So, they’re saying our next Senator from NY is going to be Kirsten Gillibrand. Not a total shock, but kind of a nice surprise, seeing as she’s from Upstate NY (Central NY would have been better, but you take what you can get). She’s apparently a good fundraiser, which will be a necessity since she’ll need to pretty much go into campaign mode. And it helps the Guv, since it puts an Upstate woman on the ballot with him for his campaign.
Otherwise, I’m just glad it’s Friday.
It’s so good to see headlines talk about President Obama. The next time I see the name Bush in the headlines I want it to say he’s being charged for war crimes. Things have finally changed. :bong:
In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Some are mostly amusing, like Ugley, Essex; East Breast, in western Scotland; North Piddle, in Worcestershire; and Spanker Lane, in Derbyshire.
Others evoke images that may conflict with residents’ efforts to appear dignified when, for example, applying for jobs.
These include Crotch Crescent, Oxford; Titty Ho, Northamptonshire; Wetwang, East Yorkshire; Slutshole Lane, Norfolk; and Thong, Kent. And, in a country that delights in lavatory humor, particularly if the word “bottom†is involved, there is Pratts Bottom, in Kent, doubly cursed because “prat†is slang for buffoon.
As for Penistone, a thriving South Yorkshire town, just stop that sophomoric snickering.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/europe/23crapstone.html
I heard last night that the assumption that Gillebrand would be the new senator from NY was based on a request from the gov that she come to Albany at 11 AM, today. Then I read that all the senate maybes received the same request.
I don’t know anything about Gillebrand except that some liberal cityfolk were prepared to challenge her in a primary and that she has been endorsed by the NRA.
We shall know at noon.
This certainly saves us all the tiresome task of evaluating a candidate and then voting for her/him.
In a research milestone, the federal government will allow the world’s first test in people of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells.
Federal drug regulators said that political considerations had no role in the decision. Nevertheless, the move coincided with the inauguration of President Obama, who has pledged to remove some of the financing restrictions placed on the field by President George W. Bush.
The clearance of the clinical trial — of a treatment for spinal cord injury — is to be announced Friday by Geron, the biotechnology company that first applied to the Food and Drug Administration to conduct the trial last March. The F.D.A. had first said no, asking for more data.
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Hmm. I didn’t know Gillibrand was a Blue Dog.
Well, I guess it aint all bad.
I have to think with Gillibrand, Paterson just kicked the can down the road. Now she gets a jump on 2010 while the Guv and all possible comers, D and r, can take a day or so and get busy.
I think they will have some rough sledding in many quarters today with the Blue Dog/NRA stuff and Rahm connection.
PJ, you are right. Paterson is an ass.
Lawrence O’Donnell torched Patterson on msnbc this morning. Rabid Dog Style. :joe:
P.S. I agree with Web about the mvs Après show.
Paterson seems sort of tone deaf to me from afar. I fear that the fate of Dems in NY falling into his lap last year might yield some unfortunate repug gains there in the future. He doesn’t seem to have the vision to lead the Party in such an important state.
…researchers have documented what they call an Obama effect, showing that a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Mr. Obama’s nomination all but disappeared when the exam was administered after his acceptance speech and again after the presidential election.
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In total, 472 Americans — 84 blacks and 388 whites — took the exam. Both white and black test-takers ranged in age from 18 to 63, and their educational attainment ranged from high school dropout to Ph.D.
On the initial test last summer, whites on average correctly answered about 12 of 20 questions, compared with about 8.5 correct answers for blacks, Dr. Friedman said. But on the tests administered immediately after Mr. Obama’s nomination acceptance speech, and just after his election victory, black performance improved, rendering the white-black gap “statistically nonsignificant,†he said.
http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1271#comment-114645
During a morning meeting with congressional leaders from both parties, President Obama acknowledged the…
… philosophical differences between his stimulus package and the Republican plan – but, sources familiar with the conversation said, Obama then noted: “I won.â€
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0109/postgame_report_1eda14f1-40e7-4ce7-a161-7f008ebaac3a.html
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Kathy Malloy put together some brilliant montages of Bush soundbites, all strung together with nary small degrees of separation between the topics. On right now.
Sandwiched by bumper music of K.C.’s “Please Don’t Go”.