“Please Come Home For Christmas,” from the Eagles.
The presidential races have taken quite the turn, haven’t they?
On the Democratic side, in a direction that should be no surprise for NWN readers. On the Republican side, into more chaos.
I knew Hillary Clinton really was not the “inevitable” candidate she and her team and almost all of the media made her out to be. I didn’t see Mike Huckabee’s rise coming — though Mitt Romney’s problems were evident — but did figure out he was for real.
None of which is to say that presidential nomination contests in either party are anywhere near over.
It all makes for an interesting Monday Morning Quarterback coming up.
But that’s for Monday. In the meantime, here are the Eagles with their version of a Christmas song, “Please Come Home For Christmas.” First released as a single in 1978, then re-released as a single in 1996 and in 2005, it’s actually a cover of a Charles Brown song from 1960.
The Eagles’ new album, incidentally, Long Road Out Of Eden, is doing very well in the US and around the world. It’s still high on the US charts, at #3, even though it was released at the end of October. (#1 on the US country charts.) It’s #1 in Europe and #1 in the Asia-Pacific region. They won’t be singing the blues for real this Christmas.
Not too bad for Linda Ronstadt’s old back-up band.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets, is the treasure
hunting history buff sequel to the surprise 2004 hit.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets looks like a fun movie, with a little bit of thought, for the holidays. The movie, which is the sequel to the madcap surprise hit from 2004, opens December 21st. The conceit is that the treasure hunting, conspiracy theorizing history expert — a nerdy sort of cross between Indiana Jones and Robert Langdon — played by the amusing Nicolas Cage has to clear his family’s name when one of the missing pages from the diary of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth surfaces and purports to show that his ancestor helped plan the assassination.
In order to clear the family name, Benjamin Franklin Gates — that would be Cage — and his crew have to get ahold of “the book of secrets.” Which is only in the possession of the President of the United States. In that book are America’s most important secrets: The truth about the JFK assassination, the missing minutes from the Watergate tapes, Area 51, and so on for the ultimate wet dream of conspiracy politics. And that’s the beginning.
Getting the book should be no problem. I’m sure Dick Cheney would love to turn it over.
Charlie Wilson’s War, talked about last weekend, also opens on the 21st.
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Nah.
Mrs. Clinton is fading in all the states which have seen her the most. President Clinton is losing his cool, becoming much less effective while he campaigns much more than planned. Thank heavens for them that Mr. Edwards is in the race yet. Absent him, she would be done.
Mrs. Clinton is fading in all the states which have seen her the most. President Clinton is losing his cool, becoming much less effective while he campaigns much more than planned. Thank heavens for them that Mr. Edwards is in the race yet. Absent him, she would be done.
Mrs. Clinton is fading in all the states which have seen her the most. President Clinton is losing his cool, becoming much less effective while he campaigns much more than planned. Thank heavens for them that Mr. Edwards is in the race yet. Absent him, she would be done.
Sorry for the double-posting.
Sorry for the double-posting.
To know her is to loathe her, I suppose.
But, for that very reason she may be well positioned on Tsunami Tuesday…
She can’t possibly get to all of those states to blow her advantages.
“She can’t possibly get to all of those states to blow her advantages.”
The national media echo chamber will take care of that.
“She can’t possibly get to all of those states to blow her advantages.”
The national media echo chamber will take care of that.
On the wires:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, trying to mount a comeback in his U.S. presidential bid, will gain the endorsement of independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, a former Democratic vice presidential nominee, on Monday.
Yep. Still more chaos. And Rudy is sliding in NH.
The night is young.
>Brasky :
“She can’t possibly get to all of those states to blow her advantages.”
The national media echo chamber will take care of that.
Dec 16, 2007 06:45 PM
Interesting stuff…
Hope you truly plan on taking some down time. Know it’s a bad time, but hope you find a way.
Interesting stuff…
Hope you truly plan on taking some down time. Know it’s a bad time, but hope you find a way.
Not to worry.
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