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Orwell University
"Some students at Alveda King's speech Tuesday night did not expect a strictly literal interpretation of the advertised 'life affirming choices' speech," reports Central Michigan Life, student newspaper of Mount Pleasant's Central Michigan University:The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King spoke out strongly against abortion at her "Can the Dream Survive?" presentation in Warriner Hall's Plachta Auditorium. Some students were surprised to learn that was the topic of her lecture. Several of the about 650-person audience walked out."I felt a little misled personally," said Flint senior Detrone Turner, who said he thought the speech was going to be about increasing diversity.
-And of course the best way to increase "diversity" is by refusing to listen to anyone you disagree with.
"Some students at Alveda King's speech Tuesday night did not expect a strictly literal interpretation of the advertised 'life affirming choices' speech," reports Central Michigan Life, student newspaper of Mount Pleasant's Central Michigan University:The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King spoke out strongly against abortion at her "Can the Dream Survive?" presentation in Warriner Hall's Plachta Auditorium. Some students were surprised to learn that was the topic of her lecture. Several of the about 650-person audience walked out."I felt a little misled personally," said Flint senior Detrone Turner, who said he thought the speech was going to be about increasing diversity.
-And of course the best way to increase "diversity" is by refusing to listen to anyone you disagree with.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Woman calls 911 3 times over McNuggets
Fla. police say she called emergency number 3 times after store runs out
The Associated Press
updated 8:19 p.m. CT, Tues., March. 3, 2009
FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets.
A police report says 27-year-old Fort Pierce resident Latreasa L. Goodman told authorities she paid for a 10-piece last week but was later informed the restaurant had run out.
She says she was refused a refund and told all sales were final. A cashier told police she offered Goodman a larger portion of different food for the same price, but Goodman became irate.
"This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don’t want one," Goodman told police, according to The Stuart News. "This is an emergency."
Police say Goodman was cited on a misuse of 911 charge. A current phone listing for Goodman couldn't be found.
A McDonald's spokesman says Goodman should have been given a refund, and she's being sent a gift card for a free meal.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29498350/from/ET/?gt1=43001
Fla. police say she called emergency number 3 times after store runs out
The Associated Press
updated 8:19 p.m. CT, Tues., March. 3, 2009
FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets.
A police report says 27-year-old Fort Pierce resident Latreasa L. Goodman told authorities she paid for a 10-piece last week but was later informed the restaurant had run out.
She says she was refused a refund and told all sales were final. A cashier told police she offered Goodman a larger portion of different food for the same price, but Goodman became irate.
"This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don’t want one," Goodman told police, according to The Stuart News. "This is an emergency."
Police say Goodman was cited on a misuse of 911 charge. A current phone listing for Goodman couldn't be found.
A McDonald's spokesman says Goodman should have been given a refund, and she's being sent a gift card for a free meal.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29498350/from/ET/?gt1=43001
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Donors pledge $4.5bn for Palestinians
By Heba Saleh in Sharm El Sheikh
Published: March 2 2009 14:24 Last updated: March 2 2009 23:20
International donors at a conference in Egypt pledged $4.48bn over two years to support the Palestinian economy and rebuild Gaza after the Israeli offensive, but made clear none of the funds should end up in the hands of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the territory.
In her first trip to the region since her appointment as US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton said urgent action was needed to break the cycle of violence and move towards a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians..
“The United States is prepared to engage in aggressive diplomacy with all sides in pursuit of a comprehensive settlement that brings peace and security to Israel, the Palestinians and their Arab neighbours,” said Mrs Clinton.
Mrs Clinton pledged $900m (€714m, £643m) of aid for the Palestinians of which $300m was earmarked for urgent humanitarian relief to Gaza. The aid includes budgetary, security and infrastructure support for the Palestinian Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, which was ousted from Gaza in 2007 by Hamas, the Islamist militant group.
Mrs Clinton stressed that the US had worked with the PA to put in place safeguards to ensure that the funds did not fall into “the wrong hands” – a reference to Hamas, which is considered a terrorist organisation by the US.
The European Union said it would give $554m and there were pledges from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries totalling $1.65bn.
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I can't believe tax dollars are going to these 9/11 celebrating assholes. Let the Ummah pay.
By Heba Saleh in Sharm El Sheikh
Published: March 2 2009 14:24 Last updated: March 2 2009 23:20
International donors at a conference in Egypt pledged $4.48bn over two years to support the Palestinian economy and rebuild Gaza after the Israeli offensive, but made clear none of the funds should end up in the hands of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the territory.
In her first trip to the region since her appointment as US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton said urgent action was needed to break the cycle of violence and move towards a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians..
“The United States is prepared to engage in aggressive diplomacy with all sides in pursuit of a comprehensive settlement that brings peace and security to Israel, the Palestinians and their Arab neighbours,” said Mrs Clinton.
Mrs Clinton pledged $900m (€714m, £643m) of aid for the Palestinians of which $300m was earmarked for urgent humanitarian relief to Gaza. The aid includes budgetary, security and infrastructure support for the Palestinian Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, which was ousted from Gaza in 2007 by Hamas, the Islamist militant group.
Mrs Clinton stressed that the US had worked with the PA to put in place safeguards to ensure that the funds did not fall into “the wrong hands” – a reference to Hamas, which is considered a terrorist organisation by the US.
The European Union said it would give $554m and there were pledges from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries totalling $1.65bn.
>>
I can't believe tax dollars are going to these 9/11 celebrating assholes. Let the Ummah pay.
Monday, March 02, 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Malacca
Interesting piece about this area in the Gartman Letter this morning, referencing a Foreign Affairs article by Robert Kaplan. Control of these straights has been crucial for power since the 15th century, and is no less true today.
SanFran Chron Columnist: Obama is 'Articulate, Zen-like, Brave,' There's 'Obamafied Bliss'
By Warner Todd Huston
Created 2009-02-27 10:58
Well, the San Francisco Chronicle's Mark Morford out does himself [1] with sycophantic, hyperbole over his Obammessiah, today, February 27. He so revels in hero worship for The One, it's amazing that the White House doesn't feel compelled to get an order of protection against this creepy columnist.
No one in the Old Media is more sold on The One and less credible for his girlish crush than Morford. He is a fount of mush as he wonders if he should be scared of today's problems or suffused with lust in his heart for Obama (if you'll remember the Carterism).
It goes something like this: Do you allow yourself, even now, to feel any sort of ongoing, relieved, merciful joy that Barack Obama actually is sitting in the Big Chair in the White House? That this elegant, articulate, Zen-like man whose integrity is rock-solid and whose ideas, while certainly not in perfect alignment with every ultra-lefty vision on the planet (clean coal? Please), are astonishingly ambitious and brave, is leading this nation during one of the worst economic times in its short and paroxysmal history?
One would expect such gushing from a teenage girl writing to a teen idol, not a grown man talking about a mere politician.
Seriously, Morford wasn't finished...
It's a bizarre choice indeed. The good news is, the Obamafied bliss is still out there, still swirling, still waiting to be supped like a fine digestif. At any given moment you can, if you so choose, pause in whatever it is you're suffering from and hear that voice and see his visage or perhaps merely hear some pundit say the words "President Obama" out loud, and you can still enjoy that delicious chill, that little jolt that says, "Oh my God, did we really do it? Is that lucid, impeccably centered man really the leader of the free world?"
Of course, he goes on to indulge in a little Bush and Cheney bashing, too. We can't have unthinking Obamagobedness without some BDS, after all!
Now we might remember Old Mark from his wonderfully descriptive depiction during the campaign of Obama as a "light worker [2]." Yeah, that guy.
I won't bore you all with any of the rest of this tripe as it is wholly empty of meaningful analysis, but I thought you'd all get a kick out of Morford's newest example of sycophancy for the new messiah.
By the way, I also find it amusing in a clinically psychological sort of way that our pal Mark has to have his picture on his article page twice. Once in the header and a larger one at the bottom of the piece. I don't know what that says, but I still find it amusing. It may be thus with other SFCers, but I still find it amusing nonetheless.
(Photo credit: San Francisco Chronicle)
By Warner Todd Huston
Created 2009-02-27 10:58
Well, the San Francisco Chronicle's Mark Morford out does himself [1] with sycophantic, hyperbole over his Obammessiah, today, February 27. He so revels in hero worship for The One, it's amazing that the White House doesn't feel compelled to get an order of protection against this creepy columnist.
No one in the Old Media is more sold on The One and less credible for his girlish crush than Morford. He is a fount of mush as he wonders if he should be scared of today's problems or suffused with lust in his heart for Obama (if you'll remember the Carterism).
It goes something like this: Do you allow yourself, even now, to feel any sort of ongoing, relieved, merciful joy that Barack Obama actually is sitting in the Big Chair in the White House? That this elegant, articulate, Zen-like man whose integrity is rock-solid and whose ideas, while certainly not in perfect alignment with every ultra-lefty vision on the planet (clean coal? Please), are astonishingly ambitious and brave, is leading this nation during one of the worst economic times in its short and paroxysmal history?
One would expect such gushing from a teenage girl writing to a teen idol, not a grown man talking about a mere politician.
Seriously, Morford wasn't finished...
It's a bizarre choice indeed. The good news is, the Obamafied bliss is still out there, still swirling, still waiting to be supped like a fine digestif. At any given moment you can, if you so choose, pause in whatever it is you're suffering from and hear that voice and see his visage or perhaps merely hear some pundit say the words "President Obama" out loud, and you can still enjoy that delicious chill, that little jolt that says, "Oh my God, did we really do it? Is that lucid, impeccably centered man really the leader of the free world?"
Of course, he goes on to indulge in a little Bush and Cheney bashing, too. We can't have unthinking Obamagobedness without some BDS, after all!
Now we might remember Old Mark from his wonderfully descriptive depiction during the campaign of Obama as a "light worker [2]." Yeah, that guy.
I won't bore you all with any of the rest of this tripe as it is wholly empty of meaningful analysis, but I thought you'd all get a kick out of Morford's newest example of sycophancy for the new messiah.
By the way, I also find it amusing in a clinically psychological sort of way that our pal Mark has to have his picture on his article page twice. Once in the header and a larger one at the bottom of the piece. I don't know what that says, but I still find it amusing. It may be thus with other SFCers, but I still find it amusing nonetheless.
(Photo credit: San Francisco Chronicle)
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