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Countdown Supplemental for June 25 and 26, 2008

Posted: Friday, June 27, 2008 3:31 PM by Countdown
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The Wall Street Journal has some of the background information on that amazing ball girl catch viral video ad for Gatorade.

The Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco has a site to represent their effort to name the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant sewage plant after George W. Bush. (Don't miss the official seal.)

The most recent Quinnipiac swing state poll shows Obama ahead in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The Guy Caruso quote in Thursday's show about how little offshore drilling would add to overall oil supplies and how little it would ultimately decrease the price of gas (in five to ten years) was in general news reports like this Reuters item. The news peg, if you want to get into the nitty gritty of it all, is this recently released International Energy Outlook 2008 report and the even more recent Annual Energy Outlook 2008 report - both from the Energy Information Administration of which Caruso is the head.

NPR has more on the perils soldiers face while they wait for government benefit checks to help cover their medical costs. The non-profit, non-governmental organization that Keith mentioned last night in connection with the Isaac Stevens story is Operation Homefront.

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That "official seal" is truly without price.

ek, mpls mn (Sent Friday, June 27, 2008 3:55 PM)

"I Left My Heart In San Francisco" (Tony Bennett) ... "San Franciscan Nights" (Eric Burden & The Animals) ... "San Francisco" (Scott McKenzie)

The song list goes on & on. Beautiful city. Inherently silly city officials. They just get help themselves.

Full Moon (Sent Friday, June 27, 2008 5:12 PM)

Keith,
Normally you have very well thought out positions on all issues.  But you're Worst Person commentary about Scalia couldn't have been more wrong.  There is plenty to criticize in his Heller decision but the notion that the Second Amendment only applies to militias is not among them.

Your comment that muskets and chinese heavy cannons are the only thing protected in a document written in the eighteenth century would also mean by extension that the first amendment enumerated protections you enjoy would also not be covered (meaning radio and TV).  Also, federal wiretapping which I have heard you mention in the fourth amendment in regards too would also not be a violation as "wires" to be tapped did not exist in the 1780's.  

Is this really where you want to base your disagreement with the second amendment and by extension the Heller decision?


Chris Kahrhoff, Scottsdale, AZ (Sent Monday, June 30, 2008 4:25 PM)

wow, comments finally appearing. Did the intern return from the beach?

nuanced (Sent Monday, June 30, 2008 6:31 PM)



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