29 August, 2008

Obama - Biden

WOOHOO! This is finally a team people can get behind and really want to work for and with! Both bring essential portions to the table... I think that they should start to name or rather hint at people for their cabinet! My quick thoughts are listed in order of successsion...

1) ? - Secretary of State (Joe Wilson?)
2) Mark Warner - Secretary of Treasury
3) Wesley Clark - Secretary of Defense
4) Attorney General
5) Bill Richardson - Secretary of Interior
6) Brian Schweitzer - Secretary of Agriculture (MT Governor)
7) - Secretary of Commerce
8) - Secretary of Labor
9) Dr. Robert Wah - Secretary of Health and Human Services (AMA-assn)
10) Dennis Kucinich - Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
11) - Secretary of Transportation (Ann Hunnicutt - Virginians for High speed rail)
12) Nancy Floyd - Secretary of Energy (ACORE board member) T. Boone Pickens???
13) Peter H. Bell - Secretary of Education (autismspeaks.org)
14) Patrick Murphy - Secretary of Veterens Affairs
15) - Secretary of Homeland Security
*) Russ Feingold - Secretary of Environment

Clinton? - She needs to stay in the Senate and work dilligently to keep the changes moving through! She can pick up and help carry the mantle which is Kennedy's.

COMPUTERS SUCK!

I hate computers... They suck!

12 August, 2008

Interesting Health Food Info

From an article in the September 2008 National Geographic Magazine...

Yale University came up with a ranking system for foods. They rank them from 0 to 100 - based on nutrients, health benefits, health problems, etc. Interesting what happens when you weigh the benefits v. drawbacks of everything... Here is a partial list...

100 Broccoli
100 Blueberries
082 Brown Rice
082 Raw Pecans
082 Raw Almonds
082 Salmon (Sockeye)
075 Shrimp (minus the butter)
057 White Rice
056 Club Soda
055 2% Lowfat Milk
052 Whole Milk
044 NY Strip Steak
043 Plain Vanilla Yogurt
038 Skinless Chicken Breasts
025 Hamburger (75% fat free)
015 Diet Soda
011 Pretzel Sticks
001 Soda
001 Popsicle

10 August, 2008

We all knew it would happen ...

Clinton was used in a McCain ad. To all those who said her negative ads would not do any harm in the general election - I say foo-ee to you.

We all knew it would be used against Obama in the general election - the party leaders told her to stop to no avail.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/08/2328204.htm

I believe this is what prompted the princess to go out and campaign for the first time on behalf of Obama later.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7550501.stm

I'm still worried what the ego-maniacs are going to do at the Convention. With Bill steping up just before Obama, who knows what his senial self will say.

Sad news this week in the Auto-World!

Andrea Pininfarina died in a scooter accident.

His scooter was hit by a car just outside Turin on Wednesday. He died instantly. Mr. Pininfarina was the head of a design group which worked for Ferrari, Maserati, Volvo (all the newer designs which are not boxy), Fiat and others...

He was 51.

Finally a report against the occupation...

Of Northern Ireland.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0529/northpolitics.html?rss

An official report was announced in May that would outline the British acts when it "operated outside the law" in Northern Ireland. One can only hope it would detail how most of the attacks pinned to the I R A where really done by the Brits - including an attack at Parliment in London that killed to MPs.

But hey, they're still better than us.

Poor Girl ....

"Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii" was her name.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0724/newzealand.html

There were some other interesting names identified in New Zealand for children over the past few years. Benson and Hedges for twins; Number 16 Bus Shelter were my favorites.