Posts Tagged “Britain”
- Democratic Congressional leaders say they will pressure uncommitted superdelegates to make their candidate choice public by next week, so campaigning can focus now on who the nominee will be. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has her advisors working on how to postpone the general election until next spring…
- The Texas Supreme Court ruled yessterday that the state’s Department Of Family and Protective Services had no right to take more than 400 children from a polygamist compound, which should reunite most of them with their families. It’s a lesson we learned from Richard Simmons–just because someone is freakishly bizarre, it doesn’t mean they’re bad…
- Federal commodities regulators say they have been investigating crude-oil trading the past six months with a focus on possible "futures market manipulation". Who wants to bet it will lead to finding Ross Perot in a room on a telephone, saying, "Listen buddy–I’m sellin’ premium in a regular world here…how much you want?"…
- Former US attorneys from both parties have told a federal judge in a friend-of-the-court brief that they agree that Congress can demand documents and testimony from President Bush’s aides in their investigation of claims that US attorneys were fired for political reasons. Unfortunately, Vice President Cheney has warned them that anyone who talks will go hunting with him…
- Bahrain’s king has named a woman believed to be the Arab world’s first Jewish ambassador to the US. I have no doubt she is eminently qualified and it really is a forward-thinking move–but perhaps it was the only way he could get Michael Jackson to leave the country…
- Documents just released by Britain’s National Archives reveals that their Cabinet knew of the link between smoking and cancer over 50 years ago but considered it a minor threat and did little out of fear of losing tax revenue. It’s too bad they didn’t realize then what we know now–there seems to be no relationship between our vices and their prices…
Tags: Britain, Congress, crude oil, Democrat, Hillary Clinton, smoking, superdelegates, Texas
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- As expected, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama split yesterday’s primaries, with Clinton claiming a close win in the Indiana while Obama got nearly all the black vote on the way to a double-digit margin of victory in North Carolina. Clinton maintains an upbeat, can-do attitude, not unlike a boxer down on yet another 8-count proclaiming, "He can’t take much more of this!"…
- Congress is considering changing the metals in our coins, since it now costs over a penny to make one and over 7 cents for a nickel. The way our currency is valued now, they should be made of styrofoam…
- Ultimate fighters are taking on a new challenge–testifying before the New York state legislature, who is considering lifting its ban on the sport–the only state in the nation that prohibits mixed martial arts fighting. It’s hard to argue with someone who is crushing your skull with his knees…
- A drug bust near San Diego State University netted huge quantities of cocaine and marijuana and suspects that include a student about to receive a criminal justice degree and another getting a master’s degree in homeland security. I’m sure these two were just doing a special undercover internship, right?
- The FBI is investigating a US special counsel responsible for protecting whistle-blowers and investigating their claims, amid reports he retaliated against his own staff when they complained he wasn’t doing his job. Let me get this straight: Justice Department agents went after a Justice Department lawyer because he was doing the very thing he was supposed to be preventing–is this a great country or what?
- Great Britain’s Home Office–the equivalent of our State Department–has tightened visa regulations for certain workers that will force employers to prove they had no option other than hiring a foreigner. There go my hopes of hosting The Benny Hill Show…
Tags: Barack Obama, Britain, Congress, drug possession, FBI, Hillary Clinton, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, primary
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- Miley Cyrus says her huge hit See You Again is a more grown-up song than the songs from her Disney series Hanna Montana. That’s right–Miley has finally broken through to that all-important 15-17 age group…
- Colbie Caillat has recorded a duet with Taylor Swift which will be on Taylor’s next CD. The two met when Taylor brought Colbie a song that she wanted help with finishing, and that collaboration let to the duet…
- Madonna set another chart record–this time in the UK, where 4 Minutes became her 13th #1 song–more than any other female solo artist there. It means real acceptance from her new British neighbors–she’ll finally be invited down to the pub…
- I hear that Britney Spears will be returning to CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother after her first guest star appearance made a great impression with the cast and the show’s audience. Even star Neil Patrick Harris is excited–well, about as excited as he gets about a woman…
- President Bush will be on Deal Or No Deal tonight via video, where he will thank a contestant for his service in the Iraq war. I hope the president does right by him and gets the CIA to figure out which suitcase has the big money in it…
- I read that Paris Hilton wants to marry current boyfriend Benji Madden of Good Charlotte fame as part of a double wedding with BFF Nicole Ritchie and Benji’s brother and bandmate Joel–who happen to have a baby together–because Paris believes she could make millions off the pictures. The pure ego and greed that drives that kind of thinking is truly amazing–and frightening…
Tags: 4 Minutes To Save The World, Benji Madden, Britain, Britney Spears, Colbie Caillat, Deal Or No Deal, Hannah Montana, How I Met Your Mother, Iraq, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Neil Patrick Harris, Nicole Ritchie, Paris Hilton, President Bush, Taylor Swift
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- Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the US yesterday to begin a 6-day visit, and will begin his public schedule today–his 81st birthday. He’s almost as old as John McCain…
- Former president Jimmy Carter has angered Israeli officials by embracing a Hamas politician during a West Bank visit, suggesting he does not share Israel’s view that they are a terrorist group. Carter has been irritating our leaders for years–it’s time to give someone else a turn…
- Two men have been charged with blackmailing a male member of Britain’s royal family, demanding $100,000 to not publicize recordings suggesting he had sex with a man–only a judge has ordered that the royal’s identity be kept a secret. That means it’s Prince Charles, right?
- Tobacco companies R.J. Reynolds and Phillip Morris USA recently ponied up their annual payments of over $6 billion dollars as part of its 10-year-old settlement with several states. And people wonder why cigarettes cost $5 a pack…
- An environmental group reports that volunteers who spent a day last September picking up trash along 33,000 miles of the world’s beaches collected 6 million pounds–or about 182 pounds of garbage per mile. In Southern California, that typically translates into a David Hasselhoff or Daniel Baldwin…
- A colossal breakdown of new British Airways baggage-handling technology earlier this month at London’s Heathrow Airport has led to the departure of two top officials. To describe it in current company lingo, the pair "really ‘Naomi Campbell-ed’ it"…
Tags: Britain, British Airways, Israel, Pope Benedict XVI
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- The Republican House campaign committee says their treasurer has defauded their group by covering up unauthorized money transfers in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I think what upset them the most was the money given to the Gay Pro-Choice Stem Cell Researchers…
- The House and Senate have voted to let some of President Bush’s tax cuts expire in 2010–a largely symbolic vote that was more of a political statement by congressional members. The message–"if it’s possible to be on both sides of the same issue at the same time, we’re willing to take that risk!"…
- The call girl known as "Kristen", whose liason with New York governor Eliot Spitzer led to his resignation, has been approached by both Hustler and Penthouse magazines to pose nude for them–and in the words of Penthouse’s publisher, "we promise to make it worth her while". It all depends on who she wants to see play her in the movie–Jennifer Anniston or Jenna Jamison…
- In the bizarre tale of the Kansas woman who refused to leave her bathroom for nearly two years, suffering open sores and possible paralysis from constantly sitting on the toilet, authorities believe the woman’s boyfriend should be charged for not getting her help sooner. It’s possible it could lead to legislation for "you-know-what or get off the pot" laws…
- A DNA study has linked the ancestry of nearly all Native Americans in North, Central and South America to a half-dozen women who lived around 20,000 years ago. Even though they weren’t from the same regions or even alive at the same time, they all shared a common quality responsible for their descendant’s character–not a one of them cared whether the toilet seat was left up…
- The British government has enacted what the nation is calling "sin taxes"–increasing the cost of alcohol, cigarettes and gas guzzing automobiles. Of course with the average price of smokes already at around $11 a pack, the price of sin seems pretty high as it is…
Tags: Britain, campaign, Eliot Spitzer, House, Kristen, President Bush, Republican, Senate
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