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QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 05:39 PM) And so have the Democrats. They know how to play that fiddle very well as well. Media relations has been huge since Kennedy v. Nixon. I think today, the GOP has easily won the battle. From the GOP radio network to Fox News. They are the front runners, yet are portrayed as underdogs. It may be decades before it is recognized, but I think this will be studied in political science and journalism classes for a long time. I would even venture to say that in the present environment that Nixon would have a better than 50-50 chance to have finished his term and Woodward and Bernstein would have been discredited as liberal biased reporters.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 05:03 PM) McCain is making the right move not changing his stance to mirror Obama's as to appease the NYT. He would be a fool to give in on this and he knows it. Honestly, this is a win for McCain, as the media digs itself deeper and deeper in a hole. They have been hemorrhaging credibility for a while now; from their front page tabloid story on McCain to insisting he be more like Obama in order for the paper to publish any retort in their paper, the NYT comes out as the loser. My understanding is the NYT wanted fresh material, not a rehash of the previous year, which makes sense. You are correct, any time the GOP can make it seem like the media is screwing them, it is a win. The underlying suspicion is anything negative about REPs is made up and there is vast amounts of great positive stories that the media is sitting on and not printing. Of course when they publish an article on Dems, the suspicion is the opposite. Vast amounts of negative stuff isn't being reported and the positive is made up. The GOP would be fools to really want any changes from the media. The GOP has managed the media far better than any organization in history.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 04:01 PM) What an asshole. This guy should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The nice thing is these guys remove themselves from the gene pool before they can reproduce.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 04:43 PM) If you can check in from time to time, please do so. Hopefully you have the batteries and the wireless card ready to go (those towers can take a beating unlike the land lines). I have internet via my cell phone and use it like a modem. I can also text message you. I'm starting to realize this is serious. When TV images start to get closer and closer to where you are it becomes real. Now the areas that were hit this morning are clearing up and what they had is coming here. The weather station about 1/2 mile from me is reporting sustained 40+ mph winds. My car port is trembling like Mike Tyson in a spelling bee.

LOL the border patrol busted a truck carrying 9,500 pounds of pot north. I guess they thought it would be a good time to make a run for it.

Holy Crap. We're about an hour or two from the really nasty stuff. Already we have sustained 40 mph winds and rain. The heavy bands are about 20 miles away and from what I'm seeing on the local news, this will be a nasty evening and night. Already we've been losing power from time to time.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man's dare went horribly wrong when he tried to play chicken with cars on a freeway wearing only his underwear. The 18 year old was critically injured after being hit by a four-wheel drive on a freeway in the southern city of Melbourne in the early hours of Wednesday, police said in a statement. "Police are dismayed at the utter stupidity of a man who decided to play chicken on the Tullamarine Freeway," the statement said. "It was lucky nobody was killed as a result and police couldn't believe anybody would be foolish enough to take such grave risks with their personal safety and that of other road users." The driver and passenger in the car were unhurt, though the vehicle was a write-off. (Reporting by Jonathan Standing; Editing by Valerie Lee) Gotta love those crazy Aussies

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 03:17 PM) How had the turtle nesting season been going down there this year? Pretty much every nest that hadn't hatched out by now is toast. We lost an enormous number of nests in a better than average nesting season with the 2004 and 2005 storms. We were invited to view the secret corral where they relocate the nests. Very cool. They dug one up that was hatching. Already this year more nests hatched then last year. Over 1,000 turtles have been released, so two or three may survive and reproduce.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 01:33 PM) I'm still waiting for the headlines praising the speculators for pushing the price of crude oil down about $23 in the last week and a half, not to mention the gasoline futures down almost 60 cents, heating oil down 60 cents, and natural gas down nearly 4.000 points or about 33%! Good news doesn't sell.

University of Texas - Pan American Broncs #268 ahead of powerhouse Northwestern

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 01:50 PM) I'd say that winning the NIT is more impressive than losing in the first round. In theory, the NIT winner would be the 66 ranked team in the nation. I think 2 versus 1 point seems fair.

Interesting that the most conservative of institutionns, the US military, would help out the Obama campaign like that. If someone wants their full, unedited, piece published, they should take out an ad. To appear outside an advertisement and in the editorial section, it can, and should, be edited. Now that may mean nothing is changed, or it is changed by the author, but to expect a newspaper to print something verbatim, is just not right.

The latest forecast is all hell to break loose about 7 PM tonight for me. I can feel it starting to pick up.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 12:32 PM) Now if 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind I don't mind. Sorry, 6 is 3

BTW, IIRC, after the last Gulf hurrican disrupted the oil and gas rigs, energy prices went through the roof.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 12:15 PM) 3. Just like 17 would be 9 Correct and nine is four and four is cosmic

The eye passed over an "uninhabited by human" area of South Padre Island. They are waiting to mark land fall until it hits the mainland. Looks like Arroyo City will be smacked soon.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 12:01 PM) You got it. When I use this as a group game, it is interesting which players just stop immediately and which players will continue to think about it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 11:53 AM) Do they consider the island "land"? Also is landfall when the eye touches land, or when the whole eye is over land? Local coverage now shows the western portion of the eye just touching the island just north of the developed part. It seems they are waiting to mark landfall when the majority of the eye crosses over land. Port Mansfield seems to be the place. I'n certain I would be crapping my pants, but now I wish I had grabbed a room and stayed.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 11:54 AM) Okay, what was going on in March, hmm, the most hotly contested democratic primary in 28 years And, I just don't understand. McCain's trip to South America was getting heavily covered because he made this huge narrative about the Colombian Free Trade bill that Obama opposed. It pretty much was the dominate issue here for a couple days. But then this area cares more about Central and South America then the rest of the country. And as I flipped through the spanish language coverage, McCain was huge.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 11:12 AM) Oh i just got it. Tricky tricky Then what would 2 be?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 11:33 AM) So it made landfall pretty much right at South Padre, but it looks like it is falling apart pretty quickly. They are not saying landfall yet. It seems to be paralleling off the coast and heading north. It may cross a unpopulated area or even Port Mansfield. From what I've seen on the local news, I have a huge mess at camp. I'm waiting for my power to go out. It is very dark here and very windy.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 05:51 AM) I don't consider the to be either liberal or conservative. When that happens, that news source probably very closely approximates your political views.

He doesn't want coverage, he wants to continue to rally against the media. It's been a conerstone of Republican politics for twenty years. And they have manged to keep it going inspite of the huge explosion in conservative talk radio and FOX news.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 11:26 AM) Well I guess that proves how much more the media follows Obama... Or that Democrates don't start screaming when McCain gets coverage.