Short Update - Truckers, Pyrotechnics, and Dems
2008-04-30
Just a short blog today as to not fall behind on what's going on.
Remember the UFO news in yesterday's blog? Cops in Baltimore had caught a mysterious phenomena on video and had not been able to explain it or pinpoint the source. Six months after the start of the investigation police have taken a man into custody for creating the disturbance. Reports say the man was disgruntled with his neighbors and as a way to get back to them set off pyrotechnics in his condo, on a regular basis for more than a year. Details are not forthcoming on what sort of pyrotechnic device could have created so loud a boom and radiated daylight over a whole neighborhood area from the inside of a condo, or how such a loud noise didn't make the source obvious to his immediate neighbors. The news website linked has video of neighbors reacting.
TheAmericanDriver.com is a website set up "by drivers, for drivers," a hub of information and activity. News stories nationwide are updated, the price of diesel is displayed, and there are chat rooms. The first link is the general hub of information, while the second link goes to information about the strike. "American Driver Truckers and Citizens United" calls for ordinary citizens to help support by joining fuel protests.
As I mentioned in yesterday's blog this diesel thing is no small matter. If the crisis continues to build without any organized action being taken by leadership in our country and local communities, we may see a time when interstate commerce halts. Currently truckers are paying for the rises in diesel out of pocket, but that's going change. Maybe prices of everything will go up, maybe we'll start using the railway system more, or we could try buying local goods whenever possible, but something will happen if this is ignored.
There have been a few hints floating around that democrats may have a different candidate than they expect for the coming presidential election. The first public figure that I heard bring it up was Tim Mahony, superdelegate and congressman.
If he does go, that will mean the Democrats still haven’t decided a nominee for the presidential election. And if neither Sen. Hillary Clinton nor Sen. Barack Obama has clinched the nomination by August, Mahoney says we may see a brokered convention, meaning the nominee could emerge from a negotiated settlement.
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“If it (the nomination process) goes into the convention, don’t be surprised if someone different is at the top of the ticket,” Mahoney said.
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A compromise candidate could be someone such as former vice president Al Gore, Mahoney said last week during a meeting with this news organization’s editorial board.
When I read that article for the first time I thought Mahony was wacko. I mean, the mainstream media is foaming at the mouth with coverage of the primary results and the manufactured feud between Obama and Clinton. Why would people be so invested in it, if the votes didn't really matter. The idea smacks of conspiracy theory. In fact, Daniel Estulin, author of True Story of the Bilderberg Group told an audience of standing-room-only Portlanders in March that he predicted neither Clinton nor Obama would get the nomination. Even though Clinton has attended Bilderberg meetings, and Obama is considering a member for his vice presidential candidate, Estulin told atendees that neither of them have the finacial sense to steer the US in the precise way the puppetmasters would want in the coming years, which is why he predicted a surprise candidate such as Bloomberg taking the nomination. That's even nuttier than a prediction of Al Gore. At least Al Gore has that shiny Nobel and a hit movie under his belt.
A while back Howard Dean (and I haven't been able to find the exact video yet, but I am still looking) indicated that in his opinion the party should respect the popular vote and that registered democrats would be very unhappy if their popular vote were overturned by the superdelegates, but then more recently he said something different.
The Democratic party’s “superdelegates” have every right to overturn the popular vote and choose the candidate they believe would be best equipped to defeat John McCain in a general election, according to Howard Dean, chairman of the US Democratic National Committee.
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“I think the race is going to come down to the perception in the last six or eight races of who the best opponent for McCain will be. I do not think in the long run it will come down to the popular vote or anything else.”
...
Some commentators have speculated that if the race remains deadlocked after June 3 then a senior figure such as Al Gore, the former vice-president, or Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, could prevail on one of the candidates to withdraw - with most people focusing on Mrs Clinton.
Regardless of Dean's media image, I think he's a smart guy, so when I see him change his tune so quickly on such a hot button issue, I pay attention.
Remember the UFO news in yesterday's blog? Cops in Baltimore had caught a mysterious phenomena on video and had not been able to explain it or pinpoint the source. Six months after the start of the investigation police have taken a man into custody for creating the disturbance. Reports say the man was disgruntled with his neighbors and as a way to get back to them set off pyrotechnics in his condo, on a regular basis for more than a year. Details are not forthcoming on what sort of pyrotechnic device could have created so loud a boom and radiated daylight over a whole neighborhood area from the inside of a condo, or how such a loud noise didn't make the source obvious to his immediate neighbors. The news website linked has video of neighbors reacting.
TheAmericanDriver.com is a website set up "by drivers, for drivers," a hub of information and activity. News stories nationwide are updated, the price of diesel is displayed, and there are chat rooms. The first link is the general hub of information, while the second link goes to information about the strike. "American Driver Truckers and Citizens United" calls for ordinary citizens to help support by joining fuel protests.
As I mentioned in yesterday's blog this diesel thing is no small matter. If the crisis continues to build without any organized action being taken by leadership in our country and local communities, we may see a time when interstate commerce halts. Currently truckers are paying for the rises in diesel out of pocket, but that's going change. Maybe prices of everything will go up, maybe we'll start using the railway system more, or we could try buying local goods whenever possible, but something will happen if this is ignored.
There have been a few hints floating around that democrats may have a different candidate than they expect for the coming presidential election. The first public figure that I heard bring it up was Tim Mahony, superdelegate and congressman.
If he does go, that will mean the Democrats still haven’t decided a nominee for the presidential election. And if neither Sen. Hillary Clinton nor Sen. Barack Obama has clinched the nomination by August, Mahoney says we may see a brokered convention, meaning the nominee could emerge from a negotiated settlement.
...
“If it (the nomination process) goes into the convention, don’t be surprised if someone different is at the top of the ticket,” Mahoney said.
...
A compromise candidate could be someone such as former vice president Al Gore, Mahoney said last week during a meeting with this news organization’s editorial board.
When I read that article for the first time I thought Mahony was wacko. I mean, the mainstream media is foaming at the mouth with coverage of the primary results and the manufactured feud between Obama and Clinton. Why would people be so invested in it, if the votes didn't really matter. The idea smacks of conspiracy theory. In fact, Daniel Estulin, author of True Story of the Bilderberg Group told an audience of standing-room-only Portlanders in March that he predicted neither Clinton nor Obama would get the nomination. Even though Clinton has attended Bilderberg meetings, and Obama is considering a member for his vice presidential candidate, Estulin told atendees that neither of them have the finacial sense to steer the US in the precise way the puppetmasters would want in the coming years, which is why he predicted a surprise candidate such as Bloomberg taking the nomination. That's even nuttier than a prediction of Al Gore. At least Al Gore has that shiny Nobel and a hit movie under his belt.
A while back Howard Dean (and I haven't been able to find the exact video yet, but I am still looking) indicated that in his opinion the party should respect the popular vote and that registered democrats would be very unhappy if their popular vote were overturned by the superdelegates, but then more recently he said something different.
The Democratic party’s “superdelegates” have every right to overturn the popular vote and choose the candidate they believe would be best equipped to defeat John McCain in a general election, according to Howard Dean, chairman of the US Democratic National Committee.
...
“I think the race is going to come down to the perception in the last six or eight races of who the best opponent for McCain will be. I do not think in the long run it will come down to the popular vote or anything else.”
...
Some commentators have speculated that if the race remains deadlocked after June 3 then a senior figure such as Al Gore, the former vice-president, or Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, could prevail on one of the candidates to withdraw - with most people focusing on Mrs Clinton.
Regardless of Dean's media image, I think he's a smart guy, so when I see him change his tune so quickly on such a hot button issue, I pay attention.
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