DRAWING on OBSERVATIONS

I’m taking a long weekend. That’s always the cue for all the big news to break.

Predictions? I’ll go out on a limb and say Alex Rodriguez will hit his 6ooth home run. and Charlie Rangel will retire.

Until those things come to be, here are some reposted doodles. Be back on Monday.

All comments are shut off until I return.

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Being the White House press secretary is a tough job.

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I applaud Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera for rejecting a request by the Catholic Church to pardon imprisoned military personnel that served during Pinochet’s rule. It’s hard to understand why the Catholic Church was championing those responsible for the killing or disappearance of over three thousand people and the torture of tens of thousands, including former President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet.

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Governor Chris Christie is betting on Atlantic City to come back, but will end the subsidies for New Jersey horse racing.

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An Agricultural Department director of rural development in Georgia helped a farmer to save his family’s farm. Imagine.

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Tamra Davis’s documentary, The Radiant Child, opens today. The film is built around archival film of interviews with the street art phenom that shot to stardom and flamed out in the 80′s.

The Trailer
A piece about Warhol and Basquiat filmed in 86
Scenes from the 96 biopic starring David Bowie as Andy Warhol

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Day after day, week after week, year after year, the stories arrive on our doorsteps: high unemployment, partisan bickering, natural disasters, corporate greed, oil spills, deepening recession, government debt, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Thank you Star Ledger for publishing today’s profile of Dr. Megan Coffee. It gives me hope that there is still good in the world.

Read it HERE

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As the recession deepens dems look to extend unemployment benefits.

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Oosthuizen dominated the oldest tournament in professional golf, becoming the 150th British Open champion. He’s the fourth South African to win the title. Tiger finished thirteen strokes back in 23rd place.

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Al Ristori says that larger fluke are a good bet off Sandy Hook in 60 to 80 foot depths when the current and the wind are together.

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Her bid to become the Republican nominee for the US Senate seat from Connecticut is forcing Linda McMahon to defend the policies of the $1.2 billion wrestling empire she built with her husband Vince.

In todays NYT

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The new media moguls aren’t measured by net worth and listed in Forbes magazine, they’re measured by traffic and followers and are on the A list of the twitter class.

Read todays NYT profile.

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As a fan I appreciated George’s drive to win, but I didn’t have to work for him

Harvey Green, a former Yankee PR guy, suffered the wrath of George many times having been fired by him on four occasions. Of his years with the Yankees he said “The phone would ring in the middle of the night and you knew it was either Mr. Steinbrenner or an illness in the family. After a while, you started to root for an illness in the family.”

George hired and fired Billy Martin five times.

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George Steinbrenner had to be the best at everything. When he was mean and insensitive, he was the meanest, most insensitive. When he made stupid baseball decisions, they seemed the stupidest. But when he bought a baseball team, he bought the best, got the best deal and always wanted to put the best team on the field. As a Yankee fan, I thank him for that.

RIP Mr. Steinbrenner

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The NT Times paints a picture of a company driven to maximize profits by cutting corners ignoring safety.
Read the article.

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Baseball, green grass, pinstripes, peanuts, cold beer, and Bob Sheppard… I can’t think of one without thinking of the others. For more than half a century he was the public address announcer at Yankee Stadium. It was his deliberate, precise voice that welcomed you to the stadium and announced your favorite players coming to bat. Always the position, jersey number, name and finally repeating the number. He was an original.

RIP Mr. Sheppard. He was 99.

Watch HERE

and HERE

Over at the brilliant Alex Belth’s Bronx Banter, Yankee Stadium weekend organist Ed Alstrom remembers the great Bob Sheppard. Click HERE

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Juanita Kreps served in the cabinet of the Carter administration becoming the first female Secretary of Commerce and only the third woman to serve in a cabinet position. She was 89 .

Read the NYT obit.

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Keeping the British invasion theme going from yesterday. Queen Elizabeth II braved 100 degree temperatures yesterday in her first visit to New York in more than fifty years. She addressed the United nations and visited ground zero.

Tomorrow Ringo Starr reaches his 70th birthday… and all he had to do was act naturally. Happy Birthday Ringo!

Watch him HERE becoming a big star

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Lobbyist Tony Podesta’s job, as he sees it, is to dole out “information” to our leaders so they can make “informed” decisions regarding the fate of his clients. And business is booming for The Podesta Group, earning $25.7 million last year from a clients list that includes BP, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Wal-Mart, American Coalition for Clean Coal, Harrah’s Entertainment, and Google.

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Larry King announced his retirement. In an age when media personalities die with a mike in their hand. At 76, people are taking note that he’s getting out while he’s practically middle aged (by Washington standards.)

Okay, so he admits that he once smoked up to three packs of cigarettes a day, ate all the wrong foods and never exercised, he could live to be 152.