Obscene Profits!

Except these obscene "profits" go to Greedy Professors instead of shareholders.
No problem for the MSM. They only attack tax paying institutions.
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE - Tuition Soars Due to Knowledge Shortfall by Ann Coulter:
It seems like a summer ritual. Rising professors' salaries mean rising tuition prices. But this year, sticker shock at the tuition window is fueling more concern than ever. And it has many people asking where is it going to end?

JAMIE COURT, CONSUMER RIGHTS ADVOCATE: Every time you see the price of tuition go up, you can hear 'ka-ching, ka-ching' in the bank accounts of the college professors.
That's how oil company profits are reported. Why not subsidize the oil companies, which provide a product essential to allowing 300 million Americans to live, and put a cap on the price of college, which seems designed to turn out more liberal parasites on the productive?
As economist Richard Vedder of Ohio University has demonstrated, every time the government subsidizes college tuition through tuition tax credits, college tuition rises by the precise amount of the tuition tax credit.
How about investigating the 'shameful display of greed' by college professors? "

Almost refreshing!

I thought only democrats got any illegal sex.
Prostitution Alleged In Cunningham Case: "Federal authorities are investigating allegations that a California defense contractor arranged for a Washington area limousine company to provide prostitutes to convicted former congressman Randy 'Duke' Cunningham (R-Calif.) and possibly other lawmakers, sources familiar with the probe said yesterday."
The drive-by-media loves this one, except there won't be any "perp-walk" for Duke. He's already livin' large in the "Big-House".

A culture of corruption!

My golly. This list is growing dang fast!
Jefferson probe figure to plead guilty: "The head of a technology company at the center of a federal investigation into Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, is expected to plead guilty today to aiding and abetting the solicitation of bribes and has agreed to cooperate with the investigation, according to court documents and sources familiar with the case. "

"... making squirrels edgy....."?

There's got to be a stronger word than "hypocrisy" to describe these hypocrites.
Threads2: "Noisy wind farms in California are making squirrels edgy and prone to scurrying for cover. This change in behaviour could have knock-on effects on animals that depend upon the squirrel, such as the golden eagle, which feeds on the rodent, and the red-legged frog and California tiger salamander, which live in its burrows. /abreak/ Wind turbine noise may affect wildlife communities all over the world, the researchers write in a forthcoming issue of Biological Conservation.
Comments:
It has been observed that the large Bourbon-Sucking Ground Sloth native to Massachussetts (Tedkennedis Taxaholic Mumblis) has been driven from his burrow at the mere rumor of nearby wind turbines to loudly utter its call of ''NIMBY, NIMBY.'' Dontcha just love it when leftoids consume each other? "

Maybe Sudan would be a better visit?

My Way News: "A Mexican man who at 550 kg (1,200 lb) is possibly the heaviest person in the world hopes to travel to Italy for a life-saving operation to shed weight"
I mean, like what's this guy eat for breakfast, entire grocery stores? And what's that blob-like thing between his legs?

Hold on here!

The Deetroit city council won't allow drivers to use cell phones in Detroit? Take a wrong turn, easy to do in that hellhole, and you're gonna need cell-help ASAP. But you're breakin' the law by call the poolice? Like the Deetroit poolice need more things to do than arresting criminals. Gimme a break.
ClickOnDetroit.com-City Council Approves Cell Phone Ban: "Drivers in the city of Detroit will have to end their calls, as a cell phone ban has been approved."

A Culture of corruption!

Truth Detector: Albright & Clinton: Somebody Is Lying: "Somebody is lying. (story) 'Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright insisted yesterday that Sudan never offered to round up bin Laden and extradite him to the US, saying that President Clinton's claim to the contrary was a misstatement. She was asked about Clinton's admission in 2002 on Hannity & Colmes last night that he had turned down Sudan's offer to extradite bin Laden because he had committed no crime against America. Albright told Hannity & Colmes, 'He was not [offered]. He was not.''
Too bad the Drive-by-media is only interested in making up "Bush lied" lies and not reporting the real thing. I guess no Pulitzers for that.

Can't blame them for asking!

Fred On Everything: What the US does is to say to impoverished and desperate people, "See this river? Don't cross it. If you do, we'll give you all sorts of privileges, and jobs, and a chance to advance in life and give your kids a good future. Now, don't cross it, you hear? "
AtlantaGuy send this from Fred, who lives in Mexico.
My take: The "illegals" problem can be fixed instantly, at close to zero cost. People without proof of legal residence are immediately deported. No hearings. If they choose to attempt re-entry to USA, have them apply through established channels from outside our country. Any person utilizing any free public services, (drivers licenses in particular) must provide similar proof of legality or be denied service , except in the case of medical emergency. Every state must set federally approved voter verification procedures. Any state or city not in compliance will be denied federal funds for those services. Giant penalties for any company found employing illegals. Simple, cheap. Don't even need no stinkin' fence.

Free books online!

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Cool site of the Day from Komando.com

Wonder what's his favorite restaurant?

Princess Mary in a dad-eat-dog world The World The Australian: "THE royal families of Europe have traditionally been dog lovers, pampering their corgis, labradors and wolfhounds. Prince Henrik of Denmark, however, loves dogs in a rather different way: delicately sliced, lightly fried and served on a plate.
'Dog meat tastes like rabbit,' he said in an interview published in the lifestyle magazine Ud & Se. 'Like dried baby goat. Or perhaps - I know! - like veal. Like the veal of a baby suckling calf, only drier.' "
These pure-bread "royals" might serve the world better as pig feed.
Oh, he's French. Thought ya'd like to know.

Great Blue Angels "up close and personal"

Full throttle with the Blue Angels ajc.com
The AJS sleeper doesn't seem too bad. Very fun site.

Obscene profits!

Starbucks 2Q Earnings Rise 27 Percent - Yahoo! News: "Starbucks Corp. reported Wednesday that its fiscal second-quarter profit rose 27 percent, citing brisk customer demand for its coffee drinks, a strong showing for green tea beverages and its ever-growing footprint of stores.
Lucky for Starbucks all the "outraged-by-obscene profits" Senators are grillin' the guys providing us with gas for our cars......

Suicidal move for Bolivia

Bolivia's Risky Game: The sudden move to nationalize energy reserves is almost certain to alienate foreign investors -- and even allies like Brazil
Bolivian President Evo Morales' announcement on May 1 that he is nationalizing the country's oil and gas resources made headlines around the world.
Map included for American public school graduates.

Kraut's aren't having a problem.

German's BMW says 1st-quarter net profit rose 81 percent
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Automaker BMW AG said Wednesday that its first-quarter net profit rose 81 percent, driven in part by the sale of its stake in engine maker Rolls-Royce Group PLC and improved demand for its stylish but pricey luxury sedans.
Jeepers, I wonder if there is any corolation with quality?

Didn't bother Toyota or Honda

April auto sales hurt by higher gas prices - Yahoo! News: "Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T) posted an almost 9 percent gain and Honda Motor Co. (7267.T) notched a 6.5 percent rise in stronger-than-expected sales, while General Motors (NYSE:GM - news) saw sales drop 7 percent and Ford (NYSE:F - news) lost 3 percent."
What's weather got to do with GM/Ford sales that doesn't affect Toyota or Honda? A little media bias?

This is scary!

Filling tanks, funding dictators - Los Angeles Times: "Of the top 14 oil exporters, only one is a well-established liberal democracy, Norway. Two others have recently made a transition to democracy, Mexico and Nigeria. Iraq is trying to follow in their footsteps. That's it. Every other major oil exporter is a dictatorship and the run-up in oil prices has been a tremendous boon to them.

My associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, Ian Cornwall, calculates that if oil averages $71 a barrel this year, 10 autocracies stand to make about $500 billion more than in 2003, when oil was at $27. This windfall helps to squelch liberal forces and entrench noxious dictators in such oil producers as Russia (which stands to make $115 billion more this year than in 2003) and Venezuela ($36 billion). Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez can buy off their publics with generous subsidies and ignore Western pressure while sabotaging democratic developments from Central America to Central Asia. "

Prices to die for....

Police seek ID of heart-attack victim stricken in Wal-Mart store: "Police seek ID of heart-attack victim stricken in Wal-Mart store
FRUITPORT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) He suffered a heart attack and collapsed while inside a Wal-Mart SuperCenter. He was taken to a hospital, where he soon was pronounced dead.
The man collapsed around 9 p.m. April 24 in the store's grocery section, after telling an employee that he was having trouble breathing. More than a week later, police in Muskegon County's Fruitport Township were still trying to find out his name."
Or is Cheney and Walmart secretly using the Patriot Act to kill innocent Americans?

Ain't love grand!

Bride, 104, chooses man of 33 as her 21st husband:
Associated Press in Kuala Lumpur
A 33-year-old man in northern Malaysia has married a 104-year-old woman, saying mutual respect and friendship had turned to love, the Star newspaper said yesterday.
It was Muhammad Noor Che Musa's first marriage and his wife's 21st.

The occassional rant....

Names have been changed to protect the guilty.
In a message dated 5/1/2006 7:06:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, xxxxxx.net writes:
Happy third anniversary Mr. Mission Accomplished... since that time there have only been 2,258 US service personnel killed, 17,000 wounded, who knows how many innocent Iraqis, and zip-zero-nada progress toward that new Iraq thing... a record of pride? Help me, I’m confused... Al

Al,
Confused you certainly are.
Seems you forgot to count the thousands of suicide murderers who met their "virgins" compliments of our President Bush's Coalition.
But thanks, anyway, for the well deserved congratulations for our spectacularly well done results in Iraq. Kind of amazing when you review the predictions of the pre-war liberal media and their appeaser cronies in the democrat party.
What the Bush administration has accomplished is truly amazing given the anti-American solidarity of the democrats, the drive-by MSM and the few pandering RINOs.
One quakes to think that their same Quisling mindset might have prevailed in 1776, Gettysburg, Marne, Dunkirk, Midway, Pork Chop Hill or the Cold War.
Or United Flight 93! (oh my gosh! Imagine if United 93 was loaded with a bunch of libs coming back from today's "new immigrant" parades!)
We've all read or lived through Vichy France, Saigon, 1978-79 Tehran, Beruit, "unilateral disarmament".
My gosh, the "peace" years while Clinton's minions gutted our military were an exact copy of Jimmah's cowardly disassembly of our nation's defense. Look to the grand "successes" of Haiti, Rawanda, Palestine, "Oil-For-Food". And let's not forget that "heaven-on-earth", Saddam's Iraq.
Wow, let's get that crowd back in charge again!
Yes, a record of honor, of pride and of unpredicted success in our mission.
And a commitment to finish the job.
No matter how loudly the defeatists bleat.
Thank you, again for your kind thoughts. And your for support for our valiant soldiers and the brave freedom lovers of the new Iraq!
Gordo
PS: Is the "war against poverty" over because it's gone on too dang long? Just wonderin'.

What are they teeching in skoolz?

Poll Shows Many Can't Find La. on Map: _ Six in 10 could not find Iraq on a map of the Middle East.
_ While the outsourcing of jobs to India has been a major U.S. business story, 47 percent could not find the Indian subcontinent on a map of Asia.
_ While Israeli-Palestinian strife has been in the news for the entire lives of the respondents, 75 percent were unable to locate Israel on a map of the Middle East.
_ Six in 10 did not know the border between North and South Korea is the most heavily fortified in the world. Thirty percent thought the most heavily fortified border was between the United States and Mexico. "

Now this is satisfying!

Yup, he's dead. Case closed.
Link

just hangin' on...

We're Here, We're Square, Get Used to It: "I am a 44-year-old woman who grew up in Berkeley who has never once voted for a Republican, or crossed a picket line, or failed to send in a small check when the Doctors Without Borders envelope showed up. I believe that we should not have invaded Iraq, that we should have signed the Kyoto treaty, that the Starr Report was, in part, the result of a vast right-wing conspiracy. I believe that poverty is our most pressing issue and that we should be pouring money and energy into its eradication. I believe that allowing migrant women and children to die of thirst in American deserts is a moral transgression that will stain us forever.
But despite all that, there is apparently no room for me in the Democratic Party. In fact, I have spent much of the past week on a forced march to the G.O.P. And the bayonet at my back isn't in the hands of the Republicans; the Democrats are the bullyboys"
Where's a lib to go?

OxBlog

OxBlog: "Posted 9:05 AM by Patrick Porter

JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU'VE SEEN EVERYTHING! A militant Islamist would have to be theologically nimble to reconcile this with his faith (hat-tip, Erudito):
So how does a pious Islamic extremist and potential terrorist pass the time? He watches hardcore porn. Investigators found that at least one of two Islamic extremist planning an attack on the US from Canada was in possession of hardcore pornography. "

They wouldn't dare!

These amigos are talkin' hardball!
L.A.'S RECONQUISTA REPORTER: "
"You took this country. You killed people in order to take this country for yourselves."
Who is Valdez? A MecHa leader? An ANSWR radical? A La Raza official?
No.
He's a local FOX reporter at KTTV-LA.
Contact KTTV management here."