This is vulgar. Try this on:
It hasn't been so much a habit for Moyers as a truth-telling mission during his three decades as a TV journalist. But come next week, he will sign off from "Now," the weekly PBS newsmagazine he began in 2002, as, at age 70, he retires from television.
"I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee," says Moyers. "We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people."
For that, his absence after the Dec. 17 "Now" will be all the more keenly felt: Moyers' interest has always been the American people.
A humanist who's at home with subjects ranging from the power of myth to media consolidation, from drug addiction to modern dance, from religion to environmental abuse, Moyers has produced hundreds of hours of diverse programming on issues that others shortchange, sidestep or simply fail to notice. And through it all, he has looked upon his audience not as targeted consumers, or as voters split along a Red State-Blue State divide, but as his fellow citizens.
He's a citizen-journalist with a robust background, this Texas native who, early on, earned a divinity degree (he's an ordained Baptist minister) then served as special assistant to President Johnson, and for several years was publisher of the Long Island newspaper Newsday.
There are 2 MAJOR problems with this story. First, Bill Moyers is faaaaaar from being an objective journalist. He's a Leftist hack. Now that's fine; Leftists can be journalists. But at least be forthcoming about your political motives.
Second, THIS IS AN ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY! It's not an editorial or a letter or anything else opinion-driven. It's supposed to be a "news" story.
Yep, that right-wing media is taking over.
Saturday, December 11, 2004
Karl Rove Must Be Behind This
As a Republican, this is grand news. But as an American, this is bad. Now we're going to have one party dominance (Republicans) for years and years to come...and that's never a good thing.
WASHINGTON - Liberal powerhouse MoveOn has a message for the "professional election losers" who run the Democratic Party: "We bought it, we own it, we're going to take it back."
A scathing e-mail from the head of MoveOn's political action committee to the group's supporters on Thursday targets outgoing Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe as a tool of corporate donors who alienated both traditional and progressive Democrats.
"For years, the party has been led by elite Washington insiders who are closer to corporate lobbyists than they are to the Democratic base," said the e-mail from MoveOn PAC's Eli Pariser.
"But we can't afford four more years of leadership by a consulting class of professional election losers."
Under McAuliffe's leadership, the message said, the party coddled the same corporate donors that fund Republicans to bring in money at the expense of vision and integrity.
"In the last year, grass-roots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the party doesn't need corporate cash to be competitive," the message continued. "Now it's our party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back."
WASHINGTON - Liberal powerhouse MoveOn has a message for the "professional election losers" who run the Democratic Party: "We bought it, we own it, we're going to take it back."
A scathing e-mail from the head of MoveOn's political action committee to the group's supporters on Thursday targets outgoing Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe as a tool of corporate donors who alienated both traditional and progressive Democrats.
"For years, the party has been led by elite Washington insiders who are closer to corporate lobbyists than they are to the Democratic base," said the e-mail from MoveOn PAC's Eli Pariser.
"But we can't afford four more years of leadership by a consulting class of professional election losers."
Under McAuliffe's leadership, the message said, the party coddled the same corporate donors that fund Republicans to bring in money at the expense of vision and integrity.
"In the last year, grass-roots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the party doesn't need corporate cash to be competitive," the message continued. "Now it's our party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back."
Fire Rather, Now
There is a battle royale within CBS over whether or not to release the full text of the upcoming Memogate report, RatherBiased.com can reveal. Many higher-ups within the network do not want it released to the public in its entirety.
Word is that the report will be bad. But really, how bad could it be? Reporters made stuff up? That's not new. Reporters used bad information? That's not new either. Reporters hyped a non-story? We see that every night.
Word is that the report will be bad. But really, how bad could it be? Reporters made stuff up? That's not new. Reporters used bad information? That's not new either. Reporters hyped a non-story? We see that every night.
Keep It In Your Pants
If accurate, this is great news:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fewer teens are engaging in sexual activity than in the past, and those that do are more likely to use contraceptives, the government said Friday.
The National Center for Health Statistics said that for girls aged 15 to 17 the percentage who had ever had intercourse declined from 38 percent in 1995 to 30 percent in 2002.
For boys, the agency said, the decline was 43 percent to 31 percent.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fewer teens are engaging in sexual activity than in the past, and those that do are more likely to use contraceptives, the government said Friday.
The National Center for Health Statistics said that for girls aged 15 to 17 the percentage who had ever had intercourse declined from 38 percent in 1995 to 30 percent in 2002.
For boys, the agency said, the decline was 43 percent to 31 percent.
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Dr. Frankenstein, Call Your Office
You know, I'm no scientist, but this is definitely a road we don't want to go down:
In Minnesota, pigs are being born with human blood in their veins.
In Nevada, there are sheep whose livers and hearts are largely human.
In California, mice peer from their cages with human brain cells firing inside their skulls.
These are not outcasts from "The Island of Dr. Moreau," the 1896 novel by H.G. Wells in which a rogue doctor develops creatures that are part animal and part human. They are real creations of real scientists, stretching the boundaries of stem cell research.
Biologists call these hybrid animals chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail. They are the products of experiments in which human stem cells were added to developing animal fetuses.
In Minnesota, pigs are being born with human blood in their veins.
In Nevada, there are sheep whose livers and hearts are largely human.
In California, mice peer from their cages with human brain cells firing inside their skulls.
These are not outcasts from "The Island of Dr. Moreau," the 1896 novel by H.G. Wells in which a rogue doctor develops creatures that are part animal and part human. They are real creations of real scientists, stretching the boundaries of stem cell research.
Biologists call these hybrid animals chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail. They are the products of experiments in which human stem cells were added to developing animal fetuses.
You Can Teach Old Dogs New Tricks
Wow! Antony Flew sees God. This is like the Pope denying the existence of God. Amazing...and wonderful.
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
An Ovation for What?
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who faces criticism over corruption in the agency's defunct oil-for-food program, enjoyed a standing ovation Wednesday from General Assembly members.
The expression of support was planned. Earlier in the morning, diplomats said they wouldn't be surprised if members of the U.N. General Assembly delivered such a rare gesture.
I'm shocked that crooks and cowards would give another crook and coward a standing ovation. I'm shocked.
The expression of support was planned. Earlier in the morning, diplomats said they wouldn't be surprised if members of the U.N. General Assembly delivered such a rare gesture.
I'm shocked that crooks and cowards would give another crook and coward a standing ovation. I'm shocked.
I Didn't Do It
So you're president of the university, but you have no say in the decision to fire the football coach. Pleeeeaaaasssseeee.
NEW YORK -- Notre Dame president Rev. Edward Malloy said Wednesday he was upset that his university fired Irish football coach Tyrone Willingham last week.
"In my 18 years, there has only been two days that I've been embarrassed to be president of Notre Dame: Tuesday and Wednesday of last week," said Malloy, speaking during a panel discussion at the Sports Business Journal's Intercollegiate Athletics Forum.
In his three seasons as Notre Dame coach, Willingham compiled a 21-15 record. Malloy said he was not part of the decision-making process because he will retire in June.
NEW YORK -- Notre Dame president Rev. Edward Malloy said Wednesday he was upset that his university fired Irish football coach Tyrone Willingham last week.
"In my 18 years, there has only been two days that I've been embarrassed to be president of Notre Dame: Tuesday and Wednesday of last week," said Malloy, speaking during a panel discussion at the Sports Business Journal's Intercollegiate Athletics Forum.
In his three seasons as Notre Dame coach, Willingham compiled a 21-15 record. Malloy said he was not part of the decision-making process because he will retire in June.
Nice Try
MEDICAL experts have confirmed that Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine’s opposition leader, was poisoned in an attempt on his life during election campaigning, the doctor who supervised his treatment at an Austrian clinic said yesterday. Doctors at Vienna’s exclusive Rudolfinerhaus clinic are within days of identifying the substance that left Mr Yushchenko’s face disfigured with cysts and lesions, Nikolai Korpan told The Times in a telephone interview.
Take a Deep Breath
I'm not totally bullish like this guy, but I am cautiously optimistic:
Let's check the score:
Yesterday in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai was sworn in as that country's first democratically elected president.
In Ukraine, the Kremlin-backed ruling party's attempt to steal the election for Viktor Yanukovych appears completely stymied by the peaceful Orange Revolution. At minimum, it seems likely that there will be a re-vote on December 26.
In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 1.3 million Palestinians are registered to vote in the January 9 election of one of ten presidential candidates seeking to replace the marvelously dead Yasser Arafat.
In Iraq, nearly 14 million Iraqis are registered to vote for one of 156 parties running in the January 30th election. As Bill Kristol has pointed out, commentators in the Arab world are starting to wonder aloud why the Arabs with the most significant voting rights are those under American or Israeli occupation.
Would it be pollyannaish, at this point, to be tremendously optimistic about the march of democracy and freedom?
Let's check the score:
Yesterday in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai was sworn in as that country's first democratically elected president.
In Ukraine, the Kremlin-backed ruling party's attempt to steal the election for Viktor Yanukovych appears completely stymied by the peaceful Orange Revolution. At minimum, it seems likely that there will be a re-vote on December 26.
In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 1.3 million Palestinians are registered to vote in the January 9 election of one of ten presidential candidates seeking to replace the marvelously dead Yasser Arafat.
In Iraq, nearly 14 million Iraqis are registered to vote for one of 156 parties running in the January 30th election. As Bill Kristol has pointed out, commentators in the Arab world are starting to wonder aloud why the Arabs with the most significant voting rights are those under American or Israeli occupation.
Would it be pollyannaish, at this point, to be tremendously optimistic about the march of democracy and freedom?
Reason #221 Why I Hate the MSM
For weeks now, the main stream media (MSM) has been complaining that the mean Republicans have blocked the passage of the intelligence reform bill. This new law is necessary, they've been saying, because it will make us safer, prevent future 9/11's, and help us obtain better intelligence. Those against its passage, they've been saying, are against making the American people safer.
So how do they react the day after the bill is passed by the House:
From the Washington Post: “But some experts say it is not at all evident how, or even if, the changes would help America's spies obtain secrets and aid analysts in determining the intentions of terrorists bent on striking again or worrisome nations developing weapons of mass destruction. The most significant changes target the top of the intelligence bureaucracy, rather than the field officers, agents and intercept operators who do the work of recruiting spies, penetrating organizations or finding and disrupting plots in motion.”
And from the New York Times: “The question is whether the changes will make much of a difference in combating terrorism and weapons proliferation, two of the major national security challenges facing the intelligence services. On that question, even some supporters of the legislation to overhaul intelligence acknowledge their own agnosticism.”
That's priceless. They should have just said, "Oh by the way, we think the legislation isn't worth a s--t either."
So how do they react the day after the bill is passed by the House:
From the Washington Post: “But some experts say it is not at all evident how, or even if, the changes would help America's spies obtain secrets and aid analysts in determining the intentions of terrorists bent on striking again or worrisome nations developing weapons of mass destruction. The most significant changes target the top of the intelligence bureaucracy, rather than the field officers, agents and intercept operators who do the work of recruiting spies, penetrating organizations or finding and disrupting plots in motion.”
And from the New York Times: “The question is whether the changes will make much of a difference in combating terrorism and weapons proliferation, two of the major national security challenges facing the intelligence services. On that question, even some supporters of the legislation to overhaul intelligence acknowledge their own agnosticism.”
That's priceless. They should have just said, "Oh by the way, we think the legislation isn't worth a s--t either."
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Sometimes the Good Guys Win
LOS ANGELES (AP) - All too often, the ring of Debi Faris-Cifelli's cell phone means there is another abandoned newborn at the morgue, another forsaken child for her to name and bury in a shoebox-size coffin under a white cross in the California desert.
Last week, though, Faris-Cifelli - who has had to rely on donations, grants and fund-raisers to give babies a decent burial - got a very different call.
She had won the California lottery.
The jackpot: $27 million.
"Maybe it's the children saying, 'Thank you' for taking care of them when nobody else would," Faris-Cifelli said, bubbling with laughter. "It's a gift and one for which we feel an awesome responsibility."
The money could not come at a better time for Faris-Cifelli and her Garden of Angels, the tiny cemetery in the town of Calimesa where she has buried dozens of tiny children whose mothers didn't hear - or didn't care - about California's safe-haven law.
Last week, though, Faris-Cifelli - who has had to rely on donations, grants and fund-raisers to give babies a decent burial - got a very different call.
She had won the California lottery.
The jackpot: $27 million.
"Maybe it's the children saying, 'Thank you' for taking care of them when nobody else would," Faris-Cifelli said, bubbling with laughter. "It's a gift and one for which we feel an awesome responsibility."
The money could not come at a better time for Faris-Cifelli and her Garden of Angels, the tiny cemetery in the town of Calimesa where she has buried dozens of tiny children whose mothers didn't hear - or didn't care - about California's safe-haven law.
At Least He Didn't Choke Her
Looks like Spree is in trouble again. I don't know what I find more offensive: Spree's conduct OR the fact that we now have female hecklers at NBA games.
By the way, check out Spree's picture. Who does his hair?
By the way, check out Spree's picture. Who does his hair?
The Motley Fool
How Terry still has a job is beyond me.
Washington, DC, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The remembrance of Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor took on partisan political spin Tuesday with a Democrat leader using it to attack House Republicans.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, in a special Pearl Harbor Day statement, said national unity 63 years ago enabled Americans to go forward and defeat the country's enemies, but the same kind of unity needed now was being undermined by Republican disagreements over provisions of the yet-to-be-voted on intelligence reform bill.
"While we as a nation are united in this fight, there are clearly deep divisions within the Republican Party, divisions that are impeding our fight against terrorism," he said.
"Moving forward, it is my sincere hope that the Republicans running Washington will stop playing their political games and start fighting for the American people, just as our honored veterans did 63 years ago."
Washington, DC, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The remembrance of Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor took on partisan political spin Tuesday with a Democrat leader using it to attack House Republicans.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, in a special Pearl Harbor Day statement, said national unity 63 years ago enabled Americans to go forward and defeat the country's enemies, but the same kind of unity needed now was being undermined by Republican disagreements over provisions of the yet-to-be-voted on intelligence reform bill.
"While we as a nation are united in this fight, there are clearly deep divisions within the Republican Party, divisions that are impeding our fight against terrorism," he said.
"Moving forward, it is my sincere hope that the Republicans running Washington will stop playing their political games and start fighting for the American people, just as our honored veterans did 63 years ago."
Monday, December 06, 2004
More Stories on Jesus Land
This article in Newsweek about "Jesus Land" is brilliant. You'd think the authors just made a shocking discovery. What discovery? That Americans are - by and large - Christians. Noooo.
And I love that the article kicks off with this gem:
Dec. 5 - Seventy-nine percent of Americans believe that, as the Bible says, Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, without a human father, according to a new NEWSWEEK poll on beliefs about Jesus.
They've got a name for people who believe in the virgin birth...they're called Christians! Somebody should introduce the staff at Newsweek to such a creature. They really do exist.
This reminds me of something I heard the novelist Tom Wolfe say over the weekend. In reference to the recent election, he stated: "My friends here in New York have to come to the realization that this is a Christian nation - always has been and is today. The Northeast and the West coast are mere parentheses."
And I love that the article kicks off with this gem:
Dec. 5 - Seventy-nine percent of Americans believe that, as the Bible says, Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, without a human father, according to a new NEWSWEEK poll on beliefs about Jesus.
They've got a name for people who believe in the virgin birth...they're called Christians! Somebody should introduce the staff at Newsweek to such a creature. They really do exist.
This reminds me of something I heard the novelist Tom Wolfe say over the weekend. In reference to the recent election, he stated: "My friends here in New York have to come to the realization that this is a Christian nation - always has been and is today. The Northeast and the West coast are mere parentheses."
The DLC Gets It
The Democratic Leadership Council - that is, thinking Democrats - agree that Kofi must go:
The Price of Credibility
As we argued last week, one of America's most urgent foreign policy needs is to retool international organizations and traditional alliances to provide collective security against the global threat of jihadist terrorism. The United Nations can and should be a central part of this new collective security system, but only if the organization is systematically reformed to serve that purpose.
Unfortunately, the United Nations' credibility has been steadily eroded by its own misdeeds, with a burgeoning scandal over its incompetent and sometimes corrupt management of the Iraq oil-for-food program being the most damaging example. Last week it was reported that the son of U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan received a series of payments from a Swiss firm that won a lucrative contract under the oil-for-food program. This development has fed growing doubts that the United Nations will be able to own up to its problems or reform its operations so long as Annan remains at the helm.
The appearance of a payoff to the secretary general's son was just the latest in a series of revelations about the oil-for-food program. Begun in 1996, the program allowed Baghdad to sell oil and use the proceeds to buy food and other humanitarian goods in order to soften the impact on the Iraqi people of the sanctions imposed on the country after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. A U.N. committee supervised the program; vetted contracts for food purchases; arranged payments; and hired inspectors to ensure Iraq did not import material that could be used for arms.
But mismanagement, corruption, and manipulation of the program by Saddam Hussein allowed his regime to amass at least $21 billion outside of the United Nations' control, with the great bulk of that sum -- $17.3 billion -- pilfered between 1997 and 2003 on the secretary general's watch. In effect, the United Nations colluded in Saddam's successful evasion of U.N. sanctions. The most damning charge so far -- that a former chief of the oil-for-food program, Benon Sevan, accepted bribes from Saddam's regime -- was made in October by former U.N. weapons inspector Charles A. Duelfer, who led a Senate investigation into the scandal. The program is now the subject of at least four congressional investigations, three U.S. federal investigations and the U.N.-appointed commission of inquiry led by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has underscored the urgency of such investigations, noting not only that the size of the fraud is "staggering," but also that some of Saddam's vast illicit stash might right now be funding terrorists and costing American lives. In an opinion piece in last week's Wall Street Journal, Coleman urged Annan to resign. "As long as Mr. Annan remains in charge, the world will never be able to learn the full extent of the bribes, kickbacks and under-the-table payments that occurred under the U.N.'s collective nose."
Annan's handling of the fallout over the past week has done nothing to improve his perceived credibility: He has refused requests from congressional committees for access to the United Nation's 55 internal audits and other reports, or for the chance to interview U.N. officials who oversaw the program, saying that it would interfere with the Volcker inquiry. That inquiry is expected to release an interim report in January. The full report could take another year and cost as much as $30 million -- to be funded with leftover cash in the oil-for-food program.
Annan's intransigence should not deter the Senate subcommittee on investigations or other congressional investigations. Volcker can hardly be expected to conduct a thorough and unbiased inquiry into a scandal in which the U.N. secretary general and his son are involved. The world deserves a full and thorough accounting of what transpired. The sooner the United Nations can get past this matter, the sooner it can get back to the important business of making itself an effective instrument for collective security against terrorism, failed states, and acts of genocide, a goal that Annan has strongly supported. The secretary general should place this critical mission ahead of his personal interests, and step aside. Given his own lack of credibility on the oil-for-food program, this step is the price Annan must pay to help restore the U.N.'s credibility, and to salvage his legacy as secretary general.
The Price of Credibility
As we argued last week, one of America's most urgent foreign policy needs is to retool international organizations and traditional alliances to provide collective security against the global threat of jihadist terrorism. The United Nations can and should be a central part of this new collective security system, but only if the organization is systematically reformed to serve that purpose.
Unfortunately, the United Nations' credibility has been steadily eroded by its own misdeeds, with a burgeoning scandal over its incompetent and sometimes corrupt management of the Iraq oil-for-food program being the most damaging example. Last week it was reported that the son of U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan received a series of payments from a Swiss firm that won a lucrative contract under the oil-for-food program. This development has fed growing doubts that the United Nations will be able to own up to its problems or reform its operations so long as Annan remains at the helm.
The appearance of a payoff to the secretary general's son was just the latest in a series of revelations about the oil-for-food program. Begun in 1996, the program allowed Baghdad to sell oil and use the proceeds to buy food and other humanitarian goods in order to soften the impact on the Iraqi people of the sanctions imposed on the country after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. A U.N. committee supervised the program; vetted contracts for food purchases; arranged payments; and hired inspectors to ensure Iraq did not import material that could be used for arms.
But mismanagement, corruption, and manipulation of the program by Saddam Hussein allowed his regime to amass at least $21 billion outside of the United Nations' control, with the great bulk of that sum -- $17.3 billion -- pilfered between 1997 and 2003 on the secretary general's watch. In effect, the United Nations colluded in Saddam's successful evasion of U.N. sanctions. The most damning charge so far -- that a former chief of the oil-for-food program, Benon Sevan, accepted bribes from Saddam's regime -- was made in October by former U.N. weapons inspector Charles A. Duelfer, who led a Senate investigation into the scandal. The program is now the subject of at least four congressional investigations, three U.S. federal investigations and the U.N.-appointed commission of inquiry led by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has underscored the urgency of such investigations, noting not only that the size of the fraud is "staggering," but also that some of Saddam's vast illicit stash might right now be funding terrorists and costing American lives. In an opinion piece in last week's Wall Street Journal, Coleman urged Annan to resign. "As long as Mr. Annan remains in charge, the world will never be able to learn the full extent of the bribes, kickbacks and under-the-table payments that occurred under the U.N.'s collective nose."
Annan's handling of the fallout over the past week has done nothing to improve his perceived credibility: He has refused requests from congressional committees for access to the United Nation's 55 internal audits and other reports, or for the chance to interview U.N. officials who oversaw the program, saying that it would interfere with the Volcker inquiry. That inquiry is expected to release an interim report in January. The full report could take another year and cost as much as $30 million -- to be funded with leftover cash in the oil-for-food program.
Annan's intransigence should not deter the Senate subcommittee on investigations or other congressional investigations. Volcker can hardly be expected to conduct a thorough and unbiased inquiry into a scandal in which the U.N. secretary general and his son are involved. The world deserves a full and thorough accounting of what transpired. The sooner the United Nations can get past this matter, the sooner it can get back to the important business of making itself an effective instrument for collective security against terrorism, failed states, and acts of genocide, a goal that Annan has strongly supported. The secretary general should place this critical mission ahead of his personal interests, and step aside. Given his own lack of credibility on the oil-for-food program, this step is the price Annan must pay to help restore the U.N.'s credibility, and to salvage his legacy as secretary general.
Get Some Sleep, Slim
Uh, I'm going to bed now.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- People who put on a few extra pounds may be able to blame a lack of sleep for the added weight, according to two separate studies published Monday.
Losing sleep can raise levels of hormones linked with appetite and eating behavior, the researchers said.
In one study, people who slept only four hours a night for two nights had an 18 percent reduction in leptin, a hormone that tells the brain there is no need for more food, and a 28 percent increase in ghrelin, which triggers hunger.
The young men in the study also tended to eat more sweet and starchy foods when sleep was cut short.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- People who put on a few extra pounds may be able to blame a lack of sleep for the added weight, according to two separate studies published Monday.
Losing sleep can raise levels of hormones linked with appetite and eating behavior, the researchers said.
In one study, people who slept only four hours a night for two nights had an 18 percent reduction in leptin, a hormone that tells the brain there is no need for more food, and a 28 percent increase in ghrelin, which triggers hunger.
The young men in the study also tended to eat more sweet and starchy foods when sleep was cut short.
That's Nice
Houston Texans linebacker Antwan Peek sacked Steve McNair, forced a fumble late and vomited. The episode lasted long enough that the Texans had to take a timeout, to, ahem, clear things up. "I just got so excited, I started throwing up," Peek told the Houston Chronicle. "Sometimes your adrenaline gets going, and it just happens. That's how fired up I was."
Sunday, December 05, 2004
Best Team Ever?
Colerain smoked Canton McKinley (on McKinley's home field) last night to win the Ohio Division I football title. Is this the best Cincinnati high school football team ever? Better than the Gerry Faust Moeller teams of the 70's and 80's? Better than the Carlos Snow lead CAPE teams of the 80's? Better than the Elder teams of the last few years?
CANTON - Colerain overcame a shaky start and thundered to its first Division I state football title here Saturday night.
The Cardinals routed Canton McKinley 50-10, despite fumbling five times (losing three) in the first 5:32 of the game. A crowd announced at 16,600 watched on a cold but clear night at Fawcett Stadium, McKinley's home field.
...Colerain (15-0), capping one of the most dominant seasons in Ohio prep football history, carried rankings of No. 1 in the state and No. 5 nationally by USA Today.
Best team ever in Cincinnati? The Cardinals won by an average of 39.8 points per game this year, averaging 46.3 points and allowing an average of 6.5. The average margin is the largest for a Cincinnati big-school state champ, ahead of 1976 Moeller's 37.5 average margin.
"I don't want to be arrogant about that," Coombs said. "I'll let other people judge that. I think our numbers speak for themselves."
The numbers Saturday included a 489-127 edge in total yards, with 463 of that rushing. Colerain held McKinley to 57 net yards rushing (including sacks), although all-state running back Ryan Brinson did net 93 yards on 18 carries with one TD for McKinley.
CANTON - Colerain overcame a shaky start and thundered to its first Division I state football title here Saturday night.
The Cardinals routed Canton McKinley 50-10, despite fumbling five times (losing three) in the first 5:32 of the game. A crowd announced at 16,600 watched on a cold but clear night at Fawcett Stadium, McKinley's home field.
...Colerain (15-0), capping one of the most dominant seasons in Ohio prep football history, carried rankings of No. 1 in the state and No. 5 nationally by USA Today.
Best team ever in Cincinnati? The Cardinals won by an average of 39.8 points per game this year, averaging 46.3 points and allowing an average of 6.5. The average margin is the largest for a Cincinnati big-school state champ, ahead of 1976 Moeller's 37.5 average margin.
"I don't want to be arrogant about that," Coombs said. "I'll let other people judge that. I think our numbers speak for themselves."
The numbers Saturday included a 489-127 edge in total yards, with 463 of that rushing. Colerain held McKinley to 57 net yards rushing (including sacks), although all-state running back Ryan Brinson did net 93 yards on 18 carries with one TD for McKinley.
Actually, You Can Choose Who You Love
WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) -- A principal who wants gay couples to get permission slips from their parents before they can attend school dances promised to re-evaluate the policy after protesters held four days of protests.
Copper Hills High School Principal Tom Worlton issued the policy last month but agreed to revisit it Friday. He said he saw the policy as a way to alert the parents to the dangers their children might face.
Jason Atwood, 17, his boyfriend, Tom Tolman, 15, who attends another school, and small circle of friends held protests across the street from the suburban Salt Lake City school before they met with Worlton. The protesters said they were subjected to insults, obscene gestures, egg throwing and snowballs from passing cars during the four days.
"I'm so proud of you," Tolman's mother, Patricia Gilley, said after dropping him off. "You can't help who you love."
This sort of thinking is prevalent in our society, but absolutely false. You CAN help who you love. Why? Because love is a choice, it's not a feeling. The modern man has it backwards. We treat the warm fuzzies as love. When we have them, we're in love. When they're gone, we're not. Hence all of the shattered relationships (marriages, families, communities, etc.) around us.
We also confuse what we want with what is right. In other words, if we feel like doing it, it must be right. "I was born that way" is the usual mantra. The problem is that we are all "born that way." I was born an adulterer. I have adulterous feelings and urges. Yet I CHOOSE not to indulge those "natural" feelings because it is wrong. It's a struggle, but I choose not to be governed by what I "feel", but by what God requires.
If I did what I was "born to do" - i.e. what my flesh requires - I'd destroy my life and the lives of those around me. I hope this young man, and his mother, realize that before they destroy their lives.
But then again, I'm "intolerant". So I'm sure my advice will be ignored.
Copper Hills High School Principal Tom Worlton issued the policy last month but agreed to revisit it Friday. He said he saw the policy as a way to alert the parents to the dangers their children might face.
Jason Atwood, 17, his boyfriend, Tom Tolman, 15, who attends another school, and small circle of friends held protests across the street from the suburban Salt Lake City school before they met with Worlton. The protesters said they were subjected to insults, obscene gestures, egg throwing and snowballs from passing cars during the four days.
"I'm so proud of you," Tolman's mother, Patricia Gilley, said after dropping him off. "You can't help who you love."
This sort of thinking is prevalent in our society, but absolutely false. You CAN help who you love. Why? Because love is a choice, it's not a feeling. The modern man has it backwards. We treat the warm fuzzies as love. When we have them, we're in love. When they're gone, we're not. Hence all of the shattered relationships (marriages, families, communities, etc.) around us.
We also confuse what we want with what is right. In other words, if we feel like doing it, it must be right. "I was born that way" is the usual mantra. The problem is that we are all "born that way." I was born an adulterer. I have adulterous feelings and urges. Yet I CHOOSE not to indulge those "natural" feelings because it is wrong. It's a struggle, but I choose not to be governed by what I "feel", but by what God requires.
If I did what I was "born to do" - i.e. what my flesh requires - I'd destroy my life and the lives of those around me. I hope this young man, and his mother, realize that before they destroy their lives.
But then again, I'm "intolerant". So I'm sure my advice will be ignored.
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