Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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Three different calculators from our wonderful government!

EXPELLED

live dangerously be a conservative: EXPELLED: "I Went to see Ben Stein’s movie “Expelled”, which opened yesterday. I didn’t know what to expect. I thought it would be a funny satirical type of thing. I was wrong. But let me set the stage. I chose a matinee (3:40 to be exact) at a multi theatre movie house. I wondered if I should call ahead to make sure I could get in. I didn’t. I pulled into the parking lot and decided I had made the right decision, there were very few cars there. They had 16 different shows on the venue. When I went and found the theatre with Expelled, I went in and not a soul was there nor did anyone come in later. It was great. A private showing for me."

An excellent review from Muskegonite "Live Dangerously"
click and read it all with lots of links!

Muskegon Chronicle circulation numbers

ACCESS ABC: eCirc for Newspapers

The Chronicle won't address rumors of trouble or confirm their circulation so Muskegon Pundit will give it a try.


US NEWSPAPER - SEARCH RESULTS
Search Type: United States
Circulation averages for the six months ended:9/30/2007
State: Michigan
Selection: muskegon (Contains)

CHRONICLE, MUSKEGON (MUSKEGON CO.)
AVG E (M-F)
DLY
42,391


CHRONICLE, MUSKEGON (MUSKEGON CO.)
SAT E
DLY
44,294

CHRONICLE, MUSKEGON (MUSKEGON CO.)
SUN
DLY
47,488

Getting to Know John McCain



"For example, in 1991 Cindy McCain was visiting Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh when a dying infant was thrust into her hands. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save her life, so Mrs. McCain brought the child home to America with her. She was met at the airport by her husband, who asked what all this was about.
Mrs. McCain replied that the child desperately needed surgery and years of rehabilitation. 'I hope she can stay with us,' she told her husband. Mr. McCain agreed. Today that child is their teenage daughter Bridget."

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Drink a beer and lose the fear - study

Drink a beer and lose the fear - study
"DRINKING alcohol dulls the brain's ability to detect threats, US researchers said today in a study that helps explain why drunk people get into bar fights and drive their cars."

Australian banned from taking food to Beijing Olympics | NEWS.com.au

Australian banned from taking food to Beijing Olympics NEWS.com.au: "In another example of the iron-clad control Beijing is trying to exert on foreigners, Games organisers have told Australia it must source all food from within China."

Incumbent judges running unopposed - Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com

Incumbent judges running unopposed - Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com: "Muskegon County will see no judicial contests in this year's elections.
No challengers filed by Tuesday's 4 p.m. deadline to be a candidate"

Townhall.com::Blog

Townhall.com::Blog: "Providing Context For Reverend Wright: The New Audio Of His Sermons"

America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree

America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree
"the killer statistic: Among high-school students who graduated in the bottom 40 percent of their classes, and whose first institutions were four-year colleges, two-thirds had not earned diplomas eight and a half years later. ......... Yet four-year colleges admit and take money from hundreds of thousands of such students each year!
Even worse, most of those college dropouts leave the campus having learned little of value, and with a mountain of debt and devastated self-esteem from their unsuccessful struggles. Perhaps worst of all, even those who do manage to graduate too rarely end up in careers that require a college education."

Truth In Jazz Orchestra-Tuesday April 29, 7:30

Truth In Jazz Orchestra - Home Page

Muskegon Parks survey

Lake water levels. How low will it go?

How low will it go? - mlive.com: "The International Joint Commission, a U.S.-Canadian panel that advises the two nations on Great Lakes issues, is studying water levels in lakes Michigan, Huron, Superior and Erie. A committee working on the IJC's International Upper Great Lakes Study will host a public hearing on lake levels Sunday, from 10 a.m. to noon, at Grand Valley State University's Annis Water Resources Institute, 740 W. Shoreline."

The Truth About Tuskgegee

VDARE.COM
"The Truth About Tuskegee"

By Jared Taylor
The Tuskegee syphilis study ranks almost with slavery and lynching as a symbol of America's racist past. There is probably not one black American adult who does not know—or thinks he knows—about an experiment from the 1930s in which government health authorities deliberately withheld treatment from 400 black syphilitics just to see what would happen to them.

click the links above or click "comments" below to see the entire article.

A Victory Against Voter Fraud - WSJ.com

A Victory Against Voter Fraud - WSJ.com: "So we have the irony of two liberal icons in sharp disagreement over yesterday's Supreme Court decision. Justice Stevens, the real reformer, believes voter ID laws are justified to prevent fraud. Barack Obama, the faux reformer, hauls out discredited rhetoric that they disenfranchise voters."

Climate: The great hockey stick debate - earth - 18 March 2006 - New Scientist Environment

Climate: The great hockey stick debate - earth - 18 March 2006 - New Scientist Environment

Monday, April 28, 2008

Operation Chaos! AP Poll: Clinton leads McCain by 9 points


AP Poll: Clinton leads McCain by 9 points: "Hillary Rodham Clinton now leads John McCain by 9 points in a head-to-head presidential matchup, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll that bolsters her argument that she is more electable than Democratic rival Barack Obama. Obama and Republican McCain are running about even."

Oh my GOD!

The super-dems MUST vote for MrsBill if they have any hope to win the national election........ OpChaos....still .... tickin'........... heh... heh. heh...

The Muskegon Chronicle... Racial diversity disappearing?


The Muskegon Chronicle... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Things are gettin' kinda "racist" at The Chronicle.... if you define "racist" as gettin' rid of the "folks of color" and replacing them with them with white breads.

Facts are dangerous things......

YouTube - Barack Obama & Jeremiah Wright- Amerikkkan foreign policy

YouTube - Barack Obama & Jeremiah Wright- Amerikkkan foreign policy

Muskegon principal talks about recent school studies - mlive.com

Muskegon principal talks about recent school studies - mlive.com: "The best way to say it is that Johns Hopkins holds all schools in contention for that. In other words, they're looking at schools no matter whether you have 300 students and you come from an economically successful area, or whether you have, in our case, about 5,000 kids in the total district and it's considered an economically-distressed area. So they're weighing the entire group, the entire spectrum of schools. For a school that fits our profile, we're doing well. But we are not considering ourselves based against schools like ours; we need to compete with schools in general. So we're trying to compete with those proficient schools as much as anybody else."

A very sad NON-ANSWER to the question of why the Muskegon HS kids do so poorly in reedin', ritin' and nummers.

Ya can't fix it if ya deny it's broken.

Voter ID card cost

SOS - Michigan Personal Identification Card Fees:
"The fee for a personal identification card is $10.
No fee will be charged for applicants 65 years of age or older, to individuals whose license has been revoked, suspended, or denied because of physical or mental disability, or for persons who are legally blind."

Of course, Michigan law does NOT require a person to present photo ID of any kind in order to vote.