Balboa Park Website lists December Nights Events

 Balboa Park is offering a host of new attractions at this year’s December Nights open house festival, December 5 & 6, 2008. They are expecting more than 100,000 people each day, so check the site for shuttle and parking options. This year the Bon Temps Social Club is hosting a stage featuring danceable local Cajun, zydeco and country bands. On Friday the BTSC stage will present Bayou Brothers, Slapjazz & Friends, Three Chord Justice, and Tim Cook’s TexMex. On Saturday you can enjoy Louisiana Saturday Night, robin Henkel, a zydeco dance lesson with Greg Benusa, San Diego Cajun Playboys, Billy Lee and the Swamp Critters, Slapjazz, Judy Taylor and Wild Oats, and Theo and The Zydeco Patrol. There will be literally hundreds of other things to do and see at the event. Best of all it is free. December Nights runs 5-10 pm on Friday, and noon-10pm on Saturday.

President-Elect's Website.

A new Website launched a couple days after the election has been getting thousands of hits. It currently features news video of major news, a Presidential blog, general information about all of the cabinet position, and a form page for seekers of jobs with the new administration. It will soon feature major position papers and plans for the new administration. Address is www.change.gov.

WASHINGTON – An emotional Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reveled Wednesday in Barack Obama’s election, calling it an “extraordinary step forward” for the nation.A child of the segregated deep South who became the highest-ranking African-American woman ever in American government and was once considered a potential Republican presidential nominee, Rice called the Democratic president-elect “inspirational” and said his victory was proof of America’s promise.

“This was an exercise in American democracy of which Americans across the political spectrum are justifiably proud,” she said.