GAVEL TO GAVEL COVERAGE FOR PHIL SPECTOR MURDER RETRIAL

If you are like us, you are frustrated by the dearth of press coverage for the Phil Spector murder retrial. Indeed, coverage is so scant, we were not even aware that the retrial of the hard drinking record producer who once pulled a gun on John Lennon had commenced.

We just learned that blogger Sprocket is providing in-depth, Court TV style gavel-to-gavel coverage of the murder retrial that began in December, 2008. Scroll through the Spector retrial archives and learn, for instance, the t-shirt that "Juror #5" is wearing that might indicate some simpatico with the famous defendant. (Hint: It bears the name of one Spector's favorite, but in this day-and-age obscure, record labels that reportedly heavily influenced Spector's work.)

You can read Sprocket’s gavel-to-gavel coverage here.

GOP, PRESS, NEED TO LOOK BEYOND BLAGOJEVICH ABERRATION

Editorial, by Blogonaut

All persons who care about this country, whether they supported Barack Obama for president or not (and I did not), should realize that the only “hope” of success for the treacherous trek out of the current morass—including two wars, security concerns, a financial crises, an auto industry crisis, a domestic, consumer driven recession, and a global slow-down—is for the entire country, including the president-elect, the congress, the press, and the voters, to focus exclusively on developing the required bi-partisan policy solutions.

The last thing this country needs right now is another “Whitewater” style investigation of our new president as a result of the situation in Chicago, distracting the attention of the congress and the president. The issues and problems we have right now do not allow for any such partisan foolishness.

Whatever minor bit role any future West Wing inhabitants may have had in this sordid affair, it is all a side show.

This is the last thing in the world right now that the country needs to be focusing on. We literally cannot afford another 3 to 4 years of “what did President Obama know and when did he know it.”

Any Americans (including members of congress) who truly care about this country and its citizens, of voting age or not, will eschew the Blagojevich debacle as a means of gaining GOP political power at the expense of the president-elect, and patriotically aid the president-elect and the incoming congress in fashioning solutions to the desperate economic and international crisis in which we find ourselves in.

Any Americans who are members of the 4th Estate should likewise balance the need to find solutions against the temptation to sell news.

Our dire circumstances as Americans outweigh partisan politics and press 'ratings' at this point, and any of our elected representatives who nevertheless chose to put party and self-interest over country need to be turned out at the earliest opportunity to do so.

President-Elect Barack Obama

Barack Obama 364, John McCain 174

OUR NEW PRESIDENT DESERVES OUR RESPECT AND SUPPORT

This blog started as a daily compendium of quirky, and sometimes bizarre, tales of errant attorneys, judges and litigants. But like any blog, we—as the blog author--get to write about anything we want.

Our imagination was captured by the presidential race. So we wrote about that, emphasizing stories that we felt a biased pro-Obama media were not telling.

We initially supported Hillary Rodham Clinton as our presidential choice, and after the rollercoaster ride that was the Democratic primary election, concluded that John McCain was our candidate of choice.

Both of our favorite candidates lost.

What will we do now?

Same as always when a new President is elected—whether we voted for him or not: Give the President elect the benefit of the doubt, support him, and wish him well.

Congratulations Mr. President elect!

A lot of people voted for you. Please do not let them, and us, down.

In the meantime, this is a democracy, the people have spoken, you are our new President, and you have our 100% support.

--Blogonaut

A Change Is Gonna Come

Sam Cooke

BREAKING: BLACK PANTHERS INTIMIDATE VOTERS IN PA

AYERS, FARRAKHAN SHOW UP TO VOTE AT OBAMA POLLING PLACE

From ABC News Politics Blog:

“November 04, 2008 8:38 AM CHICAGO, Ill. -- Among the other voters who have shown up to vote at Shoesmith Elementary School this morning, where Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will vote: Louis Farrakhan and William Ayers.Seriously.Welcome to the South Side of Chicago.”

OUR TAKE: What, the Reverend Wright did not vote?