#344 Always a Reason

Popcrunch at the MTV Movie Awards - Red Carpet 2

News Hounds: Bill Richardson Lets On He’s Under VP Consideration

News Hounds: Bill Richardson Lets On He’s Under VP Consideration:

"New Mexico governor Bill Richardson let it be known on last night’s (6/20/08)
Hannity & Colmes that he’s under consideration to be Barack Obama’s running
mate. Richardson also let it be known that he’s interested."

I think that Richardson would be a great choice for Obama.

Afghan support for raid in Pakistan - 20 Jun 08

Atlas Shrugs: Obama to Women: "Get Over It!"

Atlas Shrugs: Obama to Women: "Get Over It!":

"If women take a moment to realize that on every issue important to women,
John McCain is not in their corner, that would help them get over it.'"

Get over it? That's nice.

NewsBusted 6/20/08

PoliPundit.com » Hagel: Pick Me Obama, Pick Me!

PoliPundit.com » Hagel: Pick Me Obama, Pick Me!:

"Retiring US Senator Chuck Hagel, a anti-war Republican, has indicated, that if
asked, he would consider joining the Presidential ticket of Barack Obama as his
Vice President"

I think it would be a great thing for this country to see a McCain/Lieberman ticket versus an Obama/Hagel ticket.

Section 8 Vouchers and Crime Correlated; Expect Media Indifference | NewsBusters.org

Section 8 Vouchers and Crime Correlated; Expect Media Indifference NewsBusters.org:

"About six months ago, they decided to put a hunch to the test. Janikowski
merged his computer map of crime patterns with Betts’s map of Section 8 rentals.
..... the match was near-perfect."

Read the whole post to get more information.

This doesn't clearly point to section 8 units causing crime to me, though it does suggest it. What it also suggests to me is that where there is a high rate of crime, land value and rental prices are lower. It is those areas that would attract a larger number of people with vouchers. Also many landlords don't want to take the vouchers, but landlords with properties that are in hard to rent areas would have to be more open to taking them. What it comes down to for me, in these high crime areas what came first the crime of the vouchers?

Flip-Flopper Obama: Do As I Say, Not As I Do; Public Funding

lgf: Obama Throws Mainstream Media Under the Bus#rss

lgf: Obama Throws Mainstream Media Under the Bus#rss:

"Friday morning, scathing editorials in many top broadsheets characterized
Obama’s move as a self-interested flip-flop, dismissed his efforts to cast it as
a principled stand and charged that Obama wasn’t living up to the reformer image
around which he has crafted his political identity."

How is this a change to believe in?

The Strata-Sphere » The Magical Mystery Of Obama The Enigma

The Strata-Sphere » The Magical Mystery Of Obama The Enigma:

"Who is Barack Obama? What does this cypher of a candidate stand for? He seems
to be an endless sequence of popular and conflicting platitudes upon which
people project their deepest desires. As I noted in a previous post that
discussed Obama’s amazingly precise, manufactured vagueness - Obama is much like
the fictional Mirror of Erised from the Harry Potter stories."

There is something a little uncomfortable for me about Obama. Other than being against the war, what does he stand for? Change, what does that mean?

Jamie Lynn Spears Gives Birth

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Quote Details: Friedrich Nietzsche: At times one remains... - The Quotations Page

Quote Details: Friedrich Nietzsche: At times one remains... - The Quotations Page:

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)"

17 Schoolgirls Make a pregnancy pact to have babies now 17

Teen 'pregnancy pact' examined

New York in Black and White - Wired New York Forum

New York in Black and White - Wired New York Forum

A number of cool old pictures of New York City are at this site.