Someone far smarter than me wrote a wonderful commentary today on why neither Obama nor Clinton will win the Presidency. Guess what, folks? It’s not because she’s a woman or he’s black; it’s because neither is from the south. That’s right, apparently eating fried chicken, mashed ‘taters, green beans and peach cobbler with the good [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2007
Brain…not…working…
Jetlag sucks, ok?! But not to disappoint my loyal readers, read this commentary on Gonzalez’s departure from the White House.
Chicago O’Hare is great…
Well, sort of. I’ve been sitting here in the airport since 1.00pm today central standard time. I have about 45 minutes left to kill before I head through security to my gate to make my flight to London at 8.15. I can’t be bothered to go into all the gory details at the moment, but [...]
Verbal DiarLeah on hiatus
I’m in Arkansas visiting my parents for the week so I probably won’t be writing a lot. Just wanted to let my loyal readers know…all 5 of you! Anyway, feel free to check back for anything if you want but just wanted to let you know there may not be a lot at the moment.
Our boy Mike
Somehow, I have no idea how, my former Governor Mike Huckabee placed second in the Iowa Republican straw poll. It is not indicative of what the results of the Iowa caucuses will be but it does shed some light on how candidates are shaping up. Huckabee beat John McCain for goodness’ sake! Seriously, no idea [...]
Goodbye Yellow-Brick ‘Rove’
Well, Karl Rove is officially gone from the White House. Good riddance I say. On the other hand it feels incredibly bittersweet and anticlimactic. While I am, of course, glad to see the evil mastermind behind Bush’s electoral successes (and, some have said, his ‘brain’) gone, it’s of his own accord. He wasn’t ousted by any [...]
Warning to journalists
I was browsing the Guardian website just now and came across an article titled American Homeland Security. Intrigued, I clicked on it. To my horror it was the story of a British journalist who was detained at Los Angeles airport as a security threat simply because she did not obtain an I-visa for journalists allowing them [...]
I like big words and I cannot lie…
Hopefully most of you will get that reference. So anyway, I like to use big words. I had to add a link to Dictionary.com to the sidebar. I did this because some people did not understand some of the big words I use. A colleague gave a short presentation yesterday on ‘How to write in [...]
Duh, where did I put that gun…
News today that the US government cannot account for 190,000 AK-47s and pistols. given to the Iraqi security forces and cannot track 1/3 of the weapons given to the Iraqis over the past 3 years. There’s also apparently 135,000 pieces of body armour missing. That’s just brilliant. US soldiers are getting killed left, right and [...]
Chavez continuing the dictatorial legacy
Further news today on Chavez and his seemingly unending bid to become Venezuelan dictator. He has now announced that he wishes to abolish the term limits on his Presidency thereby ensuring he remains leader until he dies like Fidel Castro. Thankfully, this plan would have to be approved by Parliament and by a referendum of [...]