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Penfold wrote:Conforumist wrote:I know it's not supposed to be about actors, but Jim Carey annoys me in just about every movie he's in. I wish he would take on more serious rolls.
I thought I was the only one, Con and Author. The only film I thought he was any good in was the "Truman Show".
Yes, that's why I think he has potential in a serious roll.

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A term to describe a person or place that doesn't have their sh*t together, overall drama and too much to deal with. Or someone that has second hand ideas thinking they are original.
"Man i just got back from hanging out at Brenda's house...wow, sh*t was a YARD SALE! Looked like she hadn't cleaned the place in over a year!"
"...yeah that dude Dave is crazy his head is a straight up YARD SALE!"
"...yeah that dude Dave is crazy his head is a straight up YARD SALE!"
po DJ WHORES Март 16, 2012
A woman or man who is all over the place. They can be semi crazy or insane. They are all over the place when they talk or do things.
"I met this girl last night, but she was a Yard Sale. Talking about how she doesn't like bubble gum to how her mom sews kitten sweaters."
"She was so crazy her thoughts were everywhere like a damn Yard Sale."
"She was so crazy her thoughts were everywhere like a damn Yard Sale."
po Catfish13 Јануар 5, 2012
When a girl goes through their purse, normally large in size,pulling everything out. Sometimes including clothes, nail polish, pens, paper, etc.
"Wow, she she is having a Yard-Sale over there looking for her pen."
po Smammy Jenkins Мај 2, 2010
Dropping one's phone, and having the battery cover (and any other detachable elements) come off, spilling the contents out onto the ground.
"I dropped my phone last week and it was basically a yard sale."
po Korb Март 16, 2008
People yell this when a sick hit is thrown in lacrosse
John just got the shit knocked out off him
po Mason DelaCourt Јун 10, 2005
A sale of people belongings, mostly crap, that is held in there yard.
po sean r black Септембар 1, 2003
A place where a bunch of junk that you dont want anymore is for sale. Usually a bunch of old people come and buy it for their grandchildren. Stuff there is usually dirt cheap.
Grandma: I bought you a new shirt from a yard sale, it was only a quarter!
po Anonymous Август 31, 2003


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Mille Miglia in a 1938 Alfa
TG mag Editor, Charlie Turner, takes on one of the biggest challenges in motoring...
Posted: 17 Jun 2013
Mille Miglia Day 3: Rome - Brescia 492 Miles
Four hours in bed is just enough time for your body to think that you're making an attempt at catching up on your lack of sleep and for it to slip into a deep comatose state. It is a terrible lie. The alarm finds me still slightly beaten up from the day before. Day three of the Mille Miglia beckons, the big one: 492 miles, 24 regularity stages and a route that sees us through Vallelunga, Sienna, Florence, across the Futa and Raticosa passes and onto Bologna, Maranello, Modena, Cremona and finally back to where it all started in Brescia. A day when you need to know where you're going, when you need to keep hitting all your regularity stages with, erm, regularity, and where above all else, you need to work as a team. Paola?
"Morning Co-pilot"
"Morning, Son"
"Right then dad, last day of the Mille, lets have a blast."
The Start at Rome provides another example of Italian organization at it's best. With 422 cars all vying for position and desperate to hit their allotted start time, the organizers orchestrate the now-familiar highly expensive car drafts and we waft through on the stroke of 6:45. We're off, with the ancient proverb ringing in our ears: 'You can't win the Mille on days one and two, but you can absolutely lose it on day three'. Conscious of this, Co-pilot is driving the 6c and I'm navigator and keeper of the stopwatches.
We blast out of Rome as the sun lifts in the sky and 6c is transformed from the car we left Brescia with. The pipes have cleared and it's finally showing its true colours, the straight six pulling hard to our designated 4-4500 redline. What a car. Ok, so its performance feels pedestrian by most modern standards, but in 1938 this was some feat of engineering. The support car is full to the gunwhales with kit and so we've spent the last few days driving the 6c with all our baggage on board. Space is becoming even more limited as every town we tour through wants to showcase it's wares, so that we're now carrying our combined body weight in pasta, risotto, nougat and mineral water. To maximize performance we could have, should have, left some of it behind, but that wouldn't be in the spirit of the event, so we head - fully laden - into the longest day, safe in the knowledge that should anything go wrong, we're fully equipped to provide an impromptu roadside banquet.
Rome slips away behind us and our first regularity stage beckons at Vallelunga, the circuit famous for Moto GP and the home favorite, Rossi. Our task today is to average 47.9KPH around the circuit, and to say that it feels odd holding the 6c back to this positively pedestrian speed is an understatement. Still, needs must, and today is more Tortoise than Hare. Eventually we hit the timing beam at our allotted second (not bad) and we're off and on our way to Sienna.
Everywhere we go the Alfa is greeted with smiles and shouts from every generation: "Bella Machina, vai vai Brescia" becomes a familiar phrase. As a small an unrepresentative test, it's clear that the Alfa brand is undiminished in its homeland; all they need now is the product to deliver to their passionate expectation.
Buoyed by not completely screwing up the first regularity, 'Team 6c' and most notably Co-pilot, have discovered that you can drive the 6c harder than we ever thought possible all those hours ago in the car park in Brescia. We storm across picture perfect Tuscan scenery, with the old Alfa loving the gin clear sky and dry roads.
A fuel stop, another 400 miles worth of smiles and approval from Paola and Alle, and we're off on a more traditional part of the route. At its inception in 1927, the Mille ran on a number of unpaved 'white' roads. To keep the event true to its roots - and infuriate many of the owners of priceless historics - the next special stage takes place on 10km of those unmade white roads. With a surface like a washboard and dust which has the ability to invade every orifice, this stage will make or break the car. Or us.
"Can you get out, I think we've got a puncture" mutters the co-pilot as we draw up to the line.
I jump out and check but no puncture "No mate, you're fine."
"Its pulling like hell to the right, we should stop."
"Lets do this stage then stop at the next town"
The 6c rattles across the corrugated section, and out to the time control. There's now such a drag that if you release the wheel the 6c merely turns sharp right. We nurse her to the next fuel stop and radio the support crew...
"Freni sono multo multo caldi" I explain in terrible Italian to the worried looking Alessandro who sets to work trying to cool the offside front brake drum down and release the - clearly bound solid - brake shoes.
Co-pilot is looking worried, Paola isn't smiling anymore and Alesandro is working with an efficiency and calm serenity that only he can deliver. I arrive back to the glowing hot wreckage with a hastily filled watering can, which, Alessandro grabs with a swift "mille grazie", and promptly pours over the offending drum, engulfing him in steam... For a while we lose Alessandro in the cloud and when he re-emerges, he's wandering around blindly through his steamed glasses muttering, 'Too much brake, toooooo much brake'
"You drive now, not Co-pilot..."
This requires careful sales patter, but with some diplomacy I manage to persuade Co-pilot that the next section is boring and it would be better if he took a rest and looked out of the window, all the better able to enjoy the full glory of Sienna.
We depart, Alessandro looking concerned and Paola's smile wattage severely reduced. I make a mental note to see if I can get to Sienna without touching the brakes.
Sienna delivers in style with an Alfa fan base ten deep, and all shouting and waving and willing the 6c to Brescia. At Florence we catch up with Sir Chris Hoy and Le Mans legend Andy Wallace in their XK120 in the traffic. They're clearly having a blast and we helpfully teach them a few Italian phrases that are sure to make the home leg more eventful.
Sorry, chaps. With the Italian for beginners lesson complete, we stick to Wallace as he threads the XK120 gracefully through the Florentine traffic and on towards the legendary Futa and Raticossa passes.
Worth noting here that 'we' have successfully managed not to set fire to the brakes again (mostly because we haven't used them), but more notably because Alessandro has slackened the front shoes off leaving the rears to do more (see all) of the work. This makes for 'interesting' braking performance.
Another fuel stop and Co-pilot is back in the driving seat as we head to the Italian petrolhead heartland, and Ferrari. The usually fortified gates are open and we drive the 6c through and into the heart and soul of the Prancing Horse, past the wind tunnel and down past the assembly lines and out through the historical gates. Out and down to Fiorano, Ferrari's backyard test track. And another time trial. Oh God.
It seems incredibly odd, driving the 6c around hallowed turf (not literally) where Lauda made his comeback, Schumacher invented his favorite pasta dish and more recently Alonso honed LaFerrari, but Co-pilot is living the dream, we break the beam and we're done and off to Cremona...
A final fuel stop and the support team are pleased to see nothing is on fire. The smiles and 'complimeti' are back.
As the light fades I'm back in the driving seat for the final set of stamps and the last blast to Brescia. We clear Cremona and the finish is now tantalizingly close. The goal we've been working towards, fighting over, arguing about - a simple finish - is a mere 33 miles away. True to form it's raining again.
The exhaustion sets in like a bad hangover and the car goes silent. We're both painfully aware that we're in the 'so near and yet so far zone' and we need to keep the 6c humming to make our allotted time into Brescia. Luckily, the road from Cermona to Brescia is arrow straight and I find my mind wandering to Moss and Jenks, foot buried, pace notes finished, racing flat out to the line, having done what it's taken us three days to complete in just ten hours...
We're pushing the 6c now and sat at 120kmh, which feels like lightspeed when you're surrounded by 1938 aerodynamics with your path lit by 1938 lights, staring into the distance and trying to pick out which is a white line at the edge of the road, and what is the reflection of some distant light source in a raindrop. It's almost lethally hypnotic.
Wave upon wave of all-consuming fatigue hits like a warm, pillowy battering ram, and we fight it off with the reality that get it wrong now and not only will the adventure be over, but we will be too.
The Brescia city limits sign flashes by.
"Left here mate, then down to that roundabout and left and then....we're here"
"Thanks Co-pilot, awesome job today"
"Pleasure mate, mind blowing really"
No sooner have we turned left into Via Venezia than we're back in the organized chaos that is the queue for the finish. Yet more exemplary Italian organization sees us cross the line at our allotted time, beer in hand, 1000 miles done and dusted. We roll down the ramp, race over and are plunged straight back into the modern world as we get lost in Brescia and have to hook up my iPhone and get it to navigate our way back to the hotel and our awaiting support crew. We did it. It feels like victory.
The emotions of the Mille are hard to define, it is the most frenetic, frustrating, exhausting, beautiful, life-affirming event it's possible to imagine. Held in a country that is quite simply the only place in the world with the charisma, organization, beauty and passion to be able to pull it off. It is without question the single greatest way for Italy to showcase all that it's good at.
Our personal Mille proves the Alfa brand still commands respect, and with the right product has the potential to go from strength to strength. We lost count of the tens of thousands of people who jumped up and down in excitement as we passed, grandparents reminiscing, fathers nudging their children and passing their infectious enthusiasm onto the next generation. All of them with the words "Alfa, Bella Macchina" forming on theirs lips as we passed. The 6c was a quite incredible way to experience that passion at all the corners of the country.
As for Co-pilot, to compete in the Mille Miglia is an unbelievable honour; to compete in a works Alfa team with your father (life's co-pilot) at your side was an indescribable pleasure, even when we didn't know where we were going or what the time was. The cliché has it that the Mille is made up of a thousand miles and a thousand smiles. The scale of that understatement is staggering.
A thousand miles, countless smiles and memories that will last for generations to come is more like it. Thank you Alfa, thank you Italy.


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NAVARRE — Future Navy Junior ROTC students at Navarre High School are getting an early taste of what to expect in the coming years.
The 84 incoming cadets are trying their hands at knot-tying, drills and physical training all week.
"We kind of expose them to everything so we make sure they want to do this," said Jimmy Ethridge, a retired master chief petty officer who runs the program. "It really takes strong people to do this."
On Monday, the students started out with a three-hour fitness session. Despite the exhaustion, and discomfort, they all returned Tuesday.
"(It's) exhausting but fun," incoming ninth-grader Jenny Kepko said.
The experience is new, but not quite as intimidating as it could be for the future Naval orthopedic surgeon.
"My older brother is in here, so he told me a little bit about what to expect," the 14-year-old said with smile.
Tuesday was a mix of activities, from the basics of drill and orienteering to learning how to tie four types of knots and sneaking peek at the history of the Navy.
On tap for the rest of the week is a community service project and a trip to the Naval Air Station in Pensacola.
"We spent the last week here getting ready for (the camp)," said rising sophomore Patrick Keele, who will begin his second year in Junior ROTC. "We're not too tough on them, but we don't hide stuff from them."
The students also got a lesson in unified movement as they stood on two by fours equipped with ropes and tried to move them forward.
"1, 2, 3 left," 14-year-old Matthew Lee called out to his teammates as they progressed forward. "1, 2, 3, right, 1, 2, 3 left, no left."
In a matter of minutes, the group had walked forward and then back as a team with Lee calling out the numbers with his diaphragm instead of his throat.
"The hardest part is not losing your voice with it," the rising ninth-grader said later.
The students will wrap things up Friday with competitions and an awards ceremony recognizing standout performers and groups.
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Are there any Harry Potter fans here? If so, did you prefer a particular book or movie?
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I particulary loved The Goblet of Fire and Deathly hallows ; ) books Loved the movies too even though they didnt capture the books like they should've
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David Gill, who runs the multi -award winning South Lakes Wild Animal Park, at Dalton-in-Furness, has accused Barrow Borough Council of 'stifling' entrepreneurial spirit in the Furness area.
He believes his project would – * create 45 new jobs * bring elephants and 'big cats' such as jaguars to the park for the first time * improve housing for existing animals * add a children's farm * revamp visitor facilities, including a large car park and a new steam train to take visitors around the park Mr Gill is frustrated that the council has not ruled on his planning application after a year – although it is minded to reject it.
Now he has asked the Government's planning inspectorate to intervene and make a decision.
The borough council's planning committee believes the project would be an over-development of a greenfield site and cause traffic problems for residents of Melton Terrace, off the A590, where the new entrance would be located.
And it says that part of the reason it has taken so long to resolve the matter is because some of the application details were not clear enough.
Mr Gill, 50, who set up the park 17 years ago, said: "I have lived here all my life and these councillors are the most backward-looking people you could come across.
"How a positive project, which would create jobs and bring more people to the area in such desperate economic times as these, could be refused beggars belief."
He added: "At the moment we have four different car parks and up to 4,000 people a day trying to cross a busy 60mph road to get to the park. With our new plans we could have them all on one piece of land."
And he warned that the zoo, which is one of Cumbria's top five visitor attractions, would stagnate if it did not grow.
"In this day and age, if you don't go forwards you are going backwards."
The zoo is already home to a variety of animals, including giraffes, rhinos, lions and lemurs and runs two animal conservation charities which aim to protect vulnerable species such as Sumatran tigers.
Mr Gill's plan has been backed by Cumbria Tourism managing director Ian Stephens, who said: ''The park provides one of many good reasons for visiting the Furness peninsula and has brought important benefits into the area in terms of employment, and tourist expenditure.
"The expansion plans are to be encouraged and have a close fit with the tourism strategy for Cumbria. We're sure that most people will be in favour of bringing increased employment and income to the area and as such we hope that the planning issues can be overcome".
John Millar, chairman of Dalton with Newton Parish Council, which opposed the plans, said councillors were not against expansion or creating jobs but were worried about access.
"We are concerned about traffic flow and the impact this could have on the surrounding rural area," he said Coun Ann Thomson, chairman of Barrow's planning committee told the Gazette: "We are not in the business of stifling entrepreneurialism – we wouldn't dream of doing that."
She said members had particular concerns that the car park would 'stand out like a sore thumb' on the hillside and it was still unclear how it would be masked by landscaping.
Barrow and Furness MP John Woodcock said: "Safety should never be compromised, but I hope these concerns can be resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
"The wildlife park is one of this area's big-pull attractions with lots of potential to expand and create more jobs in the years ahead."
The final decision will be made by secretary of state for local government and communities Eric Pickles following advice from the planning inspectorate.
A ruling is likely to be made next spring.
A VERY small Beatrix Potter drawing has sold for nearly £50,000 at an auction in America.
The three-and-three-quarter inches by six inches ink and watercolour had been expected to sell for up to 37,500 at the Sotheby's auction, in New York, but reached £47,438
The miniature, called 'Guinea pigs going to their garden...' was among 193 original illustrations sold by wealthy American couple, Kendra and Allan Daniel. The painting depicts four guinea pigs following a fifth along a path carrying garden tools.
A spokesman for Sotheby's said: "Early in 1893, when she was in her twenties, Beatrix Potter borrowed a number of guinea pigs from her friend, Miss Paget. One, named Mr Chopps, proved to be no problem but another, named Queen Elizabeth, apparently 'took to eating blotting paper, pasteboard, string and other curious substances and expired during the night. A pair of gardening illustrations date from this time: four guinea pigs following a blue-coated guinea pig and four guinea pigs working under the guidance of the blue-coated guinea pig.
"These were later redrawn in 1922 and used in Potter's book Cecil Parsley's Nursery Rhymes."


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Midwest Living Review
Along the Lewis and Clark Trail, Spirit Mound awaits. Located just outside Vermillion, this grassy hill was an important part of local Native American tribes' lore. The Omaha, Oto and Yankton tribes told the Lewis and Clark expedition that they would find spirits with small bodies and big heads residing on the mound. Any human who dared approach would be killed. The explorers tested their luck, and lived to tell the tale. It's now an interesting reason for people to visit this small piece of prairie and hike to the top of the hill. Spirit Mound is out in the country, at a vague address listed as "5 miles north of Vermillion on Highway 19." We found a crossroads address that we thought was nearby and entered it into our navigation system, which turned out to be a terrible idea. Our advice? Just go five miles north on Hwy. 19 and follow the clear and ample signs. The just-under-1-mile trail is a combination of pea gravel and dirt and, while we made it with sandals, it would have been more comfortable with sneakers. Signs along the way explain the story of Spirit Mound, explore Lewis and Clark's expedition, and discuss area wildlife, then and now. Benches along the way allow visitors to rest. At the top of the mound, guests can stand where Lewis and Clark stood and view the wide stretch of prairie. It's an interesting stop for nature buffs and history buffs alike. Admission is free.


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To the editor:
The February 15 letter to the community from City Manager Rashad Young describing the city's plan to amend the zoning ordinance and revote the waterfront plan is an unfortunate example of things to come in city government. It's hard to see this action as anything other than an insider power play.
City council will demonstrate by either a supermajority or unanimous vote that the zoning code, as amended, and consequently the waterfront plan is beyond challenge by residents. Sure it has the votes, but does it have to be so blatant in its disregard for the interests of residents of all parties now excluded from the political process?
The fact that city council decided to take this action in an executive session and then explain the unexplainable through a letter from the city manager — crafted to appear like an action on behalf of residents — is insulting. There is no reason to rush this process since a decision on all legal matters is due in less than two months.
In the seven working days before its planned vote, our planning commission — with three brand-new members — is tasked to consider and act on an extremely contentious and significant amendment to the zoning ordinance. Every neighborhood in the city will be affected if property owners lose the right to protest changes to text amendments. With this change, as long as a text change slips through city council on a 4-3 vote, any range of uses can proceed without special consideration or protection for those most affected.
Worse yet, our city council, with a majority of new members, is asked to vote on the waterfront plan without any work sessions planned or significant discussions with stakeholders. All council members expressed concerns with the plan during recent election campaigns, and nothing has changed in the plan.
The haste strongly indicates this initiative is a legal maneuver to make moot the court case or a pre-emptive concession to developer concerns — or both.
Young's letter is a tacit admission of all the procedural mistakes the city made that will likely lead to a loss at court. The residents' protest petition was valid, submitted in a timely fashion and applicable to zoning changes being considered in January 2012.
The board of zoning appeals found its fellow residents were correct and acted in good faith. The only delay to zoning decisions is caused by the city. By dropping its appeal of the board of zoning's decision, all amendments to city zoning could proceed immediately through the approval process.
There is too much development in the approved pipeline to allow a monopoly on power to proceed relatively unchecked because of permissive zoning procedures, executive session shenanigans and a corrosive consensus in the political arena. This new council is off to a very poor start, leading many residents to ask, "What next, city council?"
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Disenfranchise? Due process? For nearly four years the City Council and citizens of Alexandria have reviewed the Waterfront Plan. In 2012, the plan which is related to 7 acres of the roughly 300 acres of waterfront, was approved by Council by a 5-2 vote. This vote is the subject of litigation, costing the city money. Maybe old towners have money to waste. The City is being prudent.
The two Council members who voted against the plan were subject to the due process of the November election, and lost, as did Bob Woods. The citizens of Alexandria showed their support for the plan in November. Now, the Council is reconsidering the vote. By reconsidering the vote, and likely having a supermajority, the City will save significant legal fees. I commend the City Council for this direct action.
Further, as we read about the needs of our schools, due the growing population of students interested in attending Alexandria schools, and we hear about budget shortfalls, I also commend the City for taking this action now. The results will be new taxable property contribution to the City sooner than waiting for the court decision.


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By NATHAN GREGORY
An official 2012 presidential election summary shows 7,171 outlying Oktibbeha County voters cast their ballots on Nov. 6, while 10,945 city voters went to the polls.
Counting absentee and affidavit ballots, Oktibbeha County as a whole experienced a voter turnout of 18,284. That is 68.85 percent of the county's 26,557 registered voters.
For the second presidential election in a row, a majority of the county voted Democratic for President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. This election, 9,095 were cast for the incumbent, while 8,761 were cast for Republican candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan. Third party candidates Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Virgil Goode and Barbara Dale Washer received minimal amounts of votes. Johnson, running on the Libertarian ticket with James P. Gray, received the most third party votes in the county with 168. Green Party candidate Stein and running mate Cheri Honkala received 48 votes, while Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode and running mate Jim Clymer received 40. Reform party candidate Washer and running mate Cathy L. Toole received five votes.
Obama carried outlying county precincts and city precincts with 3,616 and 5,479 votes respectively.
While the presidential race went to the Democrats in the county, the U.S. Senate race did not. With 8,163 total votes, Albert N. Gore fell more than 1,000 votes shy of incumbent Roger Wicker, who had 9,184 votes. Wicker carried both outlying county and inner city precincts with 3,600 and 5,584 votes respectively. Out of 21 total precincts, Gore was able to carry Bell Schoolhouse, Central Starkville, Gillespie, Maben, North Starkville District 2, Oktoc, Osborn and Sessums precincts. He lost the Hickory Grove/Southeast precinct to Wicker by one vote. Wicker had 518 votes to Gore's 517.
Third party U.S. Senate candidates Thomas Cramer (Constitution) and Shawn O'Hara (Reform) received total countywide votes of 204 and 120 respectively.
Republicans running for U.S. House of Representatives First and Third Congressional District also carried a majority in Oktibbeha County. First Congressional District incumbent Alan Nunnelee only carried one of the five precincts in which he was running, but his overwhelming majority over Democratic challenger Brad Morris in the Sturgis/North Bradley district was enough to earn him a 753-582 win. Recent redistricting in the state placed that precinct as well as Bell Schoolhouse, Maben, Center Grove/North Adaton and Craig Springs/South Bradley in District 1.
Third Congressional District incumbent Gregg Harper soundly defeated Reform Party challenger John "Luke" Pannell 9,698-3,618 in the other 16 precincts.
Northern District Supreme Court Candidate District 3 Josiah Dennis Coleman defeated Richard "Flip" Phillips in that race 9,027-5,402.
Four of the five election commissioner races were unopposed, meaning District 2 Commissioner Sissy Smitherman, District 3 Commissioner Myles Carpenter, District 4 Commissioner Joe Baker and District 5 Commissioner Bettye Ford retained their posts.
Judith "Judy" Goodman challenged incumbent Steven "Greg" Fulgham in District 1 but lost by more than 500 votes. Fulgham had 1,892 votes to Goodman's 1,383.


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There were very few who expected the Miami Dolphins to defeat The New England Patriots today. There were no surprises, the Patriots wiped the floor with the Dolphins, 41-13. Miami fell apart at the seams in the second half, echoing their performance on their schedule so far.
Joe Philbin had his team playing fired up in the first half, dominating on both sides of the ball but two costly turnovers yielded 14 easy points for the Patriots. Miami was able to pull within one point seconds before halftime after some savvy timeouts by Philbin and a 32 yard touchdown strike from quarterback Ryan Tannehill to wide receiver Mike Wallace.
The highlights for the Dolphins ended in the first half. They were unable to muster any points in the second half and New England scored at will. Like their season, Miami's second half performance went south and didn't look back.
The Dolphins seem to have the fight and the will to win each week but lately they can't seem to stay out of their own way. Injuries have taken their toll on the roster and the lack of depth at certain positions has put them in a bind. With that being said it is clear the Dolphins have a team that can win these games but the execution for four quarters is severely lacking. Leadership is in question and owner Stephen Ross is going to have his hands full in the coming weeks evaluating the coaching staff as the team moves forward. Miami has two more games left to play this season and the odds of any post season action are all but over. Once again there are no surprises.
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Before the home game in Miami today, the Dolphins had a firm grasp on reaching the post season but the loss today has all but crippled any chance of them advancing beyond December. They now face a daunting uphill battle of winning their final four games to have any realistic chance of making the playoffs. That task begins next Sunday against one of the best teams in the NFL right now, the New England Patriots.
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by Ron Borges
A guy who spent his career opening up holes for others now needs someone to open one up for him. Truth be told, Bob Kuechenberg not only needs it, he deserves it.
You cant talk to anyone who played on or against the Miami Dolphins of the 1970s who wont tell you Kuechenberg wasnt the best offensive lineman on a team that won two Super Bowls, went to three and became the only undefeated team in the modern history of the NFL when Miami went 17-0 in 1972. Yet his old offensive linemates Larry Little and Jim Langer are both in the Hall. So is Bob Griese, the quarterback Kuechenberg protected as if he was his son; Larry Csonka, the fullback he bowled people over for; and Paul Warfield, the wide receiver who got into the Hall in part because Kuechenberg was so adept at keeping Griese upright. Theyre in while Kuechenberg has remained out in the snow for 31 years.
One explanation why he was an eight-time finalist but never made it through the door in Canton seems to be that he simply played too long. Langer and Little both retired several years before Kuechenberg, who lasted 14 seasons before hanging it up after starting 15 games in 1983 and making his final Pro Bowl at age 36. Because of that, they became Hall of Fame eligible before he did and were both inducted, meaning if Kuechenberg were added 60% of that Dolphins line would be enshrined.
It is the same problem Jerry Kramer and L.C. Greenwood of the Packers and Steelers dynasties have long faced without gaining induction despite considerable support. Its not that anyone says theres a limit to how many enshrines are allowed from any team but it feels, at least in Kuechenbergs case, that he kept hitting a glass ceiling, a victim, perhaps, of a numbers crunch.
A six-time Pro Bowl performer (one more than LIttle and the same number as Langer), Kuechenberg came to the Dolphins in 1970 by a circuitous route. Drafted in 1969 by the Philadelphia Eagles, who finished 2-12 the previous season, Kuechenberg quit shortly after training camp began but came back only to be cut several weeks later. He was then signed and cut in a week by the Atlanta Falcons before agreeing to play semi-pro ball for the Chicago Owls of the Continental Football League that fall.
Kuechenberg often has said that 1969 season was for the birds. The Eagles, Falcons and Owls.
Don Shula signed him the following year and he started five games at left guard for the Dolphins that 1970 season before becoming a full-time starter the following year. The only time he would relinquish that position for the next 13 years was when he was shifted to left tackle in 1978. Kuechenberg made the Pro Bowl that season too, and despite being undersized at 6-2, 253 pounds, remained at left tackle in 1979 before moving back inside and making two more Pro Bowls (1982-83) at left guard before retiring. According to Dolphins game books, he was called for holding only 15 times in 196 NFL games. That may not be a record but its a sure sign of his dominance.
Asked about who he would give a free pass into the Hall of Fame to if he had the power, Hall of Fame coach Don Shula told Talk of Fame Network, Thats an easy one for me. I had a guard by the name of Bob Kuechenberg, Kooch was just a great football player. He blocked some pretty good tackles that we played against and did a good job but hes never gotten that final recognition, which is that Hall of Fame jacket. Some day, I hope Im around to see him accept.
Shula, who has more victories than any coach in NFL history, also once said Bob Kuechenberg did more to help my team win than any player I ever coached. Considering he coached Johnny Unitas, Dan Marino and Griese thats saying a mouthful.
A mouthful is often what you got playing against Kuechenberg. He was a hard-nosed, physical player whose approach to the game was best reflected by the fact to play in Super Bowl VIII he had a 10-inch metal rod inserted in his broken forearm. That day he pummeled Vikings Hall of Fame defensive end Alan Page with it, the cast around his arm in tatters by the time the game was over. Miami won.
His former offensive line coach that day, Monte Clark, once said of Kuechenberg: Theres not a tougher guy in America. You have to kill him to beat him. He played in the Super Bowl the year we went 17-0 with a cast on a broken arm. After the game, (the cast) was like pulp because he beat Alan Page in the head with it so many times. Kooch was a great short-yardage blocker. He could take a guy who was about two inches off the ground, get down, dig him out and put him on his back. He was very tenacious. Tough. Great competitor. Never made mistakes.
Outspoken and some might say grumpy, Kuechenberg has always spoken his mind. When his final year of eligibility as a modern day candidate ended without induction in 2009 he said, Now you get thrown in the swamp.
He was referring to the HOF Senior Committee, from where his former teammate Nick Buoniconti emerged in 2001 to win enshrinement. That is now the only opening left for the 67-year-old Kuechenberg and its a hole someone else will have to clear out for him.
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"Purple Birch" by Carmen Dolce 8 8
Perfect accent Love the colors and mood of this print. The frame is heavy and well-made. Packaging was thorough and product came quickly. Having purchased prints and had them professionally framed before, this was a great value, especially for the size. My only "wish" is that the framing had included anti- glare glass, but I like it enough that I may replace it myself. May 23, 2015
Beautiful Statement Piece We purchased this piece to hang in a semi-formal dining room. The colors and frame are extremely versatile so it would work in almost any space. It's a wonderfully sized piece, large enough to be the anchor image. Considering the size, it's also a great value at this price point. September 3, 2013
Beautiful and serene I saw this in the store today and am going back tonight to buy it. We'll be moving into a new home soon, and I've just gotten new monocromactic sateen bedding in a taupe shade. I think this print will look beautiful above our bed -- colorful but still serene, and the price is very reasonable. I think this print would also look good above a mantel. It fits in very well with the other botanical-inspired artwork we have in our home. November 21, 2011
Prettier in my home I needed a large wall decor in my dining area. I fell in love with this print when I saw it in the store because it had all the colors in my living area. When I got it home both my husband and son really liked it. It looks even better hung, makes my room look a little more formal. Even a week later my son would walk by and say "I really like that picture. It looks really nice!" Enough said. November 15, 2011
Perfect for my living room I purchased this print today and I am in love with it! I am going to hang it above the console table in my living room. It is a beautiful contemporary piece and would make a great focal point in any room. The colors are good for all seasons. Looks expensive too. I highly recommend it! August 3, 2011
Beautiful Pic, Bad Frame I purchased this beautiful picture 2 weeks ago after shopping many weeks for just the right one for my newly remodeled house. It had stuck in my mind and I realized I just need to go back to World Market and get it. It brings color and excitment to the room, gives you many choices for accent colors, but my frame was coming apart in one bottom corner. I pushed it back together and now it's coming apart at the top corner. I looked through several to fine one unscratched frame, but obviously I'm heading back to replace it. It's the perfect picture, just watch the workmanship of the frame-the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars. You won't regret this choice. April 21, 2012
Very versatile! This print is hanging in my living room and brings all the large, solid color furniture pieces together. It gives me the opportunity to change the 'pop' accent colors in the room on a whim and I feel like I have a new room. I love the finish on the frame and it is a great piece for the price. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is when you glance at it when walking by, it seems a little busy. You have to take a moment to look at it to really appreciate all its complexity. December 29, 2011
Ordered twice - Came damaged twice I really wanted to like this painting. I actually saw it in the store 1 week, went back to buy it the next week, but they were sold out. I went online and ordered it. When it came the frame was damaged and a piece of the print was torn underneath the glass. I returned it to the store, and took my chances ordering another one online and it came even more damaged - broken glass everywhere. I finally went to another store where they had a couple in stock, but they were both damaged. For some reason, the way this print was created, it starts detaching from the backing on almost every single one I saw. Very disappointing. December 9, 2013
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CLAYTON COUNTY, GA -- A Clayton County woman's birth certificate has listed her as a man for the last 37 years, but she didn't notice the mistake until now. Nakia Grimes says she was horrified when state workers told her she'd need a doctor's note proving her gender to get it corrected.
Grimes told FOX 5 she never noticed the "x" in the field on her birth certificate that marks her as a male.
"You only look at the name, the date, and the year," Grimes told FOX 5. "I've never seen that."
Grimes said she never really had a need for the document until she prepared to renew her Georgia driver's license, but new rules mean she needed a copy. That's where the problems started. With her 37th birthday approaching, Grimes went to the state's Vital Records Services.
"When I went to retrieve my birth certificate, I let her know the sex status is wrong," Grimes explained. "I'm a woman, was born a woman.
Gender is a question Grimes-- a mother-- says she never imagined she'd have to answer, much less prove. But she says state workers asked if she had a primary care doctor, and told her she'd have to have proof she is a woman.
"She said I needed to go have a PAP exam, have a doctor write a note verifying you're a woman, and bring it back-– notarized," Grimes told FOX 5. She left the office horrified and angry.
FOX 5's Kaitlyn Pratt took Grimes' concerns to Vital Records Services. Their director said what happened is not protocol, and she's looking into the incident. She also promised to make things right.
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If you ask many Republicans, they'll tell you that Barack Obama himself and the administration he leads are deeply, profoundly, fundamentally corrupt. It isn't just that they have the wrong values or the wrong policy priorities, but rather that they are practically a band of criminals bent on destroying America and unconcerned about what violations of law and morality they commit as they cut a swath of misery and destruction across our nation.
For some on the right—the cynical politician, the carnival-barking radio host—these ideas are a tool to use in a partisan game. They understand that the picture is an absurd one, but they also know it's useful in keeping the rabble roused. But for many others, from ordinary voters to Republican lawmakers, it's something they sincerely believe. So five years into this presidency, where do we stand with the scandals that were supposed to lead to Barack Obama's downfall? The truth—no doubt a painful one for Republicans—is that there's almost no there there. Or more precisely, what we have are a number of disconnected screw-ups and errors in judgment, most of which are not even worthy of the name "scandal." Given the last few decades of history, and given the size and scope of the federal government, that's quite an achievement.
So let's take a look back and see what happened to all these affairs that never turned out to be the scandals conservatives hoped they would be. Just to be clear, when I use the word "scandalous" in this list, I don't mean "bad." When you say, for instance, that there has been little evidence of anything scandalous occurring in Benghazi, conservatives often reply, "Four people died!" Indeed they did, and that was terribly tragic, but that doesn't necessarily make it a scandal. Two hundred and forty-one Americans died in the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon, but it wouldn't be accurate to call that a "Reagan administration scandal," because while there were some bad decisions made with awful results, there wasn't any criminality or corruption or cover-up, the things we usually associate with scandals.
To make a truly meaningful administration scandal, you need two things. First, there has to be some kind of criminal or morally atrocious behavior somewhere, which we can put under the general heading of "malfeasance." People doing their jobs poorly isn't enough to make it a scandal. Second, you need the involvement of highly-placed administration officials. Only an affair with both features is a scandal. If a ranger at Denali National Park in Alaska is found to be running a moose-based prostitution ring, that's only an administration scandal if people high up in the administration knew about it. On to our list:
The Energy Department gave loans to a bunch of companies with promising green technologies, including this one. When the price of silicon collapsed, the company's technology was no longer cost-effective, and they soon went bankrupt. The most scandalous thing that happened was that people in the administration sent a lot of panicked emails back and forth because they were embarrassed about the failure of the company, which they had repeatedly touted.
Conclusion: Involvement of high administration officials, but no malfeasance.
Fast and Furious
Beginning in the Bush years, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives used a tactic known as "gunwalking," where they allowed straw purchasers to buy weapons in the hopes that they could track the guns' progress to Mexican drug gangs and eventually disrupt the traffic. One gunwalking operation that began in 2009, Fast and Furious, was terribly mismanaged, and they lost track of guns that wound up with the gangs; one of these guns was found at the site of a shootout where a Border Patrol agent was killed.
Conclusion: Possible malfeasance, no high administration official involvement.
Four Americans are killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate. One investigation after another concludes that while evidence of anti-American hostility was not taken seriously enough and more should have been done to enhance security, no one intentionally left anyone to die and there was no cover-up.
Conclusion: High administration official involvement, no malfeasance.
Deluged with applications by Tea Party groups claiming to be "social welfare" organizations, poorly trained IRS officials give some of these groups extra scrutiny in reviewing their applications for charitable status. It is later revealed that many liberal groups got similar extra scrutiny.
Conclusion: No malfeasance, no high administration involvement.
Aggressive leak investigations
The Justice Department sought phone records for the Associated Press and listed a Fox News reporter as a possible criminal co-conspirator in an investigation, making it harder than ever for reporters, particularly national security reporters, to discover information and keep their sources confidential.
Conclusion: Probably no malfeasance (they were technically within their legal rights), probable high administration involvement.
There are also little things that pop up for a week or two and then disappear, like the time the GSA spent all that money on silly conferences. But when you look over this list, what's striking is that none of them comes within a hundred miles of the scandals that most recent two-term presidencies have eventually become embroiled in. And despite all conservatives' efforts, none of them have brought Barack Obama down.
Republicans will say that these things haven't been scandals because the media have refused to investigate them, which is just ridiculous. All of these stories got plenty of coverage at the time they emerged and in many cases for some time after, and major news organizations did their best to investigate them. The problem conservatives have isn't that they weren't covered, it's that the coverage ran its course and then petered out, because nothing scandalous was revealed. To show you the depths of disingenuousness conservatives will plunge to, consider this report from the Media Research Center. They breathlessly report that the television networks devoted 44 times as much air time to the Chris Christie Bridgegate scandal than they have to the IRS scandal in the last six months—88 minutes for the former, and only two minutes for the latter. Conservative writers wrote columns about this terrible media bias based on the MRC's findings. But if you're saying, "Hold on, I know there was more than two minutes of coverage of the IRS scandal, because I saw plenty of it," you're on to something. That's because the IRS story broke last May, eight months ago. So if you ignore the two months after the story broke, when it got lots and lots of coverage, it got almost no coverage! Which is like saying the media ignore the Super Bowl, if you look only at their coverage from March until September.
That's the kind of pathetic excuse for analysis produced by the right's leading media watchdog. If you were a conservative, wouldn't you be embarrassed by that? And wouldn't you also be embarrassed that your side's investigative efforts in Congress are led by Darrell Issa, who has done analogous things (like leaking partial transcripts of testimony that turn out to be completely misleading) that end up only serving to make him look foolish? The pursuit of the allegedly corrupt Obama administration and the allegedly in-the-tank media is being led by a bunch of buffoons who undermine their credibility every time they open their mouths. Issa is now planning to spend his last year as head of the oversight committee focusing on Benghazi, the IRS, and Fast and Furious. Seriously.
So what can we conclude from all this? There are three possible explanations for the lack of a major scandal in the Obama administration. The first is that something truly horrific has gone on, but as of yet it hasn't been discovered. The second is that the scandals we know about haven't been fully investigated, and will eventually yield more wrongdoing than we currently understand. And the third is that the administration has not, in fact, committed any horrible crimes. Which seems most likely?
That isn't to say that they haven't made plenty of mistakes, because they have. And there are three years left in Obama's term, so you never know—maybe someone will discover that he's having an affair with Jennifer Lawrence, or that Valerie Jarrett is a mole for the Yakuza, or that those FEMA concentration camps are real. But there's also the chance that he'll end his term without any major scandal, which would be quite something.
A final note: The question of whether we should think of NSA spying as a scandal in these terms is a complicated one that I'm going to have to leave for another day.
Thu, 2014-01-16 16:24
An entertaining read, but this should somehow be labeled as political satire or a paraody of some sort shouldn't it? Oh. Wait. You're actually serious. Never mind. And the NSA scandal (like everything else treated in this essay) is indeed too complicated for Mr. Waldman. Good instinct to just let it go.
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Alternate ending to "The Wizard of Oz":
Toto pulls the curtain back. The All Powerful Wizard is cranking on levers and shouting into a mic. He then notices Paul Waldman, Dorothy, The Tinman, Scarecrow, and the Lion looking at him in surprise.
Wizard: "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. He is no one."
Paul: "I believe it guys. Makes sense."
This piece was terribly written and reasoned. Yama hama.
Fri, 2014-01-17 10:02
Nixon's second article of impeachment: " he endeavoured to use the IRS against his enemies." But he couldn't do it-his henchman Jack Caulfield told him IRS was infested with democrats. Obama on the other hand effectively used IRS to kneecap the teaparty right before the 2012 elections. Then used a campaign contributor to "investigate." The investigator never troubled to get testimony from the victims.
Fri, 2014-01-17 10:08
If the Watergate scandal had been investigated by Nixon donors, there would not have been a scandal either. This administration is a fraud. All they do is investigate themselves and say, "Nothing here". The lame stream media mimics that and presto chango, scandal gone.
The scandal on Bengahazi was the administration's lies they told for weeks. The Senate investigation bears out that they should have known about it. Press has been ignoring it now that Hillary might run.
The IRS scandal was targeting conservative groups, oh wait, there was a delay on one or two liberal groups as well, so no scandal here, wink, wink. All the money given to Obama's crony friends, like Solyndra. Press ignores, Admin says no scandal, so bye bye scandal.
Fri, 2014-01-17 10:13
Except that the administration has been trying like mad to cover up the truth about Benghazi from the beginning. They were unprepared for a terrorist attack, they did order men left to die (disobeyed by at least one team), they did not try to rescue them, and then they were dishonest about who was attacking and why, to cover up that utter lack of preparation. No one has ever been held accountable.
The IRS has unfolded similarly. The evidence is clear that the IRS did target groups in direct violation of the law. The administration's initial story of a "rogue office" have turned out not to be true, and there is now evidence that they received their orders, and possibly their targets, from someone in the White House. Additionally, the person appointed to investigate the matter is a political donor to the administration, a major conflict of interest.
The entire issue of Fast and Furious is that, as you say, there is malfeasance, but the administration has, again, never held anyone accountable, or admitted any wrongdoing. Americans are dead due to actions by Justice, but we have no assurance that it won't happen again, because we don't know who is responsible in the first place.
These stories remain in the news because there are unanswered questions. They are all national issues, unlike the "Bridgegate" traffic jam, and two of them involve dead Americans as a direct result of government action (or inaction). And yes, if you knowingly omit some of the key information, then, yes, the stories lack something.
Fri, 2014-01-17 11:01
Fri, 2014-01-17 11:03
This is insulting. In Benghazi, the administration lied and misled the American public about the nature of the attacks for weeks, and then lied about that, and then got Candy Crowley to lie about it in the Presidential debate.
In the NRLB the president made unconstitutional appointment he knows the SCOTUS will rule unconsitutional, but give unions elevated negotiating power while the court take years to undo the Unconstitutional corruption.
Obamacare was sold on a mountain of lies, which, by definition is curruption.
The IRS has a "few" "poorly trained" blah blah blah. And we know this because an Obama contributor has been hired to investigate, which is corrupt.
Your embrace of corruption sickens me.
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Fri, 2014-01-17 11:25
Fri, 2014-01-17 12:28
Fri, 2014-01-17 12:39
One more whitewash for Obama. A whitewash that ignores the failed leadership that goes off to a fundraiser while an embassy is being attacked. The most (almost) criminal accomplishment of dividing the nation and making those who were apathetic to race, now focus on it. The biggest scandal is that if all of the holy journalists had done their job and reported what was happening in the months before the 2012 elections, Obama would not now be president. But that's ok, you can still keep your insurance.
Fri, 2014-01-17 13:10
Good article. Seems like to paid right-wing Kock-suckers have been sent out. Hope they're paid well. What would be worse is if these fascists actually believed they sh%# they're spewing.
My advice to them: Take the Ronald Raygun or Rush Limbaugh posters down from your bedroom wall, fold it into sharp corners, and shove it up your azz.
Fri, 2014-01-17 14:52
Ah, the well reasoned response. Love it. Deflect and attack, don't actually respond to any of the points being made. It's easy to do! Watch:
tslynch27 needs to get rid of his Barbara Boxer Blow Up Doll and join us in the real world!
I hope he got his George Soros check along with his food stamps and disability benefits (which he showed his ID for, but showing ID is RACIST when voting).
Yer a doosh.
Any of those will work. It takes the place of actual thought, which is obviously not going to happen in the head of tslynch any time politics are discussed...
Fri, 2014-01-17 13:15
You missed one key component to scandals. THE key component. You need a press that is willing to go after the scandal and DIG. Step back for a moment and compare the venemous non-stop coverage of "Bridgegate" to the ho-hum, apologetic coverage of Obama's scandals and you'll understand what I mean.
Fri, 2014-01-17 13:44
and with solyndra and others, the writer claims no scandal, but strange how the political contributors got their money out, and made money while the little people suffered.
Funny how the writer ignores the warnings that were happening and ignored.
The Obama administration ignored warnings from its own analysts to cut its losses on a $535 million loan to Solyndra, and instead restructured the deal, leading to bigger costs to taxpayers when the solar panel maker went bankrupt, Republican investigators said on Thursday.
In its final report on its 18-month probe into the failed loan, the Republican-led House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee said the Democratic administration rushed into the deal, then helped keep the company going despite a series of red flags and explicit warnings.
and the same could be said for other companies that had the same problems
Abound Solar – The solar manufacturer received a $400 million DOE stimulus loan guarantee - BANKRUPT
Solyndra – The solar manufacturer received a $535 million DOE stimulus loan guarantee -BANKRUPT
Beacon Power – The solar company received a $43 million DOE stimulus loan guarantee –BANKRUPT
Nevada Geothermal Power – Internal audit for the firm that received a $98.5 million stimulus loan guarantee revealed $98 million in net losses and significant debt. MAJOR LOSSES & DEBT
Ener1 – The battery maker, #67 on the White House list of 100 Projects that are Changing America, received a $118.5 million stimulus grant - BANKRUPT
A123 – The battery maker received a $249 million DOE stimulus grant - LAYOFFS
Fisker Automotive – The electric vehicle manufacturer received a $529 million DOE ATVM stimulus loan - LAYOFFS
The Amonix solar manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas, subsidized by federal tax credits and grants, has closed its 214,000-square-foot facility about a year after it opened.
Officials at Amonix headquarters in Seal Beach, Calif., have not responded to repeated calls for comment this week. The company began selling surplus equipment, from automated tooling systems to robotic welding cells, in an online auction Wednesday.
Guess the writer is trying to pass the party line along, ignoring history, and following the plan of Moochelle to rewrite history
Fri, 2014-01-17 13:58
Fri, 2014-01-17 14:43
The white-washiest of white washes. I realize that, as the Prospect, it is your job to defend and deflect anyone with a (D) after their name. I get it. But this is just insulting. You are better off focusing on how bad closing lanes on a bridge is than trying to compare that with putting semi-automatic weapons into the hands of the Mexican drug lords or trying to say that using political power to punish people is only OK if you are a Democrat. Chris Christie is the leader, so he had to know his staff was using their political power to punish a political opponent, but that has absolutely no resemblance at all to President Obama's staff using their political power to punish political opponents, because President Obama didn't know about it.
There is a very real reason why the President's approval rating is in the 30's: We the People are now inured to the media covering for him. To be honest, I would have been disappointed if this article hadn't been written. As it is, it can be used as the shining example of how Liberal Media covers the Liberal politicians. It is bovine scatology of the highest order. I just wish some more thought had been put into it. This is transparently biased and all obviously fabricated. Couldn't you do a somewhat better job of carrying water?
Fri, 2014-01-17 14:46
Sat, 2014-01-18 01:03
So Paul, I see you're still drinking the cool aide. There is no doubt in my mind that Barack Obama suffers from a gross lack of managerial and leadership skills complicated by the complete absence of a soul. How any human being can send women and men into harms way and remain ambivalent about it is beyond my ability to comprehend. You can cavalierly split hairs smugly assured of how right you are, but make no mistake, Obama's gross incompetence as a leader has lead to the death and injury of thousands.
Sat, 2014-01-18 11:44
Sat, 2014-01-18 21:49
Mr. Waldman is, if nothing else, quite prolific. But like that odious matter that regularly emanates from the south end of a northbound cow, it is quickly very easy to get way too much of what falls out.
Mr. Waldman may actually believe what he has penned in this pseudo article, but more likely he is just the willing shill of the Obama Administration. Again.
No scandals? Riiiiiiggggght! And there was no fire at the Hindenburg and no hole in the Titantic.
But what we do know, is that -- with the exception of the location of Jimmy Hoffa's body -- the truth always comes out. And time will not be kind to this Administration or this President on Benghazi. His current rankings in the polls are likely the high water mark for his next three years. No, he won't hit the low number that George W. Bush did, but that is only because Democrats are largely incapable of being honest about one of their own being a crook, charlatan, imbecile or thief (i.e., Representatives Dan Rostenkowski and William J. Jefferson). It just doesn't seem to matter to them if a person has integrity or character. They just want to know whether they voted with Pelosi or Reid most of the time. That is the sole determiner of a person's desirability or lack thereof.
Tue, 2014-01-21 16:28
The right wing machine is working overtime today. Word got out about a piece unapproved by Rush the Clown or Faux News or CraziMax . And they can't believe it. And they're here in numbers
After months of indoctrination, I know, it's hard.
Meanwhile in the sane word, we accept facts (not partisan attacks), context (not one-sided reviews that ignore history or the complete story) and scope (a clerk spills coffee, it's not likely to be the President's fault).
Fri, 2014-07-18 13:15
What a worthless hack. I don't know how you liberal progressives live with yourselves. I picture you putting a 45 in your mouths and pulling the trigger. There is not enough psychiatric medicine in the world for you people. Not one scandal. Are you f**king kidding me? I only hope that when the time comes, you get what is coming to you in the end.
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A friend of mine posted this on facebook. Of course this kid was the biggest, shady drug addict and thief when he was a teenager. Then he "found god". I try really hard to ignore shit like this the best I can. What would you guys do? Not specifically for this actual posting, just in general. When people you know post crap like this online, or you overhear friends making snarky comments what do you do? I didn't comment on this. It's kind of funny. If it was malicious, then I would have.
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This is the problem with things like Facebook and Twitter- an ability to push agendas, from all points. A friend of mine once said that he disliked social networks because he felt a medium where you could instantly get any thought you have out to potentially millions of people is a dangerous thing. How many things do we simply type into FB or Twitter that in real life we'd stop and think about first.
I'm going off these sites and haven't used them for a few weeks now (Though did have to go on twitter recently to send a DM). I no longer debate creationists either anymore. I don't see the point, I'm not going to convince them and it's unlikely they'll convince me. And besides, I wouldn't be conclusively swayed by their evidence as I'm not in the right fields of research to fully understand such levels of proof, hence I must defer to those qualified and as such it is their job to convince the scientific establishment and not to convince me.
I think we need to pick and chose our battles. I've got a lecture to give next month on the myths of Christmas which will be posted online hopefully, but that's as far as my Christmas debate will go this year, after spending way too much time arguing over it with Christians.
My response to stuff like this is always the same:
I love the way the author of that quote doesn't seem to understand that believing in God as the creator of the universe is believing in a magical wizard who created a universe by invoking magic.
I'm always amazed by the number of psychopaths that find Jesus and become televangelists.
I usually respond to things that are as false as that. Politely, of course, simply by saying something like
"Actually, atheism has nothing to say about those topics, you're talking about abiogenisis and evolution. Here are some links to help you understand these terms a little better".
I tend to ignore "pray for this person for this reason" type comments because you can't win (unless they post on my wall "i am praying for you").
The big thing to remember is, generally when people post stuff like that, a logical and reasoned response means nothing to them.
I agree with those that suggest to pick your battles. I have family members who really only repost unoriginal religious content. I ignore most of it, as its crap fluff stuff anyway. I most certainly respond to the posts where they are asserting someone elses opinion and spin it for themselves. A recent example was when a cousin of mine posted about the apparent attack on religion for schools and the Pledge of Allegiance, and groups that are fighting it as unconstitutional. Her post essentially said it was unconstitutional to have it removed, and I pointed out how it is actually unconstitutional to have it there. It led to a good discussion, unfortunately (as my position was correct) I was unmoved, and the other respondents (all in counter to my position) seemingly dismissed everything I posted.
Again, its all about picking your battles...
I also try to ignore that kind of stuff, but I had a friend who went to bible college and all that, and all he ever posted was bible quotes. I ignored them for the most part, but some posts were so hateful and ignorant that I debated with him and 4 of his religious friends, including one of his teachers for quite some time.
Another person from my college days does the same on her FB. Constant jesus quotes, and I just hide her posts and move on with life.
But if you want to poke fun, you can always post this image on their page.
I ignore it. I see soooo much crap I hate seeing posted to my friends' Facebook pages, and sometimes it makes me really angry to see it. But I just click on the "hide status" option and get rid of it and move on. I see no reason to confront my friends on their views when they show no intention to change them. I live and let live, I guess you'd say.
Only time I ever say anything is when they ASK for a friendly debate. And then I keep it very civil.
Yea, this I would respond to. Its not enough that uneducated people push their beliefs in schools to indoctrinate school children with this nonsense but they laugh at science. If there is one thing that deserves respect in this world it is science. It offers the only real source of truth that can be proven undeniable. And people still choose to ignore it and claim they are right because they take pride in their ignorance.
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When I was 9, my parents took a big leap off a cliff and allowed us to get a puppy.
We were not by nature a gambling family. My father worried about everything and only grudgingly agreed.
My mother was the one who pulled us forward, fueled by her children's desire and her own happy memories of a childhood dog.
I vaguely remember the wet cement of the shelter, the jumble of mostly brown puppies and the warm sleepy weight of the one who chose us.
My memories of growing up with the dog are more vivid. He grew up to bear such a slight resemblance to that sleek, quiet puppy as to make our choice laughable.
Paddlefoot barked at everything from squirrels to passing cars, shed so much we were pulling hair out of our food and spent a lot of time on the lam.
He'd slip out the door and run right down the road, with my brother and me screaming behind him to sit — the only command he recognized.
Last week, I attempted to give my children the same opportunity my parents had given me.
I failed.
We found a dog, fell in love and got overwhelmed almost immediately. We'd been looking for an adult housebroken dog that would be OK with our busy schedules.
We ended up with a sweet bundle of neediness who was still half puppy and only partially housebroken.
Ironically — and this was not the deal breaker — he was also a runner. In 24 hours we'd chased him down twice. If my kids didn't have a fair amount of speed, he'd probably be in Kansas by now.
Instead, he's back with the wonderful woman who rescued him and we are back to square one.
So, to all of you successful dog owners, I never gave you enough credit.
It's harder than I thought and I don't know how you do it.
What does your dog do while you're at work?
Does he sleep through the night?
Do you worry about him when you're not home?
We haven't given up, but we have learned and will proceed more cautiously in the future.
There are lots of dogs out there that need good homes, so many that it can be overwhelming.
And there are lots of people giving all of their free time and money to take care of these dogs.
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