Archive for September, 2006
Gotta love cowboys
Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport passenger lounge one day while awaiting their respective flights. One was an American Indian passing through from the Four Corners. Another was a Cowboy on his way to Billings Montana for a livestock show and the third was a fundamentalist Arab student, newly arrived from the [...]
When we’re down… we QUIT!
I’ve never really understood many of the ‘life lessons’ that our government schools teach our children as they make their way towards a life of functional illiteracy and a lack of historical knowledge but this lesson, taught to the students of Oscoda High School in Oscoda, Michigan.
The “mighty” owls football team is not very [...]
Something we SHOULD agree on
We have less than 50 days until another major election. One that COULD put the Democrats in the drivers seat in Congress for the first time in 12 years. Yet we seem to have ZERO concern as citizens in this country with the WAY we cast those votes.
Recently Sen. Boxer (D-CA), Sen. Dodd (D-CT) and [...]
Suspend the arts…
Sydney McGee,a 28 year veteran teacher of a Dallas area elementary school, is on leave with pay following a recent field trip to a local art museum. Why? Well because ONE parent complained about a statue that their child spotted while at the museum… it was NUDE!!!!! The school board has planned not to renew [...]
Suspicions about gas prices?
Ok, I normally have a very little faith in the intelligence of the average American but this news story today in the Indy Star just knocked that faith through the floor.
Retired farmer Jim Mohr, from Lexington, IL ran down a list of “reasons” for the drop in gas prices. His list included some of the [...]
