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For the first time Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton share the stage in Unity…New Hampshire. The tiny town of Unity, NH (Pop. 1,530) hosted this gathering. It is not the smallest town in NH….Erving’s Location, NH has a population of 1 resident. I know that is off-topic but interesting.
Hopefully this rally will unite the party and put Barack Obama in the White House!
John McCain’s website launched a new feature to “entertain all the kiddies” out there. Did he completely miss 5 years of his life when he was younger? Oh, he did…I’m sorry! He must have missed when “Space Invaders” was cool, because it isn’t now. He is now trying to “kill pigs” on his website. I thought we were going after “terrorists”. I put terrorists in quotes because terrorists is short…well long for OIL. I guess he is just upset at being a POW for 5 years and continuing to kill is his payback. I have full support for the troops who are risking their life, but I DO NOT SUPPORT THE WAR! I know I have freedom of speech, but is John McCain going to try and kill me as well?
I know the game is not about killing pigs. It is referring to pork barrel spending aka Earkmarks. I am against McCain in the election, (GO OBAMA) but I wanted to try this game to see what you win. I found out that all you get are slams against Barack Obama on his views on Earmarks. I am not saying that I like that our tax money is getting spent on failed/useless projects, but this is the dumbest idea that I have seen in a very long time.
When I went on his website, I found embed code and a link to install the Facebook application. I felt that I needed to embed the code to show everyone how old school he is. Has he ever seen a video game in the year 2008? I guess maybe enjoy it….no, no you won’t.
A Boy Scout camp in Little Sioux, Iowa was destroyed after a tornado hit the camp.
Iowa Public Safety Commissioner Gene Meyer said the four were killed by a storm that slammed into the Little Sioux Scout Ranch near the Nebraska state line.
Meyer said about 120 people, including 93 campers, were believed to be at the camp at the time of the storm.
About 40 people were injured, said Sheri Bauwens, a nurse with the American Red Cross.
Lloyd Roitstein, president of the Boy Scouts of Mid-America Council, said the Scouts at the ranch were advanced Scouts between 13 and 18 years old and were there for a week of training.
He said they were staying in tents and that the site is destroyed.
“All of the buildings are gone; most of the tents are gone; most of the trees are destroyed,” Roitstein said. “You’ve got 1,800 acres of property that are destroyed right now.”
Being an Eagle Scout myself, this was very upsetting to me. They were behind a mountain and there was no where to really escape the twister. They didn’t have a plan or a shelter to go into. When I called my mother to tell her about the situation, she said, “They weren’t prepared”, which is funny considering the Scout Motto is “Be Prepared”. It wasn’t meant to be a joke, but it did lighten the situation a bit.
Why is it that we allow people from overseas to stay who become criminals stay in our country, but the people who work hard and are highly educated, they get deported. I am not saying that I am against people from overseas, I’m not, but they shouldn’t deport an Armenian student named Arthur Mkoyan from California who has a 4.0 GPA and has been accepted to the University of California at Davis.
His father, Ruben Mkoian, ran a general store and worked as a police officer in the then-Soviet Republic of Armenia, where he was threatened by former Soviet government workers as the Soviet Union was breaking up, Arthur’s mother has said.
Mkoian, who spells his name differently than does his son, applied for asylum but was rejected. He lost an appeal to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and is being held at a detention center in Arizona.
He is pleading for a student visa so him and his family can stay in the country longer. He hasn’t been back to Armenia since he was two, but they are sending him back after doing very well for himself in America.
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who has introduced such so-called private bills in the past, is gathering Arthur’s information to introduce a bill on his behalf, her Washington office said.
Long shot
If introduced, the bill would halt the deportation. If it passes, he would receive a green card. But private bills rarely pass, Feinstein’s office said.
On Thursday, Arthur visited the office of U.S. Rep. George Radanovich, R-Calif. The congressman sent a letter to Feinstein supporting her legislation on behalf of Arthur, Radanovich spokesman Spencer Pederson said Friday.
The letter notes that such a bill was unlikely to pass in the House, but that previous legislation of this nature has been successful in the Senate.
On Monday, Radanovich plans to meet with the Armenian ambassador to the United States to ask that, if deportation can’t be prevented, Arthur be allowed to apply for a student visa to return to the United States, Pederson said.
After 16 months of campaigning, it is just starting for Barack and it is all over for Hillary Clinton (unless the world collapses). Barack Obama clinched the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States.
Tonight, I listened to his speech and it was amazing. He talked about everything that he should have and nothing that made him look weak. I have a feeling that this speech might help him to take on John McCain the way other said he couldn’t.
Obama’s speech spent most of the time criticizing John McCain and his proposed ideas for “change”. Obama completely blew McCain’s speech out of the water and it will be remembered for the next few months until the convention.
Tonight, during the exit polls, a lot of Hillary’s supports said they would vote for Obama if she didn’t win. Many of Hillary’s campaign members said that she wouldn’t mind being #2 on the ballot as Vice President. We don’t know yet what will happen, but if Hillary was on the ticket as VP, CNN predicts that the Democrats might be able to swing votes over to their side that Obama didn’t win and take a huge victory.
If a “dream team” ticket, CNN predicts 316 EC votes for Obama and 222 EC votes for McCain.
*EC = Electoral College
It hasn’t been a good two days in the Boston area. Today at around 4pm, an apartment complex in Peabody, MA (the city where I currently work) went up in flames. The “luxury” apartments, Highlands at Dearborn, are still burning at this moment and firefighters will be working to put it out. Residents were sent to Salem State College
The evening commute home for cars going 95/128 North and South was backed up for miles and the smoke could be seen in parts of Boston (about 25 miles away). As I was driving home today after work, I was stuck in the traffic and when I looked over and saw the flames and the apartment burning, it looked awful.
One of my friends from work lived there and lost everything. Not only did she lose her apartment and all her possessions, she also lost her two cats who were trapped inside while she was at work. We are setting up a collection at work to help her.
This was banned TV Commercial that I found on PulseCity. It is a really funny video about Bill Clinton, while giving a speech, acting out whatever the voodoo doll does.
Why isn’t there a Hillary Clinton voodoo doll. You know, just so we can have the voodoo doll drop out of the race. Hint Hint!
In a shocking twist, David Cook became the newest American Idol.
The fans who vote for Idol saw it differently however, and the vote tally swung in Cook’s favour, possibly because of his maturity and old-soul rocker vibe. Some reviewers also suspected a backlash among voters against the judges’ comments, which seemed to unfairly favour Archuleta.
A record 97 million votes were cast overall, 23 million more than American Idol’s previous high. In the end, Cook won by a relatively wide margin, 56% to 44%, or 12 million votes.
By a margin of $400 over Danielle Zsenak (Marquette University), Joey Beachum from Mississippi State University took home the Championship and $100,000.
Final Jeopardy was:
ANSWER: The Quadruple Alliance Began In 1813 against this country; In 1818 it let this country in and became the Quintuple Alliance.
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QUESTION: What is France?
Earlier today, there was a sample poll taken by Democrats who said that they wanted a joint ticket with Obama as Presidential nominee and Clinton as Vice President nominee. However, there was another exit poll after the ballots were counted in West Virginia that said neither party would be happy with the other as the nominee for President. I know they are two different polls, but they do work together to prove that the party is divided and that Clinton is only making it worse by staying in this race. She is going to lose (unless something drastic changes) and she is keeping the party separated.
Hopefully once the polls close in Oregon, Clinton will realize that her push for office in 2008 is over and drop out. It will give Obama a few more months to pull the party back together and get the Republican party out of the Oval Office. As for a joint ticket, I would be fine with it as long as Hillary drops out next week. If she keeps it to the convention, than she cares more about the power than the party and she doesn’t deserve the spot on the ticket BEHIND Obama.
**NOTE: The price of gas will be rising to $4.29/gallon soon!!! Just over 1 year ago, we were at $2.16/gallon doubling in a little over a year. The price for a barrel of oil in $125, by 2013, they are predicting it to be around $300 per barrel. THINK ABOUT IT
