Month: September 2008
Still life with radiator
Posted by miri On 21 September, 2008
Poll: Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama
Posted by miri On 20 September, 2008
This makes me sad and, as my friend said, “have little hope for the future.”
Political Pulse | The Associated Press-Yahoo! News Poll on Yahoo! News
Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them “lazy,” “violent,” responsible for their own troubles.
Entrance
Posted by miri On 20 September, 2008
Fresh & Fruity
Posted by miri On 19 September, 2008
Yes, we have no bananas
Posted by miri On 18 September, 2008
Christ Church
Posted by miri On 17 September, 2008
Corsi’s Dull Hatchet
Posted by miri On 16 September, 2008
Despite its place near the top of The New York Times’ nonfiction bestseller list, where it has been riding high for the past six weeks, Jerome Corsi’s “The Obama Nation” is not a reliable source of facts about Obama.
Corsi cites opinion columns and unsourced, anonymous blogs as if they were evidence of factual claims. Where he does cite legitimate news sources, he frequently distorts the facts. In some cases, Corsi simply ignores readily accessible information when it conflicts with his arguments.
Elfreth’s Alley
Posted by miri On 16 September, 2008
Orignally, the city was designed with wide streets because Penn learned a few lessons from the great fire of London. As more and more people moved in, however, some property owners started subdiving their property and creating their own streets/alleys.
In Candidates, 2 Approaches to Wall Street
Posted by miri On 16 September, 2008
The crisis on Wall Street will leave the next president facing tough choices about how best to regulate the financial system, and although neither Senator Barack Obama nor Senator John McCain has yet offered a detailed plan, their records and the principles they have set out so far suggest they could come at the issue in very different ways.
McCain says Obama didn’t call Palin a pig
Posted by miri On 15 September, 2008
Did Barack Obama really call Sarah Palin a pig, as a John McCain ad leads people to believe? “No,” McCain said Monday. The Republican presidential nominee defended the ad anyway, saying Obama “chooses his words very carefully.”
The implication: Obama was slyly up to something when he said McCain’s call for change in Washington is “lipstick on a pig,” days after Palin made a lipstick joke at the Republican convention.
“He’s very eloquent,” McCain told The Associated Press and Florida newspapers in an interview, and “it was the wrong thing to say.”
So, the advert was a lie, but it was an okay lie because the other guy is very eloquent?
McCain cut off a question about the “Bridge to Nowhere,” which Palin claims to have killed in Alaska even though Washington pulled back money for the project before she turned against it.
“The important thing is she’s vetoed a half a billion dollars in earmark projects—far, far in excess of her predecessor and she’s given money back to the taxpayers and she’s cut their taxes, so I’m happy with her record,” McCain said.
So happy that I’m sticking with they lie that she turned down the Bridge project instead of had it taken away from her by Congress!