TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: U.S. politics

Sunday, September 21, 2008

U.S. POLITICAL TIDBITS

What is going on?????

1. In 2006, George W. Bush family bought a 98,842 acre farm in Paraguay; Bush, Sr. owns roughly 173,000 acres in the same area (Argentina;

2. In 2007, Halliburton (Cheney-connection)relocated from Houston to Dubai;

3. September 21, 2008: "A federal judge on Saturday ordered Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of the records from his time as vice president. The decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in a setback for the Bush administration in its effort to promote a narrow definition of materials that must be safeguarded under by the Presidential Records Act..." - Aol News

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ON A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TOPIC, HERE ARE RECENT US POLITICAL POLLS:

Gallup Daily: Obama 50%, McCain 44%

September 20, 2008
Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Wednesday through Friday finds Barack Obama maintaining his lead over John McCain among registered voters, by a 50% to 44% margin.

Rasmussen Report: Obama 48%; McCain 47% - Sunday, September 21, 2008

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.