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'Integrity' Tops Web Dictionary's Lookups

     Maybe this is the problem...no one understands integrity.

But topping the list is a word that some say gives insight into the country's collective concern about its values: Integrity.

The noun, formally defined as a "firm adherence to a code" and "incorruptibility," has always been a popular one on the Springfield-based company's Web site, said Merriam-Webster president John Morse. But this year, the true meaning of integrity seemed to be of extraordinary concern. About 200,000 people sought its definition online.

Link: 'Integrity' Tops Web Dictionary's Lookups.

That'll teach ya...

...to try and choose your most important days carefully.

Link: Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration.

The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.

David Frost doing it I understand

Link: A Marine's Dishonorable Service for Al-Jazeera, by Debbie Schlussel

Meet America's latest big boob. No, it's not one of Anna Nicole Smith's. His name is Josh Rushing, the Village Voice's fave former Marine Captain. And he's very excited about his latest showbiz role: chief American monkey for Al Jazeera.

When we last saw Rushing, he was out of a job (he was Al-Jazeera's press liaison at Central Command), going on "Nightline," Bill Moyers' "NOW" on PBS, and whatever other liberal media sop would have him and his "somebody give me a job" pronouncements. Ted Koppel gushed over him.

Rushing was looking for a job because he was essentially fired from the U.S. military after his moronic starring role in the Al-Jazeera propaganda fluff film, "Control Room."

David Frost joins al-Jazeera TV

Old British queen David Frost joins Al-Jazeera TV

David Frost joins al-Jazeera TV Sir David will broadcast from the channel's London base Veteran UK broadcaster Sir David Frost is to join Arabic-language TV station al-Jazeera, the network has confirmed.

Yup, this is what's teaching your children

And she REALLY believed she'd still have her gig by the end of the sentence?

A Greenville Technical College official who school leaders say twice referred to New Orleans evacuees in Greenville as "yard apes" has resigned, according to the school.

Link: Tech official resigns over slur, school says - (9/15/2005).

Why am I not surprised?

Everything is W's fault.  Including hurricane damage.  Freakin' asshats.  Who the heck do these people think are marshalling the evacuation of NO?  Who were those guys wearing NG uniforms passing folks into the Superdome?

Link: Daily Kos: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation..

Unfortunately, the citizens of the state of Louisiana are about to face the full force of Katrina without the benefit of their National Guard troops to protect them. This is a direct consequence of President Bush's bad decision to invade Iraq. Bush's decision to fight terrorism by taking the battle "over there" is about to hit home.

And then, of course, there's the DUmb

The Warming War

Link: OpinionJournal - Extra.

Almost unnoticed, the theology of global warming has in recent weeks suffered a number of setbacks. In referring to the theology of global warming, one is not focusing on evidence of the earth's warming in recent decades, particularly in the Arctic, but rather on the widespread insistence that such warming is primarily a consequence of man's activities--and that if only we collectively had the will, we could alter our behavior and stop the warming of the planet.

But wait...there more! Within just hours of the posting of the above article in the WSJ, the AP had the definitive answer...it was defective measuring gear!

Atmospheric researchers studying global warming have sought for years to determine why readings taken from weather balloons didn't show the same increases as readings on the ground. The difference has fueled skeptics of global warming.

Now, researchers at Yale University say exposed instruments on the balloons may be the problem.

Read the story here

Che lives, if you're ignorant

Hadda run out to the neighborhood grocery store late this evening.  While I was there, I noticed a kid, probably in his mid-twenties, walking around the store with a $100 bill in his hand (!), wearing no shirt and sporting a tattoo on his shoulder that was, at first glance, either Jesus or Che Guevara.

It was not a very good tat, but on closer inspection, it seemed to be none other than Che.

This kid had really bad teeth and between his appearance and his buddy's, I figured them for a pair of meth-lab entrepeneurs who got lost in West County while on a road trip from Jefferson County.

They were laughing and scratching and trying to decide which huge bottle of cheap whiskey they should buy.  Couldn't make up their collective mind and so they stumbled out.

But I was left with this question...why in the world would anyone like that, clearly a substance-abusing low-rent, have a picture of one of the great criminals of the 20th century carved into his skin?  How would this guy even have known about him?  I can't imagine the guy was much of a student of history.

Guevara was the worst kind of Commie, a "fortunate son" who squandered his family's money and reputation and was responsible for the deaths of thousands in Central America and Cuba.  The recent movie, The Motorcycle Diaries, glorified this POS for reasons way beyond my understanding.  Gratefully, Che was killed by the Bolivians in 1967.  If there's a God, Guevara suffered mightily before he died.

The worst part of this adventure happened when I mentioned it to the three clerks huddled around the checkout register.

None of them had any idea who Guevara was!  I know all of these folks, and I know that two of them are at least HS grads and one has a BA.  How did they miss learning about Che and his crimes against humanity?

Is the educational system really that lacking?

Kerry wants WHAT?

John Kerry, I laugh in your general direction!

Wasn't it just a little bit ago that we asked for you to release your military records, to sign the infamous Form 180?  And when you finally did, after months and months of waiting, you assigned the results to three specific and friendly news sources who released only some elements of the documents?

We're still waiting to find out the status of your military discharge, Mr. Kerry.

And now you want John Roberts' records?

Gimme a break!

Link: Kerry: Release Records on Roberts.

"We cannot do our duty if either Judge Roberts or the Bush administration hides elements of his professional record," said the Massachusetts senator who was his party's presidential candidate last year.

Making the President look bad

In this photo, President Bush is welcomed as he address the Black Expo Summer Celebration, which promotes opportunities for blacks in jobs, health care and education.  Note that the photographer chose to take the picture using the award as a foreground, subtly comparing the distorted image to the President's face.

This kind of thing happens all the time in what has become known as the MSM and it's annoying as hell.

Photographers repeatedly do this and the point is to create a funny or distorted image of the man who is the leader of the free world. 

I won't even start on what writers do to distort facts and create a warped impression (Google: "Rove").

Look, the US is thigh-deep in the Global War on Terrorism and George W. is our leader.  Live with that and get back to being an American, rather than a partisan.