New Jersey Police Arrest 42 At House Party
Sounds normal right? if normal means:
But for the parents of a student at the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy, it was a weekend away that they’ll never forget.
Police said their son hosted a party that became loud and rowdy. When officers arrived, they found open beer containers, the smell of marijuana and 42 teenagers.
Now how many of these kids were Jewish…and how many will be applying to Brandeis in the next couple of years
A quote from the Stony Brook Statesman (11/18/04):
Speaking at a protest against the US attack on Fallujah:
“We as Americans have to hope America will lose” said Prof. Michael Schwartz, Director of the College of Global Studies and a speaker at the protetst.
“[If we (the US) win], we have to expect more wars, more distruction. Iran is next, Syria is next, and this is only the beginning”
Schwartz claims that commanders in the Army have made it clear that the attack on Falluja is a demonstration of total war which is aimed at intimidating Iraqi civilians to prevent them from joining the insurrection.
Picked up a copy of the Statesman today (the campus paper)…front page story:
“Stony Brook students protest recent US attacks in Iraq”….
Apparently there was a “die-in” on the main plaza of the school.
Darn, I missed a chance for a good laugh….
This piece by Dore Gold in the NY Sun is a must read. As if you didn’t need further proof of the UN’s futility, this one hammers a major point home.
Western diplomats may have been stunned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s blatant effort to ward off the newest coalition offensive against terrorist strongholds in Fallujah, but they should not have been surprised.
Mr. Annan’s plea, contained in letters to President Bush and to the Iraqi prime minister, provides another indication of a disturbing and yet ongoing pattern of U.N. intervention in the most sensitive global crises, whereby the U.N. appears to be more preoccupied with defending those most directly threatening international peace and security, while criticizing the policies of those protecting world order and asserting their right of self-defense. For in effect, Mr. Annan was providing diplomatic cover for the likes of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi while undercutting the embattled legitimate government of Iraq.
In the Middle East, it led the U.N.’s judicial arm in The Hague, the International Court of Justice, to insist that Israel dismantle its security fence in the disputed West Bank without calling for specific measures against the suicide terrorism that caused it to be built in the first place – one wonders if the U.N. had existed in the Middle Ages whether it would have banned the use of shields and armor while sanctioning the employment of the cross-bow. Finally, when the full story of the U.N.’s “oil for food” scandal is finally uncovered, it is likely to reveal an attitudinal flaw among senior officials that placed the Anglo-American policy of sanctions on Iraq on the same plane as the atrocities of the rogue regime of Saddam Hussein.
These are not just academic distinctions for a university seminar, for they have dire implications for foreign policy and national security. It is to be remembered that the U.N., with its claim to represent the views of all of mankind, is still viewed in many quarters as a beacon that represents international justice. Indeed, Mr. Annan always reminds foreign leaders that the U.N. is “the source of international legitimacy.” But if it repeatedly confuses the aggressor and victim who is defending himself, how can the U.N. represent justice of any sort? The U.N. General Assembly, despite appearances, is not a world parliament creating law, but rather a body that generates an amalgamation of the interests of its largely authoritarian majority, with no checks and balances protecting the constitutional rights of member states. Unfortunately, the U.N. Secretariat too often reflects the lopsided moral universe that the General Assembly has erected.
The whole idea of the U.N., according to its architects, was to create an organization that would nip aggression in the bud and prevent a re-play of World War II. However, with an authoritarian majority in the 1970s, the values for which the U.N. stood totally changed; indeed, in 1974, it invited the PLO chairman, Yasser Arafat, to address the General Assembly not long after the attacks he ordered on the Munich Olympic Games and on the American ambassador to Sudan; indeed, the architect of modern terrorism remarked in his address that he would never have been allowed to appear before the world body if it had been the same as the original U.N. of 1945.
It is not a long distance from that first moment when the U.N. legitimized the terrorism of the PLO to the special relations U.N. organs have developed with Hezbollah and Hamas in recent years. This also explains the blindness recently exhibited to the threat of terrorism to the new Iraqi government. The U.N. needs an accurate moral compass in order to accurately determine that aggression is occurring and must be stopped.
Okay, now this story from today’s NYT is rather disturbing on multiple levels: Burning Cross Left at Home of Interracial Couple on L.I.
Obviously, the appearance of a burning cross is bothersome–no matter what.
But for me what is even more bothersome, is that this took place in Lake Grove, which is rather close to wherer I live (very close actually). I don’t like this one bit.
Am I scared, no, not really. Bothered–obviously, but from the sound of things it looks like this has put a lot of communities “on alert” and hopefully this will have been a one time occurance.
So, as a graduate student, I’m considered to be both an employee of the University and though that an employee of the State of NY.
Subsequently, due to some agreement with the university, all of us grad students (who are GAs or TAs) are automatically made to be members in the Graduate Student Employee Union (GESU).
In other words, we automatically get our “dues” deducted from each of our paycheks, whether we like it or not.
I guess the union contract is up for review now, since in the past few days I”ve gotten a lot of emails pointing to the petition below.
I thought I’d just pass it along and let people see that they thing of it, especially if they’re NY State tax-payers.
SUPPORT OF SUNY GRADUATE STUDENT EMPLOYEES IN THEIR NEGOTIATION EFFORTS Petition
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: Soldiers to receive a sexy surprise–Local wives pose for glamour photos
The big story arorund my part of the Island this week has been about a woman who was critically injured as a result of a collsion with a 20-lb frozen turkey.
The injured woman was driving down Portion Road in Lake Ronkonkoma, (which isn’t too far away from where I live, a few miles at most). The Speed limit She was driving when suddenly, a car full of teens, threw a 20-lb frozen turkey out the window, which crashed through her winshield injuring her.
Oh, and for reference, the speed limit is at least 45 mph on Portion Road (and this is Long Island after all).
Now for those of you who were good physics students, you’ll remember the properties of vectors. For those of you who either didn’t like physics and/or don’t remember vectors, let me explain.
When the frozen turkey was in the car, it was traveling at the same speed as the car it was traveling in. That is, were the car going 55 mph, the turkey would also be traveling 55mph. So when the teen threw the turkey out the window, you’ve got a 20-lb object flying at 55 mph. Now when the woman’s car came into contact with the turkey…you’ve got a projectile with a lot of momentum hitting you face on, as you are accelerating yourself…and kablam.
Here’s the latest stories from the NY-area Press on the incident.
Daily News: Bust-5 suspects in Turkey toss
NY Post: 5 Teens Busted in Turkey ‘Prank’ that KO’d driver
Newsday: Alleged ringleader pleads not guilty in turkey toss
As 6th suspect is arrested; victim makes progress
WOOOOOHOOOO!
OSU beats Michigan 37-21! An upset at the Horseshoe (Ohio Stadium)!
The evil empire of Ann Arbor has been crushed by a young and talented Ohio State Buckeye team!
(More to come on the game later….but now it’s time to celebrate)
If you’re one fo the few still sticking to that meme that the election was decided over “moral values”….perhaps it’s time to adopt a new meme
Kerry Says UBL Tape Cost Him Election
Well, perhaps, but I think most people had already made up their minds before the tape came out.
Many pundits and talking heads, and don’t forget the blogsphere, believed that if the election came down to the issue of national security–that things would break in the Presidents favor….so perhaps this is partially true?
Then again, since this is Kerry speaking to Gerraldo…the quotes need taken with grains of salt.
This online column from Newsweek rings so true to me: The Tech-Support Generation
Millions of young Americans will head home next week to give thanks, eat turkey … and fix their parents’ computers
People who know me personally know exactly what I’m talking about…
I wonder what’s going to need fixed/updated/upgraded this time….
This piece from the WSJ today presents a rather rational theory about how Bush overcame Ohio’s poor economy (you suck Gov. Taft!) over the past four years and won the state.
Perhaps people who write for the Justice should take this into consideration.
I’m inclined to agree with most of the WSJ piece. Plus Kerry also shot himself in the foot in many parts of Ohio. Start with the “Duck Hunt” photo-op, and his appearance as a wealthy city dweller doesn’t go over well with rural voters.
First it was the term “neo-con” which devolved into becoming an anti-semetic slur by people on both the left and the right (the margins of the two sides).
According to David Bernstein (a ‘deis alum), It looks like there’s a new term that’s now an anti-semetic slur: “Likudnik”
Now I bet that a very high percentage of people who are refered to as Likudniks really know anything about the Likud party and its platform.
It’s ashame that now there are all these terms floating around freely, with so many not understanding the connotation.
Oh no! They’re unleashing the lawyers!
Democrats take up fight over ballots
Cincinnati – Seeming to brush aside John Kerry’s concession speech, the Ohio Democratic Party has launched a federal court fight over nearly 155,000 provisional ballots by contending a proper accounting of those votes might decide who really won.
Okay, the Ohio Democrats are really disorganized…that’s a given, but they should listen to some of the professors in this case:
“But there’s no way the math is going to change,” Takaji said. “The margin might shrink as the provisionals are counted, but if you look seriously at the numbers, the outcome won’t change.”
Gene Beaupre, a political scientist at Xavier University in Cincinnati, saw the suit as an effort by Democratic officials to assuage party loyalists who feel Kerry quit without a fight in Ohio.
“There’s certainly a feeling out there that people were let down by the leadership,” Beaupre said. “All you have to do is look on the Internet, and that sense of disappointment is a political reality among a lot of people who are Internet users.”
Please just let it go people! Otherwise I’m gonna have to break out my whack-a-lawyer bat again…
It was a close race,’ but Bush shows a preference for Biscuits and Gravy
The highlights (or lowlights) of the event:
“It came down to a few battleground states. It was a tough contest, and it turned out some 527 organizations got involved,” Bush said, referring to the so- called 527 committees that poured millions of dollars into this year’s presidential race.
The president said “Barnyard Animals for Truth” was one of the 527s that got involved in the name-the-turkeys contest.
….Bush, in a reference to the Michael Moore film “Fahrenheit 9/11,” said the turkey-naming campaign included “a scurrilous film that came out, Fahrenheit 375 Degrees at 10 Minutes Per Pound.’”
*groan*
“Jon Stewart is a god to young voters; whether that is a good thing or a bad thing I cannot say,” [Pollster Frank] Luntz said.–Concord (NH) Monitor Online
I really like the idea that Michelle of ASV has: Operation TIPS: Christmas Decoration Hell
I was in the grocery store on Halloween Day….and well already the stores were beginning to get decked out in X-mas regalia…so I’m definitely going to be keeping my eyes open for those tacky houses…
I saw a copy of the campus newspaper today, “The Statesman” (unfortunately not online)
and what’s the big story about?
A panel discussion sponsored by the University about the posibility of a military draft!
I only glanced at the piece (time consttraints), but it looks like the panel featured a bunch of anti-war/anti-military types.
Just when I thought the whole draft rumor had been put to sleep…..
NY State residents….Your tax dollars at work..
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