Posts about election as of May 12, 2009
05/12/2009
May.12, 2009 in UncategorizedADVERTISEMENTSMy suggestions is to keep the current system with one tweak … election year, at least one year after nomination. The question could be phrased as follows, “Shall … , fairness, lifetime, next presidential election, next presidential election year, nomination, registered
05/12/2009
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) has introduced legislation that designates 2010 as the Year of the Bible . So many thoughts about this… The Year of the Bible already took place in 1983 . So we should be done with it now. Isn’t 2010 a midterm election year? Don’t the Republicans
05/12/2009
Tennessee-born beauty Cybill Shepherd definitely isn’t one to waste words — and had she no qualms in speaking out about who she thought was to blame for the passing of Proposition 8 in California’s last election, which led to gay and lesbian marriage rights being overturned. “The Mormons and Catholics,” she told Tarts at the recent L.A Gay
05/12/2009
The Washington Post may be ignoring our exposing its use of out-of-state intern Steve Stein to write its Maryland editorials, but Stein is not. The Boy King launched an undercover operation against Maryland Politics Watch that we are now exposing, starting today
05/12/2009
Deja vu? 1994? Or divide and rule? Pieter Mulder’s six conditions for joining cabinet See also; … were rightfully viewed by Afrikaners with cynicism as political manoeuvres before the election. President Zuma has now followed it up after the election by offering a deputy minister’s position to the FF
05/12/2009
CANBERRA, May 12 (Reuters) – Australia’s government unveiled its largest deficit on record on Tuesday and forecast a decade of debt in a budget designed to nurse the economy through recession and keep open the option of an early election. Treasurer …
05/12/2009
MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009 22:18 S.H.A.N. As well nigh all ceasefire groups anxiously waited to hear what the United Wa State Army (UWSA) has to say to the latest proposal made by Burma’s ruling generals before giving their own, the group in focus itself has been busy composing a suitable response,
05/12/2009
Berlusconi’s wife to divorce him 11th May 2009 The wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has confirmed that she will file for divorce … over his party’s plan to choose certain female election candidates. » noticia original
05/12/2009
From The Springbok Club UK – May 2009 edition See also; Endgame: Channel 4’s take on the end of apartheid – Paul Trewhela (and others) … -election paving the way for Jacob “Bring me my Machine Gun” Zuma to become president of the “new … at Zuma’s final election rally in Johannesburg. Channel 4’s recent docu-drama ” Endgame ” visible
05/12/2009
From The Financial Times By John Burton Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister, … Jamaluddin, who became chief minister of Perak, won a state by-election last month in what was seen
05/12/2009
Courtesy of Dachshund (ze Cherman verjin ya?). There’s been some discussion lately about the feasibility of the Cape seceding from the Republic after the political party advocating it, the Cape Party managed to garner 2552 votes in the recent elections which is not too shabby a total considering that most people never even knew it existed or that
05/12/2009
TOKYO, May 11 — In this election year in , history-making political change had seemed a sure thing.The economy was in a deep sinkhole and the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party was in disarray
05/12/2009
It is important for every American to understand demographics on the eve of our next constitutionally-mandated decennial census … . Comparing the top 50 metro areas with the 2008 Presidential election, only 10 of them were reliably
05/12/2009
US freelance journalist Roxana Saberi, sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran for spying and working without press credentials, … Ahmadinejad facing an election in a month, but Saberi’s lawyer tells NPR that the sentence was reduced
05/12/2009
A police officer shows some of the tools that were seized from suspected Israeli agents spying on Lebanon and Hezbollah militants which include a … election. The net impact from this event will be the realization (in the U.S. Government
05/12/2009
Jane Hamsher: In his weekly radio address, President Obama called on the Senate to pass the Credit Card Holders Bill of Rights … the November election. Draw your own conclusions. Glover Park Group : Lobbying against credit card
05/12/2009
PredictionsAreForSuckers PassTheLollipopsVille So…. … . There are five ridings which are, according to the well-respected Election Prediction Project
05/12/2009
The absence of competition in the election for the United Nations Human Rights Council suggests that states that care about human rights simply don’t care enough. read more | digg story
05/12/2009
Bob Conrad over at The Good, The Bad and The Spin just ran a series of posts on The Bystander Effect with the provocative subtitle “Why Reno’s Free Speech Champions Don’t Have Your Back.” And, like a good storyteller, he spread the article out over four days
04/05/2009
Whilst the news has been focused on the financial aspects of the G20 summit of late, there’s also been a good scattering of news on international environmental issues. There seems now to be a general acceptance that we’re rapidly approaching, if not sailing past a ‘tipping point’ that sends us towards catastrophic climate change
04/05/2009
If you’ve been enjoying the progressively heated showdowns between Mel Kiper and Todd McShay, … be equipped with the same type of video screen CNN used on its election coverage, largely to zoom
04/05/2009
“I have seen all the proposals made so generously by Ehud Olmert, but I have not seen any result”; so spoke Israel’s new Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, during his first address to the media after assuming his post. He went on to say that the way the free world has tried to deal with issues like Islamic sponsored terrorism and Iran’s nuclear
04/05/2009
States are reconsidering their harsh drug laws amidst budget shortfalls … in Wasilla. Just think, if the election had gone differently, this could be all about the Vice
04/05/2009
GM Chief to Resign at White House’s Behest The Obama administration has forced the longtime head of General Motors to resign and said yesterday … that the nation is headed in the right direction has roughly tripled since Barack Obama’s election … to U.N. diplomats and rights activists. Minnesota Senate Election Ruling Issued Three-judge
04/05/2009
Shortly before Markos Moulitsas blamed Glenn Beck for instigating the senseless shooting of three Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police officers on Saturday, the proprietor of the far-left website Daily Kos said that conservatives would rather shoot cops than organize to win the next election. He also wrote during the same
04/05/2009
A TOI article discusses about issues and candidates of various constituencies of big Bangalore. Some interesting excerpts : Bangalore has grown really big. From just two Lok Sabha constituencies in the last election to four now – North, South, Central and Rural. In fact, it’s five
04/05/2009
Immigration from Sri Lanka to the United States did not happen (as far as I know at the moment, will research this item further in the coming months) … history, & Barack Obama’s election as President. At some point soon I may post some of the video
04/05/2009
SHERMAN FREDERICK: Harry Reid: Too big to fail Just like Tom Daschle … Daschle made the same re-election pitches as Reid’s crew does today. Daschle, you will remember
04/05/2009
By A. A. Gill , a contributing writer for Vanity Fair and The Sunday Times of London (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 05/04/09): It’s invariably the little things, the unconsidered, off the cuff, in passing, unrehearsed things that snag our attention, and seem to be telling of the bigger things
04/05/2009
The Master of Misdirection How Obama maintains his popularity. by Fred Barnes In football, it’s called misdirection. When the ball is snapped, offensive linemen pull from the line of scrimmage and head to the right or left. A running back takes off in the same direction. But it’s a deception
04/05/2009
Chandigarh : Thousands of footpath workers on Sunday joined Bharatiya Janata Party in a function held in party office Sector 33-A in the presence of … that they with their friends and family vote for the BJP in the coming election and make sure that Congress party which … in HimachalJain should take care of himself says Narender ThakurCongress and
04/05/2009
More from Searchlight and the up and coming European elections: “Dear reader, I am writing this open letter to you because I need your help. With the European election only a few weeks away it is absolutely vital … and in our communities. But they need not win. This election is being contested under proportional
04/05/2009
A Kuala Lumpur High Court decision on Friday (April 3, 2009) clearly proves that Perak Mentri Besar Nizar Jamaluddin did commit treason, says the Perak PAS Liason Committee. Judge Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahim rejected the the Attorney-General’s argument that Nizar challenged the Sultan’s decision because the suit filed by Nizar clearly shows that Nizar
04/05/2009
Barack Obama Maintains Control Over Banks By Refusing to Accept Repayment of TARP Money – WSJ.com … prior to the election, we getting change but is it the change you wanted. One of the most noticeable
04/05/2009
So who won? In the run-up to the G20 everyone and anyone (including Last Hours ) was making predictions about what would happen on Wednesday 1st April, and the days afterwards. Here, one of the writers for Last Hours gives their opinion on how all the figures add up?
04/05/2009
This is more like it. Let’s start fostering the culture of peaceful street protests that will attract foreign media attention and demonstrate to the … to provide safety and security to people living in South Africa,” said Silber. “With the election
04/05/2009
E vidently, the high road is not road best traveled when it comes to Jonathan Thomas’ political aspirations. In 2008, Mr. Thomas lost his election bid by a small number of votes — in-spite of the last minute cash infusion into his campaign by developer ’special interest’ players (Remember this is the same group plied
04/05/2009
PRAGUE (Reuters) –President Barack Obama set out his vision for ridding the world of nuclear arms on Sunday, declaring the United States ready to lead steps by all states with atomic weapons to reduce their arsenals. Delivering a speech given new urgency by North Korea’s rocket launch hours earlier,
04/05/2009
Fixers’RHim BackroomVille This morning on Public Eye Radio, during a discussion of whether or not the BC Conservative Party will hive votes from the hide of Gordon Campbell’s LINO* party in the upcoming election, Hell Raising panel member Eleanor Gregory
04/05/2009
4/5/2009 Bump: Want to discuss your candidate? Or talk about why you will or won’t vote for a particular candidate or campaign slate? Each candidate and/or slate has it’s own section It’s been broken down as follows: Major Mayoral Candidate and their slates (3), independent Mayoral Candidates (3) and independent Council candidates (5)
04/05/2009
‘Man’ cold survived with tea and TLC. Rather than bore on the details of the G20, let’s look at the government spin and its rebuttal, … , obviously, but after he loses the general election.
04/05/2009
silly girl, i heard you saying, of course it is good. well of course if you just look on the surface of it, it is good, but let’s look beyond that … , he announced the release . but why did he release them? a populist move? a by-election ploy … you think, depend on how you think of najib i guess. as for me, well i wouldn’t say it is a by-election
04/05/2009
In a special election yesterday, a Southern Louisiana city of 22,000 overwhelmingly rejected photo enforcement. Asked, “Shall Ordinance No. 873, M-C Series adopting automated speed enforcement
04/05/2009
To the wealth-envy crowd: The rabbit wouldn’t appear to be fast if it wasn’t for the turtle dragging ass … # NYT killed a “game-changer” story during the election. Color me shocked and appalled. http
04/05/2009
With the general election 2009 around the corner, poll predictions are streaming in. Promise of Reason takes a stab at predicting outcomes albeit unscientifically on a state-by-state basis
04/05/2009
Talking about YouTube – G20 Summit Protesters Break Windows at Royal Bank of Scotland http://kennedy121.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/breaking-the-bank-g20-protest-in-the-city-pictures/ Out with the old rozza and respected institutions and in with
04/05/2009
Robert Kuttner: Obama’s Banking Rescue: O for Opaque Obama Officials Think Krugman Is Naive: Newsweek’s Evan Thomas Frank Schaeffer: … that upsets Harry Reid’s re-election plans is terrorism, indeed. Salute Your Shorts: Godard
04/05/2009
A new Des Moines Register poll “revealed some reservations” by Iowans about Gov. Chet Culver (D) as he looks toward mounting a 2010 campaign for a second term. Just 35% said they would definitely vote to re-elect Culver, while 28% said they would consider an alternative and 18% said they would definitely vote for someone else
04/05/2009
The Malaysian Insider reported that Hindraf legal adviser V … performance in election last year. He and 12 other detainees were freed by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak
04/05/2009
Joe Biden during the election campaign went off script a few times. The incoherent ramblings were a source of amusement for those of us on the right … testing his resolve. Then there was the talking with Iran, there’s Chavez stealing an election ( oh
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