{"id":1724,"date":"2009-10-10T09:20:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T13:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2009-10-10T09:20:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T13:20:48","slug":"saturday-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/10\/10\/saturday-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must admit, I was a bit surprised to hear that Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but the announcement seems to have really tweaked the wingnuts, so I’m pretty much down with it. To be fair, the more “grown up” GOPers seem to smart enough not to make fools of themselves, but the loudmouth “pundits” (and idiot token Michael Steele<\/a>, of course) just can’t seem to help themselves. Much like their reaction to Chicago losing the Olympics, I don’t really understand the whole “rooting against the home team” thing. Rush Limbaugh actually said he found it hysterical that he agrees with the Taliban and Iran<\/a>. I mean, really? Isn’t that aiding and abetting the enemy in a time of war or something? I did like the statement from State Department Spokesperson PJ Crowley<\/a>, though:<\/p>\n

“Certainly from our standpoint, this gives us a sense of momentum \u00e2\u20ac\u201d when the United States has accolades tossed its way, rather than shoes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Granny is off to Albany this morning for the Single Payer NY\/PNHP Fall Meeting. Hopefully she won’t catch Swine Flu from any of the dirty disease vectors in attendance. Here, the dogs and I are eagerly awaiting the noon kickoff of the SU – West Virginia game (well, OK, the dogs are actually eagerly awaiting a trip to the park). After a disappointing loss last week to USF (a game we really could have won, were it not for seven – count ’em, seven<\/em><\/strong> turnovers), we’re hoping (though not actually expecting) for a win today. Part of our many years of shame here is the fact that we haven’t beaten WV since 2001, so it’s not only to get a win, but to take back the Schwartzwalder Trophy (named for Ben, a West Virginia native, who was center and captain of the WV football team back in leather helmet days, and is SU’s winningest – yes, that’s a real word; I looked it up – all-time coach, having racked up 153 wins in his 25 years, including our only national championship fifty years ago). Speaking of the 1959 team, they’ll be renaming the football field “Ernie Davis Legends Field” today (about friggin’ time) during the game (Ernie, the first black guy to win the Heisman Trophy, died of leukemia at the age of 23).<\/p>\n

The game’s on at least three of my channels today, but I’m not sure if it’s blacked out around here or not (the local Time Warner cable station has it, but I don’t have cable). Fortunately, you can find almost everything on the Internet these days, and there’s always the radio. Of course, I’m fully expecting another disappointment (as an SU and Jets fan, I’ve become accustomed to disappointment), but, hey, you never know, right?<\/p>\n

Oh well, I guess I’d better go find my power cord, ‘cuz my laptop battery is just about dead here. Have a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must admit, I was a bit surprised to hear that Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but the announcement seems to have really tweaked the wingnuts, so I’m pretty much down with it. To be fair, the more “grown up” GOPers seem to smart enough not to make fools of themselves, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}