Posts Tagged “Paul McCartney”
- The economy got sort of a break in April, as the Labor Department reported that prices last month only rose 0.2%. When that’s the good news, you know you’re driving the wrong way on the Recovery Expressway…
- Former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards officially endorsed Barack Obama yesterday, the biggest among several recent endorsements for the candidate who many now believe will face John McCain in the general election. Hillary Clinton vows to continue to fight–not unlike a basketball team down by 30 with a minute to go…
- Former New Jersey governor James McGreevey told a judge in his divorce case that he’s too poor to pay alimony, claiming his resignation from office and marital problems have financially crippled him. Generally speaking, publicly throwing over your wife for another man puts you at a disadvantage in many ways…
- The Interior Department has declared the polar bear a threatened species due to the loss of Arctic ice, but said this should not be considered a global warming initiative. So–it must have been those darn Eskimos and their wienie roasts on the tundra…
- An international business school survey says the US tops the world in competitveness for the 15th straight year, but cautions that our economic problems may keep us from staying there. I understand Dick Cheney offered to take them out, but the president talked him out of it…
- Paul McCartney has angered environmentalists with his purchase of a high-priced hybrid car–because he chose to have it flown to him in Britain from Japan instead of via ship, completely negating the benefits the car would provide. Poor Paul–he couldn’t decide between being green and rich…
Tags: Barack Obama, Democrat, economy, global warming, Hillary Clinton, hybrid vehicle, John Edwards, Paul McCartney
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- The Federal Reserve cut interest rates three-quarters of a percent yesterday, sending stocks soaring up 420 points. There was more buying going on than at Wal-Mart the day after Thanksgiving…
- The judge in Paul McCartney’s divorce case said his estranged wife Heather Mills was a less than candid court witness and said her claim to get a quarter billion dollars of McCartney’s money, "is and was unreasonable, indeed exorbitant." She would have been better off if she had just admitted she married him for his money and was ready to get paid…
- The Supreme Court is in the midst of a historic debate on the Second Amendment while hearing arguments on a District Of Columbia ban on handguns, with justices’ comments suggesting the court believes Americans have the right to own firearms but that the government has the right to regulate their sale. It sounds like a draw for the NRA–just not the kind they would like…
- Michigan’s planned primary do-over election is meeting some resistance over a requirement that would exclude anyone who voted in the Republican primary–even Democrats who chose to do so because of the national party’s action to strip the state of its delegates. Do you think they’re deliberately trying to screw up the election, or don’t they know any better?
- The leader of a group accused of plotting to destroy Chicago’s Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices testified in a Florida trial that it was all a scam designed to con $50,000 out of a man who claimed to have al-Qaeda connections. This defense will work about as well as the politicians’ favorite–"No, see, I was doing my own undercover investigation"…
- Five years into the war in Iraq, the financial cost is one of many initial Bush administration claims that fizzled–their estimate of $50-$60 billion is barely a tenth of the $600 billion that the Pentagon acknowledges as the current price tag, with others suggesting that the real cost could be in the trillions of dollars. In other news, the White House assures Americans we are not in a recession…
Tags: Bush administration, Democrat, Federal Reserve, Heather Mills, Iraq, Michigan, Paul McCartney, primary, Republican, stock market, Supreme Court, White House
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- David Paterson will be inaugurated as New York’s governor at 1PM today, and will be a simple celebration in comparison to Eliot Spitzers’ elaborate and expensive one just over a year ago. Then again, elaborate and expensive didn’t really work out for Spitzer…
- Atlanta is digging out from a historic tornado Friday night and storms Saturday that have left many downtown buildings damaged and streets closed to enable debris removal. On the upside, I guess this means the drought is over…
- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are gaining delegates even without an election, thanks to backers of John Edwards who are starting to declare their support for other candidates. Obama so far is getting most of the delagates–although a few confused folks really want to vote for Ross Perot…
- The judge in Paul McCartney’s divorce case has awarded Heather Mills $48.4 million in the couple’s financial settlement. She seemed pleased with the outcome, despite asking for over 5 times more than the settlement–maybe she’s not that good at currency conversion…
- Space shuttle Endeavor’s work to assemble a robot for the international space station has proved difficult, with a Saturday spacewalk lasting 7 hours due to problems unbolting one of the robot arms from its storage location. The process was obviously affected by mistakenly trying to unbolt a space station crew member’s arm…
- A British judge has ordered that an 8-year-old boy be banned from possessing various construction tools after neighbors complained the child was threatening them with hammers and screw drivers and chasing them down the street. Maybe he just wants these folks to play with him–with a bit of cooperation they could make a lovely cage to put the boy in…
Tags: Atlanta, Barack Obama, David Paterson, Democrat, Eliot Spitzer, Endeavor, Heather Mills, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, NASA, New York, Paul McCartney
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