| Clinton tears up talking about strains of campaign
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — In perhaps her most public display of emotion of the presidential campaign, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's eyes welled with tears, and her voice cracked dramatically today, as she talked about holding up under the rigors of the race and her belief that she is the best candidate for the Democratic nomination. Clinton did not cry (or look like she was crying), she certainly seemed on the verge of tears after a woman asked her, at a round table discussion at a coffee shop here, how she managed to get out of bed and soldier through each day. "How do you do it?" the woman, Marianne Pernold, asked. And, with a touch of humor, she added, "Who does your hair?" "It's not easy, it's not easy," Clinton replied slowly. .
Pakistan, Iran to sign GSP pact in Tehran next week
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Iran may sign the Gas Sales Purchase Agreement (GSPA) in Tehran in last week of the current month on Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project, sources told Daily Times here on Thursday.
Sources said that Iran has proposed February 24 to sign GSPA on IPI gas pipeline project in Tehran after the general elections in Pakistan. Earlier, Pakistan had proposed January 25 to sign GSPA on IPI in Abu Dhabi but Tehran declined to sign it in Abu Dhabi. Tehran told Pakistan that it wanted to sign agreement in Tehran with the new Pakistani elected government.
Sources said that draft of GSPA on IPI is ready to be signed by both Pakistan and Iran as Pakistani law ministry has vetted the draft of the agreement. Sources added that India was playing tactics with Pakistan to delay the signing of GSPA on IPI between Pakistan and Iran.
Toward a Defensible Climate Realism
New stations to import liquified natural gas are planned. I don't know about oil refinery expansion plans, if any, but everything seems still in growth mode. The NEA future coal fired electric power graph is a hockey stick itself. Go Go Go. Grow Grow Grow. We conquered and occupied an entire nation to grab its oil! This isn't waterboarding, invading Iraq, free speech, capital punishment, bombing Iran, or any other debate we have ever had. The scientific reality trumps the political ones. Do or die. We can't even freeze what we have now. Looks like we die. We need to take every oil and electric bill and every odometer reading times gallons per mile… and inform every business, building owner, household, airline… how much less they will be using next year and thereafter.
Waukee hears plans for roads, parks work
Residents had their concerns about road and park projects addressed Tuesday before the Waukee Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-0 to approve the comprehensive development plan.
Brad Deets, director of planning, summarized to about a dozen residents the blueprint that will guide development over the next few decades. It consists of a series of recommendations about where to add parks, neighborhoods, businesses, roads and shopping districts. .
Slowdown, but not crash and burn
Britain is more vulnerable than America to a recession for four reasons. First, our economy is far more dependent on investment banking and other high-value financial and business services. So if the present banking crisis continues to deteriorate to the point where it tips the US into recession, the damage it does to Britain's fastest growing and most profitable industry will be even more severe. Secondly, house prices have risen much higher in Britain than they have in America. While Britain's banks may not have indulged the equivalent of America's "Ninja" borrowers (No Income, No Job, No Assets), the average level of mortgage debt here is higher than in the US. It seems probable, therefore, that house prices and cash released by mortgage borrowing will ultimately fall farther in Britain than in the US.
LETTERS: Hush money
Chris Lester's column ("This hush money is a howl," Star Business Weekly, Jan. 28) puts a pin in the administration's economic balloon and its mantra of "borrow and spend." The quick fix of the economic stimulus package is no real fix to the shortsighted fiscal practices America refuses to face. The Republican pitch of "the less taxes, the better" translates in practice to "borrow and spend" to pay for the Iraq war and unrestrained domestic spending. The Bush administration is anything but conservative fiscally. If our president had the courage of any previous wartime president, he would have raised taxes in time of war so that the citizens at home helped sacrifice to pay for the war abroad. Instead, he has cut taxes and fights a war without end with money borrowed from China and Arab purchasers of our debt.
Five things to watch
4 Backing up. The starting outfield is set with Matt Holliday in left, Willy Taveras in center and Brad Hawpe in right. Baker and Ryan Spilborghs, both right-handed hitters, would seem to have two other spots. But there is a need for a left-handed hitter to back up Taveras. It could be holdover Cory Sullivan or recent signee Scott Podsednik, a key to the White Sox's 2005 title but an injury disappointment the past two years. 5 Attitude. The Rockies enjoyed the underdog role. They played without pressure last year. Now, fans are going to have expectations. The challenge for the inexperienced Rockies will be to keep that edge they had in 2007 and to maintain that one-game-at-a-time mentality that served them so well last season. .
Johnson making 7th to Cuba to pitch farm products, mainly spuds
North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson is making another trip to Cuba next month to push North Dakota farm products.Johnson says it will be his seventh trip in the past seven years pitching the state's commodities. He said the state has sold about $30 million worth of peas and lentils to Cuba since 2001. But he said a deal he helped broker last year that would have sent 100 tons of seed potatoes to Cuba has languished.Rules have not been crafted to deal with potato food-safety issues, known as "sanitary and phytosanitary measures," that ensure the commodity is disease and insect-free, Johnson said."It's disappointing," Johnson said. U.S. regulators "are still dithering around with the protocol - it's hard to say where the block is."The United States established a trade embargo with Cuba in 1962, but Congress passed a law in 2001 allowing cash sales of U.S.
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