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Archive for May, 2006

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

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Looking like Michael Moore was not enough for Al Gore.  The Internet inventor has become a documentary film maker himself.  "An Inconvenient Truth" opened at the Cannes Film Festival.  It is a movie about a slide show about Global Warming.

The former Buddhist nun bag man had this to say in a CBS interview: "There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. And the phrase
sounds shrill but it is an accurate description of the climate crisis
that we have to confront and solve."

I agree. It sounds shrill.

While characterizing the Bush administration as, "a renegade band of rightwing extremists", Gore says he has no plans to run for president. "I am involved in a campaign, but it's not for a candidacy. It's for a cause."  Things could get dicey here.  Suppose he changes his mind and runs for president after all. Could "An Inconvenient Truth" become the first major motion picture hauled into court?  McCain/Feingold issue advocacy rules would be the controlling legal authority

That would be an inconvenient truth.
 

Cash crisper

Friday, May 26th, 2006

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William Jefferson (D-La,) is suspected of bribery.  The Nation magazine calls him… "one of the worst Democrats in
the House even before he started hiding bribes in the freezer."

Cash found in his freezer is now being defrosted by the FBI. He says there are two sides to every story and refuses to step down.

Citizen Fox

Friday, May 26th, 2006

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President Bush visited Arizona last week.  Mexican president, Vicente Fox, campaigned in Utah, California, and Washington state this week. Both are trying to influence U.S. immigration policy.

They're not really meeting each other.  It's a cartoon.  I can make them do whatever I want.

"It's not with fences that we are going to solve this problem,"
says Fox.  Bush wants to strengthen the border with chainlink national guardsmen.  In exchange for better border security he wants a path to citizenship for Mexicans who are already here.  President Fox is already here.  He is Mexican.  He qualifies.

Judicial, Legislative, FBI

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

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William Jefferson (not Clinton), (D-La.) is suspected of bribery.  The FBI found $90,000 in cash hidden in his freezer at home.  They got a warrant and searched his congressional office. 

Congress is in a bipartisan outrage.  At the FBI, not Jefferson.  Separation of powers you know.

That's what they say.  What Republicans are really thinking is, "now everybody knows Democrats are as corrupt as we are."

McCain gets McCain-Feingolded

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

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John McCain was treated rudely while giving the commencement address at New School.

Investors Buisness Daily found the heckling ironic because:

"He has worked so hard to suppress others' right to protest and have their voices heardAs this was going on, a federal court was telling the
Christian Civic League in Maine it can't run a radio ad next month when
the Senate is set to take up the Marriage Protection Amendment. Reason:
The ad tangentially criticizes Sen. Olympia Snowe, who faces a primary
June 13."

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The McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, which was supposed to end
the alleged corrupting influence of money in politics, makes it a
criminal act for any ad to even mention a politician 30 days before a
primary or 60 days before a general election."

NBA Playoffs

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

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Da Vinci Code

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

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The film, The Da Vinci Code opened to poor reviews. Sixty million people bought the book.  Is it possible more people actually read the book than will see the movie?  Must be a conspiracy.

Update: Never mind.  It turns out the movie's a hit.  It raked in $224 mil worldwide over the weekend. Must be the one world conspiracy.

Veiled Threat

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

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Iran's parliament rolled out it's spring line of fashions. The kicky look could be ideal for concealing hand guns in Ohio.

DMZ

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

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President Bush laid out a compromise plan to win over the anti-immigration wing of his own party.  With a little tweaking he's sure to have a deal.

Pop Culture

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

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Bill Clinton and his "telling other people what to do" henchman, Ira Magaziner, have driven soda pop from the temples of lower education. 

Magaziner was last seen grabbing at the controls of one fifth of the U.S. economy through Hillarycare.

The former fatty president has a new outlook since his heart surgery.  He doesn't want toothless, sugar crazed, little fat kids growing up wearing itty bitty jogging shorts like he did.  Who knows where this could lead?