A tragic story that has me sitting here and laughing on a chilly Monday morning: The multi-millionaire owner of the Segway company died in a freak accident yesterday when he rode one of the high-tech two-wheel machines off a cliff and into a river. Former miner Jimi Heselden, 62, plunged into the River Wharfe while […]
At the annual Democratic Party meeting there should be a mandatory seminar on communication. Not properly communicating has cost the Democrats dearly. It was a big nail in the coffin on health care. People couldn’t understand things like “health exchanges” or “public option”. Even the one simple word left a bad feeling with voters – […]
Something doesn’t seem really right here: Also Monday morning, Powell sentenced a 15-year-girl who admitted March 12 in juvenile court, to sending a nude photo of herself to the boy via cell phone. Powell sentenced her to 100 hours community service, forbid her from cell phone use during a 30 day probationary period and told […]
Yeah I am sure the wingnuts will try to lecture me on first amendment rights and all, but that is how Brian Kilmead on Fox news thinks we should treat Code Pink: A Fox News morning host has a novel idea to handle those pesky Code Pink protesters who disrupt political events and Congressional hearings: […]
Last year, Ken Mehlman was always appearing on different talk shows, but his message was always the same. He would constantly resort to his meme of “the Democrats are not unified”. It was becoming his greatest jab at the minority party. Here we are in 2007 and now the tables are turned. In the House […]
The right-wing blogosphere is in meltdown over the loss of their beloved John Bolton. Redstate: The good news just keeps on coming these days. John Bolton has tendered his resignation, and President Bush has “reluctantly” accepted it. I admit to a little frustraton with Mr. Bush on this; while I know confirming Mr. Bolton in […]
This really seems like the Bush/Gore debacle all over again: Mexico’s conservative presidential candidate Felipe Calderon declared victory on Monday in a bitterly contested election result as official returns showed him ahead of his left-wing rival. Calderon said his lead was now “irreversible” because he had an advantage of more than 400,000 votes over Andres […]
Today Bush showed a new level of callousness that is mind blowing. While talking to reporters he had to really stretch in order to pat him self on the back. The President was asked when he knew the storm was severe. He told reporters: I knew a big storm was coming on Monday, that’s why […]
Via ABC News Australia Bank robbers go underground to steal $85m Thieves have dug a 200-metre long tunnel to break into a Brazilian bank’s safe, stealing at least $85 million in the biggest bank heist in the country’s history. The thieves penetrated the Banco Central bank in the north-eastern city of Fortaleza on the weekend […]