AP’s Michigan news reports on Marlene “Machine Gun” and Rick “Pellet Gun” Krause, a husband and wife duo from Tuba City, Arizona, who braved the wind to bring honors to their home state. The coveted championship title remains with Arizona. Rick has won his 15th World Championship.
Marlene and Rick, along with their son Brian, “Young Gun” Krause, 30, have dominated the Michigan Cherry Pit Spitting Championship event for 22 of the 36 years of the competition. But it doesn’t stop there. Brian’s sons Morgan Krause, 5, won the Youth 5 & Under Division and his brother Brady, 11, the Youth 9-12 Year-Old Division. In previous years, Cole Krause has also been a contender.
Read the report AP here. More complete coverage is available at Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm’s site here.
The United Kingdom’s News of the World reports that Susan Boyle has given a pass to meeting President Barack Obama, opting instead to stay home with her cat and wash her hair.
“She has been told President Obama has seen clips of her on TV and loved her singing. And she is delighted,” the newspaper reported. “But instead she’ll have no doubt stayed in with her cat Pebbles, washed her hair and watched Britain’s Got Talent on telly.”
President Obama’s speech at the National Academy of Sciences during the Academy’s 146th annual meeting this morning hit another teleprompter snag when Obama got ahead of his script.
Delivering his speech, Obama intended to name the members listed on the teleprompter screen, in his prepared remarks – before realizing he’d already introduced them earlier in his speech…he’d already introduced them earlier in his speech. He’d already….well, you get the drift.
“In addition to John….sorry, the…. I just noticed I jumped the gun here,” Obama said, staring blankly at the prompter screen and then personally berating it: “Go ahead. Move it up. I had already introduced all you guys.”
The audience, responded with an embarrassed laugh. Steve Gill entertainingly provides the video.
JetBlue Airlines is having some fun at the expense of the current economic climate. They’ve launched a new ad campaign, “Welcome Bigwigs,” directed at those who can no longer take private jets around the country. The ads tout the leather seats in all the planes “just like you’re used to,” along with the “private, exclusive entertainment centers in each seat.” They direct the CEOs to have their assistant’s assistant book them a flight and encourage the CEOs to think of the “regular” people in the airport terminals as “shareholders.” Be sure to watch the second and third installments after the jump.
This Page 6 gossip item in the New York Post might have been the inspiration for the ad campaign.
Legislative response to parents riled over doll sporting a “tramp stamp”
Remember the uproar in 1989 over Teen-Talk Barbie’s inane utterances of the infamous words, “Math is hard?” The ire caused by the implication that girls couldn’t excel at math seems low-key compared to the newest Mattel craze.
Mattel’s Totally Stylin’ Tattoo Barbie now appearing in toy departments, is infuriating a whole raft of purchasing parents. The latest incarnation, perhaps indicative of a midlife crisis as she celebrates her 50th birthday, comes complete with a tattoo gun that can be used to stamp tattoos on skin. The Portland Examiner shows the Ken tattoo on Barbie’s lower backside.
A bill has been introduced in West Virginia’s House of Delegates to address the continuing lack of substance the blond bombshell has displayed over her five decades.
Democrat Jeff Eldridge a West Virginia legislative delegate and assistant Majority Whip, has authored a bill to ban sales of Barbie dolls in his state. In this video clip, Eldridge says Barbie promotes looks over education and sends the wrong message to children.
The daily reports that local Dems are abuzz about President Barack Obama’s plans to spend tonight at the new $325 million Intercontinental Montelucia Resort & Spa in Paradise Valley.
The Presidential Suite runs a mere $3000 – $4000 a night, but the “stimulus” probably has a bit in reserve to cover such jaunts.
Sen. John McCain, Obama’s GOP rival in last year’s presidential race also plans to be hanging out at the same swanky digs, where he is scheduled to hold a fundraiser this evening to kick off his campaign for a fifth Senate term.
There shouldn’t be enough crossover attendants to create a problem.
Secretary of State Jan Brewer has announced the selection of former Senate President Ken Bennett to fill her office once she becomes governor.
Bennett, a Prescott Republican, served eight years in the Legislature, including four as Senate president. He left office in January 2007 due to term limits.
As an appointed secretary of state, Bennett would not be in line of succession for governor, although he is expected to run for a full term as secretary of state in 2010.
“Ken Bennett is exactly the person that I would be proud and honored to serve with,” Brewer is quoted as saying. “He is personable, has excellent leadership qualities and he uses those skills extremely well to reach across the aisle and bring people together around a specific cause.”
Bennett doesn’t have any friends named Lieberman, Kennedy or Feingold, does he?
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