More than 10,000 supporters paid $17.75 to attend Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic convention today, even as the Republican National Convention is being suspended due to an anticipated lack of ratings generated by the Hurricane Gustav press coverage. Paul, R-Texas, has generated a lot of buzz on the internet and. While his support in the “real world” is iffy, he is perhaps the most vehemently supported republican candidate for any office in the online space.
Honestly, I don’t have to stand on a soapbox to explain to the handful of readers I may have why Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, is about as good a presidential candidate as a lumbering, old elephant with a glitchy voice recorder taped to its trunk. He does a good enough job of that for himself.
Just check out this montage put together by Talking Points Memo. It pretty much sums up the way I look at the man.
All the hubbub over the Summer Olympic Games threatens to overshadow rising hostility between Russia and Georgia over the disputed territory of South Ossetia. Insofar as I can tell, S. Ossetia broke free from Georgia in the 90’s and, now under new leadership, Georgia aims to crush the separatists and take back its land.
Meanwhile, S. Ossetians have run to Russia for support and would rather be absorbed into Russia than be taken back by Georgia At present, Russia has sent in a massive wave of shock troops into S. Ossetia to fight off Georgian forces. Russia has also been caught on video attacking residential neighborhoods in Georgia.
In a groundbreaking moment of accountability that surprised few intelligent Americans, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan said on MSNBC’s Hardball that his organization routinely sent Fox News talking points.
If McClellan is (finally) telling the truth, it would implicate Fox as an instrument of right wing propaganda.
Oliver Stone, director of JFK (1991) and Nixon (1995), is working on a film detailing the rise of the 43rd President, George W. Bush. The film, to be titled W (pronounced dub-ya) will star Josh Brolin as Bush and is scheduled to start making waves this October.
Earlier this week Nas showed up outside the Fox News building in New York to speak to protesters about the “news” network’s portrayal of African Americans.
Alongside Move On and Color of Change, the hip-hop superstar delivered 620,000 signatures demanding that Fox News halt their biased and racist representation of black Americans.
Researchers at the Domino’s Pizza Institute nearing completion of a 30 year study on what humans would be willing to eat have released some interesting preliminary results.
This Friday, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, will give a presentation before Judiciary Committee in the House of Reps requesting impeachment hearings for President George W. Bush.
The video here is pretty boring, but Kucinich outlines a number of assaults on our great Constitution that he would like to see the Bush administration held accountable for.
Malcolm Gladwell, author of one of my favorite books about social economics, “The Tipping Point,” will be releasing another book in November. His new title, “Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t,” promises to challenge common thoughts on what leads to ultra-successful types like Bill Gates. Some are saying he places more focus on a person’s roots and on recognizing the opportunity of the moment than he does on sheer smarts or determination.
The New York Times teaser has about as much as is known about Gladwell’s upcoming book. But rest assured, I’ve already pre-ordered mine!
