Meanwhile, by now you’ve heard how Girardi has banned ice cream, candy and fast food from the clubhouse. It even applies on the road as he instructs the clubhouse workers to provide only healthy snacks. It drives the players crazy.
The clubhouse entrance at Fenway is right in the third-base concourse, only a few steps from an ice cream stand. So far this weekend I’ve seen Mariano Rivera, Alex Rodriguez and other players standing in line with fans to get an ice cream.
John, you like to pretend like the war started in 2007. You talk about the surge. The war started in 2003, and at the time when the war started, you said it was going to be quick and easy. You said we knew where the weapons of mass destruction were. You were wrong. You said that we were going to be greeted as liberators. You were wrong. You said that there was no history of violence between Shiite and Sunni. And you were wrong. And so my question is... of judgment, of whether or not -- of whether or not -- if the question is who is best-equipped as the next president to make good decisions about how we use our military, how we make sure that we are prepared and ready for the next conflict, then I think we can take a look at our judgment.
Most albums I love somehow remind me of fall or winter, and this is the only album I've ever loved that reminds me of burnt, dead summer grass in 98 degree heat. Summer of 1987, my first summer of freedom (my brother having gotten his license); thanks mostly to RRTHUR and a tape of "Burning Ambitions", I without a doubt found more amazing songs and bands that I still love today during that summer than any 3-month stretch before or since. First summer I hung out at French's parking lot. One of only 2 sophomores to make varsity that year, I can still feel what a thrill it was when the Northern Neck football preview came out in the paper and Coach Lewis took 2 paragraphs to talk about how good I looked, the promise I held. Summer my brother and I started working on the horse farm. Boy. I promise you I have never had a summer that good since. Ah well.Boy, was I right…every summer since HAS sucked…how’d I know that? So prescient…I should play the lotto!
THE West Village deejay snubbed by Samantha Ronson wants to face her Sapphic sister in a turntable duel to the death. "I'm challenging Sam to a spin-off. Let the best deejay win," Stacy "Deejay Stacy" Ledwith told Page Six. "I'm a lesbian, she's a lesbian. It could be very interesting." We revealed the other day how Ledwith, who spins at Rubyfruit on Hudson Street, asked Ronson's camp if she'd do a benefit to help save the landmark lesbian watering hole. She said she was flabbergasted to be informed that Lindsay Lohan's girlfriend didn't do gay or lesbian events. It created a flood of bad feelings that Ledwith wants to smooth over. Stoking the challenge, she added, "I've never seen Sam spin, but from people who have, I've heard some good things and I've heard some bad things. I heard once she just came in and put a CD on. So come on, Samantha, let's see what you can do." Ronson's rep didn't respond to e-mails.
Jane Strand won't have to wonder how her son is doing as he deploys for the first time with the N.C. National Guard to Iraq in a few weeks. She'll be right there with him.
Sgt. Strand and her son, Pvt. Timothy Strand, are part of the 449th Theater Aviation Brigade, based in Morrisville. The Guard held a farewell ceremony for the brigade Thursday afternoon, an event designed to honor the families of the service members as much as those in uniform.
Asked why Mr. McCain did not go to Capitol Hill after coming back to Washington to help with negotiations, Mr. Salter replied that “he can effectively do what he needs to do by phone.’’To which Yglesias asks why McCain had to pretend to suspend his campaign in order to rush physically to Washington last week. Me, I'm fucking relieved - McCain feeling that he had to physically show up in DC to get shit done had set a precedent that I must say I was not in love with. But now that we see this, I'm relieved to know that now I don't hafta walk over to Kam Sing, sit the cooks down and walk them through making my egg foo young. All I gotta do is pick up the phone and POOF! shit gets done! Thank god.
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...she said Palin still lacks sufficient foreign policy experience. "Of course she doesn't have that," Laura Bush said. But she added, "I think she is a very quick study."
"It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire [Group of Eight nations] can't find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable disease and hunger."
Her: Hey, Bill Clinton went to an Ivy League school; he was an elitist! He went on to become a Rhodes scholar Bill, camon, nobody's interested in what he had to say!!!
If somebody was trying to sell you a $7 hamburger, you might get upset and complain that it cost “nearly $10″ but you certainly wouldn’t complain that it cost “nearly $300 billion.” And yet, $7 is closer to $300 billion than $700 billion is to $1 trillion.
UPDATE, 7:35 p.m.: This slipped my mind before. But Happy Birthday today to two great Americans. Joba Chamberlain is 23 and Bruce Springsteen is 59. Joba is from Nebraska; Bruce wrote Nebraska. Joba plays for the Yankees; Bruce is a fan of the Yankees. It all fits.
...the widely-read conservative columnist George Will, after attending a show, published on September 13, 1984 a piece entitled "A Yankee Doodle Springsteen" in which he praised Springsteen as an exemplar of classic American values. He wrote: "I have not got a clue about Springsteen's politics, if any, but flags get waved at his concerts while he sings songs about hard times. He is no whiner, and the recitation of closed factories and other problems always seems punctuated by a grand, cheerful affirmation: 'Born in the U.S.A.!'"[3] The 1984 presidential campaign was in full stride at the time, and Will had connections to President Ronald Reagan's re-election organization. Will thought that Springsteen might endorse Reagan, and got the notion pushed up to high-level Reagan advisor Michael Deaver's office. Those staffers made inquiries to Springsteen's management which were politely rebuffed.Okay, I'm reaching a bit. Everybody got Born in the USA wrong. Still are. I just wanted another excuse to write BRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCE!! ;)Nevertheless, on September 19, 1984, at a campaign stop in Hammonton, New Jersey, Reagan added the following to his usual stump speech:
During a September 22 concert in Pittsburgh, Springsteen responded negatively by introducing his song "Johnny 99", a song about an unemployed auto worker who turns to murder, "The President was mentioning my name the other day, and I kinda got to wondering what his favorite album musta been. I don't think it was the Nebraska album. I don't think he's been listening to this one."
- "America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts; it rests in the message of hope in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen. And helping you make those dreams come true is what this job of mine is all about."
Another way my generation sucks is our lack of quality assassinations. Look at the generations before us - you had the Golden Era of Assassinations, the 1960s, that had it all: JFK, MLK, and, just to show how badass they were, another Kennedy with RFK. Maybe you have to be monogram-ly friendly to be considered an assassination candidate? Then they got Sadat, they at least tried to get Reagan and they rotated on a weekly basis who got to try to pop Ford. Fucking hell. AND, just to show nobody was safe they blew five holes in the world's biggest rock star who was of all things a peace-loving hippy. Who the fuck do we have on our resume? A coupla rappers plugging each other? That's it? Come the fuck on. Do we HAVE to be such a bunch of fucking pussies?
This is interesting. When it came to sending our boys over to the desert to get shot at, Bush didn't give two shits what other countries thought about it. But now, we're supposed to do something as quick and panicky as possible cause countries are "looking at us." Hmm.
I was at the bodega the other nite and I saw this at the counter. Bored, I looked at it. Wow, 5 hours of energy, I thought. Impressive. What the fuck's in this shit? I look closely."Equal to one cup of coffee."
The Treasury plan outlined on Friday involves vast risks to taxpayers, huge complexity and no guarantee of success. There are better ways forward.
The Bush administration on Saturday formally proposed a vast bailout of financial institutions in the United States, requesting unfettered authority for the Treasury Department to buy up to $700 billion in distressed mortgage-related assets from the private firms. The proposal, not quite three pages long, was stunning for its stark simplicity. It would raise the national debt ceiling to $11.3 trillion. And it would place no restrictions on the administration other than requiring semiannual reports to Congress, granting the Treasury secretary unprecedented power to buy and resell mortgage debt.
I secretly hope he knows this and tries to get away with what he can before January, just to see how far he can push it, just for kicks.
"What? We're slaves again? What the...ah well. Dubya being Dubya!"
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