Couldn’t Help But Notice (092107)

Over 15 months after the initial wave of publicity, Joey Vento of Geno’s Steaks was going before the Thought Police, er, the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission. The hearing, Illegal Protest originally reported, was to be on Thursday, September 27th at 9am at the Philadelphia Free Library. But now it has been postponed. Illegal Protest thinks it’s because PHRC doesn’t think it has a case, and is dragging its feet. I hope IP is right.

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Nicholas Sarkozy is taking on the French welfare state. Update: That didn’t take long — the public-sector unions are calling for a national strike of rail and power workers.

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Mike Adams is keeping the heat on jihadist Kent State prof Julio Pino and the school’s Provost. As he should.

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Make Rooma for Ooma:

Ooma turns the traditional phone model on its ear. You shell out $399 ($599 starting in 2008) for a slick gray-and-white box that is smaller than a typical answering machine. This Ooma Hub connects to your high-speed broadband Internet service and whatever telephone handset you have lying around. From then on, all local and long-distance calls in the USA made through that phone are free. You can plug in additional handsets by buying optional $39.95 devices called Ooma Scouts. Scouts aren’t required for additional cordless handsets

This bears watching. It could be the death of the local phone company. My tear ducts are dry.

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Bill Kristol made a great point at the Weekly Standard yesterday (HT Taranto at Best of the Web) about Columbia University and its invitation to Mahmoud “Champion of the Dispossed” Ahmadinejad to speak while he is visiting the United States:

As Columbia welcomes Ahmadinejad to campus, Columbia students who want to serve their country cannot enroll in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) at Columbia. Columbia students who want to enroll in ROTC must travel to other universities to fulfill their obligations. ROTC has been banned from the Columbia campus since 1969. In 2003, a majority of polled Columbia students supported reinstating ROTC on campus. But in 2005, when the Columbia faculty senate debated the issue, President Bollinger joined the opponents in defeating the effort to invite ROTC back on campus.

Taranto’s follow-on is even better, noting that Columbia doesn’t want ROTC on campus because of the school’s “objection to the law, signed by President Clinton, that prohibits open homosexuals from serving in the military.” Meanwhile, the dictator in charge of a country that brazenly executes homosexuals is welcomed at Columbia with open arms.

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James Dobson won’t support Fred Thompson.

Mr. Dobson supported the carpetbagging, illegal-voting, Eritrea-lobbying, Amway/Quixtar-flogging, House Bank-overdrawing, still-in-office pretending, Elections Commission-reprimanded, resume-inflating (second item at link) Bob “H-S” McEwen for Congress in the Ohio’s Second District Special election in the Spring of 2005. Dobson even narrated a personal endorsement of McEwen in a radio ad. All of the items I have noted were not known at the time, but enough were that Mr. Dobson really should have known better.

Jim Dobson is by all reasonable accounts a fine man, but he has zero political instinct. Given Dobson’s recent track record, his non-endorsement is the last thing Fred Thompson needs to worry about.

Maybe someday I’ll be able to explain that “H-S” thing I just threw in.