Tom Danehy: Some final thoughts on the general-election campaigns (Tucson Weekly)
The Re-taking of America: Over the past few weeks, I have asked 37 Republicans, many (but not all) of whom have uttered the phrase "take back America," exactly from whom they want to take back the country. A solid plurality (16 of them) answered with, "Well, you know." Yeah, I do know. The Darkie.
A Message from The Greatest Generation (NSFW)
They're our grandmothers and grandfathers, great-aunts and uncles, beloved counselors, kindly neighbors. They are the Greatest Generation. And, this election season, they've got some knowledge to drop.
M. Alice LeGrow: So You Want to be a Princess (bizenghast.com)
You've been lured in by the glamor of the career. The lack of benefits or insurance. The constant shin-punching from four year olds. The slices of cake ground into your hair. It all seems just too good to be true. But do you have what it takes to join these elite ranks? Do you have the look, the stamina, the experience and the drive to sparkle for hours on end and make dreams come true? Do YOU have what it takes to be rented royalty?
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The National Football League (NFL) is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing its name to the National Football League in 1922. The league currently consists of thirty-two teams from the United States.
The regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during which each team plays sixteen games and has one bye week.
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Maurice said:
At least three too many.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
The regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during which each team
plays sixteen games and has one bye week.
BttbBob responded:
Wait just a sec, here... Is this a trick question? Let me look at it again (humm, humm, humm). Nope... Looks legit. No literary 'booby-traps' or suchlike that I can discern... Wait!... Something still is-not-right... A sports trivia question? On the E!... Hmmm... (thought bubble: Is this really the E!? A sports question? Have I ever seen a sports trivia question before on the E!? Maybe somebody hacked the page... Well, no matter) I will state that each NFL team plays 16 regular season games. Caveat: The quality of play in said games, however, can not be guaranteed. I know... I'm a lo-o-o-ong suffering Detroit Lions fan ~ groan...
Charlie replied:
Sixteen, and each team gets a bye week, so the regular NFL season is seventeen weeks long.
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Play? You mean *really* play, or just how many games are scheduled? It varies from team to team really. Take the Green Bay Packers for instance, the Packers like every other team are scheduled for 16 games in the regular season, and they play in every one of them. They don't always win, but they play every game. Now take the Dallas Cowboys, please. Ha Ha, I laugh but I digress, the Cowboys (America's team because Dallas says they are) Okay, the Cowboys are the Mitt Romney of the NFL. They rush on the field, not knowing a damn thing about the game expecting to make it up as they go along. They pull something out of their butt and sometimes they win, sometimes they lose, but what ever they do they make a lot of money and claim victory. A lot of people believe it.
Now take the Detroit Lions, God love 'em, sometimes they play, sometimes they don't but every game they try. They really try. Sometimes they play fairly well and sometimes it's just an exercise in futility. But we love 'em. Go Lions! ROAR! And let's not forget Ndamukong Suh. I like candy.
I guess the number you are looking for is 16.
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HONOLULU - Crews from the Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA is way cool), and the State of Hawaii's Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement, from the Department of Land and Natural Resources are partnering together to protect humpback whales as they make their annual migration to Hawaiian waters... (from Alaskan waters). The Coast Guard aims to protect both the safety of mariners as well as the endangered humpback whales while in the sanctuary by direct communication with boaters. (Here's how it goes: "Attention! This is the U.S. Coast Guard! Heave to and stand by to be boarded!" Ah, yes. I know the drill well)...
(Yeah... Just like this...)
While on routine patrol, Coast Guard boats and air crews scan the area for signs of whales. If whales are sighted crews alert nearby mariners to ensure they remain away. It is illegal to approach within 100 yards of a whale (except for those allowed to by proper authority. Normally, that's not you, or me for that matter, now)... The Coast Guard's efforts to protect humpback whales are not limited to surface patrols. Coast Guardsmen act as first responders to entanglements and other marine mammal distress calls, and they are often the reporting source to NOAA and DOCARE. While on routine patrols, Coast Guard rescue helicopter crews from Air Station Barbers Point sometimes spot distressed marine mammals (Yeah, Rotor-heads help out, too)... The Coast Guard assists with an average of 12 to 15 whale entanglements each season and transports numerous marine mammals that are in danger to safer locations. CG Prepares for Return of Whales to Hawaii | Military.com
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'The Mentalist'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Revenge', followed by a FRESH'666 Park Avenue'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for news and other fluffery.
Faux fills the night with 3½ hours of 'The Simpsons'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers
[5:30PM] Constantine
[8:00PM] The Walking Dead (Walk With Me)
[9:00PM] The Walking Dead (Killer Within) FRESH
[10:01PM] The Walking Dead (Killer Within)
[11:00PM] Talking Dead
[11:30PM] Comic Book Men (Ming in Charge) (ALL TIMES EST)
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 07-08 - Episode 4
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Mountains
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Fresh Water
[9:00AM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Cabbie/Comedian
[10:00AM] DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
[12:30PM] ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
[3:30PM] THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
[6:30PM] THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
[9:00PM] FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
[11:30PM] DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
[2:00AM] THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 1 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay', followed by the movie 'Hot Tub Time Machine', 'Tosh.0', and 'Brickleberry'.
FX has the movie 'Armageddon', followed by the movie 'Salt'.
History has 'The Men Who Built America', another 'The Men Who Built America', followed by a FRESH'The Men Who Built America', then a FRESH'Outback Hunters'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] 2001: A Space Odyssey
[9:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[9:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[10:00AM] Galaxina
[12:00PM] Bunk
[12:30PM] Bunk
[1:00PM] Bunk
[1:30PM] Bunk
[2:00PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:15PM] 2001: A Space Odyssey
[5:15PM] Star Trek: The Motion Picture
[8:00PM] Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
[10:30PM] Transporter 3
[12:45AM] Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
[3:15AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Much Funnier Second Episode
[4:30AM] Bunk
[5:00AM] Bunk
[5:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Seth Rogen Wears a Plaid Shirt & Brown Pants (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Pilot (Episode 1, Season 1)
[7:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Dancing in the Dark (Episode 2, Season 1)
[8:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Guns and Gossip (Episode 3, Season 1)
[9:00A] Joy Division
[10:45A] Bulletproof Salesman
[12:00P] In the Loop
[2:00P] Wendy and Lucy
[3:30P] Joy Division
[5:15P] Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
[6:25P] Brokedown Palace
[8:10P] State and Main
[10:00P] Bend It Like Beckham
[12:00A] Colin Fitz Lives!
[1:30A] State and Main
[3:30A] Bend It Like Beckham
[5:30A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Comic Marc Maron & Community's Gillian Jacobs (Episode 2, Season 2) (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Swamp Shark', followed by the movie '2-Headed Shark Attack'.
(From L - R) Steven Tyler, Jimmy Fallon, Mark Rivera and Bruce Springsteen perform during Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together, a Red Cross telethon on NBC to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy, in New York, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012.
Why learn French when you could learn Klingon? The language created more than 30 years ago for the "Star Trek" race of long-haired warriors has moved boldly into pop culture where few other alien tongues have gone before.
With a new book about the classic Klingon starship, Bird-of-Prey, and a Klingon spoof of the "Gangnam Style" music video racking up millions of views on YouTube, Klingons are showing a fun side that outstrips their Trekkies fan base.
"Klingons are these big, mean tough warrior guys, but they are also funny, so it is fun to behave like a Klingon," said Marc Okrand, who created the guttural language and compiled the first Klingon dictionary in 1985.
Despite a tiny vocabulary of just 2,000 to 3,000 words, Klingon is the most spoken fictional language in the world, according to Guinness World Records. And last month saw a Swedish couple tie the knot in a Klingon wedding ceremony at London's "Star Trek" convention.
There is already a Klingon Language Institute, Klingon translations of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and the Book of Mormon, a Klingon version of the board game Monopoly, a Dutch opera sung in Klingon, an annual Klingon staging of "A Christmas Carol" in Chicago, and a guided tour of Australia's famous Jenolan caves near Sydney, conducted entirely in Klingon.
Singer Alicia Keys and her husband Swizz Beatz (C) watch the New York Knicks play the Miami Heat with their son, Egypt, during the teams' NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Nov. 2, 2012.
Photo by Ray Stubblebine
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis plans to open the balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to the public.
The museum was built around and includes the old Lorraine Motel, where King was staying when he was assassinated in 1968. Visitors had been able to see the balcony where King was shot but couldn't stand on it.
The museum's main building will close at the end of the day Monday for renovations. Officials hope to open the balcony to the public on Nov. 19, and they're installing a lift for disabled visitors.
A museum annex that includes the boardinghouse from which James Earl Ray shot at King also will be open during the renovation.
The showrunner of "Hell on Wheels" has parted ways with the AMC western soon after the announcement that it would return for a third season.
Though AMC has high-profile clashes before with some of its showrunners, statements from AMC and showrunner John Shiban suggested that that was not the case this time. The show's renewal depends on a new lead writer and producer being named to take over the direction of the series, but AMC expressed confidence that this would happen.
It also said Shiban had "made the personal decision that he will be unable to return as showrunner."
Added Shiban, in a statement released through AMC: "I'm very proud of our work on 'Hell on Wheels' and was thrilled to hear the show would have a Season Three. I have since made the difficult decision that the time has come for me to leave. I care deeply about the series and will do whatever I can to aid in the transition to ensure the continued success of the show. I truly value all the time I have spent with this wonderful group of very talented people."
Actress Whoopi Goldberg makes an appearance during Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together, a Red Cross telethon on NBC to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, in NYC.
Five centuries after Michelangelo's ceiling of frescoes was inaugurated in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday celebrated the "symphony of figures" contemplated during prayer.
Benedict marked the anniversary by saying vespers beneath the frescoes, as his predecessor Julius II had half a millennium earlier.
The pope said that contemplating the frescoes in the chapel of the Apostolic Palace renders them "more beautiful still, more authentic. They reveal all of their beauty."
At least 10,000 people visit the site each day, raising concerns about temperature, dust and humidity affecting the famed art. But a Vatican Museums official says there are no plans to try to limit tourists' access.
Brandi Passante wants the world to know that she won't get naked and give anybody a virus. And she's willing to go to court to prove it.
Passante, a buyer on the A&E reality show "Storage Wars," filed suit in U.S. District Court in Central California last week against Hunter Moore, former operator of the website Is Anyone Up, claiming that he published fake photos and video purporting to depict Passante in pornographic situations.
And, perhaps worse, the suit alleges, the video placed a virus on viewers' computers.
According to the suit, Passante first became aware that there were fake porn images of her floating around on the web earlier this month, when she received a tweet reading, "Love the pics" from Is Anyone Up's Twitter account.
On Friday, a U.S. District Judge issued a temporary restraining order demanding that the video and pictures be removed from any of Moore's sites, and barring Moore or anyone associated with him from publishing them.
Actor Larry David stands on the sidelines before the start of an NBA basketball game between the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts November 2, 2012.
Photo by Jessica Rinaldi
A California judge has tentatively ruled that a worker fired from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory did not lose his job over his intelligent design beliefs.
According to the Associated Press, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ernest Hiroshige has ordered a final ruling finding that former computer specialist David Coppedge was let go over personality issues and a refusal to keep up his skills' training. The final ruling is expected in full within 30 days.
Coppedge worked for 15 years on the Cassini mission exploring Saturn. In his spare time, he runs a website called Creative Evolution Headlines, which reinterprets recent science news in an intelligent design light. Intelligent design is the belief that a creator is responsible for life and the universe.
In his original complaint filed to the courts in 2010, Coppedge argued that NASA discriminated against him after he was reprimanded for handing out intelligent design DVDs to coworkers and speaking with them about his beliefs. After losing his "team lead" position, Coppedge filed a lawsuit against JPL.
Coppedge lost his job in 2011. JPL has contended that he was let go over conflicts with colleagues and a refusal to get additional training to secure his job even as the Cassini mission was downsized.
Television personality Jon Stewart makes an appearance during Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together, a Red Cross telethon on NBC to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy, in New York, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012.
Representative Michele Bachmann, known for controversial comments during her Republican presidential nomination bid, faces a tough congressional election challenge on Tuesday in a Minnesota district that should be friendly to conservatives.
The race in the sprawling Minnesota 6th Congressional District has been the nation's most expensive in both money raised and spent by Bachmann and Democratic challenger Jim Graves, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
The two candidates have raised a total of $22.7 million and spent $20.8, the center reported.
Bachmann, a champion of Tea Party backers of smaller government and conservative social issues such as opposition to abortion and gay rights, has outspent Graves by more than twelve-to-one in seeking election to a fourth term in Congress.
Residents view an effigy of U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong ahead of Bonfire Night celebrations in Edenbridge, south east England November 3, 2012. The 30 foot (10 metre) representation of the now disgraced cyclist will be burned.
Photo by Toby Melville
Two truckloads of walnuts, worth around $300,000 in total, have gone missing out of Northern California, and local deputies are after a man with a Russian accent who they say is the prime suspect.
Sheriff's deputies in Tehama County, an area noted for its walnut orchards, got a call from a freight brokerage firm on Oct. 26, reporting that a shipment of 42,000 pounds (19,050 kilograms) of unprocessed walnuts was still unaccounted for two days after it was scheduled to arrive in Miami, according to the Record Searchlight of Redding, Calif.
While deputies searched for the missing cargo, they found out that another shipment of 40,000 pounds (18,144 kg) of processed walnuts, also originating from Tehama County and supposedly headed for San Antonio, had gone missing after being picked up on Oct. 23.
In both cases, the man who showed up with a semi truck and a legitimate-looking purchase order was described as a 6-foot-2, 198-pound (90 kg) white male with a "very distinct Russian accent," said Lt. Dave Greer of the Tehama County Sheriff's Office.
Indian sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik applies finals touches to a sand art sculpture he created ahead of the U.S. presidential elections, during a 15-day exhibition entitled "Imagination in Sand" in Kolkata.
Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri
As he grins serenely and his burgundy robes billow in the fresh Himalayan wind, it is not difficult to see why scientists declared Matthieu Ricard the happiest man they had ever tested.
The monk, molecular geneticist and confidant of the Dalai Lama, is passionately setting out why meditation can alter the brain and improve people's happiness in the same way that lifting weights puts on muscle.
Ricard, a globe-trotting polymath who left everything behind to become a Tibetan Buddhist in a Himalayan hermitage, says anyone can be happy if they only train their brain.
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson wired up Ricard's skull with 256 sensors at the University of Wisconsin four years ago as part of research on hundreds of advanced practitioners of meditation.
The scans showed that when meditating on compassion, Ricard's brain produces a level of gamma waves -- those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory -- "never reported before in the neuroscience literature", Davidson said.
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