Thursday Links: News and other stuff

Good morning! It’s five o’clock somewhere — unfortunately it’s here and it’s 5 a.m.!  So the only think I’ll be drinkin’ is CAFFEINE!  A programming note: I’ll be filling in for Sid Salter this afternoon on his SuperTalk FM radio show, Deadline with Sid Salter. It starts at 3 p.m. and is 97.3 locally in Jackson. Or you can click here to find it near you (or listen online.)

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Weather: There is a 100% chance we’ll have weather.  Look for frost this morning with a low of 31 and then sunshine and a high of 61.  It could be worse though. We could live in Buffalo who got up to an inch an hour of lake-effect snow yesterday. I’ll take our butt-frying-on-leather-seats summer heat.

Discussion: Thursday Free-For-All. Nice folks who talk about food a lot.

CAM NEWTONpalooza: In a nutshell, dad broke rule but Cam still eligible to play because Cam “did not know about it.”  So my kids are being shopped to schools this morning (on eBay.)  Just don’t tell them.  (I need the $180,000. ) Seriously though, Auburn fan needs to lovin’ on  NCAA exec next time he’s around — that’s a very generous, and season-saving decision.  In other blowback, Kenny Rogers (no, not the plastic-surgery lovin’ country singer) has been made “persona non grata” by Mississippi State University. No cheese for you.

Lookin’ for work?  Change your name to DAN MULLEN. Miami is reportedly sniffing around State’s head football coach in their quest for a one.  Bulldog fan’s pucker index has just risen to an eight. Wikileaks disclosed the search was going on.

Jackson State has a new President. Don’t know much about Dr. Carolyn Myers, (silly secret searches) but I wish her all the luck in the world.  She has lean budgets to battle but good students, faculty and alumni by her side.

Swedish court upholds Assange detention order: Assange being the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.  He’s being detained for questioning about rape and sexual molestation (he has not been formally charged) and  not to protect him from Hillary Clinton.  In other Wikileaks news, Amazon has cut the site off their servers.

If it had been the baseball team, maybe the Giants wouldn’t have beaten them like a drum: Chuck Norris made an honorary Texas Ranger. Insert your Chuck Norris jokes here.

Don’t drill baby, don’t drill: President Obama has restored the ban in the eastern Gulf near Florida. As you might have predicted, environmentalists and Democrats are cheering. Oil industry and Repubs are gnashing their teeth.

Article from The Onion that’s fake but more true than anything else I’ve read: Disgusted TSA agent also calls for ban on pat downs.

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