Sunday, January 17, 2016
BEVERLY HILLS--God Bless America, and how's everybody? The London Times published the announcement Sunday that Rupert Murdoch got engaged to the super-model and climate activist Jerry Hall. The media mogul is eighty-four years old and he’s going to marry a super-model. The church announcement says it will be an open-casket wedding. Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke flew to L.A. Thursday to begin work on building a new NFL stadium. He wasn’t born rich, but he married the daughter of Wal-Mart’s founder Sam Walton. That’s what Americans had to do to become an instant billionaire before there was Powerball. Al Sharpton denounced the all-white list of Academy Award nominees Thursday and said that Hollywood is just like the Rocky Mountains in that the higher you go up, the whiter it gets. The remark backfired. The last thing Al intended was to give Aspen realtors a line that’ll close every sale. The Beverly Hilton hosted the announcement of the Academy Award nominations Thursday and now the voting begins for Oscar night. The acceptance speech ritual never changes. The winners always look up to the rafters and thank God, as if God couldn’t get better seats for the show. El Chapo’s lawyer demanded Sean Penn testify in court against the drug lord after the movie star quoted him admitting he sold drugs and killed people. It’s a big story in Los Angeles. Kim Kardashian just came out with a new lip balm for women to wear in case El Chapo breaks out again. The Powerball Lottery drawing Wednesday had three winners and a lot of disappointed ticket holders. People know the odds are astronomical against winning, but they can’t resist the idea of free money for the rest of their lives. It’s why Bernie Sanders is leading in Iowa and New Hampshire. The Powerball Lottery drawing produced three winners Wednesday who will each receive five hundred million dollars. Democrats import Hispanics for new members while Republicans have to stage jackpot lottery drawings. This is why there are a lot more Democrats than there are Republicans. Senate and House Republicans held a weekend retreat in a Baltimore hotel to plot legislative strategy for this year. The GOP retreat was held one floor above a convention for tombstone manufacturers. John McCain can’t be pleased with all the business cards they handed his wife Cindy. The GOP presidential candidates debated in Charleston Thursday where Donald Trump was the center of attention with his big lead. He’s nothing if not tenacious. The GOP debate committee rejected Donald Trump’s idea that everyone stand for two national anthems before the debate began. Donald Trump stood by his charge that if Ted Cruz gets the GOP nomination, Democratic Party constitutional nit-pickers might sue to keep him off the ballot. The senator says he is who he is. When Ted Cruz walks onstage at his campaign rallies, the sound system plays Born Near the USA. The Episcopal Church in America was suspended for three years by the worldwide Anglican Communion for allowing gay marriages. It was inevitable. The Anglican churches in Africa, India and Asia are very conservative and they can’t abide any theology that hates the sin but loves the shoes. North Korea’s Kim Jung Un on Thursday ordered his scientists to build more and better and bigger nuclear bombs. He’s been increasingly erratic. Kim Jung Un has been on the warpath ever since one of his advisors found the courage to tell him that Dennis Rodman was not President Obama.
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