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Alaskans’ two-year honeymoon with Gov. Sarah Palin may have ended around the time the Republican vice presidential candidate started saying that she told Congress “thanks but no thanks” on the Bridge to Nowhere.

The line brought cheers on the campaign trail but drew winces back home among those who knew Palin had supported the $400 million Ketchikan bridge and only turned against it after Washington backed off its financing.

“I think people went a little bit like Homer Simpson — ‘D’oh!’” said Ivan Moore, a pollster who has tracked a drop in Palin’s popularity in Alaska since she was named Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s running mate on Aug. 29.

Most people in Alaska are staunch defenders of Palin and say that she has represented the state well during a month in the national spotlight. They are proud of how she has handled herself in her rapid ascent from small-town mayor to Alaska governor to vice presidential nominee.

But they now cringe when Palin opens her mouth. Most are surprised at how their usually confident governor has foundered in interviews, giving rambling answers that, like the Bridge to Nowhere line, either go against their own recollections or end up lampooned in “Saturday Night Live” skits and by the hosts of late-night talk shows.

On the eve of Thursday’s vice presidential debate, they wondered whether the former beauty pageant contestant will once more look like she’s in over her head or if she can acquit herself against one of the most proficient debaters in the Senate, Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

“I’m very hopeful that she doesn’t embarrass us worse than she already has,” said Mark Barnhill, a 53-year-old building inspector from Anchorage. “A lot of the mistakes she’s made are plain old rookie mistakes and I don’t expect to see much from her other than more of that.”

Palin’s approval rating in Alaska have been astronomical since she took office in December 2006. But three weeks after she joined the GOP ticket, her approval rating dropped from 82 percent to 68 percent, according to surveys taken by Moore for several Alaska news organizations.

Just about any elected official would be happy with a 68 percent approval rating, and her standing among Republicans remains largely unchanged.

Such a drop doesn’t happen very often, but “not many politicians have as much positive to lose than Palin,” Moore said. His polls of 500 likely Alaska voters have a 4.4 percent margin of error.

What has changed is the bipartisan support she’s enjoyed since taking office. According to Moore’s numbers, Palin lost 25 percent of her Democratic support in Alaska. Similarly, support by independents — who make up the biggest bloc of Alaska voters — dropped 18 percent.

One of those voters who changed his mind is Jed Whittaker, a construction worker from Anchorage. He said he supported Palin until reporters arriving in Alaska started uncovering things about her.

“We do know a lot more about Mrs. Palin now than we did three weeks ago,” Whittaker said. Among those revelations, he cited Palin’s religious views and that she once said it was God’s will to build a multibillion-dollar pipeline to deliver natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48 states.

“I think a lot of people didn’t know that, and I’ll bet John McCain didn’t know that, either,” Whittaker said.

The McCain campaign said Tuesday that the drop in Palin’s approval rating is due to political attacks against her.

“I think after weeks and weeks of vile partisan attacks, her approval rating is still quite strong and they would naturally fall when you’re dealing with constant attacks and falsehoods and miscommunication,” spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton said.

Spurred by the recent train crash that killed 25 people in Los Angeles, the House passed sweeping rail safety legislation Wednesday requiring more rest for workers and technology that can stop a train in its tracks if it’s headed for collision.

At least one of the measures could have made a difference in the Sept. 12 head-on collision between a freight train and a commuter train — the nation’s deadliest rail crash since 1993.

Lawmakers scurried to reach agreement on the safety bill in the wake of the disaster, which happened when a Southern California Metrolink commuter train failed to stop at a red light and ended up on the same track as an oncoming freight.

“I’m heartened that we’re considering this bill now and I hope it’s offering some small degree of comfort to the families that are suffering after the recent Metrolink disaster in California,” said Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., before the House passed the legislation by voice vote.

It now goes to the Senate, where prospects for passage are uncertain in the dwindling legislative hours before Congress adjourns for the election at the end of this week.

Investigators are looking at engineer fatigue as a possible factor in the Metrolink crash, and the Federal Railroad Administration says that so-called positive train control technology would have prevented the crash.

The technology can engage the brakes if a train misses a signal or gets off-track. The bill requires it to be installed by 2015 on all rail lines that carry passengers and on freight lines that carry hazardous materials.

That date may be too soon for the railroad industry, which says it supports positive train control but opposed a congressionally mandated timeline, but not soon enough for some lawmakers eager to move quickly on safety in the wake of the L.A. crash.

The package wraps in legislation reauthorizing Amtrak for five years and providing $13 billion for the carrier. Some of that money would go to matching grants to help states set up or expand rail service.

The Amtrak portion of the legislation also establishes a program for private companies to bid to develop high-speed rail corridors on the East Coast, a private sector component pushed by Republicans who have been wary of what they’ve seen as ever-growing subsidies to Amtrak.

Amtrak’s previous authorization expired in 2002. The carrier’s supporters say a new authorization will allow Amtrak to make long-range plans and take advantage of what they say is a growing appetite for passenger rail.

“As Amtrak ridership continues to hit record levels, our bill gives passenger rail the resources it needs to meet the nation’s increased demands,” said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. Lautenberg authored the Senate versions of the rail safety and Amtrak bills, both of which had previously passed the House and Senate by wide margins. Lawmakers hadn’t reached agreement on final package until late Tuesday.

The rail safety portion amounts to the first major rail safety reforms since the 1994 Federal Railroad Safety Authorization Act, which expired in 1998, leaving the Federal Railroad Administration operating under an expired law for the past 10 years.

The bill that passed Tuesday reauthorizes the railroad administration through 2013 and provides $1.6 billion for rail safety programs during that time.

A key provision is the requirement for installation of positive train control, but Tom White, a spokesman for the American Association of Railroads, said he wasn’t sure the 2015 deadline was obtainable.

“When you’re dealing with new technology that hasn’t in some cases been developed yet, it’s very hard to say that a specific deadline is doable,” White said. “Having said that, we’re going to move forward as swiftly as we can.”

The package would cap the monthly hours train crews can work at 276. An outdated law that currently governs train crew hours allows them to work more than 400 hours per month, compared to 100 hours per month for commercial airline pilots.

The government on Monday recommended a speed limit for commercial ships along the Atlantic coast, where collisions with the endangered right whale threaten its existence.

About 300-400 of the whales are left in the wild, and they migrate annually between their southeastern Atlantic breeding grounds to feeding areas off the Massachusetts coast, intersecting busy shipping lanes.

The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday the new limit, the first to be instituted on the East Coast for a marine creature, was needed to assure its survival. The rule would set a speed limit of 11.5 miles per hour (10 knots) within 23 miles (20 nautical miles) of major mid-Atlantic ports and throughout the whale’s breeding and feeding areas. The new regulation would cover ships 65 feet or longer and expire in five years if not renewed. Boats from federal agencies would be exempt.

“The bottom line is that this critically endangered species needs our help,” said retired Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, the agency’s administrator.

But the latest version of the so-called ship strike regulation differs from a draft released more than a year ago that was delayed in part because of objections from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and White House economists over the accuracy of the science linking ship speed to whale deaths.

“NOAA’s decision on these measures is based on the best data and scientific understanding available,” White House environmental adviser James L. Connaughton said Monday.

The option selected on Monday and released with an 850-page analysis of its environmental and economic impacts is narrower than the 34-mile-wide coastal speed zone first proposed for the mid-Atlantic coast by marine scientists in June 2006. Last year, in response to questions from the White House, agency experts said moving the speed-limit zone closer to shore in that region would be less protective of right whales.

On Monday, agency officials said the reduced area still covered 83 percent of all right whale sightings.

Environmentalists said the changes were the latest to come from an administration that has consistently bucked scientific research.

“What we have seen over and over again where economics and partisanship and political interests bump up against the science, science loses,” said Francesca Grifo, director of the Union of Concerned Scientist’s Scientific Integrity Project.

The analysis published Monday said the lower speed limit could cost ferry operators $8.6 million in lost revenues annually, and even have an effect on the whale watching industry, which is expected to lose $1.3 million under the proposed regulation. The economic impact would take more of a toll on high speed vessels, which travel at 28 to 45 mph, versus ships and boats traveling at the normal 14 to 18 mph.

A spokesman for the World Shipping Council, a trade association for the shipping industry, said Monday he saw no scientific or statistical support for a 11.5 mph speed limit around mid-Atlantic ports. The association has argued that this area, stretching from New York to Savannah, Ga., is “where the science is the weakest and the economic impact is the greatest.”

North Atlantic right whales have been protected by endangered species laws since 1970, yet despite warning systems around heavily traveled ports, aerial surveys to map whales in shipping lanes, and improvements in fishing gear, their population has yet to recover.

From 1970 to 1997, researchers documented 41 right whale deaths, 29 of which were caused by ship strikes or entanglement in fishing gear. From 1997 to 2001, about one to two right whales have died from ship strikes annually, federal officials said.

The speed limit would be the first to be set on the East Coast to protect a species. The National Park Service has a 15 mph speed limit in place off Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska to reduce lethal ship strikes for humpback whales. There are also speed restrictions in Florida to protect the endangered manatee.

Environmentalists also criticized the delay Monday, saying that since the rule was first proposed in June 2006 two right whales have died because of ship collisions.

The US presidential race gathered momentum Wednesday, with Barack Obama set to announce his running mate at any moment, ahead of his coronation as the Democrats’ standard-bearer.

Obama will be crowned his party’s presidential nominee in Denver, Colorado next week. Before then however, he is expected unveil his choice for vice president — a decision that for weeks has been cloaked in secrecy and swathed in high drama.

The Illinois senator has been coy about names in the frame for his pick of vice president and his aides have put up a wall of silence, after promising to divulge the news to supporters first with a blitz of emails and text messages.

The New York Times — which predicted earlier this week that Obama’s choice would be announced Wednesday — also reported that the White House hopeful has winnowed down his list of finalists to Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh and Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, who is a foreign-policy veteran.

Amid frenzied speculation about his selection heading into next week’s Democratic nominating convention, Obama said Tuesday that he wanted a running mate who is not afraid to speak his mind.

“I want somebody who has integrity, who’s in politics for the right reasons,” Obama said Tuesday.

“I want somebody who’s independent, somebody who’s able to tell me ‘you know Mr. President, I think you’re wrong on this and here’s why’.”

Above all, he said, “I want somebody who is capable of being president, who I trust.”

Despite suffering from a heavy cold, Obama was in fighting mood Tuesday at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina — one staunchly Republican state that his campaign is fighting hard for.

“I’m a big believer in winning. I don’t intend to lose this election. John McCain doesn’t know what he’s up against right now,” the Democrat said, after facing criticism for not taking a tougher line against his Republican rival.

Prior to going to the Democratic convention, Obama was set to return Saturday to Springfield Illinois — the city where he launched his improbable White House quest — for a pre-convention tour of battleground states.

Obama will speak at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, the hometown of venerated Civil War president Abraham Lincoln and the same site he began his bid way back in February 2007 — and quite possibly will be accompanied by his vice presidential pick.

Meanwhile, next week’s Democratic convention will proclaim party unity, although disaffected supporters of Obama’s defeated rival Hillary Clinton plan to put on a show of protest, although Obama has said talk of Democratic division has been “hyped by the media.”

He is set to deliver an nomination acceptance speech at a Denver sports arena Thursday that will be heard by a crowd of up to 80,000 supporters.

Meanwhile, the Republicans’ convention, set for early September, comes after a long, hot summer of charge and counter-charge on the economy and national security.

A Los Angeles Time/Bloomberg survey had Obama on 45 percent and McCain on 43 percent — a statistical dead heat.

McCain, battling to carve an opening on the economy, flew to a Gulf of Mexico oil rig 220 kilometers (130 miles) off New Orleans to demand expanded offshore drilling.

“Senator Obama opposes new drilling, he said it won’t solve our problem and that it’s ‘not real’ — he is wrong and the American people know it,” the Arizona senator said.

“The nation is sending 700 billion dollars every year overseas to (oil-exporting) countries that do not like us very much. When I am president that is going to stop,” he said.

So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged an embrace during a faith forum at a California megachurch, Obama called the U.S. economy a disaster thanks to “John McCain’s president, George W. Bush,” and chided his Republican rival’s campaign team for trying to make him look unpatriotic and weak.

At a town hall meeting with several hundred union members, Obama said he had had a great conversation with McCain at the forum at Saddleback Church sponsored by the popular evangelical pastor Rick Warren. The two candidates shook hands, briefly hugged and stood onstage with Warren, the first time they appeared together in public since the end of the primary season.

But Sunday, after praising the Arizona senator as a “genuine American patriot,” the Democratic presidential hopeful got back to business — methodically tearing into McCain’s health care, tax and energy policies and criticizing his advisers.

“McCain says ‘Here’s my plan, I’m going to drill here, drill now which is something he only came up with two months ago when he started looking at polling,” Obama said of McCain’s energy policy.

The GOP hopeful has become a vocal proponent of offshore oil drilling as a way to ease U.S. dependence on foreign oil and has criticized Obama for failing to embrace it as a way to help bring down oil prices. Obama noted that McCain had long opposed lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling.

The Illinois senator also criticized McCain’s advisers as “the same old folks that brought you George W. Bush. The same team.” He noted many had been lobbyists in Washington before McCain asked them to sever all lobbying ties.

Obama added, “They say this other guy is unpatriotic, or this guy likes French people. That’s what they said about Kerry,” referring to the 2004 Democratic nominee who lost narrowly to Bush. “They try to make it out like Democrats aren’t tough enough, aren’t macho enough. It’s the same strategy.”

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers responded, “John McCain has never questioned Sen. Obama’s patriotism, but he clearly does question Sen. Obama’s experience and judgment, and they do have profound differences of opinion on the best way to reduce our dependence on Mideast oil, bring jobs back to America and keep our nation safe.”

Earlier this summer, McCain handed day to day operation of his campaign to Steve Schmidt, a veteran GOP strategist who was a spokesman for Bush during the 2004 campaign. Most of his other top advisers are longtime loyalists who have worked for McCain for years.

Even so, Obama stepped to McCain’s defense when a voter criticized his Vietnam era record. A Naval aviator, McCain spent 5- 1/2 years as a prisoner of war there after being shot down and badly wounded.

“Respectfully I’m going to disagree with you on McCain and his service,” Obama said. “I think his service was honorable. He deserves respect.”

Russia sent columns of tanks and reportedly bombed Georgian air bases Friday after Georgia launched a major military offensive Friday to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia, threatening to ignite a broader conflict.

Hundreds of civilians were reported dead in the worst outbreak of hostilities since the province won defacto independence in a war against Georgia that ended in 1992. Witnesses said the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali was devastated.

“I saw bodies lying on the streets, around ruined buildings, in cars,” said Lyudmila Ostayeva, 50, who had fled with her family to Dzhava, a village near the border with Russia. “It’s impossible to count them now. There is hardly a single building left undamaged.”

The fighting broke out as much of the world’s attention was focused on the start of the Olympic Games and many leaders, including Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Bush, were in Beijing.

The timing suggests Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili may have been counting on surprise to fulfill his longtime pledge to wrest back control of South Ossetia — a key to his hold on power.

Saakashvili agreed the timing was not coincidental, but accused Russia of being the aggressor. “Most decision makers have gone for the holidays,” he said in an interview with CNN. “Brilliant moment to attack a small country.”

The United States was sending an envoy to the region on Friday to meet with the parties involved to try to end hostilities.

“We support Georgia’s territorial integrity,” State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos told reporters. “We are working on mediation efforts to secure a cease-fire.”

South Ossetian separatist leader Eduard Kokoity claimed hundreds of civilians had been killed.

Ten Russian peacekeepers were killed and 30 wounded when their barracks were hit in Georgian shelling, said Russian Ground Forces spokesman Col. Igor Konashenkov. Russia has soldiers in South Ossetia as peacekeeping forces but Georgia alleges they back the separatists.

Georgia, which borders the Black Sea between Turkey and Russia, was ruled by Moscow for most of the two centuries preceding the breakup of the Soviet Union. Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, has angered Russia by seeking NATO membership — a bid Moscow regards as part of a Western effort to weaken its influence in the region.

Speaking earlier on Georgian television, Saakashvili accused Russia of sending aircraft to bomb Georgian territory, which Russia denied.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said it was sending reinforcements for its peacekeepers, and Russian state television and Georgian officials reported a convoy of tanks had crossed the border. The convoy was expected to reach the provincial capital, Tskhinvali, by evening, Channel One television said.

Georgian State Minister for Reintegration Temur Yakobashvili said government troops were now in full control of the city.

“We are facing Russian aggression,” said Georgia’s Security Council chief Kakha Lomaya. “They have sent in their troops and weapons and they are bombing our towns.”

Putin has warned that the Georgian attack will draw retaliation and the Defense Ministry pledged to protect South Ossetians, most of whom have Russian citizenship.

Chairing a session of his Security Council in the Kremlin, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev also vowed that Moscow will protect Russian citizens.

“In accordance with the constitution and federal law, I, as president of Russia, am obliged to protect lives and dignity of Russian citizens wherever they are located,” Medvedev said, according to Russian news reports. “We won’t allow the death of our compatriots go unpunished.”

An AP reporter saw tanks and other heavy weapons concentrating on the Russian side of the border with South Ossetia — supporting the Russian TV reports of an incursion. Some villagers were fleeing into Russia.

“I saw them (the Georgians) shelling my village,” said Maria, who gave only her first name. She said she and other villagers spent the night in a field and then fled toward the Russian border as the fighting escalated.

Yakobashvili said Georgian forces have shot down four Russian combat planes over Georgian territory. He gave no details. Russia’s Defense Ministry denied an earlier Georgia report about one Russian plane downed and has had no immediate comment on the latest claim.

Yakobashvili said that one Russian plane had dropped a bomb on the Vaziani military base near the Georgian capital, but no one was hurt.

More than 1,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers were at the base last month to teach combat skills to Georgian troops. Georgia has about 2,000 troops in Iraq, making it the third-largest contributor to coalition forces after the U.S. and Britain.

South Ossetia officials said Georgia attacked with aircraft, armor and heavy artillery. Georgian troops fired missiles at Tskhinvali, an official said, and many buildings were on fire.

Georgia’s president said Russian aircraft bombed several Georgian villages and other civilian facilities.

“A full-scale aggression has been launched against Georgia,” Saakashvili said in a televised statement. He also announced a full military mobilization with reservists being called into action.

A senior Russian diplomat in charge of the South Ossetian conflict, Yuri Popov, dismissed the Georgian claims of Russian bombings as misinformation, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.

Russia’s Defense Ministry denounced the Georgian attack as a “dirty adventure.” “Blood shed in South Ossetia will weigh on their conscience,” the ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site.

Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev later chaired a session of his Security Council in the Kremlin, vowing that Moscow will protect Russian citizens.

“In accordance with the constitution and federal law, I, as president of Russia, am obliged to protect lives and dignity of Russian citizens wherever they are located,” Medvedev said, according to Russian news reports. “We won’t allow the death of our compatriots go unpunished.”

Saakashvili long has pledged to restore Tbilisi’s rule over South Ossetia and another breakaway province, Abkhazia. Both regions have run their own affairs without international recognition since splitting from Georgia in the early 1990s and built up ties with Moscow.

Relations between Georgia and Russia worsened notably this year as Georgia pushed to join NATO and Russia dispatched additional peacekeeper forces to Abkhazia.

The Georgian attack came just hours after Saakashvili announced a unilateral cease-fire in a television broadcast late Thursday in which he also urged South Ossetian separatist leaders to enter talks on resolving the conflict.

Georgian officials later blamed South Ossetian separatists for thwarting the cease-fire by shelling Georgian villages in the area.

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You may have heard of some Greek organizations in the news for hazing new members. And, while hazing once was very popular it is no longer the case. That is because sororities and fraternities like Alpha Kappa Alpha are adhering to strict guidelines set forth by their universities in regards to hazing.
Hazing is considered as any act or action that may potentially harm a person emotionally, physically, psychologically, or anything of this nature. This does not matter whether the individual is becoming part of the Greek organization or not. Hazing is a serious infraction of many university regulations and any Greek organization not abiding by these rules will be reprimanded.
This is good news for all the new recruits who are interested in joining Zeta Tau Alpha. Or, those who want to pledge Alpha Xi Delta. Nobody wants to be hazed but many students accept it simply because they want to be part of the Greek organization.
The reason hazing has practically been outlawed is because many student deaths and illnesses occurred that were highlighted in the news. Action has been taken against those organizations and now hazing is severely limited if it occurs at all.

1. im so happy about it and cant wait for the peso to take the lead……sarcasm
2. im so happy about it and cant wait for the peso to take the lead……sarcasm
3. Yes it is correct. The dollar is in steep decline since Bush came into office. If you peruse the Internet and dig up the Dollar Index chart you’ll notice that the dollar has fallen from 120 on the chart when Bush took office to about 76 on the chart today.

   Tax cuts for the rich combined with massive war spending are never a good thing for the value of a currency. None-the-less, that policy can serve to further enrich a cabal of wealthy elites at the expense of the general public — which is exactly what capitalism is designed to do.

4. yes, it is correct.
   today CAD is worth more than USD.

   1 USD = 0.98321 CAD

5. I personally believe that we wouldnt be in the pickel that we are if the “responsable” people we have elected to office for the past 25 yrs would stop spending money like a 16 year old with there dads credit card…

   How strong does our economy really look to outsiders when we havent stopped borrowing money since the was it reagan or nixon?

6. It’s more correct to say that the American dollar is worth less than the Canadian dollar, since the Canadian dollar is worth less than it used to be. Look at the price of gold: $800 per ounce!

   The Federal Reserve is printing paper federal reserve notes rather than the U.S. mint coining gold and silver. That’s why we have inflation.

   Ron Paul wants to return to honest money and abolish the Federal Reserve. He has my vote.

7. http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/conver…
8. Yes it is, 1 US dollar to .98 Canadian cents. I really don’t think too much about it; I’m still looking forward to my Quebec trip in January

1. Absolutely!!

2. No. The President needs to be intelligent and powerful enough not to be a puppet.

3. Nope.

4. Oh my god no. She is the freakiest person I ever heard of. She makes absolutely no sense when she talks. She speaks in that government speak and does not make any sense. Have I mentioned she makes no sense?

5. Possibly, a black woman being president would be GREAT, but I don’t think there’s a chance she would ever run. She does seem to agree with EVERYTHING Bush does, other than that I think she could handle the job.

6. From what I have seen of her, I would seriously consider her as a viable candidate.

7. I would sooner vote for Condie than for Hillary

8. Helllllllllllllllllllllll Nooooooooooooooooooo!

9. It depends on who she ran against but she is definitely very highly regarded by me.

10. nope…no way …not a frig’n shot, she’s as bad as bush and darth cheney

11. Possibly, yes. IMHO, she’s the most qualified woman in America. However, she has never held an elected position in government. I say that she’d be a good VP running mate for the republican party … that would get Hillary’s and the democrat party’s panties in a bunch!

12. I would vote for her before I would Hillary Clinton. And with the way she handling foreign relations and the mid-eastern peace talks I think she would make a good president.

13. Maybe, depend on the other choice

14. She was so weak as the national security adviser and the Secretary of state that Donald Rumsfeld and the defense department bullied their way in to dictating what state department policy should be.

She would be a weak president.

15. depends on her stances and ideals, but i wouldn’t out right rule it out.

16. You bet. It’s nice to have a leader with class. And she’s tough and is a good speaker.

Joey, what a great idea!

17. No, since I never voted for her in anything in the first place. I want to know who the People get to nominate? All we get is a premade selection of choices that I would never make in the first place.