Archive for April 19, 2005

Best line of the day, so far

“Ratzinger is best known for his years co-starring as the daft-but-lovable Cliff Clavin on the sitcom Cheers. In that role, he pontificated on a wide variety of subjects, which may have helped his career switch from character actor to infallible leader of the world’s Catholics.”

FunctionalAmbivalent

Sorry, I’m back at it

Changing the formatting that is; more bugs than the Soviet embassy. I’m self-taught and a slow learner.

Please bear with me while the font size and stuff changes before your very eyes.

New Pope more conservative than St. Paul

NewMexiKen sees a big comeback in the Friday fish and chip specials of my youth.

As long as they play before those all-important finals

This item is a week old, but it’s the first I’d seen it. (I guess NewMexiKen just isn’t reading enough stuff on the internets.)

The NCAA Division I Management Council has backed legislation that would allow Division I-A and I-AA schools to add a 12th football game starting with the 2006 season.

The plan was given tentative approval by the council during its meeting Monday, but still must be approved by the NCAA Board of Directors when it meets April 28.

Division I vice president David Berst said Tuesday he didn’t know whether the NCAA board would give final approval for a 12th football game. Only the Atlantic Coast Conference was opposed to the proposal.

AP via The Washington Post

Drop a dime

Comcast customers who want their bills adjusted because of the Internet service problem April 9-13 should contact the company at 877-824-2288.

News report

Ten years ago: Another View

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The six children who survived the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing were toddlers when the yellow rental truck exploded just beneath the windows of their second-floor day-care center. Some spent weeks in intensive care. Others required years of therapy. All will forever be scarred. But they are alive.

Photo from AP via The Seattle Times.

Oh, great!

TOMBSTONE - Leaders of a controversial civilian border patrol movement on Monday announced plans to extend patrols in southern Arizona and start “copycat” efforts across the country by next fall.

Dispelling rumors of an early end to the monthlong Minuteman Project, which began April 1, organizers said they plan to draft a guide on how to start a civilian border patrol and “franchise” the movement in California, Texas, New Mexico, Michigan and Idaho by next October.

The Arizona Republic

The shot heard ’round the world 230 years ago today

At Lexington Green, the British were met by 77 American Minute Men led by John Parker. At the North Bridge in Concord, the British were confronted again, this time by 300 to 400 armed colonists, and were forced to march back to Boston with the Americans firing on them all the way. By the end of the day, the colonists were singing “Yankee Doodle” and the American Revolution had begun.

The Library of Congress

Indeed, if actions spoke louder than words, today would be Independence Day.

It was on this date …

10 years ago that a bomb was exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City killing 168 people, and injuring 500.
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Stylized chairs representing some of the public servants who lost their life that day (Oklahoma City National Memorial).