Comments by msfixit
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Posted on November 9 at 12:48 p.m.
Spent last weekend in Starkville and Tupelo. The smoking ban sure hasn't seemed to affect the number of people eating in restaurants and going to bars in those two places. Everywhere I went with my two (college-aged) kids was packed to the rafters.
Posted on November 5 at 9:05 p.m.
FYI, the reference to Armageddon was a general reference to a major confict where the excrement impacts the rotating blade in a big way, not necessarily to the final battle referenced in Scripture, which I believe to be a symbolic, rather than literal reference.
Posted on November 5 at 7:45 p.m.
First a disclaimer: I am a Libertarian and I voted for Bob Barr. With that said, I believe we should ALL start praying for Mr. Obama right now. It is pretty obvious that he will face a major foreign policy crisis almost as soon as he takes office. Last night Hamas fired 35 rockets into Israel, and Israel immediately retaliated, thus effectively ending the cease-fire brokered by Egypt with the support of the Bush administration. When Barak Obama initially announced that if elected he would sit down to negotiate with the Iranian nut unconditionally, a number of high ranking members of the Israeli government and the Likkud announced that if necessary Israel would take unilateral action to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power (and Israel's nuclear weapons are probably the worst-kept secret in the world). I suspect that this attack will come either just before or just after the inauguration, leaving President Obama facing an unholy mess (or the prelude to Armageddon). The other possible source of a crisis lies in the announcement today by Russia that they would once again station weapons along the borders of the EU, pointed straight at Poland and the Czech Republic. Cold War redux anyone?
He had better get some first class foreign policy help for Secretary of State and Defense, or we may find ourselves embroiled in WWIII for real.
Posted on October 29 at 7:32 p.m.
Graffiti is tacky, and has been since Romulus scratched his name on a rock beside the Tiber river. I don't have a horse in this particular race (color me "Libertarian") but I do have one comment about Senator Obama after watching him since his Grand Tour this summer. He needs to remember one word--hubris, and that tempting the Fates with hubris was punished by Nemesis. For a more Judeo-Christian take, see Proverbs 16:18.
Posted on October 10 at 2:20 p.m.
What should be even more frightening to the BOS is that the way tort cases involving school issues have been decided recently, suit could be brought against the supervisors individually if they try to claim sovereign immunity for the BOS, especially if this article is correct in that they apparently did not do their homework before deciding on this cut.
Posted on October 10 at 1:57 p.m.
With these stories on record now, until the issue is resolved, the BOS is running a huge risk. Right now the crossing guards may still be working, but if they choose to stop, and something happens to a child because there is no guard, the BOS will be liable for a major lawsuit.
Posted on October 9 at 2:46 p.m.
I had been at the bar earlier for private CD release party, and on Sunday evening spoke to a friend who stayed and witnessed the incident. He has made a written statement to law enforcement, and below is the gist of his statement.
Mr. Whyte was standing close to the edge of the sidewalk. He seemed to overbalance and in an apparent attempt to right himself reached out and grabbed for the nearest thing, which happened to be the shoulder of another patron. This person turned around and pushed Mr. Whyte away (if someone grabbed me unexpectedly I'd probably do the same thing). Mr. Whyte fell and hit his head against the curb. When the person who pushed him down realized how seriously he was hurt, he took off down the street. According to this witness, who had heard this man talking to friends, he was also from out of town. As Kroger pointed out, it does not necessarily take much to cause a serious skull fracture. A man from our church died last winter after slipping on wet concrete in his garage and hitting the back of his head.
Prayers are with Mr. Whyte and his family.
Posted on September 30 at 4:40 p.m.
Teaching staff are allowed to bring their children to the Concordia Parish schools as an employment "perk" because Concordia Parish does not pay as much as Adams Co. Many good teachers are willing to work for less pay if they can have their children in the same district where they work. This is not an unusual practice in areas where different school districts close to each other compete for the same pool of certified personnel.
Posted on September 6 at 4:11 p.m.
I'm no atheist. In fact, I have a degree in Sacred Scripture and am quite active in my church. My point was that our local ranters need to chill. They are simply reinforcing their own stereotype.
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Posted on November 19 at 10:02 p.m.
What irritates me about the state policy is the clause that says there is no reimbursement for lunch on a one day trip. Most of my travel is for single day workshops or meetings in Monroe, Alexandria, etc. They start at 8:30 or 9 and end at 3 or 4. The state policy doesn't allow for a reimbursement for a meal on a day trip like this.
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