Happy Year of the Horse!

++I guess it didn't start so well for the Broncos.

++My Superbowl Ad favorites:
     **Bob Dylan's Chrysler "America's Import"
     **Coca-Cola's "Beautiful" with its multilingual singing.
     **Doritos "Time Machine"
     **Cheerios

++Best Ad not shown--"Pride" by the American Indian Nations. 

++Chris Christie didn't get his Super Bowl box. More aides have resigned. The papers are beginning to pour in on Bridgegate. Christie's state trooper was arrested for shop-lifting in Pennsylvania. The New Jersey situation is now in meltdown. CPAC decided to invite Christie to their confab anyhow.

++Because readers complain about my bias,I took the celebrity personality test this weekend. The closest match for me using their Jungian categories was Ronald Reagan, which provoked howls from my former conservative friends.

++In case you missed it, the New York Times reports that all of Libya's chemical weapons have been destroyed in a secret program of the Obama Administration.

++Hillary Clinton answered Senator Levin's letter concerning additional sanctions against Iran. She wrote back that she opposed additional sanctions because the United States has the high ground and that this would be lost by passing such measures, which would fracture the international alliance.

++John Kerry warned Israel that if they don't move on the Palestinian talks the "divestment movement" would pick up steam. The ultra-right in Israel now say John Kerry is an anti-semite.

++Iran says it would negotiate with the EU on human rights. Howard Dean last week said that the nuke talks should be conditioned on human rights progress. I see the two as separate.

++President Obama gave about his 400th interview of his Presidency this time to Fox News. Donald Trump was outraged that the President didn't wear a tie.

++The Guttmacher Institute released a study that showed abortion rates in the United States are at the lowest since just after Roe v Wade. The reason is not the restriction by state's on abortion rights but rather the use of contraceptives.

++The Senate is going to vote on cloture for the Farm Bill today. Besides the foodstamp cuts, it is unique this year to prohibit the public from finding out  how much farm subsidies congressional members receive from the bill.

++Paul Ryan said yesterday that the Presidency was "lawless". He also said that immigration reform can't happen because the GOP doesn't trust Obama to reinforce it. He has only deported 2 million undocumented aliens during his Presidency. So how much border security do you need?

++Treasury Secretary Lew says time in running out on the debt ceiling. The House GOP has not decided what ransom they want.

++The House is preparing two more bills to repeal Obamacare. The two elements are to favor employers.

++Janet Yallin took her oath of office this morning and thereby became the most powerful woman in the world. 

++Miley Cyrus posed nude.