News Snipet 'Blog

"NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren.

Campaigning on the rights of young people at the Earth Dialogues forum, being held in Brisbane, Ms Williams spoke passionately about the deaths of innocent children during wartime, particularly in the Middle East, and lambasted Mr Bush.

'I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence', because I don't believe that I am non-violent,' said Ms Williams, 64.

'Right now, I would love to kill George Bush.' Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered. "

Here are some of the items on the list: Ziploc bags, Clorox wipes, paper towels and paper napkins, liquid hand soap, hand sanitizers, Plug-In refills, toilet paper and Band-Aids.

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Ah-hah! The teachers are trying to con the parents into buying supplies for the school so the school has more money to spend on teacher salaries." Well you would be...oh wait, you would be right.

A Florida TV station interviewed the chief financial officer for Orange County Schools, Henry Boekhoff. Boekhoff said he had no idea teachers were asking parents for anything other than basic school supplies. He said when principals present their budget requests, the focus is on teacher salaries and money for more staff, and that 85 percent of the estimated operating budget for the upcoming school year will go to salaries and benefits.

With 85% going to salaries and benefits, that doesn't leave a lot of money for utilities, textbooks and other supplies. Instead of holding the line on personnel, salaries and benefits, the principals and teachers are asking the parents to buy supplies – not supplies for their children, but supplies for the whole school.

It's no skin off my backside. I don't have children in school. But it does call into question the educrats' dedication to a "free public education." When it comes to a choice between the educrats accepting slightly lower salaries or charging parents for school operating expenses, the teachers are taking door #1. It's also just one more way that schools are hiding the true cost of public education.

Ralph Bristol

"I don't get this weather. It's crazy.

Have you noticed it keeps getting hotter and hotter? It seems to happen this way every year, especially in July and August.

I can't understand it.

Here at the paper, we are trying to understand it, too.

We sent out a team of reporters yesterday, who fanned across the region.

When they came back, they reported: It is hot everywhere! Very hot!

The city editor said: You mean everywhere?!

They said: Yes, everywhere!

He said: This is front-page news!

And so it was done.

Ditto television.

Counting overtime, the stations probably spent $250,000 yesterday to tell you that it is summer and that it is hot."

'We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year,' said Iranian Hizbollah's spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom. They have been trained and they can become fully armed. We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardise Israel and America's interests. We are only waiting for the Supreme Leader's green light to take action. If America wants to ignite World War Three ... we welcome it,' he said."

FACTS ARE IMMATERIAL TO THE IDEOLOGUE. READ ALL ABOUT IT IN JOHN'S ARTICLE

OF COURSE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WOULD NEVER CONSIDER CONDEMNING ANYONE FOR ATTACKING ISRAEL...OR ADMIT TO THE HUNDREDS OF COUPS UPON SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENTS THEY HAVE BEEN GUILTY OF OR...

AND YET THE FBI INVESTIGATES:

WREG-TV Memphis - FBI looking at Web site showing shooting of Quran: "FBI looking at Web site showing shooting of Quran.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. The F-B-I will look into an online video that shows two men shooting a Quran with a military rifle and then leaving the bullet-riddled holy book at a Chattanooga mosque."

When people are willing to harm their own children in order to sue a company and collect damages, product liability suits are more than just a nuisance. Stories about people putting disgusting stuff in their food in order to sue the food-maker are so common, we don’t even mention most of them anymore, but here's a new twist on that tired old story.

A Georgia man is accused of poisoning his two young children in order to sue the Campbell soup company and win a big settlement. No longer are product liability suits just a common and growing nuisance for business, the yearning for a big lawsuit payoff has become such a strong temptation that wicked people will now even sacrifice their own children for the reward.

You're thinking this is not really new, but you're wrong. Sure, we've always had parents who would abuse their children--either out of neglect, frustration, anger, etc. We have also long seen parents who would sell their children, or their children's services, for profit. But this is new, and it is a disturbing offspring of our increasingly litigious society.

One does not have to have ever opened a Bible to understand that, indeed, the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. It is truer that the love of OTHER PEOPLE'S money is the root of most of that evil. People who enjoy, even treasure, the money they honestly earn generally commit no more evil deeds than those with little desire for money, but for those who covet money that doesn't belong to them, and are too lazy or anti-social to earn it honestly, it seems there is no limit to their potential for evil.

The growing popularity and success of product liability suits feeds the insatiable appetite and strengthens the addiction to OPM--other people's money. Product liability suits are not just a growing menace. They are the propagators of yet another branch of evil.

"Neo-Nazis hijack gala to burn Anne Frank diary.

Around 100 skinheads cheered and shouted Sieg Heil as the most poignant memoir of the Holocaust years went up in flames. They also burned a U.S. flag and sang banned Nazi songs.

"No Tornadoes Confirmed In Nebraska-Kansas Area This Year. First Time Since 1950 There's Been No Tornadoes In Region"

Here's another reason not to disfigure your body with tattoos. A superbug seen in prisoners and athletes is showing up in other people who get tattoos. Federal health officials say 44 tattoo customers in Ohio, Kentucky and Vermont developed skin infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). MRSA is an antibiotic-resistant bacteria that fights off the body's immune system and destroys tissues. The skin infections can be transmitted from person to person by contact with draining sores, or through contact with contaminated items or surfaces. MRSA generally causes mild skin infections, but in some cases has led to pneumonia, bloodstream infections, and a painful, flesh-destroying condition called necrotizing fasciitis.

And then of course, there's that stupid-looking, permanent ugly thing on your body that makes people think you're weird. But for some reason you like that part...