Washington Post Op-Ed on Huckabee

David S. Broder at the Washington Post has a good op-ed on Huckabee’s plans to unseat Mitt Romney with inspiration from Pat Buchanan and Bill Clinton.

Buoyed by his surprise second-place finish in the Iowa Republican straw poll, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is plotting an even bigger coup against Mitt Romney in the first presidential primary, in New Hampshire.
His inspiration for the audacious plot comes from two unlikely people: Pat Buchanan and Bill Clinton.
Clinton, the original man from Hope, Ark., Huckabee’s home town, was no better known to New Hampshire voters in the autumn of 1991 than Huckabee is today, while Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, leads the Granite State field. But, despite the Gennifer Flowers and draft-dodging scandals that plagued his campaign there, Clinton won enough friends to finish second in New Hampshire to 1992’s neighboring candidate, former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas.

At the end of the day Huckabee still needs to worry about the other GOP candidates but several of the other top candidates haven’t been as active in their campaigning as Huckabee and Romney and Huckabee’s money is starting to come in with 16 fundraisers coming up in the near future.

History Maker

digging this song today… (especially the Plumb version)…

Is it true today that when people pray
Cloudless skies will break
Kings and queens will shake
Yes it’s true and I believe it
I’m living for you

Is it true today that when people pray
We’ll see dead men rise
And the blind set free
Yes it’s true and I believe it
I’m living for you

I’m gonna be a history maker in this land
I’m gonna be a speaker of truth to all mankind
I’m gonna stand, I’m gonna run
Into your arms, into your arms again
Into your arms, into your arms again

Well it’s true today that when people stand
With the fire of God, and the truth in hand
We’ll see miracles, we’ll see angels sing
We’ll see broken hearts making history
Yes it’s true and I believe it
We’re living for you

Billy Graham undergoes further treatment

The latest from USA Today:

Evangelist Billy Graham underwent a colonoscopy Wednesday night and received additional treatment for an intestinal bleeding condition, according to a statement from Mission Health & Hospitals in Asheville, N.C.
A gastroenterologist located an area of active bleeding and treated it with cauterization, the hospital said. Graham reportedly was alert during the procedure.
Graham will continue to rest and be under observation for the next 72 hours. He has been visiting with family and will soon return to his routine of walking in the nursing unit, the hospital reported.

WTF!?!

Sorry… hope you don’t know what that means.

That’s all I could think of when I saw this.
Where was this the rest of the season!?

In case you’re wondering: THE RANGERS’ 30 RUNS SCORED SETS A MODERN MLB RECORD (SINCE 1900).

Hear the call thanks to the DMN

The power of Wikipedia

To quote Eric Lidji (speaking of – that guy needs to start blogging again) again, “Ah the blogosphere, the place of no accountability.”
Some might suggest we could apply that same quote to Wikipedia – although I’ve found that there are a NUMBER of folks out there who are Wikipedia sticklers for content, sources and edits (which while I may disagree with them at times – is a good thing).
But Virgil Griffith wanted to find out just how reliable the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit really was.
He created software that examined Wikipedia entries and the source of their edits, and found some interesting things.
For example:

  • Microsoft tried to cover up the XBOX 360 failure rate

  • In the 9/11 Wikipedia article, the NRA added that “Iraq was involved in 9/11”

  • Exxon Mobil edits spillages and eco-system destruction from oil spillages article

  • Scientology removes criticism and negatives article from Scientology page

  • Dog breeding association deletes whole paragraphs about fatal attacks by dogs on humans

  • Fox News removes all controversial topics against the network from the Fox News page

  • Walmart removes criticism of outsourcing work. The retailer also changes negative paragraphs of underpaid workforce

  • Someone at Reuters calls Bush “a mass murderer”

  • Coca Cola removes negative content about its effects

  • US University adds the “prestigious” adjective to its page

It just goes to remind us that we’ve always got to examine and consider the source of the information we get online, on TV, in print or anywhere else. Then take it for what it’s worth.

Thanks to Wisebread for the heads-up