Her best friend's boyfriend of 6 years is proposing to her friend tomorrow evening, and he has invited my daughter, his soon-to-be-fiancee's sister, his brothers and a couple of their good friends from college to surprise her and celebrate with them after the big moment.  My daughter is beside herself with excitement, especially since my daughter and her boyfriend of almost-four years are planning to get engaged soon.

Her friend's boyfriend has a whole couple days of activities planned - I think she's going to have the best time.

Anyway, I warned her about the body scanners and the more-intrusive "pat-downs," so will be interested to hear what her experience is; she's a little nervous about it, so am hoping it isn't too traumatic.

Soros told those in attendance that he is "used to fighting losing battles but doesn't like to lose without fighting."

"We have just lost this election, we need to draw a line," he said, according to several Democratic sources. "And if this president can't do what we need, it is time to start looking somewhere else."

in other humorous news, remember Obamas Fight the Smears website?

It was launched to great fanfare as a one-stop shop to counter the scurrilous slurs circulating among opponents and your misguided relatives.

We don't know how effective it was in practice, but we liked the symbolism: A candidate who wasn't going to sit back and let smear merchants define the terms of debate. A campaign that would aggressively rebut the wild charges against it.

The website hasn't been updated since November 2008. Because, as everybody knows, smears against Obama, Democrats, and their policies completely stopped the moment he was elected.

Well he's 7 years old now and it took a couple of years for his parents to really understand what happened, but when Colton Burpo was four years he was having surgery in the hospital for a burst appendix. While he was in surgery he apparently had some sort of out of body experience and could see what his parents were doing. He witnessed that his dad was praying and his mom on her cellphone. Both parents say they have no clue how he knew that, but that it's absolutely true. And the story just gets more interesting from there.

Apparently during the same surgery Colton went to Heaven where he recounts how he met his grandfather who he had never known, who he later recognized in photos. The interesting thing is that he didn't recognize photos of his grandfather as an old man with glasses, which is how everyone knew him, but rather as a young man. Colton's father literally had go find a photo of `Pop' as a young man before Colton was able to recognize him. Now that's pretty wild.

But I must say what really surprised me was that Colton's father recounts how Colton, still 4 years old, told his mother "you had a baby die in your tummy didn't you", which completely shocked them both because they had never told him about their miscarriage. They asked him how he knew and he said that he met his sister in Heaven and she told him what happened.

Dude.

if they are making this up or coaching the kid it is beyond reprehensible.  if they are not . . .

and after all that you didnt get mad that while the country circles the drain the republican leaders stand up and say making Obama a one term president is their number one agenda item.

Message to the Tea Party - What took you so long to get angry?

You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate Energy policy and push us to invade Iraq .

You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn't get mad . . . .

For example, Wolffe reports that during the negotiations over the health-care bill, "Speaker Pelosi was so volcanic that much of the White House strategy was shaped in terms of how to deal with her."

except for, you know, 95% of the budget.  isnt there something that has to do with poor people or mexicans that we can cut?

Deficit Proposal Draws Mixed Review

Roughly 70% were uncomfortable with making cuts to programs such as Medicare, Social Security and defense in order to reduce the deficit, with 27% saying they were comfortable.

And nearly 60% said they were uncomfortable with raising tax revenue through such measures as boosting the gasoline tax, limiting deductions on many home mortgages and altering corporate taxation.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: She's not going to run.  It's The Art of War.  The reason she's saying this is cause she knows she can't win.   She knows she's got to keep her name out in the press.  She knows her poll numbers are dropping. She knows that she was humiliated in her home state of Alaska. She knows that Christine O'Donnell did not work out well. And so--I hate to say it--it's about money.

Airport passenger screening measures have become a touchy issue in the U.S. in the past week, but in the past year the controversial measures have detected more than 130 prohibited, illegal or dangerous items that otherwise would have made it onto airplanes, the Transportation Security Administration says.

CHICAGO - More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year, and 11 million had a serious illness, U.S. government researchers reported on Thursday.

Young adults aged 18 to 25 had the highest level of mental illness at 30 percent, while those aged 50 and older had the lowest, with 13.7 percent, said the report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration or SAMHSA.

It's not over yet in Alaska, or so Joe Miller argued  in federal court last night.  He filed a motion to an existing lawsuit to issue a temporary injunction against the state to stop it from certifying Lisa Murkowski as the winner in the Senate race, claiming that the state started counting the write-in ballots a week early, which left him unprepared to challenge ballots: