With 0% of precincts reporting, CNN has just called Georgia for Barack Obama, 66% – 29%.
Straight talk from both sides of his mouth. “I come from a border state where we know about building walls ….” The evidence is pretty striking. Heh.
Well I guess this was inevitable – a bunch of pirates at a local club sang a dirge about John Edwards’ quitting his presidential run. (A buddy captured the audio.)
A man as attractive as Edwards can’t exactly pull his hat out of the ring without leaving some serious scars. He was a pretty man, but a fierce competitor, and apparently he could run with the big dogs. I’m sure this is the first of many ….
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There is a beautiful, almost poetic sort of symmetry to this which I’m betting was completely lost on Bob Dole:
Bob Dole, the former Senate Republican leader, wrote an insistent letter to Rush Limbaugh on Monday and suggested that for the good of the party, the conservative talk-show host should stop his strafing of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)…
I’m not “live blogging” this because live blogging something you want to enjoy really sucks the enjoyment out of it. Sort of like live blogging sex, which I can tell you does not work, chiefly because of ergonomic reasons.
But I will say, this is shaping up as one of the most interesting Super Bowls in a long time, certainly since my Cowboys have been involved. We’ve been through three quarters of basically a chess match, and now it is balls to the wall mode. Genius has nothing to do with it – it is going to be a matter of which set of guys is the scrappiest.
The next 10 minutes will be down to who is better at sandlot football. You have to love the Giants – they have been kicking ass and eating glass since before the regular season ended. Good stuff.
UPDATE: I liked the shot of Jeremy Shockey in the luxury box – it looked like he had a Corona and a margarita in front of him. Sounds about right.
UPDATE II: New England takes the lead with less than 3 minutes left. Oh yes, this is going to be sandlot at its best. It’s up to you now, Eli. One more possession, one more shot. Need to march down the entire field. And the first two plays in this last Giants drive were tepid at best.
UPDATE III: GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLL! GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLL! GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLL! Minutes to go and NY is ahead. Oh my Eli has established himself as one of the greats and this entire Giants team is one for the history books. They just knocked off the Goliath. HAH! Tom Brady has 30 seconds to come back. I say, the way the Gints defense has played – NO WAY. They will be motivated.
UPDATE IV: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! Tom Coughlin, the perpetually outraged one, really deserved this. Oh goodness, this was one great football game. Congrats to the Giants players and fans. This is one of the best championship victories ever.
I bet Tiki wishes he’d hung around for one more season.
UPDATE V: Someone more eloquent than I should write the story of this Giants team, because it was pretty amazing for these guys to win the number of games they won on the road, and then to march through the playoffs with a depleted roster – again, on the road – and plow over the underachieving, prima donna Cowboys who spent their New Years week in Cancun while the Giants were eating glass and laying it all on the line. You could not have a starker example of a team that won against all conventional wisdom and all odds. I can’t wait to see the movie.
In an important new article by Lee Cary, statistics compiled by the U.S. Dept of Labor, Bear Sterns and the Pew Hispanic Center clearly demonstrate that the flood of illegal aliens into the U.S. has negatively impacted legal workers at the lower end of the pay scale – notably, native born Hispanics and African-Americans:
The wide array of statistics available from government and private sector sources leads to this conclusion: Unemployment disproportionately hits unskilled, uneducated blacks and native-born Hispanics. Why? It is simple, business economics: (1) In the unskilled labor market, legal workers offer no greater productivity than comparable illegal ones; (2) legal hiring requires employers to conform to U.S. law; and (3) citizen new hires often expect benefits. In short, more illegal workers cost employers less.
The flood of undocumented workers into the U.S. labor market is a grand national social-engineering project undertaken with the tacit approval of both major political parties.
As Cary says, this phenomenon which has been assiduously covered up by government at all levels and mainstream media outlets is nonetheless readily apparent to anyone living in one of the areas hardest hit by illegals – the “elephant in the room.”
It would be an utter disaster for the illegal alien political apologists, corporate and other corrupt business interests, and most significantly the racist advocacy groups if the general public were to see the hard evidence that, yes, illegal aliens are a net economic detriment to the legal residents of the U.S. The entire faux-moral superiority posture of the illegals’ defenders would be revealed as a sham.
The Washington Post reports that the White House is pushing to “bar schools from billing Medicaid for busing special education students to and from school, and for certain administrative expenses, including enrolling children in Medicaid and coordinating and scheduling services.”
Of course, the states are upset that they will have to raise taxes to keep the same services. Well, duh! Where do they think the feds get the money? Except with the feds, it has to go through the labyrinth of the Infernal Revenue Service, and then the reimbursement has to go through the labyrinth of Medicaid. So by reverting to state control — federalism — as per the Constitution, we save money all around.
