This year’s slogan in Zurich can be translated as Let’s lose Control
Police are really nervous, see how it went in former years:
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
It’s Saturday, and there’s an Indycar race today! So it’s time for another installment of “Ladies In Racing”!
The IRL is at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, the first oval race of the season, and last stop before Indianapolis. Series regulars Danica Patrick, Simona de Silvestro and Milka Duno are joined this weekend by Sarah Fisher, as she gets some track time in her car prior to attempting to qualify for her tenth Indy 500. Sarah qualified 14th for today’s race.
Danica Patrick hasn’t been qualifying well on the road courses this season, so it must be somewhat gratifying to her to be much further up the grid for the first oval, in ninth, the highest starting spot at Andretti Autosport, which added a fifth car for this race and Indy, driven by John Andretti. John’s car is co-sponsored by Richard Petty and will carry the number 43 made famous by Petty.
Simona de Silvestro qualified 18th, not surprising since she comes from a road racing background, and Milka Duno starts 24th. All four ladies racing today are on the entry list for Indy.
And I’m under a tornado watch again!
Race results: Danica finished 11th, after the opening 70 laps under green barely got her one lap down. Sarah Fisher in 17th, showed she’s not too rusty, Simona de Silvestro 21st, in her career first oval race, all running at the finish, and Milka Duno was 26th after contact on pit road.
It’s a good thing I had internet, because the tornado coverage pre-empted my tv on ABC. The circulation is all way west of me, barely in the viewing area of the local channels.
Happy May Day, workers everywhere!
Happy May Day all, with Blessings…P.S. .RU wear boots if you come out to fish, the path way is flooded as usual…
1981 & 2005 – two interesting years !
Interesting Year 1981
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes.
4. The pope died
Interesting Year 2005
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes.
4. The pope died
Lesson to be learned:
The next time Charles gets married, somebody warn the Pope.
EV,
I’m taking Mondays for the Watering Hole. Gummy is doing the Sunday Roasts and one other day. I will pick up Wednesdays next week (on the 12th).
Walt, in 1981, the Pope dies *twice* – now there’s a stunt…
Meanwhile updating on the oil spill. I’m tracking this blog now and have a detailed question in to this guy, who clearly has experience to bear here.
http://dailyhurricane.com/2010/05/transocean-worker-calls-into-radio-show-describes-blowout.html
A caller who claimed to be on the rig called in to a radio show and gave an eyewitness account.
Again, the acoustic trigger the talking heads are on about is not the issue here – the valve didn’t close and still hasn’t closed.
At the moment BP is frantically trying to build a shield to drop over the area of the well head to limit to oil spread at source and try to pump it out while they drill interception wells.
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The political comedy event of the weekend, also known as The White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Thanks, House! I’ve got it running.
I just heard Jay Leno will be appearing last, so I can turn it off when he arrives.
Prez finally speaking at the dinner.
Obama’s comedic timing is flawless.
Michael Steele aka Notorious GOP.
“If you don’t like the decision of your death panel, you can appeal.”
I’m off to watch “Up!”
Might check back later.
A great sense of humor – our President has class.
(funny little bit about Obama made a joke about the Biden ‘f-ing’ incident – even bleeping the f word)
Joke about the ‘birth certificate’.
Love that Man! He is the Messiah, after all!
How many times have you already seen it?
Just once.
I fell asleep after the Dinner, but I woke up and was able to see Doctor Who on the encore showing. Right there at the end was the “crack” from the bedroom wall. I thought the “Space Spitfires” attacking the Dalek ship were pretty cool. Reminiscent of the attack scene in Independence Day.
Bill Maher and Al Sharpton are on the panel on This Week. Also Katrina vanden Heuvel. Maher is criticizing expanding offshore drilling. Katrina is going after George Will directly on wind farms. Then Sharpton, Maher and vanden Heuvel all pile on Will over immigration reform. I hope we can see some video on this. It was fun!
Just wait until the next Doctor Who, House — AWESOME!!!
Dick Gregory has a new set, and he is strutting like a peacock on it. Napolitano, Salazar and Admiral Allen of the Coast Guard talk about the oil spill, same as on This Week, but no new news.
Oh, I almost forgot, they found a crude truck bomb in Times Square this morning. It was safely defused.
This Hillary Clinton interview on MTP is very long. They start out on immigration, a domestic issue, but Hillary ties it into a state visit from the President of Mexico soon, then move on to the Middle East.
Gregory had Charlie Crist next, who was completely ignored by This Week. Crist won’t answer which party he would caucus with if elected. The oil spill has turned him into a clean energy guy.
The panel on MTP has Lamar Alexander, Mike Pence, Jennifer Granholm, and Bill Richardson. Richardson calls Pence and Lamar moderates, in comparison to the far right pushing moderates out, and Pence said he isn’t a moderate, he’s a conservative. I hope that line gets some attention later today.
Although Gregory is a “Dick,” his name is “David.”
I’ve made that same mistake myself!!
Good First Day Morning to you!
House, thanks for the line ups on the Sunday morning shows.
That’s the nice part about a two hour time difference – can get your spin on the ‘role players’ and decide if it’s worth the viewing.
The ecological disaster happening is difficult to fathom – until they can cap that sucker the devastation to livelihood and the environment continues unabated.
Perhaps this will cause the rightwingnutz to do away with the cliched rhetoric – or even do some deep thinking instead spewing ‘sound bites’.
(ok, ok that ‘thinking’ part was truly wishful on my part).
There was a comedian named Dick Gregory, I guess that’s where I get it from.
The next one is the Angels, I remember.
It’s a two-parter, House. You’ll get some interesting info on “the crack.”
Mornin’ 2ebb,
The best show this morning was definitely This Week. According to the Bobblehead Thread at C&L, Napolitano, Salazar and Admiral Allen were on Fox, ABC, and NBC doing the same three stories, truck bomb, oil spill, and immigration.