An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Morning Coffee 01/07/08
In New Hampshire, Bill Clinton Finds Less Spark
Is this what it would have been like had Elvis been reduced to playing Reno?
Former President Bill Clinton has been drawing sleepy and sometimes smallish crowds at big venues in the state that revived his presidential campaign in 1992. He entered to polite applause and rows of empty seats at the University of New Hampshire on Friday. Several people filed out midspeech, and the room was largely quiet as he spoke, with few interruptions for laughter or applause. He talked about his administration, his foundation work and some about his wife.
Perhaps the glitter has worn off, and folks are starting to see exactly what these two are all about? Wishful thinking, I guess.
Sarkozy Set to Wed as Approval Falls
Operation “Lookit Me!” may have just hit a wall. Ever since French President Nicolas Sarkozy took office in May, leaked media reports on his private life have increasingly overshadowed political news that was often less uplifting. But French pundits and pollsters are now saying that if that preference for soft news over hard has been orchestrated by the Elysée, it is beginning to backfire. New opinion polls are showing serious erosion in Sarkozy’s support — and displeasure with the over-exposure of his private life — just when the news splashes that he plans to wed former super-model Carla Bruni.
If his personal life is what is tanking his popularity, then I’d say the French are rather hypocritical. Do the French only disapprove when they actually get married? Perhaps if the French news agencies paid more attention to the job he’s doing, or not doing, as the case may be……..
Islamic Militants Kill 8 Tribal Leaders in Northwestern Pakistan
Suspected Islamic militants fatally shot eight tribal leaders involved in efforts to broker a cease-fire between security forces and insurgents in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, authorities said Monday.
The tribal leaders were killed in separate attacks late Sunday and early Monday in South Waziristan, a mountainous region close to Afghanistan where Al Qaeda and Taliban militants are known to operate, a security official and the military said in a statement.
This trash doesn’t want peace, they want to control. If Musharef was even remotely interested in controlling the violence, he’d take out the garbage! He gave them the foothold, now he’s going to have to pay the price.
A freeway shrouded in fog became a chaotic scene of twisted metal, wounded bodies and scurrying emergency crews Sunday afternoon after two big pileups on I-90/39 involving dozens of vehicles killed two people and injured dozens more.
At least 50 people were injured, including three with life-threatening injuries, and taken to hospitals in Stoughton and Madison, authorities said during a news conference. Hospitals reported independently that they had admitted as many as 47 people from the crash scene and were expecting to treat more.
Two people are dead and many injured because of the ‘it’s MY road’ mindset. SLOW YOUR ASS DOWN! Prayers with the families.
Boy suspected of using baseball bat to kill baby
Upset that the toddler left in his care wouldn’t stop crying, a 12-year-old Lauderhill, Fla., boy picked up a baseball bat and beat the little girl to death, police said.
“He became enraged … because she made noise while he was trying to watch television,” said Lauderhill police Lt. Mike Cochran.
Many things come to mind. Why the hell did the parents leave a small child with a twelve year old boy? What type of kid would think that was a good way to quiet a baby? What turned this kid into a monster?
Philippines: Muslims march for peace in Mindanao
Muslims in the troubled region of Mindanao have taken to the streets as the fragile peace talks between the the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebel group and the government seem on the verge of collapsing.
Thousands protested in Cotabato City on Monday calling for peace, and more protests are scheduled in other cities of the region on Tuesday and on 7 February.
In a statement sent to Adnkronos International (AKI), Professor Abhoud Syed M. Lingga, executive director of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies, also urged the government to show flexibility.
I can’t get my mind around two words – Muslim and peace. Somehow, they just don’t go together. It’s the government that has to show ‘flexibility’, not the Muslims, right? One more country going down the tubes in Islam’s quest for world domination.
Univ. of Alabama hospital using tax dollars for abortions
The pro-life group frequently conducts Freedom of Information Act requests for state health department documents in order to monitor the state’s abortion industry. Group director James Henderson says one of those queries recently paid off. He claims that it was mentioned in conversation that the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) aborts babies up to the middle of the second trimester or 22 weeks.
“We had heard some rumors [to this fact], but this was the information that we needed. So we started to contact UAB,” says Henderson.
I wonder just how many tax dollars across the country are being used to murder babies?
Death toll due to piercing cold wave touches 100 across India
The nationwide death toll due to piercing cold wave have touched 100 with three fresh deaths reported from Uttar Pradesh and one from Kashmir.
According to an All India Radio (AIR) report, the fresh casualties in UP, which took the toll due to the cold wave sweeping the state to 80, included two deaths in Siddharthnagar and one in Sultanpur district.
Gorakhpur stood the coldest with the minimum temperature at 5.8 degree.
One person was killed as the entire Kashmir valley, including Srinagar and world famous skii resort of Gulmarg experienced moderate to heavy snowfall during the last three days.
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