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Blago's New York Tour

Now that's what I call a hair battle...Blago v. Larry King

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, you get smacked down on The View, and you got serious problems.

Don't impeach me, I think about Oprah!

Um, soon to be ex-Gov., I'm not entirely sure what was hoped to accomplish by a grandstanding trip to the media capital of the world while your impeachment trial started in Springfield, Ill. I will grant you this, I think you should be allowed to call witnesses at your trial--after all, the impeachment's in the bank, what's the harm of giving you a little due process. Still, pretty sure yesterday's media blitz only reinforced your image as a hopelessly out of touch megalomaniac.

Former Player Casey Ford Is A Complete Idiot.

From CNN:

"A popular Kentucky high school football coach was arraigned Monday on a reckless homicide charge in the heat-exhaustion-related death of one of his players.

Coach Jason Stinson has been charged with reckless homicide in the heat-related death of a player.

A grand jury indicted Stinson on Thursday in the death of Max Gilpin, 15. ..

Gilpin's body temperature reached 107 degrees and witnesses said Stinson had denied the student water on the hot August day, WLKY reported. Gilpin was rushed to an area hospital where he later died.

The player collapsed August 20 during a summer practice and died three days later. "It's a sad day," Stinson told supporters gathered on his lawn to pray Saturday, CNN affiliate WHAS reported. "My heart is broken. Part of my life has been taken away. I no longer teach, and I no longer coach at the school that I love."

'The best example I can give you is like someone shooting into a building not knowing anyone is in there, then killing somebody,' Commonwealth's Attorney R. David Stengel told WHAS. 'They didn't know they were in there, but they should have known that shooting into a building where people normally are is something dangerous.'

Current and former students reacted with shock to the indictment -- and possible imprisonment -- of Stinson, a beloved coach and teacher. "Coach is amazing," former player Casey Ford told WLKY. "Coach truly cares about his players."

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Oh yeah, "Coach" is amazing. He's an amazing idiot depriving water from a player on a hot August day. He ain't Bear Bryant and this ain't 1948 Alabama. Today, it's generally known by everyone except, apparently Coach Amazing, that if you don't get water, and you overheat, well, you can die.

I'm sorry you had a "sad day" coach. You know who else had a "sad day" one time I bet--the parents of the 15 year old that you let suffer in sweltering heat until he passed out and died. Man, I bet that was a bad day for them.

Full Story Here.

Yep, that's a foul.

The great series of tubes*

How sweet would the doctor look in a $43 grand suit.....You heard me.

Cubs go for $900 mil. I was soooo close....

An Angry Irishman happened to play at my birthday bash. He was great. May I suggest downloading "F*** Kenny Chesney." It's a Doc Cherryhill INSTANT CLASSIC.

I never thought I'd post something from Oprah.com, but yes, ladies, feel good naked. Do it for yourself...I have no rooting interest at all..really.

A prophetic classic from our pals at The Onion.

Doc's favorite cover band, check 'em when you can.

I just can't wait for this...even though I'm doubtful it will last long.

*Former Sen., Current Criminal, Ted Stevens remix, here

Ahhh....Grasshopper, Be One With The Ball..

"DALLAS -- A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse.
Now officials from The Covenant School say they are trying to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory.

It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened," Kyle Queal, the head of the school, said in a statement, adding the forfeit was requested because "a victory without honor is a great loss."

More, here.

Oscar Nominations Screw Pooch Again

Academy Award Nominees
Best motion picture of the year


"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

"Frost/Nixon"

"Milk"

"The Reader"

"Slumdog Millionaire"

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Par for the course, the Dr., who likens himself a movie "buff," has seen one of these particular flicks, Benji Button. (And sure, it's the kinda movie that usually pulls a nomination.) Also, to be fair, I have plans to see Frost/Nixon and Slumdog...and without seeing the other four yet it's hard to righteously judge.

That being said, the curious lacking of films that are both good and seen by the public, such as The Dark Knight and Gran Torino, will insure irritation and frustration (and probably more low ratings) among the people who ACTUALLY BUY TICKETS TO GO SEE MOVIES.

Heath Ledger, as expected, got his deserved Joker nomination, but where's Nolan for his direction of the biggest event of the year??? And I'm glad to see that Robert Downey, Jr. got props for his hilarious turn in Tropic Thunder. Still, the Dr. is DISAPPOINTED!

The best picture nominees shall likely ensure the continuing fall to irrelevancy of the Academy Awards. Less and less viewers turn in every year in part because the show is dreadful, but also because the films that have spoken to them through the year are generally ignored. Bad, Academy....Bad.

A comforting image at last...

Insurance Companys Screwing Their Customers--Shocking

This letter to the Ed. from well known Atty Philip Corboy, Jr. appeared in the Chicago Tribune yesterday. The full text is worth a read.

"In their Dec. 7, 2008 commentary piece, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Wayne Oliver of the Center for Health Transformation make an impassioned plea to promote corporate rights over the rights of individuals ("Which is more important, your doctor or a personal injury lawyer?").First, it's important to reveal the agendas of the authors of that letter. Newt Gingrich led a Republican "revolution" focused on undermining government regulations and programs, including efforts to dismantle the Medicare program that has provided health care for millions of Americans. Gingrich's efforts were bankrolled by corporate PACs and their lobbyists in Washington. His revolution ended definitively with the election of Barack Obama this past November.

Mr. Oliver's Center for Health Transformation is a for-profit group founded by the biggest insurance and pharmaceutical companies in the country. The group is advocating for laws that would radically change a fundamental premise of the legal system - the right to have a jury of your peers decide upon an outcome for a case - all in the name of increased profits for insurance companies.

Does anyone believe that the same big insurance companies that routinely deny health care coverage to patients really care about the well being of regular Americans?Apparently, they are not aware or have chosen to ignore that twice before, our state's highest court has decided in favor of patients and against the insurance companies that would limit these rights to protect their own profits. The court ruled that caps are unconstitutional and would arbitrarily fall exclusively on those most deserving of compensation - the severely injured...

Gingrich and Oliver argue that a reduction in malpractice premiums and the return of doctors to the state have resulted from the law containing caps. Nothing could be further from the truth. A look at the statistics complied and distributed by the American Medical Association clearly shows that the number of doctors in Illinois has been steadily increasing over the last 13 years. Furthermore, not one case has been litigated under the new cap in Illinois."

Read the Full Text HERE

Inaugural Parade Order...

... bunch of stuff, then...

Montana Delegation
Hampton University Marching Force
AmeriCorps Alums
North Allegheny High School Tiger Marching Band
World Famous Lawn Rangers from Amazing Arcola
Blue Springs High School Golden Regiment Marching Band
McCrossan Boys Ranch
Colony High School Knights Marching Band
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, Company A
......

The World has no idea what has been unleashed on D.C. ...

Some Days Are Better Than Others.

Hope Springs Eternal

Don't let the door hit you in the flight suit on the way out

As the excitement builds for 10 a.m. tomorrow, as the countdown clock on the right of the page reflects on the last hours of the eight year cluster$^@# that was the term of George W. Bush, let us take time to reflect on how much the man has given us...

Remember when...

He "won" an election by petitioning the Supreme Court to stop the counting of votes--votes that were eventually counted by independent agencies and showed Al Gore to have won by the standards set under Florida State Law.


He took over the White House with a Budget Surplus, and proceeded to rebuild the largest deficit in history through tax cuts for the wealthy and enormous federal spending.

He went on vacation for a month to reflect about "stem cells" after getting a memo stating "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

He kept reading "My Pet Goat" to a group of school children while the U.S. was under attack.

He vowed to capture Osama Bin Laden and brought him to justice before the World Court in...(oh, wait, part of that didn't happen)

He took us to War under false intelligence, against a country that hadn't attacked us, to finish the job his Daddy rightfully thought was too much of a quagmire for the U.S. to involve itself in, ending thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, and ruining our moral authority throughout the world.

Remember when he vowed to get whoever was behind the outing of a CIA agent to the fullest extent of the law, except, when it turned out to be his cronies, the full extent of the law became a presidential pardon for a dude named "Scooter"?

How about when his V.P. shot a guy in the face and waited 24 hours to call the police?

It was fun to watch, wasn't it, when footage came out of W. getting a briefing about the potential damage of Katrina days before the storm hit, reminding us of the fast, decisive action he took when the city of New Orleans started to drown.....(Um......maybe I'm remembering that wrong)

How about when his friends from Enron went to jail...turns out that was just a precursor to the collapse of the entire American financial system. The Dept. of the Treasury, the SEC, the "watchdogs" those are all executive branch offices, right?

In his farewell tour, which has seemed almost as long as his presidency, he's made statements (in front of cameras, pronouncing all the words) such as "I was not prepared for war" and that "Abu Ghraib Prison" was a "disappointment." I'm just leaving those alone.

About the only promise from the 2000 election season that I'm assuming W. kept was the one about not getting blow jobs in the oval office. Now, I wish he had spent his time getting hummers from Andrew Card rather than actually making attempting to make policy.

There's just so much more to remember, it brings a tear to my eye that I don't have time to go through it all...

Next, who knows where President Elect Obama will take us? He's left cleaning up a steaming pile of Bush droppings. Still, there can be only one direction from here. Good bye, farewell, and please, please get a ghostwriter for your "book." Never has there been a president more in need of a library....and a tutor.

Dr. Cherryhill's Award of Merit for Excellence in Excellency

Confession time...the Dr. isn't a great flyer. Oh, I take your planes. I like getting places quickly. But, I'm still not completely convinced of the combination of spit, duct tape, and voodoo that makes these large metal objects propel through the air. (Also, I gotta pay for a little bottle of booze, please).

Nevertheless, the first Dr. Cherryhill Award of Merit for Excellence in Excellency (all props to the Simpsons) goes out to the man with the (second) best name ever....."Sully" Sullenberger III--the pilot who successfully saved 155 people by successfully landing that damaged US Airways jetliner in the Hudson.

I'm not sure that anything I ever do in life will end up with the phrase "saved 155 people." What can you say to something like that--"nice work" or "great job" doesn't quite cut it. So here's a metaphorical salute to you, Sir. Thank you for all the work and training you put in to get to the point where you could achieve this feat.

The time runs short--Thank The Gods

One of my favs, Steve Chapman, on Bush Jr.'s going away....

"All these blunders were not accidental. They were the product of this administration's peculiar combination of arrogance, power lust and incompetence. Those qualities have not abated. Bush leaves us with the rule of law in shreds, the budget out of control, two interminable wars and the public yearning for change. But to him, it's all good."

Check out the laundry list of failure...here

Did you Miss Me?

Hello boyz and girlz, the Doc is IN.

I apologize for the extra long holiday delay...good thing nothing has been going on worth writing about, right? Geeeesh. The doc steps a way for a bit and the world goes all to hell.

Anyhoo, I'm glad to be back and I hope I haven't lost my two readers! I hope everyone had a great holiday season!