So I was sitting here today listening to the rain and wanting to look at the radar. I got thinking about the weather then remembered this great product I had purchased a couple years ago and never used. It is called HamWeather and is great for all your weather needs. It supplies data straight from […]
Chris “Tweety” Matthews has an article up about the Southern Republicans Convention going on this weekend and in particular their straw poll vote for the 2008 Presidential candidate: Sources tell me that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., plans to shock his supporters tonight by asking them to NOT vote for him in the presidential straw poll […]
Bush is out in full force doing his cowboy talk against other countries: “If the Iranians are trying to influence the outcome of the political process, or the outcome of the security situation there, we’re letting them know our displeasure,” Bush said. “Our call is for those in the neighborhood to allow Iraq to develop […]
I posted yesterday about the new headlines section at the top of the page and that to view previous items you would have to go to the category. Well I modifies that today and added previous and next item links to that section. Clicking on those links will just load the new items into that […]
SCARBOROUGH: The lack of leadership in Washington, D.C., is sickening. If you look at what Republicans did-promised to do in 1994, when they took control of Congress, and see how they’ve been acting over the past three or four years, the biggest debt and deficit ever. They are irresponsible and reckless on so many levels. […]
Yesterday, Dubai Ports World announced that it would sell operation of US ports to a “US entity,” thus bringing the ballyhoo over this controversial sale to a close. The hype surrounding this issue was mostly manufactured. Security, the only concern, is not outsourced and would not have been. Politicians created the furor for their own […]
So today Gale Norton, the Interior Secretary, resigned abruptly from Bush’s cabinet today. For those who are not familiar with her ties to Abramoff, I thought it would be time to highlight some of them. First up is this nice article from the Boston Globe on 11/4/2005: WASHINGTON — Investigators have unearthed e-mails indicating that […]
Well ABC News is reporting on an interesting development in the Dubai ports deal: The White House asked Dubai Ports World, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates, to give up its management stake in U.S. ports, to save President Bush from the politically difficult position of vetoing a key piece of legislation to […]
The latest in the wave of anti-globalization and anti-Americanism in South America is taking the form of striking oil workers in Ecuador: QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) – Petroecuador said on Wednesday it expects production will climb to near normal levels in three or four days after troops fired tear gas to clear out strikers who have […]
Oh it’s such a good news day. Over the previous few days Tony Blair has been giving his support to Tessa Jowell over allegations of fraud that her husband is being investigated for in Italy along with the italian Prime Minister (see previous post for details). I think everyone but the PM believes Tessa Jowell […]