Remember Sue Lowden? She’s the Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada who advocated chickens for checkups a few weeks back. She’s now trying to say she wasn’t serious; that anyone who looks at her website will see what she really wants to do about health care reform. Okay. Let’s see what she wants to do: …
The Hawai’i State House passed a bill legalizing civil unions this afternoon, on the last day and nearly the last hour of the session. The State Senate had passed it in January, but it was tabled and thought to be dead for the session when the House refused to bring it up on a voice …
Look at this listing of sports on TV today. See the Dodgers game starting at 4:00pm? Notice the “VB” game between Hawai’i and Stanford at 4:30pm. That’s the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship Men’s Volleyball semifinal match. The MPSF is the best volleyball conference in the country, and Stanford is the #1 seed. Hawai’i is …
The Senate Republicans are displeased with Senator Reid. In the wake of the superheated debate over health care reform, Reid and his confidants have used fierce rhetoric to portray the Republicans as tools of Wall Street who spread lies about the financial regulatory reform bill as a way to protect well-heeled donors. Meanwhile, Reid has …
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Not that the Republican party there will appreciate it. If nothing else, the singer’s Jewish, fer cryin’ out loud!
I just got back from the Singer showroom and repair place. The cost for replacing a belt (labor included) on the Hoover Wind Tunnel vacuum cleaner? $39.95. The fixed price for repairing a Classic Singer (50 years old + up) sewing machine? $225.00 Our machine was built in 1926. My mother’s mother purchased it used …
Off to the vacuum cleaner/sewing machine repair place. Have a Random Ten from last night. Guitar Town–Emmylou Harris Martha My Dear–The Beatles Under The Falling Sky–Bonnie Raitt Boom, Like That–Mark Knopfler The Load-Out–Jackson Browne Operator–Jim Croce I Hope–Dixie Chicks Come See About Me–Diana Ross & The Supremes Kitty’s Back–Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band …
In a discussion of crime/mystery series and whether they are “closed” or “open”, where “closed” means the characters don’t grow; they don’t marry, age or have children and “open” means the opposite, I had a thought: Ed McBain, Rex Stout, John D. MacDonald and other long-term series authors are practicing what’s called “world-building” in the …
Tom Petty and some woman he calls an “Honorary Heartbreaker.” Watch what Stevie does with her eyes. I always wonder how these combinations of members of different bands come about. Does one of ’em call the other and say “Have your people call my people,” you think?