Archive for October 22nd, 2011
Oct
22
Telephone Manners
Have you noticed that as dress codes eroded over the past few years, telephone manners have deteriorated as well? One of the telltale signs of rudeness is made by someone who does not respond after a reasonable length of time to a phone message awaiting a reply. This usually indicates how important or unimportant the recipient feels about the caller. This would rarely happen in a person-to-person meeting, which would be considered a snub. Bad form.
Another bad habit has developed (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
The FlatTax Fraud and the Necessity of a Truly Progressive Tax
Herman Cain’s bizarre 9-9-9 plan would replace much of the current tax code with a 9 percent individual income tax and a 9 percent sales tax. He calls it a “flat tax.”
Next week Rick Perry is set to announce his own version of a flat tax. Former House majority leader Dick Armey — now chairman of Freedom Works, a major backer of the Tea Party funded by the Koch Brothers and other portly felines (I didn’t say “fat cats”) — predicts this will give Perry “a big boost.” Steve Forbes, one of America’s richest billionaires, who’s on the board of the Freedom Works foundation, is delighted. He’s been pushing the flat tax for years.
The flat tax is a fraud (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
The 10 Scariest Real Places In America PHOTOS
With Halloween approaching, haunted houses, hotels, and other ghoulish locales are getting their fair share of attention. But when you think about it, there are plenty of locations many of us visit each year or even call home that are pretty darn terrifying.
Here is a bone-chilling list of 10 genuinely scary places (no ghost stories here) in the US that you may want to avoid.
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West Virgina was ranked at the bottom of Gallup Healthways Well Being Index, and for good reason it has the lowest scores in the country for life evaluation, physical health, and emotional health. A major concern in the region is the practice of mountain top removal for coal mining, which leads to contaminated water from coal slurry (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
Whether in Egypt or America It Takes Organization to Win
In 1981, my brother, John Zogby, ran for Mayor of Utica, New York. Like other factory towns across New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-Western states, Utica was in decline. The factories that had employed tens of thousands had closed and gone south. With the loss of these jobs, the city was in the beginning of a steep decline (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
Hillarys Bizarre Totentanz
“We came. We saw. He died.” Could there be a more grotesque scene? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is shown on camera cackling over the mob riot in Sirte that resulted in the death of longtime Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
West Virginia Mountaineers vs Syracuse Orange Recap October 21 2011 ESPN
Source:Associated Press
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Ryan Nassib threw three touchdown passes to tight end Nick Provo, Dorian Graham returned a kickoff 98 yards for another score, and Syracuse stunned No. 11 West Virginia 49-23 on Friday night with a spirited effort on both sides of the ball.Syracuse (5-2, 1-1 Big East) hadn’t beaten West Virginia (5-2, 1-1) in the Carrier Dome in a decade, and the Orange played a near flawless game to break the streak just as they did last year in a 19-14 upset of the Mountaineers in Morgantown. That victory stopped an eight-game losing streak to West Virginia, and this one was even more impressive.Syracuse hadn’t scored that many points in the series since a 45-0 win in 1960, and a Carrier Dome crowd of 45,265, the largest in three years, roared its approval with thunderous cheers as third-year head coach Doug Marrone enjoyed the most significant win of his brief tenure.The high-powered West Virginia offense led by Geno Smith was kept in check most of the game, only shining in fits and spurts.West Virginia entered the game averaging 40.8 points and 503.5 yards offensively and finished with 408 against the hard-hitting Syracuse defense.Smith was 24 of 41 for 338 yards and two touchdowns, and his interceptions came at critical junctures — the first at the Orange goal line and the second on the final play of the third quarter when the game was still within reach.Stedman Bailey had seven catches for 130 yards and one touchdown and Tavon Austin had six catches for 60 yards for West Virginia.Nassib was 24 of 32 for 229 yards and four touchdowns and no turnovers, also hitting David Stevens on a 29-yarder midway through the third quarter that gave Syracuse a 28-16 lead.Both teams, off last week, had plenty of time to game plan and Syracuse devised a winning formula.Smith entered the game ranked fifth nationally in passing yardage at 359.3 yards per game, nearly 26 yards more than the Orange as a team. On this night, a team that was averaging just 333.5 yards per game reeled off 443 against a highly touted defense.Undaunted, Syracuse built a 12-point halftime lead and when West Virginia tried to rally in the second half, Syracuse had an answer and then some.When Smith guided the Mountaineers 57 yards in 14 plays and Shawne Alston scored on a 1-yard run on the first possession of the third quarter, the Orange struck right back in just six plays.Nassib thwarted a blitz by hitting Van Chew for 6 yards on a third-and-5 play and then hit a wide-open Stevens along the left side inside the Mountaineers 10 for a 29-yard score.Provo caught a 10-yard scoring pass with 18 seconds left in the third and a 5-yarder early in the fourth after free safety Phillip Thomas intercepted Smith at the West Virginia 33.Syracuse entered the game with an important goal — keep the ball as long as possible — and the strategy worked as the Orange held possession for nearly 36 minutes, converting an impressive 12 of 17 third downs.West Virginia had only two possessions in the opening quarter while the Orange kept the ball for more than 6 minutes on their second possession and drove 84 yards for a touchdown and a 7-0 lead.Syracuse converted three third downs, tried a flea-flicker that didn’t work and an end around that did, and Graham’s catch and run for 27 yards gave the Orange a first-and-goal from the 7.Nassib finished the 14-play drive by hitting Provo in the back of the end zone with a 3-yard scoring pass after a pretty fake at the line to tailback Antwon Bailey.West Virginia moved within 7-3 on Tyler Bitancurt’s 27-yard field goal with 66 seconds left in the first quarter after a blitz by strong safety Shamarko Thomas forced Smith into an incompletion on third-and-goal from the 10.The Mountaineers never found any kind of rhythm, and it showed on the scoreboard. Smith left the field at halftime with 215 yards passing and his team trailing 21-9, a 64-yard touchdown pass to Bailey one of the few bright spots.Bailey made a brilliant juggling catch, beating double coverage along the left side at the Syracuse 30, but Bitancurt spoiled the celebration a little bit when he missed the extra point, his first botch of the season after hitting 30 in a row.It moved the Mountaineers within 14-9 and they seemed poised to take control. Then, just like that Syracuse dashed that hope when Graham returned the ensuing kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown.The Syracuse defense confounded Smith with an assortment of blitzes, batted down two of his passes, sacked him two straight times, and picked off one of his passes in the first half. And when Syracuse needed a break on offense deep in West Virginia territory, the Mountaineers obliged.After a wide-open Provo dropped a pass in the end zone, putting Syracuse in a third-and-7 hole from the 13, defensive end Bruce Irvin was called for a personal foul when he got tangled up with Syracuse offensive tackle Michael Hay and threw him to the ground. That gave the Orange a first down at the 6 and two plays later Nassib scored on a 1-yard keeper for a 14-3 lead with 10:13 left in the half.Smith hit Willie Milhouse for 43 yards to move the Mountaineers deep into Syracuse territory with time winding down in the opening half, but Jeremi Wilkes intercepted Smith’s third-down pass at the goal line.The win allowed the Orange to keep possession of the Ben Schwartzwalder Trophy. Schwartzwalder was born in West Virginia, played center for the Mountaineers, and remains the winningest coach in Syracuse history.
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Source:espn.go.com
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Oct
22
Occupy Colorado Movement Growing Exponentially
Future history books will refer to the Occupy Wall Street movement as an epic phenomenon. For now, many are still trying to understand the concept and how it pertains to Denver, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Greeley, Grand Junction, Aspen, Durango, Boulder and their own
local communities as well. A few days into the Occupy Wall Street movement, supporters from
all over Colorado began gathering in different online forums, from Facebook to Twitter, finally
emerging as a collective on Broadway and Colfax. Friday, Sept 23, was the first day of sign
holding by approximately 25 people, including many commuters (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
Gov Buddy Roemer Calls for Withdrawal From NAFTA WTO
I have detailed in previous articles my search for a Republican presidential candidate who is good on trade issues. The candidates range from the pro-China Huntsman, to the corrupt and nave Perry, to those who sound good but leave unclear where they really stand, like Cain, to those who leave doubt as to whether they would back up their nice words with deeds, like Romney.
But I have found one candidate whom I believe is genuinely serious about fixing America’s trade mess. He’s an undeniable long shot, as Herman Cain was until recently. But it’s not my aim here to handicap a horse race (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Passionately Calls On US to Stop Bloodshed by Legalizing Drugs
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox made a passionate and powerful call for an end to the war on drugs and called on the United States to legalize drugs to help reduce the violence in Mexico in an interview with BBC TV this week. Fox is critical of current Mexican President Calderon and the U.S. government’s counterproductive “drug control” strategy — and says they are responsible for the 50,000 prohibition-related deaths in Mexico in just the last five years.
Fox explains that the United States should learn from the history of alcohol prohibition and that the answer to today’s violence is to legalize drugs and treat them as a health issue, rather than a criminal issue (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
Welcome to My World
I’ve just finished reading the new eBook anthology Welcome to My World, a collection of 13 essays written by mothers about work/life balance. I contributed a piece called “Robot Moms in the Closet,” whereby I imagined a science fiction world where a mother could call upon various robot clones of herself to meet various needs at any given time. A few recurring themes weave themselves into the fabric of this book. They’re themes of complications that the march of progress can’t seem to erase, and their constancy speaks to the prevalence of these parenting issues (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
The Deaths of Dictators Neither History Nor Their People Will Never Absolve Them
Ceausescu was in his helicopter, Saddam Hussein was hiding in a hole, Tunisia’s Ben Ali fled into exile, Gaddafi fled in a convoy and ended up hiding in a drainpipe. The autocrats escape, they leave, they don’t sacrifice themselves in the palaces from which they dictated their arbitrary laws; they do not die seated in the presidential chairs with a red sash across their chests. They always have a hidden door, a secret passage through which they can scurry away when they sense danger. Over decades they build their secret bunkers, their protected “ground zeros” or their underground refuges, because they fear that the same people who applaud them in the plazas can come for them when they lose their fear (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
Friday Talking Points Foreign Policy Issues Reappear
It has been a big week on the foreign policy front, with the death of Libya’s dictator and President Obama’s announcement today that all U.S. troops would be out of Iraq by the end of this year (leaving roughly 150 to guard the embassy). But before we get to all of that, I’ve got some domestic advice for the president’s re-election team.
So, to the folks planning the “Obama 2012″ effort: Spend some money. Please, please, spend some money right now (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
The Tribute Flight What It Is And Why Im Doing It
Every now and then a person should inventory his good fortunes. It can be said, with great indisputability, that we as citizens of the United States are extremely fortunate to live in America. We are free people, and our freedom is bought and paid for by the tirelessness, the sacrifice and, all too often, the lives of the men and women in our armed forces.
My name is John Galloway. I’m an author, pilot, flight instructor and, most importantly, the Mission Commander for the Tribute Flight (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
A Call to Action on World Polio Day
In advance of World Polio Day (October 24), Bill discusses the historic opportunity to end polio.
World Polio Day is simultaneously a celebration and a call to action.
It’s a celebration because in the past 20 years, polio cases are down 99 percent, thanks to one of the most ambitious global health campaigns in history. Through a vast partnership, we’ve delivered polio drops to children in impossible circumstances — in active war zones, in remote mountainous regions that are unreachable for months at a time. It’s a great achievement.
But World Polio Day is also a call to action because we haven’t done enough yet. Polio is still paralyzing children (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
The Benefits of SelfGovernance on the College Campus Empowering Students to Govern Themselves
College students are generally not fans of rules and regulations. Despite this, college administrators are faced with establishing more policies, restrictions and Codes of Conduct — all in a time of increasing concerns with liability, litigation, and in some cases intrusive forms of campus policing and enforcement.
Grinnell College has taken a very different — and successful — approach, building community with principles of self-governance. This approach means that students agree to self-regulate their actions in order to maintain a healthy and safe community (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
The Amazing Race The Buddy System
Last week’s episode of The Amazing Race was quite inspiring and insightful. Couples were not only working well with each other, a few were even pairing up with other couples. Even the now infamous fighting and bickering couple, Justin and Jennifer, showed a glimpse of a partnership. As we watched teams that had decided to pair up with one another, it became rather clear the power of the buddy system (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
A Job for Every Veteran Lets Give Them the Homecoming They Really Deserve
People around the world breathed a sigh of relief today as President Obama announced that he would keep his campaign commitment to wind down the war in Iraq. And families across our country are overjoyed that they will have their loved ones home for the holidays.
Unfortunately for many of our brave veterans, they won’t be getting the sort of homecoming they’ve earned. More than 11% of veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are unemployed (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
How Hillary Clinton Can Create 13 Million Jobs at Zero Cost To Taxpayers
Despite our desperate need for jobs, 16 million unemployed, the U.S. is ignoring a surefire way to create 1.3 million good, no-cost jobs and add $390 billion to U.S. exports in the next decade.
The world travel market grew by 60 million annual visitors in the last decade — a virtual worldwide gold rush — but the U.S (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
Body Image After 50 The Slip Up
The last time I bought a slip I was 36 years old. It’s been carefully preserved in a lingerie bag in a drawer that hasn’t been opened for nearly a decade. I had high hopes the old slip would provide a graceful measure of distance between my now 51-year-old body and the new dress I just bought to wear to a family wedding. One glance at its yellowed lace and I knew that time had not only marched on for both of us, but one of us had to go.
What happened to women’s undergarments while I was away? Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is my inspiration (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
And the Band Plays On
Back at the start of (RED), I used to refer to our team, our partners, and our growing cadre of inspired consumers as “a crazy band of fearless warriors” for believing that simple items like t-shirts and iPods could help eliminate AIDS in Africa. (RED) has since raised roughly $175 million for women and children impacted by HIV/AIDS in Zambia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Ghana, and Rwanda.
Sometimes crazy and fearless is the only way to move the needle when the status quo is unacceptable. I first learned this lesson some dozen years ago, as part of another band of warriors for Africa — a rag tag coalition fighting for passage of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
Another Follies
In February of 1971 Harold Prince produced and directed a musical with score by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Goldman. It received largely mixed to negative reviews, limped along for over a year and lost $685,000 of its $800,000 capitalization.
Who could imagine that, 40 years later, that show would be playing in three major American cities? The show, of course is “Follies,” which was revived at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. last June. With solid reviews and a marvelous cast it is enjoying an extended run at the Marquis Theater in New York (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
Bondage Banjos and Deepak Chopra How to Fight Evil in San Franscisco
Coming from the dark corners of every city, suburb and farm town lies a super-villain waiting to claim its next victim. The entire globe is in danger as he plots his next move for diabolical worldwide control. No person is entirely safe. He has his eyes fixed on your every move and knows exactly when to strike (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
Education Nation or Education Corporation
Once again this past few weeks, the ongoing education debate in the United States occupied the headlines, bylines and cable news scrolls. NBC launched its second annual “Education Nation Summit,” billed as a way “to engage the country in a solutions — focused conversation about the state of education in America.”
Meanwhile, President Obama, approaching warp speed on the campaign trail to try to convince us he’s actually the transformational guy from 2008 — as opposed to the chary chap we’ve found running our country since — made a fresh pitch in his weekly radio address for his version of education reform. Obama tied it to the economic future of our country, and discussed waivers to allow states to opt out of provisions of his predecessor’s much-maligned legislation, the No Child Left Behind Act.
Of course, the problem is that we’re not having an honest conversation about education in the U.S. because many of the broader trends degrading our overall political culture are also at work with this issue (continue reading…)
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Oct
22
Common Sense Policy
The financial pillaging of our nation’s economy is having a galvanizing effect. There is a rising chorus of people who see lack of accountability from top to bottom for what it is. When the very people who knew what they were doing, and did it anyway — prompting the massive housing and banking crisis — are rewarded in the end for their miscalculations, sooner or later there is going to be action. Trillions of dollars in bail-out funds and loan guarantees were funneled into the hands of those found robbing the cookie jar (continue reading…)
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