http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ en-us jpl@showpage.org 2008-04-21T10:15:56-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000401.html http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/16/bush.climate.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech Yep, George Bush admitted it. He's a complete moron. "Oh, shucks, I guess I finally understand. You mean if we keep heating up the earth, pretty soon the ice will melt? Ah shucks, why didn't anyone explain that... 401@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2008-04-21T10:15:56-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000400.html The 90s were a great time. The economy was rocking. The US reputation was growing worldwide for statesmanship and diplomacy. Things were pretty darned good. And we're not going to see them that good again for a very long time.... 400@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2008-03-19T21:21:30-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000398.html The Catholic Church has published a new list of sinful behavior. I find the list interesting. According to a CNN story, Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, who heads the Apostolic Penitentiary (that issues decisions on matters of conscience and grants absolutions),... 398@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2008-03-10T10:38:28-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000397.html I took a political opinion quiz designed to match your views with those of the various presidential candidates. I found the results interesting. They are shown below. I notice that there's a small difference between myself and the various Democratic... 397@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ Presidential Elections 2008-01-15T11:32:46-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000395.html Okay, this isn't politics, but it's going to be a rant. Kat and I are trying to do some fairly extensive remodeling to our house. We can do it because we do most of it ourselves, reducing costs down... 395@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2007-12-07T09:52:50-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000389.html http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/30/sudan.bears/index.html In Sudan, a British school teacher allowed her students to name a teddy bear "Mohammed". She has been convicted of insulting Islam and given 15 days in jail. It could have been worse, but to westerners, the entire... 389@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2007-12-03T09:00:34-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000387.html We've all seen the reports. Person disrupts the John Kerry meeting. Police encourage him to leave when he's overstayed his welcome. There would have been no problem if the guy had followed the lawful order of the police. But no!... 387@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2007-09-19T22:38:41-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000385.html Kris sent me a lengthy list of anti-Bush bumper stickers. I liked most of them. But I think this one stands out. I'm not sure the Republican party understands how they are perceived by folks outside their party. This... 385@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2007-09-11T09:39:51-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000384.html http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/26/iraq.main/index.html?eref=rss_politics Hey Jerk! Send our boys home and we'll butt out. But as long as our boys are dying to prop up your government, you can damned well bet we want our Senators poking their noses anywhere they want.... 384@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2007-08-27T09:04:03-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000382.html http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/10/pope.churches.reut/index.html The Pope: All you non-Catholics aren't real Christians. Your worship of God and Jesus Christ is "wounded" because you don't recognize the primacy of the Pope. It is "difficult to see how the title of 'Church' could possibly... 382@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2007-07-10T16:40:58-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000381.html CNN has reported that the mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, has resigned from the GOP. The speculation is that he'll pursue a 3rd party presidential bid. This is the same Bloomberg who left the Democratic party in... 381@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2007-06-20T07:09:02-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000380.html In a CNN article today, someone (whose name I won't list because it doesn't matter) said, "At this rate, my kids won't be able to afford to drive." Like, duh! A lot of people have talked about dwindling oil... 380@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2007-05-25T09:53:18-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000379.html Here's another trampling of freedom of speech: http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/04/27/school.newspaper.flap.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us It's not the teacher who should have faced losing her job.... 379@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2007-04-27T11:32:16-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000377.html http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/04/25/baby.emilio/index.html?eref=rss_topstories A woman in Texas is fighting a hospital that wants to remove her terminally ill (and likely in pain) baby from a ventilator. The woman wants to keep him on the ventilator so he can die "naturally, the... 377@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2007-04-25T14:59:44-06:00 http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/archives/000375.html http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/turner.prom/index.html?eref=rss_us This is a CNN article about a school in southern Georgia. No, it wasn't written 30 years ago. They actually used the word "colored people".... 375@http://www.showpage.org/joe/Politics/ 2007-04-23T14:05:38-06:00