The 2008 ballot measures include 10 citizen sponsored initiatives and four legislative referrals
She can run, but Sarah Palin can no longer hide. The GOP spin machine is revving up to christen Sarah Palin's ethics as we speak.
This GOP scandal certainly is par with previous GOP scandals of Larry Craig, Trent Lott, Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay, Scooter Libby, George W. Bush, Robert Ney, Newt Gingrich, Former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles, Republican state Representative and Florida co-Chairman of McCain for President Campaign - Bob Allen, George Allen Jr. David Vitter, Ted Stevens, Pastor Ted Haggard, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Presidential Personal Aid - Karl Rove.
See a very long and comprehensive wikipedia Republican Scandal list here.
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Economic Stabilization "$700 Billion Bailout" Bill
If there ever was a topic McCain was suppose to command in the Presidential debates was Foreign Policy and McCain could not close the deal in the first debate with Barack Obama . This was McCain’s best shot at scoring significant points with Independent voters with his huge advantage of 26 years in Congress (21 of those years in the Senate), but he somehow found a way to miss the opportunity! Complete debate transcripts available to view/download at end of article.
"There is NO Financial Bailout deal" -
Ohio Republican John Boehner
The American People must NOT blink! This is high stakes poker and we Must determine the bluff of our unfortunate opponent – the misguided and incapable GOP Bush White House!
" 10% thinking & 90+% Bush approval voting record…" Maverick?
…the emperor has truly been stripped of his clothes" Is it the McCain age factor - 72, blatant deception or just complicit mental idleness and an inclination towards being a rubber stamp GOP yes man for the Bush White House failed policies that has now become McCain’s true legacy. The straight talk express is pure political shenanigan at best! Some say John Sidney McCain III is no more than an aged political myth past "his time" and whose life was predestined by his father Real Admiral John S. McCain Jr . and before that his grandfather Admiral John S. McCain Sr. So what happened to John Sidney McCain III ?
Get the Invesco Field Obama acceptance speech transcript bundled with bonus event pictures at end of this article !
Well the drama of political theater unfolded that we haven't seen in a while, as the roll call vote for Barack Obama's Democratic Party nomination, went state after state honoring Clinton's bid for the White House. Some states yielded unanimous votes by their delegation for Barack Obama... even though some of those states that were won by Clinton, until they got to New Mexico where there were by everyone count, enough votes for the nomination to have the winning delegate count - but after much political fanfare New Mexico yielded to the state of Illinois where everyone thought that would be the appropriate end by casting the winning votes to break the delegate barrier for the nomination. But it was not to be!
de·cep·tion: trick synonyms deception - fraud, double-dealing, subterfuge, trickery... means the acts or practices of one who deliberately deceives.
All the way down to the jiggling camera shot to make the fireworks images appear as if they were being shot with a hand held camera from a government sanctioned helicopter circling overhead - 200 Chinese computer graphics artists worked over a year to produce the duped fireworks display for the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. This fireworks footage was released to all the worldwide press organizations officially from the Beijing Chinese government. Did I mention the young Chinese child singer Lin Miaoke with the amazing voice that supposedly sang "Ode to the Motherland"- she actually had her voice dubbed by another voice trained surrogate Yang Pelyl.
No doubt John McCain does NOT want Americans to know the details behind the spiraling higher costs of oil and then refined gasoline due to oil speculation. John McCain has direct ties to the creation of the oil speculation loop hole and has strategically placed his Senate votes to mask his oil speculation ties and mislead the American public on it s history and his knowledge about it.
Yet another GOP scandal involving corruption in which legislation has adversely affected yet again the American taxpayer's wallets – this time with Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. Many have said for years - as goes Alaska, goes the nation in Presidential elections. Republican Senator Stevens, the first sitting U.S. senator to face federal indictment since 1993, has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a International Oil Services company Veco Corporation. Alaska senator on charges - “I am innocent”.
No doubt President Bush and his entire NeoCon White House, as well as the stupendous GOP affable mouthpieces Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Haggerty would rather be dead, than be caught talking with sincere civility to suspected enemies of the state (one of the reasons the United States failed unilateral
foreign policy has been so detrimental to worldwide stability), and the same failed U.S. policies that are so diametrically counter/opposed to Barack Obama’s U.S. + the world partnership in which his recent Berlin speech clearly proposed.
Barack Obama delivered a major foreign policy speech in 30-minutes to 200,000 enthusiastic onlookers and supporters at the base of the “Victory Column” - the Siegessäule in the middle of a roundabout called the Grosser Stern in the Tiergarten Park - Berlin’s sprawling park in the center of the city. When a reporter asked the senator if he considered the address a campaign event, he said with a puzzled look: “As opposed to?” “It’s not a political rally,” he added. “Hopefully, it will be viewed as a substantive, articulation of the relationship I’d like to see between the United States and Europe. I’m hoping to communicate across the Atlantic the value of that relationship and how we need to build on it.”The entire text (added bonus pictures also from the Berlin Speech), to the Obama Berlin speech is down loadable at end of this narrative.
Grayjing is the nickname given to Beijing for it’s serious air pollution problems. Most of us have heard about by now the unusually smoggy conditions polluting Beijing’s (population 11 million), air - but seeing the conditions makes you wonder if the Chinese are going to be able to pull off their so called "blue sky days" during the 2008 Summer Olympics scheduled to start August 8th. Government claims have previously stated that the number of "blue sky days", when smog levels are lower than normal -less than 100 on a scale of 500 API (Air Pollution Index), has increased to around 240 days annually.
Yacrosoft or Michoo – too Icahnish?
When America was once prosperous, not too long ago and most U.S. industries had at least a bright near-term economic future, the greedy class of American could enrich themselves privately, away from the media and general public – but, those times have changed. This recent statement in The Washington Post article says it all - “Icahn, who owns a 5 percent stake in Yahoo, emphasized he still believes a sale of all or part of Yahoo may still be the best way for the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company to lift its sagging stock price.”
No mention whatsoever has been discussed publicly of what to fix that people don’t like about Yahoo that may be causing the lack of financial windfall that Carl Icahn believes he should benefit from by investing in Yahoo, the well liked consumer based Internet icon stock.
The 2008 Summer Olympics emblem is known as "Dancing Beijing" The 2008 Games of the XXIX Olympiad, August 8th - 24th, are the 19th version of the summer games. 205 countries of the total 221 around the world are participating in these Olympics. The circle and square symbolize antagonism in China between heaven and the earth.
Q or intelligence quotient , is thought to be a matter of everyday experiences which makes some people smarter than others. But, how do we measure smartness or intelligence and do you buy into this concept?
Take a IQ test here and take a fascinating news IQ test here to determine how much you know about everyday current events, and how you measure up against others in the U.S. population (your peers). All the intelligence tests can be found here .
Microsoft's Airball Strategy - $32B+ Loss Increasing
“airball: The corporate version of a cat hairball. Someone who makes lots of noise, disrupts everything, has the potential to make a big mess - but ultimately does nothing.”
To be sure, we are referring to the Microsoft hostile takeover fiasco over Yahoo, urged on by Carl Icahn.
Is this the major effort we have been waiting for as Bush tries in vain for any legacy, as he prepares for retirement… and relies on his Supreme Court Appointees to rein over freedom and American privacy for the next decade ?
It took the US Department of Justice 4 times in 2005 to get the courts to grant the Bush White House the ability to force cell phone providers to turn over real-time, continuous physical location data on cell phone users, without first having to obtain a warrant or even demonstrate probable cause - remember that ?
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This is Part 1 of our multi-part World Happiness Study Series .
The happiness research basically was a survey of the degree of satisfaction with life and the environment based on data from 178 countries and 100 previous surveys by UNESCO, the CIA, the New Economics Foundation, the WHO, the Veenhoven Database, the Latin Barometer, the Afro Barometer, the UN and the World Health Organization by social psychologist Adrian White from Leicester University in the UK.
