8 May 2008
News and Comments - 05/08/08
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News .
I went into the gas station today and asked for five dollars worth of gas…The clerk passed gas and gave me a receipt.
15 Comments so far...
Jesse Says:
8 May 2008 at 12:27 am.
In Japan, mounting anger over bread-and-butter issues
Tokyo - At a Jomo gas station in western Tokyo, an attendant in green-and-orange overalls recently explained why rising prices may topple the governing party after more than 50 years in power.
“People don’t come here to complain. But they will complain during the next election,” says Mayumi Uchida, noting the line of drivers who hurried to fill their tanks before a liter of gasoline jumped from 126 yen ($1.18) to 160 yen on May 1. “Many people didn’t even bother to vote in the last election. But this time they are going to vote against Prime Minister Fukuda and the governing party, because the cost of everything is increasing and our salaries are the same.”
Amid political gridlock, the first significant price hikes in a decade for basic items are politicizing consumers long known for their apathy and resignation. Many worry that inflation, which many economists once said would spur growth, will instead stifle demand and sink Japan back into the recession of the 1990s.
Cameron Says:
8 May 2008 at 6:23 am.
Evidence scant that Wright hurt Obama much in Ind., N.C.
By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer 52 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The reaction — or lack of it — by Indiana and North Carolina voters to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s incendiary comments emphasizes how deeply entrenched the racial lines of support are for the two Democratic presidential rivals.
It doesn’t seem likely that the renewed focus on Wright has helped Barack Obama, and it is all but certain that he’ll hear more about it from Republicans should he win his party’s nomination. But for now, there’s little evidence it hurt him much in this week’s Democratic contests.
After all the attention to Wright and Obama’s disavowal of his former pastor, exit polls in the two states found that:
_Six in 10 white voters in both states supported Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is waging an increasingly long-shot struggle to become the party nominee. That’s close to the average 57 percent of whites who had backed the New York senator in Democratic primaries since Super Tuesday, which was Feb. 5. It’s also slightly below the 63 percent of whites who voted for her in Pennsylvania and 69 percent in Mississippi, the most recent contests before Tuesday’s voting.
• Whites lacking college degrees favored Clinton over Obama by 31 percentage points in Indiana and 45 points in North Carolina. Since Super Tuesday, she has triumphed over Obama among this group by an average 30 points, including 41 points in Pennsylvania and 55 points in Mississippi.
_White men leaned toward Clinton on Tuesday, as she got 59 percent in Indiana and 55 percent in North Carolina. Clinton got 57 percent of their votes in Pennsylvania and 67 percent in Mississippi.
_About nine in 10 blacks in Indiana and North Carolina voted for Obama, slightly stronger than his usual showing with them. It mattered little whether they said the Wright situation influenced them or not.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080508/ap_on_el_pr/obama_weathering_wright
Sharon Anderson Says:
8 May 2008 at 9:05 am.
Re: Global Poverty Act S. 2433. Just Curious…Yesterday both Ghost and Cameron committed to make a difference and do something. Did anyone else contact their Senators? It takes only a minute to make a phone call.
Sharon Anderson Says:
8 May 2008 at 9:10 am.
“I have learned that when things go wrong, it’s better to figure out why and see what can be done to fix the problem, instead of just getting mad. ”
(Atash Hagmahani Financial Sense May 7, 2008 http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/2008/0507.html )
Mac Says:
8 May 2008 at 10:54 am.
Sharon, I wrote yesterday that I would email Senator Casey’s office and I did.
Benjamin Says:
8 May 2008 at 1:27 pm.
Yup, I sent my emails.
Stumpy Says:
8 May 2008 at 1:35 pm.
Yup I did.
Jan W. Says:
8 May 2008 at 1:54 pm.
Me too. I said I would on the blog yesterday and I did. I bet others did to but a lot of people won’t feel like they have to report it.
Stumpy Says:
8 May 2008 at 2:02 pm.
Ah hell girl. Ya did it wrong and it dont count. Didnt y’all notice how we answered? Ya gotta say YUP!
Pickles Says:
8 May 2008 at 2:07 pm.
haha! Yea Jan, Stumpy has spoken. Y’all gotta use proper english.
Jeezer Says:
8 May 2008 at 2:33 pm.
Yup
Stumpy Says:
8 May 2008 at 2:45 pm.
Good man Jeezer.
Pickles are y’all makin fun a me? Do y’all need a whippin? Please!
Pickles Says:
8 May 2008 at 2:52 pm.
Sorry honeybunch. You need to be good so we don’t get kicked off the board. And I would never ever make fun a y’all. I’m voting for you for president. Then you can make me first lady. haha
Matt Says:
8 May 2008 at 5:41 pm.
I think this nut is trying to goad us into a war and then he will throw up his hands and act shocked and innocent when we do and his allies will come in to help and the world will be against the US. It is an ugly and very real scenario.
Ahmadinejad: Israel a ’stinking corpse’
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the state of Israel is a “stinking corpse” that is destined to disappear, the French news agency AFP reported.
Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as having said.
“Today the reason for the Zionist regime’s existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation.”
Ahmadinejad further stated that Israel “has reached the end like a dead rat after being slapped by the Lebanese” - referring to the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1209627040670&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
T. Fan Says:
8 May 2008 at 6:21 pm.
Matt I think you are right. He has said he believes it is his calling to begin the big war that will bring in the final battle and the end of time.
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