10 Things to Know for Today Plus a Couple of Others [And my comments]
In this June 14, 2009 photo, Croatian soccer player Mario Cizmek, left, and his club president Zvonko Zubak celebrate victory in the national Cup match in Zagreb, Croatia. Cizmek was sentenced to 10 months in prison for involvement in match fixing scandal. Soccer player Mario Cizmek thought it would just be one match. Ease up and let the other team win, he told himself, then collect the payoff, and start clearing his debts. But the broke and desperate athlete soon learned that it wouldn't be just one match. He would have to throw another game, then another, then another.
Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:31:15 -0500
1. FUGITIVE STANDOFF ENDS AT BURNING CALIFORNIA CABIN
The ex-officer suspected of killing four people was believed to have died in the mountain cabin after a shootout with police. [All's well that ends, in this case.]
2. OBAMA TO REPUBLICANS: DO IT MY WAY
The president set up high-stakes clashes over guns, immigrations, taxes and climate change in his State of the Union address. [Yippie ki-yay... you know the rest.]
3. POPE FACES HIS FOLLOWERS
Benedict XVI says he's stepping down for "the good of the church" in his first public appearance since announcing his resignation. [Hopefully he'll be replaced with someone much younger.]
4. WHAT NORTH KOREA GAINS FROM NUKE TESTS
The blasts put young leader Kim Jong Un and his advisers right where they want to be: at the center of the world's attention. [Yippie ki-yay, duck and cover!]
5. COMCAST BUYING UP NBCUNIVERSAL
Completing the deal for the owner of NBC should make Comcast less vulnerable to rising TV programming costs. [At least someone is going to be less vulnerable to rising costs.]
6. CROAT SOCCER STAR REJECTS FIXING MATCHES
Mario Cizmek tells The AP he threw games because he owed money on back taxes near the end of his career. [I wonder if Willie Nelson "threw" any concerts?]
7. LOOKING FOR ALIENS ON EARTH
Scientists are studying rocks billions of years old for information that can be used to guide the search for life on Mars. [Not sure what the title has to do with the subject. I think the uneducated at AP were confused.]
8. SENATOR NEEDS A WATER BREAK
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's grab for a water bottle during the Republican response to the State of the Union lit up social media outlets. [Just shows you how little it takes to light up "social media" these days and that it's always open-season on Republicans for anything. Thank you "main stream" media for establishing that precedent.]
9. CRUISE LINE DEFENDS PASSENGER TREATMENT ABOARD DISABLED SHIP
Carnival President Gerry Cahill says the ship on its way to Alabama has running water and some working bathrooms. [What a relief. I thought things we're about to get desperate. Future cruises will be offering "All you can eliminate" trips.]
10. TOP DOG CROWNED AT WESTMINSTER
The 5-year-old Affenpinscher, "Banana Joe," edged a 20-month-old English sheepdog to win best in show. [And it was the best show of the night in comparison to what transpired in Washington.]
11. PRESIDENT KNOWS HIS CONSTITUENCY
The First Obfuscator knows the 50.6% of the population that elected him as he continues to spout platitudes, pander and contradict himself whenever the moment is right because he knows none of them will 1) care, 2) call him on it or 3) if the other two fail, remember.
12. "STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLES!"
...to borrow a phrase from Jim Carrey's film LIAR, LIAR. Since the vast majority of gun violence in this country is minority-on-minority and not law-abiding citizens attacking first graders and theater-goers, I'm wondering why those representing them in the rogue's gallery of invitees last night simply don't go home and tell their neighbors to just stop shooting each other instead of supporting someone trying to take consititutional rights away from others.
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