Wednesday, December 3, 2008
A random treat from the LoC archives...
2007... it was a simpler time...
Apart from spending the rest of our lives cleaning up after him, what will we ever do without him?
Catching up with da RezzziDUNCE
Apart from spending the rest of our lives cleaning up after him, what will we ever do without him?
Catching up with da RezzziDUNCE
Want to park here for a couple of hours? Bring 52 quarters...
Okay, presumably they'll have done away with quarter meters by then and found a way to suck the money directly out of your kids' college fund, but still...
News item: Motorists will pay $6.50 an hour by 2013 to feed downtown parking meters
But at least all that extra cash is making it easier to get around town...
Daley warns drivers: Slow down when it snows
On Tuesday, Mayor Daley and Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Michael Picardi warned Chicago motorists to drive slower when the weather turns ugly and expect to wait longer to get side streets plowed as the city seeks to do more with less. . .
The mayor warned: "Next year is gonna get worse than this year. ... Once January comes, hold onto your pants. Smiff: Lord knows this means you above all."
News item: Motorists will pay $6.50 an hour by 2013 to feed downtown parking meters
But at least all that extra cash is making it easier to get around town...
Daley warns drivers: Slow down when it snows
On Tuesday, Mayor Daley and Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Michael Picardi warned Chicago motorists to drive slower when the weather turns ugly and expect to wait longer to get side streets plowed as the city seeks to do more with less. . .
The mayor warned: "Next year is gonna get worse than this year. ... Once January comes, hold onto your pants. Smiff: Lord knows this means you above all."
this is probably nothing to worry about (cont'd)
Maldives’ escape plan for rising seas
The new President of the Maldives says he will begin buying land in other nations as "an insurance policy" in case his nation needs to be evacuated due to rising sea levels from climate change.
The new President of the Maldives says he will begin buying land in other nations as "an insurance policy" in case his nation needs to be evacuated due to rising sea levels from climate change.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
because he hasn't totally killed him off yet
Reds' Dusty Baker wants to manage Kerry Wootz again
"We have a closer already in [Francisco] Cordero, who we have under contract for a few more years," Baker said Monday. "But somebody can use Kerry Wootz. I am going to call him. I like Kerry Wootz as a person, not just as a ballplayer, but as a person. I will give him a call and see what's up... man"
"We have a closer already in [Francisco] Cordero, who we have under contract for a few more years," Baker said Monday. "But somebody can use Kerry Wootz. I am going to call him. I like Kerry Wootz as a person, not just as a ballplayer, but as a person. I will give him a call and see what's up... man"
when irresistible suction force meets immovable vacuum object (part II)
Chicago State at Northern Illinois, Saturday December 6, 2pm
when irresistible suction force meets immovable vacuum object (part I)
News item: The Northern Illinois men's basketball had a chance to meet, and take photos with, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who was in attendance at the Great Alaska Shootout on both Friday and Saturday.
but they make good toothpaste
Syracuse 86, Colgate 51
Syracuse jumped to an early 17-2 lead less than five minutes into the contest with Harris and Flynn accounting for 15 of that total. Flynn started the barrage by opening the game with a three and then quickly followed with a zzzzzzzzzzzzzz........
Syracuse jumped to an early 17-2 lead less than five minutes into the contest with Harris and Flynn accounting for 15 of that total. Flynn started the barrage by opening the game with a three and then quickly followed with a zzzzzzzzzzzzzz........
k-mad already scheming to end their careers, or, why does k-mad do it?
Indian baseball players chase American dream
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Two Indian youngsters chasing the American baseball dream have taken an important first step when the Pittsburgh Pirates signed them up as non-draft free agents.
Left-hander Rinku Singh and Dinesh Kumar Patel pitched in front of scouts from the Pirates and other Major League organizations on November 12 before being chosen, a statement on the club website said.
The players, with shoulder strength gained through their initial training to become javelin throwers, earned a U.S. training stint in May after topping a pitching contest in India, "The Million-Dollar Arm," which offered the winner $100,000.
Singh, 20, who won that contest and Patel, 19, will now take part in the Pirates' Minor League spring training next year.
Their promoters hope they can make it as professionals, saying such success would boost baseball in cricket-mad India in the same way that Yao Ming's move to the NBA created a fan base for basketball in China. . .
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Two Indian youngsters chasing the American baseball dream have taken an important first step when the Pittsburgh Pirates signed them up as non-draft free agents.
Left-hander Rinku Singh and Dinesh Kumar Patel pitched in front of scouts from the Pirates and other Major League organizations on November 12 before being chosen, a statement on the club website said.
The players, with shoulder strength gained through their initial training to become javelin throwers, earned a U.S. training stint in May after topping a pitching contest in India, "The Million-Dollar Arm," which offered the winner $100,000.
Singh, 20, who won that contest and Patel, 19, will now take part in the Pirates' Minor League spring training next year.
Their promoters hope they can make it as professionals, saying such success would boost baseball in cricket-mad India in the same way that Yao Ming's move to the NBA created a fan base for basketball in China. . .
K-Mad already scheming to end her career...
Japanese schoolgirl signs pro baseball contract
TOKYO (AP) -- A 16-year-old Japanese girl signed with a regional baseball team Tuesday, becoming the country's first female professional baseball player.
Eri Yoshida, a knuckleball pitcher, will play for the Kobe 9 Cruise in a new independent league starting in April 2009. The team selected her last month along with 31 male players in the league draft.
"I still don't feel like I've really become a pro baseball player, but I want to do my best," Yoshida said at a news conference after signing her contract. "My specialty is the knuckleball, so I really want to be able to get batters out using it effectively."
The Cruise are more like a farm team and a far cry from Japan's mainstream pro teams such as the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants. But the 5-foot, 114-pound Yoshida has broken a barrier in baseball-crazy Japan, where women are normally relegated to amateur, company-sponsored teams or to softball.
Yoshida, who started playing baseball when she was in second grade, said she wants to emulate Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, who has built a successful major league career as a knuckleballer.
The fledgling Japanese League, based in western Japan, is hoping to find enough success to eventually challenge the likes of the long-established Central and Pacific leagues. Those leagues, home to the best Japanese players, have become an increasingly fertile ground for talent headed to the U.S. major leagues.
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TOKYO (AP) -- A 16-year-old Japanese girl signed with a regional baseball team Tuesday, becoming the country's first female professional baseball player.
Eri Yoshida, a knuckleball pitcher, will play for the Kobe 9 Cruise in a new independent league starting in April 2009. The team selected her last month along with 31 male players in the league draft.
"I still don't feel like I've really become a pro baseball player, but I want to do my best," Yoshida said at a news conference after signing her contract. "My specialty is the knuckleball, so I really want to be able to get batters out using it effectively."
The Cruise are more like a farm team and a far cry from Japan's mainstream pro teams such as the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants. But the 5-foot, 114-pound Yoshida has broken a barrier in baseball-crazy Japan, where women are normally relegated to amateur, company-sponsored teams or to softball.
Yoshida, who started playing baseball when she was in second grade, said she wants to emulate Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, who has built a successful major league career as a knuckleballer.
The fledgling Japanese League, based in western Japan, is hoping to find enough success to eventually challenge the likes of the long-established Central and Pacific leagues. Those leagues, home to the best Japanese players, have become an increasingly fertile ground for talent headed to the U.S. major leagues.
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Monday, December 1, 2008
I suck, but you voted for me, so who's really to blame?
Bush remorseful on financial crisis: 'I'm sorry it's happening...also, I SUCK'
Asked if he would have ordered the U.S.-led invasion if intelligence reports had accurately indicated that Saddam did not have the weapons, Bush replied: "You know, that's an interesting question. That is a do-over that I can't do. It's hard for me to speculate."
Phokk You.
"I think I was unprepared for war," he said. "In other words, I didn't campaign and say, `Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack.' In other words, I didn't anticipate war. Presidents — one of the things about the modern presidency is that the unexpected will happen."
Interesting. I wonder who started the war...anybody know?
As he leaves office, Bush said he felt responsible for the economic downturn because it's occurring on his watch, but he added: "I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so" before he became president.
I knew it - all Clinton's fault. Carter, too, that phokk.
Later in the interview, he said: "I can't guarantee that we'll get all our money back, but it's conceivable we could."
Said the man who couldn't find oil in Texas, or his ass with both hands.
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Asked if he would have ordered the U.S.-led invasion if intelligence reports had accurately indicated that Saddam did not have the weapons, Bush replied: "You know, that's an interesting question. That is a do-over that I can't do. It's hard for me to speculate."
Phokk You.
"I think I was unprepared for war," he said. "In other words, I didn't campaign and say, `Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack.' In other words, I didn't anticipate war. Presidents — one of the things about the modern presidency is that the unexpected will happen."
Interesting. I wonder who started the war...anybody know?
As he leaves office, Bush said he felt responsible for the economic downturn because it's occurring on his watch, but he added: "I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so" before he became president.
I knew it - all Clinton's fault. Carter, too, that phokk.
Later in the interview, he said: "I can't guarantee that we'll get all our money back, but it's conceivable we could."
Said the man who couldn't find oil in Texas, or his ass with both hands.
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Anudder heartwarming holiday tale...
Hey kids: BLAMMO!
Motive still unclear in Toys "R'' Us fatal shootings
Moreno and Meza apparently shot each other, as evidenced by two guns recovered near their bodies and eyewitness accounts. The store reopened Saturday with extra security on hand.
Witnesses said the men were with two women who got into a fight that escalated into the fatal shootings, which sent terrified shoppers and their children scrambling for safety.
“I think the obvious question everyone has is who takes loaded weapons into a Toys R Us?” Ferguson said. “I doubt it was the casual holiday shopper."
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Motive still unclear in Toys "R'' Us fatal shootings
Moreno and Meza apparently shot each other, as evidenced by two guns recovered near their bodies and eyewitness accounts. The store reopened Saturday with extra security on hand.
Witnesses said the men were with two women who got into a fight that escalated into the fatal shootings, which sent terrified shoppers and their children scrambling for safety.
“I think the obvious question everyone has is who takes loaded weapons into a Toys R Us?” Ferguson said. “I doubt it was the casual holiday shopper."
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Shocking (cont)
Bush says some voters backed Obama ‘because of me’
Really? Why is it always about you? Why can't it be about someone else? Are you still here? Perhaps you should have sucked less then. You know, help your party stay in power, done what the people wanted, you know, stuff like that.
Really? Why is it always about you? Why can't it be about someone else? Are you still here? Perhaps you should have sucked less then. You know, help your party stay in power, done what the people wanted, you know, stuff like that.
Ever wonder why i'm named Smith?
Plaxico Burress reportedly sought treatment for his gunshot wound Friday night by checking himself into a hospital under the codename "Harris Smith."
Plax also allegedly told medical staff at New York-Cornell Hospital that he'd been shot at an Applebee's. Hospital workers immediately recognized him and did not report the injury to authorities, putting them at risk of legal action. Police found Burress' gun after searching his home with him not present.
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Plax also allegedly told medical staff at New York-Cornell Hospital that he'd been shot at an Applebee's. Hospital workers immediately recognized him and did not report the injury to authorities, putting them at risk of legal action. Police found Burress' gun after searching his home with him not present.
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German acts of Christmas retailing
Vendor sells all-natural dildos at Hamburg Christmas market
One vendor at the Santa Pauli Christmas market in Hamburg has taken a non-traditional but all-natural approach to Christmas gifts this year, selling handmade spruce wood dildos, daily Hamburger Morgenpost reported on Friday.
One vendor at the Santa Pauli Christmas market in Hamburg has taken a non-traditional but all-natural approach to Christmas gifts this year, selling handmade spruce wood dildos, daily Hamburger Morgenpost reported on Friday.
desperate acts of online retailing (or maybe I'm just padding LoC's post count)
Dear Amazon.com Customer,
We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Bill James Handbook 2009 (Bill James Handbook) have also purchased Don Cherry's Hard Hitting Hockey on DVD. For this reason, you might like to know that Don Cherry's Hard Hitting Hockey will be released on December 2, 2008.
Yes, the experience of sitting down with a Bill James book just isn't complete without a Don Cherry DVD to pop into the tele.
We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Bill James Handbook 2009 (Bill James Handbook) have also purchased Don Cherry's Hard Hitting Hockey on DVD. For this reason, you might like to know that Don Cherry's Hard Hitting Hockey will be released on December 2, 2008.
Yes, the experience of sitting down with a Bill James book just isn't complete without a Don Cherry DVD to pop into the tele.
Friday, November 28, 2008
well... that is awkward...
Lieberman Contributed to GOP Senate, House Candidates
When Democrats gathered last week to decide the fate of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), a pair of senators-elect, Tom Udall of New Mexico and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, stepped up to offer symbolically important speeches.
Having ridden the wave of support for President-elect Barack Obama, Udall and Merkley spoke out in favor of the spirit of reconciliation and moving on from the campaign, in which Lieberman was one of the highest profile supporters of the Republican presidential ticket.
But no one in the room knew, as Merkley spoke, that Lieberman had supported Merkley's opponent, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.). Lieberman, through his Reuniting Our Country PAC, gave Smith's reelection bid $5,000 on Oct. 10, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. . .
Lieberman's support of Smith came the same weekend he wrote an op-ed in the St. Paul Pioneer Press defending Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) for his work as chairman of an investigative subcommittee on Lieberman's homeland security committee. The same day he wrote a check to Smith, Lieberman's ROC PAC gave $5,000 to Rep. Peter King, the Long Island Republican. . .
When Democrats gathered last week to decide the fate of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), a pair of senators-elect, Tom Udall of New Mexico and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, stepped up to offer symbolically important speeches.
Having ridden the wave of support for President-elect Barack Obama, Udall and Merkley spoke out in favor of the spirit of reconciliation and moving on from the campaign, in which Lieberman was one of the highest profile supporters of the Republican presidential ticket.
But no one in the room knew, as Merkley spoke, that Lieberman had supported Merkley's opponent, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.). Lieberman, through his Reuniting Our Country PAC, gave Smith's reelection bid $5,000 on Oct. 10, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. . .
Lieberman's support of Smith came the same weekend he wrote an op-ed in the St. Paul Pioneer Press defending Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) for his work as chairman of an investigative subcommittee on Lieberman's homeland security committee. The same day he wrote a check to Smith, Lieberman's ROC PAC gave $5,000 to Rep. Peter King, the Long Island Republican. . .
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Wait til next year... maybe the year after... or, When Cupcakes Attack
Portland St. 79, N. Illinois 58
At least it can't get any worse, right?
NIU plays host Alaska-Anchorage on Friday.
At least it can't get any worse, right?
NIU plays host Alaska-Anchorage on Friday.
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