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Monday, November 11, 2013
Thursday, November 07, 2013
Kentucky Basketball - How Good Can it Get?
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| Rick Pitino & John Calipari |
In 2012 the University of Kentucky
In 2013 Louisville
In 2013 the UK
In 2013 the Louisville
So here are the final preseason
national polls for the upcoming season.
Are you kidding me, all
four teams in the top seven in the nation?
With the top recruiting
class in college history, the UK men look to make up their fall from grace last
year when the defending national champion didn't even qualify for March
Madness.
Now basketball at UK UK
Of course the irony is
that both UK and Louisville Louisville ,
recognized as one of the deans of college coaching, was born in New York City UK
was born in Moon Township Pennsylvania ,
a suburb of Pittsburgh
Pitino had the distinct,
yet dubious honor of having built both Kentucky
Distinct because no one
has won the NCAA crown with two different schools. Dubious because in Kentucky
you are for UK or Louisville
When Pitino left UK and then returned to Louisville New York
And look at the homes they
have built for their respective teams. Massive
stadiums, the modern day Roman Coliseums, welcome over 20,000 people to the
games but it is more than that.
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| Louisville |
The same stadiums are
filled for midnight openings of the practice season and pep rallies before
games. Season tickets are so coveted they
can be a major part of divorce property settlements.
I have a lot of relatives
in Kentucky and their loyalty is split between
UK and Louisville
This should be a most
entertaining year in the land of thoroughbreds and Bluegrass .
Here is what the AP has to
say about Kentucky
The Louisville and Kentucky women's teams are ranked in the top 10 and have national championship aspirations after making deep runs in last year's NCAA tournament.
The fifth-ranked Cardinals will start the season Saturday against Loyola-Chicago after their stunning march to the national championship game with an injury-depleted roster.
''It's just incredible, I think, for the
The
The women's teams won't have to wait long to settle bragging rights.
Before that in-state showdown, the Wildcats and Cardinals continue honing the chemistry that has both teams excited about their championship prospects.
The Cardinals (29-9, 11-5 Big East Conference) endured some frustrating losses along the way but hit stride in the NCAA tournament, highlighted by a monumental 82-81 upset of No. 1 and defending champion Baylor in the regional semifinal.
Upsets of
''I was happy for my teammates and the program,'' she said, ''but as a competitor you want to be out there and be in a big game like that. The fact that I knew I was coming back was my motivation to work hard.''
Though forward Sheronne Vails is out for the year following offseason knee surgery, Walz is eager to see if having his healthiest squad in some time can carry the Cardinals past favored UConn in the newly renamed American Athletic Conference and deeper in the NCAA tournament.
Besides senior guard and leading scorer Shoni Schimmel (14.2 points),
''We'll probably have the biggest game of rock-paper-scissors that you've ever seen, and the last five will be our starters,'' Walz joked about the process of choosing a lineup. ''It's a great problem to have.''
Mitchell can say the same thing about his own well-stocked
The returns of senior forward and leading scorer DeNesha Stallworth (12.5 points, 6.0 rebounds) and Samarie Walker (8.7 points, 8.1 rebounds) provide a strong post presence for the Wildcats (30-6, 13-3 Southeastern Conference), who fell to UConn in the regional final for the second straight year.
''It took some months, and we still look back and wonder why didn't get over that hump,'' Stallworth said. ''We've gotten better in our offensive execution and are looking good. We don't want to be in that spot (of missing the Final Four) for the fifth straight year.''
Kentucky's backcourt is its deepest area with senior Kastine Evans, juniors Bria Goss and Jennifer O'Neill and sophomore Thompson able to play anywhere in the three-guard alignment. The additions of McDonald's All-Americans Linnae Harper and Makayla Epps could pay off right away for a Wildcats team determined to go a step further - and possibly meeting a familiar foe along the way.
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Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Meet America's Next President - Chris Christie!
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Fresh off the largest win
by a Republican moderate since Abraham -- Lincoln
Now I worked for New Jersey
Governor Thomas Kean and he also did pretty well in the governor races. In fact, he had the closest and largest
election victories in history in 1981 and 1985 respectively. Moderate Republicans were about to become
near extinct after the reign of Kean.
In 1981 Kean, a moderate
Republican, won the governor's race by the closest margin in New Jersey
Kean ran the most successful
"voter inclusion program" ever undertaken by a GOP candidate in the
nation. Kean's record margin included over 60% of the Black, Union and Roman Catholic votes. Kean was a lifetime civil rights advocate and
Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., endorsed the governor
and campaigned for him.
It
was the last time a Republican got over 50% in a statewide Jersey
election.
Tom
Kean was a Princeton blue-blood and genuine nice person, far too nice to be
president of the USA
But
Christie, well he is another story.
He
went to the University
of Delaware Princeton but quite good schools. He was a volunteer for one of Tom Kean's
governor's races. Then he was United
States Attorney for New Jersey
With
all the mob activity and corruption in the New Jersey /New York
Christie
is a rough and tumble straight talking Jersey
boy with plenty of girth, grit and gristle.
It is great to see that his diet efforts are paying off as he looked
more fit and feisty at the end of the campaign than he looked in years.
So
far this self-proclaimed conservative with the moderate to conservative
leanings has demonstrated everything necessary to become our next president and
it is a rare day in America
when we have a New Jersey Jersey boy.
Now
the eastern liberal media is terrified of the thought of Christie as president
so they have started a campaign to convince Midwest and Southern Americans that
a smart talking, rather large, and often bombastic dude with a Jersey accent will
never be accepted by the voters in the Midwest and South who carry the national
elections.
MSNBC
talking heads scoff at the thought of a Republican from New
Jersey being on the primary ballot in Iowa ,
or South Carolina
Well
guess what media mouthpieces, I'm also from the Midwest, Iowa
After
five years of Obama inertia and Congressional constipation the voters of America
Chris
Christie is a rare breed of politician who actually tells you what he thinks
and does what he says he's going to do.
Imagine that! Honesty, even if a
little ruff and gruff, would be refreshing.
The ability to do things no matter how big or small is, well,
revolutionary in politics.
Straight
talk was a Midwestern trait long before the media hijacked the term for
politicians. And an Iowan would NEVER
put the special interests of a political party before what was good for the
country.
A
great, big, giant lie is stretched over this great land of ours like a sinister
blanket of fog. Politicians and
financial people have hidden a deep, dark secret of the vulnerability of America
The
Madison Avenue pursuit of the young teen and adult demographic (what I call the
Fountain of Youth obsession) now expects the children of the nation to pay for
the sins of their fathers and mothers TODAY,
not 25 years from now when they inherit the multi-trillion dollar debt.
I
say kids can't possibly be that stupid.
They know the difference between a politician who works up a head of
steam and one who is lost in a fog.
Christie will never allow that fog to envelop our youth and nation and
that is why he will be elected by the Midwest
and Southern voters, whether Democrat, Republican or Independent.
Move
over Woodrow, another Jersey boy is headed
toward the top.
Say
hello to your next president.
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Fox News Blows Out News Competitors, Dominate Cable
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So dominant was Fox that Megyn Kelly's brand new show finished the October sweeps number two of all prime time cable news shows, behind The O'Reilly Factor. Nice launch Megyn.
Is there any wonder which of the following news personalities had a higher rating than the other two combined?
Now I confess, that is not how Megyn looks on her new show. Neither is the fact that another "Fox" is on Fox. She was a jock and cheerleader in school. But she also was smart, had a law degree, was a ratings magnet and asked for the job. Here is the "on air" look.
As the following "ratings" articles show, the Fox prime time shows (7 to 11 PM) had 2.12 million average viewers, more than all their competitors (CNN, MSNBC and HLN) combined. Whew!
Okay,
no big surprise since Fox has been #1 in total daytime and prime time cable for
the past 141 straight months. That is #1
for the entire presidential career of Barack Obama and dating all the way back
to 2001, the year of the World
Trade Center
Here are articles describing the latest October sweeps.
Fox
Tops October Cable News Ratings With Revamped Primetime; ‘The Kelly File’ Ends
First Month In No. 2 Spot Behind O’Reilly
| Tuesday October 29,
2013 @ 12:00pm PDT
A month ago Megyn
Kelly didn’t have a primetime gig, but now The Kelly File
is the No. 2 show on cable news after The O’Reilly Factor.
Since its October 7 launch with Fox News’
primetime revamp, the new show has averaged 2.23 million total viewers and
383,000 viewers among adults 25-54 in its 9 PM slot. That’s behind its Bill O’Reilly
lead-in (2.84 million and 458,000) and in front of The Five (2.14 million and
369,000). No big surprise that after 141 months at No. 1 in total day and
primetime among the cable news networks, FNC won the October ratings battle.
Still, it did have nine of the top 10 shows on cable news, with only MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show
breaking the monolith at No. 9. FNC also came in at the No. 3 behind TBS and
ESPN in cable overall in primetime for the month. News rivals MSNBC, CNN and HLN were far behind
at No. 22, No. 33 and No. 45, respectively. Overall, with 2.12 million
watching, FNC had more viewers during its new 7-11 PM primetime than CNN
(627,000), MSNBC (991,000) and HLN (247,000) put together.
Looking at the ratings for 7 PM to 11 PM since its primetime
relaunch versus Q3 2013, FNC is up 22% in total viewers (2.15 million) and 20%
in the 25-54 demo (373,000). In primetime MSNBC saw a strong 59% viewership
rise (to 976,000) and a 38% demo rise (237,000). After
cratering earlier this year, the now-ratings-rebuilding NBCU-owned
network certainly was helped this month by a series of well-received specials
and docs plus the October 11 launch of the heavily promoted Up Late With
Alec Baldwin. CNN saw a small bop of 7% in viewership
(569,000) and 1% demo growth (171,000) when compared to Q3 2013. That’s in
contrast to last October when all of the cable news networks saw viewership and
demo surges with all-election-all-the-time coverage as the presidential race
entered the final stretch. FNC actually was No. 1 in all of primetime cable.
That once-every-four-years anomaly now has FNC, CNN and MSNBC and all down
double digits from last October.
By DOMINIC PATTEN
13 hours ago
CNN’s Relaunched ‘Crossfire’ Hits Viewer & Demo Low
Looks like troubles come in threes for CNN lately. First the cable news company had its worst single primetime in over a year on October 30, then it had its worst week since Jeff Zucker took over and now the relaunched Crossfire has hit new lows. Resuscitated on September 9 after eight years off the air, the political debate show pulled in just 233,00 viewers overall and a mere 59,000 among adults 25-54 between 6:30 PM and 7 PM on Monday. Full-hour time-slot rivals on Fox News Channel and MSNBC did a lot better — to put it mildly. FNC’s Special Report had 2.44 million viewers with 411,000 in the key news demo, while MSNBC’s Al Sharpton-hosted PoliticsNation had 707,000 total viewers and 170,000 among the 25-54s.
Related: CNN Falls To Lowest Daily Primetime In Over A Year
Monday’s results represent a significant drop from the October 3 high the Newt Gingrich, Stephanie Cutter, S.E. Cupp and Van Jones hosted show hit with 891,000 total viewers and 326,000 in the demo. Crossfire’s previous viewership low was on October 25 when it had 251,000 total viewers. The previous demo low was on September 20 when it drew just 66,000 viewers among adults 25-54. The September 9 debut of the show earlier this year had a modest 581,000 viewers and 171,000 in the demo.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Main Street Media Blows it Again - Fails to Report on Intelligence Disasters Right Under their Noses
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CIA FBI NSA DIA - Whose Spying on Them?
Thank God for the
Guardian and Telegraph of England or we Americans would have no idea what our own
intelligence agencies having been doing to us and people around the world.
One might think our news media
people are in cahoots with our intelligence (or is it unintelligence) people
the way the media fails to cover and follow up on major breaking news regarding
the intelligence disasters in America
The following release is
about a new book by a former KGB major and one of the most significant
defections to America
More important, it is about how he was treated by the American
intelligence agencies after he came here to help out.
The most disastrous sky
scandals of the past 20 years, the Aldrich Ames CIA fiasco and the Robert
Hanssen FBI fiasco both centered on Victor and the KGB interest in his
activities once he defected to America
His story may help tear
the gates off Hell and expose more of the surreptitious actions by our national security protectors when
it comes to intelligence agencies out of control who show a total disregard for
the laws of the land and our place in the world.
Terrorism, counter-intelligence
and national security sound patriotic until one explores the depths of the dark
side of life where the intelligence games are played out and learns of the
victims of these games caught up in power struggles, egos and fanaticism that
defy all principles of individual freedom and rights.
Whether the CIA, the FBI
or the NSA, are we really safer with them on our side? If so why are so many scandals carried out in
the very offices of our own protectors?
Well once again the media
has failed to not only grasp, but to find, a story that lays out the
"Bare" facts about the dark side of intelligence. Thank God for Amazon, where one can still
find the truth by reading the latest books on Kindle like Victor Sheymov's
incredible expose, TieBreaker - Tower of Secrets II, the sequel to his riveting
book Tower
of Secrets.
Here is the release our Main Street America
As David Ignatius, Associate
Editor of The Washington Post said, "Sheymov knew the
secrets that spy services die to protect."
Look for the truth in the
London Telegraph or Coltons Point Times.
CYBER BOOKS PUBLISHING
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TIEBREAKER: Tower of Secrets II
By Victor
Sheymov
In one of the most daring operations of the Cold War the CIA exfiltrated Victor Sheymov, his wife and young daughter, and brought them to the
TIEBREAKER is the fascinating story of how Victor Sheymov figured out the reason behind the campaign to destroy him and his family, and the cause of the CIA’s catastrophic intelligence failures that the public had a chance to have a glimpse at with the arrest of Aldrich Ames in 1994.
Sheymov then found himself at the center of the next intelligence crisis with the arrest in 2001 of his longtime FBI liaison, Robert Hanssen.
And now Victor Sheymov, world-class cyber security expert and inventor of a breakthrough cybersecurity technology, finds himself at the heart of the search of the solution to the rapidly growing global threat to cyber security.
Sheymov analyzes the factual failure of the firewall technology and the basis of this breakthrough concept in his other new book,
CYBERSPACE AND SECURITY:
A Fundamentally New Approach
Cyberspace
is defined, and differentiated from out physical space. New method of
consummations, Variable Cyber Coordinates (VCC) that provides for superior
level of security is described and detailed.
Sheymov
told the story of his meteoric career in the KGB, and his disillusionment with
Communism and the Soviet system that led to his decision to defect, in his
first book.
Superlative...a
breathtaking true story...a towering book, fascinating and hair-raising...far
more exciting than the most exciting accomplished fiction of the spy genre. − Associated
Press
While the story ends abruptly with Sheymov's escorted arrival in N.Y.C., it seems likely that the information he subsequently furnished hastened the Cold War's end. A top-level insider's dramatic, stranger-than-fiction disclosures in the great game of espionage. − Kirkus Reviews
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