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Anderson Cooper 360 - It's hard to talk when you're tea-bagging (CS'er Alert) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-04-16 12:03:25 by Rotara
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Obama Wants to Control the Banks
Post Date: 2009-04-05 07:02:03 by Ada
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There's a reason he refuses to accept repayment of TARP money. I must be naive. I really thought the administration would welcome the return of bank bailout money. Some $340 million in TARP cash flowed back this week from four small banks in Louisiana, New York, Indiana and California. This isn't much when we routinely talk in trillions, but clearly that money has not been wasted or otherwise sunk down Wall Street's black hole. So why no cheering as the cash comes back? My answer: The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key ...
Austin clubs, mall plan to close during Relays
Post Date: 2009-04-04 00:11:14 by christine
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Owners, managers cite safety concerns, lack of revenue during annual track event that draws thousands to UT, Sixth Street areas. Several popular Sixth Street businesses and Highland Mall are considering closing or have already decided to close this weekend during the Texas Relays, an event that draws thousands of revelers to Austin. Owners and managers Thursday cited a variety of reasons for their decisions, including safety concerns, low revenue in past years and exhaustion from the South by Southwest Music Festival last month. Emo's Austin, a live music venue at Red River and Sixth streets, will be closed, as will Flamingo Cantina, the premier Austin club for reggae music. ...
and PENN STATE wins the NIT!!
Post Date: 2009-04-02 21:12:06 by christine
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69 PSU 63 Baylor Congrats to you Nits fans!
Johnny Blanchard, Yanks’ ’60s Super Sub, Dies at 76
Post Date: 2009-03-26 12:46:35 by MUDDOG
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Johnny Blanchard, a power-hitting catcher and outfielder known as Super Sub who played in five consecutive World Series for the Yankees in the 1960s, died Wednesday in Robbinsdale, Minn. He was 76. The cause was a heart attack, Major League Baseball said on its Web site. As a left-handed hitter who could deliver the long ball, Blanchard seemed a perfect fit for Yankee Stadium and its short right-field fence. But he was essentially a catcher and had little chance of breaking into the starting lineup since the Yankees had Yogi Berra and Elston Howard. Blanchard’s best season was 1961, when he hit a career-high 21 home runs and batted .305 in 93 games. He was decidedly in the shadow of ...
Meadows has first triple dead heat win
Post Date: 2009-03-26 11:37:53 by war
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A rare triple dead heat for win, the first in the 46-year history of The Meadows, occurred in yesterday's 10th race when TSM Goldenridge, Serious Damage and Teen Elvis all hit the wire together. It was the 25th triple dead heat for win in harness racing's official history, and, with a time of 1:53.4, the fastest ever triple dead heat for win. Prior to Tuesday, the fastest triple dead heat for win, 1:57, took place at Rosecroft Raceway on Oct. 10, 1992. The finish in the race for $20,000 was set up when TSM Goldenridge, in front by a narrow margin with Dave Palone driving, tried to fend off the inside charge of Serious Damage (Kyle Bolon) and the late outside rally of Teen Elvis ...
Howard Komives, Ex-Knick, Dies at 67
Post Date: 2009-03-24 23:25:34 by MUDDOG
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Howard Komives, a sharpshooting guard who played for 10 seasons in the National Basketball Association but who was perhaps best remembered for the trade that sent him to the Detroit Pistons from the Knicks for the future Hall of Famer Dave DeBusschere, died Sunday in Toledo, Ohio. He was 67. Komives’s son, Shane, said his father died after surgery for head trauma that apparently resulted from a fall at his home. Komives had had difficulty walking because of knee and ankle problems and was found unconscious by his wife, Marcia, his son said. Komives, known as Butch, captured the National Collegiate Athletic Association scoring title in the 1963-64 season, averaging 36.7 points a game ...
kid hits 6 half court shots in a row
Post Date: 2009-03-13 12:08:53 by freepatriot32
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Plane 2 Plane Stunt
Post Date: 2009-03-13 02:48:33 by X-15
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Poster Comment:The Pilatus Porter the skydivers transfer to is in a beta-descent (it has a turbine engine and a fully reversible propeller).
Steroid doping tests ignore vital ethnic differences in hormone activity
Post Date: 2009-03-12 13:47:34 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Steroid doping tests ignore vital ethnic differences in hormone activity Current steroid (testosterone) doping tests should be scrapped for international sport, because they ignore vital ethnic differences in hormone activity, suggests research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Testosterone, and other hormones that boost testosterone levels, such as growth hormone, are among the most widely abused performance enhancers used in sport, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency. Evidence of abuse is determined by the testosterone: epitestosterone ratio, or T:E ratio for short, in the urine. The threshold is set at above four for everyone, and confirmed by ...
Enduring Blunder
Post Date: 2009-03-10 06:14:50 by Ada
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President Obama has committed 17,000 additional troops to Operation Enduring Freedom, our misadventure in Afghanistan. His generals don't know what to do with those troops when they get there; they're not even sure what troops to send. Someone on Obama's sprawling national security team should have told him it's a bad, bad idea to send troops into a combat zone without a well-defined task and purpose. Ronald Reagan's 1983 end-zone fumble in Beirut should serve as a shining example of that maxim, but today's defense hierarchy isn't keen on learning from the past. Neocon luminary Fred Kagan, chief architect of the surge strategy, taught military history at West ...
Gymnastics at its best
Post Date: 2009-03-01 19:28:50 by Itistoolate
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Gymnastics at Its Best - The best video clips are right here
I hope the Police worldwide have a chance to watch this
Post Date: 2009-02-26 19:44:54 by Itistoolate
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www.tooshocking.com/video...Get_Even_With_Riot_Police
Indiana promotes manager to, yes, play basketball
Post Date: 2009-02-26 18:30:36 by Rotara
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Indiana basketball has hit its fair share of lows in 2008-09, one of which came last night when Northwestern beat Indiana in Bloomington for the first time in like 256 years. Maybe not that long. But it had been forever, and that Northwestern finally broke its streak is a testament to just how far the Hoosiers have sunk this year. If you like IU, you may now cry. If you hate IU, you may now cry tears of joy. Ah, but wait. There's more. What's worse than losing to Northwestern at home? Losing to Northwestern at home immediately after promoting 5-foot-9-inch team manager Mike Santa to play reserve guard. Yes, this is really happening: Mike Santa, all of 5 feet 9 inches from ...
Philadelphia Manufacturing Drops to Lowest Level Since 1990 in Fed Index
Post Date: 2009-02-19 11:58:02 by Brian S
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Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Manufacturing in the Philadelphia region shrank in February at the fastest pace in more than 18 years as employment and sales plunged to record lows. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s general economic index dropped to minus 41.3 this month, lower than forecast, compared with minus 24.3 in January, the bank said today. Negative numbers signal contraction. The global economic slowdown is causing U.S. manufacturers to scale back production and cut payrolls. President Barack Obama this week signed into law a two-year, $787 billion stimulus plan aimed at saving or creating 3.5 million jobs as another report today showed a record 4.99 million people were ...
Favre tells Jets he's retiring
Post Date: 2009-02-11 14:14:17 by Rotara
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By the fence at Reno
Post Date: 2009-02-11 01:30:47 by X-15
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Poster Comment:Hauling ass on the deck....
Freestyle motocross rider Jeremy Lusk dies
Post Date: 2009-02-10 19:31:46 by Rotara
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP)—Jeremy Lusk, an American freestyle motocross rider, died of head injuries Tuesday after crashing while trying to land a backflip in competition. He was 24. Jorge Ramirez, chief of the intensive care unit at Calderon Hospital where Lusk was taken, said the motocross racer suffered severe brain damage and a possible spinal cord injury. Lusk won a gold medal at the 2008 X Games. He was injured Saturday night when he failed to complete a full rotation while attempting a Hart Attack backflip and slammed headfirst into the dirt. Lusk crashed in almost identical fashion in the freestyle semifinals at the 2007 X Games but was not hurt. He had a successful 2008 ...
Peyton Manning threw Jay Cutler's diabetes monitor in the pool
Post Date: 2009-02-06 10:48:22 by Rotara
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Peyton Manning threw Jay Cutler's diabetes monitor in the pool By MJD And then, for extra laughs, Peyton drove around to various nursing homes in the Honolulu area, unplugging oxygen machines and slathering canes and walkers in Crisco. I kid, I kid. Peyton doesn't have any hatred of the elderly or disease-ridden. As it turns out, he destroyed Jay Cutler's blood sugar monitor (Cutler's a type 1 diabetic) by mistake. As part of all the zany Pro Bowl hijinx, Peyton and friends were going to toss Cutler in the pool, and while they did protect his cell phone, they forgot one other thing. Here's how it went down, courtesy of the Denver Post: The gang of Pro Bowl ...
REACTION WITHOUT ACTION
Post Date: 2009-02-03 15:36:23 by swarthyguy
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Watching the crowd reaction to Bruce Springsteen at the Super Bowl brought to mind how much better Americans have become at collective enthusiasm than at collective action. The arm punches, screaming, and the mixture of joy, tears and intense facial expressions that in any other context might be taken for anger seemed somewhat mechanical, but thanks to television, movies and prior attendance, we all know how to act in such circumstances even if it means yelling so loudly that you can hardly hear the individual you so admire. Besides - unlike, say, a 1930s big band dance concert - the promoters have made sure there isn't much room to do anything else. It is easy to forget how recent ...
Springsteen hopes to inspire in Super Bowl show
Post Date: 2009-01-31 10:48:40 by christine
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Rock legend Bruce Springsteen will try to bring smiles and inspiration in dark economic times with Sunday's Super Bowl half-time show. The performer, nicknamed "The Boss", and his E Street Band will perform for 12 minutes during the National Football League's championship extravaganza between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. "We come out to inspire. That's part of what we do," Springsteen said. "We just want to come out and give people some smiles on Sunday and carry on and have a good time." Springsteen, preparing for a world tour to support a newly released album, extends a tradition of superstar Super Bowl performers that includes ...
(Dallas, TX) School Wants to Forfeit It's 100-0 Win
Post Date: 2009-01-25 10:29:36 by OliviaFNewton
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DALLAS -- A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse. Now officials from The Covenant School say they are trying to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory. "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened," Kyle Queal, the head of the school, said in a statement, adding the forfeit was requested because "a victory without honor is a great loss." The private Christian school defeated Dallas Academy last week. Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime. {snip} "I think the bad judgment was in the full-court press and the 3-point shots," said Renee Peloza, ...
Recession drives down Super Bowl ticket prices
Post Date: 2009-01-21 14:00:15 by freepatriot32
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Tickets for the National Football League's Super Bowl could be the most affordable in years as a recession drives down prices, top ticket exchange executives said. Ticket prices to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers battle the Arizona Cardinals in the championship game have slumped as much as 40 percent in the secondary market due to weak demand. The face-off is scheduled for February 1 in Tampa, Florida. "The most obvious thing to point to is the economy," said Eric Baker, chief executive of viagogo, a London-based secondary ticket exchange. "There's no question that at the high end of the market, when things are softer, you get fewer people. ...
Could 6'8" Brittney Griner play in the NBA?
Post Date: 2009-01-15 09:50:24 by christine
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For those of you in the dark, Brittney Griner is a 16 year-old junior in Houston, Texas who leads the area in scoring, blocked shots, dunks, and being tall. She stands 6'8" (for now), wears a size 18 men's sneaker, and has exploded onto the high school basketball -- and YouTube -- scene over the past year. Last night, Griner posted 29 points, 13 rebounds, 11 shots and nine assists in helping her Nimitz High School to a first round playoff win over rival Westside High School. On top of that, she dunked twice. Hard. Which brings us to our question: Could Brittney Griner one day play in the NBA? She seems to have some of the tools. She's 6'8" and growing, is just 16 ...
Are you trying to tell me something?
Post Date: 2009-01-01 20:06:46 by wudidiz
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#30. To: Old Friend and All (#19) I am superior to you in every way. Old Friend is simply a decoy, a 'gatherer.' But, I must admit that his 'jewspeak' is surprisingly authentic. The comment above is truly representative how we're 'indoctrinated' to look down an all 'goyim' in the crazy life of Judah-ism. SCPO Blackshoe Retired posted on 2009-01-01 0:23:13 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
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