Disastrous

Hi all. This week’s episode deals with the American economy once again. It got worse. Tonight the Senate will vote for the rescue plan one more time. McCain predicts catastrophe if it’s turned down by the Senate. The song is called Take me to the Meeting on Time, and is in a style I never tried before. See if I [...]

Finally Barack Obama has selected his running mate and it's......Sen. Joe Biden!.....**Yawn** Well, Biden is better than Sen. Evan Bayh so I have to give Obama credit there, but this pick is riddled with problems and contradictions.When Barack Obama first announced his candidacy one of the most appealing parts of his campaign was the "Judgment(Iraq War) vs Experience(Washington politician)" aspect

By: Jack Zavada You know the feeling. You close the door behind you and let out a big sigh. It didn't go well. In fact, it was a disaster. First dates are stressful even when everything goes right. When you or the other person messes up, a couple hours can seem like an eternity. But after the date is over, what you do next can etch the bad experience into your mind or help you overcome it.

I've been enjoying my vacation and just getting stuff done.However, I saw this video on the Onion and it's so funny I have to share it.Enjoy.Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous PresidencyHahahaha...I guess I was one of those Americans who was able to "evacuate" ;)

By: Roshawn WatsonMisusing Balance Transfers - One disturbing trend is for consumers to transfer balances on high interest cards to lower rate cards. While intuitively this appears to save cardholders a lot in interest, the problem arises when most people fail to pay off the balance before the teaser rate expires. Moreover, they continue to charge on the new cards. The sad truth is that several en

Marie Digby checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace on Saturday (June 14) from Longview, Texas while on tour. "Last night, we played a show at the House of Blues in New Orleans! What an amazing city.. it's too bad that we only had about 8 hours b

Disastrous Flooding Continues in Midwest River and Lake levels Recent Flood Watches Recent Flood Warnings Recent Flood Statements Recent Flash Flood Warnings Recent Flash Flood Statements Disastrous Flooding Continues in Midwest 13 Jun 2008 12:07:24 GMT An additional 1-3 inches of rain fell over parts of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio, with localized amounts

An independent report produced by an economic consultancy has shown that the plan to barrage the River Severn to generate electricity would NOT be an economic use of tax-payers' money. The report, published by Frontier Economics, an independent economic consultancy, said:'the barrage would be an expensive option compared to other renewable energy and the government's renewable energy target could

Prof. Ali MazruiNuclear weapons are symbols of military strength. Until 1998, these weapons were a monopoly of the already politically powerful five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Those who are outgunned are sometimes forced to resort to terrorist tactics. Terrorism is an instrument of the weak and it has been largely associated with Muslims. [...]

Well okay, any bad drug at that. Melanie Phillips reported a few weeks ago that they don't even want to deal with the traffikers and users who're passing around cannabis crud, even when the government returns it from class C to class B status. Wow, some way to protect people from ruining themselves. On the upside, I'm glad Melanie is calling cannabis by its real name, and not by the slang of &quo

It's not good reading for Gordon Brown. According to a YouGov poll for the Sunday Times, he's careering into the pit occupied by Ramsay Macdonald and Lord North! Only 2% think he's doing "very well". That's a feeble number of diehard New Labour fantasists! 26% are prepared to say he's doing "fairly well". That's a bit like telling your mother her cake is a bit stodgy.Against his plaudits come the overwhelming group, 65% who think he's performing "fairly or very badly". So two-thirds of the electorate want him gone is the message. It's not just the Tories complaining of his dithering. Now, the Blairites are chipping in, too.He waited ten years for Blair to disappear, and now it's all going pearshaped for him (and us, of course!). I think the biscuit-taking came to a head with the 10p tax ba

I hope you took a moment already today to remember those who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor 66 years ago. If not, please take one now. OK, well, as I had said in my other blogs at Lenderama and... (Read the rest of this blog entry at www.floridamortgagedaily.com)

Currently Massa 1, Kimi 2, Alonso 4, Louis Hamilton 9 after 36 Laps.Ferrari's Felipe Massa took the lead in Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos despite a big challenge off the line from team mate Kimi Räikkönen.Räikkönen, who started from third on the grid, got round the outside of second-placed Lewis Hamilton (McLaren-Mercedes) and up alongside Massa, but had to yield, retaining second. Hamilton, who had to tap off as Räikkönen hesitated behind Massa, got pounced on by team mate Fernando Alonso who barged through into third place. Hamilton tried to fight back in turn 4, but ran wide and off the track, rejoining down in eighth place.Giancarlo Fisichella (Renault) also ran off the track but cheekily rejoined right in front of Sakon Yamamoto (Spyker-Ferrari) who rammed hard into the back of the Renault, showering her track with debris. Neither driver was hurt but both retired.Hamilton began fighting his way up through the pack, taking Nick Heidfeld (BMW Sauber) for sixth

Britannica Blog article link  War with Iran: Probable (& Disastrous)Ervand Abrahamian - October 9th, 2007 - (Forum: Target Iran?)The U.S and Iran have been moving towards a head-on collision for the last seven years. The expected collision will most probably take place in the final months of the Bush administration. The course has been set by two irreconcilable goals. Iran is adamant about gaining full mastery over nuclear technology — especially uranium enrichment. The U.S. is equally adamant that Iran should not be allowed this mastery on the grounds that the latter’s real intentions are not to use such knowledge for peaceful purposes — as Iran claims — but for weaponry.President Bush has also assured the Israeli Prime Minister that he intends to resolve the “Iranian problem” before leaving the White House. Since he has shown little interest in pursuing a diplomatic route, one can conclude that he is aiming to resolve the issue through the military one. In 2003, he turned

Only less than half of UPCAT (UP College Admission Test) passers showed up to enroll in the different UP units. In Los Banos and Mindanao, less than 17% of passers enrolled. In Diliman, the entire College of Social Work and Community Development has one freshman. In courses like BA Malikhaing Pagsulat, BA Araling Pilipino, and BA Filipino, none of the passers showed up to enroll. These are the numbers presented by fellow blogger Bikoy in one of his entries - dismal enrollment figures that point to the disastrous consequences of the blatant commercialization of education. I wrote about the same topic in a letter to the editor sent to Sun.Star Daily’s opinion section titled “Education Should Be GMA’s Legacy.” (more…)

Writes - Sam Vaknin From Venezuela to Thailand, democratic regimes are being toppled by authoritarian substitutes: the military, charismatic left-wingers, or mere populists. Even in the USA, the bastion of constitutional rule, civil and human rights are being alarmingly eroded (though not without precedent in wartime). The prominent ideologues of liberal democracy have committed a grave error [...]

  But not so much appropriate for this possessed, satanic, devil animal with laser eyes and sharp pointy teeth.     Now it just so happens, that this particular cat resembles a demon creature far more than a lovably spunky fish and so we had to do away with the cutesy name and come up with something more suitable to his personality.  Naturally we named him Fungus.  Having come from a single cat household where his only playmate was a large stuffed cow, Fungus had some social problems that didn’t exactly endear him to the other cats.     Since he decided that the rest of the cats were significantly more fun to wrastle with than his dumb old cow, he immediately abandoned it and started tackling and pushing around the other cats.  This went over extremely poorly and since we’ve never been able to break him of the habit, when he’s not supervised he has to go to jail.     This is an older picture of his cage set up, it has si

More of the disaster in a minute.Firstly, the week’s sessions: I was very busy with work this week. 10pm finishes most nights. I went to the gym on Tuesday at 8:30pm and did a gym/swim session again. My front crawl was a little better this week, still a long way to go though.I was working so late on Wed and got back at 10:30pm on Thur, so no training on the Wednesday. On Friday I completed my usual gym session though I tweaked a muscle in my right quad which played up a little on Sunday, but it was small fry to the rest of the problems. Saturday I decided to take it easy for Sunday...I really decided to do this event on the spur of the moment, after being given the leaflet about it a week or so ago. It is called the Cannock Chase Trig point run. Before even going I didn't think I really should. I've not even run 7 miles in distance since the Marathon, let alone 15. I've also only run half a dozen times since then. All sense should have said "No", but I figured "Hey I’ve

This weekend was simply a disaster for Pittsburgh sports teams. Pitt lost control of the Big East to Georgetown. The Penguins suffered a bad loss to Tampa Bay. Even the XPlosion lost, dropping their record to 4-30 after a defeat at the hands of the Butt Daredevils. It was pretty depressing all around.We'll go chronologically, which means the Panthers are first in the firing line. During the game, I made an executive decision. The nickname "T.O" is hereby taken away from Terrell Owens and now bestowed upon Pitt's Mike Cook. There's never a good time for a turnover, but the ridiculous move Cook made with under 30 seconds to go was the topper, passing up an open shot for a pass, which, you guessed it, was stolen by a Hoya. Game, set, match, drive home safely. The only thing that held me back from launching the remote through the TV screen was the fact that I'd have to buy my father a new TV. I thought for a brief instance that I was Marty McFly, as I watched Pitt lose to a team coache

{mosgoogle right}BEIJING (AP) -- Japan crashed out of the gold-medal contention in judo on Thursday after a disastrous preliminary round, with Athens Olympic champion Keiji Suzuki and 2007 world silver medalist Sae Nakazawa both losing their first fights.Suzuki, moving down to 100-kilograms for Beijing, was thrown to an ippon loss against Mongolia's Tuvshinbayar Naidan, who grabbed his legs, lifte