Every time the Eagles rushed Brady in the Super Bowl, the Patriots nullified the defensive attack with screen passes. Lots of them. On almost every play defensive coordinator Jim Johnson called for a blitz, the Patriots used the short pass to confuse the Eagles.
After the Patriots beat the Eagles 24-21 in 2005, Brown thought the Patriots beat them with nothing but sharp offensive playcalling. Now, he’s not so sure.
Editor and Publisher, September 13, 2007
WASHINGTON — Political realignment in Iraq’s volatile Anbar province was Exhibit A for President Bush’s argument Thursday that Iraq is a fight that the United States is winning.
A look at some of Bush’s assertions.
BUSH SAID:
“Anbar province is a good example of how our strategy is working,” Bush said, noting that just last year U.S. intelligence analysts had written off the Sunni area as “lost to al-Qaida.”
FACT CHECK:
Early Thursday, the most prominent figure in a U.S.-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq was killed by a bomb planted near his home.
The killing of a chief Anbar ally hours before Bush spoke showed the tenuous and changeable nature of success in Anbar and Iraq at large.
Although Sunni sheiks have defied al-Qaida and largely allied with U.S. forces in Anbar, the province remains violent and al-Qaida remains a threat.
Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha died 10 days after he met with Bush during a surprise visit the U.S. leader made to highlight the turnaround in Anbar. The charismatic young sheik led the Anbar Salvation Council, also known as the Anbar Awakening – an alliance of clans backing the Iraqi government and U.S. forces.
The Sunni revolt against al-Qaida led to a dramatic improvement in security in Anbar cities such as Fallujah and Ramadi. Iraqis who had been sitting on the sidelines – or planting roadside bombs to kill Americans – have now joined with U.S. forces to hunt down al-Qaida in Iraq, whose links to Osama bin Laden’s terror network are unclear.
Anbar is not secure, accounting for 18 percent of the U.S. deaths in Iraq so far this year – making it the second deadliest province after Baghdad.
Bush’s top military commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, told Congress this week that Anbar’s circumstances are unique and its model cannot be replicated everywhere in Iraq, but “it does demonstrate the dramatic change in security that is possible with the support and participation of local citizens.”
Bruce Springsteen has created some of the best rock music of his generation. Over the years the Boss has very rarely let his fans down except for maybe Lucky Town, but even that is debatable. So it was a complete shock to me to listen to the Boss’ new effort Magic with the E Street Band because its so……great.
Since coming off the tour behind the emotional album, The Rising, Springsteen has been off dong his own thing away from the band. He recorded the stripped down Devils and Dust album and most recently the Seeger Sessions album and tour. Apparently, the Boss felt the time was right to bring the E Street Band back into the studio and from the results he was right on. Magic brings Bruce and the band together to bring their magic to a stellar batch of rocking Springsteen originals.
As anticipated, Springsteen and the band bring us the guitars right from the beginning with the rocking yet poignant opening track, “Radio Nowhere.” The song is one of those simple but classic songs that sticks with you from the very first listen. The Boss even brings back the classic E Street Band sound with the rollicking “Livin’ In The Future” that makes excellent use of some sweet Clarence Clemons sax riffs. On songs like “Gypsy Biker” and “I’ll Work For Your Love,” the band rocks us E Street old school like you knew they could.
Its not until later in the album that Springsteen gives us a piece of his political mind. With the trio of songs, “Last To Die,” “Long Walk Home” and “Devil’s Arcade,” the Boss reminds us that we need to be careful with those that we allow to govern our country.
With Magic, the Boss keeps us moving to the future, reminding us of why a long time ago people called him the future of rock and roll.
Which party do you suppose Petraeus will join when he leaves the military?
Led Zeppelin, the biggest group in the history of music, strikes again.
About 80,000 fans per minute are trying to register for tickets at the www.ahmettribute.com website, said Internet service provider Pipex.
Demand for the $250 tickets crashed the O2 Arena website.
Other groups wish they were Zeppelin.
Nobody is/was better than the Zep.
Wednesday July 20, 2005 – marrying Tommy Lee again
Since then – married Kid Monkey Rock 15 times.
Now – engaged to Rick Soloman, the scumbag who betrayed Paris Hilton with the camera.
I wouldn’t give her troubles to a monkey in Iraq.
by Michael Dare
Oh yeah, it’s safe to say I was there and you weren’t. If I’d known accepting the
job of editor of the Los Angeles Free Press included attending a Republican
convention, I’d still be in Seattle, basking in the mist, instead of valiantly
stumbling into enemy territory for your amusement.
It was about 9AM, Saturday morning, September 8, when I was dropped off in front of
this.
Water in the Desert
As soon as you enter the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa in Indian Wells, you
walk down a grand staircase to a grand lobby where you discover the California
Republican Party is to your left, which is just wrong. Maybe I was supposed to go
down the stairs backwards.
Republican Swag
Howie, Perhaps you could clarify something for me. Recently on Glenn Beck’s show
you said:
KURTZ: I think the argument that I’ve heard Olbermann make in the past about
Fox News — it’s not an argument that I embrace — is that, because it poses
as a news organization and puts out dangerous misinformation –and is — is
a cheerleader for the Bush administration, that it’s misinforming our
society. But you know what?
They’re entitled to do that.
Did you really mean to say that a NEWS organization is entitled to put out
misinformation and misinform our society? What kind of a standard is that?
You are a media critic and yet you see no problem with a NEWS organization
puting out misinformation and misinforming its viewers. Surely you can’t be
saying what it appears you are saying.
Say it ain’t so!!!
thank you,
stevie g
You don’t want an honest debate, mother(effer).
ha ha
You want to hear tough-talk at the top of the approved DNC ticket. That’s your sole motivation. I have your number dialed in now, you fucking hawk.
Looks like somebody has their panties all bunched up.
In truth, you should be wearing a pink tu-tu, because you support the war hawks of both parties. You have been wrong all along to suggest that the Democrats were weak or stymied. In truth they support Bush, but they need to make a show for the peaceniks in the party. Dig?
So, you’re in the fewer-nukes = more wars camp?
You are truly stupid if you think the basic agenda about controlling the sale of oil and maintaining the petro-dollar hegemony is not first and foremost on both the Republican and Democratic plates.
No telling what you meant to say,
but we need oil until we have something to replace it.
Fuck you, Bart (or whoever you are).
Actually I’m Judy, a Jewish lesbian postal worker from Tacoma.
Your “BFEE” only accounts for half of the equation. The Democrats are complicit with the big plan up to their ears, but you are too stupid to recognize it.
You have it all figured out – why not create a blog and impress people?
But thanks for the lightweight cartoons.
Richard
Richard, why do you read stupid people’s blogs?
Fred Thompson said Thursday that President Bush‘s signature education program isn’t working and that he would provide federal education money with fewer strings attached.
“We’ve been spending increasing amounts of federal money for decades, with increasing rules, increasing mandates, increasing regulations,” Thompson said. “It’s not working.”
He added that there are problems with Bush’s No Child Left Behind program, which requires annual testing and punishes schools that don’t make progress.
“No Child Left Behind — good concept, I’m all for testing — but it seems like now some of these states are teaching to the test and kind of making it so that everybody does well on the test — you can’t really tell that everybody’s doing that well. And it’s not objective,” Thompson said.
I’m sorry, but I’ve lost track of why we’re continuing to commit mass murder in Iraq. I think this week it has to do with Bush being Osama’s stooge once again? The cover story keeps changing on a weekly basis. It’s gone from non-existent WMD’s to creating democracy to Osama wants us to but it always comes down to the real reason we’re there, i.e., to steal all that lovely oil and have permanent bases in Iraq so as to control all of the middle-east’s oil.As the Fuhrer said of Iraq to reporters at Sydney airport, “We’re Kicking Ass.” Makes you proud to be an American, doesn’t it? You can tell that our west Taxus prairie monkey is Yale and Harvard educated, can’t you? Just goes to show what degrees from Yale and Harvard are really worth!
Oil prices finished above $80 a barrel for the first time Thursday and gasoline prices rose as refiners reported production problems after Hurricane Humberto hit Texas.
Bart Says: Do the math – $80 a barrel, 5M barrels a day = $400M per day for Bush.
Bart’s Law #2
Any time a person or entity makes a “mistake” that puts extra money (or power) in their pocket, expect them to make that “mistake” again and again and again. That’s why refineries have fires hurricanes now and then, because a fire allows them to scream “unexpected shortage” so they can gouge us on the price of gas.
Next up: $100 a barrel which meanbs $100 fill ups, $160 for SUVs
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Arnold ready to veto California Health Care Reform
Well, Ah-Nold is getting ready to screw California voters once again. Just as he vetoed single-payer last year, Arnold is showing his true colors again as he prepares to veto the latest comprehensive health care reform passed by the California legislature
Here’s some detailed information from the AFL-CIO blog:
The bill addresses several parts of California’s struggling health care system—including expanding coverage to millions of residents and requiring employers and the government to join workers in paying for care.
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