Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Republican John McCain has maneuvered himself into a political dead end and has five weeks to find his way out.
Last Wednesday, McCain suspended his presidential campaign to insert himself into a $700 billion effort to rescue America’s crumbling financial structure. In so doing, he tied himself far more tightly to the bill than did his [...]
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Posted in Politics, Sarah Palin, democratic nominee, democrats, economy, election, john mccain, presidential campaign, presidential election, presidential race, republican presidential nominee, republicans | No Comments »
Monday, September 29th, 2008
A Cadbury spokesman says preliminary results show its Chinese-made chocolates contain the industrial chemical melamine.
The spokesman said Monday it was too early to say how much melamine the chocolates contained.
He declined to give his name because of company policy.
Cadbury said earlier the tests “cast doubt” on the safety of its Chinese-made products but didn’t elaborate.
Article [...]
Tags: cadbury chocolate recall, cast doubt, china, made in china, melamine, preliminary results, spokesman
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
A six-year probe has not ruled out the possibility that Iran may be running clandestine nuclear programs, the chief U.N nuclear inspector said Monday, urging Iran to reassure the world by ending its secretive ways.
Europe also urged Tehran to fully cooperate with a U.N probe that is trying to assess all of its past and [...]
Tags: atomic energy agency, board seat, defiance, international atomic energy, international atomic energy agency, mohamed elbaradei, nation conference, nuclear activities, nuclear fuel, nuclear program, nuclear programs, nuclear weapons, opening speech, peaceful nature, plutonium, regional group, tehran, uranium enrichment program, vienna conference, warheads
Posted in Politics, United Nations, bomb, bomb threat, debate, government, inspection, investigation, iran, military, nuclear | No Comments »
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows.
When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign [...]
Tags: added friend to list of speakers at City Hall, Associated Press investigtion, fire hazard, gifts, lakeside development, Sarah Palin, Scandal, small-town politics, special benefits, special zoning exception, vice presidential candidate, Wasilla mayor
Posted in Politics, Sarah Palin, Scandal, Vice president, alaska, assets, crime, election, elections, investigation, john mccain, presidential campaign, presidential election, presidential race, report, republicans | No Comments »
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
A patient treated for agonizing abdominal pain received this surprising news in the hospital’s paperwork: “Based on your visit today, we know you are pregnant.” Surprising indeed for 71-year-old John Grady Pippen.
The staff at Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach gave the retired mechanic and logger the ridiculously happy news this month, along with some [...]
Tags: abdominal pain, gradfather, Grady Pippen, keystroke error, oregon, pregnant, Willam McMillan
Posted in Bizarre, accident, biology, health, hospital, pregnant, strange | No Comments »
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
He was “Cool Hand Luke” — but to filmgoers, he was just plain cool.
Actor Paul Newman has died at the age of 83. His publicist says he died yesterday at his farmhouse near Westport, Connecticut after a long battle with cancer.
He was often cast as the anti-hero, in films like “Hud” and “The Color of [...]
Tags: 83 years old, butch cassidy, cancer, co stars, color of money, connecticut, cool hand luke, dead, died, elizabeth taylor, farmhouse, food company, joanne woodward, oscar nominee, Paul Newman, portrayals, publicist, richard nixon, robert redford, sidekick, soft spot, tom cruise, tough guys, westport connecticut, wife joanne
Posted in Celeb News, cancer, death, news | No Comments »
Friday, September 26th, 2008
He had nothing above him but four tanks of kerosene and nothing below him but the cold waters of the English Channel. But Yves Rossy leapt from a plane and into the record books on Friday, crossing the channel on a homemade jet-propelled wing.
Rossy jumped from the plane about 8,200 feet over Calais, France, blasting [...]
Tags: bad weather, calais france, cold waters, figure eight, french aviator, gentle breeze, ground crew, guglielmo marconi, louis bleriot, onlookers, passenger ferries, perfect blue sky, radio telegraphy, realization of a dream, south foreland lighthouse, swiss pilot, target, white cliffs, yves rossy
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Republican John McCain agreed to attend the first presidential debate Friday night even though Congress doesn’t have a bailout deal, reversing an earlier decision to delay the event until Washington had taken action to address the crisis.
With less than 10 hours until the debate was scheduled to start, the McCain campaign announced that the Arizona [...]
Tags: arizona senator, campaign activities, commission on presidential debates, first presidential debate, former new york mayor, mayor rudy giuliani, mccain campaign, republican john mccain, republican nominee, senate minority leader, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, wife judith
Posted in Politics, barack obama, debate, democratic nominee, economy, election, elections, john mccain, polls, presidential campaign, presidential election, presidential race, republican presidential nominee | No Comments »
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
We just can’t stop eating McDonalds, we will not do without Paris Hilton and Brad and Angelina and as American’s we’ll be damned without the Spice Girls. Overindulgence is every American’s God given right! Some of these guilty pleasures are sinful while others are just playful. However when we even consider someone like Sarah Palin [...]
Tags: addicts, bush, Charles gibson, consumerism, couric, drama, mccain, mccain/hilton 08, overindulgence, Palin
Posted in Cheney, Politics, Sarah Palin, United States, bush, democracy, election, elections, john mccain, news | No Comments »
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Sen. Ted Stevens is blaming an overzealous contractor for the legal mess that has him on trial for corruption.
Stevens is accused of lying on Senate forms about more than $250,000 in home renovations and gifts he received from oil contractor Bill Allen. During opening statements Thursday, attorneys offered the first public defense for the Alaska [...]
Tags: alaska, attorneys, box furniture, corruption, gas grill, home renovations, legal mess, lighting system, opening statements, politician, prosecutors, republican attorney, rope lighting, senate, ted stevens, tool box
Posted in Department of Justice, Politics, Washington DC, alaska, assets, congress, crime, investigation, laws and regulations | No Comments »