Posted by: wordbeeps on: October 4, 2008
I missed both debates and I so wanted to write on them. Had to travel during Thursday evening. Not fun. So I have to rely on news links. I’ll pop those in later. It is now the very early morning and I’m writing this before I rush off. First, to comment on our debate then [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 25, 2008
The interview of Alaska Governor Sara Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, with American television news anchor Katie Couric, went badly for Palin, but one cannot help hating Couric for it. Palin looked and sounded ill-informed and ill at ease as she answered Couric’s questions on issues she will have to face as vice-president should she [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 5, 2008
Hungry for Sarah Palin information? Some stories on the background of the Republican Party nominee for vice-president include…this one by Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News first published October 23, 2006…and October 23, 2006….those two stories dug up and presented online by by Midwest Voices columnist Yael T. Abouhalkah. This next story, from Editor [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 5, 2008
Election in Canada Governor-General Michaëlle Jean will meet with Prime Minister Steven Harper at 8:15 a.m. Sunday when Harper will tell her that he does not have confidence in parliament. The Canadian federal election is expected to take place October 14. Three Harper cabinet ministers will not run again, David Emerson (Foreign Affairs), Monte Solberg [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 4, 2008
What do the folks back in Wasilla, Alaska, think of Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech last night before the Republican National Convention? The local newspaper, the Wasilla Frontiersman, has this story with some interviews from an excited crowd at Tailgaters, a local watering hole where many watched the speech. Thank you for reading Aardvarkcola
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 4, 2008
How does it feel to have Sarah Palin so close to the American vice-presidency? “A little scary,” said Alaska radio broadcaster Shannyn Moore, in a telephone interview this morning with Nancy Wilson of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Moore noted the story previous to her interview on the program was on Vice-president Dick Cheney’s visiting [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 1, 2008
How can you tell if Sarah Palin is from Wasilla or Wetaskiwin? The girl seems down-right Albertan. She is about as Canadian as you can get. She likes moosemeat, she owns a float plane, her husband works in the oil-patch, she hunts, and even as the head of government she drives her own car to [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: August 29, 2008
1942 Joe Biden born. 1964 Sarah (Heath) Palin born. 1965 Biden graduates from University of Delaware in history and political science. 1966 Neilia Hunter marries Joe Biden. 1968 Biden graduates law school. 1969 Admitted to Delaware bar, Biden begins practicing law. 1970 Biden elected Castle County councillor. 1972 Biden wins election to United States Senate, [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: August 29, 2008
Wasilla, Alaska, population 8,471, is the adopted home of its governor, Sarah Palin for 36 years, and is no backwater. As recent as 1994, fourty-five per cent of Alaskans voted to move the state capital from Juneau to the picturesque community of fishing boats, float planes, two lakes and a mountain view. An hour’s drive [...]
