I would like to give the gold metal to myself for being out front telling the Edwards story and picking up on the self-centeredness of Edwards from the start have known since I posted it last October that this man was lying about his affair. His affair is not the issue and not why it is news. It is news because he was running for president.
I also disappointed that the people who called me names and doubted that I was right did not have the decency to apologize to me. Those people that called me evil and you know who you are.

Sorry - hit enter before finishing and proofreading.
I am not happy nor gloting because Edwards had an affair. I am just happy that he came clean and admitted his affair after being such a phony and lying about it. I feel awful for Elizabeth as my X had an affair and left me when I was pregnant so I have an enourmous amount of sympathy for her and her family.
I will take your apologies here now.

Yes, I realize it was supposed to be “medal”!

Enjoy the olympics, we’re the ones that will get the tab when we have to pay back the Chinese for the trillions we’ve borrowed to fight in Iraq.
Had enough vote Democrat!

The Missouri Secretary of State told Missouri Citizens for Property Rights that they had failed to turn in enough signatures for one of the six required congressional districts. The signatures are needed to place amendments to the Missouri constitution on the November ballot that would end eminent domain abuse for private profit in Missouri. Ron Calzone is going to challenge the ruling since he believes enough signatures were turned in. I wonder if other pressure can be brought on the Secretary of State to recount the signatures.

http://www.mo-cpr.org/

But what a nightmare! After all that hard work by people like Darla Maloney and the Calzones, to just miss. My wife was in charge of collecting 20,000 signatures for St. Louis City for another amendment to the Missouri constitution. This sort of situation is the one she feared most.

Not sure if this is the correct venue to vent, but my husband and I have been VERY disappointed with the camera work during the rowing events. We have watched 2 heats that the US was in and there was never a close up of either of the US boats, but many close ups of other boats. Who is doing the camera work? Who do they think their public/market is? Watching rowing has been very irritating and frustrating while we have enjoyed watching the other events. Please hve NBC talk to that camera person! Thanks.

Bill,
I agree with you. But I have a culprit to blame.
The eminent domain people allowed their petitions to be tainted by allowing Ward Connerly and his out of state paid professional canvassers to carry both the eminent domain and affirmative action ban at the same time. Many people who wisely refused to sign the affirmative action ban also probably missed out of the eminent domain ban because they did not want to deal with these out of state pushers. Perhaps in two years when I am sure the eminent domain people will be back at it they will be more careful with you they are associated with.

No thoughts or mention of the Georgia and Russia war going on? I wonder why, have not gotten the go ahead on this one yet?

I would give Gold Medals to Jo Ann Emerson, Kenny Hulshof and Mike Huckabee would zeroed in on the important issues at Saturday night’s Emerson annual picnic in Cape Girardeau. An awesome, inspiring event with over 1,200 in attendance. Good, common sense, down-home values will succeed in this election - not the failed politics of the past as proposed by the Obama/Nixon campaigns. As Huckabee said Saturday night, “The greatness of this country is not the people who run for office. It is the people who help us keep our freedom.” We are lucky to have leaders like Emerson, Hulshof and Huckabee.

I would give Gold Medals to Jo Ann Emerson, Kenny Hulshof and Mike Huckabee would zeroed in on the important issues at Saturday night’s Emerson annual picnic in Cape Girardeau. An awesome, inspiring event with over 1,200 in attendance. Good, common sense, down-home values will succeed in this election - not the failed politics of the past as proposed by the Obama/Nixon campaigns. As Huckabee said Saturday night, “The greatness of this country is not the people who run for office. It is the people who help us keep our freedom.” We are lucky to have leaders like Emerson, Hulshof and Huckabee.

A gold medal to the Wright-Jones for Senate campaign. A job well done!

Okay, here is a real Olympics question: On Sat. I was channel surfing the TV and first came across on C-Span the DNC setting their convention platform. Then I switched over to the Olympics and girls beach volleyball was on. Okay, Dem men, which did you prefer to watch?

I would like to give a Gold Medal to all the Center Right & Conservative posters that make this blog worth reading.
A Silver Medal for Olympic level tedium to dwalker
A Gold Medal for Olympic level oh jeez not this crap again to tim hogan
A Bronze for Olympic level bla-bla-blathering to rharnack
and a double Gold Medal (in lieu of another donut) to whomever that man in the blue XXL-shirt is:

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-platform/editorial-writers-notebooks/2008/08/rep-roy-blunt-talks-to-the-editorial-board/

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I am a Democratic woman who likewise stumbled on both the DNC platform rollout and sand volleyball. Sand volleyball was way hotter, er… more watchable, but still not as hot as the Paris Hilton rebuttal ad. Maybe the DNC should should have arranged for her to be on the dais at the convention.

What are you missing? You’re not covering the problems with the Mehlville Fire Protection District. The current board of directors is destroying what has been one of the best departments in our region. They continually break numerous laws in the process, including Missouri’s open records/meetings laws. Two firefighters were recently fired for partcipating in legal union activities, including the union president, with hardly a mention by the Post Dispatch. The BOD has been cutting services to the community and bragging only about cost reductions.

A study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and reported in the Wall Street Journal, claims that the Scottish smoking ban has reduced the heart attack rate there 17 percent. Antismoking groups like the American Cancer Society are hoping to use this study to push smoking bans in currently free cities such as St. Louis. Yet this study has been heavily criticized by secondhand smoke epidemiologist Dr. Michael Siegel who points out that Wales had the same smoking ban and the heart attack rate after the ban increased. I am talking with the Wall Street Journal about reporting the effects of the Wales smoking ban so that lawmakers in American towns such as St. Louis have full information on this issue.

http://keepstlouisfree.blogspot.com/2008/08/wales-smoking-ban-has-no-effect-on.html

Wall Street Journal article concerning Scottish heart attack study published in the New England Journal of Medicine:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121745760276798609.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

WSJ reporter Peter Singer-Vine wrote to me:

“I was not aware of Dr. Siegel’s opinions…The NEJM study appears to be more rigorous than any previous study, but as a life-long skeptic, I would like to see where the holes are if you would be willing to point them out.”

Dr. Siegel points out the holes and concludes:

“In other words, one cannot rule out the very plausible alternative hypothesis that the observed decline in heart attacks is explained by random variation in the data and the already existing secular trend of declining heart attacks in Scotland.”

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/search?q=Apples+to+Oranges

Bill,

I am not familiar with the eminent domain petition (but if it was being handed around with the Ward Connerly anti-AA petition I would have highly avoided it). I do have a question:
Did they just collect for 6 districts? If so, why not all 9? Really, this is an important issue and if you just do the minimum you can’t expect maximum results.

Suzyjax, people with the Ward Connerly anti-AA petitions were harassed. If you allowed your papers to be searched and you just had anti-eminent domain petitions, you were left alone.

suzyjax…

In accordance Article III, Section 50 of the Missouri Constitution, the initiative petition for a constitutional amendment must be signed 8% of the registered voters in 2/3rds of Missouri’s Congressional Districts.

Collecting any signatures in the other districts would be a waste of manpower.

I hope this answers your question.

BobZ - why on earth do you want to give a double gold medal to Kevin Horrigan and for what? The least researched editorials and commentaries in the country?

The U.S. have sent envoys into the Georgia - Russia war.

Is this how the U.S. and Israel have planned to distract Russia so that Israel can feel secure in there plan to bomb Iran? You have better believe that this is what is stirring. All very well planned, but plans don’t always succeed as planned.

None of these involved are good,and may the most evil win! That will be the outcome here. I did not see that it would happen this way, but knew it was coming,not knowing exactly when.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3548662,00.html

I know what the requirements are to get it on the ballot. And I see your point about manpower. However, I just think there is so much to be gained by hitting all congressional districts. This is your initial chance to get the word out about your proposition. There is nothing that will vote down your initiative faster than lack of voter education–so start early. In addition, some voters might take pride in the fact they helped get it on the ballot–and possibly push their friends, families, and neighbors to support the measure.

The man in the XXX-Large blue shirt can’t eat the Medals, can he? If so, let’s give him four so he’ll lay off the donuts for awhile.

Guess which editorial writer — a real paragon of free speech & free thought — has banned me from The Platform?

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“None of these involved are good…” — D. Walker

Which countries are you referring to by “these” … ? Georgia, Russia, Isreal, U.S., Iran?

Shake your crystal ball again and clarify what you mean to say.

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