Friday, March 07, 2008

Trite, Hackneyed, Threadbare


Is how I would describe this Associated Press headline...

Drake kicks off postseason play Friday at MVC tournament

Luke Meredith is the sportswriter, but I'm not sure if he would've created the headline.

KICK OFF is the most overused media phrase to describe the beginning of any event.

I was going to say these media more-offs use it so much because they're lazy or ignorant, but it has to be both and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Here are the rules of basketball and it does not include a KICK OFF, you jack offs!

I first opined on this in 2006...

The only event were a KICK OFF takes place is FOOTBALL, American and otherwise.

RAGBRAI does not kick off! Taste of Des Moines does not kick off! there is NO
kick off to the National Balloon Classic! The Christmas shopping season does not kick off!

Sadly, I should not have to point out that a baseball game, a basketball game and a hockey game....DO NOT KICK OFF!

The next time you want to use the phrase KICK OFF for anything other than a FOOTBALL game.....EFF OFF!

On a side note...Here we go Bulldogs, Here we GO!

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Kick Off

To paraphrase Hobson, the Valet in Arthur, I'm alerting the media!

The only event were a KICK OFF takes place is FOOTBALL, American and otherwise.

RAGBRAI does not kick off! Taste of Des Moines does not kick off! there is NO
kick off to the National Balloon Classic! The Christmas shopping season does not kick off!

Sadly, I should not have to point out that a baseball game, a basketball game and a hockey game....DO NOT KICK OFF!

The next time you want to use the phrase KICK OFF for anything other than a FOOTBALL game.....EFF OFF!


Monday, March 31, 2008

Grand Old Game


The National Past Time returns in all its glory today.

Sure there were games last week, but it was in Japan at 5 a.m. in the morning with the Red Sox.

Plus DIRECTV had satellite issues and I couldn't see the opening game anyway.

The Ragister committed a cardinal sin on their front page today in a story about the Iowa Cubs bat boy.

"...the Triple-A ball club that will kick off its season on Thursday."

KICK OFF A BASEBALL GAME?

Whoever wrote that should be beaned and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I caught the end of the Nationals-Braves game last night and it was great that it ended in dramatic fashion, a winning home run for the Nats in the bottom of the ninth with two outs.

Naturally, most every one calls that a walk off home run.

They use the term incorrectly, it was first coined by relief pitcher Dennis Eckersley after giving up a game ending home run and he talked about a pitcher who must walk off the field with his head hung in shame.

I've heard commentators call a base hit a walk off single, yecch!

I'd be willing to wager that some idiot has called a walk with the bases loaded a walk off walk.

The Yankees begin a new era and end another with their game against the Blue Jays.

New manager Joe Girardi takes over and this will be the last opening day in the House that Ruth Built, Yankee Stadium.

Chris and I attended a Yankees-Red Sox series in 2004 at the Stadium and I recall being a bit underwhelmed by it.

I was much more impressed with Wrigley Field which is about seven years older.

I think the ultimate would be to see a Yankees-Red Sox game at Fenway Park, the oldest MLB stadium, and sit atop The Green Monster.

Sadly, a personal tradition takes a hiatus, as I will not be going to Kansas City next week to see the Yankees-Royals series.



Monday, May 12, 2008

CON job


In a TV interview Leonard BOZO-well made it seem he's too busy doing the peoples work in Washington to debate his Dummycrat opponent Ed Fallon.

BOZO-well's recent schedule, per his office, found him in Central Iowa.

Saturday, May 10
  • 8:00 a.m. Boswell will walk in the Arthritis Walk at Blank Park Zoo, Des Moines
  • 11:00 a.m. Boswell will attend the Sisters on Target, Brunch & Learn for Ladies meeting, DMACC Urban Campus, Building 1, Ankeny
Monday, May 12
  • 7:00 a.m. Congressman Boswell’s 3rd Annual Bike Work to Week Kick-off, Ride begins at the parking lot of the Central Presbyterian Church and ends at Boswell’s district office at 300 East Locust St., Des Moines
  • 11:00 a.m. Boswell will attend the Altoona Chamber Bruch reception, Adventureland Inn/Central Park, Altoona
Looks like there was plenty of room to discuss issues important to Iowa's 3rd district.

Kick-off?

Bikes have Kick STANDS, but you don't want to be Kicked-off a bike!

What's a BRUCH?

I'd be surprised if Bozo-well biked to work at his office and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Sports Best Time of the Year



























Kick-Off, We're gonna Kick-Off! (One of the two times it's used correctly).

College Football gets underway this evening in Iowa.

The Drake Bulldogs host their first game, against the U.N.I. Panthers in renovated Drake Stadium. It'll be a battle for the Bulldogs, as the Panthers were second in the nation in Division I-AA.

The Iowa State Cyclones host the Toledo Rockets at Jack Trice Stadium.

Chris' Iowa Hawkeyes host the Montana Grizzlies Saturday.

I'm a Bob Stoops fan, I thought the Hawkeyes should have hired him instead of Ferentz, thus root for the Oklahoma Sooners. They host the University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazers Saturday.

The New York Yankees have an 8 game lead in the American League East and hopefully can bring back World Series title #27 in October.

The Green Bay Packers have their final pre-season game tomorrow against the Tennessee Titans. The Pack will host their longtime rivals the Chicago Bears on Sunday September 10.

College Football, Pro Football, Major League Baseball.

For me it's the best time of the year, only if it didn't lead into Winter....Brrrr!

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Bupkis


Keith Murphy and some of the other Sport-o's at WHO HD are having trouble using the words zero or nothing when giving scores.

With the kick off of the World Cup there's going to be a lot of scores with goose eggs and the scientific community is united in that fact.

France, Uruguay post scoreless tie

To help, the Liter has compiled a list of words they can use in addition to their current repertoire of nil or zip --

Aught
Nada
Nadir
Naught
Nichts
Nix
None
Null
Ought
Zilch
Zot

Final score: Liter 13

Sunday, April 22, 2012

I Just Want To Celebrate

The news is full of Earth Day activities, most of which don't take place on this day.

Friday Central Iowa held a Trash Bash and it was a good thing that the sun was shining on that day because rain would delay it 3 days.

There's some commitment to Mother Earth for you and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Valley Junction is holding Earth Day in the Junction 5K Run Walk, be sure to click for driving directions.


Eastern Iowa chose to kick off their Earth Week Fair yesterday, with three special workshops appropriate for adults, children, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.

That's an interesting breakdown.

One of the workshops is called “Get Geocaching!” and geocaching expert John Morgan gave the basics of the treasure-hunting game that’s played using GPS devices.

It looks like cars are required as simple caches are often called "drive-bys," or "park 'n grabs".

Another workshop was “What on Earth? Climate Change & Severe Weather Safety”.

This premise is completely wrong as “There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized [property] losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change.” 

The Big Lug Nut was brought back into the news with a story on one of his pet projects, the Iowa Power Fund.

The BLN  called the program to support renewable energy research and development a resounding success by pointing to an algae production plant.

Algae? Isn't that President Obama's fuel of the future?

According to the BLN, the $4 million from the fund will grow substitutes for fish oil and proteins for feedstock.

Where's the power come into being?

Other Power Fund highlights(?) include, One company accidentally wasted most of its $1 million grant ordering equipment from an out-of-state supplier that went bankrupt and $2.8 million was spent studying a proposal to store wind energy that was later determined not to be feasible.

Don't forget the $19,000 given to Consumer Energy to study a plug-in hybrid electric car owned by Consumer Energy.

Results of the nearly two years of study found the plug-in battery used in the vehicle does not work well in the cold.

At the Statehouse two state senators got into a heated discussion about climate change, with Dummycrat Rob Boss Hogg playing the part of Al Gore -- “‘Scientists, including those representing 28 Iowa colleges and universities who recently released a statement, have warned us that changes in global climate patterns are brining more extreme weather events to Iowa, the United States and our world.’”

To which Republican Senator David Johnson responded -- “I’m on the side of the scientists I served with in Antartica and Greenland and I’m the only member of this body that has done that. And there is no agreement in the scientific community, no consensus that things have really changed because change happens.”

Johnson schooled the lawyer, who earned a master's degree in energy policy from the Hubert Horatio Hornblower...Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs.

Speaking of schooling, second grade students at Sunset Heights Elementary School in Webster City, and their teacher, will be on a Shower Strike this week.

They're promising to not take a shower or a bath until we’ve raised a thousand dollars to help build a well for a school in Kenya.

Here's hoping the winds blow out of the South until then.



Sunday, February 09, 2014

That's My Job

The commercial that defends Bruce Braley's support of Obamacare uses similar phrasing to MiniCommie.

Bruce Braley knows we need to fix the health care law, make it work for Iowa and hold insurance companies accountable. He knows we can’t go back to letting insurance companies deny coverage for pre-existing conditions and and kick people off their coverage when they get sick

The CONgressman has stated -- Iowans can’t afford to go back to the days when insurance companies could deny coverage based on preexisting conditions and cancel coverage when people got sick and increase their premiums without justification

Hell, Obamacare already does that and the scientific community is united in that fact.

49-State Analysis: Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Premiums By Average Of 41%

And

After weeks of defending the cancellation of health plans insurers discontinued in 2013 in order to comply with the Affordable Care Act’s coverage mandates, the White House announced in November of last year that it was urging insurers to reinstate those plans. The catch was, of course, that most insurers would be unable to turn on a dime and reinstate those plans. Furthermore, the administration allowed individual states leeway to determine whether or not they would even allow insurers to reinstate those cancelled plans.

Plus, In California, To hold down premiums under the healthcare law, major insurers have sharply cut the number of doctors and hospitals available to patients in the state’s new health insurance market.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Joe being Joe


Last week it was paying more in taxes is patriotic.

You have to question his patriotism on that and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Especially when it sounds more Socialist like Hellary's...We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

Biden then tried to defend it with...

"Catholic social doctrine, as I was taught it is, you take care of people who need the help the most..."

Said the man who over a ten year period has given only $120 - $995 per year to charity when the average American in his income level gives over $20,000.

Biden, pictured in a University of Delaware Fighting Blue Hen hat, told his fellow alumni...

"I was out in Ohio," he said, clutching a football. "I told the folks in Ohio that we'd kick Ohio State's ass!"

It sounds like Team Obama/Biden has written off Ohio.

Recently he talked with Katie Couric about the nation's economic challenges...

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'look, here's what happened.'"

When the stock market crashed in 1929, F.D.R. was Governor of New York.

If television was so popular, why did he do all those fireside chats on radio when he became President?

Now Biden shows how phony the Obama energy plan is...

"No coal plants here in America," he said. "Build them, if they're going to build them, over there. (Meaning China) Make them clean."

"We’re not supporting clean coal," he said of himself and Obama.

This just days after he told a group of United Mine Workers, in Virginia...

You know we have enough coal in the United States of America to meet out needs domestically for the better part of the next hundred to 200 years.”

"...investing it in coal gasification, finding out what we can do with carbon sequestration, finding out how we can burn the coal that you dig that can free us from being dependent on foreign oil countries and at the same time not ruin the environment."

Now the press (ABC) is picking up on Biden's Helleryesque Sniper Fire statement, that the Liter pointed out on September 10.

Yesterday Biden told the National Guard Association about the area where my helicopter was forced down...

Here's how fellow Senator John Kerry described the same flight that the pilot decided to land because of weather...

"We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs, but we didn't have to do it…Other than getting a little cold, it was fine."

Joes' been caught embellishing the truth regarding the accident that killed his first wife and their daughter.

Poor Joe, he's also got Barack pointing out his errors.

After Biden condemmed the ad making fun of John McCain for not sending e-mail or using a computer...

"I thought that was terrible by the way." the campaign later had Biden justifying the ad.

Obama also chasitised his runningmate's initial response to the bailout of AIG, because it was the same as Senator McCain.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Shooting your mouth off


...And inflicting wounds on yourself won't get you another Purple Heart Senator!

John Kerry in a Washington Examiner aticle titled, Meet the Next President: Kerry's Second Shot....

“I think I’d be a good president,” he adds, sitting on the wraparound porch of an old house in Keene. “I don’t care what the dominant, conventional wisdom is today; it will not be the dominant, conventional wisdom in a year.”

“We are making a mistake if we put up candidates that are only competitive in 16 states, and then we roll the dice and hope we win Ohio or Florida,” says former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, another Democrat eyeing the White House.

“I would say the same thing,” he says. “If I were lucky enough to do it again, I’m going to make sure we’re campaigning in way more states.”

Kerry says the only reason he didn’t compete in more states in 2004 was that he ran out of money. He says this was also the reason he did not adequately respond to a series of devastating TV ads by Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth, a group that questioned Kerry’s service in Vietnam and criticized his later opposition to the war.

“They had money behind the lies, and we did not have sufficient money behind the truth,” Kerry laments.

That's funny Senator Kerry it was known after the 2004 election your campaign had a SURPLUS!

The New York Times reported you had more than $14 Million in one account and I've seen reports that there was as much as $44 Million!!

As for the "SWIFTIES"

In December 2004 Your Campaign Director Mary Beth Cahill, at a Kennedy School of Government forum, called their initial media buy...."the best $40,000 investment ever made by any political group".

At that same forum Cahill alluded to the real reason you ignored the "SWIFTIES". The Kerry campaign thought that the SwiftVet ads would receive little news coverage, and thus that the ads would have no reach.

More from the Examiner....

Asked if he dreads the prospect of being “Swift-Boated” all over again, Kerry counters that he would relish such a fight.

“I’m prepared to kick their ass from one end of America to the other,” he declares. “I am so confident of my abilities to address that and to demolish it and to even turn it into a positive.”

Kerry’s tough talk triggers laughter from John O’Neill, a fellow Vietnam veteran who helped found Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth and wrote a blistering 2004 book on Kerry, “Unfit for Command.”

“Well, he’s got eight times as much time to prepare for us as he spent in Vietnam,” says O’Neill, referring to Kerry’s short tour of duty.

Well said Mr. O'Neill!

This nation, once again, owes you a debt of grattitude for your service in VietNam and in the 2004 campaign!!