SNIPPETS

FRIDAY,  AUGUST 14,  2009

LA PLATA, Md. (AP) -- A Charles County judge who acknowledged deflating a tire of a car parked in a restricted area near the courthouse has resigned as chief administrator of the Circuit Court.  Circuit Court Judge Robert Nalley is not resigning from the bench.  In a letter submitted Thursday to Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert Bell, Nalley made no reference to this week's controversy over the tire deflation.

If he has a compelling life story, he's still got a shot at the Supreme Court.

From NBC:  He's interviewed Oprah, D-Wade and now President Obama. No, we're not talking about Rush Limbaugh, Anderson Cooper or Larry King.  Damon Weaver already has a resume to match all of those big shot media powers, and he's only 11.  Weaver, who will be starting the 6th grade next week at Canal Point Elementary in Palm Beach, was at the White House on Thursday to grill the president for an hour on issues much deeper than his favorite cartoon growing up and if he was bullied in school.

Chances are, the questions were a lot better than those usually asked at a presidential news conference.

THURSDAY,  AUGUST 13,  2009

From The Wall Street Journal:  In Andrew Price's first year on the job, airlines lost his luggage seven times. That would be bad enough if he were the average continent-hopping businessman, but Mr. Price is the man the airlines rely on to help them stop losing bags.  On a three-day trip to Canada from Switzerland last year, his bags landed on the final day -- when he was already at the airport. He sent them straight home. They arrived a week after he did.

At least the man knows.  Hats off to him for going through "the process."

From The Politico:  Before presenting tennis legend Billie Jean King with the Medal of Freedom Wednesday, President Obama ticked off some of her accomplishments: 12 Grand Slam titles, 101 doubles titles, 67 singles titles.  “Pretty good, Billie Jean,” he quipped.  But he didn’t get any of it right, according to King herself.  “They didn’t get any of my facts right,” King lightheartedly noted afterward. “Did you see all the – how many titles I won? I was cracking up.  Not even in the ballpark,” she continued.

And this is the same White House we depend on to defend the country.  Dig those shelters now.

From London's Daily Mail:  Children who speak English as their first language are now a minority in inner-city London primary schools, official figures showed yesterday...In inner London, 54 percent of primary pupils and 48.5 percent in secondary institutions do not speak English as their first language. 

And, sadly, many come from cultures that do not accept integration into Britain as any kind of obligation.  The so-called "multiculturalists" are rejoicing.  Saner voices who believe in Western Civilization are not.

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