Posts Tagged “primary”
- Pope Benedict XVI ended his 6-day visit to the US yesterday by celebrating Mass in Yankee Stadium to 57,000 Catholics. One of the big challenges was to be able to serve everyone Communion expediently, but it was likely aided by many regular patrons of The House That Ruth Built–they’ve passed their share of hot dogs and beer…
- Tensions are rising as Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign to win the Pennsylvania primary tomorrow. Some of the comment are obviously the result of too little sleep, as Obama accused Clinton of "making a 3AM lie about Bosnia" and Clinton charging Obama with "being pretty bitter about taking that 3AM call"…
- There’s a debate raging between Congress and the Pentagon over the effectiveness of the M4 carbine rifle, used almost exclusively by soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, with critics claiming it’s overpriced and can jam too often in the sandy climates it’s most needed. Military leaders say they consider the weapon extremely reliable–as long as they aren’t expected to use it in combat…
- PETA is offering a $1 million prize to come up with a method to basically make test tube meat products, which would avoid the harvesting of cattle. While I do appreciate all the benefits to our planet from this, I don’t think I could ever get used to eating a cheeseburger literally made by a lab geek…
- A class-action suit goes to trial today charging The Department of Veterans Affairs with not doing enough to prevent suicides of American soldiers. Government lawyers claim the VA has made suicide prevention a top priority–and they’re certain those policies will be implemented any day now…
- Danica Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy car race yesterday when she won the Indy Japan 300, edging two-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves. This should put an end to every "lady driver" joke ever told…
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Democrat, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Pennsylvania, Pentagon, Pope Benedict XVI, primary, Yankee Stadium
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- A new survey on airline quality finds complaints are up 60%, affecting 15 of 16 airlines. Topping the list of concerns–companies going bankrupt and flights being cancelled, just as you’re about to land…
- Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean says he believes both Michigan and Florida delegations will end up at the convention, but doesn’t expect agreement on it until after the remaining primaries are held. These two states were so determined to decide the nomination, and they may just get their wish–after Memorial Day…
- Congressional Democrats are talking about a second economic aid package for homeowners to avoid foreclosure, which many believe is at the heart of the now-acknowledged recession. The Bush administration prefers to see what effect the initial stimulus payments will have–probably on more than a few bankrupcty attorneys…
- The Lundberg Survey reports that gas prices rose another 5 cents a gallon nationwide the past two weeks. It’s approaching a point where many will have to start making some real tough choices–a fill-up or Botox?
- Even Atlantic City has been effected by the slowing economy, with talk among casinos of eliminating free meals, hotel rooms and show tickets to gamblers. Alternatively, they’ll just try and get them so drunk that they won’t notice…
- Police used tear gas to break up thousands at a party near Michigan State University known as Cedar Fest, with reports that the crowd practically begged to be gassed with many students calling it a rite of passage. Whatever happened to getting drunk and running naked through the quad?
Tags: airline, Atlantic City, Congress, Democrat, economic stiumulus payments, Florida, foreclosure, Michigan, primary
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- Democrats in Michigan say they will be unable to organize a do-over primary vote, leaving the question up in the air of what will become of their delegates. Barack Obama has suggested that he and Hillary Clinton split them, with Hillary favoring anything at all that would keep it from happening…
- Former senior White House aide "Scooter" Libby was banned from practicing law in the nation’s capital following his perjury conviction, with officials there saying that lying to the FBI about the case of former CIA operative Valerie Plame amounted to "crimes that involve moral terpitude". In other words, he’s got the perfect credentials for politics…
- New York City’s police commissioner and union president both expressed concern over budget cuts that will reduce the NYPD to its smallest size in 15 years. The good news is, for the first time in years, there will be enough night sticks to go around…
- A half-dozen states have balked at a federal mandate to beef up their driver’s license requirements for security purposes, and risk having their citizens’ ID rejected at airports and federal buildings. They say it’ll cost far too much and many of their dirvers are not crazy about being photographed kissing a picture of President Bush…
- A speech by Iraqi prime minister Al-Maliki proclaiming the nation has defeated terrorism and is on the road to recovery was interrupted–by one of Baghdad’s frequent power outages. It’s yet another walking, talking contridiciton in Iraq–perhaps the one thing we’ve consistently done there…
- New research confirms what many of us already know–giving to others makes people feel good, and that sharing what they have with others can actually make people happier than keeping it. I certainly hope whoever paid for this feels really good about it…
Tags: Baghdad, Barack Obama, CIA, Democrat, FBI, Hillary Clinton, homeland security, Iraq, Michigan, New York City, primary, White House
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- Hillary Clinton has pointedly challenged Barack Obama to agree to new primary elections in Michigan and Florida, saying it was "wrong, and frankly un-Americcan" to not have the two states’ delegates seated at the Democratic Naitonal Convention. I’m pretty sure she’s talking about Hillary Clinton delegates…
- The Supreme Court overturned a Louisiana murder conviction because the prosecutor excluded black jurors in a case where the defendant was black. This was the prosecutor who called this his "OJ Simpson case"–and it looks like he used about as much good sense as Judge Lance Ito did…
- Space shuttle Endeavor’s long mission at the international space station continues with another space walk tonight, in order to test a caulking gun and adhesive goo to see if it will be able to repair damaged thermal tiles on the shuttle. If there’s any time left, the crew plans to visit the MTV satellite to figure out where the videos went…
- Wal-Mart plans to combine an existing location with a failed Sam’s Club space outside Albany to create the chain’s biggest US store–a 260,000 square-foot, two-story facility that is at least 25 percent bigger than their typical "Supercenter". I wonder if departments at opposite ends of the store are in the same zip code…
- Visa went public yesterday, and its record-setting IPO rose 28 percent in first-day trading to give the credit card issuer a market value of around $45 billion. Now that’s what I call a credit crunch…
- On the 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq yesterday, President Bush defended our actions there, saying, "The United States of America is safer." If he means from wasting our money on housing, feeding, educating and caring for our poor, he’s exactly right…
Tags: Barack Obama, Democrat, Endeavor, Florida, Hillary Clinton, International Space Station, Iraq, Louisiana, Michigan, NASA, OJ Simpson, President Bush, primary, Supreme Court, Wal-Mart
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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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