Given Beyonce and Jay-Z’s reported $750 million combined net worth—and their status as music’s top-earning couple —you might say $1.3 million isn’t too extravagant an expense.
When people find out that my hometown is in Michigan or that I went to college there, out-of-staters like to ask me where “on the hand” is that town located. To which, I happily hold up my right palm toward the asker and point to various locations on my hand indicating cities within the mitten-shaped state. Yes, it’s weird. And yes, it’s a Michigan thing. I know this, because I moved to Michigan from Ohio in the eight grade and had to learn the hand out of necessity as a method of describing where I lived. Trust me, if you don’t grow up with it, it’s hard to catch on. But, if you’re from Michigan, you can’t live without knowing it because too many people will ask you to show them where Traverse City is. Note: you get bonus points if you can do the Upper Peninsula too. Now, this very trademark mitten shape is under attack. At the beginning of the month, Michiganders took what they felt was a mitten-shaped slap to the face from their Lake Michigan neighbor. On Dec. 1, Wisconsin rolled out a winter tourism campaign featuring a state-shaped mitten. In all honesty, it’s really not that big of a deal. The Wisconsin-shaped mitten is only posted on the Travel Wisconsin website and its Facebook page, but Michigan state pride still took over in an avalanche about the campaign. Check out the full story on the Blaze for comments, photos and the full story. Of course, most of the anti-Wisconsin mitten comments are all in good fun, but I sense a bit of “back-off” sentiment. From my perspective though, it’s only one slouchy, homemade mitten photo, which pales in comparison to quality Michigan-shaped mittens. It’s not an all out mitten campaign complete with T-shirts or anything. I mean, how could they compete with our T-shirts anyway (see below for evidence of the coolness)?
Yes, this is me taking a photo of myself in my official Mitten State shirt.
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May the best mitten-shaped state win
At least one member of Mercury Radio Arts team learned this weekend amidst the chaos of Hurricane Irene that our boss may be onto something with his continued warnings to “prepare for the worst and hope for the best.” Unfortunately, staff writer Wilson G. had to learn this lesson the hard way as Hurricane Irene threatened New York City and shared his experience this morning: …I listen to Glenn about 5 hours a day. It’s my job. I write all the articles you read here on glennbeck.com. I can list every Woodrow Wilson factoid, progressive plan, or caliphate theory that’s been on air over the past year. I have encyclopedic knowledge of the Glenn Beck doomsday predictions. And yet when it came to being prepared for Hurricane Irene, I was as unprepared as you could have been. I was over in Israel volunteering on the Restoring Courage project for ten days, long before a landfall in NYC was a real possibility. I didn’t really hear about the hurricane until the Restoring Courage event ended and it would still be a few days before I got back to the US. The gravity of the situation hit me when my friend’s flight back to the city was cancelled and I realized I was on the last flight back to NYC. In the customs line at JFK another Mercury staffer said the line at Trader Joe’s was around the block. There was no water or bread at Whole Foods on the Upper West Side. One of my fellow travelers lived in an evacuation zone. And I had nothing. No water. No food. No flashlight or batteries or candles or go bag. If this hurricane was going to be as bad as everyone was saying, I was screwed. Continue reading…
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‘I should have listened to Glenn Beck’
At New York Times , ” Fire Devastates Synagogue Under Repair in Manhattan “: A four-alarm fire broke out Monday night at an Upper East Side synagogue that was being renovated, spitting flames through stained-glass windows, destroying the roof and heavily damaging the upper floors, the Fire Department said. No one was badly injured in the blaze, which obscured the sky over much of the neighborhood with smoke. Four firefighters received minor injuries battling the blaze, which fire officials said apparently began on the roof. The cause was not known. No one was inside, thank goodness. And the Torah scrolls had been removed.
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New York’s Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue Destroyed by Fire
A candid exchange featured in a New York Times puff piece this week speaks volumes about Keith Olbermann and his merry band of liberal followers: Every few steps at the stadium, someone stopped him and said how much they missed seeing him on the air — the little old lady in the Mets cap, the West African working concessions, the Upper West Sider. To each one, he gave a card with information about Current. You get the feeling he would wear a sandwich board to retail his new enterprise if he thought it would help. “Mr. Olbermann, I have somehow managed to form opinions without your assistance , but I really miss your show,” said Arnold Karr, who works in publishing in Manhattan. “Don’t get too used to it,” Olbermann said. “We start broadcasting on June 20.” Translation: Why would you bother to form your own opinion when I’m here to tell you how to think?
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Keith Olbermann reveals the left’s secret to success
-By Warner Todd Huston A few days ago I wrote about how the Obama administration has stuffed the upper echelons of management at General Motors with government lackeys who have no experience in the auto industry and how Obama’s government will lead GM to ultimate failure. Today we see yet one more step toward GMs ruin
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Obama Lackeys Running GM Now Want US to Pay Out for Rebates
AP – Sen. Jay Rockefeller is asking the Obama administration to update the families of miners killed in West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine explosion on the government’s investigation.
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Senator to feds: Update W.Va. mine blast families
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AP – President Barack Obama needed 12 stitches in his upper lip after taking an errant elbow during a pickup basketball game Friday morning with family and friends visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House said.
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AP – Striving to gain the upper hand on a crucial political issue, President Barack Obama is faulting Republicans for refusing to help him turn around the sluggish economy or support some proposed new tax breaks for businesses that the GOP has backed in the past.
