Here’s the story:

Edwards created this monument in memory of Oprah’s Cocker Spaniel, Sophie, and Golden Labrador, Gracie, who both passed away this year. Why are the dogs sitting atop her golden head, you ask? Well, Edwards decided to take the road much less traveled in art and place them there for their literal significance: they are always on Oprah’s mind.

This guy, Daniel Edwards, also did the Brittney/Paris sculptures where they were all naked being very odd.

I only can write a letter.

Oprah:

This is more than weird.

Love ya,

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Nope...Not the Edwards endorsement. This goes to a fundamental flaw in Democracy at this point in time, the stranglehold that corporate media has on the dissemination of information...News, if you will: The Senate voted Thursday night to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a TV station in the same market. And this: "At this

Let me say that again, now that gay marriage is LEGAL in California, Ellen is getting married! Like they say, as California goes, so goes the nation!

Ellen: I Am Getting Married

LOS ANGELES - Ellen DeGeneres and longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi are jumping at the chance to get married. DeGeneres announced their engagement during a Thursday taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," telling the studio audience the news that the California Supreme Court had struck down state laws against gay marriage.

"So I would like to say now, for the first time, I am announcing: I am getting married," she said during the show, airing Friday. The studio audience leapt to its feet for a long ovation, and De Rossi ("Ally McBeal," "Nip/Tuck") was sitting in the audience, beaming and clapping.

AP: California's top court legalizes gay marriage
California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban
Lavender Liberal: We won! WE WON! Marriage in California!
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In March 2007, Jon Nix, the former Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors, who is also the former President and CEO, sold to the current President and CEO, Daniel Roling, for $10 the fully vested option to purchase 400,000 shares of National Coal Corp. common stock at $7.00 per share until December 31, 2008.

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ABC News:
Kennedy, 76, was rushed from the Kennedy compound at Hyannisport, Massachusetts, to Cape Cod Hospital at 9 a.m. (1300 GMT), a hospital spokesman told Reuters.

He was then airlifted to a Boston hospital, the spokesman said.

CNN reported Kennedy was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with symptoms of a stroke, citing a prominent state Democrat it did not identify.

Women respond to the loud bullies in the male-biased media, who are so devoted to The Chosen One, by standing up for Hillary with full page ads across the country. Not So Fast, the full-page ad in yesterday's USA TODAY reads:

Hillary's voice is OUR voice, and she's speaking for all of us.

We are the women of this nation. We are rich and poor, young and old, married with kids, married without kids, single moms, gay, straight, and widowed. We are every color. We are of every religion. We are from all political parties.

We love our country. Now more than ever, so much of what we cherish is at risk – our homes and our health, our safety and our planet, our children and our values. We raise our voices, in one glorious, defiant chorus, to tell the world that these times demand strength, courage and vision.

And that is why we stand united in our unwavering support for Hillary Clinton.

We want Hillary to stay in this race until every vote is cast, every vote is counted, and we know that our voices are heard.

The ad was paid for by Women Count PAC, a newly formed political action committee which is running similar ads across the country. Women Count was created "to ensure that the 51% of American citizens who are women have their values and votes counted in the political process." via Riverdaughter


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Act Now: Sign Hillary’s Petition to DNC, Pass It On!

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We just found out a quirk in the Economic Stimulus Tax Rebate law. Neither of our children qualify for the $300 per child rebate payment, even though they're under 17 years of age and have valid SSNs. This is because one of them was adopted as a special needs child last year. Apparently, the Adoption Credit replaces the regular Child Tax Credit, and the stimulus payment is based on not on the number of children, but on receipt of the Child Tax Credit only. Oh well, we didn't need the new big screen TV anyway.

This delights me more than it should. But it does.

Candace Parker will be interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition this morning. If you're awake, you might give it a listen.

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It’s one thing to have a problem with Hilary and her supporters, but it is another thing entirely to tell all feminists discussing the blatant and subtle sexism during this wonky campaign season as being illigical is beyond the pale.

Now, I wouldn’t assert for a second that sexism is extinct. It, like racism, is real, and one would have to be purposely oblivious not to notice it in our culture. Further, there are plenty of unhinged Hillary haters out there. And whatever the motivation, we’ve also seen some exceedingly silly media stories about Clinton. High among them rank the deconstruction of her laugh and the attention focused on a Clinton outfit that showed a bit of cleavage on the Senate floor. (How that must have shocked the chaste and ascetic monks who have long inhabited that storied chamber!)

People are right to decry boorish anti-Clinton comments, offensive jokes, and the bilge, bile, and billings-gate of the talk-radio blowhards, as well as occasional over-the-top utterances from cable commentators.

This was Scott Lehigh’s way of admitting that sexism still exists. And then the ax falls.

But let’s not mistake the Bruegelian sideshow for the political mainstream. Even allowing for all that stupidity, the notion that sexism is primarily to blame for Clinton’s woes doesn’t pass logical muster.

Shorter version, if you think sexism had some handle in the primary season you are ILLOGICAL.

Taylor and Melissa both deconstruct the rest of Lehigh’s meanderings, so I don’t have to.

Tearing down a downtown interstate and replacing it with a boulevard and an elongated park...now that's just crazy.

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After a week of marathon floor sessions, frenzied hearings and intense lobbying over state spending and policy, the legislature fell silent Friday. Offices closed, lawmakers returned to districts, and the flat-screen monitors in the hallways went dark.

Purcell keeps busy with TSU college of public service

CONGRESSMAN COHEN TO HOST TOWN HALL MEETING TODAY, SATURDAY, MAY 17

Today, Saturday, May 17, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will host a Town Hall Meeting, which is open to the public, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Orange Mound Community Center, 2590 Park Ave.



“This event is a great opportunity to continue our dialogue on the most pressing issues remaining before the 110th Congress,” said Congressman Cohen. “And I look forward to hearing about matters of importance to the people of the 9th District.”



Since taking office in January 2007, Congressman Cohen has hosted 11 public meetings in various locations throughout the 9th Congressional District.
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BOB TUKE

Wearing his combat boots from Vietnam, Bob will start in front of Municipal Auditorium and make his way through the city, finishing in the heart of downtown Nashville. A schedule of the route is provided below. We hope that you will join Bob as he spreads his message of change across Nashville!

Nashville March Route, Saturday May 17, 2008

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9:30 am

Municipal Auditorium (417 4th Ave. N)

11:15 am

Fisk University Library (Phillips St. & 17th Ave. N)

12:30 pm

Tennessee State University (John A. Merritt Blvd. and 29th Ave. N)

1:30 pm

Swett's Plaza (2725 Clifton Ave.)

2:45 pm

Centennial Park (West End Ave. entrance)

3:30 pm

Corner of 21st Ave. and Blakemore/Wedgewood Ave.

At least five are lobbyists. One works in government relations for one of Nashville's leading law firms. Another has won a seven-figure contract to clean up the trash-collection system on the island of Guam.

HENDERSONVILLE — Sumner County officials are gearing up for what could be an unpleasant task: cutting more than $5 million out of the upcoming budget or raising property taxes.

A meeting to organize Nashville bus riders to lobby against fare increases and service cuts will take place from noon to 2 p.m. today at the East Library on Gallatin Pike.

Democrat Travis Childers hopes to be sworn in to Congress early next week.

The state Board of Education voted Friday to clear the way for a state takeover of the Hazlehurst Municipal School District, which is struggling with academic and financial problems.

A federal judge has ordered attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs to turn over policyholder records to State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. within 15 days.