Posts Tagged “Florida”
- Michelle Obama told the Democratic National Convention in Denver Monday night that "I love this country", and that she
  and presidential nominee Barack Obama share America’s basic values and beliefs in a dream of a better future. She did not admit, as some wild claims have suggested, that she is the love child of Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey…
- What’s left of Tropical Storm Fay continued to rain down from Georgia to Louisiana, which for some is a welcome relief from months of drought conditions, while Florida residents begin to mop up the over 30 inches of rain that fell along the central Atlantic coast. Are we sure NASA hasn’t come up with a giant sponge that could collect it from one place and squeeze it out somewhere else?
- Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki insisted Monday that all foreign soldiers must leave the country by a specific date in 2011, and that there would be no legal immunity for American troops. After being briefed on the situation, Vice President Cheney was reportedly muttering something about "regime change" and "where’s my rifle?"…
- An Alabama initiative proposal to effectively prohibit gay couples from adopting was cleared by state officials to appear on the state’s November general election ballot. The initiative would require only married couples to adopt, and the state currently prohibits gay couples to wed–it’s that kind of shrewd thinking that has kept values in The Heart Of Dixie just as they have been for years…
 A Las Vegas judge has refused to delay the start of the trial of O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant on charges of armed robbery and kidnapping. The Juice actually had nothing to do with the delay request–he’s anxious to get started and really hoping he can drive the same level of insane media interest in whether he could possibly be as stupid as it appears that he is…- An Air Force researcher has found that a series of mishaps involving robotic warplanes are occuring because of operator error, due to the drones being controlled by increasingly inexperienced crews. I understand this problem can be quickly remedied, providing enough PS3 and XBox 360 consoles can be acquired quickly enough…
Tags: Air Force, Alabama, Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, Flor, Florida, gay marriage, Iraq, Louisiana, Michelle Obama, OJ Simpson, Tropical Storm Fay
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 As Tropical Storm Fay makes landfall Tuesday in southwest Florida, expectations that it would intensify to a Category 1 hurricane have faded–just as government requests for evacuation fell on more than a few deaf ears in a part of the nation that, as one resident put it, "has seen this movie before", and are taking a wait-and see attitude instead. In fact, it looks like this particular movie is a Razzie nominee…- John McCain told a Veterans Of Foreign Wars convention Monday that Barack Obama placed his self-interest ahead of his country’s when he opposed a troop surge in Iraq, and then later tried to prevent funding for those troops. Of course, this group is sort of in his pocket–he could have accused Obama of brushing his teeth with Aqua Fresh and gotten a big ovation…
 A proposed New York City anti-terrorism plan, conceived by the NYPD and named Operation Sentinel, would track and check the one million cars and trucks a day entering Manhattan using license-plate readers, radiation detectors and closed-circuit cameras. And you thought the backup on the Lincoln Tunnel was bad now…- Presidents from about 100 of the nation’s best known universities are calling on lawmakers nationwide to reduce the age of drinking from 21 to 18, saying the fact it is illegal for so many of their students doesn’t stop them from drinking–it just makes it more dangerous for them. I definitely understand that–just like I understand that legalizing it won’t make 18-year-olds on their first away-from-home experience suddenly decide to behave rationally and responsibly…
- Northern Ireland has been hit with significant flooding from a recent downpour equal to three weeks’ worth in a single day that has forced many to the roofs of their homes and cars . The latest reports suggest most if not all have been rescued, which is wonderful news–but did provide quite a respite to pub fights…
- A new study reveals that over one-half of a group of randomly surveyed adults believe that God’s intervention could save a family member–even if physicians declared that treatment would be futile. Any doctor that doesn’t believe in the power of faith is either an intern or a fool…
Tags: Barack Obama, Florida, John McCain, New York City
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 Residents and tourists in Key West are making preparations to evacuate as Tropical Storm Fay heads for the Florida coast, with expectations it will reach there by Monday night and reach wind speeds sufficient for a Category 1 hurricane, the region’s first since Wilma struck in 2005. I guess you could call it the calm before the storm…- After signing a cease-fire agreement with Georgia, Russian officials say they will withdraw troops from there beginning Monday–only how fast and how many is uncertain. Anyone who was around for the Cuban missle crisis might find all this oddly familiar–except for where we practiced hiding under our desk in Mrs. Johnson’s class…
 Pakastani president and US ally Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation Monday, saying he wanted to spare his nation from an impeachment battle and that his actions had been "for the people and for the country". Considering the fact that he was in fact being impeached, that he had grown even more unpopular after the assassination of popular opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, and the celebrating in the streets over Musharraf’s announcement (see left), there may be just a few people who disagree… - Michael Phelps indelibly etched his name into sports history Saturday when he won his decisive eighth Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Summer Games along with his 4X100 individual medly relay team, finally passing Mark Spitz to become the all-time winningest althlete of the Olympic Movement. Phelps will return home to Baltimore to take some time away from competition–he could hire himself out to help fish swim better…
- California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had surgery on his right knee Sunday after injuring it while exercising about two weeks ago. I understand he actually participated in the procedure–he showed them just where to solder and everything…
- The leader of a Hawaiian pro-sovereignty group that broke into a historic palace Friday night and planned to chain himself to the throne ran into a problem–he had never been there before and had no idea where the throne was. Unfortunately, asking guards for directions didn’t go as well as he’d hoped…
Tags: 2008 hurricane season, 2008 Summer Olympics, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, Florida, Michael Phelps, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Republic Of Georgia, Russia
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- Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s book What Happened? has launched a political and media firestorm as it details shocking revelations from the administration’s inner circle. Among the many critical of his book are those who ask why McClellan stayed so long if he was so unhappy–I suppose he didn’t have enough material for his book yet…
- Barack Obama’s campaign seems willing to compromise on efforts this week to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida–who are practically all committed to Hillary Clinton–likely because they believe it will not stop Obama’s ascent to the Democratic nomination. I think the new Indiana Jones movie has less twists and turns than this drama…
- An online ad by Dunkin’ Donuts featuring celebrity spokesperson Rachel Ray was pulled after a wave of criticism that the scarf worn by Ray offered symbolic support for terrorism. Why stop there–I’m sure those donut sprinkles must be an al-Qaeda code…
- NASA reports that its Phoenix lander is back on track to deploy its robotic arm, after radio problems threatening to hamper its mission to collect icy soil from the surface of Mars turned into nothing more than a minor glitch. What a relief–it would have been so disappointing to not have learned that Martian Martini recipe…
- President Bush said in a commencement speech at the US Air Force Academy that we are "learning as we go" in building democracy in Iraq. It seems as though his former press secretary’s new book is helping the rest of us do the same thing…
- A political rival of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the overwhelming choice of the nation’s lawmakers for parliment speaker, another strong signal of discontent with Ahmadinejad’s leadership. That’s encouraging–unless they’re unhappy with him that he hasn’t been more loony…
Tags: Barack Obama, Florida, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Mahamoud Ahmadinejad, Mars, Michigan, NASA, President Bush, Scott McClellan, terrorism, White House
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- Forcasters say the US could see as many as nine hurricanes during the 2008 season which begins next week, and as many as five could turn into major storms. If any of them happen to be Katrina or Rita, please tell them that we already gave–big time…
- A nearly three hundred billion dollar farm bill vetoed by President Bush, but overridden by Congress, was voted on a second time in the House–members discovered that the bill the president vetoed wasn’t exactly the one they had passed. It was an embarrassing but honest mistake–just how the administration wants us to think of the whole WMD’s in Iraq business…
- New York governor David Paterson, a long-time supporter of Hillary Clinton and one of her already-committed superdelegates, said he hopes she will end her effort to count Michigan and Florida votes in order to salvage her campaign. Paterson is legally blind and just had surgery for acute glaucoma, but he didn’t miss when he drove another nail in Clinton’s coffin…
- A Texas appeals court has ruled that the state acted without cause when it removed over four hundred children from the ranch owned by the Fundamentalist Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints, the polygamist sect that was raided after a still-unknown teenager who claimed to be an abused pregnant wife there called a hotline. In other words, they’re creepy but legitimate–just like Andy Dick...
- Presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain has rejected an endorsement from a Texas televangelist who reportedly said in a sermon that God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land. The clergyman claims the media misinterpreted his comments–as if there was a less unbelievable way for that to be expressed…
- Ford has abandoned its goal of becoming profitable by next year and said it will cut production of trucks and sport utilitiy vehicles thru the rest of 2008. From now on, fuel economy will be based on whether it costs more or less than $100 a week to get around…
Tags: 2008 hurricane season, Congress, David Paterson, Florida, Ford, Gas prices, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Michigan, President Bush, superdelegates, veto
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