Hello everybody! I am thrilled to the bone! How about them Democrats! It was such a sweet victory that blogging seemed lackluster by comparison, so I skipped a couple of weeks (times two). I even bought a vintage coat on ebay to commemorate the purpling of our nation. Yes, folks, the coat is very purple–purple [...]
Hello, my name is Colin Powell, and I’m a recovering cabinet member of the Cheney/Bush Administration. I’m here today to explain why I support Barack Obama for the next President of the United States.
The National Debt is just a little over one light-year. I don’t know about ya’ll, but I’m feeling a lot better about a National Debt of only one light-year. Our closest star friend, Proxima Centauri, is 4.3 light-years from the Sun. The Canis Major dwarf Galaxy is the nearest to our solar system and it’s 25,000 light-years away. Astronomers who hazard a guess say that the whole universe is a whopping 79 billion light-years across. I think I’ll stop there. (a joke)
For a more in-depth grading of each candidate’s performance, one that involves substance, style, offense and defense click here on Time.com. Political analyst, Mark Halperin, assigned each candidate an overall letter grade: Mccain got a B-, while Obama snagged an A-. “Two more performances like that and he (Obama) will be very tough to beat on Election Day,” Halperin said.
Spin is like religion—a mater of personal preference, so why not be proactive? In other words, don’t let the spin choose you, go out there and find one you like. Happy to say, you’re allowed to bounce off as many conflicting conclusions as you want on the way to settling down. Senator McCain does it all the time.
A red-faced Klansman of monumental girth and meanness lived on my street. As fathers went, he was the scariest by far. Late, one Friday evening, I saw him waddle out to the family Pontiac wearing what looked to be a long, white mu mu. He was in a hurry but stopped long enough to model his tall, white pointy hat with eye-slits for us. Granvile Ramsey was this dude’s name and did he ever look dumb driving away with half that mu mu hanging out the car door.
An earmark is a line-item inserted into any bill that anonymously funnels cash to a specific project or recipient behind the public’s back. In other words, any member of our esteemed Congress can direct a large wad of the taxpayer’s cash to his or her town where it can be spent on a pet project, without the Member of Congress having to identify him/herself or the project.
Which reminds me… back to the word for which he stands—maverick: During his hopping about from Alabama to Texas, Samuel Maverick left a herd of unbranded cows roaming the countryside. It was this wandering herd that gave rise to the term maverick.
If you don’t count the Miss Alaska Beauty Contest, Sarah Palin’s rise to the top of her party began in a step-aerobics class she was attending with the power elite of Wasilla. That almost sounds like an oxymoron, but now we know how far one exercise step can take you—all the way to the top of the Republican Party.
That’s enough, folks. I need a laugh. Perhaps, Alice Miles of the TimesOnline is the answer. Please, please, please, Alice, can you offer us poor, tired Americans, looking upon the female that may be our next President, a Brit’s eye view?