Oh, this is JUST What They Need

Seems Florida has come up with a new license plate to shout out that rich confederate past!

Bucket o blues!

The night ends at a house party where everyone came as the blues brothers!

The balcony bar

Is my favorite spot in New Orleans. Esp after the game!

We won!

4 to 3! What a great day!

Tie game!

We have a tie game on our hands! And we are in new Orleans....so we win regardless!

STRIKE THREE!!

Here is the view from the cheap seats! It was nice being in the student section. Lots of chants and cheers. Also it was pretty relentless for the opposing right fielder. A good time had by all!

We need a bigger boat!

At Tulane we serve crawfish out of canoes, or as we call it in Louisiana, a Peerow (p-row). They were wishing they'd used a bigger one for the crowd here!

Your College Baseball Team

Probably doesn't serve micro brew beer and crawfish! Go green wave!

Turchin Stadium Rebuilt!

This was the first game in Tulane's stadium. Just rebuilt since the hurricane. It was nice walking up to the stadium seeing people out tailgating. Tulane's campus is right in the middle of the uptown neighborhood in New Orleans walking from the car you pas by houses where people are outside cooking, playing music, and having a good time. You walk onto campus and there is a buzz of activity leading up to the stadium. I have to say they did a great job on this one. (I know it is sideways. I will rotate it when I'm back to an actual computer. The cell phone can do only so much!)

On the Way to Tulane

I guess 'jesus' was taken ...

Can't Sleep!

I'm ready for the Baseball game tomorrow in New Orleans!

This Blog Isn't Where You Go to Find Skirts

but this thing was both cool and HIL-arious!

Yer Pal Polly

Just to let you guys know, i got an interesting email this morning. I awoke to find an offer to run Hillary Clinton's Mississippi Campaign today. very flattering. I had to decline for other obligations, but hopefully my good pal Jaxxie can get the job. Still, pretty neat.

Last Update

OK. it's in now. McCain and Obama sweep the Potomac Primaries (Maryland, Virginia, and DC) Basically Hillary will need to make a stand in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. if she cannot win a couple of those (at LEAST one, preferably all if you want to see her win), then that's it for her campaign. you heard it here first. There's some momentum she's running against. the time is short and she's gone through some turmoil that usually means disaster for a campaign on what is (to my mind) the final stretch.

MY DC VACATION

I spent a few days in DC and Baltimore in September. During this trip I saw all the major DC sights by night. I saw some old friends and I got another taste of a city I really like. I also saw my first Major League Baseball game. It was the DC Nationals vs. the Pholding Philadelphia Phillies. I was lucky enough that my college pal Swirly got us 2 tickets to the LAST baseball games at RFK stadium! what a cool time.

To my surprise, there was a Mississippi Bar BQ Joint right there at the stadium! I got to sit out past 3rd base with agreat view and even saw a few foul balls go my way. I ate a hot dog and had beer, fulfilling the traditional baseball activities. I sang take me out to the ballgame. and it was pretty well awesome.

The second day was a bit different. First of all, my newly beloved Nationals won! We also sat in a waaaay different area. Sometimes when you sit VERY high up in a big stadium it's called sitting in "Heaven" because you sit so far up you feel like you are up in the clouds! I'd never sat anywhere that high and i was shocked how good the view was. it was actually pretty fun sitting up high. take a look at a few of those shots. It was incredible how steep those stands get up high! The previous day you would see a 'beer man' appear about every 45 seconds. Up in the clouds i saw one kid walk to the base of the stands. he had 6 beers and yelled up the steps. He told us he had beers if we wanted them, but he wasn't going to haul them up the steps if we weren't buying! i didn't blame him. the idea of walking up those steep steps with a cooler of beer is truly terrifying! There was a guy that sat next to me with an "Isotopes" baseball cap from the REAL baseball team named made up team from the Simpsons. ha!

I had a great time, Swirly bought me a hat that i'm wearing right now, and i can't wait to go back.

Super Duper Tuesday and Beyond...

After having a pretty heavy political week of my own, I was happy to let all the Super Tuesday stuff go by without much of my attention yesterday. However, i'll give you my take. If you didn't know already, the way Democrats and Republicans hand out delegates in a primary vary, even within the same state. Many, but not all, of the GOP primaries are "All or Nothing", meaning you win, you get all of the delegates. Second place gets nothing. The Democrats split up the state's delegates to first and second (generally) if the 2nd place voter reaches a given threshold. With Hillary and Obama winning different states, this left us roughly tied. actually it gave Hillary more by popular vote and Obama more by delegate count. under this system you can have a smaller gap of delegates awarded to the 1st and 2nd place candidates in California than you do for the same candidates in Puerto Rico!!! I'm not going to get into "super delegates" and what that means here until it actually begins to mean something.

After Super Tuesdsay, the GOP found itself a 2 man race. Sorry Ron Paul, it is now mathematically impossible for you to win. Everyone, me included, said it was all over and McCain would beat Huckabee for the nomination. The GOP elite seem to hate these too guys so much that they don't know what to do with themselves. meanwhile we get a few more states into the mix...and Huckabee wins them ALL! In the South. the Midwest. and the West.

You may be thinking "Now wait a minute Polly! I saw McCain won Washington. it wasn't a sweep!" and it SEEMS that way (and maybe it will be that way in the end), but you should know this and sit in disbelief that this has made no press. in Washington state, with 13% of the vote left to count, the race was neck and neck for McCain/Huckabee. Literally seperated by 1.8%!. so what does the chair of the GOP (Luke Esser) in Washington do? HE HAD A GUT FEELING THAT McCAIN WOULD WIN AND CUT OFF THE COUNTING OF THE VOTES!! seriously. It seemed that the 30 point lead McCain had before has evaporated and the fix needed to go in to handle the situation. Huckabee wasn't too happy, as you can imagine.

Well that's the sorta stuff you get over there. on the Democratic side, Obama cleaned Hillary's clock. now he was expected to win these states, partly bc he fares better in Caucus states than she does. He's done well in poorer states, states with larger black populations, and whiter states with higher income residents. Hillary has done well in the middle and much better with Latinos. it was a rout. she had to cough up $5 million of her own dough and ask staff to give up paychecks for a while. on top of that, she ditches her campaign leadership. not good signs and no good PR going into the "Potomac Primary" of Virginia, DC, and Maryland. Her best chance (same with huckabee) will be in Virginia. the rest should go Obama. If he sweeps here, she will be in contention, but certainly down in the delegate count and will have no chance of moving ahead in the race until March. a long time to stop a free fall.

I was very worried Obama wasn't going to be able to pull this out in the end. I'll be very positive on his chances if he sweeps again tonite...and that seems to be the word on the street.

UPDATE! One More from the Coast

Read the link above. I'll give you some updates today plus more on the election!

Hey, Its Yer Pall Polly in the News...

I'll post a little more on this monday. This article doesn't touch on the part of my testimony last week when the Director of Medicaid tried to take the mic away from me when i testified in front of the legislature. Evidently he REALLY doesn't like it when he's caught lying in public. natch!