Apparently, the world had forgotten about Mrs. Palin. Or someone somewhere got some pretty good insider info, because her stock for VP candidate has skyrocketed overnight. There’s also a rumor about her being headed to Ohio today. Just so happens that McCain is scheduled to announce his VP pick there today… Hmmm…
She could be just the extra bit that the McCain camp needs. First, I think that Obama missed out when he chose not to pick Clinton as his VP. He would have gotten a very popular candidate as well as a Woman. McCain could pick up a small amount of votes for having a woman on the ticket.
Also, with all the uproar being about spending, spending, and more spending, McCain and Palin could be to of the best of the best conservatives as far as anti-earmarking goes. And I like that. It’s time to be fiscally conservative once again. When the rest of the country is reportedly in a damn recession, why is the government spending more?
Adding Sarah Palin to the ticket would pretty much cement my pick for President. Obama lost me months ago, but I don’t believe in wasted votes, so the other Presidential candidates (yes there are others) still have a chance. Probably not with Palin on the ticket though.
Update: It’s official. Even McCain’s campaign site has been updated already. (although the site doesn’t render very well for me in Firefox right now. Maybe they’re still working on it.)
It occurs to me that if you’re a comedian who’s running for Senate and you’re trying to distance yourself from your comedic rants, that running a campaign commercial with a talking Bass isn’t the best way to go about that.
I don’t live in Minnesota, so I don’t have much of an opinion on who should win this race. I just thought it was a bit off putting when you have a candidate who is running for what is a very serious position injecting comedy into the campaign. Does Al Franken take it seriously?
WalMart is catching a bit of heat over a report that the retail giant instructed it’s employees to vote against the democrats this election season. Of course, WalMart denies that they did exactly that.
Wal-Mart spokesman Dave Tovar told The Associated Press that the company did discuss the bill with its employees, including what it sees as the negative impact, and noted that the company’s stand on the legislation is no secret.
“We believe the Employee Free Choice Act is a bad bill and we have been on the record as opposed to it,” he said.
But he said the company wasn’t advocating that its employees vote against backers of the legislation.
“If anyone representing Wal-Mart gave the impression… they are wrong and acting without approval,” said Tovar. In fact, he said that Wal-Mart has been working with both Republicans and Democrats.
Here’s my problem with all this. Why can’t WalMart tell it’s employees that they should vote Republican, Democrat, or Vulcan? It’s a free world right? As long as what their vote really is stays private and the company doesn’t make it a requirement but a suggestion, I don’t see the problem. WalMart has a responsibility to it’s shareholders to try and influence legislation in a way that is beneficial to the company. As an employee, it is also beneficial to you to vote for beneficial legislators that will pass legislation that is beneficial to your company.
As an employee, I would almost rather that my employer made me aware of legislation and legislators that would be beneficial to the company. That doesn’t mean that I’ll vote for those legislators or push that legislation, but if I’m sitting on the fence with my vote and one candidate would be better than the other for my company, he/she would get a little more weight in the arguement.
I’m sure the worry is that a company telling it’s employees how they should vote seems wrong. If it were demanded or made a requirement, then I totally would agree. But, the real problem is the uninformed voters who simply vote because they were told they should. The more educated the voter is, the better. Even if the only education they’ve received is from corporate headquarters.
It seems that the Democrat opposition to the XM satellite / Sirius satellite merger has Howard Stern fuming. In his words:
They’re for communism. They don’t want to see companies – this is gangsterism.
Last time I checked, Mr. Stern had a few listeners to his program. Makes me wonder how many of them were Democrat voters and how many of them are now… I’m glad that someone a little more mainstream than Rush is exposing their socialist/communist agenda. Not that the Republicans are angels either, mind you.
Democrats in Congress today plan to introduce a bill to halt the recently-announced closing of some 600 Starbucks coffee stores, noting that the displacement of 12,000 Starbucks baristas would overwhelm government aid offices…
I was led to it by The Club For Growth. And I have to echo their sentiment on the news (or lack thereof)
[…] some of you really thought it was true, right? That’s how bad things have gotten.
I believed it. Granted the edit that CfG did on it helped me by removing some of the more satirical parts, but I still wasn’t surprised that Pelosi and her henchmen would try and pull something like this off. They already do it for farmers, airlines, Amtrack, and many others. Why not the Coffee industry…
A couple of teachers at a high school in the suburbs of Minneapolis, MN decided that they’d seen enough of their students fail and not go on to college. Instead of letting their students get by with low test scores, they decided to do something about it.
What’s most important here, isn’t that the teachers gave a darn. (Although that is important in and of itself) The truly important part is that the students are being held to a high standard and are excelling where once they weren’t. Over the years, we’ve let our standards lapse so that none of the students feel left out or “stupid” and so that they all get that ever important diploma. All that’s accomplished is a decrease in the level of education that our students receive. Our students test grades, when compared to other countries, have been steadily declining. Why? Because we’ve let our standards go. No child left behind right?
Push.
Cunningham said some of her [classmates] don’t realize the importance of those high expectations, because “once you get put into that category, you just live up to it.”
Push.
“Sometimes you need someone to push you,” Davis said.
And it’s popular.
Originally, the course was scheduled for three days a week, but [Susan] Barnard works with up to 20 students every school day.
I wonder why 20 students a day would volunteer for a “hard” class like that?
My congratulations go out to the teachers in charge of this program. Assistant Principal Gerald Sakala and English/Special Education teacher Susan Barnard have taken the future of their students into their own hands and directed it to a much brighter place.
