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Still in the mood for baseball? Then this thread's for you.
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Random rantings and ravings about the Los Angeles Dodgers, written by a small consortium of rabid Dodger fans. With occasional comments on baseball, entertainment, pop culture, and life in general.
It's too soon.
Go American League!
AL? this is barely baseball.
well fuck. i would have been working less and watching gameday more if i knew there was a GWT up.
AL, wow. when does the pitcher get a turn to try to hit the little white ball?
HAH-hah! Jeter hasn't hit a HR yet. He's slippin'. Media must be speechless.
if there is any bright side to our team playing so poorly in this round of the post season its that maybe the yankees wont throw a massive contract at Kemp, Ethier, Kershaw, or Brox.
Scott Boras counting his money behind home plate to the right of the angels logo.
Scott Boras sits on a throne of lies!
God bless you all, but there is no (reasonable) outcome of this game that would satisfy me, so I'll abstain.
I dont like the angels at all, but it makes me so sad when i watch them play the Yanks or the Sox and all their stupid fans outnumber the angels fans.
@Nic j
I was at Sox/Angels game 2. It may not have been 50/50, but it was damn close.
Kazmir coming undone already. That was bound to happen.
Has anyone released a sack full of rabid badgers in the stadium yet?
These umps are horrible.
haha, swisher is such a douche.
I guess the missed call on Swisher negates the missed pick-off call. I can't believe we're talking about umpire calls negating each other in the playoffs.
watching this game makes me remember how much i hate the yankees.
I have nobody to root for now.
Unless we win, but lets not get crazy.
It appears that the Manny "Showergate" incident is being pushed hard as a story. I couldnt really care less.
I'm still rooting for badgers.
does it snow in Anaheim?
Badger isn't that far of a reach from Dodger. I'm with ya, Mr. C. Go Badger Blue!
Okay, now I'm ready.
Nice. I would definitely tune in to see a game that could get called on account of badgers.
Damn i would hit homeruns too it i got a hot towel massage in the dugout afterward.
smart play by Hunter
looks like the umps owe the angels another make up call.
Haha, "Bullshit" chants so close to disneyland?
LOL. The showergate story is absurd.
The shower story is what happens when East Coast writers write about West Coast baseball. Wouldn't be surprised to see Plaschke pick it up, though.
So, the refs are returning to the NBA. Good news.
All Mychal Thompson and Stu Lantz ever say is that guys are young.
"He'll bounce back, he's a young guy"
"His leg may be broken, but he's young, he'll pull through"
"I know he just had a heart attack, but I think he'll be fine, he's a young kid"
What's this about badgers? I want to see badgers.
You and me both. There's still a chance.
The Yankees are relentless. 7-1.
In the category "Comeback Kids" on Jeopardy tonight, the answer had something to do with an 80s child star. The question? "Alyssa Milano."
Hmm. "Comeback Kids" and Milano in the same clue? Make of that what you will.
10-1 Yanks. Some NL team is going to be in for quite a challenge.
God I hate the Yankees. They make everything boring.
Works for me, Erin!
I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!
Oh wait, you said badgers.
NLCS still seems doable for the dodgers.
maybe i'm biased
this one however, looks over.
Dodgers, meet Angels.
If it's Yanks-Phils, I'm cheering for the Yankees. Please don't let it be Yanks-Phils.
9 innings, and not one damned badger. Not even a stoat to be seen.
Where are the sons of Jerel? I hate watching the Zods win.
Gotta thank the Amgels for reminding us that a 3-1 hole could be a lot worse. Getting whipped at home like that? Ouch.
Come on, Angels!
COOL! There is a banner ad between posts on SoSG that has something to do with pirates (not the ball club that beat our ass recently but the swashbuckling kind). Arrrrrr!!
I personally liked the AD about heart attack survival.
4/2 vs. AZ (L, 1-2): AC, Sax
4/17 vs. NYM (L, 6-8): Sax
5/1 vs. PHI (W, 13-4): Sax
5/13 vs. SD (W, 4-2): Sax
5/30 vs. WSH (W, 9-3): Sax
7/5 vs. PIT (W, 6-4): Sax
8/30 vs. AZ (W, 7-0): Sax
8/31 vs. ATL (L, 7-8): Sax
9/22 vs. SF (L, 1-5): Sax
9/30 @ SF (L, 1-2): Sax


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Friday, March 5, 2010
Tell Me What You Want, What You Really Really Want
Friday, March 5, 2010
"Look, I just want what every girl wants for her birthday: a big- a$$ cake!"
Sometimes you just want a sugary baked good for no reason at all. And yet, without an inscription, what can Wreckerators wreck? That's why they're so adamant that your cake say something.
And that's also why we get Wrecks like these:
Jen B., Stephanie W., Autumn R., & Sara G., one "Ho Thing Special," comin' up.
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- Jules AF said...
Jenny Dog Bassett Hound is better than Jenny b*tch, right?
- March 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM
- Bindyree said...
Love the BIG ASS CAKE!!!
- March 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM
- Andydawg's mom said...
The Big A$$ cake one is actually a play on the Big A$$ chain T-Pain wears.
- March 5, 2010 at 9:34 AM
The past two posts are what cake wrecks is all about...
- March 5, 2010 at 9:34 AM
- edwina h said...
Sorry to ruin the third cake but I think it's a spoof on T-Pain's BIG ASS CHAIN.
Which it makes it awesome. - March 5, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- Half Assed Kitchen said...
Is there a Wreckerator school for that? Because, durr...
- March 5, 2010 at 9:40 AM
Morning Jen!
- March 5, 2010 at 9:42 AM
Was #3 supposed to be a big-a$$ cake... or a big a$$-cake?
- March 5, 2010 at 9:44 AM
Not that it makes it any better, but I'm pretty sure the 'big a*& cake' is a riff on a chain a prominent rapper wore, with a medallion that had ' big a#$ chain'.
Please don't make me explain how i knew that.
wv:lesec - defined as the type of eye surgery one needs to make any of these wrecks look acceptable. - March 5, 2010 at 9:49 AM
- Elizabeth said...
I had to blow up that last one to make sure I was seeing an "H". But then I saw the book to the right. Is it just me or does it say, "Customizing Instruction...Less Proficient Readers"? I'd say that would be appropriate!
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- Erin of Brownie Bites said...
Even if it wasn't what they asked for, the BigArseCake probably got some serious laughs! Love it!
- March 5, 2010 at 9:52 AM
I am just cracking up over the 'Ho Thing Special.'
- March 5, 2010 at 9:55 AM
- Bully said...
Band bride? I thought it said Bond bride!
- March 5, 2010 at 9:55 AM
- Unknown said...
I seriously want the big ass cake.
- March 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM
joules wonders: "What IS a 'Bond Bride'?" "Or is that 'Band Bride'?"
WV: quiving - These Wrecks are quiving me the quiggles. - March 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- Domestic Goddess said...
Nothing special on it. HAHAHAHAHA!!!! That's too much.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:06 AM
- Sarah said...
Yes, please. I'd like to order the big a$$-cake, very specifically not the big-a$$ cake.
Also, I'd like the Ho Thing Special.
I mean, what the hell! How many bachelor parties are you going to have, am I right? - March 5, 2010 at 10:08 AM
- Whozat said...
I think that one is supposed to say "Band Pride" and Mrs. Hopper is the band director.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:12 AM
- Dharmamama said...
You know how a joke now is to move the dash in big-ass {whatever}, so it has a whole new meaning? For example, "Steve had a big-ass party last night" to "Steve had a big ass-arty last night". See?
So the big-ass cake? Could be the third cake in this post:
I was going to link to just that image but... {shudder} couldn't. Just couldn't. - March 5, 2010 at 10:13 AM
- Becky said...
Who the he11 is T-Pain, and why do you people know this stuff?
The first cake is SO classic. Oh well, the wreckerator probably would have screwed up making an actual basset hound even more. - March 5, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- The Shitty Astrologer said...
That Big Ass cake is going to scare all the kiddies away...not to mention the dieting set!
- March 5, 2010 at 10:17 AM
That last one had me literally laughing out loud at my desk!
- March 5, 2010 at 10:17 AM
I'm thinking Big Ass-Cake would have been worse!
- March 5, 2010 at 10:17 AM
- Skye said...
Hothing?! In Cyrillic, the "n" sound is spelled with a letter that looks like H. I'm going to hope that the wreckerator was Eastern European and doesn't actually think hothing is a word.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:26 AM
I might appreciate getting the BAC if not for the black parts that resemble caviar.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:29 AM
- Mouse said...
It looks like the Big A$$ Cake is trying to rival EPCOT ;)
Either way, my big ass wants some cake now. - March 5, 2010 at 10:29 AM
- Kelly H said...
I now have Spice Girls stuck in my head!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!
- March 5, 2010 at 10:30 AM
thanks for the Friday laughs...my goodness and black icing to boot!
- March 5, 2010 at 10:35 AM
- ME! said...
I thought that it was Mrs. Hopper (blonde bride on cake)
Hmmm... - March 5, 2010 at 10:35 AM
- Unknown said...
As for the "BIG @$$ CAKE" -- now that's a CAKE!!
And as for the last one, if they just had a hankering for a giant cooking with frosting balloons on it, why didn't they just request it "plain"?
Uh-oh, i think i just opened myself up to another wreck!! - March 5, 2010 at 10:35 AM
- Tiffany in Topeka said...
Ho Thing Special..... sounds like some kind of Chinese take-out. :)
- March 5, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Unknown said...
They wanted a cake with a Bond Bride on it?? Do they even know what happened to Bond's bride at the end of that film???
("On Her Majesty's Secret Service" with Diana Rigg. Bring tissues, you might need them.) - March 5, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Unknown said...
Well, I'm pretty sure the first cake was supposed to stop at "Jenny", then add a basset hound (i.e. dog) figure/picture/whatever.
And to answer some previous questions, I think a substantial number of people know who T-Pain is solely because of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU - March 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM
The Big Ass Cake is a glorious, glorious thing. It is most assuredly NOT a wreck.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:42 AM
- Laurie said...
You know, aside from the fail that is the words on these cakes, a lot of the time the handwriting on these things is atrocious. I could do that myself. If I were paying money for a professional cake, I'd expect the writing to be nice.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Placing order at counter:
"I would like a slice of Big A$$ Cake and a Ho Thing to go please." - March 5, 2010 at 10:49 AM
LMAO at the "Big Ass Cake"! I MUST have this!
- March 5, 2010 at 10:50 AM
- Helen Husher said...
I was driving through southern Utah a while back and saw a sign for "Ho-Made Pies." Another think-it-through moment that got away.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- Naomi Zikmund-Fisher said...
OK, I'll bite. What did the "band bride" customer ask for?
- March 5, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- Suzanne :-) said...
I'm glad the Big @$$ cake did not feature a picture or sculpture of a big @$$!
- March 5, 2010 at 10:56 AM
- Robyn B. said...
I love the Big Ass Cake; not so much the Ho Thing Special.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:56 AM
- Sarah Bowman said...
The dark bits on the big-a$$ cake (or he big a$$-cake) look at little like rabbit pooh - eeuuwww!
wv anubsess: the ancient egyptian god of Wreckerators - March 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM
- Miranda said...
AHAHAHAHA. For my next party, I must replicate the Big Ass Cake! When they start cutting, it will get even more interesting. Start at the top and it becomes Ass Cake. Start at the bottom and it becomes Big Ass. you can't lose! XD
- March 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM
- Melinda said...
I want some of that big ass cake! Or the Ho Thing Special cookie. Really, just give me anything sweet right now...I don't care if it's pretty.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- EG said...
I LOVE the BigAss Cake! Evidentally someone thought it was a wreck, but I'm sure it's just what the customer ordered.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:10 AM
I took the "hopperband" to mean she wanted them to write the inscription and put the picture in a "band" on the cake, like a ribbon?
It's hard to comprehend how unbelievably dense these cake writers are!!! Time and time again they can't understand when someone wants a picture ON the cake and not spelled out for them! and they do this for a living! Wow. It never ceases to amaze me! - March 5, 2010 at 11:15 AM
- Laura said...
Hahaha I'm sorry but the Big Ass Cake is total win in my eyes :D
- March 5, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- Melissa (& Billy) said...
AHAHAHAHAHA "BAC--for when you REALLY want yourself some CAKE!" XD XD XD
That just might have made my day. I may or may not sneak back here throughout the day to laugh at it again.
The rest? As usual, I got nothin'. 0_o - March 5, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Holly said...
The Big Ass Cake is actually T-Pain's birthday cake!
http://bossip.com/161768/t-pain-celebrates-his-birthday-with-a-big-a-cake/ - March 5, 2010 at 11:27 AM
I'm going to go with the camp that says it's suppose to be a BLONDE bride on the cake. Which potentially makes it even more of a wreck, because it means that the either the customer or the wreckorator misspelled "blonde".
- March 5, 2010 at 11:39 AM
- M M said...
I love the Big Ass Cake, I'd consider asking for that for my birthday.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:45 AM
The big arse lettering on the big a&* cake is actually quite well-done!
- March 5, 2010 at 12:04 PM
*throws all dollies out of pram and sulks* - March 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM
- quichepup said...
I love the happy exclamation point after "basset hound." I like to imagine the cake was made for 2 pets--a female donkey and a dog who is a basset hound.
Hey at least they spelled "congratulations" correctly.
The BAC made my husband laugh, deviled eggs everywhere. Thanks, Jen.
I'm not touching Ho Thing Special. You can't make me. - March 5, 2010 at 12:32 PM
Well how about that! Nice to see my last name on a cake and a post here on the Cake Wrecks site. Yup, it was h*ll on wheels as a youngster being called hound and being female. My brother had not one whit of a problem with that handle. The Bassett name, at one time, was statistically in the top 2000 common names in the USA. Thanks for the grins, always!
- March 5, 2010 at 12:38 PM
- Sarah Schulz said...
I can TOTALLY see someone calling in and specifically requesting a big a** cake. I bet that was intentional. In which case, it's hilarious.
- March 5, 2010 at 12:51 PM
- DMackendrick said...
Have to say, I'd be more than happy with a BIG A$$ CAKE, though I'd be happy to share with Jenny the Basset Hound...
- March 5, 2010 at 1:06 PM
Hey, big ass cake does not belong! It is full of win!
- March 5, 2010 at 2:08 PM
Co-worker 1: What kind of cake do you want for your birthday?
Co-worker 2: I don't care, as long as it's a big-ass cake. We've got a lot of co-workers to feed.
Result: The BIG ASS CAKE.
WV: Oppedys -- Hurry and oppedys ice cream carton and serve it with the Big Ass Cake, before it melts! - March 5, 2010 at 2:24 PM
- Sylvia said...
The Big Ass Cake is the funniest cake you've had up here in months! It's rare a cake is LOL-worthy without the additional funny dialogue from you guys. This really speaks for itself. OMFGLOLL
- March 5, 2010 at 3:03 PM
Not familiar with T-pain, but I'd have guessed the Big Ass Cake was on purpose just because it actually looks pretty well done -evenly spaced, correctly spelled, etc.
- March 5, 2010 at 3:06 PM
HA HA HA! I can always count on you guys to make me laugh even when I'm having a crap day at work! Thanks for these!
- March 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM
- Philippe Landry said...
Ho Thing Special!
- March 5, 2010 at 3:20 PM
- D.B. Echo said...
The BIG ASS CAKE should be under "Cake MASTERPIECES." Unless it's a smallish cake. Then it's totally a wreck.
WVW: undecks
Takes back a surprise clobber to the head.
"Joe, realizing the person he has just knocked unconscious was the pizza delivery boy, undecks him, takes the pizzas, and leaves a generous tip on his prone body." - March 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM
About the Band Bride cake
I suspect this is congratulating someone about to get married and they wanted a wedding band and a bride on the cake along with the congratulations message and this got written down as "band, bride on it". - March 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM
- Aviatrix said...
Ah Jen, thank you so much for two postings in a row of my favourite sort of wreck, the ones I characterize as "the under neat wreck." You are too good to us.
My second favourite is the missed mark wedding cakes. I hope you have some more lopsided two-tiered round brown cakes alongside their three-tiered, square burgundy models.
wv: vantsm - I always vantsm more of these sidesplitting wrecks. - March 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM
I'd be worried the 'Nothing Special' was truth in advertising moment.
Especially as it pops up (assuming) the morning after the the Big A$$ Cake night.
WV: Reatie -- reatie bytes, missing fragments, message corrupted. - March 5, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- Hockey Mum said...
I just had a birthday and I didn't get a cake. So next year I am requesting a Big Ass Cake!! I better get it too! :)
Thanks for the many laughs!! - March 5, 2010 at 4:41 PM
- LeeAnn said...
Lol. I had to fix a cake that our decorator did once. It was a Happy Birthday Tweety cake. Which is the name of the edible image. They didn't want any writting on the cake.
The new person in the bakery wrote on the slip "Happy Birthday Tweety" and the decorate put the image on the cake (good) but wrote on the cake "Happy Birthday Tweety!" (bad) I had to do my best to scrape of Tweety. Oh my. - March 5, 2010 at 4:49 PM
Am I the only one who's interpreting this as "hot thing special"? I realize there's only one t, but since it's capitalized...
- March 5, 2010 at 4:51 PM
At least it wasn't SHAPED like a big a$$! Who would want to eat that kind of cake?
- March 5, 2010 at 5:06 PM
I would die happy if I got the Big Ass Cake XD
- March 5, 2010 at 5:14 PM
- Fanboy Wife said...
I love the big ass cake! (That cake could have taken a terrible turn, but I'm thankful that it didn't!)
- March 5, 2010 at 7:15 PM
- Etiquette Bitch said...
So, I thought CW2 said "Band Bride," and I'm wondering, "what is a "band bride?"
Then the Big Ass Cake. Not "big-ass" as in, "Wow, that's a big-ass car you're driving," but more like Big
Ass-Cake. What would an ass cake look like? I shudder. - March 5, 2010 at 7:27 PM
- Ivannabite2 said...
Perfect timing for this on fb this came up with the Big A$$ Cake picture and someone had just asked me what kind of cake I was going to make for my birthday so I shared the link and said. "This is what I am making" LOL! LOVE IT!
- March 5, 2010 at 8:22 PM
I love the Big A** cake! :D At least it didn't include any anatomy. Pass me a fork! Or better yet, give me the place's number so I can place an order for my next birthday party at work. They'd get a kick out of it.
- March 5, 2010 at 8:58 PM
Is that last one a Ho Thing Special? Maybe that's the appetizer for the Big Ass Cake.
- March 5, 2010 at 8:58 PM
So did T-Pain originally order a "Big-Ass Chain," which only came about due to an error and really belongs on a website somewhere called "Jewelry Wrecks?" Instead of complaining, maybe he realized he'd found the gimmick he'd been looking for, and he wisely decided to wear it with pride. Now, he's stuck with it on his birthday, too. That's show-biz for ya! :D
- March 5, 2010 at 10:29 PM
- The Printed Thought said...
This blog never fails to make me laugh out loud. THANK YOU for sharing these confectionary disasters!
- March 5, 2010 at 10:45 PM
Ok that big ass cake.. is it warning us what will happen if we even attempt to eat it? If so that still wouldn't stop me I would grab my fork and dig right in lol.. sometimes I think these wreckerators are trying to drive their victims insane on purpose.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Maybe the (now) Mrs Hopper and her sweetheart were both in the marching band...hence, a band bride. I know several band couples from my marching band days (college) who got married. It sounds like the sort of thing those crazy band people might say...you know, filtered through a wreckerator.
- March 6, 2010 at 12:13 AM
Before clicking on the last one, I thought it said "hotwing special" and got all excited about eating hot wings and cookies. Sadly, I was mistaken. And now I'm hungry.
- March 6, 2010 at 1:37 AM
- Gabby said...
The Basset Hound cake is hilarious! If you've ever seen Madagascar 2, then you should totally get the inside joke on this cake. The only thing cakewrecky about it is the terrible handwriting and misspelling of "Basset."
- March 6, 2010 at 1:11 PM
- The Opponent said...
At least that last one has sprinkles.
- March 8, 2010 at 9:35 PM
"What do you want for your birthday?"
"Nothing special..."
"Oh, c'mon!"
"BIG ASS CAKE!" - March 10, 2010 at 3:51 PM
The Basset Hound could have been making a reference to Madagascar 2 at the end when they are playing telephone with the monkeys and instead of "pass it on", they say "basset hound"
- February 23, 2011 at 1:02 AM
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Here's hoping Puig is healthy enough to play after his blow-up with the CF wall last night. If he has to miss some time, Crawdaddy is ready to burst back on the scene beginning Friday.
Final reminder: Don't forget to exercise your right to vote by WRITING IN PUIG for All-Star Game 2013! You have until 8:59PM tonight. Don't turn it into a Florida 2000 situation, people.
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The U.S. Olympic Committee is looking for cities interested in bidding for the 2024 Summer Games.
The USOC sent letters to the mayors of 35 cities Tuesday to gauge interest in a potential bid to bring the Summer Olympics back to the country for the first time since 1996.
"Our objective in this process is to identify a partner city that can work with us to present a compelling bid to the IOC and that has the right alignment of political, business and community leadership," USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said in the letter.
Following failed bids by New York and Chicago for the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, the USOC is taking a measured approach before moving ahead with a new campaign and wants to be sure it has a good chance of winning.
"This letter does not guarantee that the USOC will bid for the 2024 Games, but rather is an initial step in evaluating a potential bid," the committee said.
The letters were sent to mayors of the country's 25 largest cities -- including New York, Chicago and former Olympic host cities Los Angeles, Atlanta and St. Louis -- and 10 others.
The USOC has also said it would consider whether to bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics, although the bigger and more prestigious Summer Games would seem to be the preference.
The U.S. hasn't hosted the Summer Olympics since Atlanta in 1996; Salt Lake City was the last American city to stage the Winter Games in 2002.
Los Angeles, Dallas and Tulsa, Okla., are among the cities that have expressed interest in hosting the 2024 Games. New York, Chicago and San Francisco have either bid or expressed interest in bidding in the past and could also get in the mix.
New York finished fourth in the international bidding for the 2012 Olympics, which went to London. Chicago suffered a stinging first-round exit in the vote for the 2016 Games, which were awarded to Rio de Janeiro.
Chicago's defeat was blamed partly on the revenue-sharing feud between the USOC and IOC. The two sides have since resolved the dispute and signed a new agreement that clears the way for a U.S. bid. USOC leaders have also worked hard to improve the committee's standing in the international Olympic community.
"Now more than ever, we need to use the power of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to encourage our youth to be active and engaged in sport," Blackmun wrote.
Other cities around the world that have expressed interest in bidding for the 2024 Games include Paris; Rome; Doha, Dubai; and Durban, South Africa. The IOC vote on the 2024 Games will be in 2017.
The USOC is skipping the bidding for the 2020 Olympics. The three candidates for those games are Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo, with the IOC to vote Sept. 7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The USOC said Tuesday it has 2½ years to decide whether to submit a 2024 bid and would do so in an "economically efficient way."
While New York and Chicago were selected by the USOC after a domestic bid process that cost up to $10 million, the USOC said it would embark on any new bid through "a thoughtful but more efficient process."
The USOC letter sought to remind the mayors of the huge undertaking involved in hosting the Olympics. Blackmun noted that the operating costs would be in excess of $3 billion, a figure that does not include venue construction and infrastructure costs.
The city would also require 45,000 hotel rooms, an Olympic village for 16,500 athletes and officials, an international airport and a workforce of up to 200,000, the letter said.
"The games have had a transformative impact on a number of host cities, including Barcelona, Beijing and London," Blackmun said.


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Peace Deal Process With Taliban Stalls
The Taliban has announced it is suspending peace talks with the U.S. At the same time, Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded the U.S. pull troops out of rural areas by next year following a deadly shooting spree by an American soldier. These signals have come at an already difficult time for the U.S. in Afghanistan and further complicate the U.S. exit strategy.
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
We're learning more about the American staff sergeant accused of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan. Last night, his lawyer said the soldier did not want to go to Afghanistan, his fourth deployment for the Army. He had been wounded twice and he didn't think he was healthy enough to deploy. The attorney didn't release the soldier's name, but did say he was the father of two young children and added that the soldier's family was totally shocked by the allegations against him.
Army criminal investigators are looking at the possibility that the soldier was drinking alcohol at his combat outpost before the shooting. His lawyer disputed the claim that he might be drunk.
In the wake of the massacre, the Taliban has announced that it is suspending peace talks. And in a meeting with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta yesterday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded the U.S. pull troops out of rural areas a year earlier than previously proposed. These setbacks come at an already difficult time for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, as it attempts to implement a smooth exit strategy.
NPR's Michele Kelemen has more.
MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: For more than a year, the Obama administration has been trying to midwife a negotiating process between the Afghan government and the Taliban. There have been baby-steps, talks about talks, a discussion about releasing five Taliban fighters from Guantanamo, and even a Taliban office set up in Qatar.
State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland says the U.S. still wants to pursue this path, despite the Taliban's decision to suspend the dialogue.
VICTORIA NULAND: The process that we have been wiling to support is one where we facilitate, we support a dialogue, Afghans-to-Afghans. That's going to take two to tango. They're going to have to decide what they want to do in this regard.
KELEMEN: The Taliban's statement was scathing, accusing the Americans of turning their backs on the promises they made regarding a prisoner exchange, and of wasting time. Nuland says the Obama administration is still working through that issue and has to consult Congress.
NULAND: We haven't made any decisions one way or the other. I'm not going to get into the details of what we are discussing. But if they push back from any table, it's hard to imagine that one could make the kind of progress that they're looking for.
KELEMEN: Just what they are looking for is a hotly-debated question in Washington. Max Boot, of the Council on Foreign Relations, says Taliban leaders don't have any incentive to negotiate the kind of peace deal the U.S. wants.,
MAX BOOT: I don't think there is such pressure on the Taliban that they actually see a peace deal as being in their interest. Unless the kind of peace deal they strike would be along the lines of the one that North Vietnam struck with the United States in the Paris Peace Accords, where they basically provide a fig leaf to allow a faster pullout by American forces, which then allows them to restart their offensive without interference from us.
KELEMEN: In a conference call with reporters, yesterday, Boot argued that the talk in Washington about the pace of the U.S. troop withdrawal makes it more difficult to reach a negotiated peace.
BOOT: The odds of that are very small and getting smaller as we signal that our primary imperative is to leave.
KELEMEN: His colleague at the Council on Foreign Relations, Stephen Biddle, sees things differently. Biddle says that the U.S. will continue to support Afghan security forces for at least a couple of years, after international troops end their combat mission.
DR. STEPHEN BIDDLE: A reasonable Taliban expectation is that this war runs at least until 2016-ish. At that point, maybe what they get is the ability to topple the government and that will lead to civil war.
KELEMEN: One that could be messy, with no guarantee of an easy Taliban takeover. So he says a negotiated settlement is in the Taliban's interest, despite the suspension of talks.
BIDDLE: There's a tendency, in the U.S. debate, to say the only way we can negotiate with the Taliban is if we can show them that we are going to win, and that if the Taliban think that, either we are going to lose or they can wait us out, there will be no negotiated settlement. I think that's overstated.
KELEMEN: While the U.S. is trying to keep up the pressure on the Taliban on the battlefield, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he wants U.S. troops out of rural areas next year. Experts say that could complicate efforts to partner and train Afghan security forces - another key part of the U.S. exit strategy
Michele Kelemen, NPR News, Washington.
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Reproductive factors and risk of hormone receptor positive and negative breast cancer: a cohort study.
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The association of reproductive factors with hormone receptor (HR)-negative breast tumors remains uncertain.
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Here is one intriguing tweet:
Wllierslev: 24,000-yr-old Siberian Mal'ta person geneticall similar to native amer and west eurasians. No east asian #paleoamericanodysseyand another:
Willerslev: Native Americans formed by an admixture of east Asian ancestors and the ancestors of western Eurasians #paleoamericanodysseyand another:
Willerslev: Based on genomes, "the Mal'ta is much darker if you want than the iceman (Otzi)" #paleoamericanodysseyI'll be occasionally looking at the #paleoamericanodyssey tag, but feel free to point to any other interesting tweets from the conference in the comments.
From the Met:
The Mal'ta tradition is known from a vast area spanning west of Lake Baikal and the Yenisey River. The site of Mal'ta, for which the culture is named, is composed of a series of subterranean houses made of large animal bones and reindeer antler which had likely been covered with animal skins and sod to protect inhabitants from the severe, prevailing northerly winds. Among the artistic accomplishments evident at Mal'ta are remains of expertly carved bone, ivory, and antler objects. Figurines of birds and human females are the most commonly found items.From a review article:
Debetz (1946) identified the remains of "nothern Asian Mongoloids" at the site ofUPDATE (Oct 26):
Afontova Gora 2; they included a fragment of the frontal bone. Mongoloid features had
been originally acknowledged in the skeletal remains of a child found at the site of
Malta. Alexeev (1998, 323) in his later publication was more cautious, stating that this
area was "inhabited by a population of Mongoloid appearance."
Michael Balter has an article on this topic in Science:
Yet the child's Y chromosome belongs to a genetic group called Y haplogroup R, and its mitochondrial DNA to a haplogroup U. Today, those haplogroups are found almost exclusively in people living in Europe and regions of Asia west of the Altai Mountains, which are near the borders of Russia, China, and Mongolia.This suggests that the Mal'ta boy was not ancestral to Native Americans (since Native Americans don't possess Y-haplogroup R and mt-haplogroup U), although obviously is in some way related to them based on the autosomal evidence. It's hard to read between the lines, but I guess a paper in Nature will come out soon enough as it is currently "in press".


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'Breaking Bad' series finale: Was it a satisfying ending?
Any "Breaking Bad " fan could be forgiven for concluding that Sunday's finale held no major surprises.
That's because this AMC drama series has delivered surprises, shock and OMG moments dependably since its premiere five seasons ago.
Just like it did on its final episode.
For those who don't want to be reading how yet, stop reading! And let's take a few moments for you who aren't ready to find out what happened to tear your eyes away from this article.
OK. Ready?
The finale closed the loop on a scene that began Season 5, and found Walt (series star Bryan Cranston) with a beard and a full head of hair at an Albuquerque, N.M., Denny's restaurant. There he made a swap for a different car than the Volvo he had stolen and driven cross-country from New Hampshire, where, until the final moments of last week's episode, he was holed up, a most-wanted fugitive from the law. More to the point, Walt in that deal at the Denny's men's room became the owner of a very serious rifle.
The scene, flashing forward several months ahead to Walt's 52nd birthday, was no less tantalizing than bewildering to viewers when it aired. On the finale, it revealed itself as a key piece of the series' finished puzzle.
As the finale began, Walt — cancer-stricken and a hunted man — was headed back home to Albuquerque for a last showdown.
In a byzantine and sinister arrangement with the couple who had become tycoons from a pharmaceutical company Walt co-founded but received no benefit from, Walt made sure his children would get the $10 million drug money he left behind with the couple — or else.
Walt then dropped in on his estranged wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn), who had made it plain she hated him.
"Why are you here?" she asked him coldly.
"It's over," he said, "and I needed a proper goodbye."
After all this time, he justified out loud his descent from life as a meek, ill-paid chemistry teacher to a life as a legendary drug lord. Before, he had always insisted he did it for his family, to leave them provided for after his death from his terminal cancer.
"I did it for me," he declared to Skyler. "I liked it. I was good at it. And I was alive."
Walt's former meth-cooking sidekick, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), was still enslaved to a group of bad guys forcing him to cook crystal-meth for them using the laboratory-pristine process Walt had pioneered and prospered with. Walt rescued Jesse: His assault rifle mowed down the bad guys by remote control from the trunk of his car.
Freed, Jesse was last seen speeding off, screaming in hysteria, rage and gratitude. Against all odds, he had lived to face another day.
For Walt, the outcome was much different. As the cops descended at the scene of the mass slaughter to seize him, he was lying on the floor, dead, apparently from a stray bullet from his own rifle. An inadvertent suicide, he had successfully escaped from the law, his foes and the cancer that was stalking him.
And, yes, Walt used the ricin he had held in reserve for ages. He poisoned Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, who had shown the bad judgment to collude with Walt's enemies on more than one occasion. He substituted it for the sweetener she thought she was putting in her tea.
The episode, and series, ended with Badfinger's "Baby Blue" ("Guess I got what I deserve").
So did viewers, with a finale that was surprising in its relative lack of carnage, that tied up loose ends and seemed organically fitting, however outlandish at times ("Breaking Bad" never insisted on stark realism).
Written and directed by Vince Gilligan, the series' creator, this series went out as it came in, and stayed: wicked, twisted and wildly creative. Certified with its conclusion as perhaps the best TV drama series of all time, "Breaking Bad" remained as pure a product as the crystal meth Walt White cooked, to his peril and demise.


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Princeton, N.J. - U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) yesterday lambasted partisan-politics, encouraged campaign finance reform and urged Princeton University students to seek public office as he reflected on important moments in his soon-to-end Senate career. His remarks were made during an afternoon lecture in Dodds Auditorium before an audience of students and others at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
Addressing the condition of politics today, Sen. Lautenberg expressed regret concerning the presence of partisan politics in government, noting that "partisanship is at its worst." He expressed little hope that his colleague Vice President Al Gore would prevail through the current presidential election debacle and supported a statewide vote recount in Florida. However, the senator called partisanship a temporary problem. "What we're going to see as a result of the election is more bipartisanship, because otherwise nothing will get done," he said.
Sen. Lautenberg pressed for immediate campaign finance reform, noting that money issues were part of the reason he decided not to seek another term. "We need to get campaign financing into a different structure," he said. "Money has degraded politics to a salesman's trade."
Asserting the positive role that government has played in America, the senator also took a stand against proponents of smaller government. "It has an extraordinary influence and it is positive in most ways," he said. Sen. Lautenberg added that a system that does not assure people healthcare when they need it, "in a country as bountiful as ours is hardly a way for a country like America to be functioning."
Sen. Lautenberg took time to reminisce about his humble roots as the son of a silk-mill worker in Paterson, N.J., the financial struggles of the family after his father's death from colon cancer, and the new opportunities afforded him through a college education from Columbia University. Sen. Lautenberg also spoke of his success in business as the founder of Automatic Data Processing (ADP), one of the largest computing services companies in the world.
He also reflected on accomplishments in his Senate career, including his contributions to the Clean Air and Safe Drinking Water Acts, laws that established 21 as the national legal drinking age, and most recently, the .08 National Drunk Driving Standard, which sets .08 as the national blood alcohol limit for drunk driving.
"Life in the Senate has been quite an experience," Sen. Lautenberg concluded. In light of his own positive experience, the senator made appeals to younger people, encouraging them to become involved in public service. Speaking directly to the students in the audience, he assured, "If you try it, you'll like it."
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