An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Morning Coffee 05/12/08
The Arizona senator, who often cites climate change as a policy difference with President Bush, plans to renew support for a “cap and trade” system that “sets clear limits on all greenhouse gases, while also allowing the sale of rights to excess emissions,” according to excerpts of his speech released Sunday.
Contrary to what the Boracle has been able to sucker his acolytes into believing, the climate is going to change NO MATTER WHAT politicians do. That’s what climate does, it changes! Pandering to moonbats, instead of getting ALL the information out there the MSM refuses to, does not improve my opinion of McFeingold!
US flight arrives, but UN says Myanmar too slow
The UN said that the relief operation was only at 10 percent of the level needed to bring water, food and supplies to desperate survivors , and that just 20 percent of the food required was making its way in.
“I would urge that we don’t judge the success of this operation by flights arriving alone,” said Richard Horsey, a spokesman for the UN’s humanitarian arm, said in Bangkok.
“There is a major challenge in getting goods out to the delta, in the bottlenecks moving goods out from Yangon,” he told a news conference.
Perhaps that is the Burmese’s intent? More people will die, fewer people to have to kill later on, and it can be blamed on the “lack of aid”. Just a thought. Perhaps the junta is just so inefficient at ruling? They want the power, but don’t know how to use it, especially not wisely.
Selmer: No Cars for Kids parade
Selmer city officials have denied a permit for Cars for Kids to hold a parade this summer in the wake of the fatal crash at the end of last year’s parade.
But the charity’s founder, Larry Price, said the group still will hold other activities for its annual Selmer fundraiser to help children in need.
“Everything goes on except the parade,” Price said.
I think it’s kind of sad that people will let one tragic event to change the face of the event, although, to be honest, I understand their hesitation, I’m disappointed. The guy who caused the incident should be banned though.
Chavez: Merkel would have backed Nazis
The Venezuelan leader criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel for belonging to the conservative Christian Democratic Union, calling the movement “the same right wing that supported Hitler and fascism.”
Chavez was on the verge of launching more insults at Merkel, but suddenly stopped short.
“Ms. Chancellor, you can go to …” he said during his weekly television and radio program, before pausing. Then he added: “Because you are a lady, I won’t say any more.”
Chavez said that Merkel recently urged some Latin American leaders to avoid forging ties with Venezuela’s government. Her original comments could not immediately be confirmed.
Seems to me, Chavez is the one who would have backed Hitler. But that’s what bullies do, they point the finger away from themselves. Merkel is right to urge other Latin American countries to steer clear of this raving lunatic.
Earthquake death toll in China may be 5,000
Chinese media say the earthquake death toll in one Sichuan county is estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 people.
The powerful earthquake struck central China on Monday, trapping nearly 900 students after their school collapsed, state media reported.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit central China, but sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.
That’s a serious quake! Hopefully, the death toll will be no where near that number. Prayers with all those affected.
Edmund Ford’s trial set to start
The FBI called it Operation Main Street Sweeper, a relatively short undercover investigation that yielded several indictments, three guilty pleas to date and one memorable quote.
After allegedly accepting a $1,900 bribe in 2006 to line up votes to repeal a billboard moratorium, then-City Councilman Edmund Ford Sr. pocketed the money and confidently declared on a secretly recorded videotape:
“I’ll drum up seven or make somebody walk out.”
Nice family, those Fords. Pfft! I guess if you get away with something for so long, you start to feel entitled.
Clinton’s records vanished after warning of ‘very serious’ problems
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Rose Law Firm billing records, found in the White House residence in January 1996 two years after they had been subpoenaed by government regulators, disappeared shortly after the first lady was warned that the firm’s billing problems were “very serious” and the then-ongoing Whitewater investigation could result in criminal charges, newly obtained records show.
This is news? C’mon. Common knowledge for more than a decade is not news!
Pelosi, Reid shunning Ten Commandments?
“Both of these [resolutions] would authorize a Ten Commandments weekend in order to recognize the Ten Commandments as the foundation of law in this country,” Murray explains. “But with Nancy Pelosi in charge of the House and Harry Reid in charge of the Senate, we can’t have a voice. We can’t get these out and open and celebrate the Ten Commandments,” he contends.
Good heavens! Why would those two want anything to do with the greatest laws ever passed down? As far as I know, neither have broken 6 and 7, but the rest of them…….?
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