Good News for Some People I Know

Healthy and Frosty Cancer-Fighting Beer Study

Beer assists in fighting cancer? A key ingredient of brew may contain a cancer-fighting substance, a German beer study indicated. Cancer fighting beer. Who would have thunk it?
Studies indicated xanthohumol, found in hops, inhibits a family of enzymes that can trigger the cancer process, as well as help the body detoxify carcinogens, science newswire Ivanhoe reported Monday. Preliminary studies at Oregon State University
show that xanthohumol can kill breast, colon, ovarian and prostate cancers.
"It's very healthy. I think the ingredients in the beer are very good," Werner Back of Brewing Technology
at the Technical University of Munich.

So much for the Home Field Advantage....

ALASKA'S top newspaper has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for the White House, saying it would be too risky to put the state's Republican Governor, Sarah Palin, just "one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world".

The Anchorage Daily News, the leading newspaper in the overwhelmingly Republican state, called Mrs Palin's vice-presidential nomination "an improbable and highly memorable event" and added that "many Alaskans are proud to see their Governor, and their state, so prominent on the national stage".

But the newspaper editorial said home-town boosterism "does not overwhelm all other judgement".

Civics 101 by Sarah Palin

Asked by a news reporter what a vice president does, Gov. Palin said, "They're in charge of the U.S. Senate, so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes."

I think the only time the vice president has a vote in the Senate is in the event of a tie vote. Since the U.S. Senate was established, there have been very few times this has happened. Eleven vice presidents have never cast a tie-breaking vote and four vice presidents have cast 1 tie-breaker each.

I hope Gov. Palin would not be disappointed if she had to work crossword puzzles from the chair.

Great Times on the Plains

Another fun day at Auburn. Game score was not so good but we had a blast at the AU/ARK game. Eric, Amy and Susan looked great decked out in their Auburn attire and Will posed with Coach Pat Dye at the ceremony honoring the SEC Championship Team of 1983.

FYI

Samuel A. Maverick was an American pioneer who did not brand his calves and the term "maverick" evolved. Merriam Webster dictionary gives the first definition of maverick as, "an unbranded range animal."

Just to Clear Things Up. . . . .

The McCain-Palin Campaign finally allowed Sarah Palin to answer 15 minutes of questions from the press without being coached and this was her answer to one of the questions:

"It is pertinent. It's important because when you consider Barack Obama's reaction to and explanation to the association there, and without him being clear at all on what he knew and when he knew it, I think kinda peaks into his ability to tell the truth on and not only association but other things also. I think it just make us ask the question that, if there's not forthrightness there, with that association and what was known and when it was known, does it lead us to ask is there forthrightness with the plans Barack Obama has on say tax cuts or spending increases? It makes you wonder about the forthrightness, the truthfulness of the plan that he is telling America in regards to the economic recovery because that is first and foremost on America's minds right now."

Thank you, Governor, for clearing that up for us!

Now This is Funny!

For those of you who are familiar with the format of Facebook, you know that in your profile you state your political views, your religious beliefs, list your friends, and people can write on your wall, etc. A fake Sarah Palin Facebook page has emerged.

In it, Palin's political views were listed as "None-I'm not very political"
Her religious beliefs said, "Jesusologist"
She listed Katie Couric as a friend - then dropped her three hours later.
On her wall, Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote: "I seen how you been starin at me from across the water."
And McCain wrote: "You're a woman right? Are you busy for the next four years?"

Now I don't care who you are, that's funny!

Congratulations to Atlanta !

For the first time ever, Atlanta tops Forbes' list of the best cities to live for singles. But for the same reasons it is best for singles it would also appeal to those who are not single. For example, Atlanta was rated in seven different categories: number of single people living there, culture, cost of living, job growth, night life, dating activity, and coolness. Doesn't everyone want to live in a city which has culture, good job growth, has reasonable cost-of-living and is "cool?"

Last year, San Francisco won but came in second this year. It takes a lot of doing to top San Francisco. I imagine San Francisco rated very high in "coolness" but fell short when it comes to cost-of-living and job growth in California.

In the eight years Forbes has been ranking America's largest urban areas, Atlanta has come in the top ten but this year Atlanta's sizzling job growth pushed it to the top! Congratulations, Atlanta!