No plastic bag that has every been created has biodegraded back into the soil. More and more these bags are recycled to be reused for different uses - such as a bench out of grocery bags.
The Seattle City Council wants to impose a 20-cent tax on bags - paper AND plastic - used in grocery […]
April 25, 2008
March 14, 2008
Anonymous sources throughout the campaigns and Democratic have filtered through, and indicate a deal is close for a new primary in Michigan on June 3.
The proposal by the Michigan primary would be held in the same way as the last primary on Jan. 15. it’s results, following a period of non-campaigning by all candidates were […]
March 7, 2008
John McCain has an interesting choice to make as to who should be his vice presidential running mate. In the most basic of terms the considerations are wide. It’s not even clear the so-called “Maverick” would pick a Republican, though it would be a pretty craven Democrat who would accept his request. What’s that, Joe Lieberman?
A woman? Someone in a wheelchair? A general?
How about Colin Powell? Woah, that one is worth a long, considering pause isn’t it?
Regionally does it matter? Likely not another southwest presence but what about Arnold Schwarzenegger to help drag California to his side? I think it is technically constitutionally legal for a naturalized American to be vice president. National media would shine the biggest spotlight on this campaign.
Laura Ingraham? McCain likes the blondes.
Would he want to strengthen his hawkish (to put it mildly) positions or push someone who would balance where he is perceived as weak.
Does he accept that he is not conservative enough and that being more conservative would actually help with the general electorate?
Would he bring Jonah Goldberg aboard so the right-leaning blogosphere would finally come aboard?
Michael Bloomberg is a serious consideration. What say you?
March 5, 2008
With his own confetti strewn picture atop his Web site, Independent candidate Ralph Nader wants people to not only listen to his views but to vote for him and send him money to become the 44th President of America.
Currently there sure do seem to be a lot of potential defectors from the Democratic Party if their preferred candidate doesn’t get the nomination. From the right, it’s hard to think Nader’s anti-corporate stance - not a bad thing - will draw many Republican defectors unhappy with John McCain. After all, they don’t like him because of McCain-Feingold’s attempted stripping of money power from corporations. McCain isn’t right enough.
Nader lays down 12 major issues he says are “off the table” of the other candidates. They are:
• Adopt single payer national health insurance
• Cut the huge, bloated, wasteful military budget
• No to nuclear power, solar energy first
• Aggressive crackdown on corporate crime and corporate welfare
• Open up the Presidential debates
• Adopt a carbon pollution tax
• Reverse U.S. policy in the Middle East
• Impeach Bush/Cheney
• Repeal the Taft-Hartley anti-union law
• Adopt a Wall Street securities speculation tax
• Put an end to ballot access obstructionism
• Work to end corporate personhood
Here Nader makes the pitch why he’s a better choice than McCain or Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton:
March 4, 2008
After a sweep of the states tonight, In what was a fairly substantial - and conservative speech - John McCain accepts the Republican nomination for the 2008 presidential race. This is a big deal for McCain who has been trying for so long.
Because he wrapped up the campaign, in all but math weeks ago, this speech has been prepared for a while.
In Austin, Texas, speech below:
January 16, 2008
Like Hillary Clinton’s win in New Hampshire last week, Mitt Romney avoided his Waterloo and won over surging competition.
By a near double-digit margin, Romney has won the Michigan primary election over John McCain, who until New Hampshire had a campaign that was widely viewed as DOA. One win there put McCain back in the running for many - except voters in Michigan, who gave their Mormon homeboy a victory to carry on to South Carolina, Saturday.
Mike Huckabee explains well the situation so far: “So it looks like I won Iowa, John McCain won New Hampshire, Mitt Romney won Michigan, but ladies and gentleman, we’re going to win South Carolina.”
Don’t forget Wyoming, which Romney also won. In fact, he has the distinction of winning two states with half their usual delegation to the convention. Both were penalized by the national Republican Party for holding their elections so early.
Huckabee placed third and McCain placed second in a state that has for the last 15 years, until this year, held open primaries where any registered voter can vote for any candidate.
While stressing to report that Hillary Clinton lost both the black and the young vote, she nevertheless did win in a hamstring election where her two main rivals, John Edwards and Barack Obama pulled out for party solidarity.
She did, however, best the “uncommitted” option on the ballot by about 55% to 40%, which state party leaders and the candidates suggested to their supporters, in case the state somehow gets back its convention delegates. Uncommitted means they can then vote for any candidate of their choosing. These were removed as the state was penalized for holding it’s primary before a Feb. 5 deadline that both parties imposed.
Mike Gravel, Chris Dodd and Dennis Kucinich together earned 5 percent, with Dodd who has pulled out of the race earning 1,500 more votes than Gravel.
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