Jim McKay, 86, a longtime television sports journalist, has died of natural causes in Maryland, according to a statement from the McKay family.
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Damn, lost another good one.
RIP.
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First of all, has anyone ever seen such a train wreck of a speech like the one John McCain gave? I mean holy cow, he was beyond fake, the crowd was beyond fake, and it was a terrible speech, it was full of “I’m Not George” but full of the same BS George has spewed for over 7 years. I for one am sick of “Fear” being used as a tool.
Hillary’s speech I think will back fire her and hurt her political career.
Obama’s speech was simply amazing… again… and again… and again.
His message of “Hope” far outweighs anything McCain can deliver, Mac is a true American hero and I will always respect him for that, but he is not the same man who should have won the GOP in 2000 and IMHO, I think he sold out which I will not forgive and cannot and will not support.
Obama will be the next POTUS, and for the first time in my life I see actual CHANGE coming, DC has become too corrupt to work and it needs to be tore down and built anew.
“We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles & organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness” – Thomas Jefferson
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Comic actor Harvey Korman dies at 81
 Brooks tapped Korman’s kinetic comic chops often, including roles in “High Anxiety,” “The History of the World Part I” and “Dracula: Dead and Loving It.”
“I gave him tongue twisters because I knew he was the only one who could wrap his mouth around them,” Brooks said. “Harvey was such a good solid actor that he could have done Shakespearean drama just as well and easily as he did comedy.”
Brooks described Korman as a “dazzling” comic talent.
“You could get rock-solid comedy out of him. He could lift the material. He always made it real, always made it work, always believed in characters he was doing,” he said.
Korman’s other films included two “Pink Panther” moves, “Trail of the Pink Panther” in 1982 and “Curse of the Pink Panther” in 1983; “Gypsy,” “Huckleberry Finn” (as the King), “Herbie Goes Bananas” and “Bud and Lou” (as legendary straight man Bud Abbott to Buddy Hackett’s Lou Costello).
In television, Korman guest-starred in dozens of series including “The Donna Reed Show,” “Dr. Kildare,” “Perry Mason,” “The Wild Wild West,” “The Muppet Show,” “The Love Boat” and “Burke’s Law.”
Korman and “Carol Burnett” co-star Tim Conway continued working together into their 70s, touring the country with their show “Tim Conway and Harvey Korman: Together Again.” They did 120 shows a year, sometimes as many as six or eight in a weekend.
**Man, I loved watching him. Especially when he would be doing such a funny bit and you could see that he just wanted to lose it….he did that a lot with Tim Conway. I grew up watching him on the Carol Burnett Show and I throughly enjoyed him in Blazing Saddles and High Anxiety. He will be greatly missed.
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Spent the last two days just getting work done, as of 2 hours ago I was caught up…..for now, never lasts…..lol. But it game me time to balance our checkbooks and work on getting my messages done. We are taking off for a few days this weekend to celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary, so I won’t be around to do any of that….of course. We are going to visit the coast, we are about 2hrs from it. We are looking forward to it, mainly because it is a part of Oregon we have yet to explore. =)
Broke down and had to have a Dr Pepper, I’ve only been allowing myself 1 soda on the weekend and still staying within calories. My trainer says to treat myself on the weekends and try to avoid a lot of sugars. But I got such a craving….I tried having other things but there was no way, I just had to have one….I’d probably beat someone for one it was so bad…..lol But the good news is that I still stayed within calories and that was also with taking care of a tombstone pizza craving that I’ve been having for a couple of weeks.
My trainer says that even though I gave in, I still controlled it by making sure I stayed within calories. =)  Then he worked my butt off today. Which was good, because I was in a very irritable mood today when I woke up and that work out helped. If I was just doing my own thing today it would not have been enough.
 Multiracial Americans surge in number, voice
At the same time that the nation’s growing diversity and changing social attitudes are helping to swell the ranks of multiracial Americans at 10 times the rate of the white population, the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, son of a black man and a white woman, has brought new attention, curiosity and discussion to their experiences.
**This is a very interesting article.
 Lawsuit: ‘Pattern of Discrimination’ at Secret Service
**This is just sad if true and knowing how much more we need to go on race relations, it probably is true.
Former Spokesman Bashes Bush in New Book
**I’m just enjoying this………..grin
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I hope everyone had a good Memorial Day. But looking at the news of all the tornadoes in the Midwest, it may not of been. And that is not even all the men and women of uniform who are serving and not spending it with their families.
Our day just flew right by us.
We got up and did our gym thing, some how I lost a little more weight over the weekend..which is cool. I think my body is no longer in the starvation mode that the reduction of calories will do when you 1st start it.
We then went to Home Depot, just to get a nozzle and another rose bush……lol…..well it didn’t happen that way. Left with a couple of plants for a flower box I decided I wanted, dirty, the rose bush, a few planters, a cactus, a fan for downstairs and a few other gardening things….blew that budget……..grin Then a quick stop at the store since we were out of meat, not a good thing in this house.
Of course, when we got home we had to take care of some of our gardening. By the time we got done with that it was 1400 and we had left the gym just after 1100….lol No shower, hadn’t started work (good thing it has been slow due to the holiday)…..and we were wiped out. So we laid down for about an hour, didn’t even really sleep, but it felt good to snuggle into our blankets.
So other then a shower and dinner, I’ve just being tying up some work. We are currently watching the classic In Harm’s Way, one of the few WWII movies that I really enjoy. It gives a stripped down unglorified version of the war that so many of movies of that era did. There is divorce, adultery, estranged father-son, rape….. all the taboos that were avoided in the 60s…………….. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Harm’s_Way Definitely one that I will adding to my Ipod.
It won’t be Memorial Day without some articles about the true reason of today, not the bbqs….of course, most of the stories bring me to tears.
Group Salutes Vets by Helping Them Get Benefits
The University of Detroit Mercy Law School has started an organization called Project Salute in which law students and professors give veterans free legal help in navigating the complex federal bureaucracy to get the disability benefits they deserve.
Bush Pays Tribute to Troops on Memorial Day
**He may honestly feel grateful to our military, but everytime he speaks I feel he is a hypocrite…….both him and Cheney did everything they could to avoid serving……there is so much I could vent about, but I don’t feel that it would be right in this posting.
‘I Want to Go Home … Especially on Memorial Day’
On this day, just like any other day, these twenty-somethings who fight for the U.S. Army in Baghdad remembered their friends, their colleagues, the men who they fight, eat and sleep next to.
But it is not a holiday for the more than 150,000 troops stationed in Iraq. Today was just another work day — a day during which the Raider Brigade of the 1st Battalion of the 22nd Infantry Regiment, which is based at 881, did what it does every day: went on a foot patrol.
A family remembers their Medal of Honor recipient
**This tears the heart.
Casino mogul hosts wounded soldiers in Vegas
**This was really neat.
Last known WWI vet gets Memorial Day honors
**I use to work at a Veteran’s Home during college, I remember we had about 20-30 WWI vets left, it has been 12 years and yet the US is down to 1. Kind of hard to believe.
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