Archive for February, 2010

Big beer bet for Obama, Harper on Olympic hockey

Sunday, February 28th, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Something is brewing in U.S.-Canada relations. And it's in continuance Olympic concreted sugar. President Barack Obama is betting a case of beer by the Canadian capital minister on the outcome of Sunday'sitting U.S.-Canada gold medal game. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama had a case of Yuengling, a Pennsylvania regional brew, ...

State Dept. issues warning against Chile travel

Sunday, February 28th, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department is urging Americans to elude tourist trips and other nonessential travel to Chile, individual day after the South American country was struck by a magnitude-8.8 earthquake. American citizens who are currently in Chile are essential being asked to contiguity family and friends in the United States, whether through telephone, Internet or cell-phone ...

Art sculptures Long Paddock

Sunday, February 28th, 2010
ART is depicting the story of a historic route, KIM WOODS reports The heat haze shimmers on the bitumen snaking along into the distance.Salt, cotton and bluebushes variegate the scene, the scene occasionally broken by a bore and stock trough.This is saltbush country or, colloquially, the Long Paddock - rated as individual of the flattest places ...

Facts and figures on Obama’s physical

Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Facts and figures about President Barack Obama's health, from a natural examination Sunday at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Figures are compared with information from a January 2007 physical exam, which were released in May 2008 when Obama, then an Illinois senator, was running for president in 2008. Obama is 48; he was born Aug. 4, 1961. ...

McConnell: GOP best, brightest shone at summit

Sunday, February 28th, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate'sitting Republican leader says the White House'sitting health care summit was important on this account that it allowed GOP lawmakers to evidence their expertise on the exit and explain their obstruction. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky also predicts that all 41 Republican senators will voice against the soundness care overhaul legislation admitting that it ...