Have a Good Read: Where is Joe Merchant?

Enjoyable as is most of Buffet's stuff. Title is prescient in that the search is fund but ultimately not conclusive.

Wednesday 5 Interesting Things

From Mike Lombardi What do William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president; Dom Capers, defensive coordinator of the Packers; and Colts new big-play wide receiver Pierre Garcon have in common? They all went to lovely Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio.

Seahwaks go green

Paddler goes for it

College Pick: USC over Cal

Favre books

Tuesday's 5

1. Top 4 NFL Teams: NFC Philly and Giants AFC Jets and Ravens

2. Trauma sucks!!!

3. Panhandlers

4. Weather view

5. Habit cheats

Monday 5 Interesting Things

1. Top 2 College Teams: Florida and Alabama

2. Win # 2

3. Language writer passes

4. Tigers sit rep

5. What I read recently

Have a Good Read: Acts of Nature

This one reads fast and interesting. Not really a mystery but a three part tail that is ultimately about survival.

Have a Good Read: Inside of a Dog

One of those books that is good but could be better. A lot of disparate bits of information but nothing that holds it all together and moves things forward.

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“The difference between “try” and “triumph” is the UMPH!” Isn’t that just a GREAT message?!

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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William A. Ward

Friday Five

1. Packers @ Rams Keys

2. Sleep and be well

3. Insurance company finances

4. Death Panels are real

5. Over the past 16 games the Packers are 5-11

Packers @ Rams Keys

Let me start by saying that in preface to game keys I will always list the following 3 for each game.

First the team needs to scoreTD's not FG's. Good teams do this.

Second each game the special teams need to make a +1 play be it a TD return, a key punt, strong coverage work, blocked extra point.

Third turnovers need to be created.

Call that general keys, my philosophy of football etc

In addition the Packers need to:

1. Have a more rhythmic effective passing game

2. Not allow the Rams Stephen Jackson to control the game

5 Things Thursday

1. Top 4 NFL teams: New York Giants and Atlanta in the NFC New York Jets and Ravens

2. bITD

3. '12' worlds

4. Our LT out

5. Another review

5 Items of Interest for Wednesday

1. NFL Suicide Pool Pick: Baltimore over Cleveland

2. Swine Flu Viewpoint

3. Rainy Day in NC

4. Dog Custody Battle

5. The Packers lead the NFL with a +5 in turnover margin; they’re the only team in the top six that isn’t 2-0.

5 For Tuesday

1. College picks: Southern Mississippi to upset Kansas (favored by 14) Michigan State to beat Wisconsin home standing and favored by 3 as MSU has had better prior competition.

2. Bill abortion facts

3. Tiger stadium gone

4. Ex Packer Sharper 2nd with 9 INT TD returns current Packer Woodson 7th with 7

5. Age of Stupid

Monday 5 Interesting Things

1. NFL players hail from 48 of 50 states - all except New Hampshire & Vermont.

2. Top College Teams: Florida and Alabama

3. First loss

4. Have a good Read

5. Franklin the original self taught man

Have a Good Read: Where Men Win Glory

A heavy book about the ulitmate life and death. A more interesting latter part of the book rather than the start.

Pat Tillman was not a simple pigeon hole guy. He was a football player, a thinker, a risk taker, a lover.

There are dual or perhaps triple sad parts: how Tillman died, why it happened and how it was used and covered up in the aftermath.

The answers are by freindly fire, because of a broken vehicle and an obsession with meaningless time lines and to serve political ends.

Its worth reading all of those stories and more in this excellent book!

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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

Helen Keller

Begals @ Packers Keys

Let me start by saying that in preface to game keys I will always list the following 3 for each game.

First the team needs to score TD's not FG's. Good teams do this.

Second each game the special teams need to make a +1 play be it a TD return, a key punt, strong coverage work, blocked extra point.

Third turnovers need to be created.

Call that general keys, my philosophy of football etc

In addition the Packers need to:

1. Protect the Passer!

2. Rush Palmer. Since his knee surgery he is not as mobile so the more rush the less effective he will be.

Friday 5

1. Packers game keys

2. Fort Bragg is home to 10% of the active army

3. Tigers @ Twins= Key

4. Super Typhoon

5. Witch dr.?

5 Things Thursday

1. NFL Suicide Pick... Minnesota over Detroit. FYI Week 1 was a winner

2. They were very specific: scumbags meant guys douchebags meant girls- George Carlin

3. Since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978, 442 teams won their opener. Of those teams, 233 went to the playoffs and 136 won division crowns. Now, compare those numbers to the 442 teams that lost the first game of the season. Of that group, only 103 went to the playoffs and only 58 captured their division.

4. Measuring success in war

5. Medal of Honor awarded

Via the story of the two wives of one man this book goes thru the past 30 years of Afghan history. Eerie how the women are treated.

One can read the book as a justification for continuing the war in Afghanistan by ending any chance of things like the Taliban existing. One can also view it as a justification to end the war as there are some things that never can change.

A deep and sad book with a lesson each must determine.

5 Items of Interest for Wednesday

1. School buses and garbage trucks-not ambulances-are the best lit vehicles on the road.

2. College Pick of the Week Texas over Texas Tech

3. Obama says jackass

4. USC QB injury

5. Martin joins Rams

5 for Tuesday

1. Michigan has 18% union membership, North Carolina 3.5%

2. Meaningless Stat of the Week:Brett Favre is the first quarterback in history to win opening games three straight years for three different teams.

3. Error aided win

4. Timeout Consequences

5. Top 4 NFL Teams Giants, Falcons, Chargers, Steelers

Monday 5 Interesting Things

1. Love how Michigan took a time out and then punched it in rather than settling for a field goal!

2. Top College Teams: USC and Florida

3. Broncos miracle play

4. Serena channels Johnny Mac +

5. Rogers tosses late winner

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Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stres and
the danger.” — Teddy Roosevelt, 1894, the foundation of his later “Man in the Arena” speech.

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"Give up TV, and you'll be amazed at how much time you have to run."

Kees Tuinzing, runner and publisher

Have a Good Read: Post Office

Can a novel about a career at the USPS be any good? Sure it can if its Bukowski and you throw in booze, broads and uncertainty.

The main character matter of factly drinks beer, whiskey, scotch etc. and works nites at the post office. Women are here and there sometimes for awhile sometimes perishing after a reunion.

Superbly cynical and pretty funny too.

Bears @ Packers Week 1 Keys

Let me start by saying that in preface to game keys I will always list the following 3 for each game.

First the team needs to score TD's not FG's. Good teams do this.

Second each game the special teams need to make a +1 play be it a TD return, a key punt, strong coverage work, blocked extra point.

Third turnovers need to be created.

Call that general keys, my philosophy of football etc

In addition the Packers need to:

1. Let Jay Cutler throw some picks, he is a bit Favre like in that he really likes his own arm.

2. Get some plays from the line backers no matter who they maybe.

Friday Five

1. Packer game keys

2. Disney movie history

3. Euthenasia news

4. Child media habits

5. Polamalu update

The Government takeover.....

In Cumberland County North Carolina 70 percent of people who visit Cape Fear Valley Hospital have either Medicare, Medicaid or Tricare. One way or another all government health insurance. Granted this is high due to the presence of the large and growing Fort Bragg.

Still about 15 percent of the population has medicare and another 15 percent medicaid. This adds up to 30 percent already insured by the government.

Any health reform will at the worst be a continuation of the governments role not an initiation!

5 Things Thursday Edition

1. Cell phone history

2. NFL suicide pick New Orleans over Detroit

3. Stafford outlook

4. Breach of protocol eh?

5. Lightweight books

5 Items of Interest for Wednesday

1. Space Station sighting guide

2. This week's college football pick North Carolina over home team Connecticuit

3. Suicide pools

4. Reporter raid

5. Senator Franken maps the USA

Have a Good Read: Inherent Vice

As is typical of Pynchon sprawling, but not as sprawling as some of his past work.

A trippy perhaps nostalgic look back at the butt end of the 60's as they bled into the 70's.

An appealing main character and some intriguing sub plots makes it a good read.

5 For Tuesday

1. Top 4 NFL Teams: AFC San Diego and Pittsburgh NFC: Giants and Atlanta

2. The hugely controversial for no good reason school speech

3. Health Care Progress?

4. National Affairs Magazine

5. Happy 2nd Anniversary to the my wife and the love of my life Jennifer.

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Virginia Woolf noted to herself: “The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw.”

Monday 5 Interesting Things

1. Sail a long ship

2. Roz arrives

3. The 53 and the PS

4. Top College Teams: Florida next up Troy and USC @ Ohio State

5. Free sandwich

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“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.“ – Eleanor Roosevelt.

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"The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently."

Bill Bowerman, running coach

Friday 5

1. Medical bills have consequences

2. QB Poll

3. Girls and Spiders

4. NFL scared by Tweets

5. Sin Map

5 Things Thursday

1. A full back dilema


2. The new Romo Girl


3. Ethiopian Sun Dried man...


4. BHO on EMK


5. Rogers SI cover

5 Items of Interest for Wednesday

1. Edgerin James is the active leader in rushing yards

2. Good news the school district in Chappaqua, N.Y., is setting aside 40 minutes every other day for all sixth, seventh and eighth graders to read books of their own choosing.

3. Black Crowes double

4. UM situation

5. Week 1: Alabama V. Virginia Tech

5 For Tuesday

1. Seal Med bag

2. Coaching notes

3. Disney buys the Hulk

4. Agreeing with Cheney?

5. NC taxes increase