Electability
Ajax the Greater had a diary today that discussed Bloomberg entering the race. After watching MTP today, I found myself asking Myself a couple of questions. If Hillary is going to be the Democratic...
View ArticleIran and the new " UN sanctions"
So our war-mongering, blubbering, corrupt and lame duck administration is spreading the word on how they are getting tough new sanctions against that evil Iran. Russia, however, has let the world know...
View ArticleFlorida
Two quick observations on the Florida vote. Everything has been addressed to Hillary's ploy to allege the Florida voters have been disenfranchised after she agreed that the votes would not count there....
View ArticleKenyans react to photo
Although the Clinton campaign denied that it had officially released the photo of Obama in Somali dress, whichever damn fool did it thinking it was soooo very clever has unloosed a storm on the other...
View ArticleWords for your enjoyment
Once in a while one gets an e-mail that is too funny and must be shared. This will get your mind off Tuesday for a few minutes. The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take...
View ArticleBill Clinton on Hillary's Role in I/P Peace Process
I have been combing the news archives looking for those items mentioning Hillary's visits to Ireland in particular and can find nothing beyond speeches to women's groups, women parliamentarians in...
View ArticleTwo Nobel Prize Economists Recommend Obama
MSNBC has two Nobel Prize economists on right now. They were asked which of the three - Obama, Clinton or McCain - would be best for the economy, and both replied Obama. Joseph Stiglitz, who was...
View ArticleHe's a part of my life now
I had a friend for many years, long dead now. We met at a college in the Mid-west. The town was typical, all white, small town America, and that was my background. Growing up, the only time I saw...
View ArticleInnocent cameraman finally freed from Gitmo
Reporters Without Borders has a press release out and Al-Jazera/English is reporting that their cameraman, Sami Al-Haj, picked up in 2001 at the Pakistan/Afghanistan border has today been released. The...
View ArticleWhat is Green and Full of Worms?
This diary, although pretty informative, is just to get your minds off West Virginia for a minute.
View ArticleFrance and Germany love Obama!
I'm old enough to remember the stir when Jackie Kennedy went to France and France went insane with love for her and Jack. Bill Clinton stirred up Ireland. Al Gore is welcomed all over Europe for his...
View ArticlePut a lid on it
Dear John, I have noted that you have to wear a hat when you are outdoors (health reasons) and I sense a great business opportunity for me here. It really bothers me that a potential future president...
View ArticleOnly Obama would
So here I am sitting in Ireland watching the flood disaster in Iowa and Illinois, and I am watching men filling sandbags. I did a double-take and said that looks like Obama filling bags and I was sure...
View ArticleHere, I’ll save you some time
Strike out what isn’t appropriate to your hit diary, then copy and paste. I have always been an Obama supporter. I am an ardent Obama supporter. I once supported [insert name of candidate] but now...
View ArticleBe still my Irish heart
About 2 weeks ago I sent a message to one of the Obama volunteers asking them to ask Barack to stop off in Ireland on his trip. Looks like Rep. Neal (D-MA) is on the same wave length. "House aides...
View ArticleBush math: $1 + $1 = $85 million
Not much to expand on here, so you will have to accept it for what it is. CNN reports this morning on the value of supplies actually given to Katrina storm victims. The Bush Administration, GSA and...
View ArticleShame on you, John McCain!!
I still have the picture of John McCain and George Bush whooping it up with a birthday cake while New Orleans drowned three years ago, and the horror of the pictures coming out of the city of New...
View ArticleIt's lack of leadership, stupid
I had to turn off the debate last night. Knowing Obama's philosophy and platform so well, I sort of tuned him out without realizing it, and then got freaky listening mostly to McCain. It took until...
View ArticleGetcher National and foreign news here
Thirty years ago I had a bit to do with the Bristol Bay Native Corporation, so I read with interest that Miss Congeniality was a Bristol Bay fisher[wo]man. Remembering the local newspaper that was then...
View ArticleO'Reilly's View
Or, "O'Reilly puts the blinders on the horse's arse and looks at the economy from his new prospective." Being extremely worried about the potential for violence being generated by Palin and Faux News,...
View ArticleTo all the Irish among you
Signs on the road leading to the village read "Welcome to Obama country" and the Guinness truck has been and gone. Moneygall in county Offaly in Ireland is just waiting on the final election results to...
View ArticleSaakashvili on way out?
I don’t know if this is an added bonus of Obama’s election, but it appears the State Department is now attempting to tell some of the truth about what really happened in Georgia in August. Of course,...
View ArticleBiting the rabid Fox back
There was a great diary yesterday by susan in sc "Rabid Fox bites Mom, treatment urgently needed". All of us know some elderly person who has been taken in by Fox and regurgitates their foul lines...
View ArticleMy Kind of President
I read a crawler on Al Jazerra/English that said President-elect Obama had gone back on his word to close Gitmo in 100 days and knew I had to read what was really said. Yes, he did say that, but he...
View ArticleHorror
More of a head's up than a diary, but I have just listened to a doctor who has gone into Gaza and is reporting on the results of two new weapons, probably developed in the US, but used by the Israeli's...
View ArticleShite hitting rotating device & CIA and Bush splattered (Updated 2x)
Sky News is reporting on the case of Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian national and a British resident, who claims he was arrested in Pakistan and tortured in Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan, and that the...
View ArticleSlowly we make progress
Today Britain's Defense Secretary, John Hutton, confessed that Britain had taken two prisoners in Iraq and turned them over to the US for rendition to Afghanistan. In addition, Hutton "apologized to...
View ArticleHere we go again
Don't know if you have noticed that the price of gas is slowly going up again now that OPEC has cut production down to the point where the prices are forced upwards. We were down to the forties per...
View ArticleLive Blog #8 - House Health Care Debate
Do not rec this diary, but please rec the Liveblog Mothership! The house debate can be viewed live at C-SPAN. Liveblog #1 & Mothership Liveblog #2 Liveblog #3 Liveblog #4 Liveblog #5 Liveblog #6...
View ArticleFrigging Joe Lieberman Again
Fox Opinion Made-Up News appears to be doing everything in its power to twist the Fort Hood murders into the "worst act of terrorism since 9/11" and I'm sure they will eventually morph this event into...
View ArticleStorm Crisis In Ireland
It is hard to keep up with what climate change is doing around the world. No one pays much attention to the typhoons that devastate Indonesia and India where hundreds of thousands of homes are washed...
View ArticleClerical Sexual Abuse - Murphy Report
Last July, the Ryan Report was published on the sexual abuse by priests on children living in Irish institutions. Today the Murphy Report (700 pages, 3 vols.) was published detailing 320 instances only...
View ArticleObama statue in Jakarta
This isn't going to really be a diary, but something that should not escape your attention as it represents just one of the ways the rest of the world see our President. Eight Indonesian patrons have...
View ArticleBlasphemy!
"Micheal Martin, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, opposing attempts by Islamic States to make defamation of religion a crime at UN level, 2009: "We believe that the concept of defamation of religion...
View ArticleNeed shelter ideas fast
Although tents are needed right now for the Haitian people to survive, Haiti is bound to be hit by at least one hurricane in the next few months now and the tents will be blown away in the hurricane...
View ArticleMehsud likely killed in drone strike
Aljazeera, Sky News and Reuters are reporting that Hakimullah Mehsud was likely killed in a drone strike two weeks ago. Pakistan state TV was making the same report earlier, but the Pakistan army and...
View ArticleThe Mongolian weather crisis
If you thought the US and Europe were experiencing bad winter weather, Mongolia went through a drought last summer and the southern province of Dundgobi has been experiencing unbelievable cold and...
View ArticleFor the sake of the bees
Now here is something in which we all can easily get involved. England has started a "Bee Part Of It" Campaign to encourage more beekeepers, and as part of the campaign, the National Trust is...
View ArticleBP LiveBlog - Diary 11
This is the eleventh BP top kill liveblog diary. Please don't rec this diary - rec the Mothership Please don't post images or videos, to keep bandwidth down. List of today's liveblog diaries: Top Kill...
View ArticleBack to school supplies
It isn't going to be a long diary, but I would like this to get more attention than a comment would. I was just told that school supplies are on big sales right now in the States. There are going to be...
View ArticleBeck on Beck
I had to watch Beck last night to get Beck’s own view of his rally. He spent most of the show trying desperately to "prove" that he had more than "just tens of thousands" of people show up. The much...
View ArticleWe are down to the last celery stick!
If I remember anything about 2008, the campaign headquarters people today and tonight and all day tomorrow and probably into the evening are not going to be able to stop for a meal. They are going to...
View ArticleFirst day in India
I've been watching NDTV on the President in India and just have to share a few things I found interesting. The President for First Lady visited Ghandi's home and left messages in the Visitor's book....
View ArticleI needed a legacy, so I made it all up
Just an FYI that I can't flesh out more. Sorry. Now who might be telling little fibs again? First the Germans say Liar and now the Brits chime in: British officials said today there was no evidence to...
View Article3 Wisconsin Republican senators waivering
I haven't played in the new sandbox yet, and since no one can yell t'isn't a diary anymore, here is an action only diary: This is from the Virtual Wisconsin State Employees Unions Solidarity Vigil:...
View ArticleVOTED!
I have been so completely shocked by the ever widening divide between Democrats and Neo-Republicans in the US that I haven't been able to add much to the discussion for the past couple of years. I do...
View ArticleHR'S all used up for the day
In the new DK perhaps we need to go back to one diary a day allowed until we get rid of the spammers. Also Bojo should supersede any diary in the queue cause some of these spam diaries are still...
View ArticleI Voted Today from Ireland
I voted in Washington State today from Ireland. Here are a couple of new things you need to know. Because of COVID there are fewer planes flying and it has become harder to get mail onto a plane. My...
View ArticleThe birds are gone
I hadn’t noticed until today that all the birds are now completely gone here. Googled birds and COVID and although it does not appear to be a COVID problem, it does appear to be some sort of virus...
View ArticleA simple poll for the holiday season
Do we think that Manchin is the Grinch Who Stole Christmas for Many
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