Friday fodder: Chelsea Clinton is getting married! (also, Arizona, WikiLeaks and the zedonk)
30 July 2010
I’d say the news is all over the place this week, but it’s really not. All things considered, the sky did not fall as some expected. Arizona is still messed up, but I optimistically believe Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling will stand and immigrants will not fear being deported as soon as they venture out their front door looking for a better life.
Bolton at the 11th hour issued a temporary injunction to prevent the most egregious aspects of SB 1070 from being implemented. Among them, legal Arizona residents will not be accused of a state crime for failing to carry their “papers” with them at all times. Protesters from both sides of the debate were out in force Thursday, when the law went into effect. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer will appeal Bolton’s ruling.
Again, it’s good news from the Gulf but it’s good news that’s mysteriously hard to find, like the oil slicks once ghoulishly fouling the waters off Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida. Microbes or bacteria or something equally tiny are assumed to be eating up the oil, which is a pleasant turn of events for bigger creatures who make their home there. Brit Tony Hayward (Michael Sheen) is out and American Bob Dudley is in and wow is he dull. He just might kill the whole Deepwater Horizon movie project.
Admit it. You’d never heard of WikiLeaks until this past week when they published close to ninety-thousand documents pertaining to secret information from the Afghan war over the past six years. It’s a pretty interesting site if you have hours and hours of free time to look over their troves of classified info. Frightening about the Afghanistan leak is that few seem concerned with what might result from the bombshell. Apparently, the “secret” info wasn’t the best kept and nothing new was exposed, including the realization that our relationship with Pakistan is a damned-if-we-do-damned-if-we-don’t one. Under suspicion for giving the documents to WikiLeaks? Bradley E. Manning, a rosy-cheeked 22-year-old soldier who allegedly thought he was doing the right thing. When it comes to Afghanistan, it looks as if no one is doing the right thing.
Charles Rangel, the Democratic congressman from New York, will be facing trial for ethics violations. There’s nothing sexy about the charges against him. Rangel is accused of not reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in income/assets and failing to pay taxes on his rental home in the Dominican Republic. While this may all end in his resignation from the House after 40 years, Dems and the GOP are being suspiciously quiet about the matter. Let’s just hope it’s because they have more important fish to fry, rather than a situation of “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
Chelsea Clinton is getting married tomorrow! Obama wasn’t invited and neither was I. The nuptials will take place in Rhinebeck, New York and her soon-to-be-husband is Marc Mezvinsky, a Goldman Sachs guy. They’re registered at Target.
Ellen DeGeneres has decided to quit “American Idol” and that’s okay. I love her, but I don’t think the show really fit into what makes her Ellen. Rumored replacements are Jennifer Lopez (good) and Steven Tyler (bad). I just couldn’t imagine having to look at Tyler’s face and mouth week after week.
Cute news out of Georgia. A zebra and a donkey walk into a bar. Months later, a zedonk is born. Yeah, that’s right, zedonk. Striped legs, killer ass. Bun Bun wants one for her birthday.
Zac Efron is a dreamy dreamboat. He’s also turned into a nicely understated actor with the potential for a very long career. His “Charlie St. Cloud” opens today and in it, he doesn’t play basketball! He can, however, throw a mean sinker which he promises to do with his younger brother every night at sunset until he leaves for college. Plans change in horrible ways involving a drunk driver and Charlie never makes it to Stanford. He sees dead people, namely his younger brother, but eventually learns how to move on through the love a good woman and wise words from the paramedic who saved Charlie’s life. It’s a sentimental movie, not trying to be more than it is. It’s unfussy, somewhat ethereal. Other than an odd dental situation regarding the leading lady, I liked this movie and I have a big crush on Efron.
Moscow is having a freaky hot heat wave that makes deniers of global warming sound downright stupid. Sure, odd weather patterns have happened over the past forty years, but none so often as the past ten. Honestly, we have got to pay attention. No more aerosol sunscreen in this family.
I’m gone.
I’d say the news is all over the place this week, but it’s really not. All things considered, the sky did not fall as some expected. Arizona is still messed up, but I optimistically believe Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling will stand and immigrants will not fear being deported as soon as they venture out their front door looking for a better life.
Bolton at the 11th hour issued a temporary injunction to prevent the most egregious aspects of SB 1070 from being implemented. Among them, legal Arizona residents will not be accused of a state crime for failing to carry their “papers” with them at all times. Protesters from both sides of the debate were out in force Thursday, when the law went into effect. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer will appeal Bolton’s ruling.
Again, it’s good news from the Gulf but it’s good news that’s mysteriously hard to find, like the oil slicks once ghoulishly fouling the waters off Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida. Microbes or bacteria or something equally tiny are assumed to be eating up the oil, which is a pleasant turn of events for bigger creatures who make their home there. Brit Tony Hayward (Michael Sheen) is out and American Bob Dudley is in and wow is he dull. He just might kill the whole Deepwater Horizon movie project.
Admit it. You’d never heard of WikiLeaks until this past week when they published close to ninety-thousand documents pertaining to secret information from the Afghan war over the past six years. It’s a pretty interesting site if you have hours and hours of free time to look over their troves of classified info. Frightening about the Afghanistan leak is that few seem concerned with what might result from the bombshell. Apparently, the “secret” info wasn’t the best kept and nothing new was exposed, including the realization that our relationship with Pakistan is a damned-if-we-do-damned-if-we-don’t one. Under suspicion for giving the documents to WikiLeaks? Bradley E. Manning, a rosy-cheeked 22-year-old soldier who allegedly thought he was doing the right thing. When it comes to Afghanistan, it looks as if no one is doing the right thing.
Charles Rangel, the Democratic congressman from New York, will be facing trial for ethics violations. There’s nothing sexy about the charges against him. Rangel is accused of not reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in income/assets and failing to pay taxes on his rental home in the Dominican Republic. While this may all end in his resignation from the House after 40 years, Dems and the GOP are being suspiciously quiet about the matter. Let’s just hope it’s because they have more important fish to fry, rather than a situation of “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
Chelsea Clinton is getting married tomorrow! Obama wasn’t invited and neither was I. The nuptials will take place in Rhinebeck, New York and her soon-to-be-husband is Marc Mezvinsky, a Goldman Sachs guy. They’re registered at Target.
Ellen DeGeneres has decided to quit “American Idol” and that’s okay. I love her, but I don’t think the show really fit into what makes her Ellen. Rumored replacements are Jennifer Lopez (good) and Steven Tyler (bad). I just couldn’t imagine having to look at Tyler’s face and mouth week after week.
Cute news out of Georgia. A zebra and a donkey walk into a bar. Months later, a zedonk is born. Yeah, that’s right, zedonk. Striped legs, killer ass. Bun Bun wants one for her birthday.
Zac Efron is a dreamy dreamboat. He’s also turned into a nicely understated actor with the potential for a very long career. His “Charlie St. Cloud” opens today and in it, he doesn’t play basketball! He can, however, throw a mean sinker which he promises to do with his younger brother every night at sunset until he leaves for college. Plans change in horrible ways involving a drunk driver and Charlie never makes it to Stanford. He sees dead people, namely his younger brother, but eventually learns how to move on through the love a good woman and wise words from the paramedic who saved Charlie’s life. It’s a sentimental movie, not trying to be more than it is. It’s unfussy, somewhat ethereal. Other than an odd dental situation regarding the leading lady, I liked this movie and I have a big crush on Efron.
Moscow is having a freaky hot heat wave that makes deniers of global warming sound downright stupid. Sure, odd weather patterns have happened over the past forty years, but none so often as the past ten. Honestly, we have got to pay attention. No more aerosol sunscreen in this family.
I’m gone.
Chelsea never got the credit she deserved. The Clintons did a wonderful job of raising a productive daughter amidst all the turmoil in the WH at the time.Compare her to the Bush twins who are wastes of space, entitled brats.If the Clintons never did ANYTHING right politically, they deserve acclaim for Chelsea.