Daily Briefing - 4/17/06: Tragedy, Voting Rights, Pulitzers, and Global Warming

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MW

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Daily Briefing – 4/17/07
566 days until the NEXT election… and global warming is an integral part of our nation’s agenda!

Key Issues in the News
Global Warming
- Warming predicted to take severe toll on US
o Health effects from smog, heat waves seen
o Expected to hit Southwest hard
o Coastal areas face risks
o Water woes
o Problems for Great Lakes
- UN to assess climate change as a threat to security
- Gov. Crist and Sheryl Crow rock out
- Warming likely to affect Africa most severely
- Former Generals urge Bush to take action
- Please… stop… spinning. I’m getting incredibly dizzy.
Washington/Legislation/Politics/People/etc.
- No Taxation Without Representation!!
o Voices seeking a vote
- UN moves on Sudan force
- Britain stops using “war on terror” phrase
Potential ‘08ers…
- Edwards (outpaces Clinton in Western NY), Thompson, Tommy (insert: foot in mouth), Brownback (is Romney’s biggest rival), Kucinich (some aren’t a fan of his Iraq War ideas), Thompson, Fred (they want him to run at TownHall), Clinton (getting money from Hef), Edwards again (says he’s the strongest pick), Giuliani (cross dressing back in the spotlight), McCain (fellow Republicans – not him, of course – spent too much), Obama (Russell Simmons takes him on), Obama again (gets edge on Clinton and Giuliani on Wall St),Edwards and Romney (get top IA donations), Romney (raises most from NH), Obama again again (similar message to Gov. Patrick)
- Finance filings offer glimpses of ’08 candidates
- Races tighten on both sides
Other News from the Media
- Hell comes to Virginia Tech
o From around the world, shock, sympathy, and denunciation of gun laws
- No fishing zones in tropics yield fast payoffs for reefs
- Chimps: Almost human, and sometimes smarter
- Fighting plant blindness
- A renewed push for ethanol… without the corn
- Tyson Foods and ConcocPhillips to produce diesel fuel from animal fat
- Gas prices rise for 11th week
…and the Blogosphere
- MYDD: Donor demographics
- Grist:
o US Military steps it up
o No sweat solutions
Miscellaneous… or just plain weird
- Bringing the Olympics to Chicago?
- Hey, 26.2 miles with no gravity can’t be that hard… can it?
- Oh come on!! Not even a consideration for Wildlife Action???? No respect…
- Since it randomly came up in the office, I thought I’d post a link to School House Rock
- Woohoo, marathon day!
Quotes O’ the Day
"[Gov. Crist] has talked more about global warming in his 100 days in office than other governors have in their whole term." ~ Singer Sheryl Crow Monday in Gainesville