This is my kind of planet. Diamonds are a girl’s best friend after all. Anyone up for planetary travel? I’m game! By the way, this is @derised1, not Pat. Keep track of the bylines so you don’t blame any of my girlie posts on him. Which is to say, yeah, I’m posting here now.
CNN: Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, whose approval rating tumbled following the devastating March earthquake and tsunami, announced his resignation Friday. Kan resigned as head of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. The party will elect a new leader next week, who will take over as prime minister. The resignation fulfills his promise to step [...]
Another bloody, violent night in Mexico where innocents are murdered and their families grieve over their senseless deaths. Mexico is going to hell in a hand basket and President Felipe Calderon is clearly in over his head. Mercury News: Two dozen gunmen burst into a casino in northern Mexico on Thursday, doused it with gasoline [...]
Politico: A nugget from today’s Pew poll that deserves a post of its own: Forty-one percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters say there is “no chance” they would vote for Sarah Palin in a presidential race. Continue Reading That’s the second-highest rejection rate of any Republican candidate, exceeded only by Newt Gingrich, who was ruled [...]
Politico: Nevadans were treated to a look inside the campaign of congressional candidate Kate Marshall on Wednesday when her staff sent out a press release that contained internal notes detailing why it would be “useful” for the Democratic candidate to support Israel. Marshall, who is running in a special election for the seat in Nevada’s [...]
Lenny Dykstra continues his slide toward rock bottom. Drunk driving accident, prior sexual assaults on women, bankruptcy, grand theft auto, drug charges and the list goes on and on. Reuters: Former New York Mets star Lenny Dykstra was charged on Thursday with exposing himself to a string of women who answered his Craigslist employment ads, [...]
Judicial Watch: The economy remains in shambles yet President Obama keeps wasting taxpayer dollars expanding an already bloated U.S. government, this month launching a new office to help build a “diverse and inclusive workforce” at all federal agencies. The new Office of Diversity and Inclusion will ensure that the entire U.S. government develops comprehensive strategies [...]
NBC Chicago: Elmhurst College put a question on its admissions application that won’t appear on any other school’s application. “Would you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) community?” That optional question makes Elmhurst the first school in the country to ask applicants about their sexual orientation or gender [...]
Politico: Ron Klain, Vice President Biden’s former chief of staff, went to bat for the Obama administration Thursday afternoon as he swatted away suggestions from Rick Perry and Mitt Romney that global warming isn’t caused by people. “They’re playing to their base,” Klain said on MSNBC. “It’s primary politics.” In defense of global warming being [...]
Tulsa World: President Barack Obama alone is to blame for the nation’s budget deficit — and just about everything else, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe told the Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. “We now have a president, and I don’t mean this disrespectfully, who is destroying these very institutions that made America great,” Inhofe, [...]
The Hill: Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) slammed President Obama’s promise that the stimulus package would deliver lower unemployment rates as “the stupidest thing that basically any administration probably ever said” in an interview Wednesday with WFPL News. “I think if you asked them now they will say that was the stupidest thing that basically any [...]
ABC News: Employees of media giant Comcast have contributed more money to President Obama’s reelection bid than employees from any other organization, according to a new analysis of Federal Election Commission data by the Center for Responsive Politics. Comcast employees contributed nearly $80,000 directly to Obama for America and roughly $200,000 to the Obama Victory [...]
MSNBC: When former Vice President Dick Cheney releases his memoir early next week, it may cause the second earthquake in Washington, D.C., this month. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “There are gonna be heads exploding all over Washington,’’ Cheney told NBC’s Jamie Gangel in an exclusive interview that [...]
