Posts by giovanni tiso
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Profile of Sarah Palin in The Onion. Not incredibly inspired, by their standard, but I liked the Iraq War policy section
Just wants to give son the chance to shoot something smaller and more Muslim than the usual moose around their property.
Watching the horrific promo for terrorism at the RNC convention (in which they literally explained what 9/11 meant. The Ninth of September! I had been asking myself that question for years!), I was reminded of the far less satirical and immortal 9/11 issue of The Onion, aka The Holy F"#&%ing Shit! issue. They should have got a half dozen Pulizters for that.
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I'm still saying that this election is McCain's.
This could get interesting. I wonder if we could come up with a suitable wager (nothing as vulgar as a sum of money, I mean).
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Latest CBS polling shows McCain and Obama tied
Gallup and Rasmussen still at +7 and +5.
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I do think it's important though to not too quickly go down the road of observations that get accepted as facts when they can be rebutted easily enough by a bit of Googling
Guilty as charged here - I trusted Soledad O'Brien to have fact checked the claim. Very unwise, in hindsight.
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Alexander the Great, who himself was once a hockey mum
In that he kept mum about hockey?
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It totally holds because we are discussing how to revive rugby in New Zealand. People have lost interest in the current product, and in that product it's same old same old. Canterbury or Auckland.
When I came to NZ, the NPC was very popular. It had been won that year by Canterbury and the previous four years in a row by Auckland.
Here's the list of winners from 1981 up to that year:
1981 Wellington
1982 Auckland
1983 Canterbury
1984 Auckland
1985 Auckland
1986 Wellington
1987 Auckland
1988 Auckland
1989 Auckland
1990 Auckland
1991 Otago
1992 Waikato
1993 Auckland
1994 Auckland
1995 Auckland
1996 Auckland
1997 Canterbury -
Point of order, Giovanni
Yes, of course, you're totally right.
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When I get a bit tipsy, I like reciting that poem too. Except my version goes
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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I present you I'llbeanadvocateforspecialneedsgate. Turns out quite a few people contacted the media after that line in the speech to point out that, far from being an advocate for special needs as governor, she cut the budget in that area by 62%. But then of course she's only had a special needs child of her own since April.
So it's not families that matter in the plural, or even in the abstract. It's strictly your own family.
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So, I don't see how a tournament where the winner can almost be predicted before the season starts is going to interest people enough to watch it.
Plenty of people are interested in the EPL.
I can tell you that since 1970, the year when Cagliari won its first and only scudetto, Serie A has had only 8 winners, including Sampdoria, Lazio, Torino and Verona with one each, Roma with two. The other three teams won the remaining 20+. It hasn't hurt attendance in and of itself. So long as your team performs to expectations, whatever those may be, you get your share of fans. If you have a breakout season, you sell out, if it's a bust the fans stop coming. But often you'll find that of the two teams in Turin, Torino is the one that gets the most bums on seats, in spite of the fact its result's are nowhere near those of Juventus. So I think that theory doesn't hold.
I like parity and salary caps, but not because they keep people interested.