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January 19, 2006A few stories big and smallishLight blogging most of the day due to errands and then a function tonight at Buster’s school, but a few things to think about: A child appears to be coming out of a coma on the eve of a planned pulling of her nutrition. This is going to keep happening, you know. Doctors DON’T know everything, particularly when it comes to the human brain, and the spirit, as well. This child is a minor, could not have declared her intentions for herself even if - at some point previous - she’d had a chance to. I hope to get a chance to write on it later or tomorrow. An alumni group from UCLA is paying students to give them a heads up on “radical” professors. “We’re just trying to get people back on a professional level of things,” said the group’s president and founder, Andrew Jones, a 2003 UCLA graduate and former chairman of the student Bruin Republicans. Some of those targeted say it’s a witch-hunt reminiscent of Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communism crusade in 1950s. “Any sober, concerned citizen would look at this and see right through it as a reactionary form of McCarthyism,” said education professor Peter McLaren, one of those cited by the association. “Any decent American is going to see through this kind of right-wing propaganda. I just find it has no credibility.” The association’s action led to the resignation of at least one of its 20-plus advisory board members. “That just seems to me way too intrusive,” said Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom, an affirmative action opponent and former UCLA professor. “It seems to me a kind of vigilantism that I very much object to.” I have problems with it. I wouldn’t call it McCarthyism, and I DO think this alumni group may well intend merely to try to move professors back to teaching without indoctrinating. But I don’t think this is the way to go about it. Your thoughts? Osama’s truce offering sounds like baloney on rye to me…but it could well be an indicator that AlQ knows it has lost. Alexandra, meanwhile, has a huge and up-to-the-minute round up on Iran. Robert Novak is writing on The Barrett report and Gateway notes that it shines a light of hypocrisy on someone who just a few days ago railed against corruption and cronyism as though they were bad things. Some are finding the revelation that Peggy Richardson, former IRS commissioner during the Clinton years and a “close friend of Hillary’s” very interesting. Speaking of the Barrett Report, the boys at Powerline are shocked, shocked that the NY Times sees no whistleblowers in whoever leaked an advance copy of the thing. Check out their phrasing. The American Thinker says the press should ask Hillary the hard questions in ‘06. Yeah, that’s gonna happen! GayPatriot has more thoughts. Hello, new home constructions are at an all-time high. BUT…construction fell off in December…as it always does…BUT…that means bad news is just around the corner…as it always is when the press reports on anything to do with the economy while Theevilbushitler is president. Andrew Klavan asks, WHY did God choose the Jews? Whatever the reason, true, virulent anti-Semitism is such a good indicator of the presence of evil that I’m tempted to believe that when God made the Jews his chosen people, this is what he chose them for: to be a sort of Villainy Early Detection System for everyone else. Unfortunately, in his infinite love for his creation, I suspect the Big Guy may have overestimated our intelligence. Maybe he thought that after Hitler we’d just, you know, like, get it. Instead, we still see apparently intelligent people appeasing, making excuses for and even embracing the sorts of stinkers who ought to set off the Big Alarm. That’s why I think the system could use more bells and whistles — a loud honking noise perhaps, or even closed captioning for the morally impaired. Thus, when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Holocaust is a “myth” or that Israel “must be wiped off the map,” you would hear a loud honk and words would appear in the air below his face: “Hello. I am an evil madman. Please stop negotiating with me now and proceed to cripple my nuclear capability by any means necessary.” Jack Kelly explains what it is he doesn’t like about the news media. Good piece WMD stuff found in Iraq. I don’t know why this is in my pile, but there you go. Lorie Byrd writes about the new season of “24″. If you’re going to comment, don’t tell me anything about this season, yet! I’m only up to season 3 on DVD! http://theanchoressonline.com/2006/01/19/a-few-stories-big-and-smallish/trackback/ 10 Responses to “A few stories big and smallish” |
January 19th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Surviving Miner Awakening From Coma
The sole survivor of the Sago mine disaster appears to be coming out of his coma. Randal McCloy move
January 19th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Regarding Haleigh, see this Boston Globe article.
The original order to yank the ventilator and feeding tube was obtained from a juvenile court judge less than 1 month after she was hospitalized. According to a friend:
John Gamelli, a family friend from Westfield, said he was told by Avrett yesterday that Haleigh was able to respond to commands, such as releasing an object from her hand when she was asked.
The birth mother has been forbidden to talk about the case:
Allison Avrett, Haleigh’s biological mother, said yesterday that she saw improvements in a hospital visit last week, but was convinced by doctors and DSS workers that hand movements that she had seen were involuntary.
When Avrett visited Haleigh yesterday morning, Avrett said she again observed movement that caused her to reconsider her previous view that Haleigh was better off if allowed to die.
Avrett said she cannot give any more details about Haleigh, because the DSS has told her not to discuss the case.
January 19th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Kelly’s piece was pretty good, but I think he was a tad off on the Murtha business.
Do you have any idea how many blogs are now saved in my Favorites file, Anchoress? And that’s your fault! Yours, and neo-neocon, SC&A, sistertodjah, and on and on …witcher danged links!
January 19th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Entering The Box Canyon
Hugh Hewitt interviewed CNN’s Ed Henry, who, when asked who he voted for in the 2004 election, hung up rather than respond. As Hugh writes:This is a box canyon for MSM, and one which the allegedly “objective” reporters hate to…
January 19th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Why did God choose the Jews? Only He knows, but there is a fulfillment of prophecy here: He warned them that, if they did not remain faithful, they would be outcasts, with no land to call their own. Yes, they have Israel, but they can’t truly call it their own, since so much of it is still contested. It was also warned that the rest of mankind would set its hand against them. What do we see today? Antisemitism in some rather surprising areas of society. Of course, there is also something to the point that the ancient Hebrews were the origin point of so much of our moral code. That, of course, is also why there is so much anti-Catholicism out there, too. It is suggested that the Big Guy needs to put in more whistles and bells. I’m not sure that’s going to work. Just like every other time in history, a bell or a whistle isn’t going to do the job. Mankind usually needs to be whapped on the head with a two-by-four. Just hang around long enough; it’ll happen. After all, there’s a prophecy from Fatima that goes something like, just when it seems that evil has triumphed, God will show His hand. You better watch out, and I ain’t talkin’ about Santa Claus! ;D
January 19th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
These ‘link’ posts are just great.
It’s like reading the back of the cereal box, in the morning- addictive.
The only difference is that your posts are waay better.
Besides, reading about Riboflavin gets old.
January 19th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
Osama’s truce offer…
How long before the Leftists scream for this? How long before we begin to rationalize the deaths of nearly 3,000 on 9/11 as something we can live with as long as we can stop the War on Terror? How long?
Soon? I’m guessing we’ll hear the demands for surrender within a week. The MSM will push it as they continue their own support of the leftists agenda.
A week. I’m just guessing.
January 19th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Employers can stop hiring students from Left-wing universities, would that be preferable? Alumni organizations have the right to control where their money is going. Who voted to swing these universities all the way to the Left? For anyone thinking that this is an over-reaction, some universities are running with a 90%+ Leftist faculty. Not much diversity of thought or opinion there.
January 20th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
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January 20th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
David Horowitz, anti-communist and fighter for campus intellectual diversity, has weighed in stompingly against the call, with promises of $100 rewards, for student recordings of profs suspected of leftism. Horowitz complains that the plan is designed not to promote campus intellectual diversity but, instead, to purge the university of leftist ideas. Horowitz says, “Several of its conservative board members, James Rogan, Stephan Thernstrom, Manny Klauser and Jascha Kessler have already resigned. We applaud them for doing so, and hope they will be followed by others.” To top it off, Horowitz says some very harsh things about Andrew Jones, whose “brainchild” the group is, according to Horowitz, and who, Horowitz says, worked briefly at Horowitz’s Center for the Study of Popular Culture and was fired for….
“Bruin Alumni Association: How not wage a campus campaign“