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Well, I think we already knew he had no political future. My dad recently voted for him, but surprisingly he still likes him. Everybody makes mistakes, its just that this one was extremely selfish, and inane. Soon enough people will forget this though. Remember Marion Berry? He go re-elected. Remember Raul Martinez? He got re-elected. Remember Chappaquiddick? The American people have a short attention span and an even shorter memory span. Maybe you just came across the point. All those people are Democrats. Maybe the Democratic Party is tired of this sh*t. In case you didn't notice, this article talks about him being shunned by party officials and former staffers, not by voters. Marion Berry and Raul Martinez were seen as "racial injustice", which is a common Democratic theme. Ted Kennedy was merely covered up at a time when it could still easily be covered up. John Edwards is a completely different animal. The people are tired of it, and from what it looks like, the Democrats are tired of it too.

AP Top 25 (First-place votes) 1. Georgia (22) 0-0 1,528 2. Ohio State (21) 0-0 1,506 3. USC (12) 0-0 1,490 4. Oklahoma (4) 0-0 1,444 5. Florida (6) 0-0 1,415 6. Missouri 0-0 1,266 7. LSU 0-0 1,135 8. West Virginia 0-0 1,116 9. Clemson 0-0 1,105 10. Auburn 0-0 968 11. Texas 0-0 966 12. Texas Tech 0-0 786 13. Wisconsin 0-0 771 14. Kansas 0-0 707 15. Arizona State 0-0 631 16. Brigham Young 0-0 590 17. Virginia Tech 0-0 578 18. Tennessee 0-0 509 19. South Florida 0-0 496 20. Illinois 0-0 483 21. Oregon 0-0 366 22. Penn State 0-0 293 23. Wake Forest 0-0 227 24. Alabama 0-0 89 25. Pittsburgh 0-0 85 Other Florida teams getting points: FSU 41 Schedule for Week 1 for Florida D-I schools: Division I FBS #5 Florida vs. Hawaii, Saturday 8/30 @ 12:30pm, ESPN GamePlan #19 USF vs. Tennessee-Martin, Saturday 8/30 @ 7:30pm, ESPN GamePlan FSU has a bye UCF vs. South Carolina State, Saturday 8/30 @ 6:00pm Miami vs. Charleston Southern, 8/26 @ 7:30pm, ESPN360 FAU @ #11 Texas, 8/30 @ 7:00pm FIU @ #14 Kansas, 8/30 @ 7:00pm Division I FCS FAMU vs. Alabama State, 8/30 @ 6:00pm Bethune-Cookman has a bye Jacksonville @ Savannah State, 8/30 @ 7:00pm Are you ready for some football? :mischief

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/...-first-night-2/ James Carville, CNN political analyst, says that the Democrats "wasted" the first night of the Democratic National Convention. He said they should have jumped immediately on the Republicans, instead of what became largely fluff appearances for Michelle Obama and Ted Kennedy. He called Monday a game of "hide the message". He specifically said they should have attacked McCain AND Bush. Big problem here: Bush is out in a few months. To attack him, especially if McCain sets himself apart, is wasted breath.

We absolutely should not be in Afghanistan. It's bloodier and more hopeless right now than even Iraq is. It's one thing to use special forces to eliminate sworn enemies against the United States but it's another thing to nation-build. We are slowly escalating an already lost conflict just like we did with Vietnam. Unfortunately, with the Afghan War we will inevitably pay for our actions with American civilian lives on our own soil. We are going to be humiliated just like the Soviets were. We said this about Iraq last year, and look where they are now. We said which part? How bloody and hopeless it was. Then we added more troops, and now al-Qaeda in Iraq is pretty much dead.

We absolutely should not be in Afghanistan. It's bloodier and more hopeless right now than even Iraq is. It's one thing to use special forces to eliminate sworn enemies against the United States but it's another thing to nation-build. We are slowly escalating an already lost conflict just like we did with Vietnam. Unfortunately, with the Afghan War we will inevitably pay for our actions with American civilian lives on our own soil. We are going to be humiliated just like the Soviets were. We said this about Iraq last year, and look where they are now.

Well, he deserves their scorn. It's bad enough to cheat on your wife, but one that is dying of cancer? Corrected.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2...affers_ask.html John Edwards is spending his DNC week calling former staffers, begging for their forgiveness, but giving no explaination or reasoning for his actions. Very few of the staffers are calling back, but (anonymously) are talking about how they feel. "It was kind of pathetic, to tell you the truth." "As painful as it will be for him, he needs to come clean. There's an overwhelming view that he's still lying." One did call back and say this: "I don't want you to call me again." It would appear he now has no political future. Whether the truth about paternity ever comes or not, the National Enquirer has won the war.

It should be noted that things are so stable now, that Baghdad held an international sporting event recently.

I'm going to Durham for the JMU @ Duke game. It's gonna be tight and Duke will get neutered. Considering how bad Duke is at football, you guys have a chance to actually beat a I-A team. :mischief Of course, the first I-A feather UCF had in its cap was Alabama. :mischief :mischief :mischief

Ugh, RBNY beat the Dynamo, 3-0. :cussing Perhaps it is time for Pat Onstad to be put out to pasture. :confused

The current models. One has it dying an early death. Most have it remaining pretty well south (one taking a Fay-like track), one has it turning due north immediately and entering the Atlantic over the Turks and Caicos.

or Watchmen :mischief

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/22/...main/index.html The agreement states that troops will leave bases in cities and towns by June 30, 2009, and all troops will be gone by the end of 2011. This would mean that, if all goes well, most American troops can come home next year. Any future detentions would have to be ordered by an Iraqi judge, and American troops would have to turn detainees over to Iraqi authorities within 24 hours. Soldiers would still receive current immunity from Iraqi prosecution, but private contractors would lose their immunity. Iraqi parliament will consider the agreement after they return from recess on September 9.

I am really pissed off right now. A.J. Pierzynski lunged at Willy Aybar during a pickle in the bottom of the 10th inning and took a flop, screaming "interference". The second-base umpire, who has been fooled by A.J. before, called interference on Aybar and awarded A.J. third base. I guarantee you, instant replay will not end at home run calls. That was bull, and now that A.J. believes he can get away with it, it will continue to go this way until instant replay is expanded.

I'm going for Nadal to break through. I predict a Nadal slam when he gets the '09 Aussie Open, too. :mischief

K! :mischief

Mine would be "Hero" by Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott.

I love college football, FIU starts @ Kansas and we open our new stadium against USF on September 20th. UCF and FIU can gangbang the Cows. :mischief Anyone else impressed by USC's schedule? They have no cupcake games out of conference. That game against Ohio State looks like a great one. And USC will finish 5-7. :mischief :mischief :mischief

They are a radical group that deems it a priority to protest medical experimentation on animals among other things. PETA isn't as bad as the ALF when it comes to that. PETA funds the ALF.

They'd probably euthanize Shamu the minute they got him. Exactly. :mischief

http://www.cbs8.com/stories/story.138302.html People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to buy a SeaWorld park, possibly the one in San Diego, free the animals inside and replace them with virtual reality exhibits, it was reported today. Officials with the animal rights group say they have an anonymous donor willing to shell out big money to purchase at least one of SeaWorld's three parks, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Beer company Anheuser-Busch, which is in the process of being purchased by Belgium firm InBev, operates SeaWorld parks in San Diego, Orlando and San Antonio. Experts believe InBev will divest itself of Anheuser-Busch's parks, according to the Union-Tribune. PETA sent InBev a letter Friday offering to buy one park, with plans to replace existing animal exhibits with virtual reality exhibits, the newspaper reported. The animals would be placed in sanctuaries with hopes of returning them to their natural habitats some day, the newspaper reported. Anheuser-Busch owns seven other theme parks in addition to its SeaWorld parks. Combined, the parks could be worth as much as $4 billion, according to the Union-Tribune. Neither SeaWorld nor InBev have commented on PETA's offer. PETA seems to not care that SeaWorld isn't merely a zoo. :mischief

I love two of the responses from McCain: 1. He spent five years in a house as a POW in Vietnam...and 2. This is an attack on Cindy! I thought wives were off limits. McCain is gaffe prone. That's why they've kept him further and further from the press. It would be nice as well if the public would be consistent with their disdain for the wealthy. In 2004, it was a similar situation, as Kerry was successfully painted as an 'out-of-touch' elitist, who was pretty wealthy due to his having married a wealthy heiress. This situation SHOULD be identical, but I am sure that McCain will somehow wriggle out of it, like with seemingly everything else. I also don't understand why the attack on John Edwards for his $300 haircut (which I will admit is really excessive) was really successful, but nobody has questioned McCain on his $550 Ferrigamo shoes. $550 shoes are not that extreme, IMO. Carrie Bradshaw and her multiple pairs of thousand-dollar pumps would disagree. :mischief

This is a wash. Who cares?

The Orlando Sentinel published its College Football preview today. BTW: These aren't photoshopped. Both candidates actually participated in photo shoots for the Orlando Sentinel during recent trips to Orlando. :mischief

I hope the Iraqis didn't fold on giving our soldiers complete immunity for crimes, and didn't give up all of the rights to their oil for the next 25 years, like US officials wanted. Too late. They already have an agreement with China. :mischief