As most of our regular readers are already aware, your blogmeister took the weekend off; so we've decided this morning to play "catch up," and do a roundup of a few of the news stories that caught our jaded eye within the last couple of days. To kick off today's discussion, we'll reel off those stories which we found most interesting since last Friday's post:
Ron Paul Update: Last Monday, we ran a Ron Paul "teaser," featuring a You Tube video about GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul. In response to this, we elicited 25 reader comments, ranging from Tec Jonson's unquivocal embrace of Dr. Paul as the only candidate with a "coherent and acceptable platform," to the comments of True Republican, with "Don't throw your votes away on someone who cannot possibly win!" We particularly liked Monotreme's take: "Oh, and the anarchist in me wishes for a Paul-Kucinich matchup."
The purported "non-viability" of Dr. Paul's candidacy is of course the constant refrain of Big Media (and party insiders on both sides of the partisan political aisle.)
It's in that context that we post this morning's L.A. Times "Top of the Ticket" blog article, reporting on Dr. Paul's Sunday online fundraiser, wherein the Ron Paul campaign just set another all-time record ($6 million) for such a one-day event.
Does Ron Paul's candidacy "have legs?" We believe that yesterday's fund-raiser suggests that it does.
Several other interesting articles on the WCF back-burner:
Vescor Capital Update. Emerald City "investment broker" Val Southwick is back in the news, with this 12/16/07 Salt Lake Tribune article. And from the article, we post this short exerpt:
"Some talk about how he [Southwick] used his membership in the LDS Church to assure investors or potential investors about his honesty and the safety of their investments. Brad Hatch told of one investor, who, after payments stopped, went to speak to Southwick on behalf of others with whom he had vouched for Southwick. Southwick invoked the Sunday school lesson he was planning that week about the need for patience.Where, we ask, have we heard that story before?
"That gave credibility to him, that Val was telling the truth," Hatch said.
Disturbing Environmental News. We have this good news from this morning's Standard-Examiner: "Diesel spill threatens Nature Center".
Replace the Emerald City RDA Director. Finally, a Weber County Forum Tip O' the Hat to gentle reader Tom Owens, for his success in disseminating a constant Weber County Forum theme to the general readership of the Standard-Examiner.
In the interest of getting this morning's discussion going before this afternoon, (the telephone has been ringing off the hook all morning,) we'll post today's article now, and leave the microanalysis to our gentle readers.
As per usual, feel free to pick up the discussion on any of the above suggested topics, or start up one of your own.
