Eco-Extreme
Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers – and a voice calling her Mommy.
But the very thought makes her shudder with horror, according to the Daily Mail.
Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.
“Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet,” says Toni, 35.
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Death of the Morning Paper?
“I was at The Washington Post earlier today,” Brokaw said. “And in the lobby they’ve got a wonderful graphic describing how the printing press works and where it is … 75,000 copies an hour it can turn out. Its last run is at 2:15 in the morning and [has] an automatic paper roll that comes when they run out of paper and the ink is recharge and I looked at all that and I thought – ‘Ten years from now, will it be here?’ I don’t know. Probably … if you would do a hardcore analysis – probably not. It’ll be probably digital 10 years from now.”
Brokaw referred to how the younger generations rely solely on digital forms media to get their information.
“You talk to them about the tactile experience at the newspaper and they look at you, and it’s like ‘Man, what planet were you born on?’” Brokaw quipped.
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Unconventional Wisdom
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday told high school students that when he was their age he was hardly a model student, experimenting with illegal drugs and drinking alcohol.
“I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof-off in high school as my mom reminded me,” said Obama, an Illinois Democrat who grew up in Hawaii.
Read about Obama’s exploits here.
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Circle of Trust?
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby were “not involved” in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame.
“There was one problem. It was not true,” McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. “I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president’s chief of staff and the president himself.”
Read McClellan’s comments here.
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Chuck Norris
My plan to secure the border, two words: Chuck Norris.
See Gov. Mike Huckabee’s latest campaign video featuring Norris at this week’s 1:
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