http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com Enthusiasm Lacking Foresight Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:55:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We’ve been absent a long time, but couldn’t resist posting this one quick item. Check out ObamaForCHEnge.com. :-) http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2008/02/14/obama-for-chenge/ Finally, the U.N. steps up and takes some action on Kim Jong-Il. http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/07/08/punishing-kim-jong-il/ Interesting visualization. http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/07/01/who-owns-the-media/ I’m suspicious. By now most are familiar with the efforts of the NY Times to aid and abet the enemy. In yet another disclosure of secret anti-terror activity on the part of the United States and cooperating allies, the NY Times seems to be, once again, working to ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/06/27/who-is-the-ny-times-trying-to-warn/ I’ve put together four Amazon Listmania lists for those who want to easily and quickly purchase the children’s books that go along with the “Five in a Row” (FIAR) series, a popular homeschool supplement. Five in a Row Volume 1 Book List This list includes: • The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack • ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/06/27/five-in-a-row-amazon-book-lists/ It has now been over a month since I completed the book Presumed Guilty by James Scott Bell, and as I thought I had already written a review, I had moved on to other reading materials. It has come to my attention that I never posted a review and ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/06/20/book-review-presumed-guilty-by-james-scott-bell/ Read this. Kid puts injured snake out of its misery, neighbor girls’ parents report animal cruelty, 13 year-old is charged with felony. Amazing. Richard’s mom, Terry, said she doesn’t see why the case went that far. “He wasn’t committing a crime,” she said. “He was putting an injured animal ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/06/11/what-about-mousetraps/ That’s the hilarious headline on Yahoo where an ABC retread runs the pro-terrorist news operation. I wonder who else is mourning Zarqawi’s death? The Democrat Party maybe? From the Yahoo headline it looks like the American media is mourning his death too. I guess we ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/06/10/insurgent-groups-mourn-al-zarqawis-death/ It’s not often that I find something on NPR worth linking to, but this article is pretty good. After listening to the results of this project for several weeks, I knew I could do three minutes, too. Certainly not on world peace or the search for meaning in an increasingly distracted ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/06/01/believing-in-barbecue/ Despite the fact that this next step has been telegraphed to anyone who has been paying attention, it’s still shocking that it’s actually happening. Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization of ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/05/30/pedophilia-goes-mainstream/ Dan over at Riehl World View thinks Google will stumble due to non-existent customer service. I agree that Google’s service is pretty bad, but their products are free. And sugesting that GMail only having 2.5% of the market share of email is a bad thing is, in my opinion, missing ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/05/24/google-will-stumble/ The ninth circuit court has ruled that it is ok for public school kids to be put through a role play that recites prayers, memorizes professions of faith, and chanting praises to god at the teacher’s direction. You might be surprised at this news, until you realize that the god they ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/05/24/9th-circuit-ok-with-god-in-public-school/ If you haven’t seen ‘em yet, check out the documents that Wired News has posted. Here we present Klein’s statement in its entirety, with inline links to all of the document excerpts where he cited them. You can also download the complete file here (pdf). The full AT&T documents are filed ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/05/22/att-whistleblower-nsa-documents/ Great quote from the Indianpolis area today, after Comcast went down due to a power failure. “We’re missing ‘Will and Grace,’ ” cried Janet Cowan, who lives with her husband in the 1900 block of Skiles Street. When told she could watch it by unplugging the cable connection and tuning to the ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/05/19/tv-without-the-cable-wow/ The TSA has a new system for spotting terrorists, it’s the creative idea of watching people’s behavior as they go through airport checkpoints. There is even a clever acronym: Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT). But they are quick to point out, in the interest of not offending Middle Eastern ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/tsas-emasculated-spot-program/ Victor Davis Hanson makes a point. http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/05/17/revisionist-history/ Previously, we reviewed the book Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed! and raved about it. The second book by Ms. DeBrecht, Help! Mom! Hollywood is in My Hamper! is definitely clever and has an excellent message, yet didn’t get me laughing as hard. Most likely the reason ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/05/17/book-review-help-mom-hollywoods-in-my-hamper/ Wow. What’s the world coming to when a student gets sued for making fun of the teacher? Sure, it’s not a great character quality to make fun of other people, but what kind of teacher sues a student for something silly like this? Teacher Robert Muzzillo pursued the charges ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/05/16/teacher-sues-student-for-name-calling/ While some may cry that it’s a tragedy of justice, it seems that death and martyrdom were just what Moussaoui wanted. Life without the possibility of parole seems to me to be a worse punishment than death. After 50 years in the super max with no outside contact ... http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/05/04/moussaoui-denied-martyrdom/ Midnight Rain has the Bush Peso. Michelle is suggesting you send them in to your Senators when asked for donations. Watch the full scoop on today’s Hot Air. http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2006/05/03/bush-peso/