Yet another 'burden' for Obama
Barack Obama criticizing this week's Supreme Court decision allowing Indiana to require photo IDs for voters:
"I believe that it places an unfair burden on Indiana residents who are poor, elderly, disabled or members of minority groups."
Remember: We are talking about a simple photo ID here.
And adding burdens to the list of things that aren't what they used to be.
News Item: "Thousands of children in southwest China have been sold into slavery like 'cabbages' to work as laborers . . ."
Can't we put them somewhere out of sight so they don't interrupt our enjoyment of the Olympics?
News Headline: "BP and Shell downplay record profits."
Look. We don't want to embarrass anyone.
Let's pretend we didn't notice.
Shell's net profits are now coming in at $1,000 a second, by the way.
But shhh. Let's not embarrass them.
News Item: Vice President Dick Cheney, citing constitutional concerns, refuses to turn over records of his energy task force meetings.
News Item: Vice President Dick Cheney says he is not required to comply with an executive order regarding executive branch officials because, constitutionally, his office is part of the legislative branch.
News Item: The attorney for Vice President Dick Cheney says Congress "lacks the constitutional power" to subject him to any oversight.
OK. Fun's fun. But after seven years, we have to ask:
Which nation's constitution have we been using?
The Case for Zero Tolerance of Modern School Administrator's (cont'd):
Florida education officials have decided to dispense with plans to make a writing test part of the high school graduation requirement because too many students might not pass it.
News Item: "Muslim cleric Taj Din al-Hilali says the Bible 'mandates' the wearing of the veil by Christian women . . ."
Way out of bounds. Christianity has done fine oppressing women for centuries, thank you, without any help from Islam.
News Item: "Beekeeping experts say hive theft is becoming more common around the country . . ."
Police suspect a large sting operation.
H.I., a Cary reader, regarding a suggestion that if Charles Dickens had written a cookbook, it might have been called Crepe Expectations, notes that Arthur C. Clarke never got around to writing 2 CousCous in 1: A Taste Oddity.
News Item: A New York state man who finished his Army hitch in Afghanistan three years ago after losing the hearing in one ear and suffering a permanent knee injury is "shocked" to learn he has been recalled for deployment to Iraq.
The Pentagon wants to know: When will our disabled vets stop complaining?
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) when asked to comment on John McCain's statement that the United States can't get along without maintaining a military presence in Iraq for many years to come:
"I not only think we could get along without it, but I think one of our big problems has been the fact that many Iraqis resent American military presence. . . . As soon as we can reduce our visibility as much as possible, the better I think it is going to be."
Then again, what do you expect from --
No. Wait. Those are the words of John McCain in 2005.
Sorry.
QT News You Can Use:
John Hagerson, a Naperville reader, wants you to know that the refrain of "Jesus Love the Little Children" can be sung to the tune of "La Marseillaise."
Rush Limbaugh regarding protest marches:
"I have never been in a protest march. I work. I don't have time to waste."
Or as he would have shouted from his Colonial window to the Sons of Liberty: "Get a job!"
Today's Birthdays: The Element Mendelevium, 53; "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White," 53.
Coincidence?
News Headline: "Marines flood into Taliban-held Afghanistan."
And why is there still a Taliban-held Afghanistan seven years after 9/11?
Oh. Right.
Has anyone taken the trouble to thank President Bush lately?
