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Introducing the Leaning Tower of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Blast can’t topple state’s tallest building
Crowd watches as demolition fails to raze South Dakota tower

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) — Thousands of spectators gathered to watch the demolition of the city’s tallest building — but the Zip Feed Mill tower was no pushover.
The 202-foot-tall concrete structure dropped slightly, leaned a little — and stopped. Onlookers at viewing spots all over downtown groaned and gasped — with a few jokes mixed in.
“The leaning tower of Sioux Falls,” one woman said.

Read about it here.
Ha ha ha! It’s a joke mayor and friends of Pisa. Relax. It’s not trying to compete with your tower. I know you don’t like the dreaded C word (competition) and I’m just giving you a hard time.
Ha ha ha!

Calling a Christmas tree a Christmas tree has become a politically charged prospect in jurisdictions across the country — from Boston to Sacramento and in dozens of communities in between.
Last week in Boston the city’s Web site referred to a giant tree erected on Boston Common as a “holiday tree.”
The new name drew the ire of many Christians.
“The Boston Christmas tree situation is symbolic of what’s happening … around the country,” said Mathew Staver, president and general counsel of Liberty Counsel.
“Government officials, either because of misinformation, or private retailers, for politically correct reasons, are trying to secularize Christmas.
“To rename a Christmas tree as a holiday tree is as offensive as renaming a Jewish menorah a candlestick,” Mr. Staver said.
Mr. Staver, I may not agree with you on all issues, but I feel your pain on this one.

Read the rest of article here.

The name change from Christmas tree to holiday tree is done out of Political Correctness.
The Boston city officials, as well as other city officials do not want to offend the non-Christian, non-Christmas celebrating people of the nation.
They are changing the name from Christmas tree to holiday tree, to also include those who celebrate Hanukkah, or Kwaanza.

Well, as one of the non-Christian, non Christmas celebrating people I will tell you what I think of the name change from Christmas tree to Holiday tree.
I am offended.
Do they think that a tree decorated with lights will completely send me over the edge ?
Do they think so lowly of my mental state?
It’s a tree. Decorated with lights and ornaments.It is not a religious object.
The fact that it exists does not force me to enter a church or say a prayer.
The fact that it is a symbol associated with the holiday Christmas is not a problem for me.
Its origins were from ancient pagan ceremonies. That does not bother me either.
It is not associated with Hanukkah or Kwaanza, and it shouldn’t be.
To call it a holiday tree-now THAT is offensive !

Ruben Cantu was 17 in 1984 when he was charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a man during an attempted robbery in San Antonio. The victim was shot nine times with a rifle before the gunman unloaded more rounds into the only eyewitness.
The eyewitness, Juan Moreno, told the Chronicle that it wasn’t Cantu who shot him. Moreno said he identified Cantu as the killer during his 1985 trial because he felt pressured and was afraid of authorities.
Cantu was executed at age 26. He had long professed his innocence.

If a person is put in jail for a long time, and years later if new evidence appears to prove him innocent the state can simply open the jail doors, perhaps pay the person some compensation money for being locked up for a part of his/her and let them go.

If a person is executed however, and years later if new evidence appears they are dead. There is nothing to be done to bring him/her back to life.

There are certain times when I do think the death penalty is just. If there is overwhelming DNA evidence, or if the crime is caught on camera, or maybe a credible confession…

A woman was sentenced by a court to spend the night in a park without food or shelter because she abandoned kittens to the same fate. Well, not exactly the same, she is allowed to have water. She also has to go to jail for 60 days and pay a fine after all abandoning animals is a crime.

She abandoned 33 cats in 2 parks near Lake Metropark, in northeastern Ohio, and subsequently a few of them died, or are sick.

The sentencing judge wanted her “to suffer the same consequences as those kittens.”

Some people might think this is a severe punishment. I don’t. As much as cats are independent animals and act like they don’t need humans to survive, they do. Especially when they are in the kitten stage of life.

I wish more judges handed out unusual sentences like this, especially those in Italy, where the abandonment of domestic animals is quite common, especially in the summer holiday months.

Read more about it here.

Thank you Drudge Report.

No. I don’t think so.

This relates to the story of the 21 year old Joel Hinrichs, the University of Oklahoma Engineering Student who on October 1 blew himself up within 100 yards of a football stadium attended by 85,000 people.

When the story came out it was largely ignored by the MSM, or just treated like a routine suicide. It was not, however, a routine suicide. A few days before blowing himself up, Joel Hinrich tried to purchase a large amount of amonium nitrate from a store that sells fertiliser. He failed, and constructed a homemade bomb using TATP, which is often used by Palestinian suicide bombers. He did not commit suicide in his own house, he not only chose a public place, but one nearby a football stadium with a game in progress, which there are rumors, true or not, that he tried to enter but did not when the guards asked to search his bag. He also had more explosives in his room.

A lot of blog writers (for example LGF, Michelle Malkin) noted the lack of interest by the MSM, and questioned the ’suicide’. They asked ‘Was this a Jihadist terrorist bombing gone bad?’ And there were several posts on this subject.

I just read yesterday that Cathy Young accused these bloggers of’ crying wolf.’ I don’t think that is a fair judgement.

Some obvious questions arise. This is not a ‘routine suicide’, done by the more traditional methods in traditional places. If it is a suicide it is an abnormal one and the MSM and police should look into it, especially in this day and age of terrorism. It is the responsible thing to do. If his suicide was indeed a suicide I have sympathy for all his family and friends. If his suicide justso happens to be more than just a ‘routine suicide’ I have sympathy for us all. I don’t think that asking questions such as ‘Is it.’ Or it isn’t’ are wrong. The MSM should do this. If they don’t, it is up to the blogger community to.

I am so glad that someone shares my views on the protesters in the rally against the war in Iraq who use the anti war in Iraq issue to spout their own ideologies. ‘What does Israel have to do with Iraq?’ to quote one, sadly only one protester out of many in San Diego.

You can read about it here in an article by Christopher Hitchens. Nobody says it better then him.

He also mentions how many of the ‘peace-loving’ protesters support such ‘peace-loving’ Communist regimes such as those in Korea, China and Cuba.