bubba2

I have a degree in music but that changed to computer systems and I have worked in application development for 25 years. I still enjoy music, do a bit of ballroom dancing, and I am also involved in pet rescue and volunteer at an area animal shelter. I also help run a science fiction convention in Memphis - it is held every year in March. Here is the URL: http://www.midsouthcon.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Caring for a dead veteran is easy ... bring a wreath, say a few words and walk away. Caring for a living veteran requires time, money and a life-long commitment. Every Veterans Day our politicians show they don't know the difference as they visit a cemetery instead of a VA hospital." (from www.vawatchdog.org) -------------------------- "We want the very best for our veterans." President George W. Bush -- "You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." -- President George W. Bush. "You work 3 jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." -- February 2005, George W. Bush to a single mother of 3 children ...

Member Since: September 27, 2006

Participation | Friends | Stats bubba2's Votes RSS feed

Show: All | Submissions | Videos | Votes | Sinks | Comments

1 2 3 4 5 > »

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks

Black America

Politics – When Presidential Candidate Barack Obama's wife talked about America, she was most likely talking about an America most are not familiar with but African Americans. This is Black America.

View Story Discuss (0) (associatedcontent.com) 4 hours ago by whgilmore

Voted for on July 09, 2008 02:16am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 28 votes / No sinks

U.S.: Oppose arbitrary withdrawal date for Iraq troops

News – The United States remains opposed to setting an arbitrary withdrawal date for its troops from Iraq, the White House said on Wednesday.

View Story Discuss (6) (news.yahoo.com) 4 hours ago by STONERS

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:27am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

Iran test fires long and medium range missiles

News – Iran has test fired nine long- and medium-range missiles, including one which it has previously said could travel as far as Israel and U.S. bases in the region, state media reported on Wednesday.

View Story Discuss (1) (news.yahoo.com) 4 hours ago by STONERS

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:27am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks

Free This Detainee

Politics – Huzaifa Parhat has been held as an enemy combatant for more than six years -- even though the government concedes he was never a member of the Taliban or al-Qaeda and never took part in any hostilities against the United States.

View Story Discuss (0) (washingtonpost.com) 4 hours ago by berkeley

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:27am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

The McCain Rules

Politics – The press has been, with major exceptions, reasonably kind to Barack Obama. But that's nothing compared with its eagerness to adopt any argument even mentioned by the McCain campaign.

View Story Discuss (0) (prospect.org) 4 hours ago by ameliog

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:27am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

Overfishing worse than thought

Food – "The whole picture of fisheries that we have is basically wrong," says lead author Daniel Pauly, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. "The underreporting is of such magnitude that it boggles the mind."

View Story Discuss (1) (nature.com) 4 hours ago by ameliog

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:27am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

US criticises 'bellicose' Russia

News – The United States has criticised what it calls "bellicose rhetoric" from Russia over US plans to develop a missile shield in Europe.

View Story Discuss (0) (news.bbc.co.uk) 4 hours ago by SunnyDays

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:27am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

Waxman threatens contempt vote for Mukasey

Politics – On June 16, the House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey for documents related to the CIA leak scandal. In a letter today, Chairman Henry Waxman notes that Mukasey has not yet complied with this subpoena and threatened to hold him in contempt unless he produces a key FBI interview with Vice President Cheney.

View Story Discuss (0) (oversight.house.gov) 4 hours ago by bubba2

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:25am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

In 2007, Bush promised Iraq withdrawal if asked by Maliki

Politics – Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he would like to set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. The Bush administration rejected the timetable. In an April 24, 2007 interview with Charlie Rose, however, President Bush said he would remove troops if asked by Iraq, but he predicted that Maliki would not ask for a withdrawal.

View Story Discuss (4) (thinkprogress.org) 4 hours ago by bubba2

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:19am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

McCain, the most absent member of Senate, blasts Congress for taking week off

Politics – On Tuesday, John McCain appeared on MSNBC and blasted Congress for being lazy. He said that instead of taking a Fourth of July recess, senators should have stuck around and passed a housing bill. But he hasn't been present for any of the 6 votes on the housing bill. In fact, he hasn't actually voted on anything in the Senate since April 8.

View Story Discuss (1) (thinkprogress.org) 4 hours ago by bubba2

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:14am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

John McCain can't handle Veteran's question over VA funding

Politics – In a Denver town hall meeting on Monday, a Vietnam veteran challenged John McCain on his Senate voting record, remarking he had voted against increasing vets health funding 4 years in a row. Ignoring the veteran's point, McCain testily and repeatedly insisted that he had 'received every award from every major veteran's organization in America'.

View Story Discuss (0) (dailykos.com) 4 hours ago by bubba2

Voted for on July 09, 2008 01:08am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / No sinks

McCain campaign screening questions during conference calls?

Politics – John McCain's campaign appears to be screening journalists' questions. Unlike calls conducted by the Obama and Clinton campaigns, the McCain camp seems to choose its questioners, rather than rely on a first-come, first-serve basis. During a recent call, for example, only 2 questions were taken: from conservative bloggers Ed Morrissey and Matt Lewis

View Story Discuss (0) (motherjones.com) 4 hours ago by bubba2

Voted for on July 09, 2008 12:59am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks

Housing slump may go on and on and ...

Money – Signs are emerging that the U.S. housing market's long slump is likely to fester through the summer, and the real estate market may not recover for at least another year.

View Story Discuss (0) (msnbc.msn.com) 4 hours ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on July 09, 2008 12:54am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks

McCain Health Plan and That High-Risk Pool

Politics – If Senator John McCain's radical plan for remaking American health care is to work, he will have to find a way to cover people like Chaim Benamor, 52, a self-employed renovator in this Baltimore suburb.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 4 hours ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on July 09, 2008 12:54am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks

Google Opens "Lively," Its Own Virtual World

Gadgets & Tech – Should Linden Labs, creators of Second Life, start quaking in its boots? Nah. This isn't the same sort of virtual world. But on Tuesday Google opened up Lively, its own take on a virtual world, but rather than being one big world its more like being a series of distributed rooms spread across the Internet.

View Story Discuss (0) (technologyexpert.blogspot.com) 5 hours ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on July 09, 2008 12:54am

1 2 3 4 5 > »