Nobody 732
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Nobody # 732
Nobody Asked Me But:
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
UP: Shakespeare, for calling out George Bush – “He jests at scars that never felt a wound.” (Romeo and Juliet)
Former student kills 6 at Northern Illinois University.
14-year-old is charged in s
hooting of Oxnard classmate.
Make it (a gun) and they will use it.
Oh America: How long will you worship your guns and kill your children?<<<
LAST WEEK’S QUESTIONS
If I had a dollar for every time I __________, I would be a rich man. How would you fill in the blank?
I am an anti-closure kind of guy. I leave drawers a bit open, cupboard doors the same way, lights on, things not put away. Give me a buck for every time I do one of those, and I will challenge Billy Gates for rich number one.
What movie that you have watched most closely parallels your own life to this point?
"Lord Jim.” Kidding. I cannot think of any one film that parallels my life, so I chose to do a composite. Each film or character contains a piece of me.”
Movie “It’s A Wonderful Life,” for title but not plot.
“The Graduate,” for delayed maturity. “
"M*A*S*H*,” for it’s idealism.
"Sleepless In Seattle,” for its romanticism.
"Teacher’s,” for the way Nick Nolte ignored the irrelevancies in the curriculum.
Character
Atticus Finch, (Gregory Peck in “To Kill A Mockingbird”) for his compassion and his willingness to fight for unpopular justice.
Howard Beale, (Peter Finch in” Network”) for his internal anger - "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
Roger Thornhill, (Cary Grant in “North By Northwest”) for leading an uncommon life.
Line "Well, nobody's perfect!" Some Like it Hot (1959)<<<
BOOK REVIEW
7th Heaven - By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Little Brown $27.99 “
7th Heaven’ is the seventh in the Patterson/Paetro Women’s Murder Club series. Seldom can a book be judged by one line, but this is the exception that makes the rule. Here it is. You be the judge.
“Campton whipped around, pointed his SIG at Hawk’s chest, and squeez
ed the trigger. BANG!”
BANG??????<<<
(Why did I read it? Because Barb and I like the television series that is based on the series. But, once again, just call me Nobody’s Fool.)<<<
Despi
te our refrigerator woes, Barb fixed her exquisite macaroni and cheese for Valentine’s Day. To accompany it, she selected a bottle of Cab that she purchased many years ago. We were afraid that it might have past its prime, but it was superb. Noting a sticker with her purchase price, $8, on the bottle, she googled it later, and here is what she found:
Item Name: 1970 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
Category: Cabernet Sauvignon
Item Number: 66660
Quantity: 1 available
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Price: $340.00<<<
DOWN: Flopping – when a defensive player takes a theatrical fall after being bumped into by an offensive player with the ball. Most basketball fans think that flopping is a relatively new (and distasteful) part of the game. But here, verbatim, is a point of emphasis attached to the basketball rulebook in 1968-69:
"Acting As If Charged: The unethical practice of a defensive player or a screener acting as though he has been charged by an opponent, when in fact he has not been, is having an extremely undesirable effect upon the game. Without a doubt the practice is detrimental to the best interests of basketball."
DOWN: Tim Morris. This Washington Husky basketball player deliberately and with great velocity threw a baseball-style pass directly into the face of UCLA’s Alfred Aboya who was guarding him as he was trying to inbound the ball. It is not uncommon in situations like this to throw off the leg or body of the defender, but not the face. And this was in the closing seconds when the Huskies already had the game won.
DOWN: Coach Romar, the game officials and the PAC-10 afterwards for doing nothing to punish Morris. They were not sure that “it was intentional.”
You be the judge. http://youtube.com/watch?v=7ZXPAl4-8f8
DOWN: The Bruins for playing like an unranked team while losing this game.
DOWN: Everyone on the University of Arizona except for freshman wunderkind Jared Bayless. In the game Sunday against Arizona State, Bayless had 39 points while the rest of the team scored only FOUR field goals – one for each of four different players.
UP: The employees of the Pebble Beach pro shop for showing great self-control by not laughing when customers line up to buy a short-sleeve polo shirt for $145.
DOWN: Americans, for demanding so little from their government and getting just that. A recent poll by CNN showed that 78% of those responding believed that our present airport security is not enough to keep us safe. Where is the outrage? On a permanent holiday it seems.
Not mine. I have still not forgiven the Democratic Party for playing politics with American lives. When they regained majorities in both house of Congress in 2006, they could have passed a bill to begin disengagement from Iraq. With a few small compromises, enough Republicans were ready to support this action to guarantee passage. But the Pelosi-Reed gangs preferred a continuing war rather than giving their opposition partial credit for ending it.
AND IS IT TRUE
That Bush is close to persuading his many Democratic friends in Congress to change the closing of the Pledge of Allegiance to: “liberty and justice for all who agree – and waterboarding for those who don’t?”
DOWN: Republicans for turning the Roger Clemens hearings into a partisan farce.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) "You're one of my heroes," but it's hard to believe you."
Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), “You’re a money-contributing Republican so it is hard fo
r me not to believe you.”
Actually, Burton was only thinking his “quote,” but it is inconceivable to me that the Republicans could turn the hearing into a political farce and defend Clemens in the face of overwhelming evidence that he is both a user and a liar.<<<
UP: Tim Rutten, of the LA Times, for putting a well-deserved double whammy on the Los Angeles Unified School District administrators:
First - For heading his Wednesday column - THE CLOWNS AT LAUSD.
Second - For comparing same to the dinosaurs in the old “Far Side” cartoon that shows a lecture hall filled with seated dino
saurs. Diagrams fill the blackboard, and a huge reptile is speaking into the microphone at the podium. "The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen," he says. "The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut."
UP: The Onion – for getting the story behind the facts.
Fact: In the face of the declining dollar, many NY City stores are accepting Euros.
Behind the fact: "If you're gouging people on the price of a bottle of water, it just seems more polite to do it in their own currency."
UP: Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for this exchange with Rush.
Limbaugh: “Dr. Land, I'll tell you, I talk to 20 million people a day.”
Land: “No you don’t. You talk at 20 million people a day."
UP: Madonna, for being the only “actress” in the past 10 years to twice win the Golden Raspberry Award for worst actress of the year. (2000 & 2002)
Even Jennifer Lopez could only win it once. (2003)
UP: Newsweek, which started the whole UP-DOWN Conventional Wisdom thing for these two observations.
Bill Clinton: Old CW - Best weapon for taking out Obama. New CW - Best weapon for taking out Hillary.
Huckabee: Huck won’t duck (out). But when will Jesus help him win a big state?<<<
Wouldn’t it be nice to see to see the social and religious conservatives come together and form a national political party. They could model it on the California Republican Party minus the economic conservatives, make every election a campaign for their narrow principles and, again like the California R’s, lose every time.<<<
Headline: PHONE DEREGULATION PROVING COSTLY TO MANY.
Comment: That is what deregulation is all about – allowing the few to increase their wealth at the expense of the many. (pun both accidental and telling)<<<
Is there anyone in journalism more aptly named than the militarily conservative columnist Max Boot? Just wondering.
If you have others to submit, please do.<<<
News Item: By a vote of 68 to 29, the Senate gave final approval to a bill that expands the government's spying powers and gives legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program.
All 68 Senate Republicans voted for this attack on the Bill of Rights. Oh wait, there are not 68 Senate Republicans.<<<
After President Bill spoke at a retirement community recently these two women shared their enlightened opinions:
Elaine Sirkis, 77, an Obama supporter, confided that she just isn’t sure she’s ready for a woman president. Betty Conway, 83, a Hillary supporter, confided that she just isn’t sure she’s ready for a black president.
As Conway walked away, Sirkis smiled sheepishly. “I’m sorry,” she told the interviewer sweetly about her friend. “She’s a bigot.”
(And the seasons, they go round and round!)<<<
Vagina’s at Cleveland High School: Come back next week for the inside story.
QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK
The swish of a three-point shot, the crack of the bat hitting a home run ball, the crack of a helmet hitting a helmet….. In your opinion, what is the greatest sound in sports?
If you had to write a brief message on a dollar bill that many people would eventually see as the currency circulates, what message would you write?
Nobody # 732
Nobody Asked Me But:
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
UP: Shakespeare, for calling out George Bush – “He jests at scars that never felt a wound.” (Romeo and Juliet)
Former student kills 6 at Northern Illinois University.
14-year-old is charged in s
hooting of Oxnard classmate.Make it (a gun) and they will use it.
Oh America: How long will you worship your guns and kill your children?<<<
LAST WEEK’S QUESTIONS
If I had a dollar for every time I __________, I would be a rich man. How would you fill in the blank?
I am an anti-closure kind of guy. I leave drawers a bit open, cupboard doors the same way, lights on, things not put away. Give me a buck for every time I do one of those, and I will challenge Billy Gates for rich number one.
What movie that you have watched most closely parallels your own life to this point?
"Lord Jim.” Kidding. I cannot think of any one film that parallels my life, so I chose to do a composite. Each film or character contains a piece of me.”
Movie “It’s A Wonderful Life,” for title but not plot.
“The Graduate,” for delayed maturity. “
"M*A*S*H*,” for it’s idealism.
"Sleepless In Seattle,” for its romanticism.
"Teacher’s,” for the way Nick Nolte ignored the irrelevancies in the curriculum.
Character
Atticus Finch, (Gregory Peck in “To Kill A Mockingbird”) for his compassion and his willingness to fight for unpopular justice.
Howard Beale, (Peter Finch in” Network”) for his internal anger - "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
Roger Thornhill, (Cary Grant in “North By Northwest”) for leading an uncommon life.
Line "Well, nobody's perfect!" Some Like it Hot (1959)<<<
BOOK REVIEW
7th Heaven - By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Little Brown $27.99 “
7th Heaven’ is the seventh in the Patterson/Paetro Women’s Murder Club series. Seldom can a book be judged by one line, but this is the exception that makes the rule. Here it is. You be the judge.
“Campton whipped around, pointed his SIG at Hawk’s chest, and squeez
ed the trigger. BANG!”BANG??????<<<
(Why did I read it? Because Barb and I like the television series that is based on the series. But, once again, just call me Nobody’s Fool.)<<<
Despi
te our refrigerator woes, Barb fixed her exquisite macaroni and cheese for Valentine’s Day. To accompany it, she selected a bottle of Cab that she purchased many years ago. We were afraid that it might have past its prime, but it was superb. Noting a sticker with her purchase price, $8, on the bottle, she googled it later, and here is what she found: Item Name: 1970 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
Category: Cabernet Sauvignon
Item Number: 66660
Quantity: 1 available
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Price: $340.00<<<
DOWN: Flopping – when a defensive player takes a theatrical fall after being bumped into by an offensive player with the ball. Most basketball fans think that flopping is a relatively new (and distasteful) part of the game. But here, verbatim, is a point of emphasis attached to the basketball rulebook in 1968-69:
"Acting As If Charged: The unethical practice of a defensive player or a screener acting as though he has been charged by an opponent, when in fact he has not been, is having an extremely undesirable effect upon the game. Without a doubt the practice is detrimental to the best interests of basketball."
DOWN: Tim Morris. This Washington Husky basketball player deliberately and with great velocity threw a baseball-style pass directly into the face of UCLA’s Alfred Aboya who was guarding him as he was trying to inbound the ball. It is not uncommon in situations like this to throw off the leg or body of the defender, but not the face. And this was in the closing seconds when the Huskies already had the game won.
DOWN: Coach Romar, the game officials and the PAC-10 afterwards for doing nothing to punish Morris. They were not sure that “it was intentional.”
You be the judge. http://youtube.com/watch?v=7ZXPAl4-8f8
DOWN: The Bruins for playing like an unranked team while losing this game.
DOWN: Everyone on the University of Arizona except for freshman wunderkind Jared Bayless. In the game Sunday against Arizona State, Bayless had 39 points while the rest of the team scored only FOUR field goals – one for each of four different players.
UP: The employees of the Pebble Beach pro shop for showing great self-control by not laughing when customers line up to buy a short-sleeve polo shirt for $145.
DOWN: Americans, for demanding so little from their government and getting just that. A recent poll by CNN showed that 78% of those responding believed that our present airport security is not enough to keep us safe. Where is the outrage? On a permanent holiday it seems.
Not mine. I have still not forgiven the Democratic Party for playing politics with American lives. When they regained majorities in both house of Congress in 2006, they could have passed a bill to begin disengagement from Iraq. With a few small compromises, enough Republicans were ready to support this action to guarantee passage. But the Pelosi-Reed gangs preferred a continuing war rather than giving their opposition partial credit for ending it.
AND IS IT TRUE
That Bush is close to persuading his many Democratic friends in Congress to change the closing of the Pledge of Allegiance to: “liberty and justice for all who agree – and waterboarding for those who don’t?”
DOWN: Republicans for turning the Roger Clemens hearings into a partisan farce.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) "You're one of my heroes," but it's hard to believe you."
Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), “You’re a money-contributing Republican so it is hard fo
r me not to believe you.” Actually, Burton was only thinking his “quote,” but it is inconceivable to me that the Republicans could turn the hearing into a political farce and defend Clemens in the face of overwhelming evidence that he is both a user and a liar.<<<
UP: Tim Rutten, of the LA Times, for putting a well-deserved double whammy on the Los Angeles Unified School District administrators:
First - For heading his Wednesday column - THE CLOWNS AT LAUSD.
Second - For comparing same to the dinosaurs in the old “Far Side” cartoon that shows a lecture hall filled with seated dino
saurs. Diagrams fill the blackboard, and a huge reptile is speaking into the microphone at the podium. "The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen," he says. "The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut."UP: The Onion – for getting the story behind the facts.
Fact: In the face of the declining dollar, many NY City stores are accepting Euros.
Behind the fact: "If you're gouging people on the price of a bottle of water, it just seems more polite to do it in their own currency."
UP: Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for this exchange with Rush.
Limbaugh: “Dr. Land, I'll tell you, I talk to 20 million people a day.”
Land: “No you don’t. You talk at 20 million people a day."
UP: Madonna, for being the only “actress” in the past 10 years to twice win the Golden Raspberry Award for worst actress of the year. (2000 & 2002)
Even Jennifer Lopez could only win it once. (2003)
UP: Newsweek, which started the whole UP-DOWN Conventional Wisdom thing for these two observations.
Bill Clinton: Old CW - Best weapon for taking out Obama. New CW - Best weapon for taking out Hillary.
Huckabee: Huck won’t duck (out). But when will Jesus help him win a big state?<<<
Wouldn’t it be nice to see to see the social and religious conservatives come together and form a national political party. They could model it on the California Republican Party minus the economic conservatives, make every election a campaign for their narrow principles and, again like the California R’s, lose every time.<<<
Headline: PHONE DEREGULATION PROVING COSTLY TO MANY.
Comment: That is what deregulation is all about – allowing the few to increase their wealth at the expense of the many. (pun both accidental and telling)<<<
Is there anyone in journalism more aptly named than the militarily conservative columnist Max Boot? Just wondering.
If you have others to submit, please do.<<<
News Item: By a vote of 68 to 29, the Senate gave final approval to a bill that expands the government's spying powers and gives legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program.
All 68 Senate Republicans voted for this attack on the Bill of Rights. Oh wait, there are not 68 Senate Republicans.<<<
After President Bill spoke at a retirement community recently these two women shared their enlightened opinions:
Elaine Sirkis, 77, an Obama supporter, confided that she just isn’t sure she’s ready for a woman president. Betty Conway, 83, a Hillary supporter, confided that she just isn’t sure she’s ready for a black president.
As Conway walked away, Sirkis smiled sheepishly. “I’m sorry,” she told the interviewer sweetly about her friend. “She’s a bigot.”
(And the seasons, they go round and round!)<<<
Vagina’s at Cleveland High School: Come back next week for the inside story.
QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK
The swish of a three-point shot, the crack of the bat hitting a home run ball, the crack of a helmet hitting a helmet….. In your opinion, what is the greatest sound in sports?
If you had to write a brief message on a dollar bill that many people would eventually see as the currency circulates, what message would you write?
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