Posts Tagged “superdelegates”
- 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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- 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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- Barack Obama’s campaign says that today’s Kentucky and Oregon primaries will give him a majority of pledged delegates–which they feel should convince more superdelegates to endorse him. Hillary Clinton wants the Michigan and Florida delegations seated, which would change the math involved in determining which candidate has a majority of all delegates–and John McCain would like this process to go on indefinitely…
- The Supreme Court has upheld laws that make it a crime to let someone believe you have child pornography, despite concerns that it could also apply to books or movies that depict adolescent sex–or even innocent emails that describe photos of grandchildren. Justice Anton Scalia wrote that the law had to be interpreted narrowly–in other words, the email would remain innocent unless it was sent to Michael Jackson…
- President Bush acknowledged the economic hard times faced by many Americans, but said he remained opposed to any legislation to rescue homeowners that would be a bailout for lenders. I think he’s still sore about the last auto financing deal he got…
- Experts say Americans are being affected by what they call "disaster fatigue", a condition where our usually generous donations to relief efforts dry up as we become overwhelmed by a never-ending, uncontrollable, and overwhelming series of disasters–such as the Myanmar cyclone and China’s earthquake. It also doesn’t help when it looks like Myanmar’s government took lessons on handling relief efforts from FEMA…
- A federal study found that more than two-thirds of young passengers and drivers in traffic fatalities were not wearing seat belts. What if we could make them MySpace friends–would that help?
- NASA says its next shuttle mission will launch May 31, a two-week trip to the International Space Station in order to deliver a Japanese lab. The crew aboard the ISS is anxiously awaiting its arrival–I guess they’re going through some sort of sushi withdrawal…
Tags: Barack Obama, child pornography, disaster, economy, Florida, Hillary Clinton, International Space Station, Kentucky, Michigan, NASA, Oregon, President Bush, space shuttle, superdelegates, Supreme Court
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- Saturday’s wedding of President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush’s daughter Jenna was "all we could hope for", said the president. The First Family reportedly loves the groom, the weather was ideal for the ceremony, and Dick Cheney left all his firearms at home…
- The cost of a first-class postage stamp goes up to 42 cents today–but if you purchased "Forever" stamps since they were introduced a year ago, they will be honored without additional postage. I understand a bunch of those were sold over the weekend–there’s plenty of folks hoping to avoid rate increases "forever"…
- Hillary Clinton continues to campaign, currently in West Virginia where she is expected to get a big victory, largely to help convince superdelegates that she is the more worthy opponent of John McCain than Barack Obama would be. It’s uncertain at this point exactly who else believes that besides her…
- Attorneys in a civil rights suit filed by a group of black employees against The Secret Service have submitted several emails degrading to blacks that were circulated within the agency, which they say is evidence that the Service has a discriminatory atmosphere. This could certainly have an interesting conclusion should a certain African-American find himself in the Oval Office…
- Families of two boys who developed symptoms of autism after receiving flu injections containing a mercury-based preservative will sue the federal government for damages. A verdict for the families would suggest autism may not be heriditary, but caused by external factors–and someone for parents to blame besides themselves…
- A one-time crony of O.J. Simpson has written a book claiming that the Juice admitted to him that he did kill ex Nicole Simpson Brown and Ronald Goldman, and that he helped his former pal be acquitted of murder charges by suggesting how to bloat his hands so they wouldn’t fit those now-notorious gloves. I think this deserves exactly what that literary gem If I Did It got–the closest incinerator…
Tags: autism, Barack Obama, Forever stamps, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, OJ Simpson, President Bush, superdelegates
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