I’m here, in the land of the infamous 2000 confusing butterfly ballot.
In Florida today, thanks to massive early voting, is for the most part an example of how it is supposed to go on Election Day. A few long lines, a few equipment problems, but overall, an easy day for voters. We were at a fire station polling precinct and there were rarely more than 3 people voting. Compare that to the lines of early voters (in 20-times fewer locations) where the waits were 1, 3 and on Sunday in Broward county, a 6 hour wait. The skies have cleared, Venus and the Moon are in the sky and the county canvassing commission is tabulating the absentee votes.
10 counties in the panhandle of Florida are in the Central Time Zone, so no numbers come out of Fla until 8 eastern.
After the Philidelphia Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 2008 World Series last night, many family and friends all began to cry. This is truly a historic night in the city of Brotherly Love!
As fans were cheering in the streets of Philly I was on the Septa on my way home from this exciting event. When the conductors came around they refused to collect tickets from us. They called it “a free ride in honor of The Phillies!”
GOOO PHILLIESS!!!!
Check back for more exclusive photos and videos from my exciting night in Philly!
Phillies fans thought they had the World Series in the bag… until Mother Nature stepped in. Or was it “The Curse of Billy Penn?”
That’s what a lot of Philadelphians like myself are wondering after the World Series was washed out by rain in the 6th inning Monday Night.
You see, when I was growing up in Philly the statue of Pennsylvania’s founder William Penn loomed large over the City of Brotherly Love. The deal was: “No buildings taller than Billy’s hat.”
It was an unwritten rule that everyone respected…
Until 1987, when One Liberty Place was built. Billy found himself in a shadow and no Philadelphia sports teams have won a championship since: thus the Curse of Billy Penn.
There are now a few buildings dwarfing Billy. But the guys who built the latest, Philadelphia’s tallest, decided to see if they could “reverse the curse” by putting a miniature statue of William Penn at the very top.
Will it work? We’ll see.. Game 5 resumes tonight at Citizens Bank Park. Go Phillies!
Citizens Bank Park - Home of major league baseball's Philadelphia Phillies
Rain delays can be fun, even during the World Series. The fact that the Phillies and Rays had to wait another day might be frustrating to some, but it is hardly a rare occasion. World Series games have been postponed many times over the years, including the famous 1986 series between the Mets and the Red Sox.
From the great scene in the movie ‘Bull Durham’, to players putting on sliding shows on drenched tarps, fans who’ve ever stayed during a downpour with hopes it will end, sometimes get treated to a great time. I can remember playing in Carolina and a downpour caught the grounds crew off guard. One of the ushers who came down to help rush the tarp onto the field was tossed up into the air thanks to a burst of wind. Players lunged from the dugout and grabbed what we could. The rain had already filled the tarp to the point we couldn’t pull it and the third base line got drenched. We ended up sporting long sleeved and delighting fans with the best slip-n-slide I’ll ever enjoy.
So… with game 5 coming, who do you think will win and do you think MLB should have put the game off while the field dried and the rain went away? It has crossed the line and now become a news story as the Wold Series sits at 3 games to 1, with game 5 unfinished. By the way, this picture comes from MLB, I wish a west coast team would have made it so we could cover a darn series!
Tzippi Livni is starting to remind me of Ariel Sharon, just a bit. They don’t have much in common beyond membership in Kadima, the party Sharon founded. But love him or hate him, Sharon made for great spectatorship here in the cheap seats. Now, Livni has made one of these Sharon-like political moves that seemed at first to spell political suicide but she is stepping out of the grave stronger than when she went in.
You see, on Sunday Livni went to Israeli President Shimon Perez to report to him that she was unable to form a governing coalition, therefore sending Israel into new elections. For months, it has been projected that new elections would mean Benjamin Netanyahu and his right wing Likud party would ride the wave of resentment that grew following the Gaza strip pullout and glide into power.
Newspaper columnists rushed to their keyboards to write that Livni had failed in her first task as Prime Minister designate: She failed to put together a majority of Knesset seats. The Israeli public should lose confidence in her. They overlooked WHY she failed to put together a coalition.
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