economist said he would use part of his share of the $1.4 million award money to create a company to make low-cost, high-nutrition food for the poor. The rest would go toward setting up an eye hospital for the poor in Bangladesh, he said.
The food company, to be known as Social Business Enterprise, will sell food for a nominal price, he said.
“Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty,” the Nobel Committee said in its citation. “Microcredit is one such means. Development from below also serves to advance democracy and human rights.”
Yunus is the first Noble Prize winner from Bangladesh, a poverty-stricken nation of about 141 million people located on the Bay on Bengal.
“I am so, so happy, it’s really a great news for the whole nation,” Yunus told The Associated Press shortly after the prize was announced. He was reached by telephone at his home in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.
Grameen Bank was the first lender to hand out microcredit, giving very small loans to poor Bangladeshis who did not qualify for loans from conventional banks. No collateral is needed and repayment is based on an honor system.
Anyone can qualify for a loan – the average is about $200 – but recipients are put in groups of five and once two members of the group have borrowed money, the other three must wait for the funds to be repaid before they get a loan.
Grameen, which means rural in the Bengali language, says the method encourages social responsibility. The results are hard to argue with – the bank says it has a 99 percent repayment rate.
Since Yunus gave out his first loans in 1974, microcredit schemes have spread throughout the developing world and are now considered a key approach to alleviating poverty and spurring development.
Yunus’s told The Associated Press in a 2004 interview that his “eureka moment” came while chatting to a shy woman weaving bamboo stools with calloused fingers.
Sufia Begum was a 21-year-old villager and a mother of three when the economics professor met her in 1974 and asked her how much she earned. She replied that she borrowed about five taka (nine cents) from a middleman for the bamboo for each stool.
All but two cents of that went back to the lender.
“I thought to myself, my God, for five takas she has become a slave,” Yunus said in the interview.
“I couldn’t understand how she could be so poor when she was making such beautiful things,” he said.
The following day, he and his students did a survey in the woman’s village, Jobra, and discovered that 43 of the villagers owed a total of 856 taka (about $27).
“I couldn’t take it anymore. I put the $27 out there and told them they could liberate themselves,” he said, and pay him back whenever they could. The idea was to buy their own materials and cut out the middleman.
They all paid him back, day by day, over a year, and his spur-of-the-moment generosity grew into a full-fledged business concept that came to fruition with the founding of Grameen Bank in 1983.
In the years since, the bank says it has lent $5.72 billion to more than 6 million Bangladeshis.
Worldwide, microcredit financing is estimated to have helped some 17 million people.
“Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that even the poorest of the poor can work to bring about their own development,” the Nobel citation said.
Today, the bank claims to have 6.6 million borrowers, 97 percent of whom are women, and provides services in more than 70,000 villages in Bangladesh. Its model of micro-financing has inspired similar efforts around the world.
The success has allowed Grameen Bank to expand its credit to include housing loans, financing for irrigation and fisheries as well as traditional savings accounts.
One of Yunus’ aides, Dipal Barua, said the award was an “honor for millions of poor women who have made this possible.”
The peace prize was the sixth and last Nobel prize announced this year. The others, for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and economics, were announced in Stockholm, Sweden.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/breaking_news/15749002.htm
Think about how many lives this person has changed!! It’s beyond belief.
One sure way to become disgusted with politics is to have the candidates you voted for win.
‚Ä¢ Sitting in church doesn’t make you a Christian just as sitting in a garage doesn’t make you a Chevrolet. — Garrison Keillor
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/10/for_sale_suppor.html#comments
For Sale: Supportive Think Tank “Analysis”The pieces of the Republican propaganda machine are slowly being revealed. Next time you see a piece from a group such as Americans for Tax Reform, Citizens Against Government Waste, or the National Center for Public Policy Research, be very, very skeptical – you may be hearing what someone is paid to say – essentially a commercial disguised as independent, professional analysis:
Report Says Nonprofits Sold Influence to Abramoff, by James V. Grimaldi and Susan Schmidt, Washington Post: Five conservative nonprofit organizations, including one run by prominent Republican Grover Norquist, “appear to have perpetrated a fraud” on taxpayers by selling their clout to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Senate investigators said in a report issued yesterday.
.morg, an interesting thing about the Senate report you cite is that it was put together by the Democratic staff of the committee, and could have been blocked by Sen. Grassley (R-Ia), and he chose not to do so.
I have said along that I put a big share of the blame for this Iraq war on Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell’s head. As leaders of their Neo-conservatives, they actually endorsed this insane war.
Why else would Pat Robertson continually to spout his hate and even advocate for assassinations of certain foreign leaders he doesn’t like?
Any rational thinking person would know that Pat Robertson is not a Christian man, let alone a Christian leader.
Falwell and Robertson are apostate scum but put the blame where it belongs, with the zionists who pull the strings! Mel Gibson was right!
V.L.R.B!!
Good Catch Vaughn, There are good republicans and many republicans have good ideas.
Wouldn’t it be fun to see Grover get caught in some sort of a scandel?
Grover?
Ben, I think Dennis is referring to Gover Norquist.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010514/dreyfuss
Grover Norquist: ‘Field Marshal’ of the Bush PlanRobert DreyfussResearch support provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.
It’s early April, tax time, and Grover Norquist is moving into high gear. The President’s $1.6 trillion tax cut package is working its way through Congress, and Norquist–president of Americans for Tax Reform and arguably Washington’s leading right-wing strategist–is rushing from meetings on Capitol Hill to strategy sessions with antitax activists. One minute he’s putting the finishing touches on planned demonstrations in Washington and all fifty state capitals on tax-return filing day; the next he is juggling appearances on right-wing talk-radio shows and stints on MSNBC and Fox. And, as he has for nearly eight years, Norquist is coordinating the agenda for his signature event, the regular “Wednesday meeting” that draws more than a hundred representatives of conservative groups to a standing-room-only conference room at his organization’s L Street offices.
Stocky, bearded and owlish, Norquist, 45, is a thumb-in-the-eye radical rightist—–
At least some Christians appalled at killing in Iraq:
American church leader shocked at Iraq body count -12/10/06
The head of the largest inter-church body in the United States has said he is appalled and remorseful at the latest research on the growing death toll in Iraq, following the US-led invasion and occupation in 2003.
“When I first heard that nearly two-thirds of a million Iraqis have been killed I was shocked and horribly saddened,” said the Rev Dr Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches USA.
“The perpetrators of this war can no longer tell us this is ‘collateral damage’ as they prosecute this war. They must face up to the widespread death and destruction that is being inflicted daily upon innocent men, women and children living in a country that never attacked the United States,” Edgar declared.A Johns Hopkins University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology study released this morning estimates the number of Iraqi civilian deaths to be more than 650,000 since the invasion of Iraq three years ago.
The report, conducted by American and Iraqi epidemiologists, puts the number of civilian deaths at more than 20 times the estimates calculated by the Bush administration and the Pentagon.
“Nearly every major Christian church leader spoke out against this war before the invasion,” said Edgar. “They warned that such a war did not remotely meet the criteria of a just war. If these new estimates are true, the criterion of avoiding the deaths of non-combatants has been shattered,” he said.
Religious leaders from the late Pope John Paul II, to Orthodox and mainstream Protestants, all expressed opposition to the war before it began. Only the Southern Baptist Convention and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints supported the war effort.
“I attended a 2002 New Year’s Eve service at a Presbyterian church in Baghdad where I met Caroline, a four year old Iraqi,” Edgar recalled. “Her picture hangs near the door to my office. I pray for her, her family and all of the Iraqi people who have endured unspeakable horrors. May a just and lasting peace be found by good and faithful people to bring an end soon to this dreadful war in Iraq,” said Dr Edgar.
The National Council of Churches USA is the ecumenical voice of 35 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican, African American and historic peace churches with 45 million members in 100,000 congregations in all fifty states.
http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/10/12/american-church-leader-shocked-at-iraq-body-count/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ekklesia.co.uk%2Fcontent%2Fnews_syndication%2Farticle_061012nccusa.shtml&frame=true
This is horrible but the sanctions put into place by the clinton regime killed up to one million Iraqis, mainly women and children. The insane jewess albright clamied those sanctions were “worth the price”!
V.L.R.B!!
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/15751493.htm
“Another significant finding is that tens of millions of recreation dollars are leaving the Wichita area. If Wichitans spent recreation dollars at the same rate as the U.S. as a whole, they would have spent about $124 million more locally than they did. A good proportion of that is being spent by Wichitans in Branson, Kansas City and elsewhere, while is some is just not being spent.”
Considering that Kansas ranks dead last among states in the amount of public land per capita and 49th in the total amount of public land available, this is no surprise. The question is what are we going to do about it?
It seems to me that the Iraquis are voting with their feet insofar as things are going there:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15247511/
I heard that KANSAS WEEK will appear this evening on Channel 8 Public Television without Dale Goter since he joined the Wichita’s city government. I have been told the program will be moderated by “Bob Beatty.” Problem is there are two Bob Beatty’s, one a news commentator or Washburn professor, I can’t remember which, and Wichita’s Bob Beatty, author of the BTK book. SO THE MYSTERY AT THIS POINT IS WHICH ONE WILL MODERATE TONIGHT’S “KANSAS WEEK” PROGRAM?
It used to begin at 7:30 PM for an hour so presumably that will remain the same.
I’m only repeating what I heard so please don’t quote me … especially to BTK.
Wal-Mart shareholders: your dividend may be reduced!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15251910/
Fake News written by James Baughn on August 18, 1999from the microsoft-assimilates-kansas dept.TOPEKA, KS — Evolution has been replaced with the Dancing Paper Clip courtesy of the Kansas Board of Education. Kansas schools are no longer required to teach Evilution, but they are required to teach students how to use Microsoft products.
Starting in 2001, all high school seniors must pass a so-called “computer literacy” test. Unfortunately, to the Board of Education, “computer literacy” is synonymous with “knowing how to use Windows and Office”. Linux, Unix, BeOS, OS/2, even Macintoshes are a myth in Kansas.
Humorix’s Vast Spy Network(tm) was able to obtain a working draft of the test that will be administered. From what we can tell, some of the questions seem to be lifted verbatim from the exam Microsoft gives to prospective MSCEs.
COMPUTER LITERACY EXAM, version 0.56 Kansas Board of Education
PowerPoint’s AutoContent Wizard(tm) ________.Makes creating slide presentations easy.Makes creating slide presentations fun.Is an example of innovative software design.Is a good reason to upgrade from earlier versions.
Installing an OEM version of Windows 95® on a different computer from which it was originally installed __________.Is a criminal act.Is immoral.Is even more wrong and despicable than believing in Evolution.Deprives Bill Gates of valuable income he needs to feed his family.
Which of the following is an example of an operating system?Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition.Microsoft Outlook.Microsoft Internet Explorer.Microsoft Excel.None of the above.
[Editor's Note: According to the Board, the correct answer is 'Windows 98 Second Edition', even though 'None of the above' seems to make much more sense.]
Imagine that you are the superintendent of a small school. You want to add Creationism to the cirriculum, but thanks to the US Supreme Court of Liberals, you can’t. Which of the following software applications would you use to write a letter to your Congressman demanding that a law abolishing “Separation of Church and State” be enacted?Microsoft Windows 98 Solitaire.Microsoft Word.Microsoft Windows 98 Notepad.Microsoft Flight Simulator.Microsoft Internet Information Serfer. [sic]
(Calculators permitted) If Bill Gates holds 1 billion shares of MSFT stock valued at $100 per share, how many times can he drive the entire length of the Kansas Turnpike?He could buy the Kansas Turnpike Authority and still have enough money leftover to pay for a billion gallons of gasoline.None, he’d just hire a construction firm to build a personal “Bill Gates Freeway” across Kansas (or the whole continent, for that matter).None, why would Bill ever come to Kansas?
The Internet _________.Was invented by Bill Gates.Allows computer users to easily download the latest upgrades and patches from Microsoft from anywhere in the world.Is entirely run on Windows NT computers.Is the source of all of society’s problems.
(True/False) Changing a setting in the Control Panel voids the Windows 98® warranty.
(True/False) All Microsoft software produced after 1999 is Y2K-compliant.
Crashes are the direct result of _________.User incompetence.Shoddily written software from vendors other than Microsoft.Cosmic rays.
(Fill In the Blank) ___________ and ____________ are two differences between Windows 2000 DataCenter Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
(Essay) Imagine if Bill Gates were never born. Without innovation spurred by Microsoft, the computer industry today would be a wasteland of 8 bit machines and hippie college freaks sharing software source code. In one paragraph, provide four examples of how a world without Microsoft would be different than today’s world.
(Essay) Describe the steps necessary to fully upgrade Windows 3.1 to Windows 98 using an upgrade CD-ROM. Attached are twenty blank pages to write your response.
Alas, the Vast Spy Network(tm) was unable to procure a copy of the recommended textbook, “Computer Literacy for Dummies”, produced by Microsoft Press. According to one anonymous source this book contains such chapters as “Getting to know the Start Menu”, “Windows Explorer: It’s not that bad once you get used to it”, “101 uses for the My Computer icon”, and “Surfing the Microsoft Network with Internet Explorer”.
So far, the new “computer literacy” requirements have received little attention due to the uproar over the anti-Evilution debacle. Some high school students are worried, but most parents are not. One high school junior told Humorix, “I’ve had two patches included in the Linux kernel. I maintain three mini-HOWTOs. I visit Slashdot every hour. And yet, because I haven’t touched a Windows box in over four years, I may not be able to graduate from high school. I just hope I can get a GED and maybe Wal-Mart or Burger King will hire me.”
Most parents we spoke to applaud the new requirements. “Anything we can do to put our kids on the 21st Century Information Superhighway is a good thing,” one parent said. When confronted about the fact that the computer literacy program has a Microsoft-centric bias, she responded, “So what? Microsoft is the computer industry. Besides, everybody uses Windows anyways. The only other operating system out there is Macintosh, and only fruit-loving freaks on the Left Coast use that…”
Tracy, LOL. What a hoot! (this from a current Linux user, you may provide the appropriate adjectives to precede the phrase “current Linux user”)
I did a search with tiahrt and one of the groups that were selling/peddling their influence with Abramoff, and learned tha tiahrt had their endorsement, should have tried it with the other groups listed. Birds of a feather…
Did anybody else notice that Tiarht’s television ad did not mention one thing about the Abramhoff scandal and him being against lobbyists tainted money?
This silence, like his silence about Foley’s perversion, speaks volumes.
Excuse me for being cynical lucee, but I’m in one of those moods. So Tiahrt didn’t mention Abramhoff in his paid political ads, those ads in which he states his case for re-election; and that speaks volumes. I would tend to agree.
IT MEANS HE IS NOT A COMPLETE FRICKIN’ MORON!
I’d like to see a reprint of tiahrts strong defense for his Buddy DeLay. If I were running against him, I’d have it plastered on every car parked in church parking lots.
But he is a frickin piece of work – slick as Willie, I would say.
Conservative Christians sure know how to pick their leaders.
Did anyone catch the political advertisement on CNN last night? It showed individuals talking to a bush. A voice comes over and says, “these people have no chance of getting their questions answered.” It then cuts to a picture of bush and the voice says, “Kinda like talking to this bush.”
Blew me away.
Mr Tiahrt worked closely with the child preadator Mark Foley on congressional committees and as board members for arch conservative organizations. Yet we STILL have no word from Tiahrt as to his knowledge of Mark Foley’s sordid personal life. Why?
What is it with you people here who have the unrealistic expectation that All proclaiming Christians should be perfect in Words, Thoughts and Deeds?????Guess what, WE ARE HUMAN TOO!!!You stab us with a knife, we bleed!You attack us verbally without substantiation, we hurt!You physically hit us in the face, we bruise and our bones break!You are like a bunch of buzzards, circling and waiting for someone, ANYONE to make a wrong decision, say something unkind or even hateful or just out-and-out lie or to do something really dispicable, just so you have SOMEONE to lampoon, lambaste, attack, rage against and PEE ON while trying to convince the rest of us it’s just raining outside.
Yes, TM, who could forget the way Christians were hounded and tormented throughout our history:
those days after the Civil War when Christians couldn’t vote, when Christians got lynched just for the color of their religion, or during WW2 when millions of Christians were sent to the gas chambers by the Nazis, or the way Christians couldn’t hold office because no one would vote for a “Christian.”
Yes, we Christians have suffered mightily because of our faith . . .
Sheesh.
Suffering, discrimination, ridicule, prejudice. You don’t know the meaning of the word.
Maybe if you fundies weren’t such big crybabies giving yourselves “victim status,” people would have more respect for you.