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Oh how I hate Ohio State.   OSU Head Football Coach Jim Tressel stepped down amid the burgeoning investigation into wrong doing at THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY.   The man in the sweater vest won 83 percent of his games in 10 seasons with Ohio State. He went 9-1 against Michigan, won seven Big Ten titles and a national championship.   He looked like a high school algebra teacher and ended up like so many others before him: wins and sins go hand in hand.   This further backs my opinion that the Buckeye Bastards should not have been allowed to dress the five suspended players in January’s Sugar Bowl; a game that OSU defeated Arkansas 31-26.   On a personal note, I find most OSU Alumni to be boorish blowhards, so yeah I revel in this news story. NBA versus NHL.   The respective finals kick off this week, and while I am admittedly biased by the presence of the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup final, I have to say the NHL playoffs kick the NBA’s ass in terms of pa...

A couple of weeks ago, South Carolina Governor and Tea Party Heroine Nikki Haley challenged GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney and his record as Governor of Massachusetts.   Romney has been defending his record as the man who signed into law the Massachusetts healthcare law providing universal healthcare coverage to all citizens.   "I will tell you we do not want a Massachusetts health care plan in South Carolina," Haley said in an exclusive interview with ABC News "This Week" anchor Christiane Amanpour.    I think that he will have to continue to deal with that issue. I think he's going to have to talk about how that was not good for the country. That wouldn't be a good thing that we'd want to mandate on all of our states." So Li’l Sarah, you think South Carolina is better off than Massachusetts?   Well, let’s look at the numbers shall we class: %Population without Healthcare:                MA (5%...

You know why so many Americans have the facts wrong on so many issues: Fox Freaking News.   Whether it’s the cable news channel or the website, they just seem to be forensically factually challenged.   The latest nugget was referenced by Michelle Bachmann in her attack on President Obama’s speech about Israel.   The twit’s (I could have used another noun) tweet had a link to a Foxnews.com article that stated: “The nation of Israel, created in 1948, expanded in 1967 after it was collectively attacked by its three Arab neighbors, Syria, Egypt and Jordan . Israel repelled the attack in six days and captured the West Bank , Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. It has since abandoned Gaza, which is now run by Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group.”   Fact: Israel preemptively attacked Egypt, Jordan, and Syria based on verified intelligence that Syria and Egypt were planning an invasion of Israel, and Jordan’s King Hussein was pondering joining in.   When Jordan’s Arab ...

Did you know that circumcision came to America as a Victorian British fad, not as a primarily Jewish custom, of which the original stated objective was to dissuade young men from masturbating?   Why am I sharing this with you?   Well, this November there will be a ballot measure in San Francisco to ban circumcision.   Crazy Liberals, first they want to ban Happy Meals, but now they want to save foreskins.   I guess some budget cuts are tougher than others.     Safe to say this is headed to the Supreme Court in the future. Speaking of the Supreme Court; this week’s 5-4 ruling mandating that the State of California release up to 30,000 inmates due to overcrowding has raised the ire of the right and with it, the usual cries of judicial activism.   You mean they cannot transfer the worst felons to other states as some sort of exchange program?   Hell, send them to the border with some materials from Home Depot and start building a fence. The staf...

These comments have to do with IMF head and indicted sexual assailant Dominique Strauss-Kahn: - Former Nixon speechwriter and Ferris Bueller teacher Ben Stein on the arrest of DSK: Stein: "People accuse other people of crimes all of the time. What do we know about the complainant besides that she is a hotel maid? ... How do we know that this woman's word was good enough to put Mr. Strauss-Kahn straight into a horrific jail?" - Self-proclaimed French intellectual, journalist, and philosopher Bernard- Henry Levi Levy: "I do not know -- but, on the other hand, it would be nice to know, and without delay -- how a chambermaid could have walked in alone, contrary to the habitual practice of most of New York's grand hotels of sending a 'cleaning brigade' of two people, into the room of one of the most closely watched figures on the planet." One rapist and two massive douchebags.   This represents the further decline of Ben Stein into buffoonery also known a...

Former Lance Armstrong cycling teammates George Hincapie and Tyler Hamilton are claiming Lance injected PED’s including EPO during his Tour de France reign.   This marks this first time that successful teammates and often self-described friends have testified they witnessed Lance inject.   Kind of makes Lance’s repeated claims that he ‘never tested positive’ ring hollow; test results can easily be manipulated and adulterated. McDonalds announced that is looking into replacing cashiers in its European restaurants with self-serve kiosks and debit/credit card scanners.   No cashier?   Who’s going to tell the customers about the specials and the details of how the chef prepares the dishes? The new American Corporation.   Neither Facebook nor Twitter are publicly listed, but secondary-market trade values these two social network giants at approximately $76 Billion..more than Boeing and Ford.   Also, LinkedIn completed its IPO this week and ended the week with a ...

There is a lot of commentary, criticism, analysis, and mock outrage regarding President Obama’s speech on Thursday regarding Israel.   Politicians and pundits on the right are hammering the President saying he has sold out Israel.   Romney “ …threw Israel under the bus .”, Bachmann “ In a shocking display of betrayal towards our ally, President Obama is now calling on Israel to give up yet more land and return to its 1967 borders. ”, Pawlenty "President Obama’s insistence on a return to the 1967 borders is a mistaken and very dangerous demand.", Limbaugh “The Arab Spring is an uprising of Middle Eastern nations against Israel and they aided and abetted by President Barack Obama of the United States of America.” , Beck “(Obama) betrayed our last great ally. ”, Hannity: “ Romney said Obama threw Israel under the bus more like under a bus full of suicide bombers.” But what did Obama really say?   With respect to the borders: Obama said: “So while the core issues of the c...

Looking to blame someone for high gas prices?   Blame George W. Bush and his neocons who decided to invade Iraq.   Iraq, following the destruction of the first gulf war, had clawed back to ~3million barrels/day in 2000.   In 2010, the maximum number achieved was less than 2.5million barrels/day.   So, in a world with increased demand, our fabulous oilman President contributed to higher gas prices by reducing supply in the face of growing global demand.   By the way, if Bush hadn’t invaded Iraq it is likely that country would be producing close to 4million barrels/day today.   Thanks W. While everyone is complaining about illegal immigration and our need to close the borders, the real problem is our xenophobic-induced pendulum swing after 9/11 that has closed the flow of foreign-born PhD applicants to US universities.   These brilliant scientists, engineers, doctors, researchers, and inventors are staying home and when that happens, we lose out on the i...

Those that follow this blog know that I have written extensively about the Middle East, the Israel/Palestine struggle, democracy, and the birth of Israel and how the Palestinian state was stillborn.   So when, my dear friend Moshe suggested I read Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ Op-Ed in Monday’s New York Times I immediately sought out the piece.   Let me start by saying that I believe Abbas represents the best option for a long term Israeli-Palestinian two state solution, and I think he has bent over backwards to accommodate the Netanyahu government’s uneven approach to peace talks while holding off anti-peace factions from within the Palestinian ranks.   That being said, Abbas, counting on America’s dearth of knowledge of Middle East history, paints a rather creative narrative.   At the minimum, he has taken creative license with modern history; at the maximum he has lost touch with reality. In Abbas’ piece he tells his personal story of how we was forced from...

Who said it: “I am for people, individuals–exactly like automobile insurance–individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance. And I am prepared to vote for a voucher system which will give individuals, on a sliding scale, a government subsidy so we insure that everyone as individuals have health insurance.” a)       Barack Obama b)       Joe Biden c)       Nancy Pelosi d)       Newt Gingrich e)       Rachel Maddow Who sa id it: "But when it comes to states requiring it for automobile insurance, the principle then ought to lie the same way for health insurance. Because everybody has some health insurance costs, and if you aren’t insured, there’s no free lunch. Somebody else is paying for it….I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates." a)       Joe Biden b)    ...