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Will home-field advantage prove true during the NFL's Wild Card Weekend?
Usually, I'm a big believer in simply going with the best team. But I'm a bigger believer in, well—in believing.
And from that point of view, I find the reality of home-field advantage to be more mental than physical. If you believe in it, it works. It's the pigskin placebo.
On Sunday's NFL GameDay Morning Mooch and Company (yes, Steve Mariucci has proven to be the head honcho here), opened up the perennial home-field can of worms. This debate confirmed my positional theory on home-field advantage.
Among players, I have observed that viewpoints vary by position. Quarterbacks tend to think that the game is in their hands and focus on tangible benefits. The rest of the team is more metaphysical when it comes to game location.
Warren Sapp is evidently a believer. His position that playing at home is a huge advantage is based on two factors:
No. 1: Crowd noise will rattle the opposing offensive line and every penalty helps.
No. 2: The joy of routine: Sleeping in your own bed, driving in your own car, being at your own locker.
I think he has a point, but I also think that his years of success in Tampa Bay spoiled him into viewing winning at home as normal. Yes, I know he played in Oakland for four years, but I honestly think that he has blocked it out.
Former WR Michael Irvin went with the long view: It's not having home field in the Wild Card game that matters, it's having home field advantage and the bye week. It doesn't matter if you have home field and win in the first round.
What matters is that, no matter what, you have to then go on the road and face the next team on their turf. And you have one more critical week of wear and tear.
Not only do the first two seeds have home-field advantage in the divisional round, they have the treatment-room advantage. I'm positive that he's right.
Then there was QB Kurt Warner. The central piece in the "greatest show on turf" admitted that dome teams have a harder time outside in the cold. If Warner is willing to go on record with that point of view, I believe him.
And we all know that means we are thinking about the New Orleans Saints having to travel to Green Bay for a rematch—in January.
But that isn't this week, so I will cross that icy bridge when we come to it.
If you're a cerebrally-inclined former coach (and quarterback) like Mariucci, this weekend will be all about what Mooch termed the "weak division winners."
He means Denver and Houston. You know it, I know it, the Broncos and Texans know it.
Houston is actually favored in their Wild Card matchup—courtesy of a still-tough defense. But Denver is a huge home dog. Eight-and-a-half points worth of dog as of Tuesday. Wow.
Coaches, analysts and pundits endlessly debate the "deodorant" ability of home field. It can undoubtedly cover a multitude of team ills.
Can playing at home carry a hobbled Houston offense over Cincy's hot young QB/WR combo? And can the thin Mile High air do the impossible and hold the Steelers down long enough for some Tim Tebow Magic?
The 2011 NFL Playoffs Wild Card Weekend really has few mysteries:
No. 1: How well can T.J. Yates play and will he be replaced by Jake Delhomme as Houston's QB?
No. 2: Will the Detroit/Saints score go over 100?
No. 3: How is Ben Roethlisberger's ankle?
No. 4: Can the Denver home crowd possibly lift this passing-challenged Broncos team over the Steel Curtain?
I don't know.
Just when we thought it was all stacked towards the Patriots at home, along came the upstart Jets. When Brett Favre seemed destined to lead the Pack to another Super Bowl, along came Eli Manning, red-faced Tom Coughlin and the tough Giants' pass rush.
Let's face it: Nobody knows. But that doesn't stop us from examining the issue from every possible angle: numerical, to sociological to evolutionary.


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this baseball tale, everybody's perfect. That's because it's all about
perfect games, normally one of baseball's rarest happenings. Something that
(up until last year) happened only 17 times in 138 seasons – essentially once
every seven years -- has to be by definition rare. That fact notwithstanding,
some baseball fans had to be wondering just what in the world was going on
Saturday night, when Roy Halladay threw, not just the 20th perfect
game in major league history (dating back to 1871), but the third perfect game
in less than a year.
23, 2009 – Mark Buehrle, White Sox vs. Rays, 5-0
May 9, 2010 – Dallas Braden, Athletics vs. Rays, 4-0
May 29, 2010 – Roy Halladay, Phillies vs. Marlins, 1-0
than the past 10 months being particularly unkind to Florida-based teams, it
seems astounding that three perfect games could happen in such close succession.
But it's not. All Halladay's, Braden's and Buehrle's gems really
indicate is the idiosyncratic nature of perfection. In fact, so random are feats
like this, that Braden's and Halladay's 20-days-apart perfect games
weren't even the first time two such events had happened in the same calendar
month. And thereby hangs a tale… one of baseball's oddest.
|Dallas Braden celebrates his perfect game with his grandmother, Peggy Lindsey, May 9, 2010 in Oakland.
(Photo: Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)
June 12, 1880 – just about 130 years ago – rookie pitcher J. Lee Richmond of
the Worcester Ruby Legs (yes, there really was a National League team by that
name… the franchise eventually became the Philadelphia Phillies) tossed the
first perfect game in major league history, a 1-0 win over the Cleveland Blues.
Five days… five days later, on June 17, 1880, John Montgomery Ward of the
Providence Grays pitched the second, a 5-0 win over the Buffalo Bisons. And
then, 24 years went by before the Boston Americans' Cy Young completely shut
down the Philadelphia Athletics on May 5, 1904. And that span was nothing
compared to the 84 years between Ward's gem and the next National League
perfect game, by the Phillies' Jim Bunning, on Father's Day (June 21) 1964.
particular time line is pretty well known. The really interesting part, from the
historians' point of view, involves the parameters of
recall some of the salient aspects of baseball in 1880. Most significant from
the point of view of the possibility of a perfect game is the fact that
fielder's gloves weren't exactly real common at that time, and those that
were in use were generally more like today's batting gloves. Thus, fielding a
ball cleanly (or even preventing a hit by a sparkling defensive gem) was a
highly problematic occurrence. For example, in Ward's perfect game, the Grays
made zero errors (duh), while
it's also true that
suppose Cleveland leadoff man Fred Dunlap (who made two errors himself in
Richmond's perfect game), let the 3-2 pitch to him leading off the game go
by… after all, it was in the dirt, no need to chase a bad pitch. So, Dunlap
would have had walk, right? Wrong. Dunlap wouldn't have gotten a walk if the
6-2 pitch was over his head. It took eight balls to draw a walk in 1880. Or,
suppose Ward had plunked
Even with
these advantages, given the fielding records of the day, and given the fact that
Richmond only struck out five, and Ward only two (meaning there were 25 balls
put in play, and each one of them had a 10 percent chance of being erred upon),
you have to say that Richmond's and Ward's feats, especially since they were
five days apart, constitute a collective miracle. That was even more so in
's case. You see,
first baseman Bill Phillips, in leading off the fifth inning against
, apparently dropped what would have normally been a clean single into right
field. Except that Philips either loafed on his way to first or Ruby Legs right
fielder Lon Knight was playing very shallow, because Knight threw Phillips out
at first, your everyday 9-3 putout (scored as R-A instead of 9-3 in the
scorecard of the game) that saved the first perfect game for posterity. If
that's not idiosyncratic, nothing is.
Cy Young's effort, perfect games were pretty scarce up until the mid 1960s,
despite the years from 1900 to 1920 being known as the "Deadball Era."
Picking up from Young's game…
Joss – October 2, 1908
Charlie Robertson – April 30, 1922
Don Larsen – October 8, 1956 (in the World Series, of course)
within four years, came perfect games by Bunning, Sandy Koufax (Sept. 9, 1965)
and Catfish Hunter (May 8, 1968), a not altogether shocking distribution,
considering how depressed hitting was in the 60s. However, after the hitting
picked back up in 1969, 13 years went by without a perfect game, after which
they became almost common in the 80s and 90s… and none of these was by a Sandy
Barker – May 15, 1981
Mike Witt – September 30, 1984
Tom Browning – September 16, 1988
Dennis Martinez – July 28, 1991
Kenny Rogers – July 28, 1994
David Wells – May 17, 1998
David Cone – July 18, 1999
really is no single explanation for perfect games all of a sudden starting to
come at three and four year intervals (or less), starting in 1981. No more than
there is an explanation of the four perfect games in six years (2004 to 2010) of
the 21st Century. (Let's not forget Randy Johnson's May 18, 2004
beat down of the Braves.) The best explanation is that they come in a random
not at random are the types of pitchers who typically throw perfect games. With
few exceptions, they are either Hall of Fame caliber pitchers (Ward, Young,
Joss, Bunning, Koufax, Hunter, Johnson, Halladay), or good pitchers having very
good days (Barker, Witt, Browning,
Robertson was a rookie, making one of the first starts of his major league
career, when he shut down Ty Cobb's hard-hitting Tigers in 1922. He would end
his career with a 49-80 record, six shutouts and an Adjusted ERA of 90. His
perfect game was a fluke, although it is interesting to note that Cobb and the
Tigers complained throughout the game that Robertson was throwing a spitball, or
some other kind of illegal delivery.
Larsen was, by all accounts, more interested in partying than pitching. He went
81-91 with a 99 ERA+ for seven different teams. His throwing a perfect game in
the World Series against the best team ever subjected to a perfect game, the
Brooklyn Dodgers (admittedly an over-the-hill Dodgers, but still most of the
team that had dominated the NL between 1947 and 1955), was arguably the biggest
single game fluke in major league history. (Maybe his no-windup delivery kept
their timing off-balance.) There was a lot of truth in Dick Young's famous,
ghostwritten lead sentence, "The imperfect man pitched the perfect game."
was a different case. He really only pitched regularly for three years for a
bad Worcester team, and was out of baseball by age 26, choosing instead to
become a doctor. He was 75-100 for his career, but it's a little hard to
accurately judge him from the perspective of 130 years. It is worth noting that
he was the first left-handed pitcher of any note… which may have been an
advantage to him. Maybe the hitters weren't used to seeing southpaws.
As for Dallas Braden, it's too soon to say what path his career might take. At the moment though, his career 18-26 record and 96 ERA+ look more like Don Larsen than Roy Halladay. Maybe he thought the Rays had traded for A-Rod.

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By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent
KABUL – While many Americans have been led to believe the war in Afghanistan will soon be over, a draft of a key US-Afghan security deal obtained by NBC NEWS shows the United States is prepared to maintain military outposts in Afghanistan for many years to come, and pay to support hundreds of thousands of Afghan security forces.
The wide-ranging document, still unsigned by the United States and Afghanistan, has the potential to commit thousands of American troops to Afghanistan and spend billions of US taxpayer dollars.
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"The Parties acknowledge that continued US military operations to defeat al-Qaeda and its affiliates may be appropriate and agree to continue their close cooperation and coordination toward that end," the draft states.
The 25-page "Security and Defense Cooperation Agreement Between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan" is a sweeping document, vague in places, highly specific in others, defining everything from the types of future missions US troops would be allowed to conduct in Afghanistan, to the use of radios and the taxation of American soldiers and contractors.
The bilateral security agreement will be debated this week in Kabul by around 2,500 village elders, academics and officials in a traditional Loya Jirga. While the Loya Jirga is strictly consultative, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said he won't sign it without the Jirga's approval.
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Taken as a whole, the document describes a basic US-Afghan exchange. Afghanistan would allow Washington to operate military bases to train Afghan forces and conduct counter-terrorism operations against al-Qaeda after the current mission ends in 2014. For that foothold in this volatile mountain region wedged between Pakistan and Iran, the United States would agree to sustain and equip Afghanistan's large security force, which the government in Kabul currently cannot afford. The deal, according to the text, would take effect on January 1, 2015 and "shall remain in force until the end of 2024 and beyond." It could be terminated by either Washington or Kabul with two years advance written notice.
There is however what US officials believe is a contradiction in the July draft, which would effectively ask American troops to provide training and confront al-Qaeda from the confines of bases. While it says operations against al-Qaeda may be necessary, it also says US troops will not be allowed to make arrests or enter Afghan homes.
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Orlando to Play Final USL PRO Home Opener on Saturday
Orlando, Fla. ? Orlando City SC kicks off their final USL PRO home opener at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, as they welcome the Pittsburgh Riverhounds on Saturday, March 29. The match will kick-off at 7:30 p.m.
?We?re delighted to play in-front of our fans this weekend and we?ll be looking to come out of the gate strong,? said Head Coach Adrian Heath on the home-opener. ?Pittsburgh is a good side and we know that we have a bigger target on our backs this year, but we?ll be up for it.?
The WWOS complex will serve as a temporary one-year home for the Lions and has increased capacity to allow approximately 5,500 fans to attend City?s home matches this season.
After starting the season on the road in South Carolina with a 1-1 draw against the Battery, the Lions will look for their first win of the season. Newly signed Midfielder Austin da Luz looked sharp in his debut with Orlando, recording the team?s first goal of the 2014 campaign.
?The fans that made the trip to Charleston were unbelievable,? da Luz said ahead of Saturday?s matchup with Pittsburgh. ?I can?t imagine what the home opener is going to be like. I think it?s going to be a great opportunity for us to get our first win.?
Defender Rob Valentino should be ready to go for the home opener this weekend. Valentino and Rusin looked to be a formidable partnership during the Pro Soccer Classic, as the Lions only conceded two goals in the two games Valentino and Rusin played together.
However, during the off-season Pittsburgh added even more attacking firepower to their core lineup and will provide a solid test for the City backline. After resigning lethal Striker Jose Angulo, who recorded 13 goals last season, the Riverhounds also added former Fulham and Chicago Fire Forward Collins John. Pittsburgh?s squad also includes three loanees from MLS affiliate Houston Dynamo.
During the 2013 season the Lions went 1-1-1 against the Riverhounds, but defeated them in the USL PRO quarterfinals en route to City?s third USL PRO Championship.
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Category: Hispanic baby names
Mary writes:
I am due in July with baby number two, a girl. My husband and I are having a difficult time agreeing on names.
My husband's only condition is that it can be pronounced easily in both Spanish and English. I am a little more flexible in that my only requirement is that it not be too popular.
Our surname ends with "-in" and while our son's name is Julian, this time we'd like to steer away from similar sounding names. M names are also out due to our surname.
I love Sofia, Isabel, and Camila but find them all to be a bit too popular. I also really love Beatrice/Beatrix and Noelle, but my husband isn't a fan of these two names.
He likes Naomi, Elena, and Natalia but I'm on the fence about all three. I also like Eliana, but it almost breaks my rule about not sounding too much like our last name, and it might be too close to our son's name.
Is there a way to make popular names work without sacrificing that unique feeling of a rare name?
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, a celebration which spans from September 15th to October 15th of all Hispanic/Latino peoples and the contributions they've made to the United States, I've put together a short list of some of the most influential Hispanic men and women who broke barriers and became inspirations to all.
While this list is far from exhaustive, it's a solid start that may give you some inspirational and classic baby name ideas for your next child.
By Nephele
Now that the Social Security Administration has released its annual baby names listings beyond the top 1,000 (including all names that had at least five occurrences in any given year), names researchers can better track the influence of popular culture on our names.
For example, a girl's name appearing in 2009 for the first time on the SSA lists is "Greidys" – with an astonishing count of 186 baby girls having been given that name in 2009. Its variants "Greydis" and "Greidy" also appear for the first time on the 2009 list, again in the astonishing numbers of 100 and 25 occurrences respectively.
Another girl's name appearing in 2009 for the first time on the SSA lists is "Chastelyn" with 150 occurrences. Its variants "Shastelyn" and "Chastelin" also appear for the first time in 2009, with 34 and 33 occurrences respectively.
While we may expect new names to appear on the SSA lists each year, these new names generally don't have more than a dozen occurrences, if even that. Why are the names "Greidys" and "Chastelyn" (with their variants) suddenly so prominent in their first appearance on the SSA list?
Our Latin friends can answer that question easily enough. These names shot to popularity with those who watch the Spanish television network Univision's reality TV show called Nuestra Belleza Latina * (which translates into "Our Latin Beauty"). The winning contestant in the show's third season (2009) was a Latin beauty from Cuba, named Greidys Gil. Another popular contestant was Chastelyn Rodriguez from Puerto Rico. And thus were two new names embraced by American moms (or dads!) in search of baby names.
The nameberry contributor known to us as "Auburn" ruminates here on that most powerful and mysterious initial: X.
We all know this naming business is tricky, especially if your aim is to find unusual monikers which still have history — and if you're browsing Nameberry then it probably is. You think you've found one, you get excited … and then you meet five Violets in a day and realize that perhaps #141 is too popular for you after all.
The letter Y has lost some of its magic after various incriminations recently, involving either the addition of Y's to perfectly Y-free names (looking at you, Addysyn), or the apparent abhorrence of Y's by others (Ashleigh). What about its generally ignored neighbor, though? Every time I see an X name it catches my eye. I think "Wow, X? Crazy!" X is daring and attention-grabbing; it's a shortcut to awesome in the baby naming world.
The Jolie-Pitts clearly realized the power of this not-so-humble letter when they used it to round off their three sons' names: Maddox, Pax and Knox. In the same vein, Max is hot at the moment, but it is X in front that is still that Holy Grail of naming: rare.
According to the site http://yournotme.com, which searches the records to find people in Britain aged over 18 with a certain name, the top 10 X names include 7 Chinese names (Xiao, Xin, Xuan, Xiu, Xue, Xiang and Xing, for the record). The others are Xavier (795 of them), Xenia (330), and Xanthe (309). In contrast, the top A name, Andrew, can boast 508,320 bearers across the British Isles.
X names are few and far between in the popularity rankings as well, with just two charting in both the US and the UK top 1000s :
Xavier – #68 in the US, #234 in the UK
Xander – #244, #354.
Due to the large Hispanic population of North America, Ximena and Xiomara also chart at #311 and #909 respectively. Ximena is the feminine version of Ximeno, a Spanish name alternatively claimed to be a version of Simon or from the Basque for son, seme . Xiomara is the Spanish version of Guiomar, a name for either gender that belonged to a male character of Arthurian legend who was banished for his affair with Morgan le Fey.
The UK has its own pretty, feminine X name, Xanthe, which currently stands at #778. It should be noted that that means it was only given to 44 babies, though, due to the relatively small size of Britain. Xanthe is a lovely Greek choice meaning 'fair hair' and can also appear in the variation Xanthia.
Strangely enough, the US can also claim many a little Xzaviers, which comes in at #586. In my opinion it's preferable to use unusual letters in moderation, readers. Just one in a sea of A's, E's, and R's looks so much more striking than Xyzvyq, which gives the impression you were leaning on the keyboard.
To celebrate New Orleans's triumphant Super Bowl victory, as well as today's Shrove Tuesday launch of Mardi Gras, here is the fascinating blog created for us last year by guest blogger Elisabeth Wilborn of "You Can't Call It It." Elisabeth is a writer, artist, and mother who lives in Brooklyn, New York.
An inspiration for everything from vampires to voodoo, from zydeco to the Krewe of Zulu, Louisiana has been a colorful melting pot of divergent cultures for centuries. Cajuns from Canada, Creoles and others of Haitian, African, Italian, Spanish, or Native American descent, all come together to form a mélange of backgrounds, and in point of fact, names. Most share a history of French language and Catholicism, even if it's not by blood. While these may not be the choices in use today in the Bayou, they have been culled from historical documents, maps, and folklore from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. The majority are either French proper, or my favorite, Frenchified. Still more trace their roots to Classical Greco–Roman civilization, deep Southern culture, or are somewhere farther afield and include a curious preponderance of the letter Z.
So come on! Allez-y! Chew on these names (and some maque choux), prepare to bare all for those beads, and laissez les bon temps roulez!
Acadia– The word Cajun itself has its origins in Acadian
Avoyelles– This Cajun Parish might be picked up as a first name, piggybacking on the current Ava and Ellie love
Bernadette– A much beloved Catholic saint, and one of the prettiest songs in the native New Orleans Neville Brothers repertoire
Delphine– While Delphine is a lovely and lilting name, Delphine La Laurie was a famous socialite and sadist who tortured her slaves
Dixie– Used to refer to the South at large, this may have originated in New Orleans on the ten dollar bill, upon which a local bank printed "dix", the French for ten.
Eugenie– Napoleon's first love
Evangeline– An epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow recalling the 1755 deportation of Acadian Canadians to the newly Spanish Louisiana
Josephine– Napoleon's (second) love
Magnolia– The state flower of Louisiana
Mahalia– Mahalia Jackson is a gospel and blues singer from the area, with a name worth borrowing
Marie– Marie Laveau was a reknowned Voodoo Queen who was visited by slaves and owners alike
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Posted on 07/12/2008 4:03:09 AM PDT by Bahbah
Fox News is announcing that Tony Snow has died.
Heartbreaking news.
I wonder if the President will speak. At any rate, you just know this will be tasteful, start to finish.
Thank you, kristinn!
That makes more sense!
Wish I could attend. I live in the Baltimore area but I have chemo, and I hate dragging that pump around. But I bet it will be beautiful.
Everyone (especially Fox) did such a good job with covering Tony Snow's death, but i really wish they would have read some more of his more spiritual writings. They were so good, and was really what impressed me and drew me to him especially after reading this one:
If you haven't read it it really is worth the time.
Maybe at the church they will read some of these. I hope so.
Here is my original message to Tony on this board which solicited his responding (in what turned out to be the last time he posted here)that he was fine. Always upbeat even to the end. Even though he probably wasn't so fine. It wasn't that long ago:
Tony Snow...
If you are out there, then you know ..that its sometimes in suffering that we draw closest to our Lord. Im sure you are at peace and are ready for whatever direction the Lord has for you. Im sure everyone is hoping that you pull through, and thats natural, but if you dont, Im confident that God has a purpose for what you are going through and for calling you home early. We dont really know exactly what its going to be like to crossover, but Im sure its just a continuation of the Great Adventure that he has for us. So if His will is for you to stay and your situation to continue to draw others to Him , or if he urgently wants your services in the great beyond, its all in His will.
Im in the same boat as you. Just diagnosed with Colon Cancer with Liver mets in March. Already seen the many blessings that flow. Already experiencing the flow of love and good will in others around me. Its really harder in many ways on our loved ones then it is on us, and Im sure you already know that.
Anyway...God Bless you and your family and those going through this with you. Ill pray for your loved ones..you pray for mine, that God will work His will for them through this.
God Bless
Then from Tony:
I couldnt agree more about Schwarzenegers attitude. Wonderful! Faith is everything, friends, through good or ill...
Thanks so much for your kind thoughts regarding my latest unpleasantness. As often happens, reports of my imminent demise are greatly exaggerated. Ive been fighting a bowel obstruction for the last month, and wont travel until we get it fixed. Hence, the speech cancellations.
Weve embarked on a pretty aggressive course of treatment, and Im on the mend. As for cancer, all the signs are good: Treatments are working, and genetic tests indicate that a new course of treatment has a good chance of real success.
So thanks, as always, for the thoughts and prayers and continue sharing them with each other for others in need (like Jim Rob). I cant tell you what a source of strength and reassurance you are.
103 posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:18:52 PM by Tony Snow
This will be my last post on this thread, (wow he got opver 2000 posts !!!) and I wanted to just say how clear it is to me, that a man like Mr. Snow and his love for God and others can be a powerful catalyst for good. And I loved hearing all of the posters here. In life sometimes your faith is often demeaned and it seems like the culture is spurning the kind of faith I think I saw/read in Tony Snow, and in the many posts here. It lifts my heart and makes me feel a strong connection when I read such wonderful faithful posts, and then realizing that there are many out there still who still have the faith of our fathers. It is comforting to me.
Rest in peace Mr. Snow. I haven't physically written them in, but I will add your wife and kids to my prayer list and think of them daily for you. I will try hard to live the kind of life that you did. I'm sure you have heard these words we all long to hear: Well done thy good and faithful servant...enter into your rest!
RIP Tony Snow
So here I am in tears again. God bless you, Schwarzeneger. I will pray for you, and that I may be more like both you and Tony.
Unlike the Democrat funerals, which inevitably turn into campaign pep rallies (Wellstone) or anti-war, anti-Bush rallies (Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, et. al)...
How you can contribute to the Tony Snow Trust
July 14, 2008
In response to the many people who have asked how they can help, the Tony Snow Family Trust was set up today to help with Tony's children's education and living expenses. Jill Snow, Tony's wife, will serve as the Trustee, with Snow's three children as beneficiaries.
Donations can be made by sending a check payable to the "Tony Snow Family Irrevocable Trust" at the following address:
Wachovia Bank
ATTN: Charles J. Beal
4321 Collington Road
Suite 160
Bowie, MD 20716
You can also make a donation at HealthTransformation.net, the website for the Center for Health Transformation, an organization with which Tony was working to eliminate cancer as a cause of death. Posted by BillOReilly.com Staff at 4:17 PM
From Newsbusters ... the Westboro Baptist CULT is planning on Protesting Tony's Funeral .. My freeper abilities are limited and need to get this out
I wonder as well. And you're right .. everything
will be done with the perfect dignity and class he
so richly deserves. Have you heard if it will be
She was very patient with me spending almost a whole I think Friday afternoon teaching me various HTML codes.
You were very patient that afternoon :o)
No, I haven't, but we will keep our eyes open.
Wonderful news, dmd25. What a wonderful tribute to Tony, to be able to help take care of his family in a meaningful way. As we all know, Tony's family was everything to him. I believe the response will be awesome—a blizzard of love for our Snowman!
For all those who are interested, here is the Tony trust information.
Thanks, gwilhelm. The word has gone to all of the right people and they are on it.
I love it!!!! A great phrase, GC! Of course it made me cry again, but that is ok. (Am also listening to Hannity who is airing a long interview he had with Tony...whew...so good, but sad to hear his voice.)
Thanks Bahbah! I have copied the address and will send a check tomorrow. I will also enclose a note for Jill and the children, which I assume will be passed on.
Thanks, Bahbah. Can you ping the SnowFlakes? I don't have the list. Or should I ask Dinasour to do so?
((((((Radioproducer)))). Nice to hear from you. I am sorry for the loss of your friend.
Thanks for the ping, Bah!
where? I don't see any information, what am I missing?
Thank you for the information, dmd25.
Thank you for the information. I will send a check tomorrow.
It has been done :)
Thank you for the information, Bahbah.
I will also be sending a check. Happy to help the loved ones of "Our Tony".
Post 2107 - details of trust fund set up for Tony's children
Thank you! :)
Let's show the world how we take care of the people we love....
How very good it is to hear from you, dear rp. We have missed you greatly.
Tony was brilliant and talented, but he also had a special grace. We will all miss him terribly.
Oops, sorry, Hildy. See #2107.
From BillOReilly.com Staff:
Donations can be made by sending a check payable to the "Tony Snow Family Irrevocable Trust" at the following address:
Wachovia Bank
ATTN: Charles J. Beal
4321 Collington Road
Suite 160
Bowie, MD 20716
You can also make a donation at HealthTransformation.net, the website for the Center for Health Transformation, an organization with which Tony was working to eliminate cancer as a cause of death. Posted by BillOReilly.com Staff at 4:17 PM
Thanks for the heads up, Bahbah!
Yes, Hildy...
P.S. Love your tag line. I hadn't heard that comment from Mr. Forbes-—it is absolutely true!
At 6 p.m. Britt showed a clip of Tony on his last day at the White House and I missed his exact comment—perhaps someone else has it—but I understood Britt to say this comment would also have been Tony's very last thought:
"I wish I could have stayed longer".
Omigosh I just cried over that. So poignant and we can't even imagine his anguish knowing his time was drawing to a close...
Thank you for this information. I will be sending a check.
Wow--I would have cried too!
Brit must have had a Fox Video, but here is a CNN video of him leaving:
Video of Tony Leaving WH on His Last Day
If someone knows of another one, I would love to see it.
Thank you.
Thank you both!
BOR has clips of Tony
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Prayers up for your own healing.
The article is wonderful - started crying again because we've lost such a godly man. Different trials by Fire have drawn me closer to God. Yet the fear that the cancer brought intensified the comfort our Lord provides. I'm so grateful for the friends who helped me find Him. Thanking God that Tony's witness will be able to reach others through articles such as this one you posted.
I think it's partially because it brings back memories of my mom and her 7 year fight against breast cancer. She lost that battle in 1979 at the age of 52.
She, like Tony, never complained, could talk with anyone about anything and did NOT judge.
I also think that because he was such a good man, I fear that there are few left like him. (Of course, we have many good men here on ATRW and FR). My hubby, for one.
Bill O has excellent memories of "Snow".
Tony's love for his family, his country and his friends is something that brings people together even in his passing. I will bet that your mother did that too. :) You would have been a different person if she hadn't.
We love you, we'll miss you down here.
Thanks, save.
Too young, too soon.
RIP Tony, condolences to his family.
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So the Florida Supreme Court just accepted the State Attorney's motion to vacate the death penalty conviction of Omar Loureiro. Now we'll have a new murder trial, but there won't be an evidentiary hearing into the allegations against Judge Ana Gardiner.
In other words, Gardiner, who broke judicial rules and lied about it under oath, might just skate. And the saga that involved a badly misbehaving judge and prosecutor, the death of a 45-year-old judge, lies under oath, Peyton Place-like rumors and innuendo, and the overturning of a Death Row case is at least on hiatus, if not finished.
JAABlog, which broke the latest news and has done a phenomenal job covering this story, reports that Chief Judge Victor Tobin could reject the order and order a hearing.
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Sunrise Commissioner and Broward prosecutor Sheila Alu was the one that came forward on Gardiner's improper conduct with Howard Scheinberg. She stuck her neck out and went through a trying year as a result, facing a smear campaign from Gardiner's camp and occasional ostracization at the courthouse.
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She said there was only one way it would be worth it.
"If lawyers start standing up and not allowing this kind of misconduct to happen, it was worth it," she says. "But if everybody continues to do the status quo here, then, no, it wasn't. I'm not saying all judges are corrupt; I've worked with a lot of amazing judges with great ethics. But there have been a few judges have put a dark light on the courthouse.
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