Category: Rick's Prep
A three-letter word may cost one of the nation's oldest air ambulance operators a $30,000 fine.
The word is "our" - a possessive personal pronoun meaning it belongs to us.
But the U.S. Department of Transportation says that was the wrong word for Mercy Flights of Oregon to use to describe a helicopter technically owned by another company.
In other words, Focus On The Family is worried that anti-bullying efforts at government schools may prevent some gay student somewhere from being called a faggot .
Do you get the same uncontrollable urge to roll your eyes that I do, every time you hear someone utter the phrase "gay agenda"?
So it happened. The Reclaim the Dream March "recaptured the flavor" of the March on Washington. But it isn't an accident that this brings to mind popping an old piece of gum from the underside of a desk into your mouth to see how much "flavor" might still be left in it.
The number of immigrants entering the United States has been declining for the last five years, because of the poor economy.
Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst woke up the other day to find the newspaper had declared on the front page that he was dead wrong.
To be precise, the Austin American-Statesman said Dewhurst had made statements about kidnapping in Phoenix that were FALSE. It wrote it just like that, in capital letters, accompanied by a needle pinned to empty in what the newspaper calls "The Truth-O-Meter."
"Phoenix, Arizona, I'm told, is now the No. 2 kidnapping capital in the world, right behind Mexico City."
David Dewhurst on Friday, June 11th, 2010 in a speech
Truth-O-Meter Says: False
As one who is opposed to centralization, I am wary of attempts to turn a grassroots movement against big government like the Tea Party into an adjunct of the Republican Party. I find it even more worrisome when I see those who willingly participated in the most egregious excesses of the most recent Republican Congress push their way into leadership roles of this movement without batting an eye -- or changing their policies!
Federal officials are investigating a fire that started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center in a Nashville suburb.
Evidently, Murfreesboro, Tennessee is also too close to Ground Zero. And it has absolutely nothing to do with bigotry. ~ed.
An NYPD cop whose wife called 911 for help against a gang of thugs says he was brutally beaten by baton-wielding fellow officers who stormed his Queens home.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (CN) - A man who was hurt in a car crash but was misidentified as a cancer patient claims security guards at Prince George's Hospital beat him up when he tried to leave the hospital to avoid chest surgery he didn't need - "to have a potentially cancerous mass removed from his chest." He adds that one guard repeatedly called him "bitch" as he roughed him up.
