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Weekend Update from this Thursday, including that crazy lady from the McCain rally

I like this side of him….

I love Keith Olbermann (iTunes link to video or audio podcasts):

Spent the weekend in Memphis with my softball team….and we came in FIRST PLACE!   Basketball star John Ameche gave us our gold medals.

See more pictures from the tournament in my gallery!

And this is the 3rd tournaments in a row I have been involved him that has resulted in a medal or trophy. (Chicago tennis, Indianapolis tennis and now Memphis softball)   I guess it’s all about me. 

From Daily Kos:

From The Onion:

WINNETKA, IL—This normally peaceful suburban town is still reeling following the news Monday that a local resident, whose name is being withheld by police pending a full investigation, left an iPhone unattended for more than three hours in a car parked in the hot sun.

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“My husband and I have been trying for months, but so far, we’ve been unable to have an iPhone,” town assemblywoman Janet Nuetreer said. “But if we did, we would understand that there is nothing more important. Every iPhone is a gift from God.”

“Sadly, this sort of mistreatment of iPhones is more widespread than people think,” said Dr. Jordan Heimlich, director of Winnetka Community Services, who is currently supervising the iPhone’s care. “People leave their iPhones precariously perched on the edges of counters, they forget to charge them, they even fail to provide them with basic necessities like a decorative carrying case. I’ve even heard cases of iPhones being dropped.”

“But I’ve never seen anything like this happen here in Winnetka before,” he added. “It’s sad to see how out of line so many people’s basic priorities are.”

Authorities added that it was “just sheer luck” that the toddler who was also left in the car was unconscious at the time, as otherwise he could have potentially damaged the iPhone.

The Chicago White Sox made the playoffs last night, winning a 1 game playoff against the Twins.

For the 1st time since 1906, both Chicago teams are in the post season (in ‘06, there were no divisions - they just played in the World Series).  If both teams do make it to the World Series, this city will shut down.  Cubs fans hate the Sox and vice versa.  The Cubs have not won a world series in 100 years, while the White Sox won in 2005.  It is great for the city that both teams are in it, and I would like nothing more than to see both teams go all the way to the World Series.

Being from Ohio, I can kind of look at both teams objectively, so I am going to put my predictions out there.

Cubs : Although they are the best team in the National League, there is something missing, and I can’t quite put my finger on it.  They added a lot of talent in the off-season so they really only have been playing together as a team for 1 year. They rolled through the division, but I am not sure that they have gelled enough to make it through the post-season in one piece.  This may be the set-up year for the big steamrolling season in ‘09.  I don’t think that this is the year.

White Sox : They barely made the playoffs but managed to win some emotional games.  The nucleus of the team has been around since the 2005 team and they could make it to the Series.  If they can beat Tampa (best team in the AL) in the 1st round, they’ll make it to the Series.

Too funny

From an email chain:

I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re ‘exotic, different.’

Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable.

Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well-grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first Black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.

If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.

If your husband is nicknamed ‘First Dude,’ with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

Have an iPhone?  This site now has a snazzy interface which makes this blog much more readable using the iPhone browser.  Enjoy!

Speaking of iPhones, I had to stop by the Apple Store today and pick up some new earbuds as mine broke.