Fight for the Cure

Riggo DNA

John Riggins is the man. He just put a half eaten apple up for sale, on ebay. As crazy as it sound, it is for charity and as of this posting the bid is up to $340.00. He even hopes someone makes a clone of him. Here is the description:

Hall of Famer John Riggins Authentic Half-Eaten Apple!!!!!!!
That's right fellas...you can own some of the Diesel's DNA. He's a Kansas State High School Track Champion, a Super Bowl MVP, and of course...a NFL Hall of Famer!
I mean this is an apple that John Riggins ate half of...John Riggins...the man who owns the most famous Super Bowl Moment of all time!!! Imagine the possibilities!...You can use this 1/2 man 1/2 beast's DNA to create a clone. We're talking mega millions in today's NFL!
We have plenty of pictures below to prove that Riggo did indeed take a couple of man-sized bites out of this apple during his radio show on 730AM, 92.7 FM, and 94.3 FM on Wednesday, June25th(MASN also has video). And...as you can see...the apple is being preserved in an air-tight bag...or close to an air-tight bag!
All proceeds go to the John Riggins Foundation that helps our service men and women!

The Old Dog Is Learning New Tricks

Come here son; let me show you how to throw a curve ball.

Modern Maturity?

By Michael Hirsh - Newsweek
June 26, 2008

John McCain, it is generally agreed, has something of an age problem. It's not just that he'd be the oldest president ever inaugurated for the first time. McCain's criticisms of Barack Obama sometimes draw on events and cultural references that many Americans only dimly recall—the movie "Dr. No" (the first James Bond flick, from 1962), or Jimmy Carter's windfall tax from 30 years ago. Every time McCain has a moment of forgetfulness, the skeptics start whispering again—reminding one that, as a Pew Research Survey showed last year, "ageism" may be a bigger factor in the election than racism.

But now, in a neat bit of campaign jiujitsu, the McCainiacs are trying to change a liability into a strength. McCain's 71 years have given him not only vastly more experience than Obama, the new thinking goes, they have ensured that America will have, once again, an "adult" president in the mold of an Eisenhower or a Truman. And there is no better evidence than McCain's energy plan, which the candidate has laid out in a very, er, energetic series of appearances and speeches over the last week. "We wanted it to be a grown-up vision," said Mark Salter, McCain's chief speechwriter and alter ego, who in a Newsweek interview reiterated several times that McCain's approach is that of an "adult." This evidence of mature judgment specifically includes McCain's decision to reverse himself—grown-ups adjust, after all, to changed circumstances—by calling for offshore oil drilling. "We wanted to show that McCain would view the presidency as a problem solver—a bipartisan problem solver," says Salter.

The McCain energy plan has left the Obama-ites sputtering that their candidate laid out a comprehensive energy plan last October. "You have it exactly backward!" Jason Furman, an advisor to Obama on energy, told me when I suggested that Obama was on the defensive. "John McCain is responding to Barack Obama, who has put forward a major and ambitious plan on energy.'' Frankly, however, no one really cares what Obama said last October. And there's no question that McCain's flurry of concrete proposals—including a call for 45 more nuclear power plants, a $300 million prize to the designer of a new electric car battery, overturning the 27-year ban on offshore drilling and a $5,000 tax credit for people who buy "zero-emissions" cars—prompted Obama to spend most of his own energy speech this week knocking those ideas down. That in turn generated a GOP Web video declaring that "Obama is Dr. No," complete with a Bond-like theme song.

Something of a role-reversal is going on here. Most pundits think Obama's had the advantage so far in offering a "vision" and in taking the offensive. Now it's McCain who has laid out a clear—if questionably feasible—energy vision for the future, while the Obama-ites are still rushing to put together a comprehensive paper gathering all his ideas on the current gas crisis and the long-term energy crisis. Compare: McCain, in a speech on Wednesday (his fifth), launched his so-called Lexington Project—"named for the town where Americans asserted their independence once before." "Let it begin today with this commitment: In a world of hostile and unstable suppliers of oil, this nation will achieve strategic independence by 2025," he said. What does "strategic independence" mean? It's not quite clear. But the phrase sounds pretty good, and rather more inspiring than Obama's narrower proposal to "reduce our dependence on foreign oil and reduce oil consumption overall by at least 35 percent, or 10 million barrels, by 2030," or to "reduce the energy intensity of our economy by 50 percent" by the same year. True, Obama has called for an investment of $150 billion over 10 years, dwarfing McCain's incentive plan, as Furman points out. But he hasn't spelled out how that would be used.

Like McCain's embrace of global warming as a national-security issue, his new stance on energy is a studied repudiation of the Bush administration. It is one of the ways he is seeking to neutralize Obama's relentless efforts to define a McCain presidency as a "third Bush term." "Some in Washington seem to think that we can still persuade OPEC to lower prices—as if reason or cajolery had never been tried before," McCain said mockingly in another speech this week. "But America is not going to meet this great challenge as a supplicant or a plaintiff." He was, of course, mocking Bush himself—who twice in the last six months has gone to Riyadh pleading for more oil production.

And, while no one's quite saying this, McCain's new "grown-up" theme may be a put-down of Bush as well. It is a way of reminding voters that, while the antic Prince Hal never quite matured into King Henry V—and could never control the infighting between ideologues and realists in his administration—John McCain is already a well-rounded man in full, with a set program.

Neither of the two candidates, by his own admission, knows how to dramatically reverse the most immediate problem on Americans' minds: $4.50-a-gallon gasoline. But acknowledging that is also an act of adulthood, Salter says. "There are very few things—and every grown-up recognizes it—you can do today to lower prices," he says, adding that halting additions to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve or perhaps lifting tariffs on ethanol might help. (Obama, for his part, has resorted to offering a tax rebate that has nothing to do with altering the economics of energy; he has also called for more regulation of oil speculators.) The latest polls show McCain well behind, but his campaign believes it has found its footing now, Salter says. The candidate is well-aged. The question is, will voters see him as in his prime?

This Buds for Who?

European InBev Targets American Anheuser-Busch

Why would InBev want Anheuser-Busch, other than for the marketing engine that it is? The beers suck, as do most American lagers, ales and pilsners (with the exception of micro brews) and couldn't possibly sell well in Europe, where the best beers in the world are made.

The maker of Bass Ale, Stella Artois and other very good European brews believe that it will not only benefit InBev but it will benefit Anheuser-Busch as well. InBev chief Carlos Brito who proposed the $46 billion takeover of Anheuser-Busch foresees higher profits for InBev in part by helping his company sell Budweiser in French bistros, German beer gardens, Chinese nightclubs and similar spots around the globe. "We have operations in 130 countries ... and that would be a great platform to develop that brand."

This picture says it all

I can't see any Anheuser-Busch products fitting in with European brands, at all.

They will like the marketing though.

One of my favorite posters from college

Doesn't Europe already have a Budweiser, of their own, made in the Czech Republic?

George Carlin Passes Away at 71

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits

Incredible

I saw the Incredible Hulk today and it was awesome. Marvel should re-boot the Fantastic Four and Daredevil next. This movie was just as good as Iron Man and I can't wait for the next Marvel film.

The picture paid a tremendous amount of respect to the TV series. in one scene, Edward Norton as Bruce Banner is watching the Courtship of Eddie's Father with Bill Bixby and later Lou Ferrigno has an actual speaking cameo. There is a college reporter named Jack McGee. Even the experiment that turns Banner into the Hulk is reminiscent of the TV show. The best though was a small scene when Banner is down on his luck and the old piano theme from the show starts playing in the background.

The action was fantastic with some great chase scenes and tremendous fight scenes. It was gritty, violent and loud. The humor was subtle and genuine and the characters were all well written. The cast made the film though.

Norton is great as Banner, Tim Roth's character is just like a Wolverine wannabe; and then he gets powers that turn him into Abomination; very cool. William Hurt plays General "Thunderbolt" Ross as if it were created for him. If there is any disappointment it's with Liv Tyler. She was not as dynamic as the rest of the cast. I think they should have brought back Jennifer Connolly, from the first film. She was the only thing good about it.

Anyway, I'm very happy with the flick and I bet you will be too. I can't wait for the Avengers film the are setting up. Nuff said.

Avengers Assemble

Don't make me angry; You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Giant Feet

Coast to Coast w/ George "Forrest Gump" Martin

George Martin was a co-captain of the 1987 Super Bowl champion, New York Giants. The Giants crushed John Elway and the Denver Broncos 39-20, if you don't remember. Not quite the lopsided victory the Redskins had over the Horse faced lead team a year later in 1988, 42-10, but still memorable.

I digress...

Anyway, Martin played 14 seasons in the NFL and also became head of the NFL Players Association. He is currently an executive at the financial services firm AXA Equitable, however, until today he has been on leave for 9 months.

Martin, completed a 9 month trek across country today. He started his long "walk about", a total 3003 miles across 13 states, on September 16. The reason; to bring attention to the plight of 9/11 rescue and recovery workers who developed respiratory problems, after working in the dusty ruins of the World Trade Center.

The trip began on the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan to Hackensack, N.J., on his way to a halftime appearance at Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands. Martin walked south to Tennessee, west through Texas and across the high plains and desert to California.

Martin, who is 6'5" and 55 years old, walked through brutal weather that included rain, ice and extreme heat, and the trip took five months longer than expected. He lost 40 lbs. and went through 24 pairs of shoes and 80 pairs of socks over this journey. He collected $2 million dollars in cash donations, however, that will be matched dollar to dollar in medical services from Hackensack University Medical Center, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health Systems and Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan.

Along the way, Martin talked to several congressmen about securing funding for 9/11 health care programs and visited schools, firehouses and police stations. He averaged about 22 miles a day and only took 1 side journey in February; Phoenix AZ for the Superbowl to watch his Giants beat the New England Patriots.

That's one Giant that I have to admire. Great job George.

Congratulations to the Boston Celtics

For Winning the 2008 NBA Championship

OH YEAH! and to Tiger for winning the US Open

It may have to do for a while

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Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.

Below are 3 videos from Newt Gingrich and AmericanSolutions.com that outline a plan to improve our economy, improve our environment, improve national security and better our children's future by allowing them to afford one.

I think Gingrich is on to something and really needs to be heard. He encourages the nation to change laws forbidding us to be dependant on our own resources. He encourages us to let our Congressmen know that we want to drill for our own oil and develop our own resources and alternative power sources and let foreign dictators and the Saudis be dammed, with their strong hold on our economy.

I like this course of action especially since it is not a plan to keep using fossil fuel long term but an idea to shore up our economy now so that we can invest in the necessary alternatives for our future and most importantly our children's future.

Gingrich encourages that we give less money to bureaucrats and more money to entrepreneurs that are working on alternative fuel solutions. He also says that we need to do away with the red tape politics and develop more energy production and the only way to do that is to let our Congressmen know what we think, in record numbers. He says, "let them know that you want a chance to have more energy now, ...cleaner energy over time, ...programs that are good for the economy and good for the environment and good for national security."

Anyway, whatever you think about this solution, you have to admit its better than the status quot.

Vote no for Warner/Liberman.

Happy Fathers Day

More from Tim Russert...

Tim Russert Passes Away

Tim Russert was knowledgeable, inquisitive, respectful and respected, serious, jovial, personable and real. He was one of the most informed men who's job it is to know politics and he shared his knowledge with us.

Tim Russert was quite simply one of my favorite journalists and I will miss seeing him on Sunday mornings.

Happy Friday the 13th

Ah ah ah ah chi chi chi chi...

Boy Scouts Triumph Over Tragedy

"Be Prepared"

Say what you will about state of The Boy Scouts of America these days but the tornado that touchdown directly on a group of Scouts, in Iowa yesterday, left tragedy and an indelible reminder about what the organization is really about.

The tragedy of seeing four of your young friends die in front of you by such a horrific force of nature known as an "Act of God" would leave many youths shocked and incapacitated. For the 93 Scouts gathered for a week long leadership training session it became a call to action.

As they waited for rescuers to literally cut their way through a mile of felled trees the able Scouts formed triage areas to provide First Aid to their fellow injured friends. They dug them out of debris and rubble, mended wounds and comforted them until they could be seen by professional first responders and transported to hospitals where many are in intensive care. Ironically, the day before, these same Scouts had gone through a mock scenario of a tragedy and learned how to do this.

Say what you will about The Boy Scouts of America these days but it's still about building leaders with character and instilling them with bravery and preparedness.

Say It Ain't So, JO

What a class the Pro Football Hall of Fame will have, in 2013. First Brett Favre retires followed by Warren Sapp, Michael Strahan and now Jonathan Ogden. All will be 1st ballot selections in five years. Steve McNair is a maybe on the first ballot but probably not with Farve; and maybeeeee (keeeeep stretching though) Jason Taylor but the jury is still out as to his worthiness much less being a 1st ballot selection.

Jonathan Ogden, who played his college ball at UCLA, was the 1st selection ever by the Baltimore Ravens in the 1996 draft. JO, probably could have picked any university he wanted in the Ivy League he's that smart, is arguably the best Left Tackle to have ever played the game as he redefined the position.

The 11 time Pro Bowl selection and Super Bowl Champion was bigger, faster, more athletic and more intelligent than anyone before or during his carrier. He was quite literally a "Shut Down Left Tackle", the most important position on the offensive line.

At 6' 9" 345 lbs. Ogden made opponents scared and made Running Backs and Quarterbacks feel delighted to have him. Jamal Lewis ran for the 2nd best ever season, as a Running Back, in NFL history. He made Trent Dilfer look good; so good, he Quarterbacked a Super Bowl winning team.

It's too bad that JO doesn't have a couple more seasons in him. It would have been interesting to see him play in John Harbaugh's system, before he retired. The bitter sweet part of it all is that he won't be walking out with Ray Lewis. Ray and JO were both drafted in the 1st round of 1996. Both men are as respected and touted as possibly the best to have played their positions and both are in the twilight of their carriers.

Perhaps Ogden, being the 1st ever pick by the Baltimore Ravens, should definitively be the first ever Raven selected to the Hall of Fame. That won't be bitter.

Conversion Error

Yet another well planned idea using tax payer dollars

Trying to redeem coupons for DTV converter boxes has hit a major snag. Retailers are running out of the boxes and long waiting lists are forming.

The big problem is that the $1.5 billion dollar program that the government has put into place to give each household two $40 coupons towards two conversion boxes has an expiration date that is fast approaching and in some cases has already passed. Why would they put such an early expiration date on something that needs to be replaced in February of next year?

So far only 42% of the 840,000 coupons have been redeemed. Unless the government changes current rules prohibiting households from reapplying for new vouchers, people will have to pony up the full cost of the boxes, currently costing between $60-70 on average. It is unsure if there is enough money left in the program to fund such a measure.

Congratulations Ken Griffey Jr. for Joining MLB's 600 Home Run Club

Spike Lee Better Watch...

...Who He's Picking On

Hey Spike! Not everything is Black and White.

Spike Lee recently shot off his mouth against Clint Eastwood for not portraying black soldiers in his two war epics, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima".

Eastwood shot back "A guy like him should shut his face." Eastwood explained that he studied Iwo Jima and says a small detachment of black troops were there as a part of a munitions company, "but they didn't raise the flag. The story is 'Flags of Our Fathers,' the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn't do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people'd go, 'This guy's lost his mind.' I mean, it's not accurate."

Lee replied "First of all, the man is not my father and we're not on a plantation either," "He's a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn't personally attack him. And a comment like 'a guy like that should shut his face' -- come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there." He also said he will take "the Obama high road and end the feud right here."

Spike! YOU started the feud. You did attack him and his integrity too. You also are not his father and what does a plantation have to do with anything? Is everything about race with you? You've gotta "Do the Right Thing" and own up to this mistake better than that.

Apologize. Otherwise, you're just a bitter ass who is trying to drum up any kind of publicity he can get for his own war film and now plug Obama as well.

Pathetic!

Oh Good Grief, Big Brown

Happy National Doughnut Day (D-Day)

Mmmmmmmmm...

Yesterday, my good friend W (not that one) expressed that it was not fair to put his picture on the Blog if I did not put my true likeness on either.

I thought about this and decided W (not that one) was right (not that one either).

Rather than showing you photos of me, I have decided to give W (not that one) an Avatar. You all might say, 'This is a very familiar picture'. It is, as I found it online but it is one that both expresses his desire to stay anonymous by donning a fake mustache and one that shows his thought process too; in a box.

What better time is there to unveil this Avatar than on National Doughnut Day?

Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado...

W (not that one)

It's On!

McCain Vs. Obama

Rumor has it...

...that Willie Jeff Clinton is at it again, with the ladies. He is now allegedly having an affair with screen and television B list star, Gina Gershon. They both deny any affair but Clinton insiders are the source.

Senator Barack Obama to Claim Democratic Nomination

Once we're in the White House, we could

visit all of your husband's old favorite spots.

Senator Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton Jr.

Open to Being Vice President?

What will he do?

What will they do?

What will you do?

Yet Another Legend Passes Away

It is not a good two weeks for our older celebrities. Today, Blues legend Bo Diddley passed away; he was 79.

The last year was not a good one for Bo as he suffered a stroke and a couple of heart attacks. It was a heart attack that finally killed the singer and guitar hero.

Bo Diddley was a pioneer and founding father of Rock and Roll. He was also an inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a Life Time Achievement Award recipient for the Grammys.

I had the pleasure of seeing Bo Diddley play a small venue concert in Baltimore in the late 90's. He was awesome.

Closing Out the Tri-fecta...

...Legendary Designer Yves Saint Laurent Dies, at 71

Yves Saint Laurent, who died today of a long illness, was probably the most influential and enduring designer of the 20th century. Saint Laurent created classic styles that remain stylish decades later and are worn by most of the Hollywood elite.

In 1954, at the age of 18, Saint Laurent enrolled at the Chambre Syndicale school of haute couture where he was a student all of three months before he was introduced to Christian Dior.

Dior, the most renowned designer of that period, was so impressed with Saint Laurent's talent that he hired him at once. In 1957 Dior died suddenly and Saint Laurent was named head of the 'House of Dior'; he was 21.

Only a few years later, during a brief stint in the military when he was drafted in 1960, Saint Laurent suffered his first bout with depression. He would be haunted by depression for the rest of his carrier and life.

Despite this condition, he went on to revolutionize men's and especially women's fashion.

Yves Saint Laurent: "fashion was not only supposed to make women beautiful, but to reassure them, to give them confidence, to allow them to come to terms with themselves."