Archive for March, 2010

Tom Friedman talks about the need for a third party that will represent the “Radical Center”

A Tea Party Without Nuts

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published: March 23, 2010

President Obama’s winning passage of national health care is both exhilarating and sobering. Covering so many uninsured Americans is a historic achievement. But the president had to postpone trips, buy off companies and cut every conceivable side deal to just barely make it happen, without a single Republican vote. If the Democrats now lose seats in the midterm elections, we’re headed for even worse gridlock, even though we still have so much more nation-building for America to do — from education to energy to environment to innovation to tax policy. That is why I want my own Tea Party. I want a Tea Party of the radical center.

Say what? I write often about innovation in energy and education. But I’ve come to realize that none of these innovations will emerge at scale until we get the most important innovation of all — political innovation that will empower independents and centrists, which describes a lot of the country.

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Maureen Dowd talks about the just passed Health Care bill and what it meant for the Democratic Party and the Administration to finally Win something Big.

Hail the Conquering Professor

  By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: March 23, 2010

WASHINGTON

The Democrats were walking around in a state of shock.

Holy cow, they were saying to themselves. We’re not total wimps! We don’t have to sit around and let ourselves be slapped silly by Republican bullies and Tea Party scaremongers. We can actually get something done if we suck it up and find a way to pull together.

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President Obama’s approval rating climbed to it’s highest level in the weeks at 51%.  This is a 6 point gain from just 7 days ago when his rating was 46%.

Since the demise of the Concorde in 2003, only fighter jet crews and astronauts have had the pleasure of supersonic flight. The Russians are currently testing a new fifth generation PAK-FA T-50 supersonic stealth fighter that will be in direct competition with the world’s only current fifth generation supersonic jet, the new US F-22 Raptor. Even India is on the supersonic bandwagon, participating with Russia in the development of the new jet.

But commercial aviation remains subsonic.

This could change soon.

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“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”— Plato, (427 BC – 347 BC)

What’s the fastest growing segment of health club members? It’s baby boomers. Membership at health clubs among adults 55 and older rose to 10 million from 1.5 back in 1987. “For the first time, we have a cohort of people who are just getting ready to retire and have an expectation of being physically active,” said Wojtek J. Chodzko-Zajko, an exercise scientist and expert in fitness at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.”

An 11 year-old boy Dubai buys real estate for $44 million. Who paid for this?  We did by continuing to buy oil from the Middle East at $75 a barrel.  Millions of barrels everyday. When will we figure this out?  Soon I hope, but I won’t hold my breath.  As experts have said, this is the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world.  And we’re the ones losing.  Wake up America:

“DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Even by the standards of a city that celebrates extravagance, it was a spectacular shopping spree: In just two weeks early last year, an 11-year-old boy from Azerbaijan became the owner of nine waterfront mansions.

The total price tag: about $44 million — or roughly 10,000 years’ worth of salary for the average citizen of Azerbaijan. But the preteen who owns a big chunk of some of Dubai’s priciest real estate seems to be anything but average.”

Jack Nicklaus says Tiger will play the Masters…..Killer wave hits cruise ship near Spain and kills 2 passengers….Should Governor Patterson quit – New York voters in a recent poll said NO.

The President has seen his approval rating climb to 52% after hitting a low of 48% during the month of February.  Could it be that some of the latest White House moves have helped.  Specifically there was the health care summit, a meeting in from of the GOP, and a possible conclusion to the health care fight.

In a poll on CNN, viewers voted on the top 4 categories and came up with these results: Best Picture – Avatar, Best Director – James Cameron, Best Actor – Jeremy Remmer, Best Actress – Meryl Streep.