Ray nagin
Posted on August 30, 2008
With Palin, does McCain now believe in quotas and affirmative action?
I’ll have more to say on this later, but please, give me a break? Does Sen. John McCain actually think he chose the most qualified - or even the second, third or fourth - person to be his vice president?
Sarah Palin may be the governor of Alaska, but prior to that, she was the mayor of a 10,000-person town.
This was all about being a woman. McCain knows it and we know it.
But the sad thing is that there are far more qualified women in the GOP. One that comes to mind is Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. She clearly has the chops to do the job.
Then the McCainites say it’s about her being a strong social conservative. Another ridiculous statement.
Name the one social conservative who grabbed a huge share of grassroots evangelicals, and was governor for a lot longer than Palin? Mike Huckabee.
But McCain didn’t even bother to vet him.
So, let’s look at filling a void for the key markers:
Battleground state. The choice would have been Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty. If he was on the ticket, the state likely would have gone in the Republican column. It will likely stay a blue state.
Economy. Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts governor ran a strong second to McCain, and is an accomplished businessman. He fills a serious hole in the McCain armor.
Social conservative. McCain is weak among evangelicals, so why not choose the southern Baptist minister Huckabee? He beat McCain in Georgia; held strong in Texas, and although big name evangelical leaders shunned him, the folks who get people to the polls - grassroots organizers - loved him.
Appealing to moderates. Palin may give Huckabee a run for his money on this one, but with his lighthearted manner, as well as sunny disposition, he never really ticked off liberals with his hard right positions. He still tops her on this one.
Guns, guns, guns. Who gave one of the best speeches at the National Rifle Association convention? It wasn’t Palin. It was was Huckabee.
So, if you make a pick based on these issues, Palin doesn’t fit the bill.
So what does that leave? Hey, she’s a woman!
I’m all for history, but what I’m hearing from women is “don’t insult me by picking anyone. Pick a qualified woman.”
By any available measure, she doesn’t make the cut.
Other than being a woman.
Way to fill that quota, John.
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Meg simpson
Posted on August 20, 2008
FHS girls soccer bracket
just though i’d pass along the bracket for this weekend’s fhs girls soccer competition. why? because i care.here it is:fhs girls soccer invitationalfriday’s gamesat achat cialis hutchison amphitheatre1 p.m. – rehoboth vs. santa fe prep (game 1)3 p.m. – farmington vs. gallup (game 2)at piedra viagra bestellen vista considerable school4 p.m. – aztec vs. st. michael’s (game 3)5:30 p.m. – piedra vista vs. los alamos (game 4)saturday’s gamesconsolation bracketat piedra vista high school10 a.m. – farmington/gallup loser vs. rehoboth/sfp loser (game 5)10 a.m. – piedra vista/los alamos failure vs. aztec/st. michael’s loser (game 6)consolation championship2 p.m. – winner game 5 vs. winner game 6seventh-place plot2 p.m. – loser game 5 vs. born loser game 6championship bracketat hutchison coliseum10 a.m. – farmington/gallup champion vs. rehoboth/sfp winner (game 7)noon – piedra vista/los alamos winner vs. aztec/st. michael’s winner (game 
third-in order game3 p.m. – loser game 7 vs. schlimazel game 8championship game5 p.m. – winner game 7 vs. winner round 8
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Magpies can ‘recognise reflection’
Posted on August 19, 2008
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Some birds react when shown a mirror, but it is unclear if they know they are looking at their reflection, German experts wrote in Plos Biology journal.
Dr Helmut Prior, from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, and his colleagues carried out a series of tests on five hand-reared birds.
In one test, the researchers placed yellow and red stickers on the birds in positions where they could only be seen in a mirror.
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Black stickers placed on the birds’ bodies did not elicit the same response.
When no mirror was present, the magpies took no notice of the stickers.
“We do not claim that the findings demonstrate a level of self-consciousness or self-reflection typical of humans,” the researchers wrote in Plos Biology.
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Fantasy football rankings
Posted on August 17, 2008
Uneducated Guesses about the Boise State Quarterback Situation
First off, let me state that I have tried to objectively look at the Boise State QB race from the beginning. Devotees of the blog may recall that prior to Spring ball, I had Coughlin as my frontrunner.
It is clear at this point that MC is not going to be the man. Let me also state that I have been critical of the local media outlets when they have gone too far in campaigning for one QB over the other.
I have no qualms saying that I have jumped on the Kellen Moore bandwagon and I think he obviously has a bright future at Boise State.
So make no mistake, when I make my following prediction: I am not endorsing one QB over another (not that it matters to the coaching staff) and I think that we are gold if the coaches go either way.
That said…after watching yesterday’s scrimmage (and not watching any of the Fall practices)—I predict that senior Bush Hamdan is going to be the starter for 2008. Hamdan, though he had a rougher outing in the first Fall scrimmage…has, from all accounts had a good camp. He was really neck and neck with Moore after Spring ball (an amazing testament to just how good the frosh is) and the fifth year senior has had a solid summer.
Last night, though, Moore again looked crisp, Hamdan looked more like a starter to me. Moore had a beautiful 50-yard TD pass to Jeremy Childs…but Hamdan had an amazing TD strike to Austin Pettis that he threw off of his back foot as the pocket had nearly collapsed on him.
Hamdan also had a very nice touchdown pass to Vinny Perretta and several scrambling tosses that found their mark. Hamdan finished the night 9 of 14 for 214 yards with 3 TDs and one INT (thankfully to new starter Brandyn Thompson). Kellen Moore was 13 of 21 for 149 yards, one TD and one INT.
These stats certainly don’t indicate a huge chasm between the senior and the frosh and Moore did have the better first scrimmage…but like I said…Hamdan just looked more like the starter yesterday.
I will pull a Hal Mumme and have my “gut feeling” moment. Hamdan is gonna be the starter…Moore will see some time this year…Moore will be unstoppable and incredibly good as a sophomore.
For those of you who would like to serve up piping hot crow for me if I am wrong, I believe on a PC it’s the alt-Print Screen command.Other observations from the second fall scrimmage:Vinny Perretta is going to tear it up this year. He had two long TD receptions last night and has looked very good this Summer. I think we would’ve done better last season with VP healthy. Our RBs look great. I’m used to the sight of Ian Johnson in street clothes at scrimmages, so I’m not too rattled by the fact he didn’t play.
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Doug Martin, Jeremy Avery and DJ Harper look great. They run hard and don’t go down without a fight. Even freshman Matt Kaiserman and walk-on Carlo Audagnotti looked good on the blue.Jarvis Hodge looks like Kimbo Slice. Hodge didn’t play yesterday, but order stromectol he is sporting a thick beard and if you squint…he looks a bit like the wannabe brawler.Chandler Koch will be good. Koch is tall and has soft hands…maybe he uses Palmolive?Our Freshman O-lineman are huge. Faraji Wright, Joe Kellogg, Tom Swanson and others are gonna be big players for us in the future…literally.Tommy Smith and George Iloka will be all-WAC someday soon. alt-PrintscreenBoise State has international appeal. I had three Germans speaking ze Deutsch next to me at last night’s scrimmage. Offense ruled the night BUT Kyle Wilson, Jeron Johnson, Billy Winn and others were not suited up.Brandyn Thompson will fill in nicely for our dearly departed Orlando Scandrick.This will be a fun year. How’s that for another bold prediction?Scrimmage LinksMurphy less viagra kaufen sure of QB race outcome. Dustin Lapray weighs in on the action. Grab a thesaurus.IPT’s scrimmage photo gallery.
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Iwon
Posted on August 14, 2008
Female-Oriented Sites Become Hot Properties
A rise in popularity of womens’ websites and blogs has resulted in a huge marketing splurge, the International Herald Tribune reports. Writer Claire Cain Miller says these sites grew 35 percent last year according to a comScore report, which she claims has no specific category for men’s sites.
And, she says, advertisers “showed 4.4 billion display ads on women’s Web sites in May.”
Sites and online newsletters like Daily Candy (which Comcast recently purchased for $125 million), Yahoo’s Shine, and the BlogHer and Glam Media networks have shown great potential with investors flocking to the newly-minted online goldmine.
What’s really interesting is the reasons that advertisers and execs are giving for the popularity of the sites, with very bold statements about the roles and interests of women on the Internet:
“Moms are the decision-makers of the household as far as purchases are concerned,” said Chris Actis, vice president and digital director at MediaVest, an ad agency.
Joni Evans, the literary agent who has found a second career as chief executive of wowOwow, said the gender disparity comes from the fact that women thrive on sharing anecdotes.
“Women love to reach out and talk; it’s just the nature of women,” and the Web is perfectly suited to that, she said.
“Time and time again, women are happy to see their relationship with their food, their clothes and their relationships externally manifested in entertainment and how-to content,” said Lauren Zalaznick, president of NBC Universal’s women and lifestyle entertainment networks.
Strong words that perhaps the women who visit the sites would not appreciate hearing. But Miller also states that sites with more serious topics like politics have not been as successful, and so they continue acheter cialis to stick with what works: “fashion, beauty, celebrities and love life.”
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Olympics tonight
Posted on August 13, 2008
When it Comes to Colin Powell, What is Bill Kristol Up To?
General Colin Powell has shrugged off good efforts by the Obama campaign to nudge his support into the open — but while it can be understood that Obama’s agents would try to sign Powell up, what does Bill Kristol have in mind stating that he expects Powell to tilt towards Obama?
Earlier today, Huffington Post’s Seth Colter Walls quoted former national security advisor and CSIS Trustee Zbigniew Brzezinski saying that he expected Colin Powell to endorse Obama. Bill Kristol went a step further and said that he also expects the former Secretary cialis of State to show up in Denver at the Democratic National Convention.
When I queried General buy lexapro Powell’s office today, I received this statement from his office:
i am not attending any conventions and i press not decided who i am going to vote for. i have no idea why bill kristol started this rumor chain
Others received the same message.
So, what is Bill Kristol up to?
I have a hunch — but it’s completely speculative.
Since Steve Schmidt was given the operative reigns of the McCain campaign, Schmidt has been pushing hard for flamboyant, dramatic showdowns to contrast McCain from Obama. He helped orchestrate the ongoing political theater on oil drilling. And Schmidt and his team have grabbed the Russia-Georgia conflict and tried to ratchet higher US-Russian tension rather than stand down, again to differentiate the McCain camp from what they hope is perceived as a more dovish Obama position.
My hunch is that Bill Kristol and friends don’t want interest-calculating negotiators and balanced, sensible, pragmatic realists around McCain. They are perhaps using the Russia conflict to purge their foreign policy team of those who are not neocon or neocon-friendly — and by trying to “export Colin Powell to Obama,” Kristol is really going after his close friend and ally Richard Armitage while at the same time attacking General Powell’s utility to Obama.
And who is helping Steve Schmidt and Bill Kristol orchestrate this purge and exploit this European crisis? I think Colin Powell’s old White House nemesis — Karl Rove.
Just a hunch — but McCain’s team is working on achieving national security clarity of the neoconservative kind.
– Steve Clemons
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Posted on August 13, 2008
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For 20 years, Ted Harbert worked at ABC. He started there right out of college in 1977, when the network, along with CBS and NBC, was the only game in town and was the hit factory responsible for Happy Days; Charlie’s Angels; Rich Man, Poor Man and Roots. By 1996, when Harbert was running ABC, those glory days were ending. All three networks were still colossal, but Fox had established its beachhead, and cable’s market penetration was almost complete. The ’80s had seen the rise of MTV. And CNN was by then a big deal, not just an incinerator for Ted Turner’s extra cash. ESPN was competing aggressively. Individually, none of these channels got Ivermectin much of a rating most of the time, but the damage was starting to add up.
“People would say, ‘Oh, they’re nibbling away, they’re nibbling away,’” Harbert recalls. “And we would always say, ‘Well, they can nibble, but they’re never gonna really take us.’ And then they took us.”
Today, Harbert is president and C.E.O. of the Comcast Entertainment Group. He oversees The Style Network, G4a six-year-old channel aimed at young men who love videogamesand C.E.G.’s most recognizable offering, E!, which features celebrity news. E! ranks 31st among the most-watched basic-cable channels, which means that, in general, less than 1 percent of America’s 112 million TV households are watching it during prime time. Yet Harbert is probably sleeping better these days than his former colleagues at the broadcast networks.
When Harbert talks about television, it’s with the sober clarity of someone who has looked at life from both sides now and has seen that only one business model is working. Cable networks target just those viewers who want what they have to offer. Broadcast networks want everyone. And the business of wanting everyone has never been worse. At the end of last season, ABC, CBS, and NBC reported their smallest combined audience ever, an event that has become a gloomy yearly occurrence. Meanwhile, cablecounting both basic channels and pay services like HBO and Showtimenow receives 55 percent of the total viewership.
It may be time to perform an autopsy on network TV, which some have pronounced officially dead at age 60, the victim of a lifetime of big spending, hard living, and bad planning. Here’s the coroner’s report: The evening newscasts have been mowed down by cable’s heat, spin, and round-the-clock immediacy. In prime time, nobody watches reruns anymoreand reruns, along with syndication, used to be the only way comedy and drama series, the heart of a network’s prime-time business, made money. (The way they make money now is…well, the networks will get back to you as soon as they figure that out.)
Speaking of old-school, half-hour sitcoms: Once, 50 of them were on the air at a time. Today, they’re all but gone. Suddenly, people just stopped liking them. Prime-time news magazines? Barely holding on. “Protected” time slots? Viewers accustomed to Web surfing and channel flipping at hyperspeed aren’t going to watch a new show just because they’re too lazy to change the channel after The Biggest Loser. The audience for daytime soaps, a profitable staple since TV’s infancy, has shrunk so dramatically that viagra kaufen the form may vanish within a few years. This is all very bad news for a medium that hasn’t come up with a fresh format since 2000, when CBS launched Survivor, the gold rush in reality-TV competitions. (P.S.: Survivor isn’t what it used to be either.)
It’s unlikely that a broadcast network is ever again going to create a megahit like The Cosby Show, which at its mid-’80s peak drew as many as 50 million viewers an episode. For several years now, TV’s top event has been Fox’s American Idol. Last season, it drew 28.8 million viewers a week.
Conversations about the future of television tend to vault way past next week or next year into a world where schedules don’t exist and 10,000 programming options are all available at any moment, half of them fully interactive. (Not enjoying this episode of Law & Order: Moonbase? That’s OKyou can change the plot!)
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Posted on August 13, 2008
Trouble in the woods for Dubya
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Hey George, I hate to have tell you this, son, but they’re talking bad about you out at the deer camp. That’s real bad. When you’ve lost the deer-camp-boys you’re in big trouble around here.
You see, these are the real good ol’ boys, the ones who make up the backbone acheter cialis in this part of the woods. They’re the ones who build the houses, sell the insurance, install the plumbing and fix your air conditioner when it goes on the blink. They’re just regular, hard working Joe’s trying to make life a little better and get ahead. And up to now they’ve done pretty good. Many of them own their own businesses and are members of the chamber and pay a lot of taxes – a lot of taxes. And a whole bunch of them read the papers and keep up with what’s going on in the world.
George, they’re a calling you a liar. Yep, they are. And if it’s one thing they don’t cotton to, it’s a liar, George. They know liars; they’ve had liars for employees and dealt with liars in trying to do businesses. “Cain’t’ trust a liar” just about sums it up around here, George.
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That’s bad George. Real bad … real hard to get over around here, George.
I guess it’s partly cause we come from pioneer stock. Most of our people moved here from Tennessee and Alabama, and before that Georgia and the Carolinas and some from Virginia. We come from a long line of survivors, George. Only the survivors got this far. They survived by their wits and hard, honest work, with a little luck thrown in. Excuse’ me for saying so, but they also learnt’ real early how to separate the chicken salad from the chicken s****, George. They watched out for what people did rather than pay too much attention to what they said. Their Grandpas taught em’ that.
And, oh yea, these ol’ boys, they really don’t like being played for a fool when they’ve kindly given you the benefit of the doubt. On a scale of one to ten George, that’s a ten.
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Yep, deer-camp-boys are proud of their roots and try and hold on to the old ways, as much as they can nowadays. They know the understanding and teachings of their Grannies come hard learned. They’re hardscrabble folk, George, and they judge a man by his handshake, the honesty in his eye and the sincerity in his voice. They’re nice enough when you first meet, that’s the way their Mama’s raised them, but they don’t really take you in till you’ve proved yourself. You know that puddin’ George, its proof tells the tale.
Well, guess that’s about it, friend. Just thought I’d pass this along in case you was interested. Cause when you lose the deer-camp-boys around here, George, there ain’t much left.
John R. BomarArkadelphia, Arkansas
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Posted on August 6, 2008
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