During an interview with Larry King, Bill Maher went on a diatribe about the stupidity of the American people, because he is dumbfounded by the 2/3 of Americans who believe that offshore drilling will bring gas prices down. King, not realizing he was about to insult the average caller who phones into his show each evening along with the millions who watch him in his own audience, simply asked Maher if he agreed with essayist H.L. Menken who said, “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”
Fourteen-time Olympic gold medalist and SeaWorld main attraction Michael Phelps returned to his seven-million-gallon water tank Wednesday to resume his normal schedule of performing in six shows a day for marine park crowds every day of the week.
Phelps, the 6'4", 200-pound aquatic mammal, and the first ever SeaWorld swimmer to be raised in captivity by foster swimmers (Mark Spitz and Dara Torres), was recaptured by trainer Bob Bowman in a hoop net baited with an entire Dutch apple pie following Phelps' final Olympic event last Sunday.
Le Van Lua, the first North Vietnamese that Lieutenant Commander John McCain encountered in 1967, says he greeted the American aviator with the biggest kitchen knife he could find. He'd like to welcome McCain back as president of the United States. He isn't alone. Former prisoner of war McCain has some unlikely supporters in Vietnam, a country he bombed 23 times. Like Le, many Vietnamese are cheering for the self-confessed "air pirate"'...
Uh huh...the beatings and the tortures he endured at the hands of those animals over his five years of captivity had nothing to do with obtaining that "confession", right, Bloomie? It's all the same, right? -Roland
Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93.
When he offered to leave his land and home to her if she would marry him and care for him in his later years, she said yes. She was 19; he was 86.
In another bow to the world organization, the platform indirectly endorses Senator Barack Obama’s controversial pro-U.N. Global Poverty Act. “It is time to make the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, which aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015, America’s goals as well,” the document says. It leaves out the estimated cost―$845 billion over 13 years.
...While it may seem strange that the platform would not endorse the legislation by name, this reflects awareness of how controversial the Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) and its federal commitment to the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals have become. Increased foreign aid spending is not popular with the hard-pressed American taxpayer. So the one piece of legislation actually introduced by Senator Barack Obama (which passed the House and Senator Joseph Biden’s Foreign Relations committee by voice vote without hearings) is mentioned only indirectly.
The United States on Wednesday suspended a program aimed at reuniting refugees from mainly East Africa with relatives in the United States after DNA testing revealed rampant fraud.
Only about one of five tested "could show that family relationship," State Department spokesman Robert Wood said when announcing the indefinite suspension of the refugee family reunification program also known as "Priority Three" or "P3."
The mother of a missing Orlando girl said, "I'm innocent" before walking out of jail and encountering a frenzied mob of reporters and photographers in a case that continues to grab national attention. Casey Anthony, 22, left the Orange County Jail Thursday after celebrity bounty hunter Leonard Padilla helped post her $500,000 bail...(Anthony's attorney, Jose) Baez, then threatened to possibly cut off some media channels.
Obama's campaign has quickly turned McCain's uncertainty about how many homes he owns into their toughest attack against the Republican yet. For the first time, Obama goes after his rival with a character-based assault akin to what McCain's campaign has been doing with their Celebrity line of attack.
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The McCain campaign is happily returning fire. “Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses?”
A lot of college students feel pressured to binge drink, says University of California, Berkeley, student Joseph Bui. The 20-year-old says he is bombarded by images of college students partying with kegs and cases of beer...The debate over the legal drinking age usually comes down to this: If you're old enough to serve on a jury, die for your country and decide who should be president, are you old enough to drink?
As a single mom, I need to set a pretty sizable chunk of my budget aside to keep my hair, nails, and clothes nice. I also need a good amount of cash for the clubs, and for cigarettes (men love a woman who smokes!). With three kids to dress and feed, this is no easy feat! So you know I got to pinch pennies whenever I can. I'm sure that I'm not alone in this, so I'm sharing my money saving secrets with you!
Free Speech: Terrorism and oil aren't the only stand-out issues this year. A President Obama and Democratic Congress could empower a multimedia thought police whose long arms extend even to the Internet.
1911: Jack Daniel, founder of the Tennessee whiskey distillery, died of blood poisoning six years after receiving a toe injury when he kicked his safe in anger at being unable to remember its combination.
Floridians were warned to beware of alligators in their flooded streets as Tropical Storm Fay poured more rain on the Sunshine State's central Atlantic coast, pushing creatures of all kinds from their homes.
Hundreds of houses have been inundated in the torrential rains, trapping residents and leaving much of Florida a soggy mess. Fay stayed offshore Thursday.
Most states don't recognize gay marriage -- but now Hallmark does. The nation's largest greeting card company is rolling out same-sex wedding cards -- featuring two tuxedos, overlapping hearts or intertwined flowers, with best wishes inside. "Two hearts. One promise," one says.
Traditional boxing from northern Nigeria is fast, brutal, and has few rules.
The men who dedicate their lives to it are wanderers, itinerant labourers in search of fame, or the sons of boxers - born into the ring.
A determined U.S. computer expert has delved into cached pages on the Internet to unearth Chinese official documents showing a gymnast who took gold in the uneven bars competition, edging the U.S.'s Nastia Liukin, may indeed be underage.
Now comes Brad O'Leary's "The Audacity of Deceit," which focuses on what can be surmised from his record about Obama's domestic policy prescriptions as president. Among the conclusions drawn by O'Leary, the author of 11 books and a successful media and marketing entrepreneur:
Obama will be a radical on the abortion issue as signaled by his blocking of emergency medical aid for babies who survive abortion
Obama will attempt to ban the use of firearms for defense by law-abiding citizens
Obama will raise tax rates up to 60 percent
Obama will "transform the U.S. Treasury into the United Nations' ATM"
Obama will encourage high fuel prices and will remove more farmland from production;
Obama will raise the percentage of Americans who pay no taxes at all, from 30 percent to 40 percent – at the expense of those who do.
Obama will transfer child-rearing responsibility and authority from parents to the federal government with his "0 to 5" program.
An Amish farmer takes of advantage pleasant weather to plow a field near Lancaster, Pa., April 12, 2000. States such as Missouri, Kentucky and Minnesota have seen increases in their Amish populations of more than 130 percent since 1992.
Escamoles have a surprisingly pleasant taste: buttery and slightly nutty. This hugely increases the chances that, while in Mexico, you could eat them without realizing you are eating a taco full of ant eggs.
Barack Obama, in a discussion with evangelist Rick Warren about his Christian faith, said he had been guilty of a ''fundamental selfishness'' that had contributed to regrettable youthful behavior. Then he confessed for the rest of us. ''Americans’ greatest moral failure in my lifetime,'' he said, ''has been that we still don’t abide by that basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.''
High sounding words from a guy who opposed a law that would save the lives of babies born of botched abortions -Roland
The only landmark for about 40 miles on a barren stretch of highway is a mailbox battered by time and desert gusts. It's known as the Black Mailbox, though it's actually a faded white. Over the years, hundreds of people have converged here in south-central Nevada to photograph the box -- the size of a small television, held up by a chipped metal pole...made of quarter-inch-thick bulletproof metal
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