A Strange, Strange World We Live In
This old song keeps running through my head. The tune is catchy, but I don’t think I’ve heard it since it made the Top 40 back in 1968.
It’s a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack.
Oh, it’s a very strange world. Listen:
British Airways has airbrushed a scene of arch-rival Sir Richard Branson out of its in-flight James Bond movie “Casino Royale”, sources close to the company said on Monday.
The Virgin Atlantic chief is briefly featured in the original 007 film at an airport security scanner, but can only be seen from the back in the edited version.
Shots of the tail fin of a Virgin plane have also been obscured.
“Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten,” apparently.
Via Ed Brayton, they have different concerns in Utah, where a Republican delegate wants his party to pin the blame for illegal immigration squarely on Satan.
Don Larsen, a district chairman, has submitted a resolution equating illegal immigration to “Satan’s plan to destroy the U.S. by stealth invasion” for debate at Saturday’s Utah County Republican Party Convention.
Referring to a plan by the devil for a “New World Order … as predicted in the Scriptures,” the resolution calls for the Utah County Republican Party to support “closing the national borders to illegal immigration to prevent the destruction of the U.S. by stealth invasion.”
“Everything I need to know I learned in Sunday School?”
Meanwhile, a school teacher in Indiana fights to keep her job. Why?
The column in the student newspaper seemed innocent enough: advocating tolerance for people “different than you.”
But since sophomore Megan Chase’s words appeared January 19 in The Tomahawk, the newspaper at Woodlan Junior-Senior High School, her newspaper adviser has been suspended and is fighting for her job, and charges of censorship and First Amendment violations are clouding this conservative northeastern Indiana community. …
[Newspaper advisor Amy] Sorrell has been placed on administrative leave and the school district has recommended she be fired. A public hearing is scheduled April 28, and the school board expects to vote May 1.
Kindergarteners aren’t cute at that age.
You want fresh thinking? Look to the U.S. armed forces:
The armed forces, already struggling to meet recruiting goals, are considering expanding the number of noncitizens in the ranks — including disputed proposals to open recruiting stations overseas and putting more immigrants on a faster track to US citizenship if they volunteer — according to Pentagon officials.
Foreign citizens serving in the US military is a highly charged issue, which could expose the Pentagon to criticism that it is essentially using mercenaries to defend the country. Other analysts voice concern that a large contingent of noncitizens under arms could jeopardize national security or reflect badly on Americans’ willingness to serve in uniform.
Remember those old movies about the French Foreign Legion? Our fresh thinking is French thinking. But our fries — those are freedom fries.
It’s a very strange world, and I thank you.
