| Wisconsin Sports Spectacular
Giants game was going to available on both NBC and CBS through an AP article, I thought go figure. But then I read another article that said that congress threatened them with anti trust laws, that pissed me off. When fans in Massachusetts and New York cry foul, congress gets involved. Apparently, those 2 states have more electoral votes than Texas and Wisconsin because we couldn't even get it STATEWIDE!! Here's the other thing...Congress isn't even in session right now!! Why didn't our Senators and Congresspeople think of this? Sen. Kohl sure isn't worried about the Bucks, so what is on his mind? Why didn't FOX want in on this? Are they showing a re-run of Kitchen Nightmares or some other reality show with big boobed blonde contestants? I'm already tired of the Patriots. They have their own column on the ESPN tickers with stupid little stats about their season.
Stemming the tide
Since 1999, there has been progress, but not enough. Most notably, overdose deaths in 2006 were 14 percent higher than in 2005, increasing from 214 to 244. Although preliminary figures for 2007 indicate another decrease, the city's health commissioner, Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein, is right to say that Baltimore has "a long way to go," since overdose deaths have exceeded homicides in six of the 12 years examined in the study. .
Laughing matters
Success, in this world, was narrowly defined; club owners paid their performers little, and even the most beloved comics scraped by with part-time jobs and savings until Vegas or "The Tonight Show" came calling. Comedy had become a discipline, a ritual you applied yourself to, day in and day out, until you attained perfection. Sometimes the discipline could be unnerving. Paul Reiser, then a very green performer, remembers that "sometimes onstage, you'd forget. You'd be doing a bit and it would feel familiar. And you'd say, Is it familiar because I did it an hour ago at the other club? Or did I just say this a minute ago?" .
Trial set to start in death of senior
More than 2½ years after the incident, the case against Calla-han remains on the books, in part because Callahan left the state after he posted $100,000 bail in July 2006. Authorities found him in a motel in Reno months later. On March 27, 2007, Callahan was back in Stanislaus County jail, where he is held in lieu of $250,000 bail. Callahan, 46, is charged with vehicular manslaughter and failing to appear in court, both felonies, as well as use of methamphetamine and giving false identification to authorities, both misdemeanors. Vehicular manslaughter convictions often result in sen- tences of less than one year in jail. Callahan could get a stiffer punishment if prior convictions for assault with a deadly weapon and corporal punishment are considered.
POST A MESSAGE
Growing ever bolder in their naked grab for power they are leaving scorched earth behind those who disagree with them. This is why Dick Gephardt, Joe Lieberman, and Zell Miller no longer find themselves included in the modern Democratic Party. What is left over for the Democrats are wildly anti-American, anti-God, and anti-biblical leftists who are now bragging about their use of brute force to crush the voices of those who disagree with them. Perhaps that's why this week in one of the boldest moves yet by a sitting liberal, Democrat Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez proclaimed, "The real purpose of SB 1437 is to outlaw traditional perspectives on marriage and family in the state school system." He continued, "The way you correct a wrong (perspective) is by outlawing.'Cause if you don't outlaw it, then people's biases tend to take over and dominate the perspective and the point of view." Nunez's solution to the people he disagrees with is to outlaw their ability to disagree with him.
Gas-burning C300 a real barnburner
Nice touches include the multimedia package with a 7-inch screen that pops up from the dash for the navi map and radio station settings. It uses voice activation or Comand control dial in the center console to activate the $2,950 option.
Unlike the BMW iDrive that puzzles PhDs, the only skill needed to master Comand control is the ability to turn a dial left or right. Much easier than even pushing the voice-activation control and uttering "next station." The radio will move from 670 to 780 on the AM dial in a few seconds after pausing at every station between. So why not just grab the dial and turn from 670 to 780 in a second?
Besides this, no option is cheap: $650 for Tele Aid, Mercedes' version of GM's OnStar; $1,440 for 7-speed automatic; $2,750 for a package to get satellite radio, power rear window sun shade and heated front seats; and $1,000 for a panorama sunroof that opens over front seat and is fixed in back.
June 2006
Consider this as you lounge on the beach this weekend, fish in Pleasant Bay or cruise to Nantucket: With the spring graduation of thousands of college seniors, many graduates and their parents—braced today with the debilitating cost of a college degree that often has extended the traditional four years to seven so students can work off some of the debt—are asking the question: Is there a better way? Once the bloom is off the rose of graduation, the math is numbing for graduates and their parents. I feel the pain. My 22-year-old son, Brendan (a product of Nauset Regional High School) just graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. I also have a daughter, Colleen, who is a junior at Elon University, a son, Conor, who will be a senior at Nauset next year, and a home equity line that is wheezing.
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