An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Morning Coffee 03/31/08
Gore kicks off $300M climate change campaign
Former Vice President Al Gore is starting a three-year $300 million publicity campaign to increase public awareness of climate change through ads in outlets like Men’s Health, Real Simple, Ebony, Scientific American, Wired, “American Idol” and “The Daily Show.”
The campaign is spearheaded by Gore’s group, the Alliance for Climate Protection, which is forming partnerships with groups like the Girls Scouts, the United Steelworkers union and the Audubon Society, hoping to mobilize some 10 million activists over the next three years.
Maybe the Boracle should have read this before he committed to waste money? Just think of how much good that $300 mil could do if given to charities, instead of being wasted on something that can NOT be controlled……the climate!
Obama Endorsed by Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Barack Obama has gained another superdelegate. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar endorsed her Illinois colleague Sunday night, saying in a statement that Obama “has inspired an enthusiasm and idealism that we have not seen in this country in a long time.”
It is the latest development among many that have been putting Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on its heels. On Monday, Obama was poised to receive the endorsement of the seven Democrats on North Carolina’s congressional delegation, The Wall Street Journal reported.
I am just flabbergasted that so many ….what should be…. reasonably intelligent people, are buying into all his pretty slogans and empty promises. Ooops…my bad! These are Dhimmis we’re talking about here….never mind….thinking ability doesn’t enter into the equation. Baaaaa!
Dallas Cowboys stadium naming rights may top record deal
The Dallas Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones may have a title before they even kick off in their new stadium – the holder of the biggest naming rights deal in sports history.
The only thing that dadburn stadium should be named is something to do with the Cowboys…..not some corporation! This really chaps my hide! It SHOULD be called Landry Stadium! But then, they aren’t giving me a say, cuz I don’t have millions…or billions to buy ‘em off! Feckless weasels!
Excavation work begins at Stonehenge
The first excavation at Stonehenge in 44 years has begun today.
Archaeologists hope the historic dig will unravel the ancient mystery of the stones.
A trench is being excavated at the World Heritage site in a bid to establish the precise dating of the Double Bluestone Circle, the first stone structure that was built there thousands of years ago.
Timothy Darvill and Geoffrey Wainwright, the professors leading the first dig inside the stone circle in 44 years, believe their project could answer the “eternal questions” of when and why Stonehenge was first built.
Cool! But ya know, no matter how much digging is done at a site, there will always be questions, because we can’t get into the minds of those who lived back when. We can try, but we just can’t do it, I don’t care how well ‘educated’ you are. And that might be the problem. Can you imagine, a couple of thousand years from now, someone digging up a disco ball? Heh. Who made it, why, what was it used for? No doubt those far in the future archaeologists will attribute it to some moon worship or something. Heh.
Mashaal offers to stop civilian attacks
Hamas has offered Israel a deal to only attack military targets, the group’s Damascus-based leader Khaled Mashaal said.
In an interview with Sky News broadcast Monday, Mashaal said the offer was identical to one made to Israel 10 years ago.
“We renew our offer to Israel to let the civilians on both sides not be a part of this conflict,” he said. “We renew this offer today.”
Mashaal asserted that if the IDF refrained from killing any Palestinian civilians, Hamas would only carry out attacks against Israeli military targets
Words. And empty words at that! The bad guys USE civilians as shields, so that would mean that the IDF couldn’t target anyone!
Mashaal went on to confirm that captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit was alive.
Good, then let him go home! He did nothing but his job as a soldier.
Widow says ‘I feel more at peace now’
Almost 20 years after his death, the Department of Veterans Affairs has recognized that an area Army veteran had a valid claim to service-related disability benefits.
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Her husband, a Gibson County native, fought in Vietnam and Cambodia and had began filing paperwork with the Veterans Administration in 1987 to get benefits after he became ill. He died at age 40 on Dec. 5, 1988, after The American Legion Magazine had featured him in a story about Vietnam veterans’ filing for disability.Grimes said her husband always believed his declining health and a rare lymphoma cancer were results of his exposure to the chemical defoliant Agent Orange during combat in the jungles of Cambodia in 1970.
“He was in infantry. They all walked in on the ground right after it was sprayed,” she said.
On his death bed, he asked his wife to continue fighting for the recognition. “He said, ‘Do not give up on this.’”
TWENTY YEARS?? TWENTY FREAKIN’ YEARS?? Way to go VA, you’ve done yourself proud! (insert MASSIVE disgusted sarcasm here)
Political scientist calls pro-life senator’s endorsement of Obama a betrayal of faith
“This Casey endorsement of Obama is really a total betrayal. I know this sounds harsh, but this is a total betrayal of his and his father’s pro-life Catholic convictions,” he criticizes. “Barack Obama might be a kind and gentle guy, a good speaker, seems like a nice person, affable. But on abortion, he is an extremist. Amazingly enough, he’s actually to the left of Hillary Clinton on abortion.”
Kengor notes that Casey Sr. has a history of disagreement with Bill and Hillary Clinton, much of which stems from the abortion issue. “It was back at the 1992 Democratic Convention, which was the Clinton convention that Bob Casey, Sr. – then the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania – was barred from addressing…,” he reiterates. “[H]e wanted to give voice to the pro-life cause, and that created some very bad blood between Casey and the Clintons.”
It’s a lot more than just the abortion issue that’s a betrayal of Christian faith!
I personally apologize for our nutroot Senator, Ms. Klobuchar, for chiming in on the Dem candidate. In my defense, I was a bit suprised that she said anything at all. I mean, gosh, how much longer was she going to wait to make a decision? The mark of a true leader, just as we’ve known her and her equally oppotunistic and thin thinking father (columnist Jim Klobuchar of the MSP, dead tree society) to be for a long time!
Is she a female version of Wisconsin’s potted plant (aka Kohl)?
Probably. She’s part of that whole “nobody loses” political thing we got going here where we can’t decide whether we want R’s or REALLY liberal D’s to represent us…so we keep one of each…as long as you don’t consider and R anything more than just having it behind your name i.e. Coleman!
We’re working on it!
Ah ha! A familiar affliction in many parts of the country.