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Will you still need me, will you still feed me?

Tuck and Sissy say "I do" at Chelsea City Hall Wednesday, February 14, 1973, Mummy's birthday. Happy Thirty-second, sweetheart! ~ February 14, 2005.

It's our 39th (!). In celebration of the day of our nuptials, republication of our February 14, 2005 post "My Romance doesn't need a thing but love":

Notes from the snail blog (wedding album) of the occasion:

Justice of the Peace: Do you, Mary Loddy Jameson, promise to love, honor and obey?

MLJ:  I can't.

Love and honor? No problem. Obey? No way. But we got away with a lot 'cause we were so cute and pretty in pink.

See also: My romance doesn't need a thing but food and I'll drink to that (below, February 14, 2004):

Eggs Bennie, fresh-ground coffee and a champagne toast to the morning after our Thirty-first: 

No wonder we're so old!

Nonsense. The heart that loves is ever young.

Whitney Houston: If I should stay I would only be in your way

Singer Whitney Houston's untimely death at the age of 48 today has derailed the political clown cars off Matt Drudge's top of the fold and filled the Twitter stream with currents of emotional angst revealing more about the twitterers than Houston herself. We'd never thought much about the legendary singer one way or the other till tonight, when we heard of her passing, googled and discovered the transcendence of her Gospel-trained pop sound: I will always love you. We'd heard it before, just never made the connection. Breathtaking.

It was going to be all about Mitt Romney's twofer tonight and tomorrow on the Sunday talk shows — winning the CPAC straw poll and then the Maine caucuses! — but now a transcendent singer has died at 48, and politics will just have to wait. It's Whitney Houston 24/7 till further notice:

Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday. She was 48.

At her peak, Houston was the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's best-selling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful, and peerless vocals that were rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen.

According to tweeter vbspurs, who notes "Harris Faulkner admits on air that Fox News is reading tweets for breaking news," this is the "last photo of Whitney (a bit macabre, apologies): true Hollywood club, where she performed last night."

"It's a lifetime battle, just like alcoholics anonymous," Fox News forensic expert Michael Baden weighs in on the developing story of what may have happened to precipitate Houston's death "on the eve of the Grammy Awards." Lots of chatter about her allegedly abusive ex, Bobby Brown, who is said to be "beside himself" at the news. A lumper, not a splitter, we're not much interested in the gory details. It's the universal themes, what we can read about ourself in her words: 

The biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Crossposted at Riehl World View.

How Obama learned to stop worrying and love the super PAC

Obama "SuperPac" flip-flops "performance wear for politicians determined to win at any cost." Romney "SuperPac flip-flops, available with a variety of quotations, not shown. Click here for larger image.

"If we fail to act, we concede this election to a small group of powerful people intent on removing the President at any cost," fast-talking campaign manager Jim Messina wrote in an email to the little people following a conference call with major bundlers last night, attempting to shift the blame for his boss's flip flop on super Pacs onto the opposition:

"The main engine of Romney’s campaign has an average contribution of roughly $150,000. The stakes are too important to play by two different sets of rules."

The President had "reversed course by deciding to encourage Democrats to donate to big-money groups that he previously denounced [back in August of 2010] as representing ‘a corporate takeover of our democracy’ in order to help his re-election bid":

Before giving the go ahead, President Obama bemoaned the "negative" tone of the super PACs, political action committees that have become dominant fundraising vehicles since the Supreme Court’s controversial ‘Citizens United’ decision two years ago.

"The real story here," notes our friend Pete of Datechguy's Blog, "isn’t that he is taking the money, but the whys and wherefores listed by Politico":

But that wasn’t enough, sources say, to pull in major players such as George Soros, Peter Lewis, Steve Bing and others into the game. And many top Democratic donors were afraid of giving to Priorities USA until Obama made clear he wouldn’t stand on the sidelines and criticize their efforts

Like our own Massachusetts Junior Senator Scott Brown's limousine-liberal challenger Elizabeth Warren, faux populist Barack Obama has depended upon the magician's trick of misdirection to draw our attention away from the major gifts of the influential "1 percent" to focus on the small contributions of the great unwashed "99 percent." Warren is still peddling that snake oil, but Obama has finally pulled back the curtain, signaling his own "small group of powerful people" that it's now okay to contribute to an outside super PAC supporting his re-election:

The Obama campaign’s decision to promote Priorities USA arrived soon after new fundraising reports showed that American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS — two Republican super PACs associated with GOP strategist Karl Rove — raised a hefty $51 million last year while Democratic groups collared only $19 million.

Crossposted at Riehl World View.