An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Morning Coffee 06/21/08
Curricular fair is gateway to home-schooling world
The Agricenter’s exhibition hall is filled with thousands of books and classroom supplies as the Memphis-Area Home Education Association’s 22nd annual conference and curricular fair meets this weekend.
By mid-afternoon Friday, the hall was abuzz with parents reuniting with one another and quizzing vendors about how to use their textbooks and educational software.
Well, shoot. If anyone needs any 10th grade books, I’ve got some that are barely use, or brand new! Give me a shout! Will sell……good price! 
Iran dismisses ‘attack by Israel’
Iran has said it considers a military attack on its nuclear facilities by Israel as “impossible”.
“Such audacity to embark on an assault against the interests and territorial integrity of our country is impossible, said spokesman Gholam Hoseyn Elham.
The statement follows reports in the US media that Israeli aerial manoeuvres over the eastern Mediterranean were a possible test-run for a strike on Iran.
Pardon my ignorance, but does not Israel stay in training? Have they never done such “dry runs” previously? I’d submit that there are folks getting their knickers in a twist over Israel training to defend itself. Oh, and by the way…if Israel DID attack said nuclear facilities, they’d be dust.
Saudi Arabia announced yesterday that it would do everything possible to curb rising oil prices, which it blamed on geopolitics and speculators.
“The Kingdom looks… with great interest to oil market stability that will protect the interests of producers and consumers and promote world economic growth,” an official statement said. “As the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia has not and will not spare any effort to achieve oil market stability. Its oil policy aims always to foster and strengthen cooperation and dialogue between oil producing and consuming countries.”
Ya know, I’ve been seeing a LOT of finger pointing going on lately. I think that really should stop. We can blame Congress, but who put the weasels there in the first place? We can blame “big oil”, but they really don’t make that much profit on each gallon, and use a lot of those profits for research and development. We can blame the oil producing countries in the Middle East, but why? They’re doing what they do, pump oil. We’re not. Besides, that’s not the only place we get the oil. It’s a great big circle and it needs to be snipped. Drilling here right now isn’t going to solve the problem over night, but ten years down the road, it’s going to make a HUGE difference. And yes, we do need to look to alternatives. REASONABLE alternatives. Food is not a reasonable alternative!
Bush says Democrats keep blocking his energy plans
Congressional Democrats have been quick to reject the push for lifting the drilling moratorium, saying oil companies already have under lease 68 million acres on federal lands and waters _ outside the ban area _ that are not being developed. Drilling proponents say that number is misleading because sometimes it takes years for actual development to take place.
Well, of course they are against anything that could help future generations. What is it with those people? They seem only to see the small corner they have put themselves in, while the rest of us are looking at the WHOLE big picture. Honestly, I think it’s an ego problem. 
Iran: University protests over sexual abuse
Students at Iran’s Zanjan University outside Tehran have been protesting for more than a week over the alleged sexual abuse of a student by a university dean in charge of campus morality.
While the deputy head of the university remains free, the young woman has been arrested.
The student was said to have been offered several sexual advances by the deputy head of the university, under pressure, she agreed, and in collussion with other students she went to the prearranged ‘meeting’ at the deputy head’s office with a recording device.
While the dean was undressing, the students burst into his office, caught him half naked and then alerted university security. The video then circulated on the internet for days.
So, the POS who sexually harassed the girl is running around, free to do the same thing again, while the girl sits in jail. And this is a civilized country? (insert MASSIVE sarcasm)
Father Leads Police to Burnt Bodies of 2 Missing Kids
A Texas man, the prime suspect in the disappearance of his two children, has led police to their charred remains.
The bodies of Randy Sylvester Jr., 7, and his 3-year-old sister, Denim Sylvester, were recovered Saturday morning, shortly past midnight, in a wooded area near Highway 3 in Pasadena, Texas, according to MyFOXHouston.com.
May the SOB fry in hell for eternity.
‘30 prisoners holding up Schalit deal’
The fundamental disagreement preventing the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit rests on 30 Palestinian prisoners that Hamas has requested Israel release, according to a Saturday report in London-based newspaper A-Sharq al-Awsat.
The report claimed that Israel has refused to release those specific prisoners.
The Jerusalem Post could neither confirm nor deny the report.
30 for 1? Proved or not, one Israeli is always worth more than any Hamas terrorist. Even Hamas knows this. 
Netherlands Concerned on Jordan Arrest Warrant for Wilders
The foreign ministry is concerned that Jordan will shortly issue a warrant for the arrest of Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders. This can have “implications for freedom of expression in the Netherlands,” according to a spokesman.
A case has been brought against Wilders in Jordan by a group calling itself The Messenger of Allah Unites Us. It accuses the Dutch MP of racism and incitement to hatred against Islam and Muslims. The case was declared admissible by a court in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Monday.
Arrest warrant for what? Speaking the truth? Truth doesn’t fit into the agenda, so it must be silenced. Yep, real peaceful, and tolerant, bunch, those Muslims.
Wisconsin house where 6 were killed demolished
The home where six young people died when a jealous off-duty sheriff’s deputy went on a shooting rampage eight months ago has been likened to an infection in this small northern Wisconsin city.
The cure came early Saturday morning, when workers demolished the house.
I guess it’s best that the house is gone. Small towns don’t need constant reminders of the tragedy that hits them.
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