"You study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

I'm sure we've all heard the statement by now from John Kerry.

Okay John, you SAY it was directed at the white house and Bush.

Did you know Bush went to Harvard AND Yale? I'm pretty sure he made an effort, and did his homework, and studied hard.

You won't apologize for such a statement?

You arrogant, pompous ass.

Your disdain for the military is as easy to spot as your "Lurch" face.

You hate Bush, you hate anything and everything that has to do with the military, and or national security. As long as you and your cohorts get in power, you don't care, you will do and or say ANYTHING, obviously.

You just handed the 'publicans the election. All of the undecided Republicans, or all of them that had decided not to vote, are now going to vote for Republicans. Just that one statement you made, John Kerry.

And you know what else, even if you did apologize, nobody would believe it.

John Kerry, you are the Terrel Owens' of politics.....keep talking, the more you talk , the more people realize what is going on.

You are a phony, power hungry, I can't take a stand on anything, idiot.

Keep talking!

I'm sure glad you're on the democats side......because you're the best player for our team!

Guys, we absolutely cannot trust the safety and security of this nation to the likes of a John Kerry and his ilk.

Whatever your stance on all the other issues, at this junctre does not matter.

With the Islamic radicals wanting to take over everything, god forbid it happens, but if it does, there won't be any issues.....it's their way, or they chop off your head.

PERIOD.

So like I say, keep talking John Kerry, and we'll have nothing to worry about.

D C

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RED AUERBACH

" IF YOU WANT TO BE A CHAMPION, FEEL AND ACT LIKE ONE."

RED AUERBACH

1917-2006

THANKS, RED.

In honor of Red, there wil be no blog until Wed, Nov. 1st.

D C

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Bush Signs U.S.- Mexico Border Fence Bill

About damn time Georgie! Good lord.

Do you guys know whathappens if you try to enter most countries illegally on this planet.....you get shot. Period. End of story. You broke their law, you die.

Hmmmm...pretty simple.

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400 Trapped in RV Park due to wildfire:

Uh.....it's not like you're RV's don't have......what are those called again...........FRIGGING WHEELS!

The fire didn't just plop down on you all of a sudden, you've known it was in the area....LEAVE!

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Misguided Manatee Moves Up Mississippi Near Memphis:

Probably not something that happens every day. Hope they can rescue the "little" guy.

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Science takes a bite out of vampires
Poll shows more than 1 in 3 Americans believe houses can be haunted:

Hmmm....I wonder how much this study cost that they could've just given to me. lol.

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Regina in familiar position in final week
Regals can wrap up playoff berth with win at Pekin tonight:

For those of my faithful readers that don't know, this is my high school. They need a win tonight to get in the plaoffs and defend their first ever state championship from last year.

GO REGALS!!

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Big costume party for your humble blogger tonight! woohoo!

Hawks vs. Northern Illinois tomorrow!

C'ya Monday!

D C

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Woman Dragged By Motorcycle is 4th Death at Florida Biker Festival

Uh....here's an idea, shut the damn thing down. If you can't control it, shut it. We have probably close to 80,000-90,000 people every Saturday around and in Kinnick stadium, and generally nobody dies. Figure it out.

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One Alabama Cop Killed, One Wounded in Shooting:

Not acceptable, hang these idiots from the highest tree you can find.

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Man gets death sentence for slaying Va. family
Couple, two children were beaten, stabbed in random killing:

This is fine, but he's going to sit in jail for ten years before the appeals process is done, even though he ADMITTED it. Retarded. Kill him now, and be done with it.

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Thieves lead to discovery of Egypt tombs
Curse protected 4,200 year old graves of royal dentists:

I don't know about a curse protecting it...could've been the 4,000 years of sand that covered it up...maybe...possibly....??

Pretty cool stuff though, if the thieves had just told the authorities about it, they most likely we had have recoeved a reward anyway.

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Man stuck in Denver with amnesia is identified
Woman in Washington state comes forward with information about him:

Wow, would this suck or what? I'm sorry ....what were we talking about?

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Well, hope everybody had a great weekend!! My poor Hawks took it on the chin again...ah well. No shame in losing to Michigan at the big house though, I guess.

Everybody have a good one!!

Support the troops!

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North Korea Calls U.N. Sanctions 'Declaration of War'

Um.....okay there Kim Jong, you're going to deliver "merciless blows" if you're invaded? First of all, nobody wants anything you have. If you would just shut up and go away you wouldn't get invaded....go ahead declare your little war...see what that gets you.

As much as I hate to say it, I'd love for you to actually try and aim a nuke at us, we'll have it knocked out of the sky before it gets halfway here...IF it can even get that far.....and then you and your pathetic little country will be gone.

Buh bye now.

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Man Gets 160 Years for Killing Family to Attend Prom:

I don't think I've ever really wanted to go to a dance THIS bad, holy crap.

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Disgraced Former Rep. Foley to Tell Miami Archdiocese Name of Priest He Claims Molested Him as Teen:

Tough buddy, doesn't mean you get to do the same thing to some other kid!

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Well guys we're at hump day, big game for my hawks Saturday, # 2 ranked cess pool of the east ...mighty Michigan at the big house. Michigan stadium wichholds like a million people...okay maybe not, but it sure seems like it does. We have traditionally played very well there over the 20 or so years, so we have a shot. (I think)

Anyway, have a great day, and we'll talk at you tomorrow!

D C

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Bolton Warns North Korea an Attack on Region Allies is an Attack on U.S.

Good!

About damn time somebody spoke up and threatened these little pukes. When will we learn...sanctions do not work.

Need I remind everyone of 17 sanctions and 10 YEARS of crap with Saddam? (8 under Clintons watch)

The people of North Korea are dirt poor as it is. All this will do is hurt them more....if that's even possible.

How about this.....we "sanction" a B-2 stealth bomber out of Whiteman Air Force base here in Missouri to their nuclear plant, and blow it the hell up? Period. Game over. Done.

Why is it the faithful readers of my blog, and a few assorted others are the only ones that understand that the only thing Kim Jong understands is PURE BRUTE FORCE.

I get so sick of this crap.

Take his little rice eatin', dog and cat meat lovin, dictatoring ass out!

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Mom Reportedly Throws Baby at Boyfriend in Domestic Dispute:

She is only being charged with simple assault, reckless endangerment and aggravated assault?

Um....nooooo....how about attempted murder?

Put her in jail, and throw the key away...crazy bitch.

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Student Fires Gun in Missouri Middle School, No Injuries Reported:

The only way to stop this crap is to put this dork in jail until he is 18. Or 50. I don't care. Send a message!!

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Okay....well my hawks went to 5-1 on the season (yay) after a major thumping of Purdue.

And my Chicago Bears went to 5-0 after a butt whipping of the Bills. All is good in the football world of D C!!

Thanks for stoppin' by, support the troops!!!

D C

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Attorney: Foley Was Molested as a Teen by a Clergyman

Uh, guess what dude that sucks, HOWEVUH that doesn't mean you get to turn into a pervert, sending e-mails to juveniles.

This is getting out of control, we need to get on with the business of the country, he resigned, put him in jail, whatever....hang him for all I care. But lets move it along.

Now, the republicans are really starting to piss me off with this deal....trying to turn it around saying "Oh, well whomever had this info should have released right away when they got it. instead of a month before the November elections."

Well probably, but the bottom line is he never should have done it in the first place! The 'publicans and the democats both need to quit being little kids, and get on with the business of running this damn country!

It's like two siblings in the back seat of the car,

"Daddy, he's on my side!" or "He's touching me."

Lord, I swear I've never seen anything like it!

Get over it people!

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Coroner: Amish Schoolhouse Shooting Scene Was 'Horrible':

I'm going to tell you right now if I get to heaven, and this jackass is there, there is going to be a problem.

At least he killed himself so we don't have to waste money on a trial.

You know what, way to be a man you piece of cow *hit.... leave your kids and wife to fend for themselves because, "You are filled with anger"

TOUGH TITTY SAID THE KITTY AS THE MILK RAN SOUR!

Oh...oh...I'm so angry...yadda yadda yadda......the deal here is God was testing you, and guess what, YOU FLUNKED.....now you're done. The problem is you took a bunch of innocent kids with you.

I feel sorry for your children having to grow up knowing there dad was a coward.

Rot in hell, bastard.

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Utah Parents Charged With Kidnapping Daughter to Prevent Marriage:

Not something you see everyday. Especially since she is of legal age, 21.

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Hope everybody's week is going well.

I made a trip back to Iowa last weekend to watch my Hawkeyes....er.....the tailgate party was fun anyway! ; )

It's October already...ready for X-mas? heh heh. Man, X-mas...wow.

Oh well, I can't wait to go to the haunted houses here in K C, they're really good!

Haunted forests, and graveyards......awesome.

Okay, tonight is the premiere of South Parks 10th season at 9 central time on comedy central.

Easily the funniest show on T V.

"Goddamit kitty, that's my pie!" heh heh.

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TODAYS BLOG IS IN HONOR OF :

Kampha Sourivong:

Company B, 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry

Iowa City, Iowa.

THANK YOU KAMPHA FOR THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE.

HERO.

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# 1 OHIO ST VS. # 13 IOWA

Okay, the big game is tomorrow!

7:00 pm PRIME TIME on ABC to a NATIONAL audience. It doesn't get any better than this!

Our Hawkeyes have had problems with Ohio State....in recent memory we've beaten them in 1984 (this was the game we broke Keith Byars leg, they're hotshot tailback) 1987 (the Marv Cook miracle) 1991 (after the Gang Lu shootings, nobody was beating us that day) and 2004...and that's about it.

(please correct me if I'm wrong on any of these)

Of course the most bitter defeat was to the Buckeyes in 1985 in the driving rain....we were ranked # 1 and Ohio St came out and beat our butts...Chuck Long and company couldn't get it going.

I remember being at "The Fieldhouse" in downtown Iowa City for that one....that was a long night....heh heh. But, we still went on to win the Big Ten and go to The Rose Bowl, wich I went to...and...well......Ronnie Harmon four fumbles....I'll stop there.

All in all, we've been able to play with and beat everybody in the Big Ten except Ohio St.... even the cess pool of the East, Michigan (hell we gave them they're worst defeat EVER in the big house) and the dreaded monster in Happy Valley, Penn St. For some reason or another the Buckeyes just have our number.

Hopefully with the 13th man @ Kinnick tomorrow (that'd be us, the fans) we can get a little payback on them and they're national title hopes.

As long as we don't go 3 and out on the first couple of drives with no points, we'll be fine.

Come on Hawks, I'm not driving all the way from K C to see a shit game!

D C

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Our View - Public funds shouldn't go to Muslim youth camp

I about friggin' plopped over from a heart attack...the Press Citizen agrees with me? Okay...okay....I get it.....April fools, right? Nah.....it's Sept. 27th......okay okay.....some sort of halloween gag? Nah....a little early for that......they are actually saying we should deny funds to a group that's other than Christian?

Hmmmm...the next thing you know gas will be 1.97 a gallon....oh wait..it already is in K C!

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Colorado Schools Evacuated Amid Reports of Shots Fired:

Get a sniper in there, and take his ass out. End of story. No trial, no taxpayer money lost, only the bad guy dies. Simple.

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Official wants landmark Citgo sign taken down after Hugo Chavez "devil" comment:

GOOD! Shouldn't even be a debate. You don't come into our country, and call our president "The Devil"

Now, if we want to.....then we can. But you Mr. psychobabble idiot, DO NOT get to do that.

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Teens’ T-shirts make educators squirm
Suggestive messages challenge dress codes:

This is a simple one, everybody wears a uniform, period.

Problem solved.

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Mars rover nears telltale crater
Opportunity will visit revealing geological formation:

WHEW! I thought we'd never get there!

Seriously, this is pretty cool stuff.

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Was Mona Lisa pregnant when she posed?
Laser scanning reveals veil typical of soon-to-be or new mothers :

Oh good lord, can we find something a little more constructive to do with our time people?

First of all, who gives a rats butt? Secondly, who gets paid to do this *hit? Where do I sign up for the job, " Determiner of paintings of ladies from abaziilion years ago were preggers"

Here's my application!

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Okay, on that note I gotta run...TTFN!

D C

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Former President Bill Clinton Defends Handling of Usama bin Laden in Combative FNC Interview

Um......no Slick Willie you didn't do "everything you could" In fact I submit it was just the opposite, you tore down the military, severley cut our intelligence (FBI, CIA) thereby making Bin Laden think we were weak enough he could attack, and we wouldn't retaliate. Wich had AlGore been in office, I'm sure we wouldn't have retaliated.

And by the way, you had him in the crosshairs Bill, in the desert when he was meeting with the prince of UAE or whomever it was...and did NOTHING. Again, I say you did NOTHING, you're damn right you failed to get Bin Laden and it cost America 3,000 INNOCENT men, women and CHILDREN.

It's a good thing I wasn't interviewing you, I'd have told you to shut your liberal, do nothing, blue dress staining, perjury commiting, lying to America happy hole!

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Judge Orders Psych Exam for Woman Accused of Killing Woman for Fetus:

Uh......do I even need to say it?

Please, please, please can she escape to Kansas City and walk by my house...please?

Pretty please?

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Sorry guys, just a shorty one today. Taking over a project at work that I actually had to work today! CRAAAAP! heh heh.

Anyway, my Hawks are 4-0...Ohio St. coming to town Saturday....uh..that'd be the numero uno ranked Buckeyes....they be goin' down baby!!

Later,

D C

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Charges Expected in Missouri Baby Abduction Case

Thankfully this one ended up okay, it's been all over the news down here for days.

I have my cell phone set to where I can recieve amber alerts thru it. It's kind of a pain in the arse sometimes, 'cause it went off like 5 times in two minutes......doesn't ring but it has a little "chime" I can deal with that if it means maybe helping some kid someday.

Anyway, throw the book at his chick...and I don't want to hear about post partum, and all that crap either.....i'm sorry if you were depressed DEAL WITH IT. Don't run around and slash peoples throats, and take their kids.

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Chavez Says U.S. Empire Will Soon Fall, Calls Bush 'Devil':

Oh brother!

I don't agree with everything dubbya has done either, but the devil....er...I think not.

Yes, lets move the U N to Venezuela, that's a good solid, stable place.

All we want to do is "pillage" other countries.......right. That's why we have re-built Japan and Germany among others, and also why we're still paying 2.00 a gallon for gas.

The other thing is this dick nose, half the countries you mentioned that are supposedly going to give you support...probably at one time or another had an american soldier there bailing your asses out of trouble.

Now, go away.

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Well true believers, we had a good time in St Louie at worlds....but alas I must report we went 0-2..we did play pretty well....just fell a little short is all.

That's okay..Hawks are 3-0, it's a beautiful fall this year in K C, I'm eating popcorn right now in the warehouse, and it's almost the weeknd again already.

C'ya!

D C

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Rosie O'Donnell

I don't know if you heard her or not, but on "The View" yesterday Rosie said, "Radical Christianity is as dangerous as Radical Islam. "

UM,

(I think you all know where I'm going to go with this)

YOU STUPID, IGNORANT, NO CLUE, DUMB ASS.

Lets just start with the facts, shall we?

Name me one.....JUST ONE suicide Christian bomber.....I'm waiting.......uh....still waiting.....I'm not hearing anything.......you lose that one, Rosie.

Now then, lets examine the basic teaching of Christ.....

Feed the hungry.

Give drink to the thirsty.

Clothe the naked.

Shelter the homeless.

Visit the sick.

Admonish the sinner,

Forgive injuries,

Bear wrong patiently,

Pray for the living,

Pray for the dead.
Love your enemies;

pray for those who persecute you; do good to those who hate you.

If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give himsomething to drink.

Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good(Rom. 12:17-21). Do not return evil for evil, or insult for insult. Return a blessing instead.

Those are just basic things of being a good person. In other words, it doesn't cost anything to be nice.

Christianity: The belief and acceptance in Jesus Christ as Savior of the world.

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Islam: The last message of God to all mankind. It was sent down upon prophet Muhammad (pbuh), recorded in broad outlines in the Qur'an, and described in detail in the Sunnah. Islam is an Arabic word which means "Submission to God".

Hmmmm...."Submission to God"

I could be wrong, but I don't believe God wants us to "submit" anything. If you'll notice the difference in the two words.....SUBMISSION AND ACCEPTANCE.

This is where the problem comes in.

(Although Muhammad does mention Jesus as a major prophet.)

Islam in and of itself is not bad.

It's RADICAL ISLAM we're talking about here. The radical Shi'ites who are the ones causing most of the problems have somehow taken this "submission to god" statement and made it mean EVERYBODY does this or die.

I submit there really isn't "radical christianity" in the world......sure some people like to shove their beliefs of Christ in your face...etc etc....but I don't see us taking out innocent women and children, do you?

Rosie, you lose again.......next time before opening your fat mouth, do some research, ask somebody.......or shut the hell up.

I'd gladly come on "The View" and debate this with you.

(maybe I'll bring Tom Selleck with me!)

Now, GO AWAY!

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Okay, my rant is done.

Hope everybody has a good weekend, I'm off to St Louis for the world softball tourney, I'll let ya know how we did. (unless we suck..heh heh)

TTFN!

D C

Dixie Chicks Lead Singer Natalie Maines Blasts Bush Again in New Documentary

Oh lets see, they rec'd a standing ovation from a bunch Frenchie Canadian losers...shocking. I wonder what happen if canada didn't benefit from our protection?

What's the matter Natalie, didn't learn your lesson the first time? Friggin' idiot.

Somebody call Toby Keith!!

Sales down a tad there Natalie? Need to do the political thing to drum up sales, Natalie?

How about this, you suck, your music sucks, your group sucks, and you're the one that's a dumb*uck.

The writer of this story calls "The Dixie Chicks" the "Bob Dylan protest" music of this generation......um......methinks not.

Now, go away.

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Britney Spears Gives Birth to Second Child in Los Angeles:

I'm sorry, why do we care?

Why did I even put this on my site?

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Interesting:

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or about 20% of the world population.Followers of Islam have received surprisingly few Nobel Prizes:Literature:1988 - Najib MahfoozPeace:1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat1994 - Yaser Arafat1990 - Elias James Corey1999 - Ahmed ZewaEconomics:(none)Medicine:1960 - Peter Brian Medawar1998 - Ferid Murad

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Now consider the Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, ...less than 0.03% of the world population and a freaction of the Islamic population.Followers of the Jewish faith have received the following Nobel Prizes:Literature:1910 - Paul Heyse1927 - Henri Bergson1958 - Boris Pasternak1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon1966 - Nelly Sachs1976 - Saul Bellow1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer1981 - Elias Canetti1987 - Joseph Brodsky1991 - Nadine Gordimer WorldPeace:1911 - Alfred Fried1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser1968 - Rene Cassin1973 - Henry Kissinger1978 - Menachem Begin1986 - Elie Wiesel1994 - Shimon Peres1994 - Yitzhak RabinPhysics:1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer1906 - Henri Moissan1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson1908 - Gabriel Lippmann1910 - Otto Wallach1915 - Richard Willstaetter1918 - Fritz Haber1921 - Albert Einstein1922 - Niels Bohr1925 - James Franck1925 - Gustav Hertz1943 - Gustav Stern1943 - George Charles de Hevesy1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi1952 - Felix Bloc h1954 - Max Born1958 - Igor Tamm1959 - Emilio Segre1960 - Donald A. Glaser1961 - Robert Hofstadter1961 - Melvin Calvin1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman1965 - Julian Schwinger1969 - Murray Gell-Mann1971 - Dennis Gabor1972 - William Howard Stein1973 - Brian David Josephson1975 - Benjamin Mottleson1976 - Burton Richter1977 - Ilya Prigogine1978 - Arno Allan Penzias1978 - Peter L Kapitza1979 - Stephen Weinberg1979 - Sheldon Glashow1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown1980 - Paul Berg1980 - Walter Gilbert1981 - Roald Hoffmann1982 - Aaron Klug1985 - Albert A. Hauptman1985 - Jerome Karle1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach1988 - Robert Huber1988 - Leon Lederman1988 - Melvin Schwartz1988 - Jack Steinberger1989 - Sidney Altman1990 - Jerome Friedman1992 - Rudolph Marcus1995 - Martin Perl2000 - Alan J. HeegerEconomics:1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson1971 - Simon Kuznets1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow1975 - Leonid Kantorovich1976 - Milton Friedman1978 - Herbert A. Simon1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein1985 - Franco Modigliani1987 - Robert M. Solow1990 - Harry Markowitz1990 - Merton Miller1992 - Gary Becker1993 - Robert FogelMedicine:1908 - Elie Metchnikoff1908 - Paul Erlich1914 - Robert Barany1922 - Otto Meyerhof1930 - Karl Landsteiner1931 - Otto Warburg1936 - Otto Loewi1944 - Joseph Erlanger1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser1945 - Ernst Boris Chain1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller1950 - Tadeus Reichstein1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman1953 - Hans Krebs1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann1958 - Joshua Lederberg1959 - Arthur Kornberg1964 - Konrad Bloch1965 - Francois Jaco b1965 - Andre Lwoff1967 - George Wald1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg1969 - Salvador Luria1970 - Julius Axelrod1970 - Sir Bernard Katz1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman1975 - Howard Martin Temin1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow1978 - Daniel Nathans1980 - Baruj Benacerraf1984 - Cesar Milstein1985 - Michael Stuart Brown1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]1988 - Gertrude Elion1989 - Harold Varmus1991 - Erwin Neher1991 - Bert Sakmann1993 - Richard J. Roberts1993 - Phillip Sharp1994 - Alfred Gilman1995 - Edward B. Lewis

Followers of the Jewish faith do not promote brain washing of children in terroist training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths to non-Muslims.Followers of the Jewish faith don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics.The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all Infidels.Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in education and less in blaming others for their problems.

Regardless of your thinking or belief about the crisis between Israel and their Islamic neighbors, the following two sentences describe the true situation:If the followers of Islam would today put down their weapons and stop teaching their children to hate, there would be a collapse of violence.
If the people of Israel would today put down their weapons, there would be a collapse of Israel.

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Thanks for stopping by, support the troops!

Later,

D C

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THE MARINE

This is a poem being sent from a Marine to his Dad. For those who take the time to read it, you'll see a letter from him to his Dad at the bottom.. It makes you truly thankful for not only the Marines, but ALL of our troops.

THE MARINE:

We all came together, Both young and old To fight for our freedom, To stand and be bold.! In the midst of all evil, We stand our ground, And we protect our country From all terror around. Peace and not war, Is what some people say. But I'll give my life, So you can live the American way. I give you the right To talk of your peace. To stand in your groups, and protest in our streets. But still I fight on, I don't bitch, I don't whine. I'm just one of the people Who is doing your time. I'm harder than nails, Stronger than any machine. I'm the immortal soldier, I'm a U.S. MARINE! So stand in my shoes, And leave from your home. Fight for the people who hate you, With the protests they've shown. Fight for the stranger, Fight for the young! . < /o:p> So they all may have, The greatest freedom you've won. Fight for the sick, Fight for the poor Fight for the cripple, Who lives next door. But when your time comes, Do what I've done. For if you stand up for freedom, You'll stand when the fight's done.

By: Corporal Aaron M. Gilbert, US Marine Corps

Hey Dad, Do me a favor and label this "The Marine" and send it to everybody on your email list. Even leave this letter in it. I want this rolling all over the US; I want every home reading it. Every eye seeing it. And every heart to feel it. So can you please send this for me? I would but my email time isn't that long and I don't have much time anyway. You know what Dad? I wondered what it would be like ! to truly understand what JFK said in His inaugural speech. "When the time comes to lay down my life for my country, I do not cower from this responsibility. I welcome it." Well, now I know. And I do. Dad, I welcome the opportunity to do what I do. Even though I have left behind a beautiful wife, and I will miss the birth of our first born child, I would do it 70 times over to fight for the place that God has made for my home. I love you all and I miss you very much. I wish I could be there when Sandi has our baby, but tell her that I love her, and Lord willing, I will be coming home soon. Give Mom a great big hug from me and give one to yourself too.

Thanks,

Aaron

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There is nothing I can say in my blog that would do justice to these guys

No...that's not true..there is one thing I think I can say that all our troops EVER ask for:

THANK YOU AARON!!

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When you tuck your kids in tonight safe and sound....thank God....

THEN THANK A SOLDIER!

'TIL TOMORROW

D C

(poem forwarded to me by my good freind robertab)

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Steve Irwin, Australia's 'Crocodile Hunter,' Dead at Age 44

This is a bummer.

I enjoyed watching his antics with animals as much as the next guy....but damn dude...it was just a matter of time. See, this is why God allowed us to invent, golf, and softball and whatever else. Playing with things like snakes that can kill ten full grown men with an ounce of venom....er......not good.

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Tests May Indicate 'Significant' Oil Discovery in Gulf of Mexico:

What? The enviro-whackos are actually letting us do this? Are we sure we haven't killed off the rare and endangered bottom-of-the-ocean-sanddwelling-giant-toe-picking-amoebas that live there?

Folks, there is LOTS more oil out there despite what they're telling you, we just have to go find it.

STORY LINK

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Iran's Ahmadinejad Challenges Bush to a Debate, Defies U.N. Nuke Deadline:

Okay dumbshit....how about this, I'll debate your retard towel head dumbass facist piece of crap, and you will get destroyed. I can guarantee you this, you'll be thinking twice about your beliefs when I'm done with you. (eh...never mind, maybe not,I'm sure you're way too brainwashed)

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Youth football coach allegedly attacks kid
Assistant Petero allegedly rushed field after his child received late hit:

Um.....not good coach. Nice example to set. I hope they make an example out of you, and you get the maximum.

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Well, I hope eveybody had a great weekend. I spent mine at the lake with some freinds for my g'freinds 40 th b-day.

Igot to watch the Iowa game with five hotties fromIowa City at Pickled Petes at the lake.....their names are being withheld to protect the innocent ; ) They had 10.00 bottomless cup ...glad I left when I did.

Well, thanks for dropping by......World tourney in two weeks!

D C

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VACATION

HEY GUYS I'LL BE ON VACATION UNTIL TUESDAY!

GOIN' TO DA LAKE! OZARKS THAT IS, PARTY COVE AND HORNY TOADS!

GO HAWKS!

CYA THEN!

D C

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Investigators Probe Why Comair Flight 5191 Used Short Runway

Wow, what a screw up this is going to turn out to be. Or already is I guess I should say. You'd think the tower would've been screaming at them over the radio to stop?

Maybe it was a deal like in the movie "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" where the tower was telling them they're going the wrong way, and the pilot looks at the co-pilot and says,

"The guys in the tower are drunk, how do they know where we're going?"

*groan*

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Survey: Gas Prices Drop to $2.87 Per Gallon:

Way to go Des Moines!

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T.O. going too far? WR reportedly fined $9,500:

God, does he EVER learn. Crybaby, hotdog, overpaid......doesn't think he has to practice, lazy....

I'll stop there.

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Annan demands Hezbollah release Israelis
U.N. chief says Israel must lift blockade of Lebanon:

Um...right, sure thing there Kofi. You have about as much credibility and clout now as a......well lets se....oh that's right you have no credibility or clout after the U N scandal(s).

Shut up, go back to whatever it is you crawled out of, or were hatched out of and did I mention shut up?

Buh-bye now

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Well, hope everybody had a great weekend. I played softball in the bruhah tourney in Kansas City, 1.00 big 20 ounce beers, pretty fun.

My girlfreinds boy went to Central Missouri States baseball camp yesterday and they clocked him at 84 mph on the gun. Pretty good. (he's 15 )

And lets see what else, off to the lake this weekend for said girlfreinds b-day....the big 40. (sorry honey) hee hee.

Anyway, I'll be at Pickled Pete's Saturday at Lake Ozark for the Iowa game, if you happen to be down there, stop on in and buy me a beer!

6 days 'til hawkeye football!

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Chicken Little and George Bush

This is from a letter in the Depressed Citizen today...er the Iowa City Press Citizen:
my response follows below

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The fable of the bird who raised the alarm about impending catastrophe has again become common knowledge thanks to Disney animators. Distinguishing between the prophet and the fool becomes much more complicated, however, when our politicians evoke fear in order to consolidate power. It is disgraceful, contemptible and effective.
"Terrorism" is Chicken Little's (and George W.'s) cry, but guerrilla warfare and even acts of terror have their roots in injustice. Iraq is occupied, Lebanon is occupied, and so is Palestine. Military force will continue to fail until the injustices are addressed and rectified.
The United States will continue to be mistrusted in the Middle East until its foreign policy embraces justice for the Palestinians. Israel will continue to be unsafe until it chooses to live in peace with justice with its Palestinian neighbors. And young American men will continue to be recruited (and subsequently die) for a foreign policy that considers the rights and safety of some people more precious than the rights and safety of others.

Paul MeyerIowa City

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MY RESPONSE:

"When our politicians evoke fear in order to consolidate power. It is disgraceful, contemptible and effective."

Um...Paul....little news flash here.....if I'm hearing you right, and I think I am...do these little incidents come to mind:

Planes flying into towers

Marines in Beruit

Kohbar Towers

U S S Cole

IMPENDING catastrophe? I think not. See Paul, it's not IMPENDING it's already happened, have you not been paying attention?

And yes Paul, Saddam had WMD's he used them on the Kurds....he would've used them on us. Unfortunately the libs like you, the Clinton lovers, the terrorist appeasers, and the blame America first crowd, are blind to that fact.

Paul, do you understand that Islamic facists have been around 200 years before the United States of America was even a thought? So to even suggest that it's our fault somehow, is just absolute blind march in step to the ultra left Bush hating appeasing idiots.

If anybody is to blame, try ole' Slick Willie for gutting our military and CIA and FBI to the point Usama and Sadddam thought we were weak enough to pull off a 9/11 with no consequences. Yes Paul, they were in it together, there's hundreds of documents PROVING it. Maybe Saddam wasn't directly involved in 9/11 but Al Qaeda had been training in Iraq for years...as well as Syria and Iran. And by the way, I've heard first hand a former terrorist say as much down here on the radio in K C.

So you're the ones trying the misdirection, smoke and mirrors stuff, not the Bush administration. Have they made some mistakes, sure. Going into Iraq was NOT one of them.

Wake up Paul, or your one of the ones going to be bowing your head every couple hours while prayer music blasts from loud speakers thru out the city. (what would the ACLU do then?)

D C

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California Candy Makers See Virgin Mary in Chocolate Drippings

Um...okay that's pretty cool I guess. If it helps her get thru whatever she needs to get thru...rock on.

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New Jersey Man Charged With Sex Crimes, 420-Plus Counts of Kiddie Porn:

I would say why don't we have the death penalty for idiots like this, but he won't last in prison very long. Why in the world would any country not let him be exradited because the country he is going to has the death penalty? Idiots.

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Death leap father 'murder charge'
He should commit suicide, hospital director reported as saying:

Uh.....the hospital director would be correct. You'll understand after you read the article.

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Hey, everybody have a good weekend! I have to go home and wallpaper the kitchen.....er.....maybe I'll just drink beer and let the g'freind do it! Yeah.....yeah...that'd be great!

14 DAYS TIL HAWK FOOTBALL!

D C

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D C

THE GRILL INCIDENT

Well, just when I think I'm catching on to the whole homeowners gig.......
We bought a new grill on Saturday, one of those nice new big things, was on sale for 170.00...normally like 320.00....good deal......get it home, heavier than hell, get it up on the deck......(thank god it was already assembled) trying to figure out how to connect the gas line to the propane tank........DEE DEE DEE turns out it's a friggin' NATURAL GAS LINE grill...not a propane powered one. No way to know that until you opened the manual AFTER getting it home.

By the way did I mention it was like 101 degrees Saturday?
So on top of that, upon further investigation I find a little "pick up later" slip inside the grill......that has somebody's number on it that had returned the grill previously.......so I call them up, and the SAME THING HAPPENED TO THEM, THAT'S WHY THEY RETURNED IT!
At this point, I'm ready to have pigs fly out of my *ss. So, I take it back to Lowes, and I am just going off on the manager, why don't you have some sort of a sign on this yadda yada yadda..........he was willing to give money back of course, but that wasn't the point at all, I said we needed a grill, and I want a propane powered one for 170.00 dollars! Well, he wasn't real sympathetic......UNTIL, get this........the returns lady standing there says, "You know, this is like the fourth grill I've had returned because of this same reason."
Upon hearing this the manager says, "Are you kidding me?"
He then turns to me and says,"Go pick yourself out a nice PROPANE powered grill......I don't care wich one, and we'll only charge you the original 170.00." heh heh
So, I picked me out a porcelain grate grill, with 4 burners and a side burner thingy...and all the bells and whistles, all for being a dumb*ss.
Although I was apparently the only one with enough cohonees to raise a stink about it......maybe I'm not such a dumb*ss after all.
hee hee.

My younger sibling has also had an incident with a grill, but that is referred to as the "Grilling incident" that landed him in the hospital with stitches, but that's a story for another time.

D C

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