We’re talking about the environment. McCain’s trying to do some silly little tap dance around one part of the issue.
Earlier this month, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) sought to distance himself from President Bush by calling for a mandatory limit on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. “I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears,” McCain said in a speech at a wind power company. On his campaign website, McCain (R-AZ) calls himself [...]
Categories: Environment · Global Warming/Climate Change
They’ll be selling soon, for a premium, on Ebay. Wonder if I have any of them tucked away in a drawer, memories of trips in the past.
Paper Airline Tickets Finished: Airlines To Go All Electronic June 1st
Major U.S. airlines recently announced that they were raising their prices. Now the the whole industry is throwing a curveball at travelers: as of June 1st, all airline tickets will be electronic. The era of the paper airline ticket has come to an end: [...]
Categories: Consumer
This is complicated and detailed, but it’s a great exercise to help you understand the American political system and the electoral college concept. Dig in.
What’s Obama’s Route To The White House?
So what’s Obama’s route to the White House in a general election? How can he make the electoral map work for him? How dramatically does he have to remake that map to gain the Oval Office? Here’s a first stab [...]
McClellan has at least one supporter. One man willing to go on the record as standing with him. One man who was also on the inside of the Bush White House.
Former Bush Aide: McLellan Is Getting Ripped For Telling The Truth
…”After watching McClellan on Today this morning, I think the reception his book received exemplifies the point he was making,” Turk told The Huffington Post in an email. “People had high hopes for President Bush to bring America together after his election and after the attacks on 9/11. They felt disillusioned by the Administration’s adoption of the ‘win at all costs’ partisan mentality in this town. I think the bigger point of [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
SPACE alien video. Hmmmm.
Purported UFO video to be shown Friday
A video that purportedly shows a living, breathing space alien will be shown to the news media Friday in Denver. Jeff Peckman, who is pushing a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver to prepare the city for close encounters of the alien kind, said the video is authentic and convinced him that aliens exist. “As impressive as it is, [...]
Categories: UFO
But, when they are the result of stretching manpower too far, it become ridiculous.
Army suicides reach two-decade high.
The AP reports that Pentagon officials said today that “108 troops committed suicide in 2007, the most since 1990.” Suicides have been rising despite a “host of efforts to improve the mental health of a force stressed by lengthy and repeated deployments to Iraq.” The 108 suicides last year followed 102 in 2006 and 85 [...]
My goodness! What’s up with this? Another elementary school teacher who doesn’t seem to understand how to deal with a youngster..
Teacher reading a 5 year old the riot act caught on tape
A kindergarten teacher from New Albany has been suspended after she was apparently caught on tape berating a 5-year-old student for several minutes in front of the class. The boy’s parents sent him to school one day in April with the tape recorder in [...]
Categories: Education
Newsweek magazine has run the numbers. Guess what? Poof!
Tax Rebate: How You’ve Unwittingly Spent Your Tax Break
The bombshells just keep coming. Here’s what you missed, if you didn’t watch The Today Show this morning…
McClellan’s Biggest Revelation? Bush Personally Authorized Leak Of CIA Agent’s Identity
Scottie McC doesn’t know it yet. But that’s basically what he revealed this morning on the Today Show (h/t Rayne). During the interview, Scottie revealed the two things that really pissed him off with the Bush Administration. First, being set up to lie by Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. And second, learning that Bush had–himself–authorized the [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · George W. Bush
We’re seeing some surprising shifts in support out there in presidential campaign land.
White women cold towards Obama
Barack Obama’s favorability ratings among white women have significantly declined in recent months, particularly among Democrats and independents [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
Maybe of the week!
Lawyer Sues Delta For Ruining Family Vacation
A New York lawyer is suing Delta Air Lines for $1 million, saying his family vacation turned into a nightmare after they were stranded in an airport for days and treated disdainfully by airline employees. Richard Roth, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of himself and his mother, said [...]
Categories: Consumer
The pressure was there, from the top down. Bill Moyers started the chatter last year, McClellan’s new book brought it back to the surface yesterday, and we got some amazingly transparent comments from a journalist last evening.
Journalists were ‘under enormous pressure from corporate executives’
Bill Moyers had a PBS special last year called, “Buying the War,” which included all kinds of fascinating insights on the journalistic malpractice at the nation’s major news outlets leading up to the war in Iraq. Most notably, Moyers pressed Walter Isaacson, former chairman and CEO of CNN, to explain what transpired. Isaacson noted there [...]
And, further explanation from her today:
Jessica Yellin Congressional Correspondent I find myself in an interesting position. Today the blogs lit up with comments I made last night on AC360° and suddenly I’m being reported on. It’s not the most comfortable position for a reporter. So let me clarify what I said and what I experienced. First, this involved my time on MSNBC where I worked [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
Little old Arkansas (along with two other Southern states) is falling into place to play a major role in the 2008 Presidential election. This author says Obama’s not the guy to carry them.
Obama’s Woes: A Tale of Three States
If you want evidence that the Democrats are taking a huge gamble by nominating Barack Obama as their Presidential candidate, you need look no further than the current state of the race in three [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
How long has it been since Hurricane Katrina hit? Almost three years? People are still suffering because of errors in judgement and mismanagement. That’s just not right.
Children in Katrina trailers may face lifelong ailments
The anguish of Hurricane Katrina should have ended for Gina Bouffanie and her daughter when they left their FEMA trailer. But with each hospital visit and each labored breath her child takes, the young mother fears it has just begun [...]
Categories: FEMA · Hurricanes
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