All the news unfit to print for Saturday, January 19, 2008
Another day in election 2008 over.. Victory in Nevada for Mitt Romney.. Victory in Nevada for Hillary Clinton .. Victory in South Carolina for John McCain..
The big stories:
The food service union didn't help Obama much in Nevada. Not nearly as much as Bill and Hillary publicly said it would. The Clintons once again doing the remarkable: Convincing everyone their overstatements of possibilities are true! They deserve credit for over blowing their protests of caucuses taking place in casinos..
Mitt Romney won Nevada, but a bigger story may be the fact that Ron Paul came in second place.. Though devastatingly behind winner Romney, Ron Paul was helped by the libertarian spirit of Nevada--enough so to propel him to a second place showing over John McCain..
The big story from South Carolina: The state that got ugly and messy in the year 2000 helped John McCain become a front runner in 2008. The results were exceptionally close.. a nail biter to the final vote .. Fred Thompson most surely took votes that Huck would have received. McCain can now roll into Florida with the fervor of a front runner..
The biggest story, though, is the continuing lack of 21st century newness.. The election of 2008 may be remembered by future generations as the election that transformed America into a 21st century nation. But the votes being cast are for 20th century figures..
Hillary Clinton and John McCain are so far set to battle for the heart and soul of America.. But isn't their story yesteryear? Aren't their battles those that should remain in the 20th century? Are they going to be able to unite a nation after eight years of some of the most divisive policy and politics in modern history?
The stakes are enormous. Politics is a game of personal ambition. No one running doesn't love themselves. But there is a war, real lives are at issue.. what will we do in Iraq to help their government form a better quality for Iraqis .. and when will we come home?
The economy is losing some steam. What will each candidate do?
Health care is a mess.. A total mess. Their plans?
Big issues. Major issues.
But as their ideas form, it will be fascinating to watch and see .. Will 21st Century America move forward with one of these old 20th Century leaders? Or will we keep voting, state by state, and end up with a new fresh person that will sweep America into a new century with ideas and debate?
This could be a transformational election .. or not.
It's playing out for all us of to see.. An amazing process.
Fred Thompson just got done making a speech . .about not much? He didn't throw the towel. He didn't say he will go on.. It was confusing.
The gap is widening between McCain and Huckabee as results come in ... at the moment five point edge for war hero McCain against Christian leader Huck .. Developing..
* * * * Duncan Hunter campaign: Candidate to quit. Congressman Hunter has consistently had poor showings in the states that voted so far ... Hunter had poor money donations, too.. Resigning from the campaign on the Republican side tonight. Will Fred Thompson be next? * * * *
Will McCain have another bitter election night in the same state he saw one in the year 2000? Latest results: Dead heat... Huckabee and McCain too close for any call to be made..
According to exit polls being broadcasted on NBC news.. 53% of voters in the South Carolina Republican primary today called themselves "Evangelicals"..
According to the AP, women and older voters helped Hillary Clinton in Nevada today.. Blacks overwhelmingly backed Barack Obama.. Mormons, who make up a small number of voters, voted overwhelmingly for Mitt Romney.
Is it just me or is this election dividing us up further than we already were divided?
Is this just another symptom of eight years of a divisive Bush presidency? Is this how people always vote?
Awaiting for South Carolina......
This may be the most exciting election in years -- with the least exciting candidates.
Perhaps this confusion over who should lead the free world is because in the end, America has some trepidation and nervous jitters over which one of these unlikable candidates could best lead us.. It's tough to be able to fall in love with any of them. They are people with flaws. But there's just something about them no one seems to yet like. it could change.
The spinsters on TV are spinning. .as they are paid to do. "Barack Obama had a good showing" .. "This is a huge win for Hillary Clinton" .. "Mitt Romney is on his way to the nomination" ..
Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.
Maybe not.
There are several states yet to vote. There still a primary today on the Republican side to come in with results, next week one for the Democrats.. And then we're off to Super Tuesday .. over 20 states to be decided in one day.
Voters still have the right and the chance to change the way this goes.. or to pick someone no one expects.
But so far, even with the excitement over the possibilities, it's been the usual players that have won the votes so far. Hillary vs Mitt.. is this going to be the final end all dull choice for 2008...?
PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton - Reuters, Mitt Romney - AP
SOUTH CAROLINA AND NEVADA
THE END OF THE ROAD FOR FRED THOMPSON?
RON PAUL BECOMING MEANINGLESS?
OBAMA GETTING SERVICE WORKERS IN NEVADA? HILLARY GETTING THE REST?
MIKE HUCKABEE ADS PROCLAIMING HIM A 'CHRISTIAN LEADER' IN SOUTH CAROLINA.. A Northern South Carolina snowstorm not materializing.. Weatherman wrong? Not surprising. McCain's day done? He was hoping for that snowstorm in those Christian towns..
Photos: Thompson - Reuters, Ron Paul - AP, McCain - Reuters, Huckabee - AP, Obama - AP, Clinton - Reuters
Attack of the clones. But we're allowed to be attacked. The green light to cloned meat given by the Food and Drug Administration..
Don't you feel better now?
The United States Department of Agriculture does not!
The USDA is telling farmers not to put their clones on the market!
Bruce I. Knight, the USDA's undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs, requested an ongoing "voluntary moratorium" to buy time for "an acceptance process" that Knight said consumers in the United States and abroad will need, "given the emotional nature of this issue."
Should we really have an acceptance process for our food!? Should a different brand be an "emotional" change of nature?
When dealing with clones yes. I guess there's no other way of describing it.
Gone are the days of the small town butcher slaughtering animals and grinding leftovers from one animal into hamburgers.. Here are the days of mass produced slaughterhouses in which cows, chickens, and pigs are fattened up, shackled away for their short life, and cut up in blood vats. Here are the days of one hamburger containing the meat of more than a hundred, maybe a thousand animals.. And the only way we can go from here is further down the road to hell. Cloned meats. Cloned cows. Cloned chickens. We'll never run out.
Every bite of your cloned T-Bone steak .. Mmmmmmmm..
More from the POST: Executives from the nation's major cattle cloning companies conceded yesterday that they have not been able to keep track of how many offspring of clones have entered the food supply, despite a years-old request by the FDA to keep them off the market pending completion of the agency's safety report.
Great! We're not even sure.
Fries with that?
Shouldn't food be food? Shouldn't we be able to treat our animals at least with a little respect.. I know we're carnivorous by nature. And I enjoy a good steak, grilled to perfection, or chicken Marsala, or even pork ribs.. But really..how they get to my plate isn't right. The free roaming farms of yesteryear are just thought: Gone and quickly becoming forgotten.
The interesting thing about the USDA's wording that we need to slowly put the clones into the market is that they seem to realize something important about marketing and people: Incremental steps to hell seem to be much better than the giant leap for mankind.
A few weeks ago, news broke in St. Paul that workers in a Minnesota pork plant became horribly ill. The workers affected all worked in the part of the plant where pig brains are shot from skulls with an air gun..
After the Minnesota slaughterhouse illness was reported, the CDC looked into slaughtering practices in 25 large pork processing plants in 13 states, and found only two other plants — one in Indiana, the other in Nebraska — that used compressed air to remove pigs' brains.
Minnesota health officials said the pork plants in all three states have voluntarily stopped the practice.
Ne-VA-da and South Carolina today.. Michelle Obama messed up the way she said Nevada. I never knew it would have been such an issue .. move over Yucca Mountain, there's a mis-pronunciation in the news.
The random rakings raked for your reading pleasure:
CDC investigation of disease that makes you feel like you have bugs crawling and stinging your skin and causes legions that never heal.. Researchers plan to follow up with 500 people who claim to have the condition
Romney looses his cool..
What is it about Mitt Romney that no one likes? He has a happy family.. nice wife. Nice and lots of kids. But his fellow candidates seem to disdain him, and now reporters seem to abhor him.
The AP reporter, however, made a great point.. .Doesn't a lobbyist as a senior advisor (though unpaid, according to Mitt) constitute as a lobbyist 'running' his campaign..?
Perhaps this small snippet from the campaign is a hint of what could happen if President Romney would somehow occur.
(p.s. keep watching the video after Romney's official statement)
The country club style Republicanism that Romney brings somehow seems to get under everyone's skin. The only thing missing in this clip is a varsity jacket and scarf loosely wrapped around Mr. Romney's waste..
Michigan results coming in.
Just saw a video of Mitt Romney meeting with a single woman--turned out to be a mom of a campaign staffer? Nice..
Just saw another video of Mr. Huckabee saying our Constitution should be modeled after God's word? I don't even think God would want that..
But as the Michigan results come in, and Hillary being the only Democrat on the ballot, word spreading that exit polls are showing African Americans are voting in high numbers for ... drum roll: Uncommitted!
The race wars.. The gender wars.. The God war. The election of 2008 .. We need to move on so much in this country. But so much it seems like we won't..
The big vote for 'uncommitted'.. perhaps the recent week of Hillary/Martin Luther King damage control finally hitting..
All the news unfit to print for Monday, January 14, 2008
Michigan primary predictions...
NONE! I am not making them. The media is wrong. I've been reading polls.. there's a huge fight about race and gender in the Democratic race.. Michigan is close.
I am not linking polls. New Hampshire shows they didn't matter. . .
Instead, we'll wait and see. So with that in mind, polls are banned on Schmuckraker pre-Michigan. We'll study how they did once we see the results.
2008 is proving the voters matter more than the pundits.
Finally.
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I will however, say this: Weather in Michigan for their presidential primary is wintry and flurries..
News
Another day in election 2008 over.. Victory in Nevada for Mitt Romney.. Victory in Nevada for Hillary Clinton .. Victory in South Carolina for John McCain..
The big stories:
This may be the most exciting election in years -- with the least exciting candidates.
Perhaps this confusion over who should lead the free world is because in the end, America has some trepidation and nervous jitters over which one of these unlikable candidates could best lead us.. It's tough to be able to fall in love with any of them. They are people with flaws. But there's just something about them no one seems to yet like. it could change.
The spinsters on TV are spinning. .as they are paid to do. "Barack Obama had a good showing" .. "This is a huge win for Hillary Clinton" .. "Mitt Romney is on his way to the nomination" ..
Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.
Maybe not.
There are several states yet to vote. There still a primary today on the Republican side to come in with results, next week one for the Democrats.. And then we're off to Super Tuesday .. over 20 states to be decided in one day.
Voters still have the right and the chance to change the way this goes.. or to pick someone no one expects.
But so far, even with the excitement over the possibilities, it's been the usual players that have won the votes so far. Hillary vs Mitt.. is this going to be the final end all dull choice for 2008...?
SOUTH CAROLINA AND NEVADA
THE END OF THE ROAD FOR FRED THOMPSON?
RON PAUL BECOMING MEANINGLESS?
OBAMA GETTING SERVICE WORKERS IN NEVADA? HILLARY GETTING THE REST?
MIKE HUCKABEE ADS PROCLAIMING HIM A 'CHRISTIAN LEADER' IN SOUTH CAROLINA.. A Northern South Carolina snowstorm not materializing.. Weatherman wrong? Not surprising. McCain's day done? He was hoping for that snowstorm in those Christian towns..
It's winter. Get ready. Storm later this week? Though the big Nor'Easter never happened last night. Woke up to a dry ground..
Long day. News around the world..
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