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Today on his CNN broadcast, Rick Sanchez called Obama “cotton picking president.” Instantly, he was inundated with tweets about his insensitivity in using the term to describe the first black President of the United States. Thank God for the PC police. They’re always watching. However, I must say, Sanchez is getting the shaft in this deal. Obama is just what Sanchez said.

XINHE COUNTY, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 10: (CHINA OUT) A Uigur picks cotton in a field on September 10, 2007 in Xinhe County of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Xinjiang's cotton production accounts for over 30 percent of the country's total output. Xinjiang has been noted in ancient times along the old silk road as a political and commercial centre. It is the hub of an important commercial region, bordering Russia, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan with Pakistan to its south. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

Well, he is. At least in the context of how Mr. Sanchez used the phrase describing Obama. Cotton picking President wasn’t describing his actions, it’s a term used to add emphasis or frustration. I’m not actually defending Rick Sanchez. I think the man is deplorable. What I’m actually defending is the term “cotton picking” as a term that describes one’s aggravation or irritation.

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After 43 years of battling “this part of his life”, former campaign manager for President Bush and former Chairman of the RNC, Ken Mehlman outed himself. Mehlman, gay and now admitting it, says that he will be a staunch advocate for gay marriage. This of course is something that he had to oppose publically while in the leadership for the Republicans.

Most people are saying that Mehlman was the last to know something that everyone around him already knew. Stories swirled around the beltway a few years ago about the sexuality of Bush’s 2004 campaign manager but he always denied the rumor. Now it turns out, the rumors were true.

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Despite signs that the GDP and stock market were recovering just nicely thank you, we’re in a depression. David Rosenberg, economist and market watcher says don’t get to comfy with economic indicators showing a postitive up tick. He says that even during the Great Depression, positive gains in GDP and the stock market were not that uncommon.

U.S. President Barack Obama raises his hands after signing the financial reform bill into law during a ceremony with Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on July 21, 2010 in Washington, DC. A sweeping expansion of federal financial regulation in the wake of the worst recession since the Great Depression, the bill will create a consumer protection agency, lay out a blueprint for disassembling financial entities considered too big to fail, and many other reforms. UPI/Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photo via Newscom

Rosenberg is the first economist with any stature to throw out the dreaded D word. Some economists have been warning for a while that a double dip recession is possible, forget that nonsense says David Rosenberg, Depression II is here already.

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Due to testimony given during a 2008 House inquiry into steroid use in Major League Baseball, All Star and future Hall of Famer Roger Clemens is indicted on perjury charges, making false statements and obstructing Congress. Clemens former trainer Brian McNamee testified that he himself injected the pitcher with steroids and human growth hormone; Clemens testified under oath that he had never used those substances.

WASHINGTON - FEBRUARY 13:  Major League Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens testifies about allegations of steroid use by professional ball players before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill February 13, 2008 in Washington, DC. The 'Mitchell Report' named several former and current major league baseball players, including Clemens, who are accused of using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

I suppose before I weigh in on the charges against Clemens and the scourge that is steroids in baseball, I’d like to rant about the scourge that is the United States Congress. Whether or not Clemens is guilty of perjury or using steroids isn’t the point. The point is, I think, that our do nothing Congress wasted tax payer money investigating and sticking their noses where they don’t belong.

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I knew there was a reason I hated peas. My wife loves them, but maybe not after this story. Amazingly in Massachusetts a pea sprouts inside man’s lung and he lives to tell the tale. 75 year old Ron Sveden, who is racked with emphysima, went to the hospital after his health had deteriorated. He thought he had lung cancer.

Boy with plate of peas

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In America, truly anyone can do anything. That’s summed up in the phrase, Levi Johnston Mayor Wasilla Alaska. It’s now being reported that Johnston, who just recently got back together with Bristol Palin only to split with her again (presumably because the money was running out); is now in talks about a reality TV show in which he runs for Mayor of Wasilla, the job that Sarah Palin once had.

Levi Johnston

Johnston originally targeted the Palin family with smears after the first break up with Bristol; after making a jackass out of himself for several months, he and Bristol patched things up for the good of their son. Now, he’s at it again. Bristol and Levi breakup and he’s back on the attack, pitching his venom to any willing Palin hater who will presumably pay him a buck or two.

Levi’s possible show will be called “Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor’s Office.” I swear you can’t make this stuff up. Johnston, also known as “Ricky Hollywood” said in an interview with Variety that he leads an interesting life, and that the show will show not only his life in “Hollywood” but his fans can see the real “country boy” that he is at home. Give me a break. And now it’s Levi Johnston, Mayor Wasilla, Alaska?

Levi Johnston is like a case of hemorrhoids. They flare up, you administer the cream, nursing them for a day or so and then they go away. But just when you think things are back to normal, here they come again. The dirty little secret about hemorrhoids is that once you get them, you’re never truly rid of them. Such is our dilemma with Levi Johnston.

Who knows, maybe one day soon we’ll all wake up to the horror that is Levi Johnston Mayor Wasilla Alaska. Actually it would be the good people of Wasilla that would wake up to that nightmare, we can always turn the channel.


 

UPDATE: Unofficial returns on Prop C. Looks as if the measure will pass big time.

Sneaking in somewhat quietly under the radar in today’s primary in Missouri, Proposition C which gives voice to the overall displeasure of citizens for Obamacare. The measure would give Missourians the right to opt out of the plan which forces American citizens to purchase healthcare if they have none.

As the campaign season heats up, those who remember the vicious battle back in March when the democrats rammed healthcare reform through against the will of the people are now going to have their say; at least in Missouri. Yesterday a federal judge ruled that a lawsuit in Virginia could proceed; several other states have lawsuits against the federal government pending in regard to Obamacare.

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A Georgia man wants to push the boundaries of organ donation. Gary Phebus, ALS victim, wants to donate his organs before he dies. Currently the law states that a person must be brain dead before their organs can be donated. Phebus says that he’s “dead already.”

ALS is a debilitating, fatal disease that attacks the nervous system and muscles. ALS sufferers eventually become unable to do the basic things necessary for survival. You eventually become unable to control your muscle function necessary to breathe, eat, move or do anything at all. ALS is more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease after the famous Yankee star who died from the disease.

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