ILLINOIS STATE BASKETBALL TOURNEY: NO LOCAL AD SALES OPPORTUNITY?

Did anybody else notice how much ad space went unused in the telecast. Couldn't Comcast have sold that local time local advertisers, advertisers who usually turn themselves inside out to support High School Sports?

It looks to me like someone forgot to ask for the order.

IMPORTANT CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULING ON COMPUTER SPYING!

Spying by trojan ,keystroke monitoring and similar techniques is unconstitutional click here

Oh, wait, that's in Germany. Here, we give immunity in the blind to companies who assist the Gov't in spying on us.

Am I the only one that sees the irony in this?

FUEL UP ABOUT TWENTY CENTS AT THE PUMP AND THE O-PECKERS ARE GETTING READY TO MEET

How much oil you $ay there i$ off the We$t Coa$t of Florida?

SEE TO THE LONGHORNS AND AGGIES: LET THE BUCKEYES TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES

How I would schedule Hillary, simple version: Three major appearances in Texas to every one in Ohio.

Reasoning, Longer version: If there's no Texas win, Ohio matters about as much as Argentina. Ohio is an old line Rust Belt State, the kind, outside of Illinois, Obama doesn't win. If you don't carry Ohio with relatively token effort, you were going to get overrun in Pennsylvania anyhow. Texas is truly the break point. She has to salvage some of Galveston/Pasadena and the north burbs of Houston, then take advantage of her newfound border support.

Campaign where the Repubs have been strong. The dems there appreciate the attention. If you just absolutely must go to Ohio, go to something techy or mid-techy to talk about world competition benefiting prepared workers. If you just have to go to Ohio, go to middle schools and talk about your history with kids, show you've been where the rubber meets the road.

Then get back to Texas and tell all the veterans and active duty people about your work to secure health care and ed benefits for the Veterans of Wolfy's occupation force. They appreciate you but need to be reminded.

Oh, finally, the Repubs want you to start talking about Obama's church's mission statement or Michelle's naive thesis. Don't do it! Simplify your health care differences, talk about India and Pakistan being nuclear enemies, the Soviet Nukes being undersupervised and the terrorist beds in Northern Europe. Don't just proclaim you're ready on "day one." Demonstrate your readiness with your superior knowledge.

Finally, and I mean this in the most honorable way, finish every speech by begging for votes. "Now is the hour" "I'm done without you helping me right now" "Please, vote twice and bring five friends". This is no time for subtlety.

As pointed out in SNL last weekend, the press is totally in the tank for Obama. Put your money and effort toward going straight to the people of Texas.

FIREFLUX

As I have written many times here, The Basin is a big fan of Mozilla Firefox. Lately, however, MoFi has been behaving erratically within blogger.

Anybody else having that problem?

Kind of a boring topic, but I'm genuinely curious.

Thanks.

PENNSYLVANIA CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY

This is a bit over the top

MEL KIPER, JR. AND FIBROMYALGIA

What to these two things have to do with one another?

Nothing. I just kind of had both of them on my mind.

Remember the Dos Equis beer ads about the "most interesting man in the world?" They were kind of silly but they did sort of raise the question "what kind of guy would it be fun to spend time with?" Since ESPN has started to use Mel as more than a Draftnik, it's pretty clear that Mel Should be doing the Dos Equis thing. The guy can talk in an informed fashion about ANYTHING.

In one recent sequence, he went from the impact of Johann Santana's deal on MLB salary structure (keep in mind, he's FOOTBALL expert) to the hispanic preference for Hillary Clinton (keep in mind, by his own admission, he lives in the basement of his house in Maryland and doesn't get out much) to the political influence of banking lobbyists on the credit card market, to a discussion how the banking industry fails to use automation to save money for itself and consumers, to a very sensitive discussion of Social anxiety disorder. This is clearly not a guy who is limited 40 times, vertical leaps and bench totals. If ESPN won't give us more Mel, then one of the presidential candidates should nominate him for Vice President.

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We all know fibromyalgia sufferers. They're everywhere and they're hurting. We all see it, every day.

Still, the medical profession (generally, as a body) is almost nowhere on this condition. There is currently no agreement as to diagnostic criteria. There is not even any agreement as to whether the thing exists. A very good friend of mine is a prominent neurologist in another state. She is one of the most empathetic people I know. Still, her position on f/m is "There is no disease or condition that can be diagnosed by the absence of any other disease, observable symptom or condition."

Now there is a medicine out solely for f/m. That's interesting. The Doctors don't agree as to whether the thing exists but the drug companies have come out with a drug for it. Huh?

I wonder, if more guys had this and it wasn't viewed as a "woman's problem," if there would be more unanimity about it being a problem and, thus, more solutions and diagnostic criteria. It's really not arguable medicine has been a little slower to the mark on "women's problems" than on male or gender-neutral problems.

I'm sure there's much about this I don't understand and I quickly concede that there are many sympathetic, evolved Docs giving serious relief to f/m sufferers. Still, it seems like a systemic problem to me and I hope more progress can be made to aid the sufferers.

BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA: LOW INCOME MISSOURIANS, ABOUT THAT HEALTH CARE INSURANCE.....

.......Never Mind!

PROUD OF THE PRESIDENT THIS WEEK

I just can't let this week of the Prez' Africa visit go by without saying that I'm very proud of the way he has represented our country there and the attention he's paid to Africa generally as a trading partner and as a place that needs the help of our more advanced medical technology. This is how a nation builds good will.

A shame the same good will building hasn't been a priority for some of our other world neighbors.

Still, this post is not to pick nit. It's to say "Well Done, Mr. President!"

TRANSPARENCY IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT, GOOD--TRANSPARENCY IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT, BAD

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There is much talk about people's right to know the business of their gov't.

But, the release of that information is not self-executing. It takes a hell of a hot of careful work to avoid pain for innocent people. Yes, this is an extreme example but the public doesn't, and shouldn't, have the right to know everything on cue.

If nothing else, this shows somebody didn't put the attention on the fulfillment of this request it deserved.

Food for thought. Overapplication of sunshine laws can cause sunburn.

JOHNNY MAC! YOU OL' RASCAL

THIS JUST IN!

Flying around on a corporate plane with a wicked city woman? Taking a dip in the pool of lobbying services? Way to fight the "too old" beef. Worked for Boris Yeltsin.

Somehow, I don't think Dr. Dobson is gonna find this amusing.

Oh, and John, your "thank you" card from Michelle Obama is on its way.



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SUNSHINE, COFFEE AND REFLECTIONS ON AN EMPTY CAN OF WHOOPASS

Downtime, under the right circumstances, can be therapeutic. Add some sunshine, excellent coffee and privacy and life can be good, even when politics isn't. This morning is a lot better than last night.

It is my conclusion that Hillary Clinton would be the best president of those currently available to serve. The chances of that happening took a hit last night. Worse, Hillary has not changed. When what you're doing is not working, you must change it.

What the public has never seen in Hillary is her humble nature. Her style is to bring ideas out of others and to enable those with good ideas. Her management style is not "I/Me". She needs to let the Texas and Ohio public see that. She needs to tell them that they are her last chance. She needs to beg for that chance and to tell them what she'll do if they give her that chance. Crap like "get real" or "Solutions, not speeches". They are no real change from her "Day One" message.

The time has come (is past) for Hillary to let the public see her natural humility. Maybe it's not too late for her to show that she's the kind of player who makes the others around her better.

It will be interesting.

MCCAIN'S RULES OF OHIO CAMPAIGNING

Rule One: If you vote for Bambi over me, Osama will kill your babies and make your mother glow in the dark

Rule Two: When in doubt, refer to Rule One.

End Stump Speech.

THE FIRST TIME? REALLY?

"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country"

------Michelle Robinson Obama, Today, Madison, Wisconsin

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Michelle Obama was born January 17, 1964. By my count, that makes her adult lifetime twenty-six years and about a month.

For a quarter century and more, she has never been REALLY PROUD of her country? She was born in one of the great cities of the World and in a country that enabled her to make the most of her considerable abilities. She was born in the country that literally saved the world. She was born in a country who sends peacekeepers to the Balkans to prevent ethnic cleansing. She was born in a country that refined rocketry and spacecraft, then shared its knowledge with the rest of the world.

Has she never been to the Lincoln Memorial, or even the Lincoln Museum? Perhaps to a veterans' home, just to hear the stories and say goodbye to the greatest generation. Did she miss when the whole country marshalled resources to try to rescue trapped coal miners or Baby Jessica? Did she not hear that when The Basin was simultaneously under water and on fire that people came from Ohio and Mass. and Fla. and even from Maine to help? Hasn't she heard that Bill Gates, having obtained unspeakable wealth within our free enterprise system by harnessing microchips to ordinary human use, is now doing his best to equalize access to the same chips for underprivileged children by giving away vast amounts of that wealth?

Has she ever reflected on how this is a country where her father didn't have to be born into power? No, he became a precinct captain through hard work, guile and probably a lot of toughness. That wouldn't have been true in India, England, Germany or, frankly, most places.

The FIRST TIME........ever? Man, that's a hard position.

Nothing against Austria or Rwanda or South Africa or Brazil, but I get up every day thanking God that I had the simple good fortune to be born in the Greatest Country in the history of man. Even when the wrong guys are choosing to fight the wrong war for the wrong reasons, I will never stop being REALLY PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN.

Apparently, Mrs. Obama is only REALLY PROUD of her country when it pleases her. That's a pity, especially for someone who has been as richly blessed by it as she.

What a stunning and disappointing admission.

BTW, I still think her husband would make a fine President and I would be honored to have my son or grandson play basketball for her brother.


UPDATE: By the time I type this, it will be obsolete. At first I was the only one blogging about it. Now there are about 20 active. I don't know why but Drudge took it down. I'm guessing by the time I'm done typing this there will be 50 active blogs. We all want to know the same thing "For 26 years, did the USA do nothing that made Michelle Obama proud?"

This is not going to go away.

DEVAL PATRICK FOR PRESIDENT?

Stupid Dispute

Interesting video(click)

DNC: AVOIDING THE APPEARANCE OF BACK ROOM DEALS

I'm sorry but I think this is funny. DNC executive committee is really worried about the public perception that the party's nomination is going to be decided in boardroom meetings and not out in public where it can be followed.

So what are they doing about this terrible problem? Having lots of boardroom meetings.

The more you do of what you're doing, the more you get of what you've got.

REAL SIMPLE: THE BASIN'S POSITION

The rules as they were laid out in '06 and promulgated in '07 should be followed.

The sanctions against Fla. and Mich. should hold. No votes to select the prez. cand.

The SuperD's have been designated and part of the process for many long months. They vote however they want. It's not like somebody cooked up a way to beat anybody out of anything.

Real Simple. Real Consistent.

BASIN BLOGOSPHERE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM

It's time. Bloggers in the Basin simply must get together for a RW CONVENTION. It would have to be set up in such a way as to preserve certain identities. Also, certain people who aren't bloggers (My Reaper-Neighbor, Jamie cuz we need some people there who can actually write English, U/G cuz he's still simply "suspending his campaign.") should be invited.

It could be done without blowing anyone's cover. We could have it at an undisclosed location opposite the Dogwood ball.

Takers? The Basin email is rule5draft@gmail.com. I will coordinate. I keep secrets for a living.

Don't think about it. Act now. Imagine it. Our very own sleeper cell.

ADDENDUM: DAVE, WRITE SOMETHING!

JOHN LEWIS: STANDUP GUY OR NEO-WEENIE?

Almost a year ago, this nationally heroic figure--think bridges, cops and dogs--gave his word to the Hillary Clinton he would support her. Now, he's considering flipping, talking about it openly.

Do principle, honor and bravery fade away with age? Guess we'll find out this weekend.

Have a nice weekend, John.

STUPID CONGRESS TRICKS QUIZ: CLEMENS

Name one legitimate legislative purpose served by yesterday's dog and pony show.

Bonus Points: What legal authority grants to Congress the power to determine credibility of witnesses in a private dispute?

BUT WHO'S HE GONNA ENDORSE?

Maybe if he'd have come out sooner, he would have helped carry Mass.

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To meet Caroline's brother.

REVERSE INWARD WITH A FULL TWIST IN THE PIKE POSITION: NAACP GAMBIT ON FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN

The estimable Julian Bond has done a wild and crazy thing. He has called for relief of what he calls the disenfranchisement of Millions of voters in Michigan and Florida and encouraged the Democrat Party to count their votes.

Obviously, there has been much talk about how much Black Outrage there would be if the Fichigan and Florida voters were counted and put HRC over the top, beating Obama. Here, would seem, the perfect cover, a black icon, speaking for a principally black organization, asking the votes be counted. Clever, spicy, a Boris Spassky move.

It's also not gonna work. The folks who await the Prince will not be denied, not by Julian Bond or participatory democracy. If they can't have "change", there'll be hell to pay.

BTW, on the Fichigan side, no word yet on Rich Rodriguez' position on all this. He probably had a buyout clause in his voter registration.

WHOOPS, THIS, JUST IN:



Dear Governor Dean:

I write this letter as a former Democratic candidate for President of the United States and a civil rights leader who has fought his entire life for fairness and justice for all people regardless of the color of their skin. I firmly believe that changing the rules now, and seating delegates from Florida and Michigan at this point would not only violate the Democratic party's rules of fairness, but also would be a grave injustice.

As former Presidential candidates we both know that, whether we liked them or not, we adhered to the rules set forth by the Democratic party to select its nominee for president. For example, I would have much preferred starting the nominating process with caucuses and primaries in South Carolina and Washington D.C. than Iowa and New Hampshire. Nonetheless, I knew the rules, abided by them, and ultimately accepted the consequences. Changing the rules in the middle of a presidential contest is patently unfair both to the candidates (including Senator Edwards) and to Democratic voters everywhere.

Some have said that not seating delegations from Florida and Michigan disenfranchises Democratic voters -- especially African American voters -- from those two states. That claim, if true, should have been made many months ago before the decision was made to strip these states of their delegates, and, once the decision was made, it should have been vigorously objected to and contested by those who felt it disenfranchised voters. To raise that claim now smacks of politics in its form most raw and undercuts the moral authority behind such an argument.

As a civil rights leader who is neutral in this presidential primary season and who highly respects both remaining Democratic candidates, I think we have a responsibility to protect both candidates from charges that the process was tainted so that our eventual nominee does not start the general election campaign under a cloud. Clearly, the justifiably proud and intense passions of each candidate's supporters will be on full display in the months leading up to the convention. However, the Democratic Party and independent voices within must temper over enthusiasm by either side and the party must be resolute in ensuring that there is one set of rules by which we select our nominee.

In Progress,

Reverend Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network

CNN: IF YOU MAKE SOMETHING UP AND REPEAT IT OFTEN ENOUGH, IT BECOMES, NOT ONLY TRUTH, BUT NEWS

It isn't just political parties who have talking points memos circulating. CNN decided last night it would be cool to state endlessly the following position: "The Clinton Campaign had planned to wrap it up on Super Tuesday. That has always been their plan. Because of that, they had no plan for anything after Super Tuesday and they are now adjusting on the fly."

The first problem with that "news" is that it is factually incorrect. The national steering committee used half it meeting time since December pre-planning the movement from completed states to upcoming states, though May and beyond.

The second problem with it is that it trivializes the accomplishments of BObama. The guy's running a great campaign and doesn't deserve to have his success trivialized by some made-up rumor.

Finally, I can guarantee, you that nobody from the National steering committee is leaking this "No Plan" story. CNN folks are getting this from each other.

It's a hell of a way to run a news organization.

MISSISSIPPI LOCK AND DAM REPAIR FUNNY MONEY: SHRUB SHAFTS BASIN

Congress provides the money to repair the largest commercial river highway in the world. Shrubbie refuses to spend it. I don't care that the only Senator holding his feet to the fire on this is a Republican. Get him, Kit! Bite him in the ankle!

When will we get a President who understands the Lock and Dam issue? We blew our chance with Al Gore. We've had no chance since.

IN THE DICTIONARY NEXT TO "BALLSY".....

........Should be a picture of Tom Lantos.

I've never seen anyone more regularly use the system to support Human Rights. Certainly, he rubbed some folks as too big a lefty. When it came to upholding the individual worth of every human being. I guess that comes from surviving the Krystalnacht. Thanks, Tom, for sharing your 80 years on this earth with us.

KIRKWOOD REMINDS US THERE'S A TENSION BETWEEN SECURITY AND PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY

As someone who is often a public target, I cringe at the images from Kirkwood, Missouri.

The highest values of participatory democracy are the abilities to view the workings of gov't and to petition the seat of government for whatever a citizen thinks is the best direction. That stuff doesn't have the same flavor through bulletproof glass or with armed uniforms at meetings.

There are always going to be disturbed folks. We must have strategies for them that do not substantially impair democracy. It's a universal problem. Unfortunately, the strategies we adopt can't be discussed publicly, another necessarily anti-transparency result.

Here in the Basin, we know how real this is. We remember the same scenario in Mt. Pleasant. From that that tragedy, came some good. Some excellent leaders emerged from the ashes. This stuff is no joke.

NIMROD'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

Burglarize a church and then cover it up with an arson.

We really need a better class of criminal in the Basin.

No style points for artistic impression.

BREAKFAST MEETINGS AND TIME MANAGEMENT

Off and on, I have been a little active in politics. It seems like there is this bloodlust in politics to have breakfast meetings, campaign meetings, fund raisers, grant pitches. I have never completely understood this fixation with breakfast meetings in both government and politics.

For years, I vaguely suspected this was not a very effective way for an organization or for me, to do business but I could never put a really sharp point on that feeling. The conversation would always go "Let's meet for breakfast--then we have the whole day to follow through..." For about 20 years, I was game.

One day, I was in a friend's office in another state. He was taking a phone call and being appointed to a very prestigious bar committee. He was thanking the chairman for the appointment when the talk turned to business.....there was a pause. Then I heard my friend say: "Well, Ed, then I'm going to have to decline. I simply don't do breakfast meetings, no matter how good the cause. They just don't fit in with the way I plan my day." Boom, line in the sand. End of story.

I couldn't wait for my friend to get off the phone to ask him why. I knew it wasn't sleep. He's a very early riser, on his treadmill by 0530.

"If you get to the office in the morning and you read the paper or talk sports with your colleagues first thing, your day starts out on something that is not the most important thing to you. You will struggle the rest of the day. As the first half hour of your business day goes, so goes the rest of your day, and sometimes the rest of your week. If that's not bad enough, there is nothing worse than a meeting without an agenda. You've probably noticed that nobody bothers to make an agenda for a breakfast meeting. As a result, the breakfast meeting, no matter how urgent its purpose, turns into a gab fest and is not the best use of your time"

He added some other thoughts (commuting is a big deal in his hometown) but I was convinced. That was 1989. I have been to precisely one breakfast meeting since and that was to give an award to a friend of mine, which was probably the best use of my time for that day.

I don't even make excuses anymore. I just tell people I don't do breakfast meetings. They may be great for other people's feeling of "doing something" but they don't allow me to work at my best. The "rest of the day" theory is hollow for me because it's the rest of substandard performing day.

MESSIAH ISSUES: A VALID CONCERN?

I really like Jake Tapper and he is writing about something I have been mentioning here.

His piece might be a little overstated but the underlying point seems valid to me.

Please give me some feedback on this, especially Obama supporters.

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WOW, THANKS, ADAMS COUNTY DEMOCRATS

Four hundred of you actually voted for Senator Obama and came down and gave this Clinton delegate candidate a vote. That took some thought and effort. Thanks, too, to the friends who spread the word among committed Obama voters.

I appreciated it, and I noticed it as soon as the polls closed.

LOCALLY, THE WINNER WAS...........

Boredom. Usually, even an Oberwiess will get about twice as many GOP primary voters out as democrats in an even numbered year. Throw a primary, instant elephant burial ground.

Yesterday, 51% of pulled ballots were GOP, 46% democrat. You could tell the GOP voters, because they pushed the ballot into the scanner with one hand. The other one they used to hold their noses.

Republicans didn't vote with their feet yesterday. They voted with their butts. The butts just remained in the chairs at home. And ya can't blame it on the weather because the democrats outvoted the Repubs in early voting.

Let's face it your Crazy Uncle and the Empty Suit, just didn't generate any flutter. It wasn't a GOTV masterpiece for either side, but the Repubs way underran their usual autopilot turnout.

NATIONALLY: THE DEMOCRAT WINNER WAS..........

John Edwards hisownself...........

The closer the race between the behemoths gets, the more clout he has.

Right now, with algebra still going on in New Mexico and California, the difference is between 50 and 100 delegates (disregard the Fox report saying it's 'six or 7'). and that's close enough to make Edwards the apple of each side's eye.

Mitt, pay attention, this is what getting out at the right time can do for you.

BARACK OBAMA RAILS AGAINST "SENDING THE SAME OLD PEOPLE TO WASHINGTO TO DO THE SAME OLD THINGS"

............With Teddy Kennedy nodding off in the background.

That sure looks like a "new kind of politics"

POLLS AS NEWS: A METAPHORICAL DOG CHASING ITS OWN TAIL

There has always beens something about the Beast running "news" stories featuring telephone polls that has bothered me. I mean, how is it news that some guys call up some other guys and the called guys tell the first guys how they're gonna vote?

I think I've finally gotten my arms around why the concept of polling as news doesn't wash for me. The voters are sitting in their houses and they already believe they know for whom they will vote. The Beast, or contractors feeding the Beast, then calls them up and asks for whom they will vote. The voter tells the Beast. The Beast then takes the information the Voter gave the Beast and Beams it right back out the Voter, who is the very guy the Beast got it from in the first place. How is that news? You tell the same guy who just told you something the same information right back to him and you're informing him of what, exactly?

Ah, says the Beast. We're informing him of scientifically valid interpretations of the information he just gave us, that's "news". No, that's an editorial opinion. If you're gonna give an editorial opinion, label it an editorial opinion. Or, at best, it's a digested conclusion unless you tell the poor Voter what the hell you did to the information he just gave you to turn it into News.

I'm not saying poll-watching is not fun. I'm not saying polls are always inaccurate, fattening or biased. I'm certainly not saying that the cross-tabs on polls aren't useful in campaigning.

What I'm saying is the that the Voters are ones doing the thinking. It cannot possibly be news, then, to tell them what they are thinking.

MORE SHINING EXAMPLES OF HOW WE VALUE OUR VETERANS

Munch on this

THE WORLD TURNS WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF P!SSING BOB DOLE OFF

Imagine how disgusted Bob Dole must be now. It looks like the Crazy Uncle is actually going to get by on "war hero" and "working across the aisle". Bob Dole was actually an effective bi-partisan legislator and he really is a nice guy for which he got nothing but a dance with Liddy and header off of a platform.

Sorry about that, Bob

HERE'S HOW TO TELL WHETHER THE GIANTS HAVE A CHANCE

Folks like to make football a lot more complicated than it really is. Here's the simple way to see if The Giants can even be in the game. In their early possessions, if they run off right tackle, they've got a chance. If they run up the middle or left, they're toast.

The running game is policed by NE's linebackers. The OL on the right is Junior Seau. Junior still has good foot speed but no longer the upper body strength of a proficient NFL OL. The recipe in this situation is "run at speed and away from strength." If the Giants run right at Seau, they will gain yards. The Pats will have to give him help. That'll open up other stuff.

If the Giants don't start out doing that, they will have to throw too much. As Woody Hayes liked to say "When you pass the ball, three things can happen. Two of 'em are bad."

If you don't see Student Body Right early in this game, enjoy the guac, cuz the game's gonna be ugly.

NFL HALL OF FAME VOTE WHIFFS ON GUY

I had no problem with the guys admitted to Pro Football's Hall of Fame today. I had huge problems with the Guy who wasn't admitted.

With due respect to the estimable Reggie Roby, Ray Guy was the best punter who ever played in the NFL. He accounted for more net yards for his team than all the Running Backs, Quarterbacks and Wide Receivers who ever played on his team during his tenure. He could also tackle. When Ray Guy punted, there were 11 defensive players on the field against the runback. Rejecting Ray Guy is a statement that no pure punter should ever be admitted to the Hall. If the best ever at any given position can't be admitted, then what's the point of having a Hall.

A really sickening run-up to the Super Bowl.

WOW, MITT HAS FIRED THE SECRET WEAPON: RICK SANTORUM

................You know..........the guy from Pennsylvania........was in Congress.....Talked a lot like Dr. Laura......had some difficulty determining what school district his children lived in...............Contrary to popular belief, did not lose his Senate seat to dead guy........the voters in Pennsylvania just thought they were voting for a Dead Guy.............Ringing Bells? No?

OK, well, just another day in paradise for Mitt