Culture Watch 26: Ethanol Damage and More Iraqi Good News
| Culture Watch, Vol.26 Nancy Morgan RightBias.com August 4, 2008 |
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The good news is, Congress is adjourned for the next five weeks. The bad news is, Pelosi and pals were successful in avoiding a vote on offshore drilling. Just because 70% of the American people want to drill doesn’t mean that the Democrats are going to hand the Republicans a political victory this close to the election. This endless, eternal, ongoing:
GOOD NEWS:
Iraqi and US forces now control virtually all of Iraq and Baghdad’s troops may be able to take on security for the whole country by 2009. Meanwhile, US combat deaths in July plunged to the lowest level in four years and Bush has cut tours for troops in Iraq down to one year.
Other good news: The number of chronically homeless dropped nearly 30 percent from 2005 to 2007 and the number of Americans who consider themselves Democrats fell two percentage points to 39.2%
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The House successfully kept the issue of offshore drilling from coming to a vote – concentrating instead on approving legislation that would empower the EPA to regulate the tobacco industry. Congress also tackled illegal immigration by announcing, to great fanfare, their latest solution: advising illegals to deport themselves rather than risk getting caught.
Last, but not least, the House issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery. Mea culpa. Next step: reparations. Sigh.
CULTURE:
A government school in Texas will force students who don’t follow the rules to wear prison-like jumpsuits. Parents complain the policy will make the kids feel like prisoners. Neal Boortz accurately points out, they are.
Workers at Tyson Food’s poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day. Instead, they will take the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall.
Mechanics are starting to see the damage ethanol is doing to small engines. “When you put that ethanol in here, it eats up the insides, or rusts them out.”
The new ‘smart car’ gets 40 MPG but isn’t heavy enough to set off the sensors that activate left-turn signal lights at intersections.
Memo to McDonalds: The Palestinian Authority is facing a severe financial crisis due to a lack of donor countries to fulfill their pledges to fund the Palestinians.
A record 9,000 Chinese couples plan to tie the knot to celebrate the opening of the Olympic games and to take advantage of the lucky date, 8/8/08. The World Bank has designated Linfen, China as the most polluted city in the world.
Academics have unearthed what they believe to be the world’s oldest joke, a double entrendre about men’s sexual desire. Saudi Arabia’s religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets. [Guess you can still buy them for food] The reason? Men are using them as a means of making passes at women. Did you know there is no word for humor in Islam?
Last week, US Airways announced - no more free water on their flights. Delta, meanwhile, is doubling its charge for checking a second bag on all domestic flights.
IDIOT OF THE WEEK:
This week’s award goes to all those ingenious suicide bombers who are starting to wear explosive ‘underwear briefs’ to evade body searches.
Before I sign off, I have an interesting tidbit. For all of you who have been impressed by T. Boone Pickens commercials touting wind power, you might want to read this article.
by Nancy Morgan
Nancy Morgan is a columnist and a news editor for RightBias.com
She lives in South Carolina, where she writes “Culture Watch” weekly.
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