The Next Big Thing Is Here, History Repeating....
January 6th 2007 22:05
Around The World, The Next Big Thing Is Here, Just A Little Bit Of History Repeating....
NEWS:
For the first time in 12 years (the Clinton days), the Democrats control both houses of Congress. President Bush suddenly believes he needs a line-item veto. This would allow him to veto certain things in a bill while allowing only those portions that he wishes.
Bush made this request as well as a request to have Congress extend tax benefits, in an opinion column in Wednesday’’s Wall Street Journal. He further stated that Congress risks a stalemate should it resort to “politics as usual.”
This writer has always favored the line-item veto; but isn’t it interesting that Bush, now that his party doesn’t have control of the Congress, all of a sudden thinks it is a good thing.
While the Republicans were in power in the legislature, Bush pretty much had his way and, to this writer’s mind, he, himself, conducted business in the “politics as usual” manner himself. But now that the Demos have the power, “politics as usual” don’’t fit for him. Also, he is all of a sudden resorting to writing a column to express his desires rather than the usual press conference or whatever. Hmm, is “W” looking for a job after his term is up? NEWS:
President Bush has had his first taste of the new Democrat Congress attitude towards the nearly 4 year old war in Iraq with statements such as:
New House Speaker, first female ever, Nancy Peolsi, Demo-California (San Francisco) said Thursday: “The American people rejected an open-ended
obligation to a war without end. (Re the November elections
“Nowhere were the American people more clear about the need for a new direction than in the war in Iraq.”strategy “must ensure the Iraqis take responsibility for their own future, and it must remove our troops from a dangerous civil war. No issue in our country is more important than finding an end to the intractable war”
Meanwhile, Bush met with Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki about the future of the war reportedly not revealing any strategy changes. Bush is weighing his options with the possibility of increasing the troop count in the war which has already claimed around 3,000 American lives. Thursday evening he said he will announce new plans “sometime next week.”
There are around 140,000 American troops presently in Iraq.
VIEWS:
Hmm, Bush not having free rein anymore because of the change in Congress may be playing his cards a lot closer to his vest, doncha know. I don’t like the Iraqi situation any more than most Americans but really don’t have any clear solutions in mind. It’s a real problem caused by our going in there in the first place.
NEWS:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniya met early Friday in an appeal for calm agreed to withdraw armed militants from the streets: Haniya stated "We hope that everyone will listen to this call," Haniya said. “ We hope that people will listen to this call. Our people are bigger than these incidents, these events. The blood is our blood at the end; the youth is our youth.”
VIEWS:
Could this possibly be the beginning of the end to the thousand’s of years of hostilities between the Palestinians and the Israelites. It certainly is a move in the right direction. Keep your eyes on this.
NEWS;
“Global warming?”: you be the judge. On the east coast of the North American Continent New York had no snow in November and December; a non-happening since 1877. New Jersey experienced its warmest temperatures since records started for such 1896.
Temperatures are 10 to 20 degrees higher than average in much of the continent’s Midwest and East Coast.
Scientists attribute these conditions to a number of factors:
1. “El Nino (with a ‘tiltie’ over the n - none on my machine) which is a cyclical warming trend off the Pacific Coast in under way - this can lead to warmer weather especially in the Northeast; and
2. The high altitude air current known as the “Jet Stream” has located itself much farther north than normal over the East Coast;
They say that the weather is prone to short-term fluctuations and the above conditions do not necessarily mean “Global Warming;” look at the back to back blizzards in Colorado and the plains in the last two weeks.
VIEWS:
Maybe, maybe not, but it seems to me that I have read during the last couple of years of average global temperatures rising being a result of man’s spewing his chemicals into the atmosphere. Methinks GB is a real worry, and while I won’t be around to feel its real effects, my grandchildren and their progeny will. Golfing and swimming in the mid of winter and such (good things); Arctic and Antarctic Ice Caps melting. Buy your ocean front property in Nevada now. It’s raining cats and dogs in the Midwest, and a man stepped in a poodle.
NEWS:
“Operation Tijuana” is underway in the notorious border town of Mexico. Federal soldiers and troops (“Federales”) have poured into the city setting up checkpoints and inspecting local police stations as part of new President Felipe Calderon’s “war on drugs” and the latest offensive against powerful drug gangs. Tijuana is a known major export point for cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana entering the U.S.
Eventually the force will consist of some 3,300 Federal soldiers and police. Under suspicion are city police whose papers and weapons were checked by the Federales. No immediate reports of any arrests.
Federal investigators allege there is a corrupt network of police in the city supporting traffickers who smuggle tons over the busy border crossing into the United States.
Tijuana’s mayor Hank Rohn has welcomed the troops, but some residents complained about the military checkpoints in the city saying they are a great inconvience.
VIEWS:
Whatever it takes, in this writer’s opinion. I have seen many a good person’s (and their family’s) lives ruined and run amok as a result of the use of those very drugs - Marijuana aside. They are addictive, especially in their smoked form, and you can just plain lose control and not for just a day or two, but for a life-time.
NEWS:
A man returning home from work around 9:00 p.m. to his Freehold Township of New Jersey discovered a roundish metallic object after being told by his mother that something had crashed through the roof a few hours earlier. The object reported to be about the size of a golf ball broke a hole in the roof of the single-family dwelling, damaged some tiles on the bathroom floor then lodged into a wall.
The object has no reported radioactivity. Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Arlene Murray said it was unknown where the object came from and that “It's definitely not an aircraft part,” but could not speak beyond that as to what it was. According to a professor of astronomy at Rutgers University approximately 20 to 50 such objects fall every day over the entire planet.
VIEWS:
Golly, Superman: could it be Kryptonite. Our guess is that it was a meteor
Picture available on AOL News, from which this item was gleaned.
JUSTICE IN ACTION:
In Baroda, India Nazir Mohammad facing charges of theft and housebreaking jumped out of the witness box and rushed the Judge, Chief judicial magistrate C D Vaghela; Mohammad then hurled his slipper at the Judge who promptly retaliated by promptly picked up a paperweight and threw it at Mr. Mohammad. Reportedly, Mohommed attacked two other judges in a similar fashion.
The Baroda Bar Association has gone on strike protesting the lack of security for judges, lawyers and witnesses.
CLICHE OF THE DAY (New item);
“Sleep tight” - Meaning: Sleep well - Origin: Before box springs, mattresses were supported in the old bed frame by ropes stretched tightly between the frame rails; if the rope became loose, the mattress would sag and it would be time to tighten up the ropes - hence: “Sleep tight”
JOKE OF THE DAY (New item):
A cop staked out a bar looking for Drunk Drivers. A guy exited the bar, stumbled almost falling, and tried his keys in 5 different cars before finding his own (all this observed by the police officer). He sat in his car until all the other patrons left the bar and drove away. He then started his car and drove away from the bar. The cop, of course, followed and stopped him. The fellow was asked if he had been drinking to which he replied “No, sir” The officer asked if the man would take a Breathalyzer test, which the man did registering 0.0 on the alcohol scale. The officer asked how could that be, to which the driver replied “I'm the Designated Decoy tonight. ”
REMEMBER FOLKS; DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE; ASIDE FROM INVITING A LOT OF TROUBLE (WELL DESERVED) FROM THE AUTHORITIES, EXPOSING OTHERS AND YOURSELF TO GRAVE INJURY AND LOSS, YOU MAY HIT A BUMP AND SPILL SOME.
THANKS FOR READING AND WE’LL SEE YOU SOON!
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