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Posted on 10/12/2012 9:08:40 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Republican nominee Mitt Romney and his allies are banking heavily on a high-risk, high-reward media strategy in the final weeks of the campaign, hoping that burying President Obama in ads will give them a crucial edge on Election Day.
Ad purchases in the presidential race doubled or in some cases tripled last week in swing states such as Colorado, Florida, Iowa and Virginia, tracking data show. The surge is being driven by Romney and well-funded allies, who decided against running more ads earlier in the campaign in favor of a big bang at the end.
Restore Our Future, a super PAC dedicated to helping Romney, has booked $14 million worth of ads in nine states for the final week of October more than it spent on ads during the month of September. The group is also ramping up its spending, airing a mix of ads criticizing Obama and extolling Romney in Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Virginia.
Charles R. Spies, the super PACs treasurer, said conservative groups have been very effective in leveling the playing field with Obama. That effort will continue at an increasing level going forward, he said.
The GOP effort has gained momentum with Romneys advance in the polls since the first presidential debate in Denver, where Obama turned in a widely panned performance. The Oct. 3 event sparked an influx of donations to Romneys campaign and to conservative groups supporting him, giving them more resources for the final push, strategists said.
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Hmmmmm, looks like the "carpet bombing" has the WaPo a little worried. What they are seeing is true leadership in action. Hahahaha
Seems reasonable as the campaigns are WAY too long (by years) and many don't decide until they are in the booth.
Obama needs to spend more money trying to win Arizona... his supporter tell me it's "in play" so he can blow his wad there instead of swing states like Florida. bwahahaha.
(Not to be confused with Barry the muslim and his allies from overseas who are ILLEGALLY contributing millions and millions.)
Typical Post. LOL
What the heck is "high risk" about airing a lot of ads?
Maybe they mean it was risky to hold off the big guns until now? But Mitt's leading the polls and carpet-bombing with ads now has little downside, aside from overall voter fatigue with the volume of ads, But that goes for both sides.
Where were these jerkwads last month when Obama was running ads in the college football games every five minutes?
Are we seeing Shock and Awe in action here?
Candidates spending millions to get votes that have already been cast may be the obituary of this election season..
I have to say, I was wrong about Romney. This campaign stayed patient and didn't panic. The leadership Romney has show THROUGH his campaign (since before the primaries) has been nothing but impressive. He has won me over with his actions and deeds. I doubt he is the total conservative that would be my ideal President, but we need a leader, even if I won't agree with him on every issue.
What's really sad is the number of people whose votes can be swayed by 30 second tv commercials
When I was studying politics, I think the assertion was that the average voter needed to see your ad 8 times in the previous week in order to vote for you. Saturation sticks your name and sound bite into their minds.
They forgot to mention Joe Biden's dynamic debate performance!
It's not Colorado, but look at the absentee ballot requests on Ohio. They are very telling. The democrat requests are way down. The Republican requests are way up.
This was Jerry Brown's strategy in California when he beat multi-millionaire Meg Whitman.
She basically spent $150 million of her own money over a long campaign season and Jerry waited until the last month and he won.
Romney's strategy from the start was to dropkick Obama at the end. The only pitfalls now (barring an October surprise) would be the next two debates.
yep, my thoughts exactly.
It's time for the grown ups to take back the wheel from the affirmative action idiot that nearly blew up the entire world in a few short years.
I think the next debate is really the last oe that will matter. It is town hall - definite wild card right there. Third debate is foreign policy only. People will sleep through that one.
Romney's strategy is to let you come, challenge him, and then deliver a vastly intensified licking toward the end, it's how he campaigned for governor of Massachusetts, and it's also how he's doing it now. Frankly, I have my disagreements, but now is less about finding some ideal candidate for every issue as opposed to one who is competitive, which we frankly really need right now in this highly partisan, smear-happy atmosphere.
"Its not Colorado, but look at the absentee ballot requests on Ohio. They are very telling. The democrat requests are way down. The Republican requests are way up."
As a matter of fact, that is very telling of two things,
1) The Democrats must be rediculously desperate at this point given that the absentee ballots are lower than '08, and more favorable toward GOP than before, and 2) The superstitious idea that Ohio is the tipping point in the election may be a little far-fetched. I would think Florida, especially given the population demographics would lean less into the hardcore conservative and closer to center.
Team Romney is proving to be pitch perfect. For all the hand wringing, they really did have the plan all along.
Boy this is so refreshing compared to 2008.
Arizona isn't "in play" anymore. Most of the illegal aliens left and went to Caulifonya.
Jerry Brown learned from his sister to make sure you have money left at the end of the campaign.
Later, when [Kathleen] Brown ran out of money and had to pull her advertising the weekend before Election Day, a senior Democrat pointed back to the summer spent trying to best Wilson on crime as part of the problem.
"She was on the air all summer, with no movement," the Democrat said. "She was flat-lining. She could have taken (the money that paid for) two weeks of July and two weeks of August and socked it away."
Have you researched the break down of absentee request in Colorado? I have not.
I am curious if it is available.
Unlike the average Freeper (who's a political junkie), most people have lives. I don't blame them.
The potential of an October surprise is why you need large sums of money at the end, as insurance to cancel it out with wall-to-wall attack ads.
Best Tactic:
One week before election; Romney campaign should open its books and show where their money came from and what they spent it on: challenge Obama to do same. I truly beleive that these guys are actually as squeaky clean as they appear; because they realize the moral magnitude of their task and charge.
A lot canhappen in the next few weeks. I'm not counting out an October surprise. In fact, I'm expecting it. And the next two debates. I hope Romney can keep up the momentum.
all a crock. they say this so obama's huge rush of ads that will dwarf romney's ca have cover of being a response move to romney's ads.
The time to say the Romney campaign had a high risk strategy was back in the summer, when it wasn't very clear if Romney would be buried by Obama's barrage of negative ads by the time October rolled around, and end up behind in the polls by double digits. Mid-October has rolled around and Romney is dead even with Obama. It's clear that the gamble has paid off. If Romney doesn't spend his campaign money *before* the elections, when is he going to spend it? This isn't a high-risk strategy - it's the sprint to the finish line during which he will find out whether his relative lack of charisma vis-a-vis Obama can be made up with campaign ads. This is the year we find out if McCain could have won if he hadn't been outspent 3 to 1 by Obama.
I hope they add Ohio to their carpet bombing plan.
As I say a strategy based on 2008 isn't going to work very well in 2012 in the West...
Copy that.
They're testing the water with these two false-flags.
- The racist T-Shirt over at Asocialist Press
- The window supposedly shot by magic bullet at Obama HQ
They're seeing how much smear they can get away with.
Maybe. The Libya coverup issue is growing and growing. People in general, not just conservatives, don't like being blatantly lied to on matters like this.
This was indeed very high risk - the debate result however makes it much, much more effective. It was not known at the time that this would be the atmosphere for this strategy to have its final phases implemented.
Yep, no risk in spending late.
The risk is in spending early, but the theory is/was to define your opponent and he can never overcome it.
It was a natural strategy for Obama - his campaign reduces to "yeah but the other guy would be even worse."
Who knows which is right in any given race. The old saw in politics is: "If you win, everything you did was right; if you lose everything you did was wrong."
It still ain't a mature science.
You can blame a LOT of Obama's wasted efforts on the DailyKos/MediaMatters mantra of WINNING EACH AND EVERY NEWS CYCLE..
The cnventional liberla nutjob/Alinsky mantra being to define your opponent, before he gets a chance to define himself. Unfortunately, that got blown up by 68 million people watching a likely-stoned Obama epic-fail his way through the debate.
I know. But the dummycrats I talk to still think they're gonna win it, despite the fact Romney is polling better in AZ than McCain did in 2008 (and it's McCain's home state!)
I hope they waste lots of resources in their futile quest to win it.
I think they referred to the holding off the big gun. It is a high risk strategy that I hope will pay off handsomely. So many Freepers complained about the strategy over the summer, especially right after the DNC. Romney seems to know what he's doing.
The GOPers have finally started hitting back with the campaign ads. I thought they were never going to get around to it. Even Joe Arpaio is running ads. They are all tying their opponents to Barry Soetoro.
I wouldn't be concerned about absentee ballots. Those who already cast their votes in the first couple weeks of the absentee ballot periods are the ones who have set their mind on certain candidate. No amount of ads would change their votes. Now, the possible fraud regarding the absentee ballots, that's a different issue.
Candidates who don't pick up on that trend will lose..
You seem to set your mind on spreading anxiety among Romney supporters. Why would you want to do that to a candidate you will not vote for, anyway? After all, primaries have passed long time ago. Ron Paul already said he won't support Romney. Romney's campaign has decided their strategy and this is mid October. Just wait until after the election to see whether you're right (and hence, earn the right of 'I told you so') or that Romney's people actually know better than you do.
I'm a little disappointed you didn't read my post on Colorado from two days ago...
2008: Obama-1.29 million votes (53.7%)
McCain-1.07 million votes (44.7%)
1.7 million votes were early/absentee votes in 2008. Most of this was absentee. For all the early voters in 2008, dems constituted 37.7% and repubs constituted 35.9%.
2012: Repubs have requested 656,813 ballots
Dems have requested 627,064 ballots
We have an abolute lead of about 30,000 in ballot requests. Plus add in the independent requests (don't have that number) and we are quickly approaching total turnout for 08 and probably past all the early voting for 08. I need the number of unaffiliated requests to confirm this.
As of 10/1/12, there were 871,000 registered republicans and 807,000 registered dems and 798,000 unaffiliateds. So 657,000 republicans have requested ballots (75% of republicans are already locked in) and 627,000 dems have requested ballots (77% of dems locked in).
Fast forward to today. We have a much greater registration advantage compared to 2008. It is 64,000 compared to 12,000 and it was as high as 100,000 during the summer but nonetheless still much greater than 2008. And we are keeping pace with the ballot requests with dems and actually leading them in actual totals even though our percentage is slightly less.
At the close of registration in 08, 3.2 million registered voters and 2.4 million of those voted. That is a turnout of about 75% of registered voters.
Now we have 2.5 million voters on the rolls as of 10/1/12 and the deadline for registration was 10/9. And we are already at 75% of republicans having ballots and 77% of dems having ballots - I think this election is pretty much done. Not many more voters to vote overall. And we know unaffiliateds here in CO are different this year compared to 2008. All we needed to do was make sure republicans vote and vote R/R and I think that is readily apparent.
What say you?
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(Former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin is back in the news. He's standing trial for 21 counts of bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy. It is not the first time his judgment has been called into question. Back in 2008, I took the former mayor to task for exercising, among other things, questionable taste while dining out lavishly on the taxpayers' dime. He was not the last Louisiana politician to do so. The complete text of my earlier story, published May 30, 2008, follows.)
In the two weeks since the story broke, a lot of ink has been devoted to the taxpayer-financed spending proclivities of Mayor Ray Nagin's top aides.
Considering the known details -- more than $150,000 spent in six months on fun-sounding travel, nightclub parties and really expensive steaks, over half of it by two key mayoral sidekicks -- the uproar should surprise no one.
I know what you're thinking: Why am I reading about "Checkgate" in the restaurant column? Because this restaurant columnist has something in common with the spendthrifts that most of my colleagues -- and I presume many readers -- do not: an expense account.
On a certain level, I am ashamed to admit, I can relate.
As Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl, a former restaurant critic at The New York Times, wrote in her memoir "Comfort Me With Apples": "I found the primary requisite for writing about food to be a credit card."
And indeed, as journalistic endeavors go, it can get pricey.
While extravagant meals on the job are rare, the privilege of dining out on someone else's dime can erode one's wits, regardless of the real cost. When I learned that communications director Ceeon Quiett charged $3,897 on a taxpayer-financed credit card at Morton's Steakhouse, my first response was a kind of admiration. I couldn't get that kind of tab rubber-stamped to save my life.
But the appreciation didn't last long.
Let us, for the sake of argument, disregard that these extravagances were likely enjoyed, at least in part, alongside City Council members with whom the mayor's office only grudgingly engages during normal business hours.
The administration has thus far refused to make public exactly what was being lavished upon whom on the taxpayer dime, so let us also assume that the public benefit of dropping nearly four grand at a steakhouse -- not to mention $2,800 at Ray's Over the River nightclub -- is manifest.
Setting all that aside, I still have to ask: Morton's? On the city's dime?
My experience with politicians and eating in steakhouses is more extensive than you might expect of someone with marginal manners and a limited income. I lived in Washington, D.C., for five years in the mid- to late- '90s, when chain steakhouses such as Morton's, Smith & Wollensky and the Capital Grille were hot spots. That they were also relatively well-reviewed never struck me as a huge surprise.
This was before the nation's capital enjoyed a culinary renaissance, back when ambitious chefs and restaurateurs grumbled about the meat-and-potato tastes of the expense-account class -- namely the politicians and operatives who chose where the lobbyists would treat them to dinner -- with some justification.
Yet they couldn't deny that the steakhouses delivered precisely what these diners wanted: an ego hangar where the food is consistent but not show-stealing, and where the prices leave little ambiguity about the transaction completed when one member of a party picks up the check.
There is no genre of restaurant that more efficiently extracts money from its customers than modern American steakhouses. The concept may strike those who pay for their own meals as absurd, but this is part of their appeal.
When someone buys you dinner at a steakhouse, you are being made to feel that you are worthy of such a price tag. And the purchaser receives something arguably more valuable: the opportunity to flaunt and potentially exercise economic power.
Is it such a surprise that when two of the area's most conspicuous consumers -- restaurateur Al Copeland and casino millionaire Robert Guidry -- came to blows, it was on the dining room floor of a New Orleans steakhouse? The very one, in fact, where Quiett picked up the check for the four-figure dinner.
I stopped in for dinner last week. My friend and I ordered steaks, both perfectly prepared: a filet Oskar ($42.50) and a "Cajun" spiced rib-eye ($39.50), the second least expensive steak on the menu. The oysters Rockefeller was abominable: barely seasoned wilted spinach over warm bivalves that weren't from Louisiana. According to our waitress, Morton's doesn't serve local crab or shrimp either. The small lobster tail ($41.50) we shared was from Australia.
We ordered glasses of wine instead of delving into the pricey list of bottles. We split dessert, an upside-down apple pie. The final tab: $331.35.
We took it easy, and it was still as much as I've spent on dinner for two at any New Orleans restaurant this calendar year.
Symbolism is integral to politics, and spending taxpayer money is a political act. The mayor and his advisers help control the purse strings of a city that lives to eat. They're under the false impression that money is no object, and, if that's not galling enough, they don't even know how to spend it properly.


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When we last checked in with the domestic adventures of Tampa Bay Buccaneer Mike Williams, the lad had been invited to leave his rented domicile at the tony Sanctuary subdivision in scenic Lutz in the wake of numerous visits by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office concerning the exuberant bacchanalia occurring at all hours of the day and night.
Apparently Mr. Williams had installed a stripper pole in the middle of the residence, which was a tart too far for the neighbors.
It is fair to assume that Mr. Williams' sense of interior design will never make the pages of Town & Country magazine, although Floozie Monthly is a distinct possibility.
After racking up $43,000 in damage to the rented property when he was invited to please go away, Mr. Williams soon found lodgings in the even snootier Avila gated community. Alas, the football player's inner Martha Stewart continues to elude him.
Days ago, the wild receiver was taken by ambulance to the emergency room after he was stabbed in the thigh by his brother at the Avila manse.
However, all the violence was easily explained away. Mr. Williams initially attributed his wound to mere sibling "horseplay" gone horribly awry.
It seems Mr. Williams, 26, and Eric Baylor, 23 (we pause to note the ages of these mischievous brothers to underscore the fact that they are — chronologically at least — adults), were engaged in a wrestling match when Mr. Baylor's knife innocently found its way into Mr. Williams' leg. Hey, stuff happens — especially to the Bucs' maturity-challenged gridiron star.
Then again it is entirely possible the brothers were simply rehearsing the Jets and the Sharks dance sequence for a community theater production of West Side Story when a prop malfunction occurred.
I don't know about your family, but I have three brothers, and while as children there was no small amount of, shall we say, physical interaction — noogies, arm-twisting, wedgies, pink bellies, etc. — between us, the occasions in which minor bloodshed took place pretty much ended by the time we reached 12 or so, followed by years of simply trying to ignore the presence of each other.
Certainly by the time we reached our 20s it never dawned on us to say: "Hey, I have a great idea! Let's wrestle. And don't forget the knives." Instead, we play golf, which provides ample opportunity to engage in crude comments concerning various brothers' intellect, sexual prowess and male balding patterns.
Memo to Mr. Williams and Mr. Baylor: Avila, so I've heard, has a lovely golf course on the grounds of the subdivision.
You'll not be surprised to learn that deputies were less than satisfied with the "horseplay" explanation. This did not exactly require a spark of Sherlock Holmesesque deductive detecting. But since there is no statute for being a horse's patootie, Mr. Baylor was eventually charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon/domestic violence.
What to do? By all accounts Mr. Williams is a gifted athlete with AstroTurf for brains. Instead of stripper poles, brothers with anger-management issues and legal fees, Mike Williams could make the best use of a recently signed $40 million contract by investing in a babysitter for himself and his easily aggrieved brother.


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Govt Officials Arrested
By Express News Service - BHUBANESWAR
Published: 20th December 2013 11:25 AM
Last Updated: 20th December 2013 11:25 AM
An accountant and a peon of Health Directorate were arrested by City Police on Thursday for bungling ` 40 lakh by stealing leaves from the office cheque books.
The two used to siphon off the cash to the account of a medicine store owner of Berhampur. The account has been frozen.
According to IIC of Capital Police Station Asim Panda, accountant Antaryami Sahu along with peon Manoj Jena used to take away leaves from cheque books. Over a period of two months, they had misappropriated at least six leaves and encashed four of them for `10 lakh each.
The cash used to be parked in the account of Manoj Mohapatra, a friend of Jena. When the Directorate came across the missing cheques, it looked for bank statements which reflected bungling of ` 40 lakh. Following this, a complaint was lodged with Capital Police. "We verified the cheques and have frozen the account of Mohapatra who has been arrested," Panda said.
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Can you rank those undefeated featherweight condenders from best to worse?
Challange for hard-core boxing fans. I don't know if you guys realise how many undefeated and interesting contenders fights at 126 pound division right now. Can anyone step up and rate them from guys that he believes will achieve most in pro game, to those that are not even worth mention.
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I will admit I never saw Meyerdricks, Bunker,Simion and Doliguez fighting. I wish Shobox or ESPN FNF could match some of them in battles of unbeatens.
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Got the Princeton 65 (PR403) as I was put-off by all the hype-crap of over-priced designer boom-boxes (like Beats) and needed a quick amp for my keyboard. Now before you guitarist begin to whine, allow me to validate why you should read the review. As a longtime studio/live, sound engineer, the objective was to test (using Neutrik analyzers) how... [read more on Audiofanzine]Bikeamtn rated this unit on 2013-05-06.
I couldn't be happier for the price I paid ($100 USD). Got it used from some guy on craigslist. The clean channel on this amp has some of the best tone I've heard come out of a solid state amp. The overdrive leaves a little to be desired, but can be fixed with a pedal of your choosing.My only complaint would be that the spring reverb is not that... [read more on Audiofanzine]NiteGoat rated this unit on 2012-05-23.
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I go to a funeral this last weekend. It's near Washington D.C. at Arlington National Cemetery. It's for my girlfriend's grandfather. The heat is sticky icky with puddles of sweat collecting on the backs of the flinching, sun-glassed attendees in seersucker and khaki as synchronized shots are fired by men in snow white uniforms.
That has nothing to do with the Thunder, but it was something to see.
* * *
A lot of conversations are had between me and people I've never met before over the course of the weekend. They ask me who I am. I tell them. They ask me where I'm from. I tell them Oklahoma. To this, they have only two responses. All weekend long it was one or the other.
1) Something about tornadoes.
2) Something about the Thunder.
All weekend, just those two topics. The tornadoes and the Thunder. Over and over.
And all weekend I tell them I don't know what happened to the Thunder, aside from Westbrook getting hurt. I talk about what Bricktown is like on a game night. I talk about Mickey Mantle's Steakhouse and my Nick Collison jersey. I talk about whether or not I think the Thunder could've beat the Spurs or the Heat. I talk about why Scott Brooks doesn't break out his glasses for games.
I talk about Hideaway Pizza and how I don't know why they don't sell it in the arena because, yes, that would be DOPE. I talk about Durant's rip move and whatever other tangential Thunder related stuff presents itself for me to say so I'm not standing there sweating with chicken fingers in my mouth looking like an idiot who has no friends.
* * *
An example:
I meet a chess player named Raven. That's his name. Raven. Like the bird or the NFL team or the Poe poem. The whole time I talk to him I think about making That's So Raven jokes. I want to ask him if he can see the future and, if so, is it still so mysterious to him. I want to ask him what it was like being on The Cosby Show and if he ever keeps up with any of the other Cheetah Girls. Then I realize those are all stupid jokes he's probably heard before, so I don't say a word.
I meet him at a McCormick & Schmick's, the seafood and steak eatery of the greater everywhere that people take dates to when they want to seem like they have big britches.
He's my girlfriend's cousin. He's 19 and pretty unassuming. Real nice guy, actually. He's wearing black low-top Chucks, grey slacks, and a grey, Tommy Hilfiger cardigan. The brown T-shirt underneath has something resembling a sun poking out from above the top buttoned button of the cardigan. It could also be an egg yolk or a chicken or a Bruins logo or some other strange something that chess players dig on that I have no clue about, like actual intelligence or the ability to have perspective.
He's from New York but goes to college in Canada. He's pumped for next week because he gets to go to Europe to play chess in a big tournament that he might make some money in if he wins. He's the type of guy that says "That's interesting" a lot, but means it. He really likes Seinfeld. More specifically, he really likes the character Kramer on the television show Seinfeld. He asks me what I do and I tell him about my dumb day job. Then I tell him that I also, on occasion, write about basketball for a couple sites, including this one.
His eyebrows go up.
"The Thunder," he says.
"Yes," I say.
"I like the Thunder," he says, "They are great fun to watch. I wish they could have gone further."
My mind kind of hits the fog at this. How on earth does a chess player who goes to college in Canada who uses phrases like "great fun", who, up till now, has only wanted to talk briefly about Kramer and at length about the ins and outs of the international chess game, know about and have an opinion on the Thunder?
He's admitted that, for the most part, his life in recent months has completely revolved around playing chess and preparing for the previously mentioned big tourney in Europe. Not a thing he'd said up till then would suggest any kind of passion for anything other than eccentric sitcom characters and a killer knight to rook combo move.
"Why do you think they struggled this postseason?" he asks.
"Well, Westbrook going down like he did," I say, "That kind of did us in."
He nods.
"I guess that's true," he says, "I wish you guys had not traded James Harden."
He knows about the Harden trade? What's going on? Have I underestimated Raven?
"Yea," I say, "Hindsight and all that. Definitely wouldn't have hurt in the playoffs, but you don't really plan on injury."
"I guess not," he says, "I hope that next year they will be back."
I tell him I hope that, too, and he bails on the conversation to go talk to his other cousins named Boone and Ryder. Swear.
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This is when I finally give myself over to the fact that, for better or worse, the Harden trade will be a talking point from now till the end of days. People won't get over it. Maybe they shouldn't. I don't know. I'd tend to think that the trade happened and you can't take it back and we still wound up with the one seed in the playoffs without him so let's just move on. But, some people look at the whole thing as a miss. Kevin Martin does nice things, but not NICE things. Lamb might be lazy. They see Harden's numbers with the Rockets and add that, without context, into the Thunder mix. They look at Westbrook going down and think with Harden we might have still done some damage beyond the second round. They're probably not wrong. It would've been a healthy dose of Angle, I'm sure, and we'd have got to live in the majesty of the Harden-Collison two man game for another year. All the felt factories in OKC continue their assault on the economy by selling fake beards like whoa and everyone is excited about their Fear The Beard t-shirts.
But people forget the distractions. They forget how much the Will They Won't They Extend Him game would've dominated all things First Take-ish for the entire year. A years' worth of questions about whether or not they want Harden back. The only positive to that would be more questions answered like this. People don't know just how much going into the luxury tax would've hamstrung the squad for years to come. There's just a bunch of What If's.
Five years from now, barring injury, Harden will probably be an All Star Game starter along with Durant and, maybe, Westbrook. Even on that day there will be a clip or a picture of the old trifecta doing their thing in blue and orange and some talking head somewhere asking the great What If as though that ground hasn't been tread a thousand times over by a thousand different men. It's not going away if amateur chess players from Canada still have an opinion on it. We may as well get used to it.
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Not sure what the point of this story is. Maybe it's that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Maybe it's that the Harden trade will haunt all Thunder related conversations forever. Maybe it's that chess prepares you for anything. I don't know.
I do know, though, that when you Boy Name Sue your kid like Raven's mom did naming him Raven, then you make him make himself ready for whatever's coming at him. If you're named Raven, you learn to HANDLE and REPRESENT yourself well because you have to. Your name is Raven. There are no easy buckets with a name like that. I shouldn't ever underestimate the overall conversational knowledge of a chess player who's named after a bird.
I'm naming my kid Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. He's going to be able to talk about anything.


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You are invited to 37th Annual Panihati in the Druid Hills historical district of Atlanta. This
outdoor festival will include live music, dance performances, delicious
vegetarian food, chariot parade, a bazaar of handcrafts and clothing from India.
"Bliss" awaits you Friday - May 31st, Saturday - June 1st, and Sunday - June 2nd.
Free admission!
This year we are welcoming an exciting array of performers
to our performance stage.
There is the Bhakti Kalalayam Dance Academy from Gainesville, FL (www.bhaktidance.com ).
They are led by Annapayini dasi, an American, who trained in India for seven years learning the art of bharatnatyam dance (dance of devotion - bhakti). This dance troupe is widely acclaimed for their talent, dedication, and emotionally moving performances.
Also coming from Florida, are the Mayapuris (www.mayapuris.com ). They are a group of energetic Kirtaniyers (kirtan yoga). The Mayapuris have dedicated their hearts to Kirtan and travel world wide sharing their talents and love for this sacred music.
For a full list of performers
please check our festival schedule.
Along with beautiful music,
dance, and magic there will be a food court featuring home made pizza, Indian
samosas and other savories. We also have many healthy options like veggie burgers and vegan
sweets prepared by a gourmet chefs. And, there will be some good 'ol American junk food too!
On Saturday don't miss the
joyous Festival of Chariot parade. A huge chariot decorated with flower
garlands and a bright fabric canopy will be pulled accompanied with singing, dancing, drums, and cymbals. The parade begins from the festival site at
1:00p. It will make its way down Ponce de Leon Ave turning on Moreland Ave to Little Five
Points. The cart then returns to the festival site via the reverse route at 3:30p.
This Chariot parade is one of the oldest known parades in the
world. It has been going on annually for the last 2,000 years in Jagananth Puri, Orrisa, Indian. It was first introduced to the West in 1967 in San Francisco, California.
It has been held in every major city of the world including 5th
ave in New York.
The parade conveys a welcoming, loving, and joyous atmosphere to all the
participants and those that watch.
After the parade, their will be a vegetarian feast.
On Sunday, is the truly unique festival of Chipped Rice that
has its tradition dating back 500 years ago in West Bengal, India. It has been
celebrated here at New Panihati, the Hare Krishna temple in Atlanta
for over 35 years. It features a wide variety of beautifully decorated large
clay pots of sweet and salty "chipped rice". This flattened rice is soaked and
then mixed with yogurt or sweetened condensed milk and varieties of exotic and
local fruits or vegetables to create a one of a kind dish that is absolutely
delicious and beautiful to look at! The feast is generally served around 3 pm.
For our ISKCON members, we have some special programs.
His Grace Acyutananda dasa and His Holiness Jayapataka Swami will sit with us and speak about their pioneering days in West Bengal. Acyutananda das was the first ISKCON devotee to live in India. A few of his historic accolades: he trained Jayapataka Swami, compiled our current Vaisnava song book, built the hut which Srila Prabhupada lived in at the beginning of our Mayapur Chandra mandir. This is a rare opportunity to hear how these devotees established ISKCON in West Bengal.
We will also celebrate a rare ISKCON milestone, the 40th service anniversary of His Grace Balabadra Bhattacarya das.
Balabadra has the unique position of being one of the few devotees who has only served one temple in his entire devotional career for 40 continous years.
Not only that, but he was born in Atlanta and joined ISKCON Atlanta in 1973.
Please come and help us honor one of the stalwart servants of Srila Prabhupada.
See ya'll at the festival!
your servants,
Panihati Festival Commitee
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Annexing near Toyota
We understand homeowners' concerns about the Blue Springs plan to more than double the size of the village, both in area and population, through annexation.
The proposal would annex most of the land separating the village from the Toyota plant property. The land is along the north side of Interstate 22 (U.S. 78) at the Blue Springs exit.
Homeowners wanted to know at a hearing Monday if their property taxes would go up, if there will be a sewage system to serve the area, and what other city services will be made available.
Annexation is a multi-step process that includes the public hearing, followed by a ruling by the judge about whether to approve or deny the annexation.
If all goes smoothly, the process likely will be concluded sometime this summer.
Once annexation is completed, the village would have five years to provide basic village services to property owners who will be coming into the city.
Part of any tax increase to property owners is expected to be made up in reduced fire insurance costs because the fire rating will improve.
It's a trade off, but annexation is important to prevent willy-nilly unplanned and unregulated development near the plant that would result in the area becoming an eyesore. Problems created by such development are expensive to fix after they occur.
Blue Springs has made the right move to head off a lot of potential problems. The annexation should be approved, and the county Board of Supervisors should begin looking at strong regulations for areas outside city and village limits.
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The Peoria Rivermen have announced that the club
will open its 2011 training camp on Monday, Sept. 26 at the Owens Center in
Peoria. Rivermen General Manager Kevin
McDonald has also announced that the team has invited four non-contracted
players to their American Hockey League training camp.
Players will take the ice on Monday beginning at 1
p.m. All practices listed are free and open
to the public and media. The schedule
for camp is as follows:
Monday, Sept. 26 Practice 1:00
– 2:30 PM Owens
Tuesday, Sept. 27 Practice 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Owens Center
Wednesday, Sept. 28 Practice 10:00 AM
– 12:00 PM Owens Center
Thursday, Sept. 29 Practice 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Owens Center
Friday, Sept. 30 Morning
Skate 10:00 – 11: 00 AM Carver Arena
Game vs. Chicago 7:00 PM Carver Arena
Saturday, Oct. 1 Morning
Skate 10:00 –
11:00 AM Carver Arena
Game at Rockford 7:00 PM BMO Harris
Bank Center
*Schedule is subject to change.
The camp invitees are forwards Chris Langkow, Ethan
Cox and Chris Bruton along with goaltender Andrew Hayes. Langkow appeared in eight games for the
Rivermen last season and recorded three points (1g, 2a). Cox also saw action in one game with Peoria
while spending the majority of the season with the Alaska Aces (ECHL). Both Bruton and Hayes will be making their
professional debuts this season.
Tickets for the preseason game
against Chicago on Friday, Sept. 30 are available now for just $10. Preseason tickets for season ticket holders
are free again this season. To get more
information about becoming a Rivermen season ticket holder please call (309)
676-1040 or visit CLICK HERE.