The white flag waving “cut and run” Democrats in the Senate can’t admit the surge in Iraq has been a success.But with their party's razor-thin majority in the Senate, and because Lieberman (pictured) caucuses with the Democrats, they are unlikely to do much to punish the senator from Connecticut.
More of the story here.
Democratic Senator Hollis French (pictured), who started all this, has suddenly gone quiet as the probe loses traction.Troopergate was a Bill Clinton scandal. It was when he had Arkansas state troopers bringing women to him while he was Governor.
This is tasergate. A trooper who should have been jailed for tasering a 10 year old child, drinking alcohol in his patrol car and threatening bodily harm to his ex-wife's parents.
Only in the liberal media is a State Trooper who tasered his son and threatened the life of the father of a Governor treated as a victim while Obama's Pastor of 20 years (who just happens to be a vicious anti-semitic and anti-American racist) is celebrated as a hero.
A Florida judge has deemed unconstitutional a law banning baggy pants that show off the wearer's underwear, local media reported Tuesday.
The law banning so-called "saggy pants" was approved by city voters in March after supporters of the bill collected nearly 5,000 signatures to put the measure on the ballot.
A 17-year-old spent a night in jail last week after police arrested him for wearing low pants in Riviera Beach, southeast Florida.
The teen would have received a 150 dollars fine or community service.
Your honor, we now have the fashion police," added public defender Carol Bickerstaff, who asked the law be declared "unconstitutional."
The judge agreed with Bickerstaff.
Paper or plastic? Your answer will be plastic every time if you spring for this grocery bag holder.With a 50 lb. capacity, you'll be able to carry your groceries in with ease.
Surely they are using the term ‘with ease’ rather loosly.
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He Pingping of China stands precisely 2 feet 5.37 inches tall.
The 20-year-old was born with a type of dwarfism. He called Svetlana Pankratova's legs "very beautiful."
Pankratova, 36, who is Russian but lives in Spain, has legs that are nearly 52 inches long, or more than 4 feet long. Her upper body has nearly typical proportions, giving her a giraffe-like appearance.
She isn't the tallest woman on record but has the longest legs of any woman.
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Of all the possible things that can come between spouses, you can now add BlackBerrys -- or more precisely -- BlackBerry addiction to the list.
The study reveals BlackBerry's are becoming -- among other things -- the 800-pound gorilla in the bedroom.
"It can actually ruin relationships," said Dr. Susan Bartell, a psychologist and relationship expert. Bartell said couples should be interfacing more, but with each other.
"People are so focused on their PDAs, they're not focusing on what might be going wrong in their relationships," Bartell said.
CNN reports:The Illinois senator used a teleprompter at both his Colorado events Monday — making for a particularly peculiar scene in Pueblo, where the prompter was set up in the middle of what is normally a rodeo ring.
He won’t be able to use the prompter during the debates but maybe his aides can figure out a way to give him the answers electronically.
Can’t have him saying he “campaigned in 57 states” during the debates, now can we?
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For the near future, the Almanac predicts most of the country will be colder than normal in the coming winter, with heavy snow from the Ozarks into southern New England. Snow also is forecast for northern Texas, with a warmer than usual winter in the northern Plains.
The Old Farmer's Almanac is going further out on a limb than usual this year, not only forecasting a cooler winter, but looking ahead decades to suggest we are in for global cooling, not warming.
Based on the same time-honored, complex calculations it uses to predict weather, the Almanac hits the newsstands on Tuesday saying a study of solar activity and corresponding records on ocean temperatures and climate point to a cooler, not warmer, climate, for perhaps the next half century.
The Old Farmer's Almanac was Established in 1792 and is North America's oldest continuously published periodical.
It still comes with that little hole in the corner so it can hang in outhouses.
The Old Farmer's Almanac is not to be confused with the Maine-based Farmer's Almanac, published "only" since 1818.
The 217th edition also predicts social trends such as sofas that measure body temperature, shopping carts that sound an alarm when filled with too much junk food and closet shelves and hangers that talk to give advice on matching shirts and ties.
Color blind people should find the talking closet shelves helpful.
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"Dear God, Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy."
Gibson should be out in front of the ABC Headquarters Building wearing a doorman’s uniform.
My second thought was:
Gibson may have been afraid he would end up in a doorman’s uniform if he didn’t try to destroy Sarah Palin.
Anyway, one can’t act the way he did to Palin during that interview without having at least a couple of flawed character traits.
There is already a backlash. It may continue until November.
Gibson tarnished his reputation to help Obama’s faltering campaign.
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The Charlie Gibson friendly, touchy-feely interview of Obama can be found here.
He says it was his obsessive-compulsive disorder that made him do it.Fifty-four-year-old Don Gorske says he hit the milestone last month, continuing a pleasurable obsession that began May 17, 1972 when he got his first car.
Gorske has kept every burger receipt in a box. He says he was always fascinated with numbers, and watching McDonald's track its number of customers motivated him to track his own consumption.
The only day he skipped a Big Mac was the day his mother died, to respect her request.
The ad says
It's extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn't know how to send an e-mail.
A report at the link below tells why McCain doesn’t do e-mail.
Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by "extraordinary."
The reason he doesn't send email is that he can't use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.
The report continues:
In a similar vein I guess it's an outrage that the blind governor of New York David Patterson doesn't know how to drive a car. After all, transportation issues are pretty important. How dare he serve as governor while being ignorant of what it's like to navigate New York's highways.
Some say, So what if he was handicapped? He could still learn how to send email.
Sure, but why would he? Bill Clinton sent two emails during his entire presidency and often admitted he didn't know squat about the Internet.
Half of all cars sold in Europe last year ran on diesel, the U.S. market remains relatively unfriendly diesel fuel.
Taxes aimed at commercial trucks mean diesel costs anywhere from 40 cents to $1 more per gallon than gasoline.
Add to this the success of the Toyota Prius, and you can see why only 3% of cars in the U.S. use diesel.
"Americans see hybrids as the darling," says Global Insight auto analyst Philip Gott, "and diesel as old-tech."
Last month, one of our two major political parties nominated an African American as its candidate for president of the United States.
Historic progress to be celebrated?
Apparently not. A few weeks and polls later, and some are already bemoaning the rampant racism that might keep a black man from ascending to the presidency.
One thing that has been obvious in most situations -- the ‘affirmative action’ candidate, for whatever position, is often unqualified.
Did the Democrats select Barack Obama as the ‘affirmative action’ presidential candidate in 2008? If not were are his real qualifications?
Back to the Inquirer article:
Don't assume racism if people question Obama on the company he keeps: a 20-year membership in a church where anti-American rhetoric was spewed and then sold in the gift shop; boosting his political career from the home of an unrepentant domestic terrorist from the '60s.
Don't assume racism because voters don't think a junior senator with great potential but no major accomplishments is ready to be leader of the Free World and a wartime commander in chief.
Don't assume racism if voters question his military acumen. Yes, a 16-month drawdown of forces looks doable - now. But to get to the point where winning seemed possible, others had to make tough decisions on troop levels and strategy. In the meantime, Obama glibly sang the same tune for years, even when his plan would have meant certain victory for al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Yes, it's a strange country, but Americans have shown they will vote for the person they believe is ready for the job, the one who will best represent their interests, regardless of race.
Don't blame them if Obama loses. Blame his poor judgment and lack of experience.
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