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  1. McCain is a lot closer to a real Republican than anybody the R's have trotted out since before I entered high school; in fact, he's probably the most legitimate real Republican since Ike, and Eisenhower first ran for the White House long before I was born. That's probably the primary reasons the GOP's current leading lights are squirming -- they aren't real Republicans and they don't know how to deal with a real Republican. Wait ... are you one of those people who think that a "real Republican" is one of those people Barry Goldwater (whose Senate seat McCain now holds) rightly and accurately called "a bunch of kooks?" As Goldwater said, those people have done more to hurt the GOP than the Democrats.
  2. Huck's at the end of the line. Significantly less than a million bucks left in the bank. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/money/gop.html
  3. Would have made a lousy, easily-beatable nominee and (God forbid) a worse president.
  4. I am reminded of a line from that Tommy Lee Jones magnum opus, Men In Black ... A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Everything they've ever "known" has been proven to be wrong. A thousand years ago everybody knew as a fact, that the earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. :lol:
  5. That was two weeks after denying that any USAF planes were in that area that night.
  6. The Phoenix Lights, 1997. Seen by people all over Arizona, Nevada and the Mexican state of Sonora.
  7. Pikeville's a daily now. (As long as you don't think Monday and Tuesday are days. :lol: At any rate, the Kentucky Press Association includes the News-Express in the smallest of its three daily categories.) I believe the Floyd County Times in Prestonsburg is also an AP member, but I would be quite surprised if the sports editor there votes. There may be a few other non-daily members as well, but none that I can think of off the top of my head.
  8. Especially considering that the King James Version is itself filled with mistranslations and missing information. As New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman has noted, "The Authorized Version is filled with places in which the translators rendered a Greek text derived ultimately from Erasmus's edition, which was based on a single twelfth-century manuscript that is one of the worst of the manuscripts that we now have available to us!" {1} (Erasmus' edition is the Textus Receptus.) The belief that the KJV is the only acceptable version of the Bible is a prejudice common to English-speaking fundamentalists. In the end, any version not based directly on the Masoretic Text -- including the KJV --- is probably questionable. {1} Ehrman, Bart. Misquoting Jesus. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.
  9. Fasten, then zip? Or zip, then fasten?
  10. The Rock says ... SECOND TEAM DEFENSE DL;–;Ivan Lee, Belfry, 5-11, 256, Jr. LB;–;Dustin May, Belfry, DB;–;Joe Nichols, Pike Co. Central, HONORABLE MENTION: QB: Hunter Adams, Middlesboro; RB: Nathaniel Gilliam, Cumberland; Daniel Harmon, Pikeville; Rec: Chris Atkins, Shelby Valley; Brandon Helton, Evarts; K: Monte Merrick, Bell Co. DL: Phillip Hickman, Belfry.
  11. Linksys WRT54G. Forget the one with then "Speedbooster" technology --- you won't need it and I'm not sure it actually does anything. Forget about anything claiming 802.11N technology --- that is a rough-draft standard that won't be finalized for another 18 months. Do not buy Belkin --- other than their USB hubs, they make junk. Linksys is a division of Cisco Systems, and they probably have the whole networking thing figured out. :lol:
  12. FACT: At many newspapers (I daresay most newspapers under 100,000 circulation, for sure), if you come in for a job interview and ask for a salary equivalent to that of a first-year teacher, you will be shown the door. The back door. Oh, you parked around front? Terribly sorry. Have a nice walk. It's good for you!
  13. Every member of the AP (TV, radio, print) is eligible to submit a ballot for the state football and basketball polls, All-State awards in those sports, and Mr. Football. Obviously, not every member votes. Some places, nobody cares. Some places, there's a guy who wants to vote but doesn't feel comfortable because he feels like he doesn't have enough information. Some places, and especially at smaller newspapers like I used to work at, the guy just doesn't have time. (Self congratulatory blather deleted. Ignore this line.) So there's three things to think about: interest, knowledge and time. And nobody's getting paid to spend time thinking about the AP ballot, other than maybe Fields and Demling --- the situations at Louisville (big staff, and guys who specialize in high school coverage) and, say, Pikeville or Middlesboro's newspapers (one- or two-man staffs trying to get everything, just about every day) are far different.. At most of Kentucky's AP members, that vote only happens if somebody's able to spend extra time to pull it together, unpaid. That's just the way it is.
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