It might have been nice for Bush to discuss a global plan regarding food shortages yesterday…

Haiti, Mongolia…

This is serious, there better be something ASAP…

Obama questioner explains why she finds him annoying
By Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers 4/17

WASHINGTON — Nash McCabe is the voter from Wednesday night’s presidential debate who noted that Barack Obama doesn’t usually wear a flag pin and asked, “I want to know if you believe in the American flag.”

ABC, which hosted the debate, had tracked her down after she was quoted in a New York Times story about white voters in small-town Latrobe, Pa., revealing her as 52, out of work and against Obama.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/34071.html

Thx for your kind words about Safeco Field. And I know the rationale for building stadiums has always been that they bring in more revenue than they cost, but that’s not always proven to be the case; much rests on the ticket sales, performance of the team, etc….

Due to rapid population growth, plus aging outdated facilities in this region, we have too many urgent needs that are more important than a basketball stadium. Nevertheless, I understand that a group of ‘investors’ has been quietly making inroads with state legislators to make an end-run around citizen opposition.

Part of the citizen opposition is resentment and frustration with huge infrastructure backlogs — especially for transportation (as you no doubt observed!). Also, as the cost of pro ticket sales have climbed out of reach for more and more people, it’s just harder to get public support to spend money for stadium where families can’t (or won’t) afford to attend games. Like other pro sports, they all seem to claim that ‘corporate ticket sales’ will solve this problem.

The number of ‘corporate seats’ in all stadiums has increased, and Safeco was designed with corporate seating in mind. That’s helped it financially, in addition to the long baseball season (which makes it more profitable for vendors and restaurants).

Believe it or not, the energy required to move that roof on Safeco field is almost absurdly small; about the same as turning on a lightbulb, IIRC — which is a huge consideration over the life cycle of the building. (I got a tour and got to see it move; it’s amazing how well that sliding roof works, and how little electricity is required to move so much weight.)

Safeco Field is not a state building, but FWIW, I’ll note that any building constructed by Washington State must now meet newly raised energy and environmental environmental standards over the life cycle of the building. That is making for some really interesting, energy efficient, new construction.

Just think what opportunities the federal government is missing (!).
There’s some really wonderful architectural design being driven by the new state energy requirements, and it seems to be giving several local firms an advantage in contracting for work outside the U.S.

Stephanopolis=Blond Barbies and Kens at Fox Noise. George wouldn’t know what is at the front of the voters’ minds if it bit him in the ass. Stephie misquoted the NIE and doesn’t know it to this moment, and sunk to a new low as an errand boy for Right Wing media as Hannity and Krautheimer fed him questions.

Ummm, plagiarizing ending of Orwell’s “Animal Farm” ?

Of course, when one is in Philly, learning when and how to Boo is like learning to hail a cab or ride a subway is to a Manhattanite.