Bush takes a lead

It's a busy day today. President Bush takes an 11 point lead over Sen. Kerry in a Time Magazine poll released today. NOTE: This poll was conducted before the presidents acceptance speech last night.

New York: For the first time since the Presidential race became a two person contest last spring, there is a clear leader, the latest TIME poll shows. If the 2004 election for President were held today, 52% of likely voters surveyed would vote for President George W. Bush, 41% would vote for Democratic nominee John Kerry, and 3% would vote for Ralph Nader, according to a new TIME poll conducted from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. Poll results are available on TIME.com and will appear in the upcoming issue of TIME magazine, on newsstands Monday, Sept. 6.

Go President Bush

Bill Clinton in the hospital

I'm going to be very up-front, I don't like Bill Clinton that much. I don't like the media fascination with Bill Clinton. I don't like the media obsession over every step every president, whether current or past, makes. Yes, I thought the media coverage of President Reagan's funeral services was a little over the top. However sometimes that much coverage is nessecary, I did watch all the ceremonies of Reagan as I talked about. Today Bill Clinton was admited for 4-way bypass surgery. I do wish him a speedy recovery, now that I have said that the only thing I want to hear from the media is that he has made it through ok and will make a speedy recovery, I don't want to see a special on the doctor that performed the surgery, I don't want to read how hard this was on the Clinton's, I just want to know that he's ok and then the media can shut up. That's just my opinion.

Tonights GOP

Tonights GOP conventions is brought to you by, the Christian music industry. Ok, all jokes aside, this week at the GOP there has been a large stream of christian recording artists from Third Day to Jaci Valesquez to Nicole C. Mullen singing the National anthem, to Donnie McClurkin and Michael W. Smith playing before the president tonight. Analysis of the presidents address hopefully by tomorrow night.

GOP convention

I'm sure I will get an advance copy of the Vice President's speech from the RNC convention tonight, I may have time to analyze it tonight. If I don't have time tonight, I will hope to get it done in the morning. I will also have analysis of the Presidents speech tommorrow. As a side note I am working on a lengthy story that will be put in a visible archive about Canada's safety issues regarding the Olympics in 2010. Myself and my good friend Scott are co-writing a piece on Canadian safety and where we see it going in the next 6 years as Vancouver gets ready for the olympics.

Russia: The new target of terrorism

In the past week Russia has suffered three terrorist attacks. Late last week, two planes blew up in the air. Authorities believe that it was two women who blew themselves up on-board the plane. One plane managed to hit the "highjacked" button before it blew up then today, of course it's already Wednesday in Russia, a suicide bomber blew up a subway in Moscow. According to ABC News the group claiming responsibility for today's attack, says they did it because of President Vladimir Putin non-negotiation with the rebels in pre-dominante muslim area in Chechnya.

The end of the Olympics

It's all over, the final medal counts are in and of course the United States won with 103 medals (35 of which were gold), that is just over 1/9th of the total medals handed out (903 medals are handed out in all). Russia placed second with 92, and China third with 63 (32 golds), Australia with 49, Germany rounds out the top 5 with 48. Canada placed 17th overall with 12 medals; 3 golds, 6 silvers and 3 bronze. That is Canada's worst showing since Seoul in 1988, where we only won 10 medals. Canada's best showing was in 1984 (boycott games by the Soviet block) with 44 medals. Canada's best showing in a non-boycotted games is Atlanta in 1996 where they won 22 medals.