McCain AWOL Since April 2008

As of July 7, McCain had missed 61.8 percent of the roll call votes in this Congress, which made him the No. 1 absentee in the Senate (number two was Tim Johnson, who has been recovering from a brain hemorrhage). Obama missed 43.5 percent of the roll call votes.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/11/reid_chastises_mccain_for_not.html

The Iran War Drumbeat Continues

No sane person believes that Bush and Cheney could get away with starting hostilities with Iran – let alone want to. But there has been a consistent drumbeat for it from the clowns who brought you the Iraq disaster. What worries me are actions on the ground. But the sane people have proven woefully wrong on too many occassions. And Iran is not exactly helping defuse the situation. Here are a collection of snippets that I am keeping an eye on.

I sure wish I could be wrong about it.

SEYMOUR HERSH,
writer for The New Yorker, on his report that the Bush Administration is escalating tensions in Iran with a $4 million covert operation
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/07/07/080707on_audio_hersh

 

Where are all the bees going?

This has been going on for a while and is already proving to have alarming consequences.

No bees, no crops.

ROBERT D. EDWARDS,
North Carolina farmer, testifying before a congressional subcommittee that he had to cut his cucumber acreage in half because of the lack of bees. Beekeepers have lost 36 percent of their managed colonies this year

http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1818450,00.html

 

Big Stories I Am Watching

There are large stories and small threads of storeis and hints at stories and stories that I keep forgetting to make a note of because I want to get back to them. So I am starting a list of the big and little things that I think we will be seeing more of.