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Obama On The GOP Strategy And The Helmet 2008-06-13 08:27:10 Obama on GOP tactics:
“. . .But that accurately captures, I think, the strategy. Come on. They’re going to try to make me into a scary guy. They’re even trying to make Michelle into a scary person. Right? And so that drumbeat – we’re not sure if he’s patriotic or not, we’re not sure if he [...] Read more:Helmet
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China Makes Up With Germany Too! 2008-06-13 07:52:19 China and Germany
have decided to resume regular talks on strategic foreign policy issues which were interrupted after a tift when German chancellor Angela Merkel had a little party for the Dalai Lama last year.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says:
“We will resume the interrupted strategic dialogue in the second half of the year. We hope this will also lead [...] Read more:China
Send Her Your Stereotypes 2008-06-13 07:18:38 As we mentioned earlier, Queen Rania of Jordan is battling stereotypes and has launched her own YouTube channel to promote dialogue and understanding between the Arab and Muslim world and the West. Says the Queen:
“Arabs and Muslims struggle daily with how the world sees us: our reality, history, and way of thinking. We must break down [...] Read more:Stereotypes
China and Taiwan Work It Out 2008-06-13 06:59:08 Taiwan and China
have ended a nearly six-decades-old break in transport links today by expanding charter flights and tourism.
Taiwan’s chief negotiator Chiang Ping-kun says that “There is still a long way to go for normalization of cross-strait economic and trade exchange. There are still many issues to be discussed including expanding weekend charter flights into regular [...] Read more:Taiwan
It’s Official 2008-06-13 05:52:53 McDaddy’s daughter -and aspiring author- Meghan McCain registered as a Republican yesterday.
Here’s what Megan said via her blog:
As some of you may know, I have been registered as an Independent since I was 18 years old. However, after careful thought and consideration, I recently decided to change my political party affiliation. This morning, I went [...] Read more:Official
UW Getting Greener This Fall 2008-06-13 05:01:36 Nordstrom, Starbucks, Microsoft, and pretty soon Environmental Einsteins can join Washington’s hefty resume of ingenuity.
The University of Washington Board of Regents voted unanimously to create a new College of the Environment.
Regent Craig Cole said ‘that the issues facing the planet today aren’t easily resolved in the academic structure and silos created 50 years ago.’ Read more:Greener
Political Trivia of the Day 2008-06-13 04:14:07 Which state is the birthplace of 8 U.S. Presidents?
Virginia aka “Mother of Presidents”: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.
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Cuidate Colombia 2008-06-13 01:54:04 Because McDaddy’s Coming!
John McCain’s visiting cocaina central and meeting Presidente Alvaro Uribe in early July.
If McCain’s trying to distinguish himself from “Obama’s willingness to negociate with hostile foreign leaders” the man has another thing coming.
Uribe is no holy one. Just ask Ecuador.
Have a buen viaje though McDaddy.
Hope the FARC don’t Read more:Colombia
If Barack Obama Can Do It Why Can’t You Do It? 2008-06-13 01:20:57 YES YOU CAN!
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WANTED: 389 Taliban Runaways 2008-06-14 14:41:54 Afghan security forces are working to hunt down the almost 400 Taliban
militants who escaped from a Kandahar prison in a “daring and well-executed jailbreak” yesterday.
Police sources say the strike freed suicide bombers and cell leaders who had been captured over the past six years.
“It was a planned attack the same as they destroyed the twin [...]
Political Trivia of the Day 2008-06-14 13:31:03 What English monarch wrote the following poem?
No crooked leg, no bleared eye,
No part deformed out of kind,
Nor yet so ugly half can be
As is the inward suspicious mind.
Queen Elizabeth I
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One More Reason Puerto Rico Rocks 2008-06-14 13:25:07 Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives has DENIED a measure to toughen a ban on same-sex marriage.
Rep. Victor Garcia San Inocencio says Resolution 99 failed on Thursday to make it to the House floor for voting, effectively killing the proposal for this legislative term.
THANK YOU JESUS!
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Yulia The Author 2008-06-14 13:08:55 Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia
Tymoshenko has received an invitation from the Economist Magazine to write an article on the subject of “Ukraine and its role in Europe” for special edition “The World in 2009”.
“For “The World in 2009”special edition of the Economist Magazine an article of Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko will be [...] Read more:Author
And the Anonymous $60 Million Donor Is . . 2008-06-14 07:13:35 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Total Donated= $175 million +
WOW.
Michael Bloomberg has been donating all that dough to hundreds of arts and social-services groups through the Carnegie Corp. His lastest $60 million donation is being spread over the next two years as he begins establishing his own philanthropic foundation.
They say that when you leave this world [...] Read more:Donor
Mugabe’s Ready To Fight 2008-06-14 06:00:47 President Dictator Robert Mugabe
vowed today that the Movement for Democratic Change would never rule Zimbabwe despite election wins.
“We shall never, never accept anything that smells of a delivered parcel of what they call the MDC … that is not going to happen. We are prepared to fight for it if we lose it in the [...]
Tim Russert’s Last Blogpost 2008-06-14 05:47:07 Tim Russert
’s last blog post on MSNBC was posted at 9:50am, only a few hours before his death. Here’s a copy of his post:
Vigilance Need On Campaign Claims
Msnbc: Tim, www.fightthesmears.com is a web site launched by the Barack Obama campaign to combat potentially damaging rumor about the candidate and his wife, Michelle. Is this necessary? [...] Read more:Tim Russert
Douche of the Day 2008-06-14 00:44:03 McDaddy’s not happy the Supreme Court brought back habeas corpus:
“I think it’s one of the worst decisions in history. It opens up a whole new chapter and interpretation of our Constitution.”
“Sen. Obama applauds this decision, and he supports it. I argue against it and will do what I can to at least narrow down some [...] Read more:Douche
Coming Soon To Fox Fiction 2008-06-13 23:57:40 Mike Huckabee will be joining Fox Fiction
as a contributor. Here’s his statement:
”I have signed on to be a part of the Fox News Channel family. I hope to bring the unique perspective from “inside the dragon’s belly” as well as to try and speak for the millions of hard-working middle class Americans who really [...] Read more:Coming Soon
Even Candidates Do Service Work 2008-06-15 15:46:19 Video of Obama helping out flood victims.
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Chavez’s Ex Runs For Mayor 2008-06-15 15:39:25 Talk about revenge.
Opposition party Podemos has announced that it will officially support Marisabel Rodriguez’s candidacy for the top municipal post in Barquisimeto in western Lara state.
She told reporters yesterday that: “Democracy” has been replaced with “nepotism, inefficiency and intolerance” in Venezuela with Chavez
.
Way to pick them lady.
FYI: The two divorced in Read more:Mayor
McCain Has Credit Card Debt, Obama Has a College Fund 2008-06-15 15:15:49 Senators John McCain
and Barack Obama
released their Senate financial disclosure statements on Friday, revealing:
Mr. McCain and his wife had at least $225,000 in credit card debt and
Mr. Obama and his wife had put more than $200,000 into college funds for their daughters.
Most of McCain’s debt comes from a pair of American Express credit cards that [...] Read more:College
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Can We Work It Out? Condi Says Yes We Can 2008-06-15 14:53:32 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today that the Bush administration was giving priority to solving its beef with Iran over their nuclear programme through diplomatic channels. (At last!)
During a visit to Israel Condi said:
“We have made very clear, and the president has made very clear that, while taking no option off the table, the US policy [...]
Elian Porque? 2008-06-15 14:40:03 Elian Gonzalez has joined Cuba’s Youth Communist Union.
Elian, now fourteen years old, was one of 18,000 people to join the group on Saturday.
The Communist Youth paper, Juventud Rebelde is reporting that Elian said he “would never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul.”
Just all his fans on the mainland.
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California Love 2008-06-15 14:25:35 California’s economy is getting a boost by gay marriage!! I dare you to ban it now!
“Spending by resident same-sex couples on their weddings and by out-of-state couples … will boost California’s economy by over 683.6 million dollars in direct spending over the next three years,” the UCLA study reported, adding that the new industry would [...] Read more:California
UN Demands Sudan To Cooperate Or They’ll Keep Taking No Action 2008-06-16 11:58:04 The UN Security Council is demanding Sudan
cooperate with the International Criminal Court in bringing Darfur war crimes suspects to justice.
Take # 3475894758934759387
“The council urges the government of Sudan and all other parties to the conflict in Darfur to cooperate fully with the court … in order to put an end to impunity for the [...] Read more:Action
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Here Come The Grooms 2008-06-16 11:20:35 The ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in California takes effect at 5:01 p.m. PT (8:01 p.m. ET) Monday.
Stephen Weir and John Hemm (above) plan to be one of the first in line Tuesday. Says Weir:
“My family and friends are going to be there to celebrate this, and there isn’t anybody that’s going to take any of that [...]
Political Trivia of the Day 2008-06-16 11:08:48 What was the original name of Camp David?
Shangri-La by President Franklin Roosevelt. President Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed it during his term of office.
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