An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Morning Coffee 06/29/08
McCain veers from record to woo Hispanics
Sen. John McCain told a Hispanic group Saturday that passing an immigration bill to legalize illegal immigrants is “my top priority, yesterday, today and tomorrow,” but mischaracterized his own voting record on the issue and continued to distance himself from provisions in his own bill.
Ok, so who is McFeingold lying to? Cuz if I’m not mistaken, he said he was against amnesty…that he got the message. I’m wondering whose message he is referring to, the one that had nonstop phone calls and letters to Congress AGAINST amnesty, or the one from Mexico? Methinks McFeingold just seriously lost this election. However, I am hoping he will remove he head from his hinder, and start seriously paying attention to the MAJORITY of the American voters.
‘God gap’ challenges Democrats
When it comes to the religion vote, Democrats have been walloped in the last two presidential campaigns. But the Obama campaign, with advisers like Casey, hope to narrow the “God gap” in 2008 by talking about both family values and social justice issues like poverty.
They face a big challenge.
Challenge is an understatement. These are the same people who think the Constitution is like some poem written by some coke head….open for interpretation, and changed at will from the original intent. Seems they also think the Bible can manipulated to their way of thinking.
Labour mired in sleaze claims as Scots leader quits and MPs are accused of homes tax-dodge
Labour sleaze came back to haunt Gordon Brown today as the Prime Minister suffered a triple blow to his hopes of political survival.
The Government faced the nightmare prospect of another by-election humiliation as it
was rocked by three damaging new setbacks:
• The resignation of Scottish Labour Party leader Wendy Alexander, sister of Mr Brown’s Cabinet ally Douglas Alexander, for failing to declare donations to her leadership campaign.
• The resignation of Glasgow East Labour MP David Marshall – triggering the potentially embarrassing by-election – amid allegations that he wrongly used his Commons expenses to pay members of his family.
• Claims by a Labour politician that more than 100 MPs are using their Commons second-home allowance to dodge capital gains tax.
Gotta say one thing for the Brits….at least they have the decency to resign when they’re caught in a scandal. Wish I could say the same for some of the slime balls we have in D.C.
Fla. vandals tag 60 cars with anti-Obama messages
The cars were parked across from city hall late Saturday night. Investigators say the culprits tagged notes such as “Obama smokes crack” and a racial epithet. They even left business cards on each vehicle.
Mike Lowe, a videographer working for The Associated Press, first told police about the damage. He saw three cars with anti-Obama messages, while the others were just heavily painted.
The business cards disparage both Obama and Sen. John McCain but have messages of support for Sen. Hillary Clinton.
This kind of crap is just plain ignorant. Those responsible should not only see some jail time, but pay serious restitution. Such destructive actions demeans us all.
Israeli Cabinet Approves Hezbollah Prisoner Deal
The Israeli Cabinet overwhelmingly agreed Sunday to a deal with Hezbollah to swap a notorious Lebanese prisoner for the bodies of two captured soldiers, the prime minister’s spokesman said.
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Kantar is serving multiple life terms in the infiltration attack on a northern Israeli town. Witnesses said Kantar — then 16 — shot Danny Haran in front of his 4-year-old daughter, then smashed her skull against a rock with his rifle butt, killing her, too.
I don’t mean to be disrespectful of the families, but do you really want a piece of garbage like this to be free to murder another little girl? If the young men are dead, they are dead, and nothing can bring them back. Preventing future slaughter of innocence, IMHO, is a whole lot more important.
Pakistan claims control of warlord’s former stronghold
Pakistani authorities declared today that they had re-established control in a district that a local warlord had used as a staging ground for forays into the largest city in Pakistan’s volatile northwest.
Commanders said paramilitary troops encountered no resistance as they fanned out in the Bara district of the Khyber tribal agency, the former stronghold of a local militant commander called Manghal Bagh.
Bagh’s supporters, however, said his fighters had left voluntarily and could return whenever they wished.
I wouldn’t call it a victory if the bad guys had already pulled out. Keeping them out will be another battle to be fought.
Report: U.S. Escalating Covert Operations Against Iran
Late last year, Congressional leaders agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, The New Yorker magazine reported.
An article published online Sunday by the magazine cites current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources and said the operations were described in a highly classified Presidential Finding signed by Bush and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership.
Is it too much to ask for “covert” operations to remain covert? I mean seriously! Whoever is yapping to the lefty publications needs to be duct taped! They might as well go on over and have a chat with the subject of “covert” operations. Go ahead, tell ‘em what the gubmint has in mind. Weasels!
There have been the scandals involving the school nutrition center, with a revelation that 240 tons of food were wasted, sparking an audit that found more than $4 million in wasteful spending and violations of state and federal bidding laws. It has led to further investigations that may end in indictments.
Other problems on the operations side, including issues with transportation contracts, have also drawn investigative scrutiny. Disciplinary issues including fights, shootings and embarrassing student behavior have become staples of TV news broadcasts, some of them attracting national attention.
On the academic side, there are many statistics school administrators believe validate their work — the vastly improved graduation rates, the studies showing test scores improving faster than any system in Tennessee — but the raw, bottom-line numbers show the enormous challenge faced by the new superintendent.
According to Partners in Public Education’s 2006-07 community report card to parents, 103 city schools are not achieving state benchmarks and 17 schools have not achieved them at all for six straight years. Memphis received a D+ on its three-year average TCAP Academic Achievement Grades for grades 3-8.
If Cash has some ideas, he better hurry up and get to work! When your schools are the focus of national attention, and not in a positive way, I’d say there are some serious problems! The lack of discipline in the district has made it evident that the inmates are running to zoo!
Iraqi Kurdish leaders unhappy with UN report on future of Kirkuk
Iraqi Kurdish leaders voiced dissatisfaction and concern over a new report by an U.N. official who has called for a phased solution to the Kirkuk issue where Kurds, Turkmen and Arabs are to run the province through a power sharing arrangement.
I’m not real sure why the Useless Numnuts should have a say in the matter. I read the article and am no more enlightened than before I read it. Seems to me the Kurds have done a pretty good job of cleaning up the mess left by Saddam and his thugs. Why shouldn’t they continue in that role?
‘Who backed Israel-bashing conference?’
Representatives of Germany’s foreign and economics ministries are fumbling the hot potato of who, exactly, backed a conference in Berlin last week that became a mouthpiece for anti-Semitic Iranian propaganda and a call for Israel’s destruction.
Iran’s former deputy minister of foreign Affairs, Dr. Muhammad Javad Ardashir Larijani, told the Third Transatlantic Conference - whose stated purpose was to address “common solutions” in the Middle East - that “the Zionist project” should be “cancelled” and “has failed miserably and has only caused terrible damage to the region.”
Representatives from Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia also attended the conference and voiced brazen anti-Israeli statements.
“Zionist project”? Is the good Dr referring to Israel? A sovereign nation? It turns out the German taxpayer funded this little “conference”, much to the embarrassment of the German government. Now, what did they think was going to be going on at a conference attended by the leaders of extremely anti-Israeli countries?
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