tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35042602011-07-14T20:38:31.378-04:00Weblog Free PittsburghOffering an alternative view to the typical leftist orthodoxy found on campus, WFP features conservative political and social commentary from undergraduates at the Univ. of Pittsburgh.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533709449197760227noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-802561822002-08-14T22:04:00.000-04:002002-09-29T19:00:46.000-04:00Dolpho back on the beat!
Dolpho, the McKee's rocks K9 Unit is back on the prowl after being suspended for allegations of racism. Yes. That is correct. The Dog was accused of being racist. The full story is here.
So... My favorite part is this. " Brandon Livingston is black, which prompted McKees Rocks Councilwoman Wanda Jones Dixon to accuse the dog of singling out African Americansto attack."Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-783606142002-06-29T17:13:00.000-04:002002-06-29T17:15:35.000-04:00Haha!
Write your congressman or something... Tell them NO TO HR1186. Heh. I hope this is a hoax but from a google search... it appears real. After reading the funniest Letter to the Editor EVER! a chilling breeze encompased my body... Why? Well not only because there are people this dumb, but because there are a lot of people this dumb and stupid bills as such will eventually get passed. Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-783596052002-06-29T16:31:00.000-04:002002-06-29T16:34:06.000-04:00Vouchers Vouchers Everywhere, Vote Fischer if you weren't aware.
After the supreme court ruled that Vouchers are indeed constiutional (They go to PRIVATE schools which can be RELIGIOUS schools, however thats not always the case) Pennsylvania voters can heed their voice for vouchers by Voting for Mike Fischer. Fischer is for them, and of course the Champion of the Philadelphia School District (Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-783396982002-06-29T00:03:00.000-04:002002-06-29T00:26:35.000-04:00Mid-East Mojo
Wow... What a day. Mr. Palestinian Avenger Colin Powell has taken a giant step towards the light side today by agreeing that Arafat has no place in the peace process. Speaking of Arafat, in an attempt to prove my theory that Ringo Starr and Arafat are actually long lost brothers, I stumbled upon a not so tasty treat. Arafat Brand Snack Food!!! Raising money and awareness of the Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-782902752002-06-27T20:09:00.000-04:002002-06-27T20:09:11.543-04:00Yea... It's be a while
Sorry folks, we've been busy with real life work and internships, however never fear... well unless of course you live anywhere near the children that the Islamic Society of Gaza Strip are raising... I've never been more disgusted in my life. Im glad to see other cultures value life as much as mine does. Is that a fake dead Israeli that little girl is playing with? Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-770317742002-05-27T14:49:00.000-04:002002-05-27T14:49:47.680-04:00Everything we have, everything we own, and everything we enjoy is because people have fought and died for our country. There is no sacrifice that is too great in order to protect our freedoms. To all who have died, who have sacrificed, and to those who have lost... thank you.
Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-768245072002-05-21T22:52:00.000-04:002002-05-21T22:52:20.070-04:00Rendell wins. Casey Loses.
Thats it.
Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-768143022002-05-21T17:49:00.000-04:002002-05-21T17:49:19.130-04:00What aren't they telling us?
Quite frankly, I do not care what the White House did or did not know before September 11th. What I care about is stopping it from happening again. Lately, the media machines have been running interviews from Mueller, Cheney, Rumsfeld , and Ridge. Alll 4 have said basically the same thing and what they are saying is very grim. Prior to this past weekend, the threat Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-767553602002-05-20T09:09:00.000-04:002002-05-21T11:37:13.000-04:00The End Days are Upon Us...
Well Maybe not... But I seem to recall stuff about the Moon turning red and the seas boiling. Maybe they mean red as in 'Red China.' That's right folks, China wants to build a moon-base and mine the moon's resources for "the betterment of humanity." Hmm.. Wonder how long before "mining" and "putting a nuclear launch platform" on the moon become confused.Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-767534252002-05-20T07:19:00.000-04:002002-05-20T07:21:37.000-04:00J. Edgar would have loved philly.
Looks like the home of the Cheese Steak is going to pass a law that makes it illegal to discriminate against cross dressers in the work place.
Government trying to tell us how to run our buisnesses, eh? Well think about this. The first time a sales contract is lost because the potential buyer had to deal with some weirdo in a pink dress and a beard, there's goingStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-767316922002-05-19T16:36:00.000-04:002002-05-19T16:36:38.870-04:00ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED BY HAVING MY ARMS RIPPED OFF BY A POLAR BEAR
This is a slight departure from my normal topics, but I read this and I need to share it.
Click HereStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-767310182002-05-19T16:10:00.000-04:002002-05-19T16:10:09.583-04:00Here Kitty Kitty Kitty.
Wonder how long it takes PETA to start their nazi-like propaganda machine to protest this.Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-767075462002-05-18T21:05:00.000-04:002002-05-18T21:05:32.510-04:00Powell declared 'Awesome' after much deliberation
"The US secretary of state, Colin Powell, yesterday delivered a sharp attack on European political leaders, accusing them of constant "bashing" of US actions in the war on terrorism. "
I was never able to get a decent reading on Powell, he'll do something cool, and then tell Sharon to lay off Arafat. So to my surprise, Powell to the initiative Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-766106692002-05-16T03:11:00.000-04:002002-05-16T13:59:36.000-04:00Committee says NO to Same Sex Benefits
HTML Version of the Committee's Report
Word Version of the Committee's Report
It’s been official since May 9th. I’ve been sitting on this story waiting for the Pitt News to comment so that I could get the plantiff's responses.
The issue of Same-Sex benefits has been with the University of Pittsburgh since 1996 when legal action was taken by Deborah HensonStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-766026912002-05-15T22:46:00.000-04:002002-05-15T22:46:02.883-04:00VICTORY!
A new era has dawned in the Netherlands fueled by political discontent and the heinous murder of Pim Fortuyn. Voters, driven to the polls by a failing liberal government and the assassination of the populist, opposition leader, handed a huge victory to the Christian Democrats and List Pim Fortuyn, who finished 1-2 in today's election.
This victory will likely lead to a conservative/Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533709449197760227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-765921902002-05-15T18:00:00.000-04:002002-05-15T18:03:01.000-04:00Woody, I never thought you were funny. And I still don't. Woody Allen rejected on Wednesday a call by American Jews to boycott France's Cannes film festival, saying that was the kind of protest the Nazis used before the Second World War. I boycott France, because they are anti-american, anti-semetic. Im not Jewish, but the number of Anti-Semetic hate crimes that take place in a month of france Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-765895292002-05-15T16:49:00.000-04:002002-05-15T16:54:10.000-04:00Guess it's homeschool for my kids... so that when they're bad they get a real punishment. Earlier in the week I posted about Britain and the jailing of a mother for not making sure her children went to school. It turns out that the grand Ole State of Pennsylvania will soon be banning Corporal Punishment in our schools. Every year I see a new batch of children and they are more spoiled and Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-765889842002-05-15T16:36:00.000-04:002002-05-15T16:36:31.563-04:00KIDS THESE DAYS...
The AP is reporting that a group of children - one perhaps as young as 8 - may be responsible for a series of robberies in our very own city. Apparently, these kids were armed and dangerous.
This is further evidence that parents are slacking on their most important duty - raising their kids. Its high time that we make a switch from the self-indulgent adult behavior that has Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533709449197760227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-765690432002-05-15T03:01:00.000-04:002002-05-15T03:32:53.000-04:00WE MUST DO ANYTHING WE CAN TO STOP PETA The most absurd organization ever to be concieved by man is at it again, this time they have gotten the NCAA to scrap Leather Basket balls. I can't take it anymore. I simply can't.
"We're always looking for new ways to prevent animal cruelty," said PETA's Sports Campaign coordinator Dan Shannon. "We know now not to use fur anymore. We've moved on to Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-765456632002-05-14T15:29:00.000-04:002002-05-14T15:29:24.480-04:00Anne Applebaum, in an article on MSNBC, takes the initative in pointing out that many media outlets are taking the easy way out in labeling political leaders and parties, such as the late Pim Fortuyn in Holland, as "far-right," even though many of the policies that these parties propose are well into the mainstream. I highly reccomend reading this solid piece of journalism.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533709449197760227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-765433102002-05-14T14:25:00.000-04:002002-05-14T14:26:49.000-04:00 Smithers, release the hounds with bees in their mouths! Saw this on drudge report last night. Pentagon training bees to swarm into action Though, I don't trust UK News sources as much as I should, and I haven't seen this before, I want to beelieve it. *cough* Think about the practical applications. Train bees to think that you're the queen bee, and just walk around down town, Instant Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-765414492002-05-14T13:33:00.000-04:002002-05-14T13:36:03.000-04:00Remember when Bush imposed tariffs on foreign steel to help our struggling steel industry?
According to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette / Associated Press retaliatory Tariffs are a foot. I wasn't very happy with the tariff idea in the first place, and it looks like the EU is targeting American Products for tariffs based on "What states those products are from" in order to target areas that are Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-765394582002-05-14T12:36:00.000-04:002002-05-14T12:38:20.000-04:00Britain has done something right and Margaret Thatcher wasn’t involved! Britain Jails Mom for Kid's Truancy. The headline sums it up pretty good, a Mother was sentenced to 60 days in jail because her kids skipped school. Yes, this seems extreme, however, it's about time people are starting to realize that parents should be held accountable for their children’s actions not video games, not theStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-765093252002-05-13T17:18:00.000-04:002002-05-13T17:28:32.000-04:00How in world did I ever miss this?!?!? Students' 'sex toy party' irks officials ok... Apparently it's Masturbation Awareness Month, and look what the zanny folks over at Binghamton University in Upstate NY are up to.
A student-organized "sex toy party" marked the occasion this week in the student union lounge. Senior Maria Doherty helped to organize the event. She says they wanted to "take the Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-765066042002-05-13T16:10:00.000-04:002002-05-13T16:10:45.810-04:00Here's a pretty cool site that puts odds on the fall elections...Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533709449197760227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-765031042002-05-13T14:05:00.000-04:002002-05-13T14:05:01.963-04:00Despite falling behind in recent polls, it seems that California gubenatorial candidate Bill Simon (R) has incumbent Gov. Gray Davis (D) running scared. The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Davis has swung far to the left in recent weeks in an attempt to energize his Democratic base.
Davis has begun to investigate the possibility of civil unions and reparations for slavery in hopes of getting Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533709449197760227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-765017822002-05-13T13:25:00.000-04:002002-05-13T13:25:08.306-04:00Haven't really seen this around yet, but Debka is reporting that the Syrian military is taking up defensive positions in the Beqaa valley, Baalbek, the Beirut-Damascus highway and the Israeli-Syrian border in the northern Golan Heights, near Mount Hermon and Shebaa Farms. Additionally, the IDF is currently building up its forces in the North following Hizballah Anti-Air fire today.
There goes theStanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-764798622002-05-12T22:34:00.000-04:002002-05-12T22:34:26.843-04:00Things are looking bad for Bob Casey, Jr. Today, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette endorsed his opponent, former Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell in the Democratic primary for governor.
I personally applaud the PG for their decision, Rendell has far more experience and charisma than Casey, and I believe he will bring some exciting ideas to the table during the fall campaign against unopposed Republican Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533709449197760227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-764746892002-05-12T19:56:00.000-04:002002-05-12T20:06:18.000-04:00The Pittsburgh Post Gazette has finally provided me with the ever elusive answer to the most nagging question ever. Why did they let O.J. go? Well, my brilliant *cough* political analysis is this: They did it to bust some drug dealers. Ok, maybe not. However, with the amount of time O.J. and Bill Clinton have been spending in the news lately, one might wake up thinking they’ve slept through a Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-764435192002-05-11T20:54:00.000-04:002002-05-12T22:08:10.000-04:00The Pitt News is reporting that Patch Adams, the unorthodox physician portrayed by Robin Williams, stated the following during a visit to campus:
“I am literally comparing Bush and his cronies to Hitler, only Hitler had a smaller vision.”
Dr. Adams, quite simply, needs to get his head checked. Instead of decrying the evils of capitalism and American foreign policy, the good doctor should go Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533709449197760227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-764430222002-05-11T20:30:00.000-04:002002-05-11T20:35:16.000-04:00In what seems to have become a growing trend, Swarthmore College has begun offering co-ed housing arrangments. After persistent lobbying from the gay community, which claimed that current housing was "heterosexist," Swarthmore has begun to allow males and females to live together. This story, broken by the New York Times (registration required), seems to be yet another example of how the Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533709449197760227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-764400212002-05-11T18:09:00.000-04:002002-05-11T20:17:34.000-04:00 Too good to pass up commenting on, it would seem that Bahrain has banned Al Jazeera from broadcasting within it's kingdom. Why you ask? Bahrain said it would no longer allow Qatar's Al Jazeera satellite news channel to report from the kingdom, accusing it of seeking to "harm Bahrain" and having links with Israel, a newspaper reported Saturday. If your day still hasn't been made, further in Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-764325122002-05-11T12:39:00.000-04:002002-05-11T20:19:05.000-04:00Put two bullets in a cops head at close range and you get a 20 – 40 year lease in jail.
1 convicted, 1 set free in Aliquippa cop killing Uh oh, apparently it’s only 3rd degree murder if you shoot a cop execution style. “The third-degree conviction means the jury found that Brown acted with malice, but not with specific intent to kill Naim.” . TWO BULLETS IN THE HEAD!!!! THAT'S INTENT!!!!!Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-764317532002-05-11T12:05:00.000-04:002002-05-11T12:09:17.000-04:00Not since the announcement of lawsuits for Slave Reparations have I been so exasperated. The families of Mexicans who have died while illegally trying to immigrate into the United States, are suing the United States for contributing to their deaths. The beefier portion of the claim is that by not installing water stations the United Sates knowingly put at risk the illegal aliens attempting to Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504260.post-764172202002-05-10T21:39:00.000-04:002002-05-10T21:40:40.000-04:00One of my long running themes is that Liberals hate facts and the other side of all issues. Once in a while you get the rare opportunity to either illustrate this or expose a liberal to the truth. In either case it irks them. To my delight, while doing my usual news rounds, I came across this story Pro-Palestinian Class Proposal Under Review
It’s about the poetry of people who like to blow Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734707785922771903noreply@blogger.com