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Entries from January 2006

Another Big-Brother Plan for Ohio’s Schools

January 30, 2006 · 1 Comment

It seems that Governor Taft didn’t do his homework when he proposed another bright idea for students and schools in Ohio. By his own admission, he has no idea at all what his proposal might cost. Additionally, the Governor has no suggestion for properly staffing his own proposal. Surely, all responsible citizens in Ohio must be asking at this point, on what planet does Governor Taft live? The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled Ohio’s abysmal system of funding public education unconstitutional four times. Districts all over Ohio are in financial collapse, yet Governor Taft proposes a major overhaul of the high school curriculum without considering the costs, or without any concept at all of staffing his so-called rigorous core curriculum. The Governor’s statements on this matter reveal an appalling lack of practically, and total vacancy of knowledge surrounding the academic profile of many of Ohio’s students. The proposal is also ridden with archaic, yet socially acceptable prejudices regarding the visual and performing arts, technology education, and several universally recognized fundamental curricular areas. Governor Taft’s proposal represents the typical politician’s response to all of the problems facing public education in Ohio: it is a big-brother mandate constructed with the one-size-fits-all approach that has little or nothing to do with the goal of providing a well-rounded quality education curriculum for all of Ohio’s students. When we hear all of this hot air emanating forth in Columbus we know how to respond-look out!

Governor Taft’s plan looks something like this: The “Ohio Core,” as Taft calls it, would be four years of math, including Algebra II; three years of science, including biology, chemistry and physics; four years of English; three years of social studies; and at least two years of a foreign language The plan would make the completion of the curriculum a condition of admission to Ohio’s state-funded, four-year colleges and universities. Sounds great doesn’t it?

Sure, high standards are great. We applaud this hollow effort to sound the call for rigorous academic standards. But, how does this proposal relate to the average Ohio student? Many students are already completing and exceeding this basic curriculum. Districts have been scrambling to align standards with the newer high stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind. While some students struggle to pass the test, the Governor has decided to create another hurdle and red tape for all students.

Furthermore, not all students will fit into the Governor’s square peg. Intellectual and mature students sometimes have other noble and laudable goals that do not include the over-indulgence of heavy science and mathematics. Painters, producers, artisans, chefs, psychologists, musicians, dancers, actors, singers, designers, and several other wonderful career fields and vocations do not require that a student major in upper level math and science courses. In fact, the Governor seems to believe that Algebra II is the only method of teaching critical thinking skills. Well, we have a message for the Governor and his ilk.

Higher order thinking skills, creative dexterity, and the development and encouragement of the human imagination are equally as important as physics or chemistry in leading a successful life. And the Governor might not realize that limited resources and a limited school day make it impossible for every student to complete his “Ohio Core” while accessing equally important and life altering, dynamic, and interactive courses in the so-called elective areas. As we strive to teach our students a core curriculum, we are also providing essential life skills, and teaching our students how to lead a productive life.

It is a daunting task, and the politicians never wish to pursue a complicated option, but a portfolio assessment for every high school student would be the most thorough and meticulous method of insuring success. A comprehensive assessment package would guarantee that students reach strong core curricular goals in tandem with a career path and artistic and creative pursuits. It’s easier to sell the public and the broad-brush politicians with slogans and neatly wrapped ideas that ignore the reality of today’s school and society.

It would be a fair and sensible sentence to require all of Ohio’s legislators and statewide officials to a year or more of public service in a school as a teacher with a classroom full of students. For a few days, it would be fun, and then reality would begin to set it on these talking heads.

It would be great to have new leadership in Ohio that would stop the unfunded mandates and rigid edicts coming from Columbus. It is time for a realistic assessment of Ohio’s schools and dynamic leadership to move us into the future. In the meantime, could we place a moratorium on propaganda, flimsy, un-researched ideas, and overblown, political cheap shots? Our students all deserve our best, not more out of tune warbling and despicable political posturing.

Scott Elliot of the Dayton Daily News is on the story
Read more at Red Orbit

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Blog On Great Bloggers!

January 29, 2006 · No Comments

Friends in the blogosphere have given solid support through comments and email as blogging time has grown short around here. We are continually amazed at the volume and quality of work at other outstanding blogs. Ten to twenty daily reads along with newspapers and the Fox News Channel provide a days worth of news coverage, and lend a balanced perspective on the things that are truly important in our city, state, and and nation.

With the mainstream media focusing additional time and disproportionate resources in setting a news and political agenda, bloggers contribute the invaluable and unique insights and commentary that balance the liberal agenda of the coastal elite. When schedules are harrowing and time short, it is easy to fall victim to the Katie Couric/Matt Lauer/Chris Matthews/John McCain/Larry King/Oprah Winfrey/CBS News/David Letterman view of the world. As thinking people, we must always guard against permitting liberal elites from establishing the only important stories in our world. The mainstream media takes compulsory cues from the folks at The New York Times, a newspaper that often demonstrates a total disregard for significant and essential news items.

We have been engaged in a colliquy with the contributors at a wonderful blog, Perish The Thought regarding the future of blogging. Please read their posts on the matter, it is all thought-provoking and meaningful.

Here are some of the comments I have shared with these wonderful people.

I think that there will be a strong blogger influence for at least the next ten years or more. The authors and contributors might change, but it is an excellent outlet for those of us without others to listen to our constant rants on various topics.
I have only been blogging since September. Doing a good job requires more time than I can give since I work for a living. I am sure that others feel the same.
Hang in there! I have appreciated all of the support and encouragement from those at your wonderful site.

We need partners in blogging to keep everything fresh, updated, and new. I hope that Blogging does not go the way of “mood rings” and “pet rocks” from the 1970’s.

Blog on great bloggers! For those readers who get something or anything at all from our posts, it is well worth the effort.
Think of Thomas Payne printing “Common Sense” in colonial America. It is easy to imagine that he and his colleagues had their moments of doubt, questions, and confusion.


Certainly, there are many contributors in today’s blogosphere with the same raw, unscripted, authentic, and brazen ideals of Thomas Payne.
Surely, there is a small audience of readers for any well constructed blog.

I appreciate and love the reader feedback as much as anyone. On the days when I have spent an entire day researching and writing, yet only 68 unique users looked at Thespis Journal, I swore to quit writing for such few people. However, I awake the next day with more ideas for articles, and more interest than ever in being a successful blogger.
I am always looking for a way to make a singular contribution that someone will think is particularly useful and insightful in its’ approach.


Some other bloggers seem to have “kissed off” and demeaned some of our best posts while others have been kind and supportive. It is as frustrating and as worthwhile as every other major undertaking in my lifetime.


There are so many great columns, blogs, video, commentary, and comedy available on the internet. I enjoy being one more reasonable voice in the American tapestry of free speech. You never know who may be reading, benefitting, disagreeing, or enjoying.


As I said earlier, Blog on great Bloggers! It is important and vital work in the great machinery of the pioneering American Spirit.

Thespis

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John Kerry Raises Ann Coulter’s Profile!

January 29, 2006 · No Comments

In a bizzare speech calling for the fillibuster of Samuel Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Senator John Kerry attacked Ann Coulter on the floor of the United States Senate on Friday. Kerry is showing strong similarities to Al Gore (the other major failed democrat Presidential Candidate) in becoming Unhinged!

Kerry’s fillibuster attempt and all the accompanying speeches seem to be his most recent effort to re-assert his dominance of the democrat party. Since no Senator since John Kennedy in 1960 has risen to the Presidency from the senate, Kerry’s foolish attempt to run for President from the floor of the US Senate seems ridiculous. Hillary Clinton may be able to pull off the Presidency while a senator, but she is in a vastly different league than Kerry.

Kerry can not become the nominee again by attacking Ann Coulter. He looks petty, radical, extreme, and has lowered his already paultry stature to a whining child who debates columnists. No President ever does this! Poor Kerry-he will likely spend the rest of his remaining days trying to win the minds of the voters, yet he will suffer the same fate as Al Gore: the American people have placed both of these fringe politicians on indefinate “ignore” for the forseeable future.

Ian has the video at the political teen.

By the way, Go Ann! She is truly a leader and spokesperson for many conservatives in American. Check out her latest at Ann Coulter.com

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All Hail Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at 250!

January 29, 2006 · 1 Comment


Did you do anything special to Celebrate Mozart’s 250th Birthday on Friday, January 27? All hail Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an unsurpassed genius and child prodigy whose brilliant music has permeated western culture for the last two hundred years, and thrives today in countless performances world-wide.

Having played several early piano compositions of Mozart, and having sung many Mozart Aria’s, Duets, and Operetic Ensembles, I have long been a devotee of Mozart. Mozart’s music, especially his operas, are infinately more intriguing musically and dramatically than any of his contemporaries. For singers, there is that specific Mozart sound for both men and women which reflects the healthiest and brightest of natural singing.

The finale from Act II of The Marriage of Figaro is one the greatest ensembles ever written. This highly structured, multi-layered selection that begins as a duet for the Count and the Countess evolves majestically into muliple voices and characters that exude the essential meaning of arched classical vocal lines ripe with limitless thematic development into an enrapturing, sonorous conclusion.

Undoubtedly, Mozart’s music will continue to influence western society and culture for another 250 years. His celestial music will always be a beacon of greatness with Mozart having accomplished in his 35 short years the stature of being a giant among giants.

All Hail Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Michelle Malkin has a wonderful post on W. A. Mozart.
Read about Cecilia Bartoli replacing Renee Fleming at the Huge Mozart Celebration in Vienna.
A Fabulous article in the New York Times. A wonderful article at Playbill Arts.
This Mozart site is very interesting.
From Opera News: March 4, 1957.

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Where, Oh Where

January 23, 2006 · 4 Comments

We have had a couple of email messages asking if everything is ok. Yes, everything is ok. Life is hectic.

Blogging will be light for at least the next few days. There are many complications with our staff schedules. Producing a qaulity educational theater experience for students and audience, negotiating a master contract, teaching five classes per day, preparation for other performances, meeting the obligations of a Director of Music position, and keeping up with life at the 1896 Victorian Bed and Breakfast are consuming most of our time.

There is much good out there in the blogosphere to read and see. Enjoy any and all of the great sites that we regularly link with. Hope to see you soon. Keep checking in.

Thespis

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Thespis Journal Presents Posts of the Week

January 21, 2006 · 2 Comments

What a week! Moon-Bat Monday (Aka Martin Luther King Day, 2006) provided an unlimted number of posts and columns from which to select. We hope you enjoy all of the wonderful reading. Use this reading list to accompany your Sunday brunch and all of your weekend reading. We welcome suggestions for Post of the Week. Please email chanticleer148@yahoo.com. The editors and staff writers put a lot of items on the table this week for consideration.

Without any further delay:

10. Another Reason to Celebrate: By Doug at Below The Beltway

Doug offers us the history of the Reagan Presidency and the impact of Ronald Reagan on American life and culture still today. This is a marvelous and quick read.

9. This Day in History: By John Noonan at The Officers Club

John Noonan provides with a terrific summary of the watershed historical moment of January 20, 1981. This momentous day is commemorated in a wonderful piece at a beautiful web log.

8. Christie Vs. Sharpton on Hardball: By Ms. Underestimated

Using her fabulous new web site as a foundation, Ms. Underestimated highlights the latest shenanigans on Chris Matthew’s “Softball.” Ron Christie, former Bush advisor, faced off against the liberal freak, Al Sharpton to discuss all the events of Moonbat Monday (AKA Martin Luther King Day, 2006). Ms. Underestimated’s video and highlight are one of the greatest analysis pieces of everything that went wrong for the democrats this past Monday.

7. Nagin Gets Medieval: By Bryan Preston at Junk Yard Blog

Bryan expounds on the entire Ray Nagin debacle of calling for New Orleans to be a “chocolate city,” and Nagin’s statement that God is “mad at America.” Bryan is wonderful as always.

6. A Case of Techno-Cluelessness: By Scott Elliot at Get on The Bus

Scott Elliot of the Dayton Daily News “busts out” NEA President Reg Weaver for his lack of Internet savvy. This is a major issue for a union representing over 2.5 million education employees. If Scott is correct, the NEA Executive Officers and Staff need to address this issue immediately.

5. People Don’t Want 50-50 Leadership: By The Anchoress

The Anchoress has a long quotation from another article, but she highlighted a very important story in Ohio and national politics. Her entire site is always worth visiting.

4. Malkin Calls Out Tin Foil Hat Wearers: at Right Winged
In this compilation of other posts with original commentary, the author at Right Winged combines photo shop humor with statements of Walter Cronkite, Jack Cafferty, and Dan Rather. It is truly hilarious!

3. Matthews Lies About Laura Bush Saying, “God Wants New Orleans Rebuilt”:

By Ian Schwartz at the Political Teen
I sometimes think that Ian should subtitle his spectacular Blog “Hard-Blogger: the Truth Uncovered” for his dogged coverage of Chris Matthews foolishness.” Thanks Ian for setting Chris straight again. “Hardball” has more gaffes than any other cable news program every week!

2. In Full Retreat: Liberals Charge Rearward, By DL at TMH Bacon Bits

DL makes a great case against the liberals: “One of the great benefits of teaching elementary school is that it truly prepares you to understand the mindset of the liberal. There is hardly a move they make that hasn’t been tried daily throughout the country, in one or another elementary school by some kid, trying to deceive a teacher.
For decades Democrats have imposed their political will through judicialfiat (Roe v. Wade) and they have for years successfully defied anyone to challenge their rights to do so. Not any longer!”

1. Ronald Reagan: A Personal Reflection: By Pat Santy at Dr. Sanity
A wonderful personal memory from Pat Santy regarding her encounter with President Ronald Reagan at the time of the Challenger Disaster in January, 1986. Dr. Santy is wonderfully forthcoming and genuine in this article. This keeps Dr. Sanity at the top of our list!

Other wonderful posts and columns of note and interest:

The Spellings Report: A Kinder, Gentler Secretary? By The Education Wonks
Bill’s Hill’s Shill Causes Chills: By LaShawn Barber
Basil’s Picnic: By Basil at Basil’s Blog
Gore’s Challenge: By David S. Broder in The Washington Post
On Ripping The Universe a New One: at Perish The Thought
Outside The Beltway
Right Wing Nation
Reagan Revolution Weekend Trackbacks at Stop The ACLU
“Why We Need A Border Wall” by The Sensible Mom
Rove Outlines 2006 GOP Strategy: By Captain Ed at Captain’s Quarters
Check out Ian’s Latest!, TMH Bacon Bits-read more! Reasons I Keep Blogging
A Quarter Century of Conservatism at the Strata-Sphere WOW!
There are tons of links at the Mudville Gazette!

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Fosse/Liza Collaboration Restored

January 21, 2006 · No Comments

All fans of the Broadway musical, and Broadway history will be thrilled to hear that a very famous 1972 made for television/live presentation starring Liza Minnelli fully staged for a live theater audience and filmed by Bob Fosse has been restored, and will be seen again. Of course, we are hopeful for the DVD, so we can all see it soon. It is set to air on Showtime later this year.

The infamous “Liza With A Z!” was the creation of Fosee, Minnelli, and the Broadway composing team of Kander and Ebb.This amazing team had just completed work on the film version of the Broadway hit Cabaret earlier in 1972. That same year, eager to work together once more, they collaborated on a TV concert special, “Liza With a Z,” filmed at Broadway’s Lyceum theater in a one-shot, no-retakes, high-energy performance with Minnelli, dancers and an orchestra.

This legendary performance was canonized and highlighted in the 1999 Tony-Award winning musical FOSSE with several numbers from the “Liza With a Z” special being included in the three-act tribute to the work of Bob Fosse. This legendary television special won several Emmy Awards, and has been considered “lost” for a number of years. It will be a singular thrill for many of us to see it for the first time.

I will post more links throughout the day as I am able to find them.

The New York Daily News

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Reagan’s 25th Anniversary

January 21, 2006 · No Comments

Although it is almost over, today, January 20, 2006 marks the 25th anniversary since the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as President of the United States. I remember that day all too well, and eveidently so do many others as the blogosphere was lit up today with many well deserved tributes to the Gipper. The glow of Ronald Reagan and his presidency gets brighter each year, and like a fine wine, the memory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan grows richer and more intense with the passing of time.

January 20, 1981 was a miraculous day. The first Presidential Inauguration to be held on the West Front of the Capital building marked a day of new hope in the United States. Hostages that had been held in Iran since November, 1979, a story which had gripped our nation for more than a year, were released in dramatic fashion on that day as well. The pictures were fantasitical and almost unbelievable.

The world has changed in my lifetime, but after visiting the Reagan library this past summer, I am more comvinced than ever that Ronald Reagan was the finest President of the 20th Century. His legacy of winning the cold war, revitalizing the Unites States economy, and making America great again will live on for the next century. America has seen many great eras in its’ history, but those glorious Reagan years will live on as profoundly growing and changing times for our nation. Ronald Reagan’s stature will only grow in the many years to come.

Here’s to the great memory of Ronald Reagan, and to the memory of that great day, January 20, 1981.

Check out the many links.
Below The Beltway has a great post today! Look at Right Wing Nation
A Paul Beston article at the Amercian Spectator
A Day of Anniversaries at The Political Teen
This Day in History at The officer’s Club
TMH Bacon Bits has a round-up of the Anniversary
Dr. Sanity’s Personal Refelction is wonderful!
Check out the links at The Mudville Gazette
Still Morning in America: The Wall Street Journal
Peggy Noonan: Not A Bad Time to Take Stock

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The Jerry Springer, Al Gore, Ray Nagin, Hillary Clinton, Jack Murtha America

January 18, 2006 · 1 Comment

It seems that the latest liberal tactic for winning the American voter doesn’t involve any new ideas or impressive policy debates. These democrats say that they want to take back the congress and take back the White House. We don’t doubt it.

From Al Gore to Hillary Clinton, there seems to be a contest for the office of liberal leader, and the path to this coveted title seems to be a competition of who will make the most strident, harsh, discordant, and raucous, comment of the moment. Making the most colorful comment means winning the adulation and admiration of the mainstream media who are always waiting in the wings to anoint the story of the moment.

Of course, Howard Dean seems to be the grandfather of this most recent fad in political speech making, and look at his rising career.

With their allies in the media ready to amplify their latest moon-batery, Hillary, Al, Ray and Jack seem to wage an artificial battle within their elite clique like smutty high school girls using all their assets to attract the most popular boy.

Their hysterical, unhinged oratory is often laced with electrically charged words designed to create the illusion of a magnetic persona, and to disguise their lackluster political skills. The absence of any philosophical foundation is masked by the transitory and opaque emotional hyper-response from the eagerly waiting media types. The media elite believes their own stories and further deepens their plunge into that cosmic chasm: the liberal unreality bubble.

But, what do regular Americans think? We have become immune to these sob sisters and their sensationalist speech-making. These over-the-top comments no longer pass the smell test. We recognize counterfeit hogwash when we hear it. It an era of too much news from too many sources, it is easy to put these exaggerated voices on permanent mute. After a steady diet of Clinton fast food, the American Voter is ready for the authentic taste of nutritious, home-cooked meals.

When we hear all of this over-baked and under whelming liberal talk, we plan to do like my Mother often told us as children: turn off the noise box! That’s exactly what much of main street America will be doing this political season.

It’s no different than all the shouting on Jerry Springer: it gets old really fast!

Check out the Fabulous Ms. UnderEstimated!, Read everything at the new blog Rightwinged,
As usual, the Political Teen Has It All!, As always, The Mudville Gazette is wonderful.
Bryan Preston at Junk Yard Blog has a great piece!
Check out the Beltway Traffic Jam Read Basil’s Blog, TMH Bacon Bits is Always Amazing

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Ten Stuipd Things Said By Liberals-In Just Three Days/Second Edition

January 17, 2006 · 5 Comments


“Have you noticed that it has been a remarkable week already? The democrats have left me speechless. It is only Wednesday and the democrats and liberals have had quite a stupid week already! WOW! They exhaust me with their snobbery, theoretical intellectual superiority, and inclination to hold forth on a range of
topics.”

Well, history has a way of repeating itself, and we at Thespis Journal find ourselves on another Tuesday, five weeks later, writing the second edition of “Ten Stupid Things Said By Liberals-In Just Three Days! Welcome to this “carnival of stupidity.”

Senator Diane Feinstein (D-California) leads off second edition of ten stupid things said by liberals. Feinstein was speaking to Bob Sheiffer on Face The Nation.

1. According to Mark Kilmer at Red State, Senator Feinstein engaged in meaningless rambling while on the show. She is voting against Alito. She disagrees with Alito, but he’s qualified and disagreements are not a good reason to vote against a nominee. However, she is concerned about the Rehnquist Court. Explain any of that to me…

Senator John McCain takes numbers two and three…John McCain you ask? On a list of ten stupid things said by liberals? Read on…

2. Once again on Face The Nation, McCain said that the Federal Elections Commission is corrupt, because “they keep trying to find loopholes in the McCain-Feingold Law.”

3. Regarding global warming, Senator McCain then stated, “We are doing a terrible thing to this globe, and a terrible thing to future generations.” We first have to admit that it’s real, he said, and we have to reduce Greenhouse gases. For this, he stated flatly that nuclear power was our best option.

Editors Comment: How many of you reading this posting believe that McCain seems to have nothing better to do than sit with the Sunday morning hosts and make stupid comments?

Number four on the list goes to Hillary Clinton for this brilliant statement at a MLK Day rally. This statement is really stupid.

4. Sounding a little like a preacher, a fired-up Sen. Hillary Clinton lambasted the Bush administration and the Republican-controlled Congress during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, predicting the presidency “will go down in history as one of the worst” and saying “the House of Representatives is run like a ‘plantation’ where dissenting voices are squelched.” When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I’m talking about,” Clinton, D-N.Y., told the crowd at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem.

Editors comment: Oh really, Mrs. Clinton? Is this why we have to endure specifying of the worst degree from Nancy Pelosi, Mad Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Cynthia McKinney, and John Murtha all the time?)

5. For number five, we simply can’t resist Teddy Kennedy. In the Sunday New York Times, Uncle Teddy Kennedy complained that the judiciary committee process has become too political. Mr. Kennedy said that the nomination process, and particularly the hearings, had “turned into a political campaign,” and that the White House had proved increasingly skilled in turning that to its advantage.

Editors Comment: Uncle Teddy, the godfather of politicizing nominations to the Supreme Court (remember his speech titled, “in Robert Bork’s America…?), has real nerve to say that the process is too political.

Walter Cronkite, America’s Anchor Man, provides us with number six on the ten stupid things list when he attempted to replay his treasonous behavior from the Vietnam era.

6. Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, whose 1968 conclusion that the Vietnam War was unwinnable keenly influenced public opinion then, said Sunday he’d say the same thing today about Iraq. “It’s my belief that we should get out now,” Cronkite said in a meeting with reporters.
Several on the left have been begging around to find a “Cronkite moment” that would tip the momentum in Iraq into abject withdrawal, and Cronkite probably figured he was the best person to attempt another Cronkite moment. He proclaimed that it was one of his proudest moments to tell the nation in an anchorman’s commentary that the Vietnam War “was unwinnable and that the U.S. should exit.
Editors comment: Maybe Walter Cronkite could go back to the CBS Evening News and resurrect their ratings with his brand of treason.

We were thrilled to see Al Gore return to the public eye with a blistering speech on Monday. He gives us number seven. We are so fortunate that Florida turned out the way it did in 2000.

7. Former Vice President Al Gore asserted Monday that President Bush “repeatedly and persistently” broke the law by eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant and called for a federal investigation of the practice. “Is America in more danger now than when we faced worldwide fascism on the march - when our fathers fought and won two World Wars simultaneously?” he said. “It is simply an insult those who came before us and sacrificed so much on our behalf to imply that we have more to be fearful of than they.”

Editors comment: As usual, Mr. Gore spoke without regard for facts, ethics, or the compelling nature of our current war.

It pains us to give any more ink to John Murtha, but his latest gaffe is too good to pass up for our ten stupid things listing. What will Murtha say next? Here is number eight.

8. “I think the vast majority will be out by the end of the year and I’m hopeful it will be sooner than that,” Murtha, a decorated Vietnam combat veteran who retired as a colonel after 37 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, told the CBS “60 Minutes” show. “All of us want this president to succeed … I feel a mission here, with my experience, that I have to help the president find a way out of this thing.”

Editors Comment: Yeah, right, Mr. Murtha….cut and run now! That’s your brilliant strategy.

Numbers nine and ten in our ten stupid things list have to go to America’s favorite mayor, Ray Nagin of New Orleans who seems to have lost it Monday while pontificating extemporaneously during his MLK speech. These comments speak volumes about his mentality.

9. “Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it’s destroyed and put stress on this country,” Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day. “Surely he doesn’t approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We’re not taking care of ourselves.”
10. “It’s time for us to come together. It’s time for us to rebuild New Orleans — the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans,” the mayor said. “This city will be a majority African American city. It’s the way God wants it to be. You can’t have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn’t be New Orleans.”

Editors Comment: We are speechless. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry! The only way to make Nagin’s comments better would be if “Idiot of the Year Blanco” had joined him in making such breath-taking statements.

That’s a wrap for another edition of Ten Stupid Things Said by Liberals-In Just Three Days. We truly hope that you enjoyed it. It’s been great fun, and It should provide all of us with things to comment on for the reminder of the week.

Check out Bryan Preston at JunkYard Blog.

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