News and Current Events - 2012

[doodler]

the bottle of wine can't pump you for classified information about the security of the President, nor can it blackmail you....but if she (or he) has so little interest in the protection of the POTUS and national security, then I suppose it's not all that big a deal.

More "the sky is falling" and "the whole world is a conspiracy." Perhaps in this case, a prostitute is just a woman getting paid for sex.

[Tony_]

  I had thought I'd heard that the scandal unravelled when a hooker wasn't paid.  Something, perhaps, about union rules and regs?  I think the secret agent should have paid for the activities, as agreed.  I don't get the newpaper here. I wonder if Doonesbury has gone anywhere with this.

[doodler]

I heard that too.

[fofol]

Bush and Cheney are no longer current events.

The damage done by Bush's essentially uncalled for Iraqi War is no longer current???  Do you really think that sky-high gas prices today don't have anything to do with a President and his son President who happened to own oil companies?  Anybody ever find out what happened to the $9,000,000,000 that Cheney's company 'lost' in Iraq?  That sure would come in handy to feed the poor, and restructure the mortgage industry.  Not current?  The crimes that regime caused are things WE will be paying for for years, and not just in money.

[fofol]

Here is a better explanation of Obama's jet-setting vacations!

Where was your voice being raised when Bush was the most vacation-taking president in history??

[brokebacktom]

Where was your voice being raised when Bush was the most vacation-taking president in history??

Thank you.

[Sandy]

Here is a better explanation of Obama's jet-setting vacations!

It's a Canadoian pipeline through the U.S. to ship their oil to China. Oh yes, the Canadians want to invoke the U.S. right of eminent domain to take land from Americans for their pipeline. It's okay to pollute American land, because, well, it's not Canadian land.

So it's okay for private sources to stimulate the economy by creating (temporary) jobs, but it's not okay for the U.S. government to do the same?

[brokebacktom]

It's a Canadoian pipeline through the U.S. to ship their oil to China. Oh yes, the Canadians want to invoke the U.S. right of eminent domain to take land from Americans for their pipeline. It's okay to pollute American land, because, well, it's not Canadian land.

So it's okay for private sources to stimulate the economy by creating (temporary) jobs, but it's not okay for the U.S. government to do the same?

Another thing I read was that the US can refine oil and faster and cheaper than any country right now. So, of course Canadians want us to refine their oil, because it would be cheaper to ship the oil and have us do it than having to do it themselves.

[janjo]

I see while i have been away in Cumbria that there has been a real old 'ding dong' going on here about the merits or demerits of Ronald (the president's brain is missing) Reagan's term in office.
Whatever conclusion you all came to, can I say how lovely it was to see Michael Flanagan back here again with us with his usual thoroughly researched and referenced reply.
All the best to you Michael.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

I certainly DID read the article, and there was NOTHING of substance there, so I didn't comment about it.

It's my opinion you said that because it refutes/dilutes the article you linked,
and your reason for posting it.

...and also, what does 2007/08 have to do with current events?
I get slapped here everytime I try to bring up something from the past!

I don't recall what you brought up from the past that you were victimized about,
but some non-current events have relevance to understand what's happening currently.
Some don't. Past is prologue.  What is the saying--If we don't learn from the mistakes of
the past we are condemned to repeat them. Titanic is relevant today even though it happened
a century ago.

[doodler]

Ditto for the Ice Age which followed the last bout of global warming.

[doodler]

Dick Clark has died of a heart attack at 82.
Seemed like he was going to live forever and always look like he did in the 60s!

[huntinbuddy]

Dick Clark has died of a heart attack at 82.
Seemed like he was going to live forever and always look like he did in the 60s!

It's sad really, but I'm glad he went the way he did with a massive heart attack rather than suffer for months where all we would hear in the news is Dick Clark this or Dick Clark that  ( think Zsa Zsa Gobor).   I just watched Anderson Cooper earlier this evening on CNN where he devoted the entire hour to Clark, and his career.   Much like Oprah, where she plugs a book and it becomes an instant best seller, Clark on his early show with American Bandstand could make or break an up and coming group.   While he had a great deal of influence on many of the groups who became big names in the 60's and early 70's, I believe Ed Sullivan probably had a greater influence on as to who would 'make it or break it'.

Cooper did a nice job of covering Clark's career and accomplishments.   About the only thing I was disappointed with was the coverage of his family life. He simply showed some photos of Clark with his children, but never said anything about them.    Clark was married three times and had three children;  a son with the first wife.   The second marriage produced two children, a son and daughter.  His third marriage was to Kari Wigton in 1977 and she is now his widow.

[Marge_Innavera]

  I had thought I'd heard that the scandal unravelled when a hooker wasn't paid. 

He must have hired a newbie; "get the money up front" is one of the rules of the trade.

[Sandy]

Perhaps it was a she.