Who couldn't help but notice how much gas prices have gone down over the last few months? Now that they are below $2 a gallon, prices are at a five year low (according to AAA).I was watching a 70s show on the History channel last night and it was interesting how much we've gone back in time. There is the gas situation - except back then they ran out of gas all the time and it caused people to start buying smaller Japanese cars.
There was also the war and high unemployment.
It was wierd hearing that Nixon thought if the president did it it wasn't illegal.
Swinging became popular. It wasn't like the free love in the 60s. Swinging seemed much more physical and about personal indulgence (oh, excuse me, they called it experimenting and self-discovery.)
The drug use was much more out in the open back then and they mentioned the shooting up in NY parks.
I think the 70s can totally be viewed by watching Al Pacino films.
The Panic in Needle Park, 1971, a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in "Needle Park" (Sherman Square) in New York City.
Cruising,1980, about a New York City serial killer targeting gay men in the 1970s. (I saw this movie and it didn't seem like Al Pacino's character was 'cruising' for a killer.)
Scarface, 1983, fictional Cuban refugee who comes to Florida in 1980 as a result of the Mariel Boatlift. Montana becomes a gangster against the backdrop of the 1980s cocaine boom.
Obama transition sees eye-popping 300,000 resumes
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Just weeks after opening shop, the Obama transition team has been flooded by what looks like an unprecedented wave of hundreds of thousands of resumes from people who want positions in the new president's administration.
It dwarfs the 44,000 applicants reported by a Bush transition spokeswoman to the San Francisco Chronicle just days before George W. Bush was inaugurated in January 2001. The Clinton transition team in 1993 put its number of applicants near Inauguration Day at approximately 100,000. And the Obama boom has another month to build.
Scott Kirk describes a group drawn from a wide range of locations and industries, from security and defense to nonprofit. He said many of them are willing to trade high-paying salaries and years of building job security in a single industry.
"A lot have had to dust off their resumes," he said. "I'm talking people that have been in their professions 10, 20 years. So [Obama] has definitely stimulated something."
Applications arrive, Obama-style, through the transition's Web site: http://change.gov/page/s/application
What Obama promised Biden
Obama transition team announces new task force on working families
Biden says Obama promised him a role in major decision-making
In an interview, Biden says economy is in "much worse shape than we thought"
Vice president-elect says he helped pick Hillary Clinton for top State post
Biden will be on CNN's Larry King tonight to discuss his role as vp.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16776.html
Clinton campaign debt now at $6.4 million
Hillary Clinton still owes more than $6 million in presidential campaign debt
Clinton has officially forgiven the $13.2 million personal loan to her campaign
She hopes to have debt paid before her possible confirmation as secretary of state
PRINCETON, New Jersey (CNN) -- President George W. Bush's hope in making his surprise visit to Iraq last week was to highlight the stability that had been achieved in the country.
Instead, an Iraqi reporter threw his shoes at Bush, an act of disrespect, yelling out that "this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog."
The event serves as a bookend to the "Mission Accomplished" moment in May 2003, when President Bush appeared on the USS Abraham Lincoln, standing before a banner that said "Mission Accomplished," and praised the troops who had defeated the Iraqi government.
At that televised event, he said, "major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
Both moments were damaging to the way many Americans perceive Bush, and they will go down in the history books as part of the story we tell about his presidency. The Mission Accomplished moment ultimately proved devastating because it revealed Bush's overconfidence and failure to prepare for the task of reconstruction.
Last week, The New York Times published a draft of an official U.S. government history of Iraq that documented the enormous problems with the period that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The draft says: "In March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq, made short work of its armed forces and easily topped Saddam Hussein's government. A well-trained and properly equipped force achieved a quick and efficient military victory.
"But the United States was unprepared and ill-equipped to deal with what came next. ... Washington -- with no plans to manage the increasing chaos it faced, no developed doctrine of nation building, and no established structures through which to carry out complex relief and reconstruction operations -- was forced to forego its hoped for quick transfer of power to an Interim Iraqi Authority and give way to an occupation of undetermined length."
The shoe-throwing incident captured another failure of the administration -- the inability to win the support and confidence of the Iraqi people.
Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and 1965 looked like a transformative president as a result of civil rights progress and the Great Society. Lyndon Johnson in 1968 looked like a defeated and failed president as a result of Vietnam.
As President Bush tried last week to remind Americans of what went right, his own trip to Iraq was the clearest revelation about why so many Americans just are not listening anymore.
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President-elect Barack Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters will spend the holidays in the Hawaiian islands, trading frozen Lake Michigan for warmer waters. They are planning a beachside vacation with friends at one of Oahu's most exclusive properties.
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Jay Leno: "The White House announced a $13.4 billion rescue package for the troubled Detroit automakers. It allows them to avoid bankruptcy. But Bush had one major condition for the bailout. He had one stipulation. He said he wanted one of those cool Trans-ams with the eagle on the hood.'"
Jay Leno: In "an interview," President Bush "said he didn't strive to be popular. That's what he said. He didn't strive to be popular. So, to use his own words – 'mission accomplished.' Hell of a job."
Conan O'Brien: "This week, President Bush hosted the annual White House Hanukkah party and the opening prayer was delivered by a rabbi. Or as Bush kept calling him, Jewish Santa.."
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