Sep 05, 2009 -
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September 5, 2009 7:00 AMThe Omnipresent LeaderThey want us to “pledge to be a servant to our president”?By Mark Steyn
On Friday, I had the rare honor of appearing in the pages of the New York Times, apropos President Obama’s plans to beam himself into every schoolhouse in the land in the peculiar belief that Generation iPod will find this an enthralling technical novelty. As Times reporters James C. McKinley Jr. and Sam Dillon wrote: “Mark Steyn, a Canadian author and political commentator, speaking on the Rush Limbaugh show on Wednesday, accused Mr. Obama of trying to create a cult of personality, comparing him to Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader.” Oh, dear!
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Jun 02, 2009 -
Spitting in the eye of mainstream education
Three no-frills charter schools in Oakland mock liberal orthodoxy, teach strictly to the test -- and produce some of the state's top scores.
By Mitchell Landsberg
May 31, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-charter31-2009may31,0,6518091,full.story
Reporting from Oakland -- Not many schools in California recruit teachers with language like this: "We are looking for hard working people who believe in free market capitalism. .
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Jun 09, 2009 -
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Published: June 7, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/arts/television/08colb.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=stephen%20colbert&st=cse
CAMP VICTORY, Iraq — It was Sunday night in Baghdad, and President Obama was ordering Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of the American troops here, to shave Stephen Colbert’s head. (Not to give everything away, but the general is not as brutal with an electric razor as one would expect a bald man to be; Mr. Colbert’s hairdresser, on the other hand, has a merciless streak.)
War, as things go, is a fairly unironic exercise.
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May 07, 2009 -
Bob Baurys, Founder and Chairman of the board of Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers really explains how someone feels when starting out with realizing you have Fibro.
“It starts with a simple tingling hand or some weird sensation in your shoulders. Then it progresses; a little worse each month, feelings almost like you have a cold in different parts of your body.
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Jan 03, 2008 -
Project codename wackdoodle - I think I'm the newest and squishiest Transformer.
However, I maybe the smartest Transformer cause I successfully got out of my expensive gym membership without paying any penalties. Go wack, it's your birthday (thank goodness it isn't - don't need to be 37 yet)!
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Mar 10, 2009 -
I hadn't seen this until today...
The Little Mr. Conservative
By JAN HOFFMAN
March 8, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/fashion/08conserve.html?ref=fashion
SITTING in the back seat of his mother’s van as she drives through Atlanta suburbs, Jonathan Krohn is about to sign off with a conservative radio talk show host in Florida. In the 40 minutes he’s been on the air, with the help of his mother’s cellphone, this hyper-articulate Georgia eighth grader has attacked the stimulus bill, identified leaders he thinks will salvage the Republican Party’s image, and assessed the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
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Jan 19, 2009 -
If You Get Caught Sleeping At Your Desk At Work
10. "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."
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Jan 29, 2009 -
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
The New York Times
updated 4:19 a.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 29, 2009
WASHINGTON - The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket.
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Sep 20, 2007 -
Hello sugars!
Here is my weekly blog, reinstated at last.
present weight 275!
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Nov 13, 2007 -
Hi everyone,
The last few weeks we have focused on weekly challenges that are not necessarily a certain fitness move, but different kinds of mindsets and thoughts about exercise and your fitness program.
As the holidays are coming and everyone seems to be getting more and more busy, I was thinking this week would be a good week to have our challenge be some fitness moves you can do, on the go, at work quickly even if you have to hide in the bathroom for a few minutes to make them happen. That sounds a bit over the top, but I think you may see what I am trying to say.
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