| Women in office offer view to success
A woman's place was not in the governor's office, not for years after pundits were proclaiming the "Year of the Woman" and a tobacco company's "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" slogan courted feminists. The barrier has come down only over the past three election cycles. And America is now pondering the prospect of Sen. Hillary Clinton as president. "It's a different job, that of a CEO, an executive running an organization as opposed to legislating," Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona observed during a Seattle visit Tuesday. And, added Kansas' Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, "You work your way through the pipeline, showing at each step what you can accomplish." Sebelius was a state insurance commissioner before becoming governor; Napolitano was a federal prosecutor and state attorney general.
Hill and Patterson Start Slow Return To the Mound
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They're not going to tell you over cookies and milk. Why are we supposed to value their lives when they clearly don't value the lives of others? And we don't kill or maim them either(usually).Stop acting like we're the only government who tortures prisoners for information. When lives are on the line, you do what you have to to get the information you need. I'm not going to cry a river over some insurgent, who's killed innocent people, getting roughed up a bit or having some water poured over his face. How about you put your outrage on the people who slit the throats of innocents to prove their fanatical devotion. Or who blow up bombs in school yards, town squares, checkpoints, marketplaces, etc.I highly doubt if given the choice between torturing someone who knew were your parents were being held to get the information, or just sitting back waiting for them to be executed, that you'd just sit around and wait for the bad news.
At Clinton, Obama campaign offices, volunteers work with urgency
Then she responded about 10 days ago to an e-mail from the campaign that it was looking for Dallas-area volunteers. "When I got there, they said they were looking for someone to make sure there was coffee, and the next thing I knew…" her voice trailed off as she pointed at the buffet. "We have nicknamed this table the Table of Brotherhood," she said. Richard Klass, 67, is one of the out-of-state visitors this day. The retired Air Force colonel is a volunteer co-chair of the Veterans for Obama Policy Team. He's worked for the campaign since Iowa and has visited New Hampshire, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. The Dallas office was a step up from some, he said. "The one in Iowa, there was probably more tape than carpet," he said.
Beware dangers in using portable generators
Carbon monoxide poisoning. Electrocution. Fire.
With all the possible safety hazards that can occur if you misuse a portable generator, you have to wonder why homeowners take the risks.
"Lights being off, using candles -- it gets old quickly," says Duff Jones, owner of Ron Jones Power Equipment, a Spanaway, Wash., supplier that sold plenty of generators during the recent big storms and prolonged power outages. "It doesn't take long to get unhappy."
But you can be snug and safe with your generator, as long as you follow the rules. First, let's look at the dangers.
The gasoline-powered motor that runs a generator is an internal combustion engine, much like a miniature automobile engine. Like a car engine, the generator motor gives off carbon monoxide -- a deadly, colorless, odorless gas.
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