July 20 1969

I know exactly where I was July 20, 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. I was at my grandparent's house, sitting on the floor in front of the TV. Well just to the right of the front of the TV so everyone else could see.

My grandparents had one of those big National Geographic World Atlas and I had it in my lap looking at the map of the moon trying to find the Sea of Tranquility. Then I drove everyone nuts by continuously pointing it out to everyone and saying "they're right there, that's where the astronauts are".

Walter Cronkite was saying man has landed on the moon. My grandfather always complained about Walter Cronkite saying he was a democrat and never reported anything good about the republicans. Funny, even though grandfather complained we never watched anybody but Cronkite.

Clougherty Packing llc

Clougherty Packing llc has been noted as having provided the government with two pounds of sliced ham in return for $1,191, 200. That's a fairly impressive price to be getting for a couple of pounds of pig and there is indeed something wrong with the numbers there. As Hot Air notes, it's more likely to be a typo and as Red State corrects itself, it's actually for 800,000 lbs of ham packed into 2 lb packages.

Well, no, there's something a little more interesting that can be said as well. Clougherty produce the Farmer John brand: they are also owned by Hormel. Who is it that owns Hormel? That's a slightly more complex question, as it's a series of family trusts that own a near majority of the company. Exactly and precisely how the income from that stake is split amongst the various trusts is more than we're going to find out in just one afternoon.

However, one of the near certain beneficiaries of at least one of these trusts is James Hormel, the ex-Ambassador to Luxembourg under Bill Clinton. That is the same James Hormel that donated an awful lot of money to various Democratic campaign groups in the run up to the last election. Pelosi for Congress, Sestak for Congress and a number of others.

ESPY Winners 2009

The 2009 ESPY winners were only part of the 2009 ESPY show. The 2009 ESPY winners were already leaked before the 2009 ESPYs, since the show was taped before it aired last night. So the 2009 ESPY winners were no surprise to those who read the lists earlier.

The biggest winner of the 2009 ESPYs was the biggest winner from last summer, Michael Phelps. After winning eight gold medals, Phelps settled for just four ESPYs. Phelps ended Tiger Woods' reign as Best Male Athlete, after Woods had won that ESPY five years in a row. Of course, Woods made it a little easier by being unable to compete that much in the last year, and not winning a single major.

Michael Phelps was also a 2009 ESPY winner in Best Record-Breaking Performance, Best Championship Performance, and Best Male Olympian. But with no Olympics in 2009, Phelps will probably have a harder time repeating at the ESPYs in 2010, making the field a little more open next year. Another Olympian that won big was Nastia Liukin, who won the Best Female Athlete ESPY for her gymnastics gold medal.