'NJ to Initiate Cell Phone Ban'
Will the Secret Service step in when this thing comes flying at Senator Obama at tonight's MSNBC debate in Cleveland, Ohio?
Best PictureBest Director
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, No Country For Old Men
Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress
Julie Christie, Away From Her
Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Best Supporting Actress
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Best Screenplay (Original)
Juno
Best Screenplay (Adapted)
No Country For Old Men
Best Animated Film (Feature)
Ratatouille
Best Foreign Language Film
The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Best Documentary (Feature)
No End In Sight
Best Cinematography
There Will Be Blood
Best Film Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
Best Art Direction
There Will Be Blood
Best Costume Design
Atonement
Best Makeup
La Vie en Rose
Best Sound Editing
Transformers
Best Sound Mixing
Transformers
Best Visual Effects
Transformers
Best Original Score
Atonement
Best Original Song
"Falling Slowly", Once
Best Animated Film (Short)
I Met the Walrus
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Freeheld
Best Live Action Short Film
Tanghi Argentini
Well, I thought global warming was going to keep my area of NJ without any measurable snowfall for the entire winter but, with only a few weeks left before spring, global warming seems to have taken a set back. I can honestly say I've never been this excited to brush snow off my car. Happy Snow Day NJ!
Just in case the details of the Obama campaign weren't presented frequently and forthrightly enough in the extensive policy section of the Obama campaign website...the regularly updated Obama campaign blog...the 18 multi-hour televised democratic presidential debates (make that 20 after next Tuesday)...the dozen or so issue-based democratic presidential forums...the vast multitude of television and print interviews with Senator Obama...the vast multitude of television and print interviews with campaign spokesmen (most often including campaign manager David Plouffe and campaign endorsers Senator Ted Kennedy and Senator Claire McCaskill, and hopefully no longer including the infamous State Senator Kirk Watson, who proves that apparently all politicians from Texas are morons)...the hundreds upon hundreds of campaign events ranging from dinner discussions with voters to town hall Q&A sessions to stadium rallies (with the caveat that most post-election victory rallies are used for celebrating, well, victory, as opposed to presenting 5-point tax plans to 20,000 people fired up after your umpteenth straight primary win)...the immeasurable amount of campaign literature dispersed, campaign emails sent, campaign television and print advertisements run......just in case, I present The Blueprint For Change: Barack Obama's Plan For America, 64 pages of details._______________________________________________________
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama won the Democrats Abroad global primary in results announced Thursday, giving him 11 straight victories in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The Illinois senator won the primary in which Democrats living in other countries voted by Internet, mail and in person, according to results released by the Democrats Abroad, an organization sanctioned by the national party.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has not won a nominating contest since Super Tuesday, more than two weeks ago.
More than 20,000 U.S. citizens living abroad voted in the primary, which ran from Feb. 5 to Feb. 12. Obama won about 65 percent of the vote, according to the results released Thursday.
Voters living in 164 countries cast votes online, while expatriates voted in person in more than 30 countries, at hotels in Australia and Costa Rica, at a pub in Ireland and at a Starbucks in Thailand. The results took about a week to tabulate as local committees around the globe gathered ballots._______________________________________________________
Wisconsin.........Obama 58%, Clinton 41% (100% reporting)
Ok, so the new flavor I put in the title of this post is my own amusing creation, but the rest of the story is very much true. Famed ice cream moguls Ben & Jerry have not only endorsed Barack Obama, but they've "lent his Vermont campaign two "ObamaMobiles" that will tour the state and give away scoops of 'Cherries for Change' ice cream". Personally, I like 'Yes We Can-dy Apple Cream' much better, but if I lived in Vermont I'd be just as pleased to indulge in some 'Cherries for Change'.
If only Max, my beloved childhood beagle, could have lived to see the day that someone like him would win Best In Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. We often conversed about how unlikely it would be for our generation to experience such an achievement for the beagle bread. Bravo Uno, you have ushered in a new era of dog show competition for both current and future generations of beagles that will forever bask in the glory of your triumphant victory!
Virginia...........Obama 64%, Clinton 35% (99% reporting)
Happy Birthday Lincoln!
This race is officially over: Senator Barack Obama has won the Virgin Islands. Anybody that knows anything about American politics knows that 'As the Virgin Islands go, so goes the nation.' Preliminary results show that Obama received 89.9% of the vote to Clinton's 7.6%, making it likely he will earn all 6 of the half-delegate votes (you read that right...there are 6 delegate entities worth a half a delegate each, thus totaling 3 whole delegates...why, democracy, why?). Reportedly, workers of the Virgin Islands Obama campaign headquarters celebrated by "sipping mimosas" and "joining in the nearest beach dance party."
It's with great caution that any head-to-head match-up polling numbers between presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain and potential Democratic nominees Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should be evaluated (it's pretty clear, not only from past elections but from common sense reasoning, that once each party has it's nominee and once the general election gets under way, the context of the election can really affect exactly who is up and who is down). That being said, the secondary effect of these polls is the perception that one candidate is "stronger" than another candidate, something that can be rather powerful in these kinds of high-profile campaigns. Taking a look at the most recent head-to-head match ups, there's no doubt that the Obama campaign will be shouting these poll results from the highest mountains, or at least during the upcoming debates in Ohio and Texas.
Halftime Update: Tom Brady is getting pummeled...very nice.
