Once again, Nevada Republican Sharron Angle has demonstrated her unique grasp of the issues and the electoral process. When Las Vegas reporter Nathan Baca asked her about national security policy and a Nevada military base, she replied: “I’ll answer those questions when I’m the Senator.”
Mrs. Angle also added this bit of foreign policy wisdom: “You know, the two wars that we’re in right now is exactly what we’re in.”
The District of Columbia hosts several events this weekend, as you may have heard. This city of 600,000 will be the location of the Rally to Restore Sanity, the March to Restore Fear, and dozens of counter-protests, spin-off rallies, and after-parties for each.
That’s not all. We have The Marine Corps Marathon, Howard University Homecoming (including the Military Bowl), Washington International Horse Show, Red Bull Soundclash, sports events, and countless Day of the Dead events and Halloween parties (including Zombie Lurches and a drunken mob scene in Georgetown.).
In order to better accommodate the expected weekend millions, the Chain Bridge will be closed, the subway system will undergo repairs, and dozens of streets will be closed.
In short, just another DC weekend.
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Lights out for registered sex offenders this weekend. They’re forbidden from displaying Halloween decorations, keeping the porch light on, or handing out candy to neighborhood trick-or-treaters.
Police in Maryland, California, Texas, Long Island, Louisiana, Georgia, Indiana, and elsewhere will spend Halloween night ignoring the riotous hordes of drunks careening down streets and sidewalks, the gangs of teenage arsonists, and other seasonal threats in order to babysit former offenders. Of course, it’s worth it if it keeps our children out of danger.
But it doesn’t. Why? Because there is no evidence of a threat.
A comprehensive study released last year shows that when it comes to nonfamilial sex crimes against children, Halloween is just another day. “These findings raise questions about the wisdom of diverting law enforcement resources to attend to a problem that does not appear to exist,” conclude the researchers.
The real Halloween threat to kids? Getting hit by cars.
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Contractor Halliburton knew the cement it used to seal the BP Deepwater oil rig was faulty but used it anyway, according to a report released by a federal commision. “Halliburton and BP both had results in March showing that a very similar foam slurry design to the one actually pumped at the Macondo well would be unstable, but neither acted upon that data,” according to investigators.
Thomas Roth, Halliburton’s vice-president of cementing, recently stated that his company’s tests showed the materials had “good stability,” a claim contradicted by BP officials.
Just who is to blame for the disaster?
The White House Soup of the Day for October 27, 2010, via MSNBC and FishbowlDC:
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Christine O’Donnell, Delaware Republican Senate candidate, meat-eater, and recovering witch, is also a scientific expert. In 2007 she reported on genetic engineering on Fox News:
“American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.”
Where the heck did that come from? Michael Fumento presents this hypothesis:
The White House Soup of the Day for October 26, 2010, via MSNBC and Fishbowl DC:
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You may have heard that Sony is hitting “erase” on the Walkman cassette player, stopping sale of the machine that started the personal portable music era 30 years ago. Not quite.
Sony has stopped producing and selling the cassette players in Japan, reports Shan Li in the Los Angeles Times, but at this time there are no plans to stop sales in the U.S.A.
For comprehensive Walkman information, see the fan site WalkmanCentral.com
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“Teacher evaluation is a red herring, a diversion. A diversion intended to take our glance away from the poverty and racial isolation in which these students live. It salves the conscience of the billionaire boys club and enables them to blame hard-working teachers for the poverty and inequality that mars our society and hurts children.”
– Dr. Diane Ravitch, September 24, 2010
” … the CREDO study … evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation’s five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school. The proportion of charters that get amazing results is far smaller than 17 percent.
–”The Myth of Charter Schools,” Diane Ravitch, New York Review of Books
“Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?”
–Christine O’Donnell to Chris Coons, Delaware senatorial debate, October 19, 2010.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ….”
– Amendment I, Constitution of the United States of America
“…I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States ….”
– United States Senate Oath of Office
Can you swear to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States” when you don’t know what’s in it?
“The good news is that the First Amendment also lets O’Donnell make a fool of herself.”
–John Kelso, Austin American-Statesman.
