News and Opinion from the Bug!
The President’s speech tonight was clearly a pep talk for those suffering on the Gulf coast tonight. The President put forward three initiatives that should go a long way toward helping people there rebuild their lives. Those three initiatives are: photo: Screen Shot From The Pentagon Channel A Gulf Opportunity Zone to get job creation [...]
The Daily Tar Heel fired journalist Jillian Bandes over an op-ed piece she wrote about profiling Arabs: Daily Tar Heel—I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport. I don’t care if they’re being inconvenienced. I don’t care if it seems as though their rights [...]
The Philippines says it will hand over three Filipino politicians to the U.S. The politicians were not named, but the three are said to be a former national level public official, a current high level public official, and a second high level public official: INQ7—THE PHILIPPINE government will readily turn over to US authorities three [...]
Iran doesn’t want U.S. Secretary of State Condolezza Rice saying “hello” to them: Iran Press News—Ms. Rice is delusional if she thinks that she can say hello to Ahmadinejad; she was supposedly going to say hello to Hadad Adel too. [. . .] Hat tip: Free Republic
Tara Drummond was identified by police today as the trainee killed by her instructor during a training exercise: AJC—The woman, a new recruit with the Kennesaw police department, was identified today as Tara Drummond, 23. She was among 30 rookie officers in the seventh week of a 10-week program at the North Central Georgia Law [...]
A federal judge ruled today that saying the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional: CBS—A federal judge declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional Wednesday, a decision that could put the divisive issue on track for another round of Supreme Court arguments. [. . .] Just another good [...]
Nursing home owners Salvador A. Mangano and Mable Mangano have been charged with 34 counts of negligent homicide: Bloomberg—Louisiana’s attorney general filed 34 criminal charges against the husband and wife who own St. Rita’s Nursing Home in St. Bernard Parish, where 34 decomposing bodies were found after Hurricane Katrina swept through the state. [. . [...]
Pure Online says it launched two new initiatives this month designed to help college and teenage boys and girls addicted to pornography: Pure Online—DALLAS, September 1, 2005 – Pure Online, a leading resource for online recovery programs, today announced two new initiatives designed to help college and teen-age boys and girls deal with the growing [...]
Eleven Ohio children have been removed from a ‘home’ where they were found caged: BBC—Eleven children have been removed from a home in the US state of Ohio where they were apparently locked up in small cages, the authorities have said. [. . .]
Did doctors in New Orleans euthanize patients they were leaving behind? The Daily Mail clearly believes so: Daily Mail—Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards [...]
