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When I see that many people are pretending to take a ludicrous-on- -its-face story written by Ed Klein seriously…can we just have the election now please?
When I see that many people are pretending to take a ludicrous-on- -its-face story written by Ed Klein seriously…can we just have the election now please?
I can understand why the Eagles gave Chip Kelly control over personnel if it was between that and losing him. And the first major trade he pulled off was good: dumping an extremely expensive running back who was mediocre last year and getting a very good linebacker (albeit one coming off a year lost to injury) is a terrific trade. And as someone who would rather see the Bills win than any other AFC team, it's awesome to see them once again try to build an offense around a large financial or draft pick investment in the running game, because 1974 is bound to come back anytime now.
The problem is that the rest of Kelly's moves could come right out of the playbook of any hapless Browns/Bills/Jaguars hack:
In all, Kelly is committing a lot of money to his running backs. Let's assume that Mathews's deal eats up about $4 million in cap space this year. Assuming that it has a roster bonus, Murray should come in at about $9 million. The Eagles already have Sproles on their cap at $4.1 million. Even if they cut Chris Polk, that means about $17 million in cap space is committed to running backs.
The only team that even comes close to the Eagles on running back spending would be the Vikings, who have $18 million committed to backs this season, but $15.4 million of that money belongs to Peterson, who is likely to be released or traded. Otherwise, nobody else is spending more than $10.9 million on running backs, which leaves the Eagles as an enormous outlier in terms of how they're choosing to use their cap space.
Here's the simplest way I can put this: Pretend, for a moment, that the Raiders or the Jaguars or the Browns made this exact same pair of moves. They would be the laughingstocks of the league, fools making the same stupid mistakes that bad franchises always make. The Eagles understandably aren't being painted with that brush because Kelly has earned a certain level of credibility as a forward-thinking coach. With the moves Kelly has made this offseason, that credibility is on the line.
Kelly may very well make these signings work, but the Murray deal is a classic example of what bad teams do in free agency. Two years from now, we may very well look back at the past 72 hours in Eagles history as the moment when Kelly sealed his status as the next Bill Belichick. We also may look back at it as the time when Kelly sealed his fate.
This kind of investment in running backs in 2015 is really stupid. It would be bad even if the spending was on backs of proven durability as well as high performance, because the position just isn't important enough to contemporary NFL offenses. But of course Matthews hasn't been an elite RB since 2011 and can't stay on the field, and while Murray is very good (although probably not as good as he looks running behind Dallas's offensive line), has an extensive injury history and Garrett handled him like Billy Martin handled his starting pitchers in his one healthy year last year. Paying Murray a top-of-the-market contract after a 500-touch season is about as good a gamble as getting in on the subprime mortgage market in 2006. These are two bad contracts that are much worse in tandem than either one would be individually. And the contract Kelly offered Frank Gore was no prize either — let's just say the organization that did land Gore thought that Trent Richardson was worth a 1st round pick.
And that's just the beginning. As Barnwell says, paying a corner who looks perfectly solid playing across from Richard Sherman in Pete Carroll's defense as if he's Darrelle Revis is a bad investment. But at least Maxwell can play. If anything, I think Barnwell is underselling how atrocious the Bradford trade is. There are three rather obvious problems with the deal.
Now, yes, Bradford does figure to look better going from offenses run by the likes of Brian "talent sees the next generation and flees in terror" Schottenheimer and (Josh McDaniels – Bill Belichick) to an offense run by Kelly. Let's generously say the difference is worth 20 points of QBR. This would land him…somewhere between Mark Sanchez and Nick Foles under Chip Kelly. The upside of the move, in other words, is that Kelly will get the same performance he was getting from much cheaper players he already had. And, of course, given Bradford's history it's likely that the Sanchize will end up taking a healthy share of the snaps this year anyway. On this trade, perhaps the best analogy isn't the Bills or Raiders but Tony Reagins. The Rams got rid of one of the worst contracts in the sport and landed a probably better player and a net improvement in draft position out of the deal (and probably would have been even better off taking the 1st rounder Kelly remarkably offered.)
Kelly's reputation as an offensive supergenius actually does have some merit. But the fact that he can make the Nick Foleses and even Mark Sanchezes of the world look competent is all the more reason not to massively overpay offensive talent (or "talent" as the case may be.) It's hard to imagine Kelly matching the level of success attained by his one-time college rivals Carroll and Harbaugh until he works with someone in charge of personnel who (unlike himself) has some idea what he's doing.
Wherever there's a non-ally of the United States not being invaded by the United States, Fred Hiatt is there to find a crackpot to advocate that the problem of non-invasion be solved immediately:
Obama's stance implies that we have no choice but to accept Iran's best offer — whatever is, to use Rice's term, "achievable" — because the alternative is unthinkable.
But should it be? What if force is the only way to block Iran from gaining nuclear weapons? That, in fact, is probably the reality. Ideology is the raison d'etre of Iran's regime, legitimating its rule and inspiring its leaders and their supporters. In this sense, it is akin to communist, fascist and Nazi regimes that set out to transform the world. Iran aims to carry its Islamic revolution across the Middle East and beyond. A nuclear arsenal, even if it is only brandished, would vastly enhance Iran's power to achieve that goal.
Such visionary regimes do not trade power for a mess of foreign goods.
Conveniently, the ridiculous-though-not-treasonous letter to Iran from most of the Republican Senate conference has allowed Chait to distill the 4 crucial characteristics of neoconservatism:
The mere summary doesn't do it justice — it's all worth reading. Muravchik's letter has already scored highly on points one and two…
…as if often the case, Fallows is excellent.
Interesting question from IB:
I agree on the general point here, but don't you think that actions by the Obama and Clinton White Houses would be a central part of any adequate explanation for why we got comprehensive health care reform in 2009-10, but not in 1993-4? Or to put this another way: had Obama not prioritized healthcare reform, the 111th Congress would never have passed comprehensive health care reform. And had Clinton played his hand somewhat differently, the 103rd Congress might have.
A few points:
"Don't worry — if this falls through I have a compelling theory that all federal social welfare programs are unconstitutional under the emoluments clause."
You may remember Richard Epstein from such arguments as "the takings clause makes the vast majority of the U.S. Code unconstitutional because as originally understood it enacted bad 20th century public choice theory." It's highly appropriate that he has gotten in on the ACA Troofer racket. He takes the now-dominant approach of a "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" midpoint between the "card says Moops!" and "the Moops invaded Spain" theories, with a bonus appearance from the most important figure in 21st Century American politics:
There is no similar difficulty with the ACA. The government may protest that its subsidies are only available through the state exchanges, but the result is not unintelligible. Indeed the provision makes perfectly good sense if the plan, as often stated by MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, was intended to give states a strong incentive to sign up with the program, even if only 14 states rose to take the bait.
Before we get to the larger problems with relying solely on the words of President, Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader, Secretary of State, Prime Minister, and new starting QB of the Philadelphia Eagles Jonathan Gruber, it seems worth noting that Gruber did not actually make the argument that Epstein attributes to him:
In the law, it says if the states don't provide them, the federal backstop will. The federal government has been sort of slow in putting out its backstop, I think partly because they want to sort of squeeze the states to do it. I think what's important to remember politically about this, is if you're a state and you don't set up an Exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits. But your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you're essentially saying to your citizens, you're going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that's a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these Exchanges, and that they'll do it.
Gruber didn't say that federally established exchanges didn't provide subsidies in order to squeeze the states. He said that the federal government was delaying setting up the federal backstop in order to squeeze the states. The implication of Gruber's argument is in fact that the federal backstop would provide the tax credits, but that states couldn't rely on it being set up immediately. To be clear, this argument doesn't make any sense either — another reason to ignore what Gruber, who did not vote for or draft the relevant portions of the statute, has to say about it rather than treating him as the authoritative interpreter of the law — but he does not in fact say anything about Congress not making tax credits available to coerce the states.
Which isn't surprising, since the idea that the ACA went to the the trouble of establishing a federal backstop that would entail having no insurance to sell to no qualified customers is absurd on its face, and is also inconsistent with all of the relevant evidence about legislative history and intent.
Epstein has another strange argument in favor of willfully misconstruing the statute:
During oral argument, Chief Justice Roberts asked whether a different administration could switch interpretations on the statute to meet its own view. Solicitor General Verrilli answered, incorrectly, that such a switch is possible only if the new government could make out "a very strong case" in view of the "disruptive consequences" that such a shift would have. But in fact, Chevron itself involved just that kind of switch between the Carter and Reagan administrations, and no one required the substantial showing of cause that Verrilli mentioned.
Unfortunately, such disruptive flip-flops are all too possible under Chevron. That is the strongest reason why the question should be treated as a question of law, which makes it impossible for one administration to reverse the decision of its predecessor.
The correct answers to the question of whether a future Republican administration could deny subsidies on the federal exchanges if the Court decides to uphold Burwell based on Chevron deference are "yes" and "your point being?" Changes in regulatory policy are things that happen when new administrations are elected. I doubt that a future administration would in fact reverse this IRS regulation, but 1)that doesn't mean that it's beyond their authority, and 2)if Republicans want to deny subsidies on the federally established exchanges, it should be done through a Republican White House rather than having the courts do their dirty work.
This isn't to say that I wouldn't decide this as a question of law — the Court should rule that the statute, properly construed, makes the credits available on federally established exchanges — but Chevron deference would certainly be more plausible than determining that Congress established a federal backstop it knew would serve no purpose.
And finally, the inevitable punchline:
The better choice, on balance, seems for the Court to strike down the IRS regulation and for Congress to work out some fix. That fix should not include expanding the coverage to federal exchanges, which would allow the Obama administration to work an illicit extension of the initial program. A far better suggestion is to make block grants to the states, which could fund subsidies to pick up the slack when the IRS regulation is struck down. The Republicans might well pass such legislation quickly and dare President Obama to veto it—which he might do to legitimate his own misconceived legislation.
I don't know what's funnier — the idea that there's any chance this Republican Congress would pass a fix, his preemptively blaming Obama for the chaos of the Supreme Court wrecking the exchanges, or the assertion that it would be "illicit" for Obama to continue to provide tax credits on federal exchanges if he was explicitly authorized by Congress to do so. The assumption-without-argument that "block grants" would be better than a uniform federal exchange even though most states have demonstrated neither the willingness or the competence to establish exchanges is also unintentionally amusing. A definitive version of ACA trooferism, in other words.
Julian Zelizer has an excellent new book about the Great Society. I have a review of it up at the Washington Spectator:
But the most crucial factor working for Johnson was that congressional majorities didn't have to be persuaded to favor civil rights. With the violence necessary to sustain American apartheid being revealed by the civil rights movement, not only liberals but moderates on both sides of the aisle supported the key provisions of the Civil Rights Act, making it easier to break the logjam created by a minority of Southern segregationists. Overcoming this minority obstruction was far from a trivial accomplishment, but it's much more easily done when large majorities of Congress and the public are already on your side. And powerful social movements are much more likely to persuade recalcitrant legislators than are presidential blandishments.
LBJ wasn't the only 1964 presidential candidate responsible for the substantial achievements of the 89th Congress. Barry Goldwater deserves some credit for the progressive legislation Johnson signed into law, including Medicare, Medicaid, and major federal educational and anti-poverty spending. Johnson's crushing defeat of Goldwater brought with it huge and unusually liberal Democratic congressional majorities. The Republicans who survived "were profoundly shaken by the election returns and believed they could no longer afford to obstruct Johnson's proposals."
Zelizer also shows that Medicare was not imposed top-down by Johnson, but its shape was largely determined by negotiations within Congress, with LBJ frequently taking a hands-off role. (And the decision not to pursue universal health care reform was in itself a major compromise, particularly since the decision to provide health insurance to those over 65 made getting the necessary support for European-style health care effectively impossible.)
The liberals who built the Great Society also derived some political capital from a darker source: the escalating disaster in Vietnam.
The thing is, the man who more or less invented the modern position of Senate Majority Leader probably does have the highest legislative WAR of any progressive president in history. It's just that the effects of presidential action apart from agenda-setting in terms of getting new legislation enacted are very marginal. I've said it before and I'll say it again: the White House is where major change ends, not where it begins.
Even by Texas criminal justice standards, this is breathtakingly cynical.
As a long-time admirer of the passive-aggressive responses required by NYT conventions, I can't not link to this Krugman post, which gets perilously close to the line by linking to a direct critique of Brooks:
William Julius Wilson, in When Work Disappears, famously argued that it was a symptom: good jobs in inner cities, where African-American men could take them, went away, and the cultural changes followed.
So, how could you test that hypothesis? Well, here's an experiment: change the structure of the economy in such a way that a large class of white men — say, white men without a college degree — similarly lose access to good jobs. If Wilson was right, we'd expect to see a sharp decline in stable marriages, a rise in unwed births, growing drug use, and other forms of social disruption.
And that is, in fact, exactly what happened: William Julius Wilson was right. Which makes it remarkable to see people look at that very evidence and say that it shows that the real problem isn't money, it's values.
The linked Stoker Bruenig post is worth your time as well.
As I recently observed here, the hot theory among apologists for the latest legal who are uncomfortable with the Moops-invaded-Spain theory is that 1)the Republican minority in the Senate stopped Democrats from holding a conference to harmonize the House and Senate versions of health care reform so 2)a Republican Supreme Court should wreck the health insurance exchanges in most states contrary to the purpose of the statute so that 3)a Republican Congress can do nothing about millions of people losing their health insurance because 4)this would lead to a more functional government. You may be surprised that I find this…unpersuasive:
This version of events omits a highly pertinent fact. Dalmia and Douthat conspicuously fail to fully explain the reason that Democrats were unable to harmonize the bill in conference: the Republican minority in the Senate would not allow them to hold another vote. The ACA's opponents implicitly treat the routine supermajority requirement imposed by congressional Republicans as a natural part of the legislative process rather than a highly unusual and unnecessary historical development. During most periods of history, the majority party would have been able to make final changes to the legislative language as it saw fit.
Dalmia's claim that "the administration is asking the court to hand it a victory that it couldn't obtain through the normal legislative process" stands reality on its head. A more accurate summary is that the Republican minority in one house of Congress prevented the majority from voting on a bill that went through a conference between the House and Senate, and now wants to use this as a justification to have its allies on the judicial branch gut the law.
Douthat's apparent belief that overturning the law would make the system more functional is deeply odd. Rewarding dysfunctional behavior doesn't strike me as an effective means of disincentivizing it. Far from the modest approach it claims to be, it represents a "stop hitting yourself" logic that doesn't have a great deal to recommend it as a theory of statutory interpretation.
Alas, I do think that the "let Congress clean up its own mess" is exactly the kind of bullshit minimalism that could appeal to John Roberts.
To state what is probably not terribly controversial, "Blurred Lines" is an atrocious Marvin Gaye rip performed by a skeevy guy who is substantially less talented than his father even though his father is Alan Thicke. Much more controversially, I think Pharrell – Nile Rodgers = Meh. So I had the initial Nelson Muntz reaction upon seeing that they had been ordered to pay the Gaye estate 7 million smackers. But Dan Reitz and Michaelangelo Matos convince me that it's a really terrible precedent.
Very important point by Greg Sargent here:
Scott Walker has now supplied yet another piece of evidence that Republicans will likely find themselves unable or unwilling to act if the Supreme Court guts Obamacare subsidies for millions in three dozen states. In the process, he's illustrated how such a Court ruling will likely set in motion a mad frenzy of buck-passing among Republicans over what to do about all those people — and how that might spill over into the 2016 presidential race.
A spokesperson for Walker has now confirmed that should the Court rule that way, he will not view it as the state's responsibility to fix the problem that results — and instead says that responsibility will fall to the federal government.
The textbook version of checks and balances maintains that institutions will jealously guard there own power. In practice, however, high veto point systems provide ample opportunity for public officials to evade responsibility. The combination of separation of powers and federalism will allow Republican public officials to evade responsibility for the consequences of Republican Supreme Court accepting the premise of a libertarian lawsuit to achieve Republican policy goals. And, sadly, it has a good chance of working: the assumption that voters will know that Obama isn't to blame for failures related to "Obamacare" is probably wrong. But at any rate, it's abundantly clear that this is what Republicans at both the federal and state level are going to try.
At least on the issue of expulsions, I think that Volokh is right. It's a public university, racist speech in itself is protected speech, and I don't know what exceptions would apply here.
It's a moot point, but I'm less convinced that the university would be prevented from decertifying the fraternity (although I'm not saying Volokh is wrong about that either.) But it seems to me that expelling the students for this (absolutely indefensible and disgusting and racist) language violates the First Amendment. I can understand why Boren reacted so forcefully and he's justified in harshly condemning the speech, but I don't think this is the right remedy.
…rather than responding to multiple similar comments, it is of course true that state colleges can punish people for sexual harassment and other forms of harassment without violating the First Amendment. Harassment is conduct, not just speech. The obvious problem is that as applied to this case it's a non-sequitur; you can't legally "harass" someone through a video tape made and distributed by someone else without your foreknowledge or consent and viewed by third parties who were not present. This was not harassment or incitement in a legal sense; it a restriction targeted at pure speech. As for Morse v. Fredrick (the "bong hits 4 Jesus" case), 1)post-secondary education is a very different animal than high school education, and 2)that decision was wrong anyway.


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Boise, ID (SportsNetwork.com) - Jay Ajayi tied a school record with five rushing touchdowns as No. 25 Boise State punched its ticket to the Mountain West Conference championship game with a 50-19 victory over Utah State.
Ajayi finished with 229 yards on 27 carries, and Grant Hedrick threw for 191 yards and two touchdowns on 18-of-24 passing for the Broncos (10-2, 7-1 MWC), who won their final seven games to claim the Mountain Division.
"We knew we had to come out and start fast on the offensive side. We executed well, guys did their jobs," Boise State head coach Bryan Harsin said. "Jay ran the ball very effectively and physical. I thought Grant played very efficient tonight, there were a lot of guys that touched the ball and made plays, did a lot of really great things."
Alec Dhaenens and Thomas Sperbeck each caught a Hedrick touchdown pass in the win.
Kent Myers completed 16-of-28 passes for 159 yards with an interception and ran for a score, and Daniel Gray returned a fumble for a 50-yard touchdown for the Aggies (9-4, 6-2), who ended their season on a sour note after winning their previous five games.
"Obviously number one very, very disappointing loss. (Our performance) was very uncharacteristic of us," Utah State head coach Matt Wells said. "We didn't have the answers and that starts with me. We didn't execute well enough and didn't play physical enough."
The Broncos, who have defeated the Aggies in 12 straight games, will take on Fresno State in the title game on Saturday.
Utah State received the ball to start the game and LaJaun Hunt made an immediate impact as he raced 55 yards down to the Broncos' 20. The run was a wasted effort, however, as Nick Diaz missed a 39-yard field goal.
The Broncos took over at their own 21 and used back-to-back 17-yard catches from Jake Roh and Sperbeck to move deep into Aggies territory. Two plays later, Ajayi ran the ball in from nine yards out for an early lead.
Myers was picked off by Darian Thompson on Utah State's very next play, giving Boise State prime field position at the Aggies' 45. Grant hauled in a 24-yard pass to help set up Dhaenen's 2-yard TD catch for a 14-0 game midway through the opening stanza.
Ronald Butler made a big catch for 38 yards and Myers made it a 14-7 game with a 9-yard keeper.
Ajayi bounced off a tackle and backtracked to his right, reaching the end zone on a 19-yard run. Dan Goodale, however, blocked the extra point and Jalen Davis raced down the other way to give the Aggies two points for a 20-9 game with 2:05 to play in the first.
Boise State continued its potent offensive attack with two scores early in the second quarter. Ajayi hustled into the end zone on an 8-yard run for his third score of the day on just the third play of the stanza and after the Aggies fumbled the ensuing kickoff, Sperbeck's 24-yard grab made it a 34-9 contest just over three minutes into the second.
Diaz booted a 46-yarder to make it 34-12 game with under five minutes to play in the half.
After a scoreless third quarter, Ajayi found the end zone on the first play of the final stanza with a 62-yard run.
On the Aggies' ensuing drive, Beau Martin sacked Myers and recovered the loose ball to give the Broncos possession at midfield. Ajayi rattled off three straight runs for 35 yards and then capped the 8-play, 50-yard trek by plunging in from a yard out for a 48-12 advantage with 9:21 to play.
Sean Wale's 54-yard punt pinned Utah State at its 1-yard line. The Aggies moved the chains on Sharp's 8-yard catch, but Hunt was tackled for a loss of six yards and Myers was sacked in the end zone for a safety.
Gray returned a fumble 50 yards for Utah State with under four minutes to play to account for the final score.
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Egypt was a nation of internal unrest and increasing economic difficulties when its "last great pharoah" was murdered, a study has concluded.
Beset by consitutional crises over succession, and battling a drought brought on by an unknown cause of climate change, Rameses III was assassinated in a royal coup some 3,000 years ago.
The death of the last New Kingdom ruler has remained unexplained through the swirling mists of time, but ancient tales of deceit, passion and power have now been proven true, according to an international team of mummy-studying Egypt experts.
"He was murdered (in a) harem conspiracy by cutting his throat," researchers from the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman of the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen concluded.
Recent tests on Rameses' mummified corpse have revealed "a wide and deep wound in the throat, probably caused by a sharp blade - and which could have caused immediate death", said the researchers.
A Horus eye amulet was discovered inside the wound, hidden by a collar of thick linen layers - possibly to help the healing process in view of a mystical afterlife.
Forensic analysis published in the December issue of the British Medical Journal sheds light on the trimillennial murder mystery, a favourite conundrum of many Egyptologists.
Harem conspiracy
Rameses was around 65 years old, and revered by many as a god incarnate, when he met his end. Papyrus records from the time describe the trial of Tiye, one of Rameses' two known wives. Queen Tiye reportedly wanted her son, Pentaweret, to succeed to power - and set in motion a complex conspiracy involving dozens of court officials to kill both Rameses and his preferred heir, Rameses IV, the son of another wife.
In early April 1167BC, according to scholars' interpretation of "The Judicial Papyrus of Turin", the pharoah was spending the evening in his royal harem - a residence for women hand-picked by the king. Conspirators used what was deemed "black magic" to overtake the king's guards and kill the pharoah who had ruled over Egypt for 32 years.
Computed tomography (CT) imaging shows that Rameses' windpipe and major arteries were slashed, inflicting a wound 70mm (2.75in) wide and reaching almost to the spine, the investigators said.
"I have almost no doubt about the fact that Ramses III was killed by this cut in his throat," palaeopathologist Albert Zink of the EURAC Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Italy told the AFP news agency.
"The cut is so very deep and quite large, it really goes down almost down to the bone - it must have been a lethal injury.
"We were very surprised and happy because we did not really expect to find something. Other people had inspected the mummy, at least from outside, and it was always described (as) 'there are no signs of any trauma or any injuries.'"
While it remains possible that Rameses' throat was cut after his death, it is highly unlikely - as such a practice was never recorded as an ancient Egyptian embalming technique.
The researchers, from Egypt, Italy and Germany, also examined the mummy of an unknown man between the ages of 18 and 20 found with Rameses III in the royal burial chamber.
They found DNA evidence that the corpse, known as the Screaming Mummy for its open mouth and contorted face, was related to Rameses - and may very well have been Prince Pentawere.
"What was special with him, he was embalmed in a very strange way," said Zink.
"He had a very strange, reddish colour and a very strange smell. And he was also covered with a goat skin and this is something that was considered as impure in ancient Egyptian times" - possibly a post-mortem punishment for the crimes of his mother.
If it was Pentawere, it appears he may have been forced to hang himself, a punishment deemed at the time as sufficient to purge one's sins for the afterlife, the researchers said.
Despite the harem conspiracy, Rameses III was suceeded by Rameses IV - as he had wished.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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Former New Orleans Saints Tight End Jeremy Shockey Attacks Warren Sapp on Twitter for Being Called Snitch in Bountygate
NFL Network analyst and former NFL player Warren Sapp said earlier said he knew he heard who the snitch was in Bountygate involving the New Orleans Saints. He said it was former Saint and current Carolina Panthers tight end Jeremy Shockey.
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If this is true Shockey did a great job protecting himself weeks ago when he tweeted this (Some of the following contain some profane language so if you are offended please advert you eyes):
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Upon either being informed by someone on Twitter or seeing it himself, he decided to tweet back to Mr. Sapp.
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It seems after this Shockey couldn't leave well enough alone and kept on the offensive (see what I did there?). He kept tweeting after that.
Someone showed some support for Shockey, to which he is responding to:
The tweet that was suppose to be here but it was deleted while I was writing this article. "It read 'Thx!!! F— em all and Sapp you know where to find me."
Looks like Jeremy is challenging Sapp to a fight, which I would love to see. Something about me loves a good feud and especially on Twitter so I can keep track.
It looks like Sapp isn't going to engage himself in anymore Tweets with Shockey, I think he feels he made his point and doesn't need to go any further.
This would actually be interesting if Shockey is the snitch, because of the University of Miami connection. Him and Jonathan Vilma were teammates at the 'U' and good friends as well. I couldn't see Shockey snitching on one of his good friends.
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Shockey is still on Twitter and tweeted this :
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I figured he was done after that, but he retweeted this that someone sent him:
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Things sure are looking beachy keen for Scarlett Johansson and Nate Naylor.
Quietly dating for the past five months, the "We Bought a Zoo" actress, 27, and New York-based ad exec, 37, turned up at the beach in Hawaii on Friday. Showing off her world-famous body in a tiny, aqua-blue bikini, Johansson relaxed in the sand as her man leaned in for a kiss.
In another shot, Naylor applied suntan lotion on Johansson's pale, porcelain skin.
The new couple are on vacation in Hawaii with several friends.
"They met though mutual friends," a source tells Us Weekly of the pair. "And they were hot and heavy right off the bat."
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Portland home sales slow, but still stronger than 2011
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Home sales eased in November but the residential market still is running ahead of 2011.
The Regional Multiple Listing Service reports sales activity declined compared to October, which is typical for the season. But the market is running ahead of where it was a year ago with more sales and pending sales in November compared to the same month in 2011.
Tight inventories continue to plague the market with just 7,216 active residential listings. That's enough to last 4.2 months at November's sales pace, putting sellers firmly in the driver's seat. In comparison, the November 2011 inventory level was 6.2 months and the November 2010 level was 10.2 months.
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The average home sold in November commanded $279,400, 7.7 percent more than a year ago. The median price was $241,000, 7.1 percent more than a year ago.
- There were 1,675 new listings, 17.3 percent less a year ago.
- There were 1,730 pending sales, 2.7 percent more than a year ago.
- The average home spent 101 days on the market, 25.7 percent less than a year ago.
- For the year to date, new listings are down 4.2 percent, pending sales are up 17.1 percent, closed sales are up 19.9 percent, the average price is up 3.9 percent, the median price is up 5.4 percent, time on market is down 21.5 percent.
Here's how the average home price moved in various Portland markets
- North Portland, $228,900, up 3.3 percent
- Northeast Portland, $288,100, up 6.1 percent
- Southeast Portland, $230,700, up 5.9 percent.
- Gresham/Troutdale, $195,500, down 1.4 percent
- Milwaukie/Clackamas, $248,200, up 3.1 percent.
- Oregon City/Canby, $236,600, up 2.6 percent.
- Lake Oswego/West Linn, $428,200, up 0.6 percent.
- West Portland, $409,600, up 4.2 percent.
- Northwest Washington County, $354,900, up 0.7 percent.
- Beaverton/Aloha, $218,900, up 3.1 percent.
- Tigard/Wilsonville, $284,000, up 0.4 percent.
- Hillsboro/Forest Grove, $216,000, up 3.7 percent.
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Did professionals write this film? Did Antony really read the script or did he just see the figures in the contract? I think Nat and Tony need new agents, because you do not go from Silence of lamb and Black Swan *respectively* to this utter junk.
I do not know what other people saw but there is nothing good or unique in this film. The special effects actually made me tired. And lets talk about the story? My Lord, where was it and when did it begin. I got the feeling that the script was written after the action sequences were planned. They therefore said we want this effect and this effect now lets write a film around that. We need to use up Nat so lets force a romance into the script. We want jokes, so lets force a few of those in there. So much dead space in the film that doesn't arch into anything.scenes seem random and disconnected, like writing in junk to get it to a feature length time. drifting focus, drifting priorities. And no great moments that saved the film.
Also it is an overnight transformation from utter arrgoance to humility. Does anyone identify with any characters here? Did you understand the brothers motives? Makes no real sense in the real world. Did the film introduce anything for anyone to attach themselves to emotionally? No. Characters appear in odd order without any development. Actually while I am here typing I just realized something : This film is below the dignity of critique. It is so poor, so badly directed and written that to even point out the weak character development or random script turns give too much credit to it. I will therefore cease to add speak about it for fear of giving someone the illusion that there is anything to actually speak about in terms of artistic critique.
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Utter garbage written around SFX
Did professionals write this film? Did Antony really read the script or did he just see the figures in the contract? I think Nat and Tony need new agents, because you do not go from Silence of lamb and Black Swan *respectively* to this utter junk.
An immensely enjoyable Marvel entry that complements the tone of Iron Man films
I watched this last night at a preview screening in London.
I prayed that Kenneth Branagh would learn from his mistakes with handling a big budget movie, namely his Frankeinstein. Thankfully, I am glad to say he learnt a great deal from those mistakes. Of course, this is no Henry V, this is just pure popcorn entertainment but a thoroughly enjoyable introduction to Thor for the big screen. Chris Hemsworth played the part with a lot of energy, charisma and I have to admit from a bloke's point of view, annoying good looks. Anthony Hopkins added much needed heavyweight presence as Odin but its a role he has quite frankly played a gazillion times but I never tire of it, so I'm not complaining. In a year long span of brilliantly playing vastly different roles from psychotic to swashbuckling heroine, Natalie Portman this time plays the sweet determined scientist girl who falls for the strangely mannered good looking guy. Nothing too taxing for any of them but they do give a re-assuring aura about them.
The visuals were quite spectacular, mainly, the sweeping canvas of Asgard. The action scenes were also good though I thought could have been executed better with lesser use of the fast cut edit style that is too often the norm in action film these days.
There is plenty of humour when Thor is on Earth but not in a put-off way as there is a suitable contrast of a serious tone with everything set in Asgard. Even though the storyline was somewhat predictable, it was still a riveting one.
For those like me, who were concerned about how Thor fits into the established Marvel connected universe set by the Iron Man films need not worry. That is just another thing that Branagh and crew pulls off very well. We can now fully embrace the forthcoming Avengers where a God, a man who transforms into a giant green beast, and a man who flies in a hi tech amour suit can share the same screen. So its all coming together nicely.
And make sure you stay for the end credit scenes. In case you did not know of this before, I urge you to go back to the previous films (Iron Man 1 & 2, Incredible Hulk) and watch the end of credit sequences if you haven't already. They tell a separate story strand that will culminate to a certain upcoming Marvel movie. The end credit sequence of Thor is the most fascinating yet as it actually takes a major plot development in the story strand ;) And it was the longest bloody end of credit sequence I've ever seen in any movie! One last thing, the film I saw was in 3d and once again, it practically nearly ruined all the action scenes for me. In the non action scenes, it was pretty useless and just simply made the film much darker.
Intelligent and fun comic-book popcorn epic!
Thor was much much better than I expected. I didn't know if they could pull of the balance between the Norse mythology stuff and the real world Marvel Universe. I should've known better because Marvel knows their characters and knows what we want to see. Spider-Man set a new standard for the superhero film genre back in the day. Iron Man upped the ante. Thor takes the ball and runs with it and places that bar even higher. I look forward to seeing it again and know it will do well enough to be worthy of a sequel because word of mouth is going to be great. Trust me when I say Thor REALLY IS as good as Iron Man and is most worthy to be called one of the greatest adaptations ever.
Chris Hemsworth as the Norse god Thor, and Tom Hiddleston as his villainous brother Loki show they have the acting ability and star quality to become mega-marquee names in the future. Marvel found two absolute diamonds in the rough. Both actors make a HUGE impression and are wonderful on screen. You knew Acedemy Award winners Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman would bring it but these relative unkowns more than hold their own on screen. I know the script is written mostly for them but they carry it in a big way. From what I've read, Hemsworth and Hiddleston were cast almost a year in advance of filming the story so, they had time to get into shape and do character research. They certain did these long-time Marvel greats proud. Intelligent comic-book popcorn epics are rare and this one is definitely a cut above the usual fare.


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