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Some of us are ready and some of us are not," she said in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Jan. 7 as tears welled in her eyes. "Some of us know what we will do on day one and some of us haven't thought it through enough." Yet, despite Sen. Clinton’s insistence that she’s the responsible choice, there is logic to "Obama-mania." Indeed, he may be the only Democrat in the race who can transcend the expected dirty politics of the Right and achieve a victory that can transform American politics for the better. While Sen. Clinton says she knows how to combat the right-wing attack machine, the truth is that she and her husband most often ended up on the losing end of those fights. Under fire from the Right, they botched the best chance in decades to enact universal health care; they oversaw devastating Democratic congressional defeats starting in 1994; Bill Clinton became the first President since Andrew Johnson to be impeached by the House though he managed to survive after the spectacle of a Senate trial; and their missteps set the stage for the restoration of the Bush Dynasty in 2000.
Winds of change sweep skid row
Alvin Taylor has lived at the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles for 26 years. He and other longtime residents fear they will be forced out by higher rents as the building's new owners pursue plans to redevelop the Cecil into an upscale tourist destination. .
Flamboyance, prosperity end suddenly
EVESHAM, N.J. - They married on Halloween 1998 - in costume. On their five-year anniversary, Marcie and Walter Buczynski celebrated again, throwing a costume party for 100. He dressed as a pimp. She dressed as a showgirl. Things were apparently going great at work for Buczynski then. The two-hour daily commute from his home in South Jersey to his office at Fieldstone Mortgage Co. in Columbia was a drain. But he'd been named an executive vice president that year and was being paid more than anyone else except the CEO. .
Thousands Exposed to Poison by Government's Aerial Spraying
(NewsTarget) Sometimes bad dreams do come true. My bad dream was that the government issued quarantine, and forced everybody to be vaccinated for some fake disease. In my dream, I took my family, and fled to the hills to avoid being vaccinated.
Now, nine months later, this dream has come true. In an emergency, I relinquished my rental contract and moved my pregnant partner and three and a half year old daughter out of Santa Cruz, CA, to avoid being exposed to potentially deadly chemicals.
The chemicals, known by their trade names as Checkmate OLR-F and Checkmate LBAM-F, have been sprayed via state owned airplanes in September and October in Monterey County California. These same aerial chemicals, despite their known health risks, were sprayed on two nights (11-8, 11-9) over the people of Santa Cruz County.
Interview: Julian Bellamy
With ratings up 20% on a comparable "non Big Brother month" and level year on year, he is enthusiastic about the future - despite the ongoing structural challenges. In a couple of months, chief executive Andy Duncan and Lygo, now director of television and content, will unveil a new manifesto designed to secure Channel 4's future. But, as Bellamy acknowledges, much of the debate will be coloured by what is on screen. Hence, you can't help but suspect, his concentration on Channel 4's capacity for "public service delivery on a big scale". On the wall is a poster for China's Lost Children, a haunting feature length film that last week won the Broadcast award for best documentary. Freddie Starr moving in with Sam Fox - as featured in tomorrow night's Celebrity Wife Swap - it is not.
As markets decline, don't you fall for 'easy money'
I find it quite incredible that as equity markets become more volatile the number of inquiries I receive about investments, particularly dubious investments, rises. And so it has been again this week. Today I will list some so-called investment opportunities that, at even the best of times, are dubious and should be approached with great fear. But before I do that, the first thing to realise is that all investment markets move up and down, in that order. The big questions are by how much and when. And quite frankly no one knows the answers. No one can predict every event that will have an impact on the markets. And even if someone could, he or she would not share the information with the rest of us. You can take steps to protect yourself from the vagaries of volatile markets, but only before the event and not afterwards.
Smoking ban brings mixed opinions in Carroll
Like it or not, a statewide indoor smoking ban is going into effect in less than a week."I think the smoking ban is a joke. It takes away from your rights," said Chad Cockey of Westminster.Cockey, who was at Buffalo Wild Wings Thursday night, said he frequents the restaurant and bar but won't be out as much once the Clean Indoor Air Act takeseffect Feb. 1."I don't want to sit down and have a drink if I can't smoke," Cockey said.He's not alone."I'm a citizen, I pay my taxes. Let me decide where and when to smoke," said Sharon Ringley, a smoker and a waitress at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Westminster.But Jim Bloom, nonsmoker from Littlestown, Pa., said he's happy about the ban. .
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