Monday! Time to put on the caps you think with (that is assuming you can actually use a hat to think with) the quiz for today is simple and easily checked.
Take out pencils and paper and——
What is meant by the term “New Nationalism”?
Let the rush begin and good luck….
Because of connectile dysfunction, my cable company was down for most of three days, I have to post my stuff today instead of Sunday.
Here goes, all the news that should be served up with booze.
1–More bad weather, more crashes, both plane and cars.
2–Another Hogan has auto crash problems.–this time, Brooke was not at fault.
3–Space Station has a clogged toilet–now there is a plumber’s bill.
4–3 trainwrecks this week–MS, Chicago and Boston.
5–Another construction crane crashes down and kills people.
That is about the gist of all the worthless ass news.
Of greenhouse gases and greenbacks – Los Angeles Times
It always comes down to the economics, right?
The most senior retired military officer to back the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, says the first-term U.S. senator will not give Sen. John McCain, a decorated war hero, a pass on the issue of national security in the fall campaign.
“It doesn’t take very long to uncover national security issues that McCain is weak on,” retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak told The Washington Times.
“For McCain to think he has a monopoly on virtue in the national security issue is going to be shown a pretty flimsy idea very quickly,” he said of the probable Republican nominee.
A Rasmussen poll released Friday showed voters giving Mr. McCain of Arizona a big edge over Mr. Obama on the question of who would make the best commander in chief.
“When it comes to the war in Iraq, McCain is trusted more by 49 percent of voters,” the Rasmussen Report said. “Obama is preferred by 37 percent. McCain has an even larger edge – 53 percent to 31 percent – on the broader topic of National Security. These results are little changed from a month ago.”
McCain strategists think their candidate’s steadfast backing for the war in Iraq will produce dividends on Election Day now that the troop surge appears to be defeating al Qaeda and bolstering the new democratic government in Baghdad.
Pointing the way to a peaceful end for the tumultuous presidential primary campaign, some key supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that they accepted a new finish line in the race for delegates, a threshold Barack Obama could reach as soon as this week.
Obama aides said they expected him to surpass the 2,118 needed delegates after the final Democratic balloting finished Tuesday in South Dakota and Montana, and as more superdelegates backed the Illinois senator.
Moreover, a number of Clinton backers signaled Sunday that they were wary of the kind of protracted fight that some of her aides said they might wage in the coming months.
Some of Clinton’s closest advisors want the New York senator to challenge the party’s unusual decision Saturday to shift four of Clinton’s Michigan delegates to Obama in an attempt to reflect how voters might have cast ballots and to allocate Michigan’s uncommitted delegates to Obama, even though his name did not appear on the ballot in the state.
Even if Clinton won those delegates in a challenge, it would be unlikely to alter the outcome.
Such sentiments signaled that the Democratic Party might have vaulted a major hurdle in its quest to move beyond the competitive primary season and lay the groundwork for the fall campaign against presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. That achievement came Saturday when the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee agreed to seat the disqualified Florida and Michigan delegations, but to halve their votes as punishment for holding their primaries early.
Clinton and her top aides conceded nothing Sunday, and even used their own mathematical formula to declare her the winner of the popular vote. But she may begin feeling intense pressure from within her camp to stand down, should Obama cross the delegate threshold for victory.
Report: Blackwater buys Brazilian-made fighter plane – USATODAY.com
Does anyone see anything wrong with the whole situation with Blackwater?
Now that the Democrats have voted on seating the disputed delegations from Florida and Michigan (all the delegates get to come, but they only get half a vote each), some of Hillary Clinton‘s highest-profile supporters are divided over what should happen next.
You’ll recall that those two states broke party rules by moving their primaries ahead of the dates on the Democrats’ schedule. Primary voters in Michigan and Florida were told that their votes would not count, and Democratic candidates did not campaign in either state. In Michigan, Clinton’s was the only name on the ballot; the other choice was “uncommitted.”
Top adviser Harold Ickes, a member of the rules committee, appeared on CNN’s “Late Edition” Sunday and reiterated his threat to take the matter to the party’s credentials committee at the convention in August. He and other Clinton backers are upset that the committee allocated 69 of the Michigan votes to their candidate and 59 to Barack Obama, who was not on the ballot.
Another Clinton adviser, Mandy Grunwald, argued on CBS’ “Face the Nation” “that in the way delegates were apportioned by the rules committee yesterday, they broke their own rules. And that’s a terrible precedent. That’s a terrible precedent. That’s why our campaign has said we will consider taking this fight to the convention.”
“Just to explain — they took the votes, the delegates, and apportioned them the way they chose,” she said. “It had nothing to do with the way votes were made in Michigan. That is an arbitrary ruling that simply violates the rules of our party.”
But appearing on the same program, one of Clinton’s most prominent supporters seemed to back away from a battle. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell started his comments by noting, “I’m not inside the campaign mechanism, but I believe she’ll do the right thing for America.”
This should be the story of the week. The last primaries of the season in Montana and South Dakota will give us an idea of the delegate breakdown. Will the convention bring unity or dis-unity? Will the party survive?