Entries from June 2008

June 26, 2008

It’s rural Unity for Obama, Clinton

Ever since Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton announced that they would make their first appearance together post-primary season, TV cameras have been broadcasting images from Unity, N.H.. The rural town on the Vermont border is where Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama each got 107 votes in the New Hampshire Democratic primary. It is also where [...]

June 18, 2008

Iowa Flooding & No Wonder Al Gore’s Fired Up!

Al Gore made his first political endorsement since “losing” the 2000 presidential election and, oddly, Gore’s political resurfacing on behalf of Barack Obama came the same week that the corn-growing state of Iowa — the state where Obama essentially WON the 2008 Democratic race for the White House — was inundated with floodwater.
Corn — now [...]

June 11, 2008

National Cattle Grounds used for immigration bust

LandCrazed had heard reports in mid-May out of Waterloo, Iowa about how Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement had rented the National Cattle Congress grounds at the Iowa fairgrounds. Turns out that the land lease was ahead of a bust at the local meat processing plant in nearby Pottsville, Iowa.
About 600 people were busted [...]

June 11, 2008

$34 million going to KY. land heirs

Lawyers in Louisville traveled to western Kentucky last week to meet with Camp Breckinridge land heirs about how to pay out the $34 million settlement they finally won April 18, 2008. Look for the movie one day.

We’re talking ‘A Civil Action’ meets ‘Ellen Brockovich.’ That kind of blockbuster. Our only hope is that the heirs [...]