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Myanmar death toll could top 10,000, foreign minister says
2008-05-05 21:54:00 YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - The death toll from a devastating cyclone in Myanmar could reach more than 10,000 in the low-lying area where the storm wreaked the most havoc, the country’s foreign minister warned Monday. Tropical Cyclone Nargis hit the Southeast Asian country, also known as Burma, early Saturday with winds of up to 120 mph. ... More About: News , Commentary , Opinion , Death , Foreign
How McCain Can Win the Base
2008-05-05 20:03:00 Even as the Democratic presidential contest seems to be morphing into Dr. Doolittle’s mythical beast with a head at each end, the pushmi-pullyu, John McCain has the chance to make a leisurely choice of potential running mates. But he had better not wait too long. The spectacle of a third of voters in the Republican primaries ... More About: News , Politics , Commentary , Opinion
Bush: No quick fix for rising gas prices
2008-05-05 16:37:00 WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Bush said Monday that he’s troubled by rising gas prices and will take a look at proposals to relieve the crisis but warned that there is no quick fix. “It’s been a while in the making and it’s going to be a while that we solve the problem,” Bush said in an ... More About: News , Business , Commentary , Opinion
Happy Sinko de Mayonnaise Pedro!
2008-05-05 08:39:00 Trackback URL: http://texasfred.net/archives/1136/trackb ack/ More About: Happy , Pedro
A HUGE Thank You!!
2008-05-05 08:28:00 I have got to send out a HUGE thank you to my buddy Bushwack from American & Proud, we are partnered up on this blog hosting thing and he has turned into a pretty damned good blog fixer upper and upgrade kind of person, he has been getting this blog upgraded to Word Press Version ... More About: News , Huge
PETA wants Eight Belles? jockey suspended
2008-05-05 07:59:00 NORFOLK, Va. - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is seeking the suspension of Eight Belles? jockey after the filly had to be euthanized following her second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.Gabriel Saez was riding Eight Belles when she broke both front ankles while galloping out a quarter of a mile past ... More About: News , Jockey , Peta
U.N. to Teach Americans How to Change their Behavior
2008-05-04 21:35:00 Here are some excerpts from articles this week that should make anyone frightened. When it comes to our national sovereignty, our safety and our food supply should be number one! But it looks like the U.N is well on its redistributive way to take what?s left of our food. According to USA Today, Surplus U.S. food ... More About: News , Commentary , United Nations , Change , Behavior
Obama?s appeal to working-class whites faltering, polls show
2008-05-04 18:58:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama ?s problem winning votes from working-class whites is showing no sign of going away, and their impression of him is getting worse. Those are ominous signals as he hopes for strong performances in the coming week in Indiana and North Carolina primaries that would derail the candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton, his ... More About: News , Politics , Opinion , Show
On this day in history - May 3
2008-05-03 16:27:00 On this day in history - May 3 1802 Washington D.C. was incorporated as a city. 1855 Macon B. Allen became the first African American to be admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts. 1859 France declared war on Austria. 1921 West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax. 1945 Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese. 1948 The U.S. Supreme ... More About: History
Uh-oh, here we go again: Meet Obama?s new pastor
2008-05-03 07:07:00 JERUSALEM ? More pastor problems for Sen. Barack Obama ? The man slated to become chief pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ has called blacks “lepers” with a “skin disease,” claimed U.S. entertainment corporations operate with “disdain” for black people, and in a fiery sermon claimed retired pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright was “lynched” by the ... More About: News , Politics , Commentary , Opinion
?Miracle? Marine dies
2008-05-02 21:43:00 A Marine sergeant who became a symbol of resilience as he strove to recover from a roadside bomb blast in Iraq that blanketed 97 percent of his body with burns has died, the Defense Department said. He was 22. Sgt. Merlin German died April 11 at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, where he was ... More About: News , Commentary , Heroes , Heritage , Miracle
How stupid can some people be?
2008-05-02 20:43:00 OK, you can file this one under the “How stupid can SOME people be?” category, our noon news had a story about IRS Phishing scammers, and how some people are so stupid that they actually give out their personal information TO these crooks… Here is the official page from the IRS and it has all the ... More About: News , People , Stupid
Obama has a message for YOU!
2008-05-02 19:14:00 It’s coming America, and you will be sorry!! Cross Posted with: Southern Sass Trackback URL: http://texasfred.net/archives/1109/trackb ack/ More About: Obama , Message
None of the Above, vote your conscience, not some ?party? line!
2008-05-02 03:25:00 It’s a real shame that it’s come to this but I am fully convinced that None of the Above may become a harsh reality… What choices do we have if BOTH major parties run a candidate that NONE of us can support?? It can happen, and that is when we, the Conservatives of this nation, initiate ... More About: News , Politics , Commentary , Party , Duncan Hunter
None of the Above, and a NEW Logo too!!
2008-05-01 06:03:00 It’s a real shame that it’s come to this but I am fully convinced that None of the Above may become a harsh reality… What choices do we have if BOTH major parties run a candidate that NONE of us can support?? It can happen, and that is when we, the Conservative s of this nation, initiate ... More About: News , Politics , Opinion , Logo
Did Houston Police kill a federal agent after a high-speed chase?
2008-04-30 21:56:00 Mystery continues to envelop a man shot and killed by Houston police Tuesday morning after a high-speed chase that ended near the Galleria. The victim was identified by friends as Roland Vincent Carnaby, 52, of Houston. But who he really was ? or more precisely, what he was ? is something police are still trying to ... More About: News , Commentary , Agent , Opinion , Police
Vista struggles to bust out as business customers snub it
2008-04-30 18:39:00 Will Weider is just the kind of customer Microsoft (MSFT) needs to keep its Windows computer operating system franchise growing. He oversees tech for a chain of Wisconsin hospitals ? 14,000 computers’ worth. But Weider has no desire to upgrade to Vista, the latest version of Windows. “I wouldn’t put on Vista if it was free,” says ... More About: News , Business , Commentary , Technology
Obama outraged by former pastor?s comments
2008-04-29 21:30:00 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday he was outraged and appalled by the latest comments from his former pastor, who asserted that criticism of his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church and the U.S. government was responsible for the creation of the AIDS virus. The presidential candidate is seeking to ... More About: News , Politics , Opinion , Hypocrisy , Comments
North Carolina GOP wants apology from McCain
2008-04-29 17:57:00 Once in a while a really good rant just falls into your lap and when I got up this morning and checked my email, there was one waiting for me to blast off on, here it is… from: Richard Viguerie 7:54 am (2 hours ago) to: texasfred@texasfred.com date: Apr 29, 2008 7:54 AM subject: Petition: Sen. McCain , Apologize to N.C. ... More About: News , Politics , Commentary , North Carolina
Wright says criticism is attack on black church
2008-04-28 20:02:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright says criticism surrounding his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church. Barack Obama’s longtime pastor says he hopes the controversy will have a positive outcome and spark an honest dialogue about race in America. Wright says black church traditions are still “invisible” to many Americans, as they ... More About: News , Politics , Islam , Church , Commentary
Green Zone attacked during sandstorm
2008-04-28 01:05:00 BAGHDAD - Militants fired a salvo of rockets or mortars at the heavily guarded Green Zone in Baghdad on Sunday, while officials reported that Iraq i security forces had found more than 100 bodies in two mass graves. The militants apparently were taking advantage of a sandstorm that blanketed the Iraqi capital Sunday and grounded U.S. helicopters ... More About: News , Commentary , Opinion
13 die in Mexico border shootouts
2008-04-27 02:24:00 TIJUANA, Mexico - Massive, running gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers on the streets of this violent border city Saturday, killing 13 people and wounding nine, law enforcement officials said. Dead bodies scattered along the road marked one of the deadliest shootouts in Mexico’s three-year-old drug warfare. All of the dead were believed to be drug ... More About: News , War On Terror , Commentary , Questions
None of the Above, and a NEW Logo too!!
2008-04-26 03:05:00 It’s a real shame that it’s come to this but I am fully convinced that None of the Above may become a harsh reality… What choices do we have if BOTH major parties run a candidate that NONE of us can support?? It can happen, and that is when we, the Conservatives of this nation, initiate ... More About: News , Politics , Logo
U.S.-contracted ship fires on boat in Gulf
2008-04-26 01:14:00 CAIRO, Egypt - A civilian ship contracted by the U.S. military fired warning shots at two small boats approaching it in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy said Friday, describing the latest of a string of similar incidents that have triggered concern in Washington. The U.S. military has been wary of small boats operating near its ... More About: News , Commentary , Iran , Opinion , Boat
3 NYPD detectives acquitted in 50-shot killing
2008-04-25 17:28:00 NEW YORK (AP) - Three detectives were acquitted of all charges Friday in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be on his wedding day, a case that put the NYPD at the center of another dispute involving allegations of excessive firepower. Justice Arthur Cooperman delivered the verdict in a Queens courtroom packed with spectators, including victim ... More About: News , Commentary , Opinion , Gun Control , Shot
McCain to New Orleans: Never again
2008-04-25 00:52:00 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain took stock of still-hurricane-damaged areas of New Orleans on Thursday and declared that if the disaster had happened on his watch, he would have immediately landed at the nearest Air Force base, drawing a sharp contrast to President Bush’s handling of the tragedy. McCain called the response ... More About: News , Politics , Commentary , Opinion
VA lying about number of veteran suicides
2008-04-24 19:26:00 WASHINGTON ? The Veteran s Administration has lied about the number of veterans who have attempted suicide, Sen. Patty Murray said Wednesday, citing an internal e-mail that put the number at 12,000 a year while the department was publicly saying it was fewer than 800. The Feb. 13 e-mail by Dr. Ira Katz, the man in charge ... More About: News , Commentary , Health Care , Opinion
Chicago?s violent spring continues, with 5 found dead
2008-04-24 06:22:00 CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities found the bodies of five young people Wednesday inside a ransacked house on Chicago ’s South Side, raising the body count in an already violent spring, police said. It appeared the three men and two women had been shot, but investigators were waiting for the Cook County medical examiner’s office to confirm a ... More About: News , Commentary , Crime , Justice
Virtual fence on Mexican border deemed insufficient
2008-04-23 17:09:00 TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted “virtual fence” on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal crossings, officials said. The move comes just two months after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced his approval of the fence ... More About: News , Commentary , Mexican , Opinion , Border Security
Iraqi PM to neighbors: Stop terrorists from crossing borders
More articles from this author:2008-04-22 23:16:00 KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Tuesday he was disappointed that neighboring countries have not done enough to his war-torn nation and urged them to stop terrorists from infiltrating over their borders. Al-Maliki spoke at the opening of a meeting of Iraq’s neighbors held in Kuwait aimed at rallying support for Iraq’s ... More About: News , Commentary , Opinion , Stop , Terrorists 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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