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    Top 5

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    that kid needs an edu-macation, stat.

     

    this coming from me, whose 8 year old son had no clue what cracker jack was. :punch

    I know! They're not on as much as they were in the '70s. I may have to move to Albuquerque just to take care of this. :thumbup

    Top 5

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    1. Road Runner

    2. Bugs Bunny

    3. Foghorn Leghorn

    4. Yosemite Sam

    5. Pink Panther

    In a conversation I had with my nephew, 6, the other day, it was revealed he had no idea who Bugs Bunny was.

    Coulter-Hitler Quiz

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Syndicator to review allegations Ann Coulter lifted material

    By HILLEL ITALIE

    AP National Writer

     

    NEW YORK (AP) - The syndicator of Ann Coulter's newspaper column is looking into allegations that the right-wing pundit has lifted material from other sources.

     

    "We are reviewing the material and expect to have a response some time next week," Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate, told The Associated Press on Friday.

     

    The New York Post and the Web sites Raw Story and the Rude Pundit have raised numerous questions about Coulter's columns, which appear in more than 100 newspapers, and her best-selling "Godless," already notorious for the author's calling four 9/11 widows, who supported Democrat John Kerry for president in 2004, "harpies" thriving on their husbands' demise.

     

    Kerr said that the press syndicate had not discussed the allegations with Coulter, who was not immediately available for comment Friday. The publisher of "Godless," the Crown Publishing Group, issued a statement saying it had reviewed the "the allegations of plagiarism" in her book and "found them to be as trivial and meritless as they are irresponsible."

     

    "As an experienced author and attorney, Ms. Coulter knows when attribution is appropriate, as underscored by the 19 pages and hundreds of endnotes contained in 'Godless,'" Crown's senior vice president and publisher, Steve Ross, said in the statement.

     

    In "Godless," Coulter writes:

     

    "The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River in Maine, was halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant previously believed to be extinct."

     

    An article that ran in 1999 in Maine's Portland-Press Herald contains the following passage:

     

    "The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River, is halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant believed to be extinct."

     

    In a newspaper column that ran in 2005, Coulter wrote of Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter:

     

    "As New Hampshire attorney general in 1977, Souter opposed the repeal of an 1848 state law that made abortion a crime even though Roe v. Wade had made it irrelevant, predicting that if the law were repealed, New Hampshire 'would become the abortion mill of the United States.'"

     

    A Los Angeles Times article from 1990 noted: "In 1977, Souter as state attorney general spoke out against a proposed repeal of an 1848 state law that made abortion a crime _ even though the measure had been largely invalidated by the Supreme Court in Roe. vs. Wade ... 'Quite apart from the fact that I don't think unlimited abortions ought to be allowed ... I presume we would become the abortion mill of the United States(.)'"

     

    Coulter's career has rarely suffered despite numerous questions about her accuracy and her pitiless remarks about political opponents, including an open wish for the bombing of The New York Times building. An exception was in 2001, soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, when Coulter was fired by the conservative National Review Online for writing about the hijackers: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

     

    Coulter's latest controversy includes a high-tech twist. The New York Post enlisted the Berkeley, Calif.-based iParadigms to run the author's material through its iThenticate software program, a web-based plagiarism detection system.

    World Cup 2006

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    You are an idiot... I like practically everyone here stand firm against corporate sponsorship. But, the ONLY way the MLS will EVER be able to compete with leagues like the EPL is to offer competitive wages. Considering its close to impossible to get sponsorships to pick up the MLS due to corporate american television (unlike stations like BBC which are owned by the government) the lack of commercial breaks offered in a game makes it hard for MLS teams to get the appropraite fundage for their teams. With the forming of the New York Redbulls, we have heard talks of trying to get Ronaldo to sign a 60 mill contract...which he denied but none the less. I think anyone who pulls the corporate sponsorship card on the MLS just does not understand. It is hard to keep America's talent inside the MLS when they are offered 10x the salaries over in Europe. I actually commend New York for going that route if anything to try and gain some excitement to the game.

     

    classic example: Freddy Adu is by no means the best player in the MLS, hell he doesn't even start. But if the MLS hadn't made him the highest paid athlete in the MLS his talent would've gone over to the EPL or some other country to play. Its very sad but if renaming a team the "Redbulls" just to get some decent talent to help the MLS grow in America, I am personally all for it.

    Hey man, fuck you. You don't know me; you have no grounds to call me an idiot. Since soccer in this country is number four or five on the list, they may well need to do things not typically done in American professional sports to get by. I think, though, if the New York team would rename itself the Cosmos, they would see a lot more support among fans who were kids in the '70s and loved the team when they had Pele, Chinaglia and Beckenbauer. Whether that support would mean more revenue that whatever Red Bull Inc. is paying them, I cannot say. But again, fuck you.

    World Cup 2006

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    And this on shootouts from N.Y. Daily News' Filip Bondy:

     

    "Italy won itself a tiebreaker, finally, captured its fourth World Cup title on kicks, 5-3, after a 1-1 tie. The Italians had earned this one, for sure. They knocked in all their penalties, without a hint of the usual psychic meltdown. They certainly were the best team in the tournament, and probably the better side on this night. It's funny how these tiebreakers seem so arbitrary, yet always go to the more formidable side."

    The baseball thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    I would at this point pencil either the Sox (Rouge) or the Yanks out of the wild card, as it seems either Detroit or the Sox (Blanc) will take that. The Yanks spent tons of money in the '80s, and it didn't get them squat. And the Knicks lead the payroll in the NBA. It's not just spending, it's spending wisely and being lucky, which personified the '90s Yankees.

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