Bush
August 27, 2009
- The Daily Event is proud to have Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor-in chief of paranoiaisfact.com, to answers readers' questions. Dear Igor, I sell souvenirs to tourists on the Staten Island Ferry and after eight years of Dubya I can't give America away. Nobody wants Statue of Liberty piggy banks, FBI caps, "Brooklyn Rules" tees...Not even Michael Jackson wind up dolls. People used to ...
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August 22, 2009
- In a soon-to-be-released book by Tom Ridge, Former Secretary of Homeland Security, "The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege . . . and How We Can Be Safe Again," (written with Larry Bloom and published by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press), Ridge reveals that on more than one occasion he was pressured to raise the terror alert level by the Bush White House, ...
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July 7, 2009
- Ms. Helen Thomas; interviewed on The Judy Joy Jones Show; @http://www.judyjoyjonesshow.com; is an American news service reporter, Hearst Newspaper columnist, member of the White House Press Corps & best-selling author! Starting with John F. Kennedy, Ms. Thomas has covered every president in the White House! She has severed fifty-seven years as a correspondent & later, White House ...
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May 22, 2009
- Melting polar ice caps, decreasing fertile land, dying species, floating islands of waste and unstoppable virus strains. What is happening? How is this happening? The Right (read Republican) says this is all "hog wash." They trot out doubting scientists who dispute the claims of natural global warming and cooling cycles every 10,000 years or so. Their stable of scientists, including the ...
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March 26, 2009
- A blog post spawned by a response to a previous posting about the comparison of deficiet spending between the two-party rule 43rd Presidency and the fledgling one-party rule 44th Presidency ...Dennis Shay says:Ed, great summary. but you're using the wrong venue. Your dire warning is mostly falling on deaf ears in RR. Wed, 03/25/2009 - ...
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March 25, 2009
- In back-to-back press conferences (held Nov. 24, 2008) by Bush (first) and Obama (second), the men either stated or implied that they were sort of working together to muscle the nation through this tough economic period. Bush said, “I talked to Obama about the decision we made. I told the American people, and I told the president-elect when I first met him, that anytime we were to make a big ...
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March 17, 2009
- To say the least, the current economic calamity mixed with widespread availability of low paid written content on the Web has led to my career having fallen off a cliff in recent weeks. It has been a long dry spell that came with Christmas and doesn't really seem to be abating.Perhaps I am being too honest (who wants to hire a freelance writer with little business), but my recent experiences have ...
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February 28, 2009
- Krista, me and the kids went to the park today because the rains are due to return tomorrow and stay for eight days! That is a very good thing, but the kids are stir crazy so we gotta get them out and about now and then, you know?We went at a new little park on the fringes of Evergreen (San Jose). A few minutes after we arrived a guy named George shows up with his twin daughters. My daughter, ...
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January 29, 2009
- I was asked to contribute my thoughts on the upcoming inauguation of Pres. Obama. My piece was chosen to be published in a WeBook anthology. The contribution is below. My thoughts on the coming presidential inauguration take me back to the moment that I began to fear living in the United States.In Philip Roth's novel, The Plot Against America, Charles Lindbergh beats out Franklin ...
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January 26, 2009
- You got to admire newly ousted Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich's chutzpah, or cajones, for showing up on the set of "The View" today instead of at his impeachment proceedings though Governor Blah Blah isn't setting any precedents in not showing up. Karl Rove, who's been subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee, was a no show when he was subpoenaed, on GWB's watch, to testify ...
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