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| As you all know, the All Star game is tonight. And while the American League will most assuredly win, it's just a matter of by how much, and who will get to play. The game takes place in Yankees Stadium, this being its last year in use.
Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon seems to think it will be his job to finish the game, and not up to Yankee's closer Mariano Rivera.
"We've both earned that right; us, by winning the World Series and
having the opportunity of having our manager there and our team being
represented, and Mariano by what he's done for this role, we're in
Yankee Stadium and blah, blah, blah," Papelbon said. "It's not that
easy. Everybody thinks it's a cut and dry answer, but it's not." "If I was managing the team, I would close," Papelbon said. "I'm not managing the team, so it don't matter." You've, ahem, "earned it"? By winning the World Series, I see. In his defense, Papelbon has played in a World Series, and won. Mariano Rivera has played in six, the Yankees winning four of those. Mariano also has ten more years experience than Papelbon, and Rivera's stats are much better than Papelbon's this year. So, why have you earned it? Papelbon, if you take Rivera's spot tonight, the booing and hissing in Yankees Stadium will likely blow your ear drums. The only people who will like it will be the bandwagon Red Sox fans who don't even know who you are.
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| I stumbled across this list when I was looking for who he was really considering. I thought it was pretty funny.
I love his critique of John Edwards.
If you really want to know who he's considering, or who to keep an eye on, I found this article very useful.
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| Just for fun (with no hidden motives...really):
STEP 1
Read the following quotes by a certain individual running for public office. Put a mental "red flag" next to any quote that has or in some way indicates any of the following:
a) an error in logic
b) an uninformed opinion
c) an obvious over-generalization
d) a mentality that would scare you or offend you if you lived in a country outside the U.S.
e) an opinion that might indicate any religious group is "towing a party line."
f) a statement that most of his supporters probably overlook just because of his party
STEP 2
Tally up the flags, and leave your total as a comment.
“They’ll know that I’m a practicing Christian. They’ll know that my
grandfather fought in World War II and I was raised to love America.”
"I'm glad to have his endorsement. I condemn remarks that are, in any way, viewed as anti-anything. And thanks for asking." --After being asked if he was glad to have the endorsement from Rev. John Hagee
"It's not social issues I care about."
“Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.”
"Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be. We've
wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives."
--on the Iraq war
"Make it a hundred...That would be fine with me." -to a questioner who
asked if he supported President Bush's vision for keeping U.S. troops
in Iraq for 50 years
"Do
not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and
fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender.
They will."
"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got [Alan] Greenspan's book."
"You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."
"Certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not
support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women
in America to undergo illegal and dangerous operations." -8/24/99, and
repeated three other times during the campaign
"I would rather have a clean government than one where 'First
Amendment rights' are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had
my choice, I'd rather have the clean government."
“Just stop at one of these construction sites and
look and see who those workers are. They're all Hispanic, ... And I bet
you they're illegal.”
“The bridge in Minneaplois didn’t collapse because there wasn’t enough
money. The bridge in Minneapolis collapsed because so much money was spent on
wasteful, unnecessary pork-barrel projects.”
PS: ALL these we stated by the same person: Sen. John Sidney McCain.
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| I recently cracked open a book for one of my classes that I really hate. I'm pretty sure the prof breaks all of his own rules for teaching (don't test over material you don't cover, make your exams reasonable, avoid "playing games" with grades, etc). He decided to give us a final on a book that was never really mentioned in class. But anyways, I opened the textbook for the first time in February once to look at a diagram. I opened it a second time yesterday. Here's a passage from the book to illustrate my point of its usefulness: "Tied to the theoretical position of "cognitive-experimentalism" (including constructivism) is the assumption that the learner is a neutral-interactive, purposive individual in simultaneous interaction with physical and biological environments. The main focus of teaching should be the learner's gain and construction of new perceptions...[note: a person with a fully functioning self can be described only in terms of ideal behavior.]"
- Kellough, R.D., Kellough, N.G. Secondary school teaching. (2007) The worst part of this book is not the terribly long run-on sentences, the countless errors, the blatanly ambiguous language, or the fact that all the pages are perfurated and tear out easily. I'd say the worst part of this book is the use of only text with no helpful diagrams, data, or color. It also has two-column text, so it takes you twice as long to read each page, and you feel like it should be the Bible (except not inspired, coherent, or enjoyable.) If this book were a person, we would not be friends. | | |
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