Democrats
Edwards 26
Clinton 24
Obama 19
Richardson 7
Biden 6
Clinton has a 18-point lead in the RCP Average.
Republicans
Giuliani 27
Thompson 22
Romney 18
McCain 12
Giuliani holds a 13.5-point lead in the RCP Average.
"Right now both continue to offer too little and demand too much. Israel has at least abandoned the dream of a Greater Israel that bewitched it after the great victory of 1967. The illusion that the Palestinians would fall into silence has been shattered by two intifadas and every rocket Hamas fires from Gaza. Israel's present government says it is committed to a two-state solution. But it is a weak government, and has lacked the courage to spell out honestly the full territorial price Israelis must pay. The Palestinians have meanwhile gone backwards. If Hamas means what it says, it continues to reject the idea that Jews have a right to a national existence in the Middle East.
What self-defeating madness. For peace to come, Israel must give up the West Bank and share Jerusalem; the Palestinians must give up the dream of return and make Israel feel secure as a Jewish state. All the rest is detail."
Reagan's diary was just released. He made his diary 787 pages long and debuted at the Reagan libraries. He wrote entries for each night of his eight years. He didn't write in it a few days after he got shot but when he did recover and was abhle to write in it again he wrote..."getting shot hurts"
The night before Bush snior was to become president, he wrote, "Tomorrow I stop being President."
''Insanity is hereditary you catch it from your kids.''
His fears of the Middle East. ''Sometimes I wonder if we are destined to witness Armageddon.''
''29 years of more happiness than any man could rightly deserve.'' - Wedding anniversary.
''I pray I'll never face a day when she isn't there.'' - on Nancy Reagan
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2007/05/mccain_misses_42_straight_vote.html
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| RUSH: I did my good deed of the week yesterday. I was playing golf yesterday morning at a course down here that's closing for the summer. It always closes on Mother's Day. It's Seminole. I shot a hell of a round. I shot an 85, so 42-43. But I was plus five on the par threes. If I could have just parred the par threes, I would have shot an 80. I mean, if -- if, you know, if is for children. Anyway, as we're heading up to the 16th, all of a sudden as I'm walking up, I see something that looks huge in the middle of the fairway with a bird prancing around. I got closer, and it's a turtle, a pretty big turtle. Not a sea turtle, but a pretty big turtle and this bird is just harassing this turtle like you can't believe. My caddy said, "You know what's going on there? That turtle is heading for the sand traps. She's going to lay her eggs, and the bird knows it, and the bird's just waiting to get the eggs," and I said, "Well, this isn't going to happen when I'm out here." So I went over and picked up this turtle, and took it back over to the creek, because the turtle had turned and was aiming for the sand trap. But when we turned it away from the sand trap, it started heading back to where the little stream or creek is in the rough. So we figured, "Okay. The turtle has figured out here that the bird wants its eggs and is going to wait to lay them. The turtle was just laboring. You've seen turtles just laboring to move. So the bird finally flew off when the turtle turned around. I picked the turtle up, took it back to within a foot of the creek, and it got scared. Its head was bopping in and out. It was not a snapper turtle. Its nose looked like nasal spray, one of those bottles of nasal spray. But it was a good deed. I picked up that turtle and we took it over there and I hope that it laid its eggs somewhere. She was doing this in broad daylight, folks, so there was plenty of light out there. Normally, these turtles do this at night to prevent other animals and beasts like birds getting in there and doing (interruption). Yeah, you could say that. You could say I interfered with nature. But I didn't interfere with nature because I am nature. I'm as much a part of nature as the stupid bird. It was a crow. To hell with those things! Those things... People ride golf carts. If you get to the halfway house and you put some cookies or snacks in there and then get out of the cart to go putt, those damn things steal your cookies out of the cart. If they find something they start cawing like crazy. All their buddies show up and you're in The Birds. It's like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. So I have no love lost for those crows. They're scavengers, just sitting around waiting for the disadvantaged to get weak. That's why I interceded. I am nature. I am as much a part of nature as they were. |
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Alberto Gonzales' classmates ran a one page ad in the Washington Post urging him to resign.
Quebec's new language minister says she intends to apply the province's tough language laws using a zero tolerance policy.
"The question of the French language, it's a priority for our government," said Christine St-Pierre, minister responsible for the Charter of the French Language. "It's also a priority for Premier [Jean] Charest."
"There will be zero tolerance on questions of the French language. We will be present, we will monitor and we will apply the law."
St-Pierre issued the dictum in response to a question from Parti Québécois MNA Pierre Curzi, who raised the language question at the national assembly on Thursday.
French remains fragile in Quebec's cosmopolitan areas, especially Montreal, and the government has a role to play to ensure its primacy, said Curzi.
"It's so easy in our environment, which is essentially English, to slide away, and especially in Montreal, where there are so many people coming from everywhere."
Quebec's Charter of the French Language, known as Bill 101, spells out the rules for using French in Quebec public spaces, workplaces and institutions."
What if we didn't allow Spanish?
Cleland also said after hearing a clip of Vice President Cheney, "This administration for five years has tried to make Iraq the 51st state. It won't work. It belongs to the Iraqis. ... We can't micromanage Iraq."
No...Israel is the 51st state silly!
“The world looked at Hitler and just didn't believe him and tried to appease him the way we're hearing in Washington today,” Dobson remarked. “You know, the President seems to me does understand this, as I told you from that meeting I had with him the other day, but even there it feels like somebody ought to be standing up and saying, ‘We are being threatened and we are going to meet this with force -- whatever's necessary.’”
Dobson continued, “Some of our listeners might not like that but I tell you, if we didn't stand up to Hitler, we'd be speaking German today.”
Um, I don't think we entered WWII because of Hitler. Dobson, we entered because Japan bombed us. And why would Bush talk to them about this issue? Peace loving Evangelical Christian. Gotta love it.Dear Abby,
I am a crack dealer in Beaumont , Texas
who has recently been diagnosed
as a carrier of HIV virus. My parents
live in Fort Worth . One of my
sisters lives in Pflugerville and is
married to a transvestite.
My father and mother have recently been
arrested for growing and selling
marijuana. They are financially
dependent on my other two sisters, who
are prostitutes in Dallas .
I have two brothers: one is currently
serving a non-parole life sentence
at Huntsville for the murder of a
teenage boy in 1994. My other
brother is currently in jail awaiting charges of
sexual misconduct with his three children.
I have recently become engaged to marry
a former prostitute who lives in
Longview . She is a part time "working
girl". All things considered, my problem is
this. I love my fiancé and look
forward to bringing her into the family.
I certainly want to be totally
open and honest with her.
Should I tell her about my cousin who
supports Hillary Clinton for
President?
Signed,
Worried About My Reputation
