25 April 2008
News and Comments - 04/25/08
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News .
I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
Let’s keep our eye on the ball and
get prepared so we don’t get hit in the face!
15 Comments so far...
Jesse Says:
25 April 2008 at 1:47 am.
Now that there has been a changing of the generals and we have one that is amenable to going after Iran, I am not surprised to find an article like this. I predict in the coming months we will see more news about what Iran is doing that would support the idea of going to war with them.
Report: New U.S. Military Discovery Shows Iran Still Sending Arms to Iraq
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military says it has found caches of newly made Iranian weapons in Iraq, leading senior officials to conclude Tehran is continuing to funnel armaments into Iraq despite its pledges to the contrary, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Officials in Washington and Baghdad said the purported Iranian mortars, rockets and explosives had date stamps indicating they were manufactured in the past two months. The U.S. plans to publicize the weapons caches in coming days. A pair of senior commanders said a presentation was tentatively planned for Monday, the paper reported.
“You can see the manufacturing dates right on the armaments themselves,” one senior commander in Baghdad said. “These are very clearly weapons that were made in the last month or so.”
Cameron Says:
25 April 2008 at 6:13 am.
Brazil air force halts search for priest
By STAN LEHMAN, Associated Press Writer Fri Apr 25, 1:43 AM ET
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazil’s air force on Thursday suspended its search for a Roman Catholic priest who vanished after sailing into the air under a cluster of colorful balloons. The cleric’s family chartered a private plane to continue the hunt.
The Rev. Adelir Antonio de Carli has been missing since Sunday, when he lifted off from the port city of Paranagua strapped to 1,000 balloons and wearing a helmet, an aluminum thermal flight suit, waterproof coveralls and a parachute.
A spokesman for the Defense Ministry, who declined to be named in line with departmental regulations, said the air force halted its search in the early morning.
“Over the past few days, air force planes flew over 5,000 square kilometers (1,900 square miles) of land and sea and found no trace of the priest,” the spokesman said.
Cameron Says:
25 April 2008 at 10:21 am.
This guy makes me want to puke but he is right. N.C. is out of touch. They haven’t caught on that freedom of speech is politically incorrect. McCain will stomp all over that right if he gets in office. Unless he gets mad at someone like he was at Mitt and then watch how dirty he will fight. He will lie and when caught in it he will continue to lie. He will smear and smirk and then pretend that he is above all of it. I can’t stand this guy. He is psychotic.
McCain says N.C. Republicans out of touch over ad
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain accused North Carolina’s Republican Party of being “out of touch with reality” over its refusal to pull an advertisement criticizing Democrat Barack Obama.
In an NBC interview aired on Friday, the Arizona senator said he has done all he can to persuade the state party to cancel the television ad that criticizes Obama as “too extreme” because of controversial remarks made by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
“They’re not listening to me because they’re out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable,” McCain told NBC’s “Today” Show.
“I’ve done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not continue,” he added.
Asked if the state party’s unwillingness to heed his call raised questions about his leadership, McCain replied: “I don’t know exactly how to respond to that.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2535509420080425
Cameron Says:
25 April 2008 at 10:26 am.
UN secretary-general calls food price rise a global crisis
By VERONIKA OLEKSYN, Associated Press Writer
VIENNA, Austria - A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday .
Ban said the U.N and all members of the international community are very concerned, and immediate action is needed.
He spoke to reporters at U.N. offices in Austria, where he was meeting with the nation’s top leaders for talks on how the United Nations and European Union can forge closer ties.
“This steeply rising price of food — it has developed into a real global crisis,” Ban said, adding that the World Food Program has made an urgent appeal for additional $755 million.
“The United Nations is very much concerned, as all other members of the international community,” Ban said. “We must take immediate action in a concerted way all throughout the international community.”
Ban urged leaders of the international community to sit down together on an “urgent basis” to discuss how to improve economic distribution systems and the production of agricultural products.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_on_re_eu/un_food_crisis
Cameron Says:
25 April 2008 at 10:28 am.
Good. They need to do something this year about using the crops for biofuel for food instead.
Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries
Gore Ducks, as a Backlash Builds Against Biofuels
By JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun | April 25, 2008
The campaign against climate change could be set back by the global food crisis, as foreign populations turn against measures to use foodstuffs as substitutes for fossil fuels.
With prices for rice, wheat, and corn soaring, food-related unrest has broken out in places such as Haiti, Indonesia, and Afghanistan. Several countries have blocked the export of grain. There is even talk that governments could fall if they cannot bring food costs down.
One factor being blamed for the price hikes is the use of government subsidies to promote the use of corn for ethanol production. An estimated 30% of America’s corn crop now goes to fuel, not food.
Cameron Says:
25 April 2008 at 10:32 am.
I can’t remember who said it where but someone here wrote that they thought the change of generals meant we might start pushing toward a conflict with Iran now. I hope that isn’t true but this makes me a little nervous.
U.S.-contracted ship fires toward Iranian boat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A ship contracted by the U.S Military Sealift Command has fired at least one shot toward an Iranian boat, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.
“It was an MSC vessel,” the official said, confirming the ship fired on an Iranian boat.
Other details were not immediately available.
Benjamin Says:
25 April 2008 at 10:43 am.
McCain is the world’s biggest hypocrite.
Hawk Says:
25 April 2008 at 12:47 pm.
I support McCain because the other two are so much worse. I think it will make a difference in the war with McCain in there. The terrorists will be more afraid of McCain. As far as Iran goes, they are supporting al-Sadr and making the situation far worse so we may need to take them on like it or not.
Jesse Says:
25 April 2008 at 1:17 pm.
I’m your opposite, Hawk. I could never support McCain because I think he is just as evil as the other two and worse because he will betray the Republican party. We can see for sure now that things are crumbling so let the dems take the blame and we can clean up the mess in 2012.
Regarding Iran, you don’t start a fight you can’t win. Our debt and our tired military isn’t in shape to take on Iran, Syria, China, Russia and Venezuela and probably more countries that would jump on the band wagon to beat up on us. It would be a devastating world war. We have to use our heads.
All that said, you are still very welcome here because no one is required to agree with anyone else around here and we are glad to get your input.
Hawk Says:
25 April 2008 at 1:37 pm.
Jesse, fair enough. I’ve been reading the blog for a couple of weeks and I know I’m in the minority here but I don’t mind (too much). I like what this place stands for and I believe that if conservatives let themselves be torn in two by where we stand on the war then we are in big trouble.
Matt Says:
25 April 2008 at 1:47 pm.
I was reading an article about oil prices jumping up because of the incident with the supposed Iranian boat this morning. I read the comments and really liked one so it is copied below:
This is an absolute load of bull! Oil refineries shut down intentionally to reduce supplies of gasoline, they shut down when a possum runs across the compound. Price of oil jumps at the silliest little story, yet when Brazil announced yesterday that they have discovered the second and third largest oil reserve fields on the planet, enough to eliminate the western hemispheres dependence on middle east oil comepletely, No one said a word or lowered the price of oil. It seems clear that the big oil companies use each silly little excuse to jack up the price and then claim innocence when they get hauled before congress. The evidence is clear the price of oil has nothing at all to do with supply and demand, its based solely on oil company greed!
Cavetrollhead Says:
26 April 2008 at 12:35 am.
By the way, anyone here old enough to remember this article?
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
It is about the global cooling crisis.
Hank Says:
26 April 2008 at 12:53 am.
Cave, I’m sure old enough to remember this. They really scared us with it. Maybe thats why I didn’t fall so quick for it when they turned it around on us later.
SGS Says:
26 April 2008 at 10:05 am.
Cave, yes, I remember getting a comic about energy issues. The superheros were some high school kids touring a science museum and the villans were the issues themselves. For example, there was an issue of wasting energy, so a villan was a waster. To defeat him, the kids just turn off everything in a huge room, including closing the sun-roof (as if we could waste solar power!). Anyway, global cooling villan (ice man or something) were the baddest villan in that comic, I think. Yes, I remember global cooling panic (and I was in my single digit years!). The sad part was I do not recall what the proposed solutions were on how we could warm up Earth.
Mac Says:
26 April 2008 at 10:24 am.
That’s an easy one SGS. We got so many politicians blowing hot air that they took care of the problem. And then some.
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