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Month: March 2008

Mary Ann Loves Mary Jane

Dawn Wells, the actress who played ‘Mary Ann’ on the classic TV show Gilligan’s Island was busted recently for reckless driving. She was put on probation. She had a good lawyer, because the real reason she was busted was she had a couple of half smoked J’s and a stash o’ ganja. Seems Mary Ann has a thing for weed.

Must have been all those years trapped on that island followed by the ensuing depression brought on by the constant ogling of Ginger by the Professor, the Skipper, Gilligan and Mr. Howell. It’s the green of jealousy that lead her toward the green of the earth.

UPDATE: Statement from Dawn Wells.

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Celebrity, Gilligan, Mary Ann, Dawn Wells, Marijuana

Spitzer Story All About the Use (and Misuse of) Technology

The story about New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is heavily focused on the prostitution angle, yet the real reason he got busted was due to his unknowing involvement in a money laundering investigation. Larry Dignan writes an interesting story on the information system that brought down Spitzer and the proprietors of the prostitution ring. The network has been in place for sometime, yet its importance escalated following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

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Eliot Spitzer, Terrorism, Prostitution, FinCEN

Obama Wins Mississippi (Yawn)

No surprises here.

Barack Obama coasted to victory in Mississippi’s Democratic primary Tuesday, latest in a string of racially polarized presidential contests across the Deep South and a final tune-up before next month’s high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania.

The cable tv news coverage tonight is almost comic. The same talking heads are debating the same topics they debated last weekend, and the week before. Obama is the front runner. Clinton has almost no chance of taking him in the delegate count. She won’t quit. There’s six long weeks until Pennsylvania…

Boring.

The real story is how the Democratic party is tearing itself apart. History will judge this election cycle as the cannibalization moment. Future pundits will talk of how the Democrats ate their own and didn’t even realize it until it was too late.

The convention in Denver will make Chicago in ’68 look like a tupperware party.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Mississippi

Shoe, Meet Other Foot

Let me just say how happy I am that Eliot Spitzer isn’t a Republican.

The New York Times is reporting that Gov. Eliot Spitzer has told senior advisers that he had been involved in a prostitution ring.

Spitzer has built his political legacy on rooting out corruption, including several headline-making battles with Wall Street while serving as attorney general. He stormed into the governor’s office in 2006 with a historic share of the vote, vowing to continue his no-nonsense approach to fixing one of the nation’s worst governments.

Time magazine had named him “Crusader of the Year” when he was attorney general and the tabloids proclaimed him “Eliot Ness.”

But his stint as governor has been marred by several problems, including an unpopular plan to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and a plot by his aides to smear Spitzer’s main Republican nemesis.

I don’t wish this kinda stuff on anyone, but I can’t argue with the deliciousness of this, especially so close to the November election.

UPDATE: Reports are out that the governor has been indicted and that he intends to resign.

UPDATE II: Spitzer apologized to his family and the public, and said he must take time for his family. He did not explicitly say he would resign his office, though.

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2008 Election, Eliot Spitzer, Corruption, New York, Prostitution

Stop Breathing

What is this? Global warming hysteria Monday or something? The Washington Post publishes a report suggesting that CO2 emissions must cease to near zero to keep temperatures from rising further.

Using advanced computer models to factor in deep-sea warming and other aspects of the carbon cycle that naturally creates and removes carbon dioxide (CO2), the scientists, from countries including the United States, Canada and Germany, are delivering a simple message: The world must bring carbon emissions down to near zero to keep temperatures from rising further.

“The question is, what if we don’t want the Earth to warm anymore?” asked Carnegie Institution senior scientist Ken Caldeira, co-author of a paper published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. “The answer implies a much more radical change to our energy system than people are thinking about.”

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Temper? What Temper?

The headlines are saying McCain flashed his temper. Hardly. It’s more like run-of-the-mill frustration with stupid questions from reporters at the New York Times.

Senator John McCain grew agitated Friday with a New York Times reporter who asked about his 2004 conversation with then-Democratic nominee John Kerry about McCain possibly running as Kerry’s vice presidential nominee.

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The Monster vs. Bambi

If Samantha Power worked for Hillary Clinton, she’d still have a job today, and Hillary would have no comment on Power’s “off the record” remarks. But no. Power works for Barack Obama, who still wants to try and be a nice guy. Nice guys get squashed in Hillary’s world. Power not only had to apologize for a “truth hurts” comment, she had to resign.

Better toughen up, Barack, or the monster will eat you alive.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politics

McCain Gets an Unexpected Endorsement

From Hillary Clinton.

“I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it’s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold,” the New York senator told reporters crowded into an infant’s bedroom-sized hotel conference room in Washington.

“I believe that I’ve done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy,” she said.

Calling McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee a good friend and a “distinguished man with a great history of service to our country,” Clinton said, “Both of us will be on that stage having crossed that threshold. That is a critical criterion for the next Democratic nominee to deal with.”

This whole “experience” thing is maddening to me. I just think it’s amazing that Hillary can claim with a straight face that she has anywhere near the experience of John McCain. She’s been a U.S. Senator for 7 years. Ok, maybe there’s some real time there. But, let’s look past that. She was the wife of a president for 8 years. The wife of a state governor for 12 years. An amateur trader/investor for 2 years. The wife of a state attorney general for 2 years. A lawyer for a few years.

Contrast this with John McCain. He’s been a U.S. Senator for 21 years. A U.S. Congressman for 4 years. A businessman for 2.5 years. He was in the U.S. Navy for 22 years, including 5.5 years as a POW.

Seems to me Hillary’s spent most of her life being a wife. And how successful has that been? Let’s ask Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, or Marilyn Jo Jenkins. I’m sure they all have quite an opinion as to how great a wife Hillary has been.

If Obama has any brains at all, he’ll immediately pull a full court press on Hillary’s proclamation of equal experience with John McCain. It’s a farce.

MORE: Ann Coulter suggests Hillary would do better to stand by another man.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Experience, Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, Marilyn Jo Jenkins