I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Alexandria (Sandy)......love what your wrote!

Not quite the brightest of the bright!!

Suzie - I didn't hear it, but admittedly, I've been in art class all day and the little tv I've seen today is about the TM trial.  I haven't had a chance to look at web news at all - I have a political news show on now - no mention.  Maybe I'm not a good sample, as since I've retired, I've basically shut down on news.  Not sure why.  Other than that, and by my quick count you had 4 respondents besides me to your question and 2 were Canadians.  Libby got this news via BBC.  For Belinda, I would ask, did you see it while reading the news, or did you search for it?

Praying for Nelson Mandela.......

It continues to be a week that includes some good news......

"Senate Immigration Reform Bill Passes With Strong Majority"

"Undocumented immigrants and advocates in the crowd, many of them young so-called Dreamers, broke out into applause and chants of "yes we can!" after Vice President Joe Biden, who came to the Senate to preside over the proceedings, read the results. Senators in the bipartisan "gang of eight" that drafted the bill -- Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) -- patted each other on the back.

Just before the vote Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) dedicated the decision, in part, to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), who worked for reform but never saw it signed into law."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/27/senate-immigration-reform-bill_n_3511664.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

Good to see the US heard the news too. What a farce, the Dudd is back (that's the rebooted Prime Minister - Rudd). He really made a gaff today by suggesting the Liberal party would start a war with Indonesia if they turn back the illegal immigrant boats. We are getting hundreds of illegal immigrants every week since the idiot changed the rules and removed temporary protection visas. They see us as an easy target - it's costing billions to keep these people. Hundreds of men. women and children have drowned trying to get here because of the idiot policies.

Belinda - of those news stories listed, I saw the India story and the Nelson Mandela story.  Definitely my "filetered" sources.  

Did anyone hear about Wendy Davis having a back brace applied by a fellow Senate member during her filabuster?  I heard the R's objected as "unfair."  Again, I ask, if one has a handicap, or has suffered the afflication of just growing old, (or had breast cancer chemo and can't stand on their feet that long!), are they to be discriminated against in this context??  Has politics become a sport for the young and healthy only?  

Going to get to 100 degrees in my mountain town the next few days - it happens, but not very often.  The valley, 110 plus degrees.   129 degrees in Death Valley, California.  Heat wave is hitting the west...payback I guess for the nicest winter/spring/early summer in my memory.

Aly - one news reader called him "rebooted" PM last night - being an IT person, I cracked up.

Yorkie - the whole thing is so embarassing. He had been undermining her for three years since she knifed him. She recently gave a speech about how she didn't want men in blue ties running this country - well ever since that he was seen wearing a blue tie nearly eveyday and even since he was relected as Labor leader and reinstated as PM - blue ties. He's a narcissitic nutjob.

I know my politics don't agree with most of you, but this mob are sending the country broke - they came into power with a budget surplus left from the Liberals (not your sort of liberals) and we now have a huge deficit.

Suzie - in our country, historically, the Democrats have handed off budget surpluses to Republican Presidents and they take us deeper into debt.

Alyson, I did hear about a schooner with 6 people presumed sunk, in NZ.  That kind of news we hear.