Hurricane Ike Expected to Land as Cat 3 Near Freeport TX

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 6:46 AM PDT

2008/09/11 · 06:46

Woke up this morning to Houston Mayor Bill White calling for an evacuation of flood surge areas near Houston, to begin at noon today. From the Houston Chronicle.

Hurricane Ike's turn toward the Houston area spurred emergency officials this morning to call for a mandatory evacuation of residents in areas that will be subject to a massive storm surge.

Harris County Judge Ed Emmett called for mandatory evacuations of low-lying areas starting at noon today. Those residents are in ZIP codes 77058, 77059, 77062, 77520, 77546, 77571, 77586 and 77598. They are in evacuation zones A and B.

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Tuesday April 22, 2008 · 9:18 PM PDT

2008/04/22 · 21:18

Ok, so you ask a group of 5 year olds, "Which do you like better? Ice Cream or Candy?" It’s a pretty tight race, I imagine. Both ice cream and candy have a lot going for them. Let’s just say that it comes out at something like, oh, I don’t know, 55% to 45% for Ice Cream.

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NY Governorship reward for Hillary for leaving race?

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Saturday March 29, 2008 · 7:56 AM PDT

2008/03/29 · 07:56

Jonathan Alter, one of my favorite KO regulars, wrote yesterday afternoon in a fairly speculative piece, that Democratic insiders have been discussing a future in the NY Governor's mansion for HRC if after PA, she realizes (like the rest of us have) that it just ain't gonna happen this time around.

Now, I'm all for her happily leaving the race, and giving her supporters the nugget of tasty goodness of a governorship somewhere, but my first instinct said, "naah. that's just something being floated by people who want her out..." And, maybe so, but that doesn't mean it doesn't make sense anyway. The following got my spidey-sense tingling:

Under the scenario sketched out by the insiders, serving two years as governor would give Clinton the executive experience to become the prohibitive favorite for the 2012 Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton believes that Barack Obama may well lose this year to John McCain, who would be 75 in 2012 and a possible one-term president. Clinton would arguably be better positioned to replace McCain in the White House as a governor than as a senator.

In a Keith-less KO last night, Jonathan discussed the implications of this possibility.

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