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Posted on Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 10:25:15 PM EST
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Yankees Win!

See you tomorrow morning for college football. Go Gators!

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    My daughter was at the game. (none / 0) (#1)
    by byteb on Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 10:53:09 PM EST
    Can't wait to hear about it...after she thaws out. It's cold in NY.

    Yankees!

    Mixed feelings (none / 0) (#2)
    by denise k on Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 11:04:49 PM EST
    I Love Sinatra, Hate the Yankees!

    Love the early Sinatra (none / 0) (#4)
    by oldpro on Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 11:40:31 PM EST
    before he became so self-consciously smug as a performer and rat packer.  Wonderful pop voice, styling, timing...especially with Nelson Riddle.

    Something was lost when he couldn't keep Ava Gardner...

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    From the San Francisco Chronicle's (none / 0) (#3)
    by Spamlet on Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 11:14:05 PM EST
    politics blog:

    Obama comes for the first time as President to the Bay Area -- a region that so strongly supported him -- but the only folks who get a chance to see him . . . are those who throw big bills on the table? No public events? Shame."
    Wait one second!?! (5.00 / 1) (#19)
    by Inspector Gadget on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 09:31:07 AM EST
    Travel for the POTUS is exceptionally expensive to the tax payers both at the Fed level and local where they have to line the travel routes with police, etc. I am looking forward to the day when he finds himself less comfortable just doing what he personally wants to do rather than understand the consequences of doing what is not in the interests of the country.

    The news just showed a clip of Obaman's weekly address this morning. In it, Obama says:

    "It's bogus, it's deceptive, and it's all too familiar."  Who knows more about bogus and deceptive?

    He was talking about the lobbyists who are currently dominating the DC area, handing out campaign contributions to stop a decent HCR bill from getting through. Begs the question why he didn't get to work ending those lobbyists from the congressional scene before he embarked on this extremely important legislation.

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    No need to worry (none / 0) (#5)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 11:44:00 PM EST
    He'll probably go visit the voters when he needs them for re-election.

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    Classic (none / 0) (#6)
    by Steve M on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 12:00:08 AM EST
    Can't please everyone, huh?  Especially when your job comes with 300 million critics.

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    The Pres. sd. don't criticize me or (none / 0) (#10)
    by oculus on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 12:26:35 AM EST
    Nancy for holding the mop wrongside up.  Grab a mop and help us.  

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    I liked the line (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by Steve M on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 12:46:41 AM EST
    I mean, every day -- every day -- [Nancy Pelosi] is subjected to constant criticism and griping.  And then there's the other party.


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    California's crime is liking the President (none / 0) (#7)
    by andgarden on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 12:07:19 AM EST
    too much. If it were a more evenly divided state, he would be a more frequent visitor!

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    Apparently he spent lots more hours (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by oculus on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 12:27:11 AM EST
    in CA than NOLA.

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    More money in CA! (none / 0) (#12)
    by andgarden on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 12:39:06 AM EST


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    I still remember that fund raiser... (5.00 / 1) (#15)
    by Fabian on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 08:08:46 AM EST
    Nothing like wooing the West Coast money by putting down the blue collar folks in the East.

    Follow the money!  You can't be Serious People without it.

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    I still remember the time (none / 0) (#17)
    by Politalkix on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 09:04:05 AM EST
    when a former Democratic administration thought that the "blue collar folks in the East" lived in Asia :-) and America's future lay in a "service economy".

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    osu/purdue (none / 0) (#8)
    by jharp on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 12:10:09 AM EST
    I'll be at the Ohio State/Purdue game. My buddy has 12 awesome tickets and puts together one hell of a tailgate party.

    We're meeting him at 6:30 A.M.

    Good times and go Ohio. We'd like another crack at the Gators.

    Will Michigan beat Delaware State? (none / 0) (#9)
    by oculus on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 12:25:27 AM EST
    Who?????

    Todd Willingham's advocate (none / 0) (#14)
    by Rojas on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 07:37:52 AM EST
    speaks. I knew it was bad, but I had no idea it was this bad.
    Forgive us father for we know not what we do.

    Lot of empty seats below the moat (none / 0) (#16)
    by scribe on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 08:27:51 AM EST
    in Yankee Stadium last night.  Fox was strangely silent about that....

    It used to be you couldn't even dream of getting those tickets for a playoff game, even if you had the money.  Even a regular season game was tough.  They were chits given out to favored customers or executives by the corporations which are the only ones able to come up with $2000 or $2500 per seat per game (that works out to about a millon dollars a year for season tickets for a box of four seats, BTW).

    Interesting.

    The Yankees blew it with that one (none / 0) (#21)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 09:32:44 AM EST


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    ah yes the economy (none / 0) (#18)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 09:17:04 AM EST
    I purchased a RT on Delta this week to Los Angeles two days before the trip, and scored a first class upgrade.... Two years ago you could hardly get a coach seat much less an upgrade...

    My full size rental car was less than $25.00 a day and my luxury Marriott room was $79 with free breakfast a pass to the club..

    Ah yes, it was just so little time ago when you could hardly get a car, full size would be $64/day and the room would have been $220/night....

    Now let me see... 2007... Who was Prez back then? And who took over Congress declaring to make things better?

    Well that sure worked well, didn't it??

    You lost me (5.00 / 1) (#22)
    by Inspector Gadget on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 09:40:15 AM EST
    on what point you are trying to make.

    TODAY: You got an exceptionally great deal on all elements of your travel. Dem Pres, Dem congress.

    2007: You couldn't get any of this. Repub Pres, Dem House, razor thin Dem major in Senate (both congressional groups just unpacking from their swearing in).

    So, you were criticizing ..... ?

    I'm not at all happy with the way the democratic administration and congress are managing things, but these great deals you are getting today are on the backs of millions of Americans and not the cream of an abundant crop.  Personally, I think both scenarios you present are the result of rotten leadership.


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    People are more concerned (5.00 / 1) (#26)
    by Fabian on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 10:00:08 AM EST
    about how much money it takes to put gas in the car, food in the bellies and fuel in the furnace than the price of a plane ticket.  Necessity/Luxury.
    Need/Want.

    The reason the prices are down is because demand is low.  The reason demand is low is because people don't have as much money to spend on wants. My brother honeymooned in Mexico in February and he reported thin crowds and people who were almost desperately happy to see them.  

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    NYT reports airfares for the holidays (5.00 / 1) (#27)
    by oculus on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 10:06:21 AM EST
    are going up fast as the airlines ground planes to make sure those in the air are full to capacity.

    A friend who is building a house in Mexico reports the workers he hires and everyone else he sees has lost a lot of weight.  He thinks of things for the workers to do--maybe not necessary for him--but definitely so for the worders and their families.  He plans to take a dozen frozen turkeys on his next trip there.  

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    Actually I was just noting the good (none / 0) (#28)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 11:37:32 PM EST
    economy then and the bad economy since  the Demos have taken things over.

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    Oh, okay, whatever you say (5.00 / 1) (#29)
    by Inspector Gadget on Sun Oct 18, 2009 at 12:31:22 AM EST
    I'm absolutely unimpressed with how the dems are handling the economy and unemployment, but when exactly did everything crash and burn so that the dems could win no matter who was on the ticket? Oh, that's right, before the election last year.

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    I am fliyng NY-WPB RT (none / 0) (#20)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 09:32:12 AM EST
    for $109.

    JetBlue.

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    With fares like that are you at all (none / 0) (#23)
    by Inspector Gadget on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 09:42:40 AM EST
    concerned about the airplane maintenance level?

    Where is WPB?

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    Florida (none / 0) (#24)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 09:44:10 AM EST
    West Palm Beach.

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    Nice fare (none / 0) (#25)
    by Inspector Gadget on Sat Oct 17, 2009 at 09:49:13 AM EST
    nt

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