Little Congressional Love Child

but thats not all...KBR is still a bad, bad company...crushing on John Stewart...watching out for all the little kiddies on Facebook while blogging from our beds...life imitates Pushing Up Daisies...do you think the hotels in downtown Baghdad have soundproof rooms...praying for gas and waiting for (nearly) free pizza. It’s May 9th, and MicCheck is getting ready to rumble.

Celebration Excuse

Happy Mothers Day!! We’re going to have brunch with mom, grab a mimosa, and maybe catch a ball game. Its May 9 and MicCheck is ready for the weekend.

1754

American newspapers get cartoons but they’re not quite the funnies yet. In fact, the first one was a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption read, “Join or die.”

1913

17th amendment ratified. (that’s the one that elects Senators by popular vote)

1914

We love you Mom, and now we have a holiday to prove it!

1960

Birth Control pill becomes commercially available.

1978

The body of slain former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro is found in a car. First Saab, now the Italians?

1984

After two days, eight hours, and six minutes, the longest game in MLB history comes to an end when the White Sox finally beat the Brewers.

Hey hey, its your birthday!

1949: Sing us a song, you’re the piano man, Billy Joel

1951: Our favorite mom, Alley Mills from the Wonder Years

1970: Ghostface Killah

Daybook

POTUS

Down in Texas for Jenna’s wedding.

STUMPIN

John McCain: Fundraiser in South Carolina.

Barack Obama: Courting superdelegates.

Hillary Clinton: Events in Kentucky, Oregon.

WATCH MORE TV

TIVO

Oprah: Sandwich Showdown.

Tyra: Top Model judges.

The View: Marcia Cross from Desperate Housewives.

Ellen: Jessica Alba, Mothers Day.

Regis & Kelly: Mom’s Dream Comes True

LATE NIGHT

Kimmel: Kelsey Grammer, Alex Trebeck

Letterman: Barbara Walters, Magicians

Conan: Seth Meyers, Becki Newton

Leno: Summer blockbuster stars Harrison Ford and William Moseley

 

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Senator Chuck Hagel at the Center for American Progress

Who: Senator Chuck Hagel, R-NE

What: A Conversation on National Security

Why you should care: Senator Hagel speaks to many of the biggest challenges facing America today, including energy dependence, national security, alliances, and shifting global dynamics.

The Audio

  • The biggest challenges facing our country, but not America, not just our country, but the world, in an interconnected way. For example, we can’t talk about the environment without talking about energy. We can’t talk about energy and the environment without talking about the economy. We can’t talk about those three things without talking about stability in the world.
    Senator Chuck Hagel on interconnectedness of issues — You do not have sufficient permissions to view this object.
  • When you look down through that inventory of global challenges, wherever you go in the world, my guess is you will find on the top ten list, whether its Nebraska, or its Portugual, China....
    Senator Chuck Hagel on Shared Issues and Despair — You do not have sufficient permissions to view this object.
  • I talk about citizenship because I think we have disconnected in this country in a very dangerous way. Uh, citizenship. What is the responsibility of a citizen? At a time when we’re asking less than one percent of our population to bear all the burden...
    Senator Chuck Hagel on Citizenship — You do not have sufficient permissions to view this object.
  • So what we have here is a world that doesn’t know America. The first part of my book, I think the first two or three chapters, is to reintroduce us to the world, I think that’s going to be as big an objective assignment the next president is going to have as any one thing.
    Senator Chuck Hagel on a world that doesn’t know America — You do not have sufficient permissions to view this object.
  • It means the world is shifting and changing, our alliances are shifting and changing, dynamics are shifting, and I would even go so far as to say that I think we’re living through one of the greatest transformational times in the history of man.
    Senator Hagel on a time of great transformation — You do not have sufficient permissions to view this object.
  • But the world does not want an America that imposes, that dictates, that lectures and preaches, that invades nor occupies. I think the world does want an America that will lead with a clear consensus of purpose.
    Senator Hagel, on what the world wants — You do not have sufficient permissions to view this object.

Popularity Contest

Here are the top stories from all of the major news sources. It’s shake and bake…and we helped!

ABC: Clinton May Be Negotiating Veep Spot

CBS: Political Office In Alec Baldwin’s Future?

CNN: The pictures that horrified America

FOX: Suspected Illegal Immigrant Charged With Rape, Impregnating 10-Year-Old Girl

NBC: U.S. ‘outraged’ by Myanmar’s delays of aid

NYT: Wine’s Pleasures: Are They All in Your Head?

WP: Did Rush Limbaugh Tilt Result In Indiana?

LAT: Clinton’s campaign chairman says contest will be decided in June

USAT: Clinton makes case for wide appeal

REUT Relieved Castro blames “Idol” exit on inexperience

BBC: Great tits cope well with warming

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