Archive → February 15th, 2007
Iraq triumph: al-Masri wounded and captured!
While Democrats are busy criticizing the war effort and the troop surge that they were calling for a couple months ago – until Bush decided to do it, that is – the US-backed Iraqi forces are busy ignoring all that ruckus and accomplishing things of substance. For example, according to an MSNBC report, “al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri was wounded and his aide, identified as Abu Abdullah al-Majemaai, was killed” in recent action in Iraq.
This comes hot on the heels of news that Moqtada al-Sadr may have fled Iran as word of the upcoming troop surge hit the news wires. But of course, the Democrats insist the troop escalation is doomed to failure, even though the mere threat of it is starting to produce results.
Sounds to me like there are some liberals who might be better off selling Ellijay real estate than making political predictions.
MN voted for bigger, more intrusive government… here it is!
With the exception of U.S. Representative Michelle Bachmann and RINO Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota overwhelmingly voted for bigger, more intrusive government last fall by helping the DFL pretty much run the board. Now, it’s here, so no complaints from the peanut gallery that voted for this, OK?
Minnesota government has been welcomed into your cars now. According to a PioneerPress report, Minnesota is now poised to be a backseat driver to each and every Minnesotan in the following ways:
1) The age for legally-mandated car seats for children is being raised from the rather common-sense mark of age four, to the fairly over-reaching age of eight, regardless of the height and weight of the child in question. The fine: $50 out of your diaper funds, moms and dads!
2) Let’s ignore the folks doing 90 mph on the shoulder of interstates, meth dealers and drunk drivers… and focus on pulling people over ONLY for not wearing their seatbelt. Current law says an officer can only add on a “not wearing seat belt” penalty if a driver is pulled over for another reason. Now, forgetting to buckle up is reason enough to make you late for work. The fine: $25 for each unbuckled person in the car.
3) Don’t bother buying a Bluetooth headset for your Blackberry or your Moto Razr. If the DFL gets their way, even hands-free cell phones will result in a speeding fine being DOUBLED if the driver was using a cell phone during a speeding incident, except for certain emergency calls. Current law only prohibited drivers 18 and under from using a cell phone while driving.
Welcome back to the nanny state! Next up, fines for being too old to suck your thumb, even if you banged it with a hammer moments before! It’s called the Diet Review Act of 2007!
Batman closes three Arizona schools
A student who claimed to have seen a 6-3 man dressed in a Batman costume run across school grounds, leap a fence, and disappear into the woods resulted in a 45-minute lockdown of three Cave Creek schools north of Scottsdale, Arizona, earlier this week.
Quicker than you could say, “Holy caped crusader!” cops were at the scene searching for… wait for it… Batman. The gullible administrators who bought the kid’s story defended their over-reaction like so in an Associated Press story:
Nedda Shafir, a spokeswoman for the Cave Creek Unified School District, said putting all the schools on lockdown was a precautionary measure. “We didn’t want to take any chances,” Shafir said. “We just don’t want to put anyone at risk.”
Shafir is clearly not up-to-date on her comic books. Batman, as it turns out, is a good guy. Yet the spokeswoman showed not concern over school staff members like lunch lady Poison Ivy, speech therapist The Penguin, grounds maintenance worker Clayface, AEA union negotiator Harvey “Two-Face” Dent, third-grade art teacher The Riddler, Principal Selina “Catwoman” Kyle or physical education teacher The Scarecrow.
Shafir described these district employees as “model school staff, and fine, upstanding, dues-paying members of the Arizona Education Association as well as the national NEA.
Superintendent The Joker could not be reached for comment on this story, but did issue a press release inviting reporters covering the alleged Batman sighting to “gather around the flag pole” this Tuesday for an event that he promised would have concerned citizens “dying with laughter and leaving with smiles on their faces… forever!”
Sounds like fun. Toss in a Celtic cross and what more could you ask for?
Putting the jokes aside for a second, Wonderful Pessimist wonders if a certain Batman-spotting youth might have been ill-prepared for a test when he made the report of seeing “Batman” run across school grounds.
Shame on the administrator who fell for it.
