At a town hall meeting in Denver today, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona revealed what he thinks about oil and U.S. involvement in the Middle East:
My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will — [...]
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Borrowed the following from friend Lumpy because I think it deserves the attention it’s getting as a circulating email. As analogies go, this one’s a 10:
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it is, as I filled it [...]
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Is it just me, or is Tata a terribly unfortunate name for a car company? Unfortunate if they want to sell cars in the U.S., anyway. Don’t companies consider these things when branding their products? (Apologies to Mr. Tata, but marketing is marketing.) Remember the Chevy Nova (”No va” is Spanish for “it doesn’t go”)? [...]
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Two nights ago PBS ran another of its documentaries, “Frontline: Bush’s War,” Parts 1 and 2. I knew full well what I was getting into, but I decided to watch it anyway. It was history. It would be a nice summation of the Iraq war and correct any erroneous ideas I had.
Well, I stuck it out [...]
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