Do you realize that 9 of the 12 2011 SEC teams are 'bowling' this season? Add Texas A&M and Missouri, and the SEC has 11 of its next season's 14 members playing in a bowl game.
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Online headline/story: "Mitt Romney: Obama Campaign Promises As Good As Kardashian Wedding Vows * he said. "I think the gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I’ve seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of til death do we part." -- What was Romney thinking? There's no comparison between a potUS O'Blather promise and a Kardashian one... you could have HOPE in the one Kardashian made.
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Happy New Year...Those dead trees in the Veterans Parkway renovation are still there and still dead. Isn't it cold enough yet?
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L-E headline: "Nearly half of likely Iowa voters undecided " -- But only about who they want to replace potUS O'Blather with...
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The report concerning the current and future costs to taxpayers for funding our state government's "unused time off" program just accentuates the abuse of government benefits. In effect, employees get paid twice for vacations they should have taken, and for days they came in sick anyway. In addition, it raises the final year's pay which wrongly boosts the salary equation their pensions are based on. It's time to eliminate all such programs. Private industry doesn't do this (well, possibly with some union situations excepted).
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With the BCS Championship game being played in the New Orleans between LSU & Bama, maybe the Jan 3 "sugar bowl" game between two foreign teams should be renamed the "High Fructose Corn Syrup Bowl".