I’m not sure why this is so popular, but it is one of the videos that have blown up over the last couple of days. What I learned from this video is that David Garnett, who is a great basketball player, really can’t kick a soccer ball. David Beckham, one of the most celebrated soccer stars of the last 15 years, can kick a soccer ball. That’s what I learned. What did you learn?
Watch the vid:
Art Blakely was more than a great drummer. He was where many great jazz musicians got their start. He would season them. This is a 1961 recording of Dat Dare by Art Blakely and the Jazz Messengers.
Like a bad penny, he just keeps showing up. Isn’t his 15 minutes of fame over yet?
From TP:
On Wednesday, Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher said that if he were in Congress, he would “probably be in jail” because he’d be charged with “slapping some member.” He added, “And that’s not [bull] either.” ThinkProgress asked Joe at CPAC yesterday which members he would most like to slap. “Pretty much anybody that’s stood there and said anything bad about our troops, pretty much anybody who sat there and talked treasonous talk about America,” Joe said. He then implied that some members of Congress should be shot:
Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em. And there’d be nothing said about that, because they knew it was wrong. You don’t talk about our troops. You support our troops. Especially when our congressmen and senators sit there and say bad things in an ongoing conflict.
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It has been forever in Obama days (he is moving so fast) since Tom Daschle withdrew from consideration as Chief of Health and Human Services. There were rumors about Howard Dean, who is a physician, stepping in. There were also rumors about Governor Kathleen Sebelius.
More from WaPo:
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius accepted President Obama’s nomination to become Health and Human Services Secretary this afternoon, according to administration officials. Sebelius will replace former senator Thomas A. Daschle, who withdrew from consideration last month.
“This evening, the President asked Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to serve as his Secretary of Health and Human Services, and she accepted,” one administration official said. “The President will formally announce the nomination on Monday afternoon at the White House.”
I found this segment on CNN. It is made for my mother who asked me just the other day, “What is Twitter?” When you do news all day long, sooner or later you get to stories like this one.
I found a story on DK the night of Governor Bobby Jindal’s Republican response that seemed to suggest that Jindal wasn’t in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of hurricane Katrina. The story was picked up by TPM. Politico’s Ben Smith noted the blog chatter and asked the Governor’s office for clarification. Governor Jindal’s office released this response:
It was in the days following the storm. Sheriff Lee was a hero who worked tirelessly to rescue those in danger, and he didn’t take kindly to bureaucrats getting in his way.
Really? Well, this clears up everything. We are sorry for… Wait a minute. What? TPM has the rest of the story and the governor’s office does absolutely nothing to help the governor out of this trap.
From TPM:
Instead, they went back to Smith, now telling him, in Smith’s words, that Jindal “didn’t imply” on Tuesday that the story “took place during the heat of a fight to release rescue boats.” (Take 30 seconds to read Jindal’s actual words, and you’ll see that’s flatly untrue — but no matter.) Rather, Jindal spokeswoman Melissa Sellers told Smith, “It was days later .. Sheriff Lee was on the phone and the governor came down to visit him. It wasn’t that they were standing right down there with the boats.”
Smith added:
She said she thought Lee, who died in 2007, “was doing an interview” about the incident with the boats when the governor described him yelling into the phone.In other words, Jindal only heard from Lee later that this had happened. He didn’t actually see it happening and played no role in it himself. We posted a few hours ago, noting that Jindal’s office had admitted the story was false.
But then things got weirder: Jindal’s people went back for yet more.
Smith soon posted an update explaining that he had misunderstood Sellers earlier. According to Teepell, Smith now wrote, rescue efforts were in fact still underway when Jindal met with Lee. And Jindal overheard Lee yelling on the phone to justify a decision he had previously made, not giving an interview about the episode, as Sellers’ earlier version had had it.
In fact, that whole thing about Jindal overhearing Lee giving an interview? It’s now gone from Smith’s post (though, thanks to the dangers of syndication, it remains here) as if Jindal’s office never said it.
There’s more. Amazingly, Sellers then argued to Smith that there is no difference between Jindal’s original story as told Tuesday night, and the one her office finally settled on this afternoon. And even more amazingly, Smith added another update in which he transcribed that argument without comment, as if it were reasonable.
Then the capper: With Jindal’s office now satisfied with the third iteration of its story — a version that clearly acknowledged that the first version, told Tuesday night to millions, was false — Teepell went back to Smith with the following comment:
“This is liberal blogger B.S. The story is clear.”
And Smith, in yet another update, published it.
Good work all round!
I was never much into comic books, but I did collect movie posters for a while. I have about 100 or so still folded in a closet somewhere. Even so, I know the value of Action Comics #1. Superman and Lois Lane were first introduced the to public in #1. There is something very special about Superman. As a character he has only one weakness. He does the right thing every time. He was perfect… boring, but perfect.
Only 100 copies of Action #1 were made and 80 copies are known to exist. More than half of those have been restored (which lowers the value). This is an unrestored, good copy. It goes on display/sale today. Hey, does anyone have an extra $400,000 that I can have? I’ll get it back to you in 20 years or so when I sell the comic book. I’m good for it! 
I’m sure that Tom Brady would have married the same woman if he were the back-up quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, but he is not. He is a future Hall of Fame quarterback. If he never plays another down he is in the Hall in this first year of eligibility. Tom married the most highly paid Supermodel in the business – Gisele Bundchen. Sweet. (I hope that he has better luck than Billy Joel did.)
Many of our government employees have an extremely low morale. It is no wonder after endurring eight years of Bush rule. Michelle Obama went to the Environmental Protection Agency to give them a much needed pep talk.
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Keith Olbermann has an excellent summary of Governor Bobby Jindal’s speech. Watch:
Rachel Maddow’s exclusive interview with Nancy Pelosi. Watch it:
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Just when golf was sinking back into the group of sports that are rather boring, Tiger Woods is back.
From CNN:
The baseball player Curt Schilling once said that mystique and aura are dancers at a nightclub. Golf, though, has Tiger Woods, who after an eight-month absence, the longest of his career, radiates those qualities perhaps now more than ever.
The world No. 1 went 3-under for his first two holes since winning the U.S. Open on a broken leg last June, and easily beat an awed and mostly misfiring Brendan Jones 3&2 in the first round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship on Wednesday.
“I got off to probably an ideal start,” said Woods, who never trailed after seizing the first hole with a birdie and the second with an eagle. “I hit a couple loose irons in the middle part of the round. But other than that, I really hit it pretty good all day.” (more… )
The guys on Fox News look as if someone stole their Rolex. They aren’t happy with Governor Bobby Jindal.
I thought that Jindal was completely out of step with what Republicans could have said. I was very surprised to see that many Republican commentators were very unhappy with Jindal, including David Brooks from the New York Times.
The best thing about President George W. Bush was that he was a pure red-blooded Republican. He is a conservative’s conservative. He allowed the American people the opportunity to see what the Republican Party truly believed. He was Reagan on steroids. The problem wasn’t just big government. It was government.
This brings me to the new darling of the Republican Party Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Jindal has an impressive personal story. He went to college at Brown University and was accepted to Harvard medical school but instead went to Yale for law school. He then got a Masters degree in political science. In 1996 he was appointed Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. From then through 2003 he was appointed to multiple different agencies at a state and national level. He lost a bid for governor in 2003. In 2004 he ran for Congress from Louisiana’s first Congressional District. He won this election overwhelmingly. He ran for governor in 2007, again, and won. This brings us to the present.
The reason I mentioned President George W. Bush (in the first paragraph) was that Bobby Jindal’s response (full text) was the typical conservative Republican response. He offered no new ideas (as I expected). He served up a smorgasbord of tax cuts, suggesting we “… create jobs by lowering income taxes for working families… cutting taxes for small businesses… strengthening incentives (tax credits) for businesses to invest in new equipment and hire new workers… and stabilizing homeowners by creating a new tax credit for homebuyers.” Wasn’t this the exact plan that George W. Bush proposed and passed in 2001 or was that his 2003 tax cut plan? This is more of the same.
The Republican hatred of government was on full display. The governor told us a story about Hurricane Katrina, the moral of which was that we don’t need government to help us with anything. (This is kind of surprising since the governor’s mother used to work for the government.) That was a lesson that he and other Republicans learned from Hurricane Katrina. They learned the government just can’t function. I may be wrong but if you’re running an agency in which disaster management expertise is called for from an agency and it is headed by a guy that has no experience in that field, it would seem to me that the agency may not function as well as it should. President Clinton and FEMA evacuated over a million people from Florida ahead of Hurricane Floyd. Now no one is comparing Hurricane Floyd to Hurricane Katrina. What I am saying is that the government can work if you put competent people in charge.
Watch the Republican response:
Finally, I was surprised at how poor the governor’s presentation was. His gestures were wooden and his speech was halting. He never seemed to flow. I can get over the mechanical gestures if he only had something of substance to add to the discussion. Not one new idea. Not one new theme. Not even a direction where we can find an idea. He is simply the latest new, young face that the GOP has thrown in front of the American people.
Update: Could Governor Bobby Jindal have been mistaken about his touching story about the Louisiana Sheriff during Katrina? Did the Governor lie? Could it be that he wasn’t in New Orleans until days after the Hurricane had passed? It sure seems like his story is very similar to President of Jefferson Parish Aaron Broussard’s story that he told on Meet the Press. Then again, I might be mistaken. I’m sure that a Governor wouldn’t go on national TV and make up facts. No way.
Update 2: America loved Obama’s speech!!
President Barack Obama said what he needed to say tonight. He was the president. He was confident, described the problems and gave detailed answers. He was sharp, honest and most importantly, he was upbeat. (Combating one Republican talking point that Obama’s honest assessment of our economic problems were causing a lack of confidence on Wall Street.)
Obama’s State of the Union complete video, please watch (full text):
We have to continue to work to wrestle our country back. We must continue to turn out and stay organized. To that end -
CURRENT PRECINCT MEETING LOCATIONS
THIS LIST SUPERSEDES THE AD IN THE CITIZEN-TIMES PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 22, 2009
PLAN TO ATTEND YOUR PRECINCT MEETING
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Buncombe County Democratic Party 2009 Annual Precinct Meetings ALL precincts will meet on Saturday, February 28th at 10:00 AM (In case of inclement weather or lack of quorum, make-up date is Tuesday, March 3 at 7:00 pm.)
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PRECINCTS 1-71 |
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ASHEVILLE 8 |
Shiloh AME Zion Church 95 Shiloh Road, Asheville |
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ASHEVILLE 11 |
Asheville Housing Authority 165 S. French Broad Ave. ,Asheville |
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ASHEVILLE 12, 13 & 14.2 |
Western NC Health Service,312 Haywood Rd., Formerly Fruit of LaborWorship Center |
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ASHEVILLE 17 (with Asheville 4 & 27)
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North Asheville Community Center
37 Long Street, Asheville, NC28804 |
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ASHEVILLE 27 (with Asheville4 & 17)
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North Asheville Community Center
37 Long Street, Asheville, NC28804 |
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AVERY CREEK 30.2 (with 30.3 & 46) |
Avery Creek Community Center 899 SE Glenn Bridge Rd.Arden NC 28704 |
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BLACK MOUNTAIN 2, 3, 4 & 5 Pct. 33.2, 33.3, 34, 35, 36 (with Pct. 32) |
Owen Middle School Auditorium |
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BROAD RIVER – Pct. 37 |
Garren Creek Fire Dept. 1366 Garren Creek Road,Fairview, NC |
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FAIRVIEW 1, 2A, 2B & 3 - Pct. 38.2, 38.3, 39.2 & 39.3
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Fairview Christian Fellowship Church (Location is the log cabin church behind the library off Taylor Rd.) |
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Home of Smithson & Kathy Mills 34 West Oakview Rd,Asheville, NC |
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Avery Creek Community Center
899 SE Glenn Bridge Rd.Arden NC 28704 |
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Home of Smithson & Kathy Mills 34 West Oakview Rd,Asheville, NC
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Home of Marcella & Roger Morgan 210 Buckner Branch Road,Barnardsville, NC |
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South Buncombe Library 260 Overlook Road, Asheville,NC |
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Weaverville Town Hall, 30 S Main St. Weaverville |
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Riceville Community Center
2251 Riceville Road, Asheville, 28805 |
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Buckeye Cove Community Club 527 Buckeye Cove Rd.Swannanoa |
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WD Williams Elementary School 161 Bee Tree Road,Swannanoa, NC |
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Fireman’s Training Center 188 Erwin Hills Road, Asheville |
I was surprised that Mickey Rourke didn’t win for Best Actor, but there is always a surprise.
From CNN (list of winners):
Best picture
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“Frost/Nixon”
“Milk”
“The Reader”
WINNER: “Slumdog Millionaire”
Director
WINNER: Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Stephen Daldry, “The Reader”
David Fincher, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Ron Howard, “Frost/Nixon”
Gus Van Sant, “Milk”
Actor
Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor”
Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon”
WINNER: Sean Penn, “Milk”
Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler”
Actress
Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married”
Angelina Jolie, “Changeling”
Melissa Leo, “Frozen River”
Meryl Streep, “Doubt”
WINNER: Kate Winslet, “The Reader”
Supporting actor
Josh Brolin, “Milk”
Robert Downey Jr., “Tropic Thunder”
Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Doubt”
WINNER: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
Michael Shannon, “Revolutionary Road”
Supporting actress
Amy Adams, “Doubt”
WINNER: Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
Viola Davis, “Doubt”
Taraji P. Henson, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Marisa Tomei, “The Wrestler”
Animated feature
“Bolt”
“Kung Fu Panda”
WINNER: “WALL-E”(more…)
The Guys from Red State Update have a couple of words about Bristol Palin and teenage girls to throw in here.
Watch and laugh:
Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
