We've Got Talent!

In honor of tonight's final of America's Got Talent and because Red surprised me by divulging she used to dance professionally I am asking you all today what hidden talent do you possess?

I will reveal the hidden talent that I used to have after my predictions of how the finals will go tonight on America's Got Talent. First a reminder to all of you Susan Boyle fans. She makes her American TV debut as a guest entertainer on tonight's show. 8 PM, & 7 PM Central time on NBC. Be there or be square.

My ratings:

Last even though he is from Grants Pass Oregon, Hairo Torres. He just doesn't cut it with me.

Coming in ninth is Recycled Percussion, a quartet of rhythm makers from Goffstown, N.H. Just not my kind of entertainment.

Comedian Grandma Lee finishes eighth. While I admire her spirit for going for it at her age, I just didn't think she was all that funny.

I know everyone loves the chicken guy Kevin Skinner but his voice needs improvement and he needs a shave. He is seventh in my heart.

The handsome Drew Stevyns finishes sixth, Pleasant voice but I just like others a little better.

Lawrence Beamen stunned us with his version of "Old Man River" but then singing the wrong songs puts him in fifth place.

The adorable lead vocalist of Voices of Glory puts them fourth.

Fab Five, the power tap-dancing five sisters from Morgan, Utah stole my heart and move all the way up to third on my list. The would be a perfect opening act to RiverDance.

Barbara Padilla the beautiful Opera singer and cancer survivor is just amazing. You don't even have to like or understand Opera to love her. She is beyond Vegas, do I hear the Met calling?

And the winners are The Texas Tenors. Perfect for Vegas. As an added note both Mom and my sister think I look like the middle one in the Texas Tenors. I could only dream, he is a stud that no doubt has women falling all over him, the only stud in my life is on a tire.

Now on to hidden talents. Before I got burned out on football and started spending my Saturday's and Sunday's away from the television set and out into life I used to have the unique ability to pick upsets in professional football and college football games. I won several picking contests. I won contest prizes any where from five dollars to a thousand dollars. I even once on a national TV show predicted four players that would perform well the following Sunday. A local columnist wrote about my appearance on the now defunct Financial News Network and said he laughed, actually laughed at my predictions. Then he was amazed when all my predictions came true. Maybe I should reconnect with that talent?

Now it is your turn. Tell me not only what act on America's Got Talent that you think will win the million bucks but also share with us what hidden talent that you have that would surprise us. May all your friends and relatives realize today how lucky they are to have the talented you in their lives!


TODAY'S TRIVIA

Yesterday's answer: Was either Crystal Lee Sutton or Crystal Lee Jordan. The movie Norma Rae was based on her life story. In the sign of the times here is a report on her death that Pat found for us:

"The Raw Story noted she died at Hospice House, a hospice in Burlington, NC on Friday, September 11, 2009, after her death that she died of meningioma, a form of brain cancer that she had been diagnosed as having for several years. She had been struggling with her health insurance company, which had delayed her treatment, according to the publication."

Today is a Who Am I?"

I was born in 1838 and died in 1927. I became a colorful and notorious symbol for women's rights, free love, and spiritualism as I fought against corruption and for labor reforms. Many of my speeches were not written by me alone but also were written by my backers and husband. George Washington and I share a first, both being the first of our gender to do something. Most of the ideas that I was famous for, now taken for granted, were very controversial. I was part of the common working class fighting against the corrupt business elite. Together with my sister I was the first woman to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street.

I was born in Homer, Licking County, Ohio. My father was a con man, arsonist, snake oil salesman and often a fake doctor. My two brothers were printers but I was associated most of my life with my younger sister. I was married at age 15 to a real doctor. We had two children, one disabled.

I was quoted as saying "To woman, by nature, belongs the right of sexual determination. When the instinct is aroused in her, then and then only should commerce follow. When woman rises from sexual slavery to sexual freedom, into the ownership and control of her sexual organs, and man is obliged to respect this freedom, then will this instinct become pure and holy; then will woman be raised from the iniquity and morbidness in which she now wallows for existence, and the intensity and glory of her creative functions be increased a hundred-fold . "

Today's Who Am I is a broker, a woman's rights advocate, a newspaper editor and known for her politics. Who is she?