Posts Tagged ‘former president’

Welcome To Mooseport [3.0 Stars] By Skye

Monday, June 30th, 2008

I’ve been catching up on a lot of movies lately. One of them was “Welcome to Mooseport” (2004), which I had mentioned before, but didn’t get a chance to get around to. A former President retires to Mooseport, Maine, and ends up competing with a local handyman for the affections of the handyman’s long-time girlfriend, [...]

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White River Amphitheater

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Howard of myrtle beach can pin many memories of presidential campaigning on her boxes of souvenir buttons. Shes despite that smooth traded pins with a former president campaigning for another candidate, his wife. Campaign buttons, the popular round-face variety given away someone is concerned decades through the 1980s, are a in extremis breed among occupation [...]

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Longest Overtime Games In NHL History

Monday, May 5th, 2008

The Phantoms 3-2 win over the Albany River Rats, which started Thursday night and ended early yesterday morning, covered 142 minutes 58 seconds of game time. Joe was a former coach of the University of Toronto Blues and also a former president of the Central Pro Hockey League. First they entered with their horses and [...]

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Complices In Natascha Kampusch Case Not Excluded

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian was second in the field of nine, with 19 percent. A candidate needs more than 50 percent for an outright victory. Election officials were expected to continue counting ballots through the night and full preliminary results were not expected before Wednesday evening. The contest was marred by allegations from Ter-Petrosian that [...]

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4/21/08 - Jimmy Carter Was Right To Meet With Hamas

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

As a result, Carter is once again under fire from conservatives. Sue Myrick (NC) went so far as to call for the former president’s passport to be revoked on Fox News. Carter’s crime was to sit-down with leaders of Hamas last week to explore the possibility of waging peace in the Middle East. For many [...]

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Bill Clinton Got A New Dog.

Monday, April 21st, 2008

He’s sitting in his office in Harlem, playing with the new puppy, when the Secret Service detail changed shift. The new agent walked in and observed the former President playing with the pup, and said “New dog, Mister President?” “Yup,” replied Bill, “Ah got him for Hillary.” The agent nodded knowingly and said “That’s a [...]

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Heilemann: Robert Reich To Endorse Obama

Friday, April 18th, 2008

The endorsement in question is that of Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of Labor and a friend of both the former president and his wife for four decades. EST, Reich informs me, he intends formally to declare his support for Obama on his blog. Now, in one sense, the Reich endorsement comes as no [...]

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Vincent Basciano

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

But here it is nowabout Soehartoa towering figure indeed, although not necessarily somebody I looked up to === Legacy What kind of legacy did former president Soeharto leave behind for Indonesia ? It would not be easy to answer such a question, mostly because Soeharto himself very rarely betrayed any emotion. He had always [...]

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Vincent Basciano Vinny

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

But here it is nowabout Soehartoa towering figure indeed, although not necessarily somebody I looked up to === Legacy What kind of legacy did former president Soeharto leave behind for Indonesia ? It would not be easy to answer such a question, mostly because Soeharto himself very rarely betrayed any emotion. He had always [...]

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