The best running mate for Donald Trump to beat Joe Biden on 5November2024 is Nikki Haley.  She was not mentioned in the   Conservative Political Action Conference  (CPAC) straw poll held this past weekend, but any common sense would lead to this conclusion...except perhaps, one, and the most important reason:  total subservience.  However, she would best balance a Trump team, as opposed to a fawning nothing.  About the MAGA people upset about what she has said about The Donald, doesn't matter, for he has them covered. The six possible veep candidates show one big surprise.  New York Representative Elise Stefanik, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake.  Plus, former Hawaii Democratic Rep.  Tulsi Gabbard . She decided not to run for re-election two years ago, quit th...

First, on the entertainment front, the favorites did well at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night.   You did not miss it, for to watch, you had to stream Netflix.   Here, view the results .  Yes, the whole thing, beginning with that Red Carpet walk.  Meaning, 8 hours and 21 minutes.   Not being on network television, a lot of F words, and some winners came up drunk. The favorites all won, especially  Oppenheimer . Barbra Streisand won the Life Achievement award.   Just this , less than 10 minutes. As I don't feel particularly spiritual today, will skip on to something I recently saw on Music Choice, Elaine Paige.  Was the original Grizabella who sang  Memories  from  Cats .  It was 1981 in the West End.  In 1998 she played that role in the movie.  Mind you,  Rotten Tomatoes  reviewers gave it an embarrassing 20% rating.  On the other hand, the audience bestowed 80%, and I follow...

Saturday is usually my entertainment day, but there is a wide range of newsworthy stories, beginning with Donald Trump, who will scorch Nikki Haley today in the Republican primary, and win by at least a 25-points.  The   latest poll   I saw had him at 61.6% to Haley's 34%.  But he was at 66% a few days ago, so there has been a decline.   Embarrassing, for South Carolina is where she was governor from 2011 to 2017.   Further,  on the national level, he is leading Haley 77% to 16% .  She will then get destroyed in the upcoming Michigan (very complicated process next week, where Trump leads 80% to 18%) and Super Tuesday (March 5) primaries. But she is not running to beat Trump in the primaries, nor at their national convention in mid-July.   She is being funded by no-Trumpers just in case Trump is disqualified by the Supreme Court, or gets convicted of a serious crime.   Chances are high, though, that the Supreme Court w...

But first,  Odysseus , with difficulty, but safely, landed 186 miles from the South Pole of the Moon.  The first American touchdown in more than 50 years, and by a private company from Houston, Intuitive Machines, with  $118 million of NASA money .  While Odie is vertical ( 14 feet tall ), and sent one signal back to Earth, it was weak.  However, the company later did say that data was streaming in.  The intrigue is that this region might well hold frozen water, which can be split into oxygen and hydrogen, serving as a space station for a future Mars project, or mined for Helium-3. Another U.S. firm, Astrobotic Technology, gave a shot last week, but the lander crashed back to Earth.  NASA is trying to kick-start a lunar economy, this being a $200 million gift to the company.  Well, not quite what was intended, but one spinoff so far is that the gold fabric protecting parts of Odie from extreme cold being marketed as  Omni-Heat Infinity  ...