Weekend Update - Game On Edition

(There's good news for all of us sports fans this morning, and when I say "sports fans," I mean Oregon football fans.  Some of us merely survive the months between the last game of the season and the first game of the next season.  We mope around the house wearing our "DUCKS RULE!" sweatshirts and our Rose Bowl hats and our BCS Championship socks, and go about our dreary dreary everyday existence, feigning interest in random basketball games and the occasional late season baseball -yawn- game, but we really don't care one whit about those things.  And then finally, every year about this time, the Oregon Duck football team puts on what is known as "The Spring Game."  Oh, it's just the Ducks playing themselves, offense against defense, but we get to watch and see the new recruits and see the competition between the new quarterbacks and running backs, etc. Can't really root for any side, but sweet jesus it's DUCK FOOTBALL!  I'll be watching the festivities on the computer on ESPN3.com, but the Boy is actually at the game with his cousin.  Go ... um ... Ducks!  But I digress ...)

• Well Newt's all but dropped out of the race, and the only competition Willard Mittney the Rominator has at this point is someone named Ron Paul who apparently never has really mattered anyway.  Therefore, as Arthur so eloquently put it the other day, "it's game on."  You can tell it's started when you see an Obama ad hosted by Bill Clinton who quotes George Bush.  Bygawd this is going to be fun.
• It's sad to see that the Rominator is still terribly out of touch with the rest of America (those who are not millionaires).  At a “lecture” for students at Otterbein University in Ohio Friday, Romney told students that a good way to start a business and "go for it" is to borrow money from their parents. "Say Dad, could I borrow $20,000 to put up a lemonade stand?"
• Most of us with half a brain are aware that the GOP believe women should remember their place in society and should stay there.  The Republicans say we've accused them of conducting a "War On Women," and they're offended.  (awww)  In a combative speech on the Senate floor last Thursday, Sen. John McCain called a Democrats’ accusations that the GOP is waging a war on women “phony,” “outlandish,” and a distraction.”  Well, let's look at this a little closer with this Caught On Tape article.
• I really don't want to go here, but I feel I really have to.  Remember when Newt Gingrich suggested eliminating child labor laws?  Put the little bastards to work as janitors or something? Now, his biggest supporter, Sarah Palin, is claiming that child labor laws are making America fail. Okay, so you're probably not surprised, right?  The real reason I want you to check out this article is the enormous picture of Sarah Palin included in it.  It's frightening beyond words.  Warning: Have the children leave the room before you click on this.
• According to the Romney campaign, apparently made up of guys wearing thin ties and white socks, President Obama has abandoned Czechoslovakia (a country that hasn’t existed since 1993) and also said Obama wasn’t strong enough to prevent “the Soviets” from “pushing into the Arctic.”  Pardon me but I've been led to believe the cold war ended sometime in the 80's.