Monthly ArchiveJuly 2008
Politics admin on 31 Jul 2008
McCain to Face Special Recall Election
Arizona Senator John McCain’s quest for the White House took on more urgency this week with the news that the state’s Secretary of State was bowing to pressure and scheduling a special recall election, tentatively set for late next week.
“We have heard the cries of frustration from the electorate and have decided that a recall election is the only way to satisfy the thousands and thousands of calls, letters and emails we’ve been receiving,” said a spokeswoman for Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer.
“While it is not our job to stand in judgment of Sen. McCain’s performance in office, it is our job to ensure that elected officials are answerable to their employers, the people,” added Brewer.
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Politics & Science & Technology admin on 22 Jul 2008
McCain GPS Anomaly Baffles Scientists
Many who have heard Republican presidential candidate John McCain speak up close and personal describe the experience as dreamlike, ethereal, almost out-of-body. Scientists now believe there may very well be a good reason for this.
“To be honest, we don’t know what it is, but we do know it exists,” says Dr. Sy Vitale, a researcher at Colorado’s Vale Physics Institute. “It’s like there’s a null pocket around Sen. McCain, an envelope of space in which GPS just doesn’t work. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
This null pocket was discovered about two months ago when aides to the senator began to notice that a new GPS unit on McCain’s Straight Talk Express tour bus would not function when the candidate came to the front of the bus to bark orders at the driver.
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Living & U.S. admin on 08 Jul 2008
Pathological Gamblers Flock to Buy No-Chance Tickets
When Manny Alberez ripped open his morning paper to check on his horse stats, ball scores and pick-three numbers, his eyes quickly settled on a story that made his heart race like a wheel of fortune before ticking back to a more rhythmic beat.
“This guy in the south was suing the state because the big prize for a scratch ticket he bought had already been won,” Manny recalled. He was referring to business professor Scott Hoover, who this week announced he was suing the state of Virginia for breach of contract related to their Beginner’s Luck scratch tickets.
“And I was thinking like, wow, no chance?” Alberez continued. “Those are crazy odds. And then I got what we in the gambling world call a boner.”
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