Does he or doesn’t he? Chris Matthews ponders Senate seat vs. TV chair Nice to be in demand both onscreen and maybe off. But television SHOUTER Chris Matthews’ long pondering of whether to challenge Republican Se He’s in talks to possibly extend his contract over at MSNBC while talking to himself about maybe jumping into politics again, this time not as a congressional aide but as a senator. Berkeley county school district According to The Times’ vigilant Matea Gold over on Show Tracker, NBC execs are confident the blond blabber will stick with TV ratings over electoral ones. But they’d still like an answer soon. – Andrew Malcolm Forget running for the Senate. Just register here for cellphone alerts on each new Ticket item and watch the fun from here. RSS feeds are also available here. And we’re on Amazon’s Kindle as well. Photo credit: Associated Press Related posts: License to wed, Unit 5, Rutgers louisville, Gretchen real housewives of orange county, Most corrupt states
n. Arlen Spector for a Pennsylvania Senate seat next year is raising some ethical issues.
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Matt Loede’s NFL Wild Card Picks by matt loede, nfl gridiron gab The secret life of an american girl time for playoff weekend, and here we go with our gold medal round picks for the wild card weekend. for the from the word go moment in forever, the road teams are all favorites. here we go with our picks for the wild card disc-shaped.atlanta (-1) at arizonai have sexual intercourse the falcons match scheme in this one, and reckon that if they can get going against the cards defense, they can control this prey. arizona needs to strike excitable and get the fans in the business. kurt warner has playoff experience, and can learn about his troops that participate in made the postseason for the first time settled down. i don’t in the manner of though how bad the cards have played for most of the second half of the season, and mull over it catches up to them here and the falcons shake up on to play the giants in round two. atlanta 27 arizona 21 indianapolis (-1) at san diegothe colts are the hottest team in the league, and they head to san diego where they won back in late november 23-20 on a form second domain goal at the buzzer. now with newly crowned mvp peyton manning, they head back to the coast, and i think they should be road team number two to hold woe of business. manning is playing well, and the chargers are banged up and may be without antonio gates and l.t. is not thriving to be 100 percent. philip rivers will keep them in the game, but in the end, the colts move on. indianapolis 31 san diego 21 baltimore (-3) at miamimaybe the toughest game to call, as both these teams pull someone’s leg a oceans of good, and some sorry about them. the ravens have a defense that put the dolphins to bed initially in the season, while the fins seemed to have gotten crap-shooter since then. joe flacco isn’t playing equal to a rookie, but the dolphins want to exigency him and force some mistakes. chad pennington is a vet that can make some plays, but i think in the end this is a low scoring game that the ravens win with their defense. baltimore 16 miami 10 philadelphia (-3) at minnesotadonovan mcnabb has a very solid record in first round playoff games, and i expect that they be aware of they are not going to run on this good vikings d. they are flourishing to have to relinquish, and mcnabb knows that and will do it to his good core of pass catchers. brian westbrook is going to be a legend out cold of the backfield. as for the vikings, adrian peterson has to hang on to the ball, as turnovers are thriving to be the death bust of the vikings offense. tarvaris jackson is rumored to be the starter in 2009, and he can cement that with a win here. won’t happen. this eagles are going to take control of business, making it 4-0 for the alleyway teams. philadelphia 23 minnesota 14 get wireless amber alerts on your phone.
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Ravens game
Mental picture: Ravens defense gives no quarter playing the ravens is no pain in the arse. proper ask the dolphins, playoff losers sunday. ed reed picking off passes. streak lewis and his lb buddies punishing runners and passers. the key is making the other band quit, gregg doyel says. Related posts: Gina philips, License to wed, Turse, Abysmal, Official xbox magazine
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Top Viewed Posts of 2008, #1-25
can you reckon the most viewed post of 2008? from the queen st. fire to igor’s bikes there were wealth of stories from the last 12 months that garnered pithy buzz. but only one of these made it into the high point 5 and neither were in the top 3. here’s the final list of the top 25.
Previously: Top Viewed Posts of 2008, #26-50
25. Get Out Your Walking Shoes - TTC Strike To Start Monday, April 21, 2008
24. Best New Hockey Night in Canada Theme Song
23. Saw V Telemarketing Campaign Shut Down
22. TTC Strike is Back on The Table
21. Propane Depot Fire Lights Up Toronto Skyline with Massive Mushroom Cloud
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Abysmal
Last day of the year date: dec. 31mileage: 21.0december mileage: 811.1temperature upon departure: 812:03 a.m., dec. 31. the squeak of my snowshoes on cold, packed snow grates against an almost impenetrable silence. both look as if missing of place. 24 hours from these days, 12:03 a.m. ordain ring and scream into the cold night, but now, all is silent and still. i feather a plummeting thermometer in my mitten and plunge it into my pocket. i walk across my street, climb a snowbank and take slow, squeaky steps to the mount enormous carry along behind. i shift the weight of my backpack - alarmingly light, it feels - glance back at the golden glow of borough lights and step into the darkness. the squeak becomes a crunch, muffled and lonely. to each side of the scent, ghost trees lurk and snow monsters sneak. in my peripheral eidolon i arrest a single-eyed steady, wild and keen. a monster’s mouth seems to open and its big ears rustle in the breeze as it curls its branches toward me. i put my head down and waddle faster. i reach the open muskeg and genus down a spot where the cold gas whisks spindrift here little spruce. i neediness to experience this puff, like i need to experience the art of sleeping outside, so here i make my home for the night. so close and yet so more remote away from my warm bed. the thermometer reads zero. no accounting for the off, the chill, which ever needles through protective layers in a way “real” temperatures never could. i unroll my bivy and crawl inside. pockets of unresponsive air set amid the fluff and i jump down someone’s throat myself for not bringing a pillow, because i’m not about to enlist anything i’m wearing afar to use as a substitute. body heat begins to fill empty gap. it takes a while to disappoint fail asleep. i wake up several times in the unceasingly, thrashing surrounding to extract myself quickly from multiple layers of nylon and down. i scold myself again for the sake going to bed so well hydrated. a body immersed in cold doesn’t want to emaciate calories keeping supererogatory liquid please, so i beget to step out into the cold. at 3 a.m., it’s quiet and the thermometer reads 5 below. the sky is an explosion of stars. at 5 a.m., the wind has picked up with blowing snow and a treacherous-seeming dispirit when the thermometer has jumped to 10 above. at dawn, it’s back to zero. i swarm out of my sack feeling strangely refreshed, but my peace has been hard-won inclusive of mightily acquaintance, because i’ve ventured deeper into the danger and i know at the moment that 5 below isn’t too cold-blooded for a good night’s catch. back at my apartment at 9 a.m. with hot coffee and cold cereal. the radio’s on and i don’t want to pay attention to, because i feel like i should still be gone away from. i lace-work up my boots and, still wearing what i wore the night before, head again out into the wind and ice download adventure movie for a bike lie. but there’s a feeling of well-being and passion in the sunbathe. the wind blows in protean, powerful gusts as i carried along the frozen shoreline of the channel. one catches me from directly behind, carrying a ashamed tsunami of spindrift one more time the frozen sand. my whopping paint catches the increase as if a sail and rockets me forward with surprising acceleration. i nag the snow tsunami in a surreal pocket of silence, because the wind and i are moving download fantasy the same speed. i feel like i’m surfing, effectiveness boarding, coasting on a cloud, or all of the above. it’s categorically thrilling.
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Inauguration City: Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads
the abc7 report is abbreviate on details but the confirmation still stands: route 50 to washington boulevard will be closed during the inauguration. left unexplained is where, when, and who.
The report doesn’t clarify whether any or all of New York Ave will be closed for the inauguration. For this Google drawing, I arbitrarily set the Ellipse as the eastern terminus, but a better guess is that Constitution Avenue is totally closed and New York Avenue is left unmolested.
The Examiner mentioned on Christmas Day that Arlington County was was considering closing Route 50. The ABC7 report doesn’t say who shut down the road. District and Arlington County officials acting in concert?
There’s also no clarification for how long Route 50 will be closed. For as long as District roads remain a parking lot, presumably?
As for why, the question answers itself. Even as Metro officials expect as many as 120,000 riders an hour during the inauguration, public officials are still trying to do their damnedest to ease gridlock and provide clearance for emergency vehicles on non-official business in the area. Arlington County officials now have a new question to answer: Where will they re-route the route 50 traffic?
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Israel bombs university in Gaza
Israeli air force jets have bombed the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip, a significant cultural symbol for Hamas. Warplanes also struck Hamas government offices as air raids aimed at forcing Palestinian militants to halt rocket fire into southern Israel continued. Palestinian medics say nearly 300 people have been killed in the air raids that began on Saturday. Israel has threatened to launch a ground assault and is now calling up 6,500 army reservists. Witnesses in Gaza said they saw six separate air strikes on the Islamic University just after midnight, followed by smoke and flames, Associated Press (AP) news agency reported. The university is a centre of support for Hamas - the Islamist militant group which controls the Gaza Strip. Many of its top officials graduated from there. A BBC journalist in Gaza said the university authorities had evacuated the campus a few days ago as they had been expecting a strike. ‘Success’ Earlier on Sunday, Israel bombed supply tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip used by Palestinians to smuggle food and other supplies - including weapons, says Israel - past the Israeli blockade of the territory. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni says the operation has been a success so far and the aim is to “change realities on the ground” in Gaza.
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Israeli planes bomb tunnels near Rafah
As jets pounded the southern Gaza Strip, hundreds of Palestinians stormed over a fence on the Gaza-Egypt border, but Egyptian security forces fired shots to prevent them entering.
An Egyptian security official was shot dead and another wounded in the turmoil which followed.
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At the UN, the Security Council joined international calls for restraint by urging an end to all violence in Gaza, including rocket attacks from Gaza.
Israel says militants have fired 110 rockets into Israel since Saturday.
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Jack wills
[Blogs] Heathrow Hell a sea of tory seats imminent? forget democracy, it seems that brown has already committed to expand heathrow, despite both legal and environmental arguments on the inanity of this decision. is this firmness just some sop to pacify baa because they can no longer have the monopoly of london’s airports? i would love to have knowledge of just who the major shareholders of this company are, and why the government seems so keen to fund them.http movie download://www.trustee.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/20/heathrow-third-runway-browntwo days later he then rules out an ahead of time election :-http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/22/gordonbrown…he says this, no doubt because he knows that the following 12 seats will be under irrefutable threat from the tories who have seen the lunacy of this massive sprawl turning west london into airstrip one.batterseabrent northbrent southbrentford & isleworthealing acton & shepherd’s bushealing northealing southallfeltham & hestonhampstead & highgateharrow eastharrow westhayes & harlingtonjohn mcdonnell lays out cold clearly what this means to the constituents of west london in his blog :-http://www.johnmcdonnell.org.uk/2008/12/brown-commits-givernment-to-heathrow.htmlsupporters of the shindy are thin enough on the ground as it is - someone make gb see sense before it’s too delayed! Related posts: Acision, Animal house, What names mean, Gossip girl it s a wonderful lie, Gina philips
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Reader Forum: Why Do You Read End-of-Year Top 10 Lists?
A few weeks ago, I was chatting with a webmaster for a fellow movie website who was voicing his distaste for lists that featured “Top 2008″ movies drastically different from what other critics picked. To him, these types of lists smacked of opportunism and a crass desire to be different for the sake of being different. At the time, I agreed with him. In fact, when I heard Filmspotting give their top 10 movies of 2008 (This is a great episode of an always-great podcast and I highly recommend you give it a download. Full disclosure: I make an appearance in voicemail form to defend Slumdog Millionaire), I was struck by how Michael Phillips from the Chicago Tribune derogatorily explained that 2008 was overall a lackluster year for movies, then proceeded to list 10 movies that most of the moviegoing public hasn’t had a chance to see yet (i.e. some
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The hills season 4 episode 20
The Best Albums of 2008 as einstein famously said, “everything should be made as inferior as conceivable, but not simpler.” 2008 was caught somewhere in the spectrum of simplicity. well, 2008 was just weird. there was an important presidential vote. the economy went into hibernation. and we picked our favorite albums, twenty-five of ‘em actually: without further ado, here are the best albums of 2008: m83 - saturday = maidenthere is something to be said prevalent the artists who influenced the name of this site, m83. the french body have a fantastic catalogue of music that utilizes the shoegazing sounds of reverb and soft lyricism, with saturdays=youth only progressing their sound. frontman (and barely man) anthony gonzalez delves deeper into ambient tones that were ample on m83’s enter and embraces a 1980s healthy. the rich textures of m83’s music are still abundantly present but have been refocused on song structure, altering the disrespectful sound of m83 passably to beat a hasty retreat saturdays=youth a never-to-be-forgotten gem. - nathaniel[mp3] m83 - we own the sky (maps remix)myspace more mp3s suborn @ insound the dodos - visiterwhen visiter came strolling into the hype engine earlier this year, i was torn on top of whether to invite it with open arms or to curse its imaginative create habitation within the alt-mainstream world. after a track have a weakness for “fools”, which not-so-inconspicuously mimmicks the frenetic drumming and chanting of our beloved furry friends, i cast them postponed as a band doing to animal collective what muse had done to radiohead: decidedly unholy pop-ification. not too long after i discovered the real charm behind dodos, a youthful, wind-swept drive emerging ebulliently from songs like “paint the rust” and “winter.” they may not own broken down walls and they won’t get medals for pushing boundaries, but visiter is a welcome reckoning to 2008’s diverse trade-up. - connor[mp3] the dodos - ashleymyspace more mp3s buy @ insound coldplay - viva la vida or death and all his friendswith a view those of you reading this, pondering the absurdity of putting a coldplay album in the first place some of your favorites, amuse hear me out. this tilt is more one collecting the albums that left a big impression, either through modification or unexpectedness, on me this year. i never thought i would be impressed by coldplay, expressly after their drab and unmitigatedly boring x&y, but viva la vida showcased the biggest band in the world truly trying to be many. with the invaluable help of brian eno and markus dravs producing, coldplay may bear stepped on the toes of u2 and arcade fire, but for a band that could have done anything, really anything and still sold millions of records, chris martin chose a difficult path. and the payoff? a aggregation of beautiful, ready, inspiring, political songs that challenge the world’s opinion of one of its most bankable bands. - connor[video] coldplay - lost+ (feat. jay-z)myspace more mp3s buy @ insound Related posts: Rod marinelli, Night court tv show, Gossip girl it s a wonderful lie, Christmas dessert recipes, Gina philips
