Month: April 2007

Comics on the Loose

How human (the child version) to say something that wipes out or bombs and later say it was “Just a joke.”

Most recently, Crowe’s comments about limiting toilet paper use to one square per incident, with allowance made for 2-3 squares for the “pesky” times.

Then there was McCain’s “bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” thing.

Seems like Kerry launched a botched joke once upon a recent time.

I could almost imagine having heard Imus said his infamous line was in this category.

What other in-the-news JaJs am I missing?

Melissa Busekros — Happy Birthday!

Homeschooler flees Germany’s state custody

Melissa Busekros, the schoolgirl taken by police and placed in a psychiatric hospital because she was diagnosed with a “school phobia” and was being homeschooled, has fled state custody to make a midnight trip back to her own family, according to Joel Thornton, president of The International Human Rights Group.

“At 3 a.m., in Erlangen, Germany, Melissa reached her home to the surprise of her entire family,” Thornton told WND. “Earlier in the morning Melissa left a note with the foster family where she was being held and began the journey to her family. She left of her own volition.”

Thornton said April 23 is Melissa’s birthday, and on turning 16, “this gives her broader rights than it does in America. It gives her more of a voice in her own custody. So, she decided to return home.”

Headline Hilarity

I use hilarity only because I couldn’t think of a better word beginning with h.

Anyway, sometimes I get a kick out of headlines. Other times, they make me scratch my cranium. And at times, they make me sigh or roll my eyes.

So . . . these were the first headlines I saw two mornings ago on April 17:

#1 — Questions remain, huh? No kidding.

#3 — In the PR campaign, you wouldn’t expect the Al-Qaeda to say Iraq is the “morgue of terror” would you?

#6 — Needlessly??!! Are there any children (poor or otherwise) that are needfully ravaged by AIDS or any other disease?

Oh well. I’m sure I would write some strange headlines also. 🙂

He Died for Them

Professor killed saving students at Virginia Tech

A 75-year-old Israeli professor and Holocaust survivor was killed in the massacre at Virginia Tech on Holocaust Memorial Day, Monday when he leaped between the gunner and his students.

According to eye witnesses the heroic action of Liviu Librescu, a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, saved the lives of an unknown number of students in his class. Asael Arad, an Israeli Virginia Tech student told Army Radio that “all the students lived — because of him,” The Jerusalem Post reported.

May God sustain his family and comfort his students.

And may those students never blemish his sacrifice by how they choose to live their lives from here on out.

HT: comments at WizBangBlog

Above all, love God!