Brilliant analysis

SOXBLOG: "WE KNOW WHY THE LEFT wants to call what's going on in Iraq a civil war. The impulse to call it a civil war comes from the same place the that the need to trumpet every car bomb that exploded in Iraq came from. The people calling it a civil war do so for the same reason that they rallied around an overtly anti-Semitic lunatic like Cindy Sheehan.
The left wants to embarrass the Bush administration"
read the whole thing

Be forewarned Chronicle!

TCS Daily - Newspapers in Trouble?: "It was just a year ago that I predicted -- to considerable consternation and censure from the press -- that most major newspapers would be dead or dying by the end of this decade. Apparently, I was being conservative"

Imagine....

Council criticized for new contract lacking King holiday: "Norton Shores City Council members got more flak Tuesday for failing to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday when they approved a five-year contract with department of public works employees.
Members of Muskegon Community Solidarity who attended the council's meeting continued their pressure on the council to recognize the national holiday celebrated around the assassinated civil rights leader's birthday, which was Jan. 15. Solidarity wants employees to be given the day off -- a change city staff said would cost $29,000 annually unless traded for another employee holiday."
Imagine if Solidarity cared as much for educating the kids in Muskegon Heights as they care for an extra day off for NS workers. Imagine......

MSU Spartans Hockey Sat 25th

Spartantailgate.com - MSU Spartans & Michigan State Fan Site: "Spartantailgate.com - All the Latest Michigan State Spartans Sports News Hockey team to face New Hampshire in first round

M-ISTA?

WSJ.com - Microsoft Delays Windows Vista Debut Again: "Microsoft Corp. said it is delaying its long-awaited Windows Vista operating system, a decision that could cause headaches throughout the $200 billion personal-computer industry.
The Redmond, Wash., software giant, which had been expected to begin selling Vista in October, said it will begin offering a version of the product for businesses in November. A consumer version will become broadly available in January, said James Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's platforms and services division."
This is BIG!

Good bye!

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2006: "The GALLUP polling company has dropped CNN as its outlet for electronic distribution.

GALLUP, CNN and USA TODAY have been polling partners since 1992.

'CNN has far fewer viewers than it did in the past, and we feel that our brand was getting lost and diluted,' GALLUP claimed in an internal memo, obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT. "
So long Larry King....

Monster fish

World-record bass pulled from Lake Dixon: "The bass weighed 25 pounds, 1 ounce on a hand-held scale, which if approved would shatter the world record, the 22-pound, 4-ounce bass caught by George W. Perry at Montgomery Lake in Georgia in 1932. "

Not Tiger's but pretty cool.

Maui Vacation Palace: "This extraordinary beachfront estate, on a 1/4 mile white sand beach, is a rare masterpiece in architecture and interior design and includes every luxury imaginable. Sleeps 12. 6 impeccable bedrooms, 5 marble baths, and 2 half baths. The sumptuous decor inside the forty-foot high interior has been customized with the finest art treasures from throughout the world, creating a true beachfront palace. "

Homer nods...

Heights paper's attacks draw outrage: "Muskegon Heights Councilwoman Bonnie McGlothin said Monday she plans to sue a Muskegon Heights newspaper over a political cartoon that depicted her wearing a collar and a leash. "
Um, Bonnie. No one reads the Muskegon Tribune. No one saw your cartoon. Now you are famous....doh!

Not true?

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Tiger Woods' House): "Photographs show the beachfront home of golfer Tiger Woods. "

Will these increases ever end?

1-mill special-ed tax on fall ballot: "Voters in Muskegon County's school districts will be asked in November to approve a 1-mill tax increase for special education services. "

Why MSU rarely beats Ohio State?

In Sports, Red Is Winning Color, Study Says: "When opponents of a game are equally matched, the team dressed in red is more likely to win, according to a new study. "

Eject! Eject! Eject!

Eject! Eject! Eject!: "Why go AWOL and write a movie script, when the Idiotarian Mootbat Hunting Season is in full flower, and the skies are black with swarms of gaseous, leathery-winged bloviators, ripe for the skewering? Well, I'll tell you. On my best day here at trusty Triple-E, I might reach forty thousand people. With a semi-successful film, I might reach ten million, maybe ten times that. "
This guy is funny. I'd like to see his movie.

Brilliant blogger

The Belmont Club: A reason to believe: "Instead of insurgency the talking points have changed to how Sunnis might soon become victims of an ethnically hostile Iraqi army in a Civil War. Going from a boast of conquest to a portrayal of victim is usually an indicator of something. In my view, the shift of meme from the 'insurgency' to a 'civil war' is a backhanded way of admitting the military defeat of the insurgency without abandoning the characterization of Iraq is an American fiasco"
read his entire analysis.

Giant surprise!

Daytime TV tied to poorer mental scores in elderly: "Older women who say talk shows and soap operas are their favorite TV programs tend to score more poorly on tests of memory, attention and other cognitive skills, researchers reported Monday.
That doesn't mean that daytime television is a brain drain, they say, since it's not clear that there's a direct relationship between the two."
Could it be that stupid people watch these shows? What a cruel thing to posit....

Ford, Volvo, China?

Ford's Volvo to begin making cars in China : "Ford Motor Co.'s Volvo Car Corp. will begin producing its S40 sedan at Changan Ford's plant in the southwestern city of Chongqing,"

Overloaded!

Ezprezzo.com - Overloaded
And you think you've got it tough!
click link to see the rest.

May 24th?

Frost Dates for Michigan - Victory Seed Company

Very cool weather link

Excellent analysis on Senate races

Democratic prospects in Senate looking up - 03/18/06 - The Detroit News: "It wasn't too long ago that Democratic leader Harry Reid mused aloud how it would take a miracle for his party to gain a 50-50 tie in the Senate, much less wrest control from Republicans this fall."

good for some, not others?

West Michigan housing surplus good for some, not others: "A much different story for builders, however."

Danger!

WZZM 13 Grand Rapids - Prepare for powerful new Internet attacks: "The chief security officer for VeriSign Incorporated says security researchers are preparing for 'the Katrina of Internet storms.'

There's a new kind of unusually powerful Internet attack possible. It can overwhelm popular Web sites and disrupt e-mails by exploiting the computers that help manage global Internet traffic."

This is news?

Scandal shakes public radio: "An internal audit also found sloppy recordkeeping, excessive bonuses and expense-account fraud that totaled more than $50,000 from July 2001 to December 2005, said Timothy Slottow, University of Michigan's chief financial officer. U-M owns and runs Michigan Public Media."
I thought that was normal at NPR/PBS...

Weber State?

Spartans' history of first-round flops: "Like Weber State and Nevada before it, George Mason will forever evoke painful memories for Michigan State.

When those past double-digit seeds defeated MSU in the first round of the NCAA tournament - Weber State in 1995 and Nevada in 2004 - most MSU fans couldn't find those schools on a map if you spotted them the state"

Big spender?

Instapundit.com -: "At any rate, given that Ms Noonan believes, for some reason, that Ronald Reagan was a conservative and George W. Bush isn't, it's perhaps helpful to just compare the two: when Ronald Reagan left office in 1988 he was dunning us 18.1% of GDP to pay for a federal government that spent 21.2% of GDP. In 2004, the last year for which I could find numbers, George W. Bush had lowered our tax burden to 16.3% of GDP-- a level last reached in 1959--to pay for a government that spent 19.8 of GDP. "

MSU/George Mason

My Way - Sports News
Well, looks like I've just freed up some extra time on Sunday....

Wonders never cease!

Modern Drunkard Magazine Online

Will the democrats support this?

Lawmaker urges Congress to exclude illegal residents from count: "A state lawmaker is joining calls at the federal level to ensure that congressional seats are apportioned according to the number of legal citizens in each state.
Senator Jud Gilbert today introduced a resolution urging Congress to send the states a constitutional amendment to address the issue."
Don't let anyone ever tell you that there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats.

Our tax dollars at work?

WZZM 13 Grand Rapids - Study: Have Unemployment Benefits, Be Unemployed Longer: "A new report says people who have unemployment stay without work for 21 weeks on average, compared to eight weeks for people who don't get it."?

"A new report" has Ch 13 "shocked". We need a study to tell us what we already know?

Serious charge, no proof.

The Beaufort Gazette: Justice Ginsburg reveals details of threat: "Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she and former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor have been the targets of death threats from the 'irrational fringe' of society, people apparently spurred by Republican criticism of the high court."
Impeach this liar! For a sitting Supreme Court Judge to say this is slander..... oops, she didn't say that? The newspaper just made it up? Big surprise.....