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- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton split wins as expected in Oregon and Kentucky, leaving Obama needing less than 100 delegates to win the Democratic nomination. The only way for Clinton to win is for party leaders to allow Michigan and Florida delegates to be seated and vote according to her overwhelming victories there–which is about as likely as her winning without them…
- Doctors treating Senator Ted Kennedy say he has a malignant brain tumor that could give him less than a year to live. Then again, he’s survived more kinds of fatalities more often than anyone old enough to remember can count…
- A federal appeals court ruled that the Treasury Department has denied blind and sight-impaired people meaningful access to currency by not printing paper money that can be easily distinguishable by them. It means that they either must alter bills by size or feel, or be prepared to employ one heck of a lot of personal money managers…
- The House voted yesterday to let the Justice Department pursue antitrust and price-fixing cases against members of OPEC, although critcs claim efforts would likely be fruitless and could prompt a backlash from the group. Like what–raising the price of oil?
- The Bush administration has moved to protect the student loan program by offering to buy existing loans from lenders, as well as making investment capital available to them for future loans. I guess the president wants to call the initiative"Extreme Makeover: Republican Editon"…
- Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega wants a federal appeals court to overturn an extradition order that would send him to France to face money launderiing charges. He’s apparently has no desire to do prison time there–the drugs are nowhere near as good as the US…
Tags: Barack Obama, Bush administration, crude oil, Florida, Hillary Clinton, House, Justice Department, Kentucky, Michigan, OPEC, Oregon, Ted Kennedy, Treasury Department
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- California’s Supreme Court has overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriages. Even Rice-A-Roni didn’t make San Francisco this happy…
- Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain declared for the first time yesterday that the Iraq War can be won by 2013. He forgot to add that it would require activating Boy Scout troops for summer vacation tours and that gas would cost more than cars…
- The IRS reports that up to 350,000 Americans did not receive the $300 per child refund due them as part of the economic stimulus payments going out now, due to taxpayers’ errors and problems with commercial tax preparation software. That could explain my stimulus payment of $147,000…
- Barack Obama accused President Bush of "a false political attack" when Bush suggested in a speech in Israel that there were those in his country who would appease terrorists–what Obama took to mean his comments that he would meet with leaders of nations like Iran and North Korea. He only wanted to see if they could convince Hillary Clinton to quit…
- Congressional Republicans ignored veto threats from President Bush and sided with Democrats to pass a $290 billion farm bill that increases food aid for the needy and to call for the temporarily halt of the government’s daily oil purchases for our emergency reserve. When your own party is turning its back on you, it’s time to start warming up the memoirs machine…
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Michael Connor Humphreys, who not only played the the younger version of Forrest Gump in the Oscar-winning movie but followed his characters’ footsteps into the Army three years ago, will end his enlistment next month and return to movies. I’m pretty sure there isn’t a Forrest Gump: The Braces Years planned…
Tags: Barack Obama, California, Congress, crude oil, economic stiumulus payments, gay marriage, Iraq, IRS, John McCain, President Bush, Republican, terrorism
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- Barack Obama spent the day on Capitol Hill yesterday to drum up superdelegate support, with several Congressman greeting him as "Mr. President". I think that may be the political equivalent of talking to a pitcher about the perfect game he hasn’t finished yet…
- The price of crude oil set another record price yesterday, closing at $124 a barrel. I now believe that price has become equal to the cost of a fill-up for my car…
- Russia’s newly elected president Dmitri Medvedev has appointed his prime minister–Vladimir Putin, the man he replaced as president. So much has changed, and yet so little has changed…
- A government study has found that over half of all Americans with diabetes also have arthritis, which creates serious obstacles for those with both conditions who need to exercise. That is a bad combination–the only thing worse would be to have an addiction to sugar…
- A workplace compensation study concluded that a stay-at-home mom’s duties ought to earn her $117,000 a year. I have no doubt those moms would love that paycheck, but I imagine time with your children has got to be a nice fringe benefit…
- A relatively new technique in the mortuary science industry is gaining interest –alkaline hydrolysis, where the deceased is dissolved in lye inside something akin to a pressure cooker, and then merely flushed down a drain. I guarantee that if they don’t adopt it, the Mafia certainly will…
Tags: arthritis, Barack Obama, Congress, crude oil, Dmitri Medvedev, Russia, Vladimir Putin
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- New York is reeling from revelations that Governor Elliot Spitzer, a former crusading attorney general who has "walked the walk" when it came to demanding ethical behavior, has been linked as a customer of a high-end prostitution ring. On the other hand, this could be just another of his undercover investigations into price gouging…
- Barack Obama has all but refused suggestions that he would make an ideal vice presidential candidate for Hillary Clinton, saying he’s in the lead for delegates and it makes no sense to consider such an idea. When asked to respond, Clinton exclaimed, "Doesn’t he watch Saturday Night Live?"…
- The price of crude oil continues to skyrocket as the market hit another new high of $109 a barrel. There are a number of theories about the recent price surge–anxiety over supply, the weak US dollar, Dick Cheney’s impeding return to the private sector…
- A new study has linked pesticides and chemicals to some but not all of the Gulf War illnesses that still afflict thousands of veterans of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. I hope this isn’t that old argument that Saddam’s breath caused it all…
- A Vatican official has proposed seven additional sins including birth control, pollution, stem cell research and drug abuse. It’s part of a effort to modernize the Catholic Church, like mass on You Tube and podcast confessionals…
- Virginia state troopers arrested a driver who was smuggling drugs by hiding them in a pouch inside his underwear, as well as inside his colon. I knew drugs were a dirty business, but wow…
Tags: Barack Obama, crude oil, Elliot Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, New York, prostitution ring, Saturday Night Live, Vatican
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- The FBI acknowledged it improperly accessed Americans’ telephone records, credit reports and Internet activity in 2006, but that it was due in part to private companies providing them with more personal information then they had requested. In other words, my phone company was truly anxious for the feds to know how many 1-900 calls I made…
- John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, got the endorsement of President Bush yesterday while the two stood in front of the White House. McCain had some very kind words for the president–only his campaign fund grew instead of his nose…
- Police are investigating a small explosion in Times Square this morning that caused minor damage to an Army recruiting station. Investigators aren’t sure if it was directed there as a war protest, or it was just a late-night partier who’d eaten one too many breakfast burritos…
- Crude oil prices set another record yesterday, jumping $5 a barrel to close at $104.52. Before long, gas stations will have to go back to giveaways to attract business–fill up with premium and get a free Ford Excursion…
- The Grand Canyon was flooded with billions of gallons of water yesterday in an enormous experiement to see if the increased flow might spread more of the Colorado River’s sediment downstream to nourish the ecosystem.. That’s good–I was afraid they were doing it to launch more floating casinos…
- A pair of fighting bulls will be cloned by their owners to create identical genetic copies of Spain and Mexico’s best bullfighting creatures. Let’s see Bugs Bunny joke his way out of this one…
Tags: crude oil, FBI, John McCain, President Bush
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