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Dear [Donor name] Thank you very much for your generous donation to help the TCI victims of Hurricane Ike. I really appreciate your responding to my plea on their behalf. We raised $5,575.00 [in 72 hours] through The iPINIONS Journal, in amounts from $5 to $1000. You’ll be pleased to know that not one dollar of your donation will be subject to… Read more.
Like Kibaki and his ruling party [in Kenya], all indications are that Mugabe and his ruling ZANU-PF party lost close national elections that were held on March 29. Yet, like Kibaki, Mugabe refused to concede defeat, which also plunged Zimbabwe into post-election violence…. Therefore, it behooves Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic… Read more.
There is no shortage of candidates lying in wait to replace Olmert when his Kadima Party holds leadership elections in September. But the one most likely to do so is Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. [Israeli PM Olmert resigns…, The iPINIONS Journal, July 31, 2008] As expected, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni defeated her chief rival yesterday… Read more.
Because of my efforts last week to help compatriots in the Turks and Caicos Islands recover from Hurricane Ike, I was unable to comment on the new ad John McCain launched in which he cast Barack Obama as a pervert who wants to “teach comprehensive sex education to kindergartners.” Specifically, to reinforce the deception, the… Read more.
A number of people have asked in recent months why iPINIONS has written so little about the sub-prime mortgage mess and its impact on the US economy. I often replied that I didn’t have a clue what to make of the mess or what it portends. (Still, evidently, I am not nearly as clueless as… Read more.
NOTE: This cartoon assumes you saw Palin in her fist deer-caught-in-the-headlights moment on Friday when reporter Charlie Gibson of ABC News asked her opinion on the Bush Doctrine. She made Dan Quayle’s first interview seem like that of a seasoned statesman. However, unlike the congenital dunce Quayle turned out to be, I suspect Sarah is a very quick… Read more.
Houston, you have a problem: Hurricane Ike is threatening to obliterate waterfront towns and give the skyscrapers, refineries and docks of Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, their worst pounding in a generation. [The Associated Press] But, where my compatriots on the Turks and Caicos Island of Grand Turk were completely at Ike’s mercy, Houstonians have… Read more.
Many of you have expressed concerns about your donations to the British Red Cross to help relief efforts in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) getting lost in bureaucratic red tape, or worse. Unfortunately, the TCI has no indigenous relief agency with the facility to take online donations. Therefore, I have arranged with the Director… Read more.
By all accounts, Hurricane Ike was “the worst natural disaster to hit the Turks and Caicos Islands in living memory”. Therefore, it is a testament to our people’s resolve (and God’s grace) that we weathered its fury with little or no loss of life. Preliminary reports indicate, however, that Ike’s 135 mph winds did considerable… Read more.
Talk about anxiety, I’m dreading reports later this afternoon on what property damage they’ve sustained. But I commend Premier Dr. Michael Misick for ordering the airlift of all intensive care and special needs patients to Miami a few days ago. Because chances are very good that many parts of the country will be without power for an extended period – after Ike (now a category… Read more.
