Your Government at...Noops! and More for Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Government Publishes Nuclear Secrets

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/03/link/blog/main5057948.shtml

US in nuclear disclosure blunder

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8080519.stm

Noops!

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/06/noops.html

Bernanke's warning: Curb budget deficits

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31082696/

Bin Laden threatens Americans in new tape

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31082752/

Obama opens key Mid-East mission

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8081191.stm

Al-Qaeda 'kills British hostage'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8080447.stm

Australia's last World War One soldier dies, aged 110

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090603/lf_nm_life/us_australia_soldier;_ylt=AiRVFHQ4R4u.7hpeUJlUj04DW7oF

John Campbell Ross

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_Ross

Cheney: No 'evidence' of Iraq, 9/11 link

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/23228;_ylt=Am.vdcqIsvHWL8HEeGFz5jsDW7oF

Chemission

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/05/chemission.html

Ariana Huffington on Countdown on MSNBC Inspires to “Define” Two More Dick Cheney Words

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#31073404

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana_Huffington

Chenial

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/06/chenial.html

Americans Choose Media Messages That Agree With Their Views

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528110625.htm

The Newly Legendary Dan Rather Gives 4 Rather Insightful Reasons why Dick Cheney is making Chemissions on Rachel Maddow

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#31074055

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather

Chevision

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/06/chevision.html

Pharmacists may be switching your meds

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30627962/

Katrina trailers for sale — for $5 or less

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31077250/

UK resignation adds to Brown problems

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8080777.stm

Hazel Anne Blears

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Blears

Lawsuits filed over wolf hunting in Rockies

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31073035/

Canis lupus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_lupus

Canis lupus lupus

http://eol.org/pages/1226119

FDA approves cancer drug for dogs

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31084765/

Canis lupus familiaris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_lupus_familiaris

Canis lupus familiaris (EOL Link)

http://eol.org/pages/1228387



Ronald Reagan 'appears to Nancy'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8078526.stm

Ronald Reagan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan

Nancy Reagan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Reagan

Racism: Is the End Near?

Photo of Barack Obama in Selma, Alabama licensed under Creative Commons by Barack Obama.

A very nice 106 years young lady by the name of Ann Nixon Cooper (notice the middle name? Follow the link to the CNN story about her) just can't help but hope that this will be a change year of historic proportions. She remembers a time when being black meant you could NOT vote. We should also mention a time when WOMEN were not allowed to vote. Ms. Cooper might be just young enough to recall the Women's Suffrage Movement of the early 1900's, too.

Winning the right to vote and the right to run for public office has had some deadly serious obstacles in this country throughout its sometimes turbulent history. Our senior editor is young enough to remember water cannons and police dogs and rubber hoses and many other deterrents being turned on the demonstrators in Selma, Alabama (where Obama was when this photo was taken, some decades later). That was some real suffering that happened then. We almost weep when we think of the vagaries that have led Mr. Obama to the point in this image and to heights he has reached today and may reach even higher tomorrow.

We haven't adjusted the numbers for inflation, but neither can we recall a candidate (any candidate) that generated so much cash and popularity. Look at the $ 150 million received in September (CNN). Is the death of racism so near that we might actually have a diversity president in office next year? It is almost unbelievable. We hold our breath for the white vote that may or may not turn out. See the BBC story "Closet racism Might white voters abandon Obama on election day?" WE ARE still predicting a WIN in his column. If you dare doubt his solid popularity, look at the throngs that come just to see him when he arrives in town. Just look back at the tapes. There has been much talk of the "Bradley Effect", but we don't believe it to be present in this election.

BUT, there has been some positioning of Obama to get him to this point. Though, too there has been much political wrangling to get Mr. McCain to the same point, though with some high ups and some very low downs. We watched with great interest the Frontline (PBS) Documentary The Choice 2008 on just this topic. (You can view it online). It was powerfully done with exacting research and background. We were amazed at just how uninformed some of us were when reviewing this spectacle of political brinkmanship. Its just a whole lot more than a Kansas City Toedance.

Will the election be the absolute death of racism? No, not yet. But it might just be a big, all-important step in that fateful direction.

Financial crisis: Global round-up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7676770.stm

U.N. agency says crisis to cost 20 million jobs

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre49j4vz-us-financial-jobs/

Leading indicators rise for 1st time in 5 monthsLeading indicators rise for 1st time in 5 months

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_on_bi_ge/economy;_ylt=AqHJidTY4gjLKoQAEfkqxBGs0NUE

Chinese economy growth rate slows

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7679180.stm

UK government in borrowing record

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7679951.stm

Obama targets vital early voters

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7679508.stm

Closet racism Might white voters abandon Obama on election day?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7675551.stm

NYT: Holes in nominees’ health disclosures

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27274760/

Obama raises record $150 million in September

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/19/obama.fundraising/index.html

Obama: Powell will have role in administration

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_on_el_pr/obama;_ylt=Ajb.K06qo.kUNZHxPOC1wI.s0NUE

106-year-old voter hopes to see history made again

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/20/centenarian.votes/index.html

Palin Supports Gay Marriage Amendment


http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palin-differs-w.html

Class voting hacks prompt call for better audits

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27205654/

Newsweek: Florida GOP, red with frustration

http://www.newsweek.com/id/164509