The Democratic convention is in full swing in Denver. And we here at BNN have two people on the floor live blogging. The reports are just coming in, Robert Hayes, our ace Political Reporter has already filed a couple of stories. Ted Kennedy turned heads, while Jim Leach put on a performance that had the […]

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Barack Obama just came on, live via video from whatever part of Outer Mongolia he’s camped out in.
His daughter is hogging the voiceover…”Daddy what city are you in?”
“Not now, Sasha, I’m running for president.”
No, that’s not what he said. But he’s chatting with the kids and sharing love to Michelle. Nice, but why is it […]

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Crowd is pretty noisy for Michelle entrance. Unfortunate choice of color in her clothing - she’s blending into the backdrop.
She can feel her father looking down on her proudly. Aww, that’s kind of nice. Older brother has watched over her “every step of the way” along this incredible journey of discovery and exploration etc. […]

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Famines occur due to war, anarchy, floods, droughts, insects or blights. Yet in the last century the most horrible famines are those planned by the government in the absence of war, to punish their own people, or from a callus attitude that political power is more important than human life. Such famines occurred in the […]

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Starting with video about how great Michelle is. The video is evidently to introduce Michelle’s brother, who will in turn introduce Michelle. I find myself resenting that there isn’t a slide show that introduces the video. You can’t just throw people into the introduction to the introduction, Democrats!
OK, she was a hot corporate lawyer. Then […]

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Must…stay…awake….
Jim Leach, moderate Republican, addressed us after Kennedy went off. Remember all that energy from the Kennedy speech? Yeah, bye-bye. Way to drain the energy out of the room, Jim. (Apparently he’s a secret Republican operative. Good work, Jim!
Too dull to blog about. Michelle Obama is next up.

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Just hauled in to catch the Kennedy speech. First impression, wow! Apparently the rumors of his feebleness were exaggerated. I detect a political mastermind at work there, but it was an effective moment nonetheless.
Most interesting thing in the speech is his call for healthcare as a fundamental right. This is probably in the platform […]

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With a title of “Martha Stewart’s Cookies” and her smiling picture plastered on the cover one would expect Martha Stewart to have written the cookbook. Instead it’s “From The Editors of Martha Stewart Living” magazine and as such appears to be a compilation of recipes and features that have run in the magazine.
After the table […]

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Nikki is at the Mexican bar with a huge hangover as she hangs onto Nick telling him how glad she is that he is there. He asks her if she has heard anything more, has anything changed. She tells him he is gone, his father is gone.
Adam walks around in Victor’s office in shock having […]

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Nicole nags Trent about his reasons for not wanting Max and Melanie together. Trent tells her he is not going to discuss this with her. She says it is no discussion, it is just a question. He says it is none of her business. She says fine and she starts to walk off. He grabs […]

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The appeal of Barack Obama was that he unquestionably offered something new. Not just his race, his youth, his intelligence and his energy but above all his absolute break with the past. A break with the era of the Clintons who he eventually triumphed over in the Primaries but also a break with the old […]

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With Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) as Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) running mate, you have a two-senator ticket - all talk, no executive action; no “favorite son” advantage in a key swing state with a huge chunk of votes in the electoral college; and a man whom voters resoundingly rejected when he was running for the […]

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“Beyond Mars” is a fast-moving read with an old-fashioned pulp adventure-in-space aesthetic about it. It is of that sub-genre classified as military science fiction, with lots of blazing broadsides updated to the twenty-second century. There is of course the dashing main hero and his stalwart sidekick, some interesting secondary heroes and heroines, assorted love interests, […]

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I have arrived in Denver for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. I will be posting observations, analysis, interviews, and whatever else comes to mind over the next four days. The energy level surrounding the convention center downtown is quite high, as delegates, media and observers from all over the country gather here in the Mile […]

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David Schussler
In the news again today, and for over two decades now, there has been a lot of exposure of the use of steroids by both amateur and professional athletes. Steroids have mostly been used to enhance their physique and competitive performances. Even with all of the warnings from the medical profession, anabolic steroid use […]

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Over the weekend I received an enigmatic email from a group called, Catholics for Choice. Always being intrigued by groups that call themselves Catholic, I continued to read the email but suddenly realized the group of so called Catholics, was indeed a well orchestrated oxymoron of descriptive adjectives. Catholics for Choice are engaged in a […]

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A company from Painesville , Illinois , has been fined twenty five thousand dollars by the Environmental Protection Agency over asbestos related breaches, according to a recent report. The company is said to have violated air pollution laws during a project that was carried out last year in March 2007.
The report claims that the […]

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Well it wasn’t much of a surprise to me to hear that Casey Anthony was a no show for her daughter’s weekly vigil held by a group of supporters of the Anthony family hoping and praying that Caylee will be brought home safe.
Of course they claim that the family and the bounty hunter thought it […]

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The politics in an election year gets so overwrought that reading about history puts things into perspective.
Americans don’t realize that the lack of violence in our elections is not normal in world history, nor is the transfer of power from one person to another a common occurance in world history.
So last week’s UKTimes had an […]

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Bundlers, Attorneys Lead List of Those Receiving Refunds from the John Edwards Campaign in March

The Edwards ‘08 Campaign for President has quietly refunded almost $4 million to individual contributors, a number of them, bundlers and big backers. This should be news to Warren Buffet who recently mused that Edwards’ supporters should get together and file […]

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John Edwards’ Two Americas?
The Multi-Millionaire Trial Attorneys and Bundlers Who Got their Money Refunded;
The Working Stiffs Who Were Kept in the Dark

* The John Edwards’ campaign has already refunded $3,831,398 to contributors–many who contributed the maximum of $2300.
* 2,247 donors have already received money back from the John Edwards–many who are trial attorneys and political […]

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