Ricky has the latest shenanigans from the Democrats favorite front man.
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Will to Live
Simply amazing:
When Maggie Rogers spotted something bobbing in the water three miles into the Gulf of Mexico while on a scalloping trip with friends, she assumed it was a turtle, or a piece of sea kelp.
But as the boat got closer and slowed down, she found it was a tiny, apricot-colored kitten. Nine inches long and screaming at the top of its lungs, the cat was paddling furiously.
“We scooped him up and he sat on the boat with me for eight hours,” said Rogers, who is the finance director at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.
“He was exhausted and stressed,” Rogers said. “His heart rate was high.”
I am generally against the death penalty, but in crueltyto animal cases, I think it is justified. How someone could dump this fellow in the ocean is beyond me. Scum.
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Knock it Off
Kerry and Edwards are not gay, and if they were, who cares.
*** Update ***
The Instapundit links to two flash videos that demonstrate how stupid this whole Kerry/Edwards touching thing is.
A Growing Trend
With John Edwards elevation to VP candidate, here is a trend you will begin to hear more about:
About a year ago, 49-year-old trial lawyer Clay Mitchell’s physician retired, leaving him to look for a new internist.
With a reference from his father, a prominent gynecologist, Mitchell chose Dr. Ivan Castro of Winter Park Internal Medicine for his annual check-up.
Mitchell arrived for his appointment, filled out the paperwork, including his profession and employer’s name, and was escorted into a room. But after Mitchell changed into a paper medical gown, an office staff member informed him that because he was a trial lawyer, Castro would not attend to him.
“It was humiliating,” he says.
Castro, who was a named Top Doctor in 2003 by Orlando Magazine, still stands by his decision to not treat Mitchell.
His reason: Trial lawyers can no longer bite the hand that cares for them. And, Castro says, he is not alone. “Many of us do this for a very good reason.”
This is not a rare example:
A South Carolina surgeon dropped a patient when he found out her husband was a trial lawyer.
In New Hampshire, a neurosurgeon told the head of the state
WTF?
I can’t think of any situation in which Riordan’s comments might be found amusing:
No one ever accused Richard Riordan of being a prisoner to political correctness, but the feisty former mayor of Los Angeles and now the state’s education secretary may have outdone himself last week when he called a youngster at a book event a “stupid, dirty girl.”
The incident took place Thursday at the Santa Barbara Central Library, where Riordan stopped in to promote a summer reading program. After reading a picture book to preschoolers and young elementary school pupils, he chatted with some of them.
One girl asked whether he was aware that her name was that of an Egyptian goddess.
While her full name was not released, event participants said her first name is Isis, the archetypal Egyptian goddess who represents everything from motherhood to magic to the dead and is considered by some historians to have influenced Christian interpretation of the Virgin Mary.
Riordan apparently thought the girl was asking whether he knew what her name meant and, with a camera rolling from a local news station, made an inexplicable quip he would immediately regret.
“It means stupid, dirty girl,” he said.
The story was carried by the Associated Press and circulated statewide over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who named the 74-year-old Riordan to his Cabinet, issued a stern statement calling his appointee’s remark “unacceptable in any context.” But Schwarzenegger went on to say that Riordan “would never knowingly or intentionally upset a child. … I know he deeply regrets having made these unfortunate remarks.”
Riordan apologized to the girl on the spot, said Carol Keator, director of the Santa Barbara public library system.
Has he lost his mind? Is there really any situation where insulting a 6 year-old is considered funny? Jeebus.
Hack
To those of you who doubted me yesterday when I said Josh Marshall is nothing more than a two-nbit hack, Paul begala with a degree- check this out.
Marshall links approvingly to a painting claiming Iraq was all about oil and states:
“A painting that rather sums up President Bush and Iraq.”
What a tedious fool.
*** Update ***
A reader notes this Mencken quip:
“It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.”