Volume 2 Issue 134
September 16, 2003
Battening down the hatches...
Is the Ball Club getting a new teammate, California gets more screwed up, and obligatory Ben and J. Lo crap
Oh boy, here you go...if you thought DC was bad in thunderstorms, how will it handle a full-blown hurricane? From some of the tropical storms I've been through here, I think I can safely predict not well. But anyway, the National Weather Service has issued a hurricane watch for DC and the Chesapeake Bay area...I can only imagine what the supermarket looks like.
Look Who's Running for President: AP is reporting that tomorrow Wesley Clark will announce he's the 10th Candidate for the Presidential nomination. I'm holding off on officially welcoming Gen. Clark to the race, because Arnold had us all thinking he was out when he decided to go for it, but I think this will probably happen. How this will change the race remains to be seen -
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Clark.html?hp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15375-2003Sep15.html
Look Who's Running for President 2: Gephardt and Dean are tied in the latest Iowa poll -
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Iowa-Poll.html
Look Who's Running for President 3: As if running for President isn't big enough, on September 29 Howard Dean intends to break the world record for largest conference call, currently held by a British pop group -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10368-2003Sep14.html
Look Who's Running for President 4: John Kerry has challenged Howard Dean to a series of one-on-one debates in a desperate attempt to recast the race as just Dean and him -
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2003/0 9/15/kerry_responds_to_dean_seeks_one_on_one_debate?mode=PF
Could California get any more screwed up? So now the recall is postponed. Maybe. And Bush v. Gore is responsible. -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16011-2003Sep15.html
Bad John Edwards Photo of the Day:
Ok, we're going to stay here all night until the brass section gets this part right!
Ah...New Jersey: Jim McGreevy wants retribution after a prominent State Senator from Atlantic City offended him...and he shall get it -
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/new_jer sey/6763797.htm
And a New Jersey court ruled that a 13-year old could keep her cell phone despite her father's disapproval -
http://www.courierpostonline.com/news/southjersey/m091503c.h tm
Not exactly the surprise of the century: Ben Affleck and J. Lo broke up! Goodness, who could have seen that one coming? Next someone will tell me the Bush administration lied about the war in Iraq or something -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/14/affleck.lopez.r eut/index.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11925-2003Sep15.html
Incoming! NASA will crash the Galileo probe into Jupiter when it's mission ends next year, to prevent it from interfering with any life that may be developing on the moons of Jupiter -
http://www.msnbc.com/news/966496.asp
Idiot Watch: People in London are taking well to idiot, I mean magician David Blane's quest to spend 44 days in a glass box over the River Thames. If by taking well, you mean throwing eggs and french fries at him, banging drums to keep him from sleeping and the such -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/15/international/europe/15LON D.html?8hpib
