Author: Randy Slovacek

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Michele Bachmann – hurricanes and earthquakes are about politics

Speaking in Florida, Michele Bachmann assigned political motive to natural disaster as she told a group that recent events like Hurricane Irene were messages to her to cut the federal budget:

“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”

Bachmann’s campaign later insisted the congresswoman was joking.

The full measure of Hurricane Irene’s fury came into focus Monday as the death toll jumped to 38, New England towns battled epic floods and millions faced the dispiriting prospect of several days without electricity.

Quite the “joking” topic, isn’t it?

Can I say the only good thing about Rick Perry is he will save us all from a Bachmann Presidency…

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Olivia Newton-John almost didn’t release mega-hit “Physical”

In a recent interview for AOL/Spinner.com, Olivia Newton-John talks about the anniversary of her mega-hit “Physical” and how she almost didn’t release the song.

“I had a bit of a panic session,” she tells Spinner. “I went, ‘Oh my God! I can’t put this out. It’s way too radical! What are people going to think of me?’ I said to my manager, ‘You’ve got to pull it. It’s too cheeky.’ And he said, ‘It’s too late, it’s gone to radio.’ Of course, it went to No. 1 in like four weeks. I’ve learned to live with it.”

‘Physical’ became Newton-John’s biggest hit single in the U.S., where it topped the Billboard charts on Nov. 21, 1981, and stayed there for a total of 10 weeks. The song was accompanied by a music video featuring a headband-wearing Newton-John and a group of muscular and overweight men exercising in a gym.

“It seems like a long time ago,” Newton-John says now about recording the song, “but it also seems like no time ago. It’s really interesting — just recently, I got a call from Brian Grant, who was the director of the . They’re doing a life story on him and I haven’t seen him since we did the video. And then I did it again on ‘Glee.’ They recreated the whole set. It’s sort of following me around again.”

Read more at Spinner.com

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Colin Powell not happy with Dick Cheney’s “tabloid” headlines

In an appearance on CBS’ Face The Nation, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell made it clear he wasn’t thrilled with the way Former VP Dick Cheney has been hyping his new book “In My Time.”

Referring to the language Cheney has used of late – which he predicted will have “heads exploding all over Washington” – Powell said That’s “the kind of headline you might see [on] one of the supermarket tabloids.” He added “it’s not the kind of headline I would have expected to come from a former Vice President of the United States of America”

Via ThinkProgress.org: In a withering criticism of the former vice president, Powell goes on at length and in detail to explain how the “cheap shots” Cheney aims at Powell and “other administration officials” are false, and how Cheney is himself to blame for much of it. “I’m the one who said to President Bush, [about Iraq] that if you break it, you own it,” Powell said, but “Mr. Cheney and many of his colleagues did not prepare for what happened after the fall of Baghdad.” On the Valerie Plame scandal, Powell says “White House operatives,” especially those “on Mr. Cheney’s staff,” did not fully cooperate in the FBI’s investigation and were not “forthcoming.” Powell also addresses his 2004 resignation, his speech the United Nations about the Iraq war, and other accusations Cheney makes about Powell in the book.

Powell said Cheney also unfairly attacks former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former CIA chief George Tenet, and even President Bush himself. “It’s not necessary to take these kind of barbs and then try to pump a book up by saying ‘heads will be exploding,’” Powell says, noting Cheney’s comments go beyond mere disagreements are personal in nature.

This isn’t the first time Powell and Cheney have publicly feuded. Powell’s former chief of staff once referred to Cheney as “evil,” and Cheney has said he agreed with Rush Limbaugh over Colin Powell after the Powell criticized the Limbaugh’s divisive rhetoric.

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OK – we got the wine… did you wrap the Land Rover, honey?

So some New Yorkers get to the wine store to stock up on the important things before a hurricane.

And others make sure they protect their Land Rover from the elements.

Not sure who to feel worse for — the misguided owners, or Land Rover for having customers who think their SUVs must be sheltered from storms by a jury-rigged hair bonnet.