From the "what were they thinking" department: "Sugar Bowl - Alabama versus Oklahoma? Why not Bama vs Ohio State? The two teams were undefeated going into their last game, and a Sabam-Meyer matchup would have been fantastic.

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Online "headlie": Matt Prater sets NFL record with 64-yard field goal * The previous record was 63 yards, which was held by Tom Dempsey, Sebastian Janikowski, David Akers and Denver-great Jason Elam." -- Wrong! Tom Dempsey's 63 yarder will always be the longest... Dempsey kicked his from his own 37 yard line, He was not even within first down distance to the 50. He was a club-footed straight on kicker with a specially built shoe. No, Tom Dempsey will always have the longest field goal.

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Detroit Lion defensive lineman Alex Karras was on Johnny Carson right after the Tom Dempsey kick. Karras summed up the magnitude of what Dempsey did. Karras said that he turned to watch the ball because he didn't want to miss history if it was good.

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Online story: "Lockheed Martin challenged a crew of 200 engineers to use their problem-solving skills to build a car in one day * Turns out, they didn't even need a full 24 hours. In just nine hours, the car was assembled. The engineers, who normally work on top-secret military space programs, started the day knowing nothing about building cars. By the end, they had assembled a car capable of traveling 100 miles per gallon. * What they built was a prototype for a highly efficient commuter car developed by an organization called WIKISPEED. But they did more than just assemble a car. The design had several flaws that engineers had to be overcome for the car to work. Lockheed Martin hopes the challenge revved up the engineer's creativity and sense of teamwork." -- Hmmm... there's the real possibility of a dilemma here.. either Lockheed Martin just knocked Government Motors for a loop, or being a government contractor for military/space vehicles, the car they built would cost $20,000,000.00 a pop at retail.

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Random thought: Jesus was born some 2000 years ago. Would things be different if he'd been born this year instead.. would he have ridden into Jerusalem on a donkey or perhaps in a Mustang. Would the Magi have traveled by camel caravan or in a Dodge Caravan, or perhaps flown? Would Jesus's birth be recorded on YouTube?

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Online story: "SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A day after arriving home to California, the 85-year-old U.S. veteran detained for weeks by North Korea said Sunday that he was well-fed and kept comfortable in a hotel room, not a jail cell." -- Blah, blah, blah, blah... I want to know the real reason he snubbed Bleep Veep Biden's flight home on Air Force 2.

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HuffPost headline: "Leaked documents a new blow for Obama administration * The Huffington Post obtained documents, apparently leaked by a foreign nation, showing a set of controversial and radical new proposals." -- Hmmm, "leaked" is really an appropriate word to use when discussing Judas 00-bama... he's 'leaked' on us since he's been in office.

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Bill Gates is on a mission to replace 'the egg' and 'the chicken' He's backing two companies focused on plant-based alternatives. Now the important question: What GOES first, the chicken or the egg.aybe we would be better off just eliminating the 'egg-head".

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Online story: "A Christian baker in Colorado refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding. A judge is now ordering him to do so or face financial penalties." -- You know, how can a judge order the baker to be more tolerant, but not require the plaintiffs to be as tolerant as well. This is an abuse of the court system. The baker turned down business for a reason he finds important, but the plaintiffs are foolish for still wanting that baker to make their cake.. Doesn't the "chocolate pie" scene from "The Help" come to mind?

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WTVM9 headline: "New GED test may be tougher for poor" -- Huh? How does the GED test KNOW whether the taker is poor? I guess government just has to make sure that people who aren't successful are so because they are "victims", not just ill-prepared because they haven't taken what was offered free seriously.

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Blah, blah, blah... Online story: "The White House acknowledged Thursday that President Obama briefly lived with his Kenyan uncle as he prepared to attend Harvard Law School, despite insisting in 2011 that there was no record of the two ever meeting." -- How can Judas 00-bama claim to be transparent when the only time we know the truth is when we see him with egg on his face?

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This latest executive order Judas 00-bama has made allowing for wind farms to be exempt for 30 years from responsibility for slaughtering eagles just flies in the face of every knowm EPA decision, The EPA has blocked major property developments because of puddles it calls "wetlands", and has stopped dams that would create irrigation systems for farm because some 'snail darter' is in the stream. Where the heck is Robert Redford and his Sierra Club?

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McClatchy story: "MIAMI _ In mid-July, a public health clinic in Miami faced such a sharp increase in new Cuban migrants walking in for required health screenings that it had to expand its hours of operation. * The number of Cubans going to the Florida State Department of Health clinic surged by 20 percent that June" -- Hmmm, musta been the thought of ObamaCare compared to CastoCare, but don't worry, they probably go back now that they know they'd be getting OObamaCRAP.

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McClatchy "headline"/lie: "McClatchy-Marist Poll: 68% of Americans expect no budget deal by shutdown deadline * WASHINGTON — A Congressional budget deal expected this week might not be a grand bargain to solve the country’s long term fiscal woes, but it is largely what Americans want, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll. * The likely deal would ease the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester, with more defense and domestic spending, no major cuts in popular programs and no big tax increases – all what majorities of American voters prefer, according to the survey." You know, McClatchy's poll analyst should be fired... 68% of Americans don't want wasteful government programs to grow nor want a military budget that weakens our presence and future security. That's what the poll says when it reveals that 68% don't think the Obamarats have a chance at getting that stuff passed.

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Here we are in the middle of the Christmas shopping season, and students' loan debts are already higher than consumer credit card debt will be whn Christmas arrives. It's more than ironic that students who aren't working, and more likely not to find a job on graduation have more personal debt that people who are working..yes, that's MORONIC!

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Online story: "Dec 7 (Reuters) - Internal JPMorgan Chase & Co emails and computer files being examined by U.S. authorities show that the bank favored hiring people from prominent Chinese families in order to win investment banking business, the New York Times reported on Saturday." -- Well, just spit in my grits! Sounds like China is just like the good ol' boy nepotistic system preferred by the Ivy Leaguers.

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Online story: "KIEV, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Crowds toppled a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in the Ukrainian capital and attacked it with hammers on Sunday in the latest mass protests against President Viktor Yanukovich and his plans for closer ties with Russia." -- Wow... I didn't think any of these monolithic personal tributes to despots still stood. I guess finally they don't.

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L-E's "Quotable": “We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.” - Ivan Illich American sociologist (1926-2002)" -- Hmmm, little did Ivan Illich realize that Judas 00-bama would come along so quickly and DEFINE the difference between "HOPE" and "EXPECTATION".