Daily Archives: Dec. 13, 2007

Climate change concerns heating up

Dec. 13, 20071:29 p.m.

Globalicemelt The European Union is fed up with U.S. foot-dragging on global warming and plans to boycott President Bush’s climate change meeting next month unless an agreement is reached at the Bali summit going on now.
In other recent climate change news:
– The World Meteorological Organization announced today that the past 10 years were the warmest on record.
– Scientists reported this week that the volume of Arctic sea ice at the end of the summer was a mere half of what it was just four years ago.
– The Pew Center on Global Climate Change reported last week that that the Midwest will face much hotter, longer and frequent heat waves due to warming, with increased health and economic risks.
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At least Obama is honest about inhaling

Dec. 13, 20071:25 p.m.

ObamahandsbyfaceBill Shaheen, a national co-chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, told the Washington Post that Democrats should give more thought to Barack Obama’s admissions of illegal drug use when he was young, saying that Republicans would exploit it. Sounds more like a panicked Clinton team is trying to do the exploiting.
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Open thread 12/13

Dec. 13, 20071:05 a.m.

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Huckabee having a pre-YouTube moment

Dec. 13, 20071:04 a.m.

Huckabeeleaningright GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee bragged earlier this year that “Nobody’s going to find some YouTube moments of me saying something radically different than what I’m saying today.” But he is having trouble explaining some of his answers on a candidate survey from his unsuccessful Senate campaign in 1992.
Huckabee said on the survey that he supported isolating AIDS patients from the general public. When pressed Sunday about that view, Huckabee said that he stood by the comments but denied wanting to quarantine the AIDS population — though he didn’t explain how else they would be isolated. He also claimed that there was uncertainty at the time about how AIDS was spread, but it was known well before 1992 that AIDS wasn’t spread through casual contact.
In the survey, Huckabee also opposed women in the military. And on the question of whether gays should be allowed in the military, Huckabee said: “I believe to try to legitimize that which is inherently illegitimate would be a disgraceful act of government.”
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Bush may owe presidency to kicking his addiction

Dec. 13, 20071:01 a.m.

Bushseal Americans still don’t know much about George Bush’s wild and crazy days. The president said a bit more this week in an ABC News interview, explaining that he hasn’t had a drink since 1986 and, “I wasn’t a knee-walking drunk. It’s a difficult thing to do, which is to kick an addiction.”
He said he’s a “better man” for having quit cold turkey.
“I doubt I’d be standing here if I hadn’t quit drinking whiskey, and beer and wine and all that,” he said.
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One Clinton touts another

Dec. 13, 20071:00 a.m.

Clintonhillbillwave “Every two years, the Democrats kind of haul me out of the barn like an old horse to see if I can make it around the track one more time.” — Bill Clinton, adding on an Iowa campaign stop Monday that his wife, Hillary Clinton, “is the single best suited person to be president” and “the most gifted person of our generation”
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