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Entries for February 2nd, 2008

Boilermakers Need Some Love

After seven straight wins and amassing an 8-1 record in the Big Ten conference…where is the Top 25 ranking for the Boilermakers?

I am so pleased at the success they are having this season.

Go Boilermakers!

Boilermakers Down Illini 83-75

This is not the way to get votes…

Maybe Ben just misunderstood what means to “solicit” someone’s vote.

Benjamin Reid Lodmell, the 36-year-old Democrat vying for U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner’s congressional seat, was arrested Thursday night in Baldwin County after allegedly agreeing to pay an undercover female cop $100 for sex, authorities said.
Lodmell, who was arrested at an undisclosed location on the Eastern Shore, was booked at the Baldwin County Corrections Center in Bay Minette shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday and was released about an hour later after posting the $5,000 bail, jail records show.

Why someone would throw away what was already a longshot congressional campaign over something this stupid….is beyond me. Close the book on Lodmell’s short political career.

Lodmell charged with solicitation- al.com

Actor Forest Whitaker in Birmingham tomorrow for Barack Obama

I’m very pleased to see Forest Whitaker coming to our state to campaign for Senator Obama, though I don’t believe it will make much difference.

Actor Forest Whitaker in Birmingham tomorrow for Barack Obama - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com