Obama select Joseph Biden as running mate

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama chooses Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware to be his running mate, turning to a leading authority on foreign policy and a longtime Washington hand to fill out the Democratic ticket.
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Insane McCain Ask his wife to compete for bimbo of the year

Ok Let me get this right, Insane McCain encouraged his wife to compete in the bimbo of the year contest (Miss Buffalo Chip) held at the famous Sturgis Motorcycle Rally located in Sturgis, South Dakota

Ok, Ok I didn’t believe it either but here his exact words

“I was looking at the Sturgis schedule and noticed that you have a beauty pageant and so I encouraged Cindy to compete. I told her, with a little luck, she could be the only woman ever to serve as both the First Lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”

NOW if you don’t know what a Miss Buffalo Chip beauty pageant is:

It’s basely these guys holding a contest every night, which is essentially a topless and occasionally bottomless beauty pageant. If you can believe that…

How Desperate can you be?

Insane McCain and the Republican Party really willing to say or do anything to win!!!

Still don’t believe me than check this out for yourself at blogs for john McCain

Greens launch effort against Electoral College manipulation of presidential elections

Green civil action seeks to democratize the Electoral College by enforcing 14th Amendment voter protections, names Vice President Cheney as defendant

WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders said today that the outcome of the 2008 presidential election may be affected by the antidemocratic apportionment of Electoral College votes, with the popular vote misrepresented by the winner-take-all system of assigning votes to electors.

“We’re in danger of seeing the 2008 election stolen again, as in 2000 and 2004,” said Clyde Shabazz, Green candidate for the US House in Michigan (13th District).  “In Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, we witnessed the obstruction and manipulation of votes by election officials and possible tampering with computer voting machines.  But equally insidious is the malapportionment of Electoral College votes, which disenfranchises whole sections of the voting public.”
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Russia and Georgia move to brink of war

Europe – - Russia and Georgia edged dangerously close to direct conflict today after Tbilisi launched an overnight offensive to regain control over the breakaway province of South Ossetia.

Fighting raged around the city of Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, as Georgian troops backed by tanks and warplanes pounded separatist forces. At least 15 people were reported to have been killed.

The fighting had raised fears of an all-out war  [read more]

By Philippe Naughton and Kevin O’Flynn in Moscow | timesonline.co.uk | posted: 8 August 2008

Oil ‘could hit $200 within years’

A serious oil supply crisis is looming, which could push prices above $200 a barrel, a think tank has warned.

A “supply crunch” will affect the world market within the next five to 10 years, the Chatham House report said.

While there is plenty of oil in the ground, companies and governments were failing to invest enough to ensure production, it added. [read more]

on  news.bbc.co.uk | posted: 08 August 2008

What Asia wants from the next U.S. president

The wish list includes continued security aid to balance China, greater engagement, and trade.

Beijing - Completing a final lap of Asia, President Bush arrived here Thursday for the opening of the Summer Olympics. Earlier in the day, he chided the Olympic host for its curbs on religious freedom and human rights, but said the United States and China had built a “constructive relationship” during his tenure.

Many policymakers in the region, however, are looking ahead to the next White House occupant [read more]

By Simon Montlake | The Christian Science Monitor | posted: 8 August 2008

Terrorists: We will kill on buses, planes, trains

Radicals threaten Olympics, but experts skeptical

URUMQI, China– Police shut down the bustling bazaar in the capital of China’s restive Muslim region of Xinjiang on Friday amid threats from an Islamic group that attackers might target buses, trains and planes during the Olympics.

A sign at the entrance of the bazaar in Urumqi did not explain why the area, surrounded by mosques with minarets, was off limits as the country prepared to opening the Summer Games [read more]

BY WILLIAM FOREMAN | Suntimes.com|posted: 8 August 2008

We don’t mind Congress shutting down

As Congress plays games, taxpayers get a break from big spending

Washington, D.C. – While Republicans threaten a government shutdown over a fight with Democrats on offshore drilling, the Libertarian Party says such a dramatic step wouldn’t be so bad.

“We don’t mind Congress shutting down,” says Andrew Davis, spokesperson for the Libertarian Party . “At least taxpayers will get a break from Congress’ spending spree. Anything that government does to decrease how active it is in passing new laws and spending taxpayer money is something the Libertarian Party fully supports.”

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Veterans groups seek dedicated funding for healthcare

The V.A. has yearly funding crunches because of lag time in Congress’s appropriations process, they say.

Washington – Veterans’ groups are lining up behind a plan they say would shield their healthcare benefits from political whim and a “dysfunctional system” that they say in effect shuts some war veterans out of medical care.

An initiative called Stand Up For Veterans wants Congress to give the Veterans Administration a more predictable funding stream by advancing its annual budget a year ahead of time. [read more]

By Gordon Lubold staff writer | The Christian Science Monitor | posted: 8 August 2008

Mayor jailed, Detroit fumes

More calls for Kilpatrick to quit as bond offense shocks beleaguered city

The scandalous drama of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick took a bizarre turn Thursday as a judge sent the troubled mayor to jail for violating the terms of his bond in a pending perjury and obstruction of justice case.

The stunning development in the nation’s 11th-largest city provoked bipartisan calls for Kilpatrick’s immediate resignation, further undermined his tenuous and rapidly eroding political standing in Detroit and created the specter [read more]

By Tim Jones Correspondent | Chicago Tribune | posted: 8 August 2008

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