It’s possible this entry is a little over the top. If it makes you feel any better, it’s a lot calmer than the first half dozen or so drafts.
This is too easy. It might have nothing to do with his qualifications to be President, or everything. Tell me dear reader: is it possible being a maverick in all things can be a liability?
“I don’t need a f—ing computer to tell…
I wonder if Charlie is feeling a little heat…
The gov’s words, via St Pete Times:
“Only when we are able to do so far enough from Florida’s coast, safe enough for our people, and clean enough for our beaches, should we even consider increasing our oil supply by drilling off Florida’s shore. Let me repeat: far enough, safe enough and clean enough.”
But allow me…
Sorry for the swearing…
For the moment, let’s set aside the merits of offshore drilling. It seems to me like some “conservatives” (note the strategic use of my buddy, the quotation mark) bat around the words “offshore drilling” like it’s an act of patriotism; a shared sacrifice for a greater good. I think it’s code for building a bunch of oil…
McClatchy:
Describing his position as evolving, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said he now supports exploratory drilling for oil and gas off Florida’s coast because “Floridians are suffering…”
The National Petroleum Council estimates the eastern Gulf might hold 36.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 5.2 billion barrels of oil. Others doubt those numbers but say there is…
If I was doing a re-write of the book of Revelation, I might mention something about agreeing with George Will.
You think I’m kidding, don’t you?
I was listening to the “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” podcast this afternoon (that’s a freakin’ long name for a show, by the way), and I swore I heard Mr. Will say, “I don’t know how McCain can…
I just finished watching the HBO movie of the same name, and it was like picking open a scab and cleaning it with a little drain opener. They saved the most painful part for the end: Ron Klain approaches Jim Baker and asks him, “Do you thing the best man won?” What was Baker going to say, no? So Ron Klain says, “I hope you’re right.”
Oh man did that hurt. It was…
Newsvine / AP:
About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow sister because they didn’t have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.
Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow members of Saint Mary’s Convent in South Bend, across the street from the University of Notre Dame, because they had been told earlier that…
I mentioned a Republican representative from our state legislature the other day, the one I heard on the radio. I kind of suggested he might’ve said something that made me a little mad; “pissed off” may have been the words I used. Well, if you don’t want to read a rant on Florida politics, now is the time to bail.
The Florida Legislature is in session for two months of…
Here’s a few numbers I saw in the Times recently. These concern the (FL) House budget proposal that was released last week.
$2.5 Billion – what you get when you subtract state revenues from state expenses (ideally that number equal to, or less than $0).
$1 Billion – proposed cuts to human services.
8,000 – terminally ill Medicaid patients who’d have their hospice care…