There have been some interesting stories about racing in various forms recently. First up, the sport of kings:
Dubai: Godolphin work mates Saeed Bin Surour and Mahmoud Al Zarouni are set to take on some of the best trainers on the planet as they bid to win today’s $10 million (Dh36.7 million) Dubai World Cup (Group 1), the richest and most highly anticipated race in the world.
That’ll buy a lot of oats. I also saw somewhere that the Duchess of Cornwall was scratched.
Next is a classic. The marathon, celebrating an event in ancient Greece where a dude ran 26.2 miles to deliver a very important message. Then died. How did they know it wasn’t 26.3 miles? One of the most recent marathon races was held in the Holy City, Jerusalem, for the first time.
It was also apparently the most heavily-armed marathon ever run. Kenyans won, placed, and showed, natch. But not without a bit of controversy:
Jerusalem’s first-ever marathon ended in amusing confusion on Friday, with a Kenyan runner, said to have taken a wrong turn, crossing the finish line for the half-marathon and still winning.
The Israeli team is not expected to finish until 2051.
Finally, we have:
Drag racing! The sport of queens.
Here’s a series of handy charts explaining radiation doses from various sources and how much risk you generally expose yourself to by eating bananas. The banana formula is actually pretty handy.
http://xkcd.com/radiation/
Check out the Banana Equivalent Dose here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
BTW Sarge, the Hajj typically takes 5, possibly 6 days to perform. Add on 2 days each way to travel and you are looking at 10 – 11 days max. Less than 2 weeks. So, why does our subject, the devout Math Instructor need 3 whole weeks??? Perhaps if she’d been more honest with her employers and asked for a… Read more »
Nothing in the Constitution guarantees you the right to a job where your employer must allow you take off for religious pilgrimages, I don’t care what religion you are. There are Christians that have choose to work on the most holy of days for us because that’s what their employers require. I can’t believe this debate even got started, much… Read more »
200 dangit. That wasn’t fair, I was watching the Brietbart thing. We had a busy weekend, we were invited to a tradeshow crawfish boil thing in The Woodlands yesterday and last night we a very small sponser in a booth at the Associated Contractors annual cookoff at the Farm and Ranch Club near Bear Creek Park and stayed in a… Read more »
hit 200.
Night all.
Seeing an opportunity, she
Sarge, I think it’s quite a stretch to equate that school administrations’s denial of 3 wks of unpaid leave at a crucial time, with schools in general seeking to suppress Christmas themes or activities on the school property. I can see only the thinnest commonality.
Tim! Where you been? We needed your input this weekend!
oppressor
No one has the right to time off, even weekends or overtime. Period.
Well, get off you’re lazy azz then ! 😛
Gee, I get home from another online date and you folks are still going wild over trivia. I’d rather have spent the night with her than partake of that debate (duh.)
Meanwhile, the
kidsyoung adults are playing beer pong downstairs. I should prolly check up on them.#190 Adee
You are most welcome. Glad to be of service.
My G-d, man, what a pathetic and petty little man you are. Merely pointing to fact while at the same time avoiding the kind of adhominem attack that accompanies an inability to win an argument with fact and logic. I know, I know. I’m an ignent peasant of no consequence and I’m unfit to compete in the arena with the… Read more »
Texpat, that Corning ad is spellbinding. I had seen only part of it on air several weeks ago.
Thank you for the Andrew Breitbart speech from yesterday. Now there is one smart cookie, and I’m glad he’s on our side. I bet he gives the libs nightmares just wondering what he’s up to next.
#184 Sarge Come December, when folks here are recounting the latest outrage perpetrated by schools in their “War on Christmas” I do beleive I will be one of the few here who will be able to be outraged with some kind of consistency. Whether or not CAIR is behind this doesn’t really matter to me in this case. I will… Read more »
187 wagonburner says: March 27, 2011 at 8:36 pm No. It’s pretty much about a brat who thinks she’s special. If she wanted a day or two off to go do some Muslim thing, I would have no real problem with it. Three weeks is a bit excessive. I agree. But she was not given the choice. It isn’t like… Read more »
No. It’s pretty much about a brat who thinks she’s special.
If she wanted a day or two off to go do some Muslim thing, I would have no real problem with it.
Three weeks is a bit excessive.
And I guess this means that for you, this is really more about preserving the Republic from the onslaught of muslim hordes and not about a spoiled brat trying to get special treatment.
OK, Is it just me or have we finaly arrived in “Bizarro World”? ❓
Please elucidate, kind sir. If they can prove that you defrauded them, they can sue the ski pants off you. Anyone who believes this case could represent any sort of constitutional vindication or victory is, in fact and in full dress, a reeling and blithering idiot. Come December, when folks here are recounting the latest outrage perpetrated by schools in… Read more »
This Khan woman in (where is it, Illinois ?) is nothing but a pawn in the lawfare initiative being mounted against our society by the CAIRs and ISNAs of the world. It is telling they chose to assault a school district rather than a private company though. That is, I am sure, in the hopper. She is nothing but a… Read more »
Please elucidate, kind sir.
How does one distinguish between “legitimate” claims and those that are not deserving of such treatment.
Sarge and I have hurled no small amount of barbs at each other over the years. We have disagreed on many things and frankly I have never gotten the better of him in argument. I do thank you for that, my fellow Sergeant. I suspect such is likely the case with others not as willing to make that admission as… Read more »
Here’s the thing guys: You might see this as a spoiled brat looking for special treatment. I see the faceless, nameless, Liberal Yankee bureaucrats treating a religion with the same disdain, lack of sensitivity, and lack of respect they usually reserve for Christians. I see the same atttitude that leads them to tell thier students that they can’t wear red… Read more »
mharper, Sarge and I have hurled no small amount of barbs at each other over the years. We have disagreed on many things and frankly I have never gotten the better of him in argument. In this instance, I believe he is right; furthermore he is taking a position that I think Dr Franklin and Thomas Jefferson would have no… Read more »
Sarge, I was just about to comment that you seem to be The Lone Ranger on the DOJ/Mecca case, but then here came Simple to be your sidekick Tonto, so I shall (almost) refrain.
Sarge, Well said today sir! “It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children… Read more »
#174 sarge So if I just have to take some time off, but my employer doesn’t want me to, I can make up a religion, claim I need to make a pilgrimage, and I’m set? I work at Macy’s. It’s December and I really want to go skiing, but it’s prime shopping season and everyone is being asked to work… Read more »
#142 Texpat, #169 fat albert, and mharper #173 Ditto’s
So, it’s up to the hiring party to anticipate any issues that might arise and ask about them? What a truly unionesque point of view. And how, pray tell, could they ask her if her particular religious beliefs required that she take a three week vacation in the middle of the school year when employers are forbidden from asking about… Read more »
#169 FA
Extremely well stated/summarized.
Ya’ know the one thing that I like about the left-wing nut-balls is that really believe in the First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, doncha’ know; Media Matters’ war against Fox. The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage”… Read more »
The refresh link works pretty good unless I’m in horizontal (landscape), in which case it leaves me at the top of the page.
My online gal pal and I are about to watch another live show together and discuss it. I kinda like dates that I don’t have to get dressed
upfor.Sarge: One generally does not make requests for time off until they are hired. If the employer does not ask before hiring, the fault is thiers. If she had told them that she wanted time off for a religious observance and she was not hired as a result, the same Constitutional issue would be in play. The request was made… Read more »
Andrew Breitbart spoke in Houston at the True the Vote conference yesterday.
Here is a link to the True the Vote Livestream video page.
It’s 4:20. Do you know where my stash is?
165 bob42 says: March 27, 2011 at 3:58 pm #162 So they had a choice to give her a raise in hopes that she would withdraw her demand for time off, or meet her demands to the detriment of the mission of school. That doesn’t sound like much of a choice to me. I’ve said what the right thing to… Read more »
#162 So they had a choice to give her a raise in hopes that she would withdraw her demand for time off, or meet her demands to the detriment of the mission of school. That doesn’t sound like much of a choice to me. I’m glad you got your raise. I’ve known folks that threatened resignation because they didn’t feel… Read more »
Perhaps we live in a country with a Constitution that makes it so that we don’t have to make that choice.
153 mharper42 says: March 27, 2011 at 1:26 pm Sarge, may I ask what is the source of your recent, and I would describe it as extreme, pro-Islamic stance on everything? It seems to date from right around the time of your baptism. Is there a connection? If this is too personal, I’m sure you’ll let me know. As far… Read more »
Why did they accept her resignation? Did they have a choice? Employers always have a choice when an employee resigns. There have been everal instances in my career where I submitted my resignation only to have the employer make me an offer to get me to stay. My experience is that the more indispensible I was to the operation and… Read more »
#158 WB
LOL.
Did you notice after 12 comments on that Canadian TV site, 11 of which were mocking “Earth Hour”, they closed the comments for that post ?
I’m bored. I think I’ll go to Wal*Mart and toss boxes of condoms into random peoples carts when they aren’t looking.
#146 bob
Doncha’ just love the dry British Humor. 😀
You people are not participating in Earth Hour enough. Now get with the program.
SecDef Gates admits that Libya was not a direct or imminent threat to the US prior to the start of Barack’s Excellent Expeditionary Adventure.
A case could be made that Syria and Mexico are much more imminent and direct threats to the US right now as well as severe humanitarian problems.
I know this isn’t representative of the majority of tea partiers, at least, I hope it’s not. The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one… Read more »
Many people, too many people, believe basic, heavy and relatively simple manufacturing processes moving overseas is somehow a bad thing. I strongly suspect those folks never had to work in one of those plants as I did when I was young. Hot, dirty, grueling, repetitive, back-breaking work that wore down your psyche. In my experiences, I met a number of… Read more »