Opening Stuff:
Actually I'm looking for news beyond Japan, Libya and Elizabeth Taylor. Something must be happening. right? The world is still spinning, isn't it.
Get ready. There's only 7 more Red Sox Grapefruit League games. The next segment is beginning to look it may be snowball league games. Just what we need when all of those tender hamstrings move north. JD Drew will be out for a month. Crawford will be shivering. Gonzales, Padroia, Youklis and Elsbury bone repairs will be aching and the "team to beat" will open miserably. I'm just trying to condition myself for the possibility of this near perfect team being out of the race by August just like in the good old days. It's in the "Nation's" DNA.
Hey, sorry I fell into my Red Sox melancholy mode. The coming of the baseball season is a good thing. The start of the real baseball season signals just 2 and 1/2 more months of basketball and hockey.
If Obama is reelected in 2012, he will open the socialism floodgates. Buyer beware.
The Question:
Ok... Quick! How many husbands did Elizabeth Taylor have? Name them in order.
The Headlines:
--Durable Goods And Jobs Reports Have Wall Street Paring Futures Gains.--Libya Civil War Enters Gray Area.
--Japan Issues New Alerts On Radiation.
--Unemployment Apps Drop Slightly.
--Hispanics Account For Half Of US Population Growth; Group Now At 50 Million; Center Of US Population About To Leave Midwest.
--FaceBook Kicks Off 20,000 Underage Users Per Day (13 and up is ligit).
--NATO Bombs Kill Two Civilians.
--New Home Sales Lowest In Past Half Century.
Back to More Stuff:
American Idol had a bunch of singers improving which makes it tough to pick a bottom three. I thought Haley did well what Haley is good at doing. Hopefully she will escape the bottom three. Probably safe are James, Casey, Lauren, Pia, Stefano and Jacob. I'm not sure the usually reliable Scotty did himself proud. Paul did better but he irritates a lot of people. Niamo wasn't as great as the judges thought. Thia will get points for stepping out from ballads. I do have to say a few thngs about early favorite Pia. She is starting to sound the same to me and may be the least flexible of them all. The bottom three...this is tough. I'm going Scotty, Naimo and unfortunately Haley.
One major voting site after last night has viewers voting Scotty #1 with 19%. Next are James (17), Jacob (12), Pia (11), Thia (10). Then at 5% we have Casey, Lauren, Naimo, and Paul. Two at 4% are Haley and Stefano.
You can count on the Pols courting (Maybe over-courting) the rapidly growing Hispanic bloc now at 50 Million people. The questions is are they going to bind them to the Government by giving them freebies (We can't afford) or are they going to treat them as honest hard working people who will grow taking advantage of the opportunities innately available under the U.S. of A. system?
You know that the prepubescent mind of crass comedian Bill Maher has gone too low when even NOW can't stay mum and steps forward to protect a conservative woman. Maher called Sarah Palin a dumb tw*t, and you have to wonder how many are swayed against the former VP candidate by repeated unfounded slurs. I used to think Maher was moderately funny, but he has become just another a**hole with a mike. I'll probably get in trouble with NOC for that.
When she saw gray hairs she thought she'd dye.
Liz was a great looking younger actress, but the overly made-up personality of the past 20 years was really, really hard to look at...and probably never should have been allowed out in public.
As a dyed in the wool North-easterner, I really happy that the center of the US population is moving west. It was getting too crowded around here.
Almost Near: Chapter 13 continues. The fortyish near fifty Mae Johnson looked like what female real Estate agents look like. Well coiffed and red lips that were always smiling even when her eyes weren't. She automatically shook Samantha's hand and kissed Dante on the cheek. "Well Smantha, I don't believe I ever knew you as a child. But I did know your dad from his insurance business in town. He always seemed like a really nice guy, but then of course you knew that. Frankly, I was surprised when he called me because I didn't think would ever leave that adorable home.
Why don't I have these wonderful memories of a wonderful dad, Samantha thought. "Mae, I'm just looking for clues about my parents (She thought of the news item about her mom's suicide). I left home abruptly and was in contact, but when they moved I lost them. Frankly I'm confused." She couldn't be more honest about that.
Dante remained silent and thoughtful as Mae talked. All I know is this. Your dad called from a small town in Pennsylvania (Dalesford, thought Samantha). I remember the call because he sounded so unlike what I remembered about him. After some discussion about the house, he went on to offer that he had an opportunity in business he couldn't pass up. Frankly, I remember thinking that was odd, since he was so well regarded here. That's all I know. Let's eat!"
The waiter appeared as my mind tried to pry open that past.
There has to be more to life than shopping and staring at sunsets.
The Answer:
The fading goddess had 8 husbands in her better years. At 18 she married the drunk Nicky Hilton of hotel fame. Her next was to Michael Wilding which imploded when she met Mike Todd. After Todd's unfortunate death, she then snagged Eddie fisher from the adorable little Debbie Reynolds. It didn't take long for her to dump the crooner for Richard Burton. She divorced Burton but remarried him again in 1975. Senator John Warner was next and then finally construction worker Larry Fortensky, who actually couldn't put Elizabeth back together again.
The End:
Obama is lying so low that it is hard to get a handle on what he really doing. BTW, how big a photo-op flop was that trip to South America. Nobody cared.
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