For those of you who need a break from the election coverage, I bring you grave news from the global warming front — MSNBC.com reports that there’s a 50 percent chance that Lake Mead could go dry by 2021. That’s right. A 50% CHANCE.
That’s the exact same probability of earth being invaded by mutant squirrels from outer space, your being eaten alive by a cartoon wallaby, and Terry Frank leaving her husband for Michael Moore.
Be afraid.
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Nikon and Canon have both recently released or announced new digital S.L.R. models - Canon the 15-megapixel 50D and Nikon the 12.3-megapixel D90. I recently sold my 6.3-megapixel Digital Rebel and am currently digital camera-less - and likely to stay that for awhile unless Canon or Nikon decide to... [Link]
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Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen apparently has seen the polls showing Barack Obama hurtling toward a crushing defeat in Tennessee in November, trailing John McCain by 24 points in the Volunteer State, and he's decided that while he has to be a good soldier and back Obama, it makes political sense for... [Link]
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Andrew Sullivan on Bill Clinton: I don’t buy his evisceration of everything the Republican party has done in the last quarter century. I think the GOP did a great deal to rescue this country in the 1980s and early 1990s. In fact, I think Clinton would have failed as a president without the foil of the Gingrich GOP. But since ... [Link]
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On a night even Bill Clinton is singing the praises of Barack Obama, Governor Phil Bredesen, once again, offers his unsolicited constructive criticism of the Democratic nominee: “What he’s got to do is get more specific — not so much in terms of putting out white papers — but really explaining to some of these undecided voters why is your ... [Link]
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Barack Obama’s camapign looks at exploiting the advantages of states with early voting: To a campaign and its field organizers, early voting is a boon to aggressive efforts. Every voter a campaign has identified as a certain or likely supporter who goes and votes early is one fewer voter it has to target on election day. Campaigns can see the ... [Link]
Posted 10 hours ago
A masterful political move. To break someone’s leg, then set the cast, and then be honored and applauded for having done so is quite a feat. After a speech last night in which she made a case more against the current and future Republican regime than for Barack Obama, after releasing her delegates but not telling them how to vote, ... [Link]
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Ken Whitehouse reports from the floor of the Democratic Convention: The convention floor and the Pepsi Center sat in a moment of shock when the Illinois delegation - Obama’s home state passed on its roll call vote to put Obama over the top in delegate count to clinch the nomination. Instead, the roll call vote was deferred by Illinois and ... [Link]
Posted 11 hours ago
Phil Bredesen talks to kids from Franklin’s Battle ground Academy from Denver: Via the Internet, students at the Franklin school watched a fellow classmate ask questions they had sent to the governor live Wednesday morning. Seventh grader Joel Parker got to go to the convention because his mom is one of Tennessee’s super-delegates. [Link]
Posted 11 hours ago
Vibinc: I’m listening to the roll call on CSPAN online. We’re up to Montana at this point. So far, the only fireworks have been the surprise unanimous allottment of delegates from Arkansas to Barack Obama. Sean Braisted: Uh-oh, the PUMAs are going to freak, Alabama just voted 48-5 Obama to Hillary. [Link]
Posted 11 hours ago
The BlogHer conference, an event for women bloggers, is coming to Nashville in October, just three years and five months after I and the Media Bloggers Association organized the BlogNashville conference that attracted some 300 bloggers and new-media types from all over America. The blogging scene... [Link]
Posted 11 hours ago
An interesting panel discussion featuring some Davidson County political luminaries will be part of Humanities Symposium brought to by Belmont University’s English Department: Local politicians and activists Larry Woods, Bob Tuke (candidate for U.S. Senate), Representative Beth Harwell, Eric Stansell (2008 candidate for State House District 52) and WRVU talk show host Freddie O’Connell discuss how we debate, dissent, and ... [Link]
Posted 12 hours ago
Sam Davidson encourages you to get involved in politics on the local level: While our collective national attention will be focused on conventions, debates and an election between now and November, we can’t forget Tip O’Neill’s reflection that “All politics is local.” So, although contacting your senators and president is important, take a moment today to contact a local elected ... [Link]
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Hillary Clinton officially “releases” her delegates: “It is traditional that we have nominations, that we have a roll call,” Clinton said to thunderous applause from a thousand or so Clinton delegates in a ballroom at the Denver convention center. “That we have candidates who look for ways to work to make sure that we come out of here ready to ... [Link]
Posted 13 hours ago
Drew Cline on Bill Clinton’s performance from the audience during his wife’s speech: Watch the video of Hillary Clinton’s convention speech last night, and you can see Bill Clinton mouthing the words, “I love you.” I didn’t know Bill talked to himself. [Link]
Posted 13 hours ago
Jeff Cassman schools us on convention politics: Using this time to paint pretty pictures of the individual players is simply not enough-in politics you cannot just run a popularity contest you must differentiate yourself. [Link]
Posted 13 hours ago
Or none at all: “Obama cherishes his life story as a unique saga, but the drama of a fatherless child’s rise to temporal power, driven by ambition, a hunger for control and an appetite for the approval of others, is a familiar one in American politics. Presidents, and presidential candidates, tend to come from one of two kinds of distinct ... [Link]
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Bizgrrl talked with some Tennessee delegates during the lead up to Hillary Clinton’s historic speech last night: Some of the Tennessee delegates were gracious enough to give me a few minutes. I just happened to find a group from East Tennessee. Dan Lawson, from Maryville, was there as a delegate from the 8th district. He had also attended the 2000 ... [Link]
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Textually reports on one of the many ways the Obama campaign expands its potential database: When 76,000 people pack Denver’s Invesco Field tomorrow to hear Senator Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, they’ll be called on to get to work. Bloomberg reports. “The campaign is asking them to text-message friends and urge them to sign on as supporters of the Democratic presidential ... [Link]
Posted 14 hours ago
State Senator Jim Kyle gets sealed off from one of the most talked about speeches of this convention despite being a delegate: As the excitement of last night’s events culminated in Senator Clinton’s speech, I found myself, along with many other delegates, sealed out of the convention floor. As the speeches get bigger, the security gets tighter, and none of ... [Link]
2 Responses to “Overwhelming Statistic”
By W on Feb 13, 2008 | Reply
Do you know something about alien squirrels I don’t? 5o% is pretty high.
By Wes Comer on Feb 13, 2008 | Reply
The glass is half full then?