Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Michigan primary, keeping the Republican presidential contest up in the air, but committed an "oops" in a photo op:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7895.html
For this, he might get President Bush's endorsement.....The Bush administration has had its own wobblies with manufactured news.....
USA Today reported, incidentally, that U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona was hurt in Michigan by a lack of crossover voters, whom he had campaigned for. He didn't do himself any favors with his comments last week about Michigan's lost jobs not coming back, and he probably knew it, because he started to try to change his tune - too late. His support of the Bush administration on the war in Iraq may also have been a factor with swing voters.
*No Kucinich in debate
The Nevada Supreme Court backed MSNBC in its decision to exclude U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio from the Democratic presidential candidate debate in Las Vegas last night:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/nbc-wins-battle-over-debate/
The judge who had initially ruled in Kucinich's favor, Charles Thompson, may have overreached when he said Kucinich had to be included or he'd pull the plug on the debate. The Nevada court likely thought that was a violation of MSNBC's First Amendment rights. I can't argue with that point.
But I can argue with MSNBC's rotten treatment of Kucinich or any candidate who is invited, then disinvited. That is still dirty pool.
*Nevada caucus not kosher
Oy....
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/religion_theseeker/2008/01/super-sabbath.html
*Hezbollah TV really not kosher
So much for the test run:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1200475893715&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Remember: Read that fine print....
*It's 1992 all over again
A "Draft Bloomberg" movement gets started:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1703765,00.html
At least Ross Perot never publicly denied he was running in 1992 before he actually announced.
*It's 1990 all over again
Inflation is living up to its name:
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ECONOMY?SITE=MABOC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-01-16-12-57-59
Who was president then? Right. Papa Bush.
*Generational tensions among blacks
This article doesn't address the presidential race, but I would imagine some of these tensions between the generations are a factor there as well:
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2008/01/16/the_great_divide?mode=PF
*Has the election affected Oprah?
She's starting a new television network, but her decision to wade into politics by supporting Barack Obama may have affected Oprah Winfrey in another way:
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN1442045020080114
If you have a reputation for not being political, your fans don't like you to get political.
*Obama to Florida: Drop Dead....uh, at least until after January 29
No primary for him:
http://www.sptimes.com/2008/01/16/State/Obama_stirs_fight_wit.shtml
And my guess is no Florida win for him, if he's the nominee.
*Rose Mary Woods replaced by recycling
E-mails may have been erased:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-01-16-tapes_N.htm
What?? The White House recycles?
*Florida suspends Allstate sales
The "good hands" people forgot to count everything with regard to property insurance:
http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USN1G62373820080116
I wonder if this means Allstate won't bombard me with letters anymore....
*Can baseball fans sue?
From USA Today:
Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., says: "Fixed games played by drug users that illegitimately altered the outcome of the games," McCollum said. "It's my opinion we're here in the middle of a criminal conspiracy that defrauded millions of baseball fans of billions of dollars."
•Expert says: Fans who purchased tickets could have a case if they're willing to spend the time and money to litigate. "Sure, you make a contract claim since what they promised was different from they delivered," University of Southern California law professor Gillian Hadfield said. "It may be too little money worth pursuing, and it can become tricky."
My take: Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig wants to prove he's going to act on steroids? Act to remove the San Francisco Giants' leadership - beginning with team owner Peter Magowan - who systematically looked the other way while Barry Bonds was juicing up.
Incidentally, members of Congress brought up something that was not fully addressed in the Mitchell Report:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/sports/baseball/16stimulant.html
I still think Selig should be removed as well. Players' union head Don Fehr, too.
*Sparano new Dolphins' head coach
The Miami Dolphins have hired Dallas Cowboys assistant Tony Sparano as their new head coach. Let's see who flubs first and refers to him as "Tony Soprano."
*Burying the lead
Can I take issue with the format of USA Today's "Lifeline Live" blog, which has a headline about something, and then you can't find it while you search through 30 other things in the blog? Here's today's as an example. Click on the blog when you get to the Life page:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/default.htm
Maybe they should rename it "Needle in the Haystack."
#Late in the day, they put a headline in that actually led to the story it was about. That's progress.
*Who's the real lamebrain?
Actor Sean Penn called the San Francisco Chronicle "lamebrain" in a letter on Tuesday. Here's an AP article about the dustup:
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEOPLE_PENN?SITE=MABOC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-01-16-11-51-25
Here's Sean Penn's letter to the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/14/DD42UDUHM.DTL&hw=penn&sn=003&sc=388
The person Sean Penn calls "democratically elected," Hugo Chavez, has done his utmost to stifle the civil liberties of the people and press of Venezuela, and has expressed anti-Semitic statements and cozied up to Iran's leader.
Oh, by the way, Sean: Adolf Hitler was also democratically elected.
*Horne discusses cancer survival
Here's the best story of the day: Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, who was interviewed by the Associated Press about beating pancreatic cancer, the same illness that killed tenor Luciano Pavarotti last year:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080115/ap_en_mu/marilyn_horne_survivor_2
Back in the 1980s, Miami's local PBS station and late, great classical radio station WTMI had simulcasts of PBS' "Live From Lincoln Center" broadcasts. Among those simulcasts was a classic concert, "Marilyn Horne Sings the Great American Songbook," with songs of Aaron Copeland and Stephen Foster, as well as spirituals, patriotic songs and more. My father audio taped it (This was before my family's first VCR purchase), and it is a gem.
The following link isn't from that performance, but from the Carnegie Hall centennial in 1991.....As Ms. Horne celebrates her 74th birthday, here's "Simple Gifts":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i-X4IJzkNM
Here's to you, Jackie.
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