WTF Is It Now?!?

NOOZE U CAN USE
From Yahoo news: Poultry magnate Frank Perdue has become a star among bobblehead dolls.

The 6-inch dolls were given away recently by the Delmarva Shorebirds, the minor league baseball team whose stadium was financed by Perdue Farms Inc., and have fetched as much as $75 on eBay - the same as a Willie Mays 1966 bobblehead doll.

The figurine shows Perdue holding a baseball and wearing a Shorebirds batting helmet.

"Frank is really modest about the whole thing," said Tita Cherrier, a spokeswoman for Perdue Farms. "To him, he doesn't see what all the fuss is about. He's just a guy who loves baseball."





'BROKEN PROMISES and POLITICAL DECEPTION'
You've probably all seen this already, but I'm posting it anyway because it's so damn inspiring - snipped from Al Gore's editorial in the NY Times:

"There has always been a debate over the destiny of this nation between those who believed they were entitled to govern because of their station in life, and those who believed that the people were sovereign. That distinction remains as strong as ever today. In every race this November, the question voters must answer is, How do we make sure that political power is used for the benefit of the many, rather than the few?"

"For well over a year, the Bush administration has used its power in the wrong way. In the election of 2000, I argued that the Bush-Cheney ticket was being bankrolled by 'a new generation of special interests, power brokers who would want nothing better than a pliant president who would bend public policy to suit their purposes and profits.' Some considered this warning 'anti-business.' It was nothing of the sort. I believe now, as I said then, that ' when powerful interests try to take advantage of the American people, it's often other businesses that are hurt in the process' - smaller companies that play by the rules.

"This view was not partisan. It was based on a plain reading of the history of Republican governance under Presidents Reagan and Bush. And every passing day demonstrates that it was merely the truth.

"I believe Governor Bill Clinton and I were right to maintain, during our 1992 campaign, that fighting for 'the forgotten middle class' against the 'forces of greed.' Standing up for the people, not the powerful was the right choice in 2000. In fact, it is the ground of the Democratic party's being, our meaning and our mission.

"The economic debate, now as then, is fundamentally about principle. The problem is not that Mr. Bush and Dick Cheney picked the wrong advisers or misunderstood the technical arguments, but that their economic purpose was and is ideological: to provide $1.6 trillion in tax giveaways for the few while pretending they were for the many, and manipulating the numbers to make it appear that the budget surplus would be preserved. It was pre-Enron political accounting. For them, incredibly, it is also post-Enron accounting. And the result is the replacement in one year of a surplus with another massive deficit.

"Uncommon power has combined with uncommon greed to create immense deceptions and losses. Millions of average Americans have been victimized. So have thousands of honest American corporations and the people who manage them, own stock in them, and depend upon them for a livelihood, for sending their children to college and for their retirement."