Jan 31st, 2006
Decent performance by the President. Other bloggers seem to see it as strong. I say average. Too long, too many programs, and too many talking points. That’s three toos. We have a cat with six toes, but that is something completely different.
Foreign policy and the war were better, as usual. Still and all, it was [...]
As I would write it:
Ladies and gentlemen, America is at war! And we are winning!
This war began decades ago, with hijackings and bombings and murders of Americans. It continues today, but the enemy, our enemy, has lost two of his most important hideouts. For today Iraq and Afghanistan stand with America in this war and [...]
Ledger-Enquirer
The citation accompanying Thursday’s award of the Silver Star to a Fort Benning soldier for his heroic actions in Iraq reads more like an action movie script.
But for Staff Sgt. Shannon Kay, now a member of the 2nd Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment, what transpired on Dec. 11, 2004, was far from Hollywood fiction.
Then a squad [...]
Washington Post
Xavier University, the nation’s only historically black Catholic university, expected half its 4,100 students would return this semester; instead 3,110 are back on its restored campus, surrounded by uninhabitable houses and boarded-up shopping centers. Tulane University expected three-quarters of its 12,500 students and got 88 percent. Loyola University’s current enrollment of 4,436 amounts to [...]
Shreveport Times
Because Lafayette’s fiscal year ends Oct. 31, the expedited funds delivered Sept. 22 ensured the city-parish government’s books will be in the black when the audit is complete. Lafayette expects to be paid all outstanding claims long before this fiscal year ends.
But in St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Cameron and Orleans parishes, where the tax base [...]
Jan 30th, 2006
Deaths:
85 deaths out of 160 cases, as of January 30, 2006. Turkey is listed as having 12 cases and four deaths.
Turkey:
A WHO collaborating laboratory in the United Kingdom has now confirmed 12 of the 21 cases of H5N1 avian influenza previously announced by the Turkish Ministry of Health. All four fatalities are among [...]
Washington Times
China has lifted the last of the quarantines placed on areas affected since last year by the H5N1 bird flu virus. The Ministry of Agriculture said a quarantine on Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, was lifted Saturday morning, the Xinhua state news agency reports.
And this means exactly nothing.
It’s still early in the year, I grant you. But the dumbest idea of the year may have already been advanced by the United Nations. Flu-casters.
LA Times
The United Nations is considering using “flu-casters,” modeled on television weather forecasters, to publicize vital information if a global flu pandemic strikes.
They could broadcast the latest developments from emergency-response [...]
Daily Times
“Let not your hearts be troubled,” the chaplain told the mourners. “Pray that the Lord gives us faith to look to the future with hope and confidence.”
The funeral procession — half a dozen fire engines, police and rescue vehicles and hundreds of friends and supporters in vans and chartered buses — left Salisbury at [...]