An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Morning Coffee 10/28/07
Homeland Security, New York agree on new driver’s licenses
The Bush administration and New York cut a deal Saturday to create a new generation of super-secure driver’s licenses for U.S. citizens, but also allow illegal immigrants to get a version.
New York is the fourth state to reach an agreement on federally approved secure licenses, after Arizona, Vermont and Washington.
Are there any grown ups in charge? Pure insanity.
GOP field’s hard turn to right has risk
They could reinvent the party, much as Barry Goldwater did in 1964 or Ronald Reagan did in 1980. They would reject the “compassionate conservatism” of George W. Bush, circa 2000, which appealed to suburban moderates but frustrated conservatives with a free-spending, big-government approach that expanded the federal role in education; created the Medicare Part D prescription drug plan, the first new entitlement since Medicare itself in the 1960s; and sought to allow illegal immigrants to remain in the country.
I’m all for reinventing the party. Heaven knows, what it has become is NOT my ideal. But then, that’s just me.
Obama Promises a Forceful Stand Against Clinton
Senator Barack Obama said he would start confronting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton more directly and forcefully, saying Friday that she had not been candid in describing her views on critical policy issues, as he tries to address mounting alarm among supporters that his lack of assertiveness so far has allowed her to dominate the presidential race.
If I were him, I’d be worried about my safety and well being. The Clintons don’t like like it when folks confront. Reputations ruined, accidents, etc.
Minorities less likely to trick-or-treat
Two-thirds of parents say their children will trick-or-treat this Halloween, but fewer minorities will let their kids go door to door, with some citing safety worries, a poll shows.
The survey found that 73 percent of whites versus 56 percent of minorities said their children will trick-or-treat.
It doesn’t seem quite fair for a few animals to ruin a kid’s fun, now does it. Perhaps the so called leadership with stop coddling the thugs, and start looking at the childhood the kids are missing?
Venezuela Increasingly A Conduit For Cocaine
Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, according to Colombian and U.S. officials. The Bush administration’s dismal relations with Venezuela’s government have made matters worse, anti-drug agencies say, paralyzing counternarcotics cooperation.
Umm….shouldn’t that be “Chavez’s dismal relations with the U.S.”? Who called who ‘diablo’? Odds are, ‘Ugo is making a few bucks of this deal too. Anything that could see the downfall of a democracy is just peachy with him.
Four months after Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton went public with explosive allegations that powerful businessmen tried to frame him in a sex sting, a criminal probe drags on.
Special prosecutor Joe Baugh said last week he has two Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents working the case and plans to subpoena records to help resolve the matter.
Jeez! Talk about your ‘tangled webs’!
Israel begins cuts in fuel supplies to Gaza Strip
Israel began cutting vital fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, following through on a promise to increase pressure on Gaza’s Hamas rulers in response to months of Palestinian rocket attacks.
Ahmed Ali, the deputy director of Gaza’s Petroleum Authority, said shipments of diesel fuel and gasoline were 30 percent smaller than regular deliveries. He warned the cuts would cause widespread hardship in impoverished Gaza.
Does Gaza produce anything? Do they grow food? Seriously, why are the impoverished? If Hamas can afford to buy rockets, why can’t they start putting those bucks into creating a better place for the folks?
Evacuations raise deportation fears
Flames were only one worry for some illegal immigrants in the fire zone. Equally scary were the crowded roads and evacuation centers, heavy with law enforcement officers, including U.S. Border Patrol agents.
Some wondered if they would be deported if they went to shelters.
“We decided that we wouldn’t go because they ask for your name and everything,” said day laborer Jose Salgado, waiting for work off the 5 Freeway near Rancho Santa Fe.
Shucks!
Gap Stores Using Child Labor in Indian Sweatshop, British Newspaper Reports
A British newspaper reported Sunday that it found children as young as 10 making clothes in a sweatshop in New Delhi, India, that the Gap fashion chain planned to sell in the West.
The Observer quoted the children as saying they had been sold to the sweatshop by their families in Indian states such as Bihar and West Bengal and would not be allowed to leave until they had repaid that fee.
I knew there was a reason I didn’t like the Gap. I can’t imagine any parent selling their kid, for any reason. I understand sometimes a family is so poor, they need to have their young ones work, just to survive. But using their kids as property, to be bought and sold? Inconceivable.
US: al-Qaida Presence in Baghdad Reduced
The threat from al-Qaida in several former strongholds in Baghdad has been significantly reduced, but criminals who have established “almost mafia-like presence” in some areas pose a new threat, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Sunday.
Gen. David Petraeus stressed, however, the terror organization remained “a very dangerous and very lethal enemy” and said the military would maintain pressure to keep them from regrouping.
Are they sure al Qaida isn’t just changing it’s tactics?
Having lawmaker on your side helps get state funds
Of more than 4,000 applications, nearly 3,000 lacked a legislator’s sponsorship, according to the analysis.
Secretary of State Riley Darnell was given discretion by the Legislature to award the money, but he said each of the sponsored requests had a “legislative history†and that he was “honor bound to try to deal†with the lawmakers’ requests first.
Somehow, that just doesn’t sound quite right.
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I’m surprised that Obama isn’t making nice with Hillary. If he keeps this up, Obama will be off her VP list.
Then again, if she thinks that Obama on the ticket will help her win, she’d forgive.
If she can live with Bill’s abuse, I’m sure she can put Obama’s criticism behind her.
“If Hamas can afford to buy rockets, why can’t they start putting those bucks into creating a better place for the folks?”
The well being of the people isn’t their focus, destroying democracy and anything/one that goes against their beliefs is.
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