Sunni insurgents seem largely in control of Fallujah and Iraq’s Anbar province, where an estimated 1,500 of the nearly 4,500 American troops killed in Iraq perished. Fallujah, the province’s second largest city, is the latest prize in the long-simmering war between the Shi‘ite and Sunni strain[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hypocrisy’
January 4th, 2014 - 10:13 am § in Misc.
HAPPY NEW YEAR … unless you are a refugee in Europe or Israel
Europe’s Deepening Refugee Crisis A young Liberian refugee arrives in Italy, where he is left to fend for himself and winds up homeless in a filthy slum. When he flees to Germany, the government there invokes EU asylum law and sends him back. It is a cycle of degradation faced by thousands of [...]
Sunday Revelations: from Kampala
On Backsliding Christians and their Yawning Lovers June 20, 2011 in Christianity, Ugandan Media | by James Onen | Leave a comment Eddie Ssemakula’s article yesterday, titled “When Your Lover Yawns” (from the Sunday Monitor of 19th June) was an interesting one. In it, he speculates about what [...]
January 3rd, 2014 - 2:30 am § in Misc.
South Carolina: Founder of the Tea Party
The Charleston Mercury said, “The tea has been thrown overboard, the revolution of 1860 has been initiated.” Has anything changed since then? Four Tea Party Challengers to Lindsey Graham Vie for One-on-One in Runoff Election Columbia Tea Party | Restoring Liberty and Freedom South Caroli[...]
January 1st, 2014 - 2:49 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
New Idea for a New Year …. Husky U!
Lets Build Husky U in 2014 .. We Already Have The Stadium! In 2012 we ran a post about better ways to fund the UW. Joy the world … the UW’s new 1/4 billion dollar football stadium (added to the 1 billion Seattle spent for Seahawks Stadium) may show us the way! Husky fans claim that [...]
December 30th, 2013 - 11:15 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
More Academic Arrogance From The American Studies Association
The ASA has about 5000 members. of these only 16.5% voted for the resolution. Calling this a democratic decision is a distortion of the concept of democracy. At best this ASA decision to support a boycott of all Israeli Universities was reached by a small cabal, empowered by lack of interest by th[...]
December 19th, 2013 - 1:34 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Teachers found not qualified in rich district!
‘50 percent of teachers not qualified’ The National Center for Assessment in Higher Education (Qiyas) has found that 50 percent of teachers are not qualified to teach students even in the richest state.[...]
December 12th, 2013 - 11:23 pm § in Misc.
Nobel Laureate Denounces Premier Journals …
Randy Schekman refers to these journals as “luxury” journals. I think a more apt term is” science tabloids.” Recently, TA has written about the problem of scientific publishers appropriating copyrights to themselves . especially on materials funded by our government. The [...]
FAMILY FEUDS
From the Tampa Bay Times: How a Congressman demonized his family Bill Young divorced his wife of 36 years and married his former secretary eight days later. One Christmas, the Congressman sneaked into his old house to leave presents. A son, Terry, asked his father to come inside. The kids were[...]