From CNN:
Poll: Iraq speeches, election don't help Bush
From ABC News:
Poll: Bush's Approval Ratings Climb
No, this isn't an early episode of Headline News. But these contradicting stories from two different news services make me wonder about things.
Why would different polls about the same topic give such different results?
Easy. Polls aren't all that reliable. Which brings us to this inescapable conclusion:
We need to scrap the BCS and institute a playoff system.
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Breakfast 12-20-2005
Try one of these specials with your breakfast:
- Riehl World View says media bias is more than many think
- Hello Iraq says it's worth repeating...
- Down for Repairs says Winter's here already, but other stuff is coming
- Public Eye (Bachman) finds common ground with Iran
- SondraK has a new crush
- Firepower Forward says it's been a long year
- Freedom Folks says the Minutemen are being smeared
- Nehring The Edge reviews The Island
- Oystersnout does headlines. Oh, and made the six-month mark
- Confederate Yankee says the Times is getting Roved
- Tiffany (Blown Fuse) is taking interview questions
Monday, December 19, 2005
The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year … Not!
It's not that I don't like Christmas. But there are certain things about Christmas I don't like.
Traffic, for instance.
Okay, those of you that live in places where bad traffic is a day-to-day occurance don't want to hear about my little whine. But I got to wonder about living in that kind of traffic every day. I don't. And I don't like that kind of traffic at all.
Around here, traffic is really bad around Christmas. It's because so many people are out shopping. And that's another thing I don't like about Christmas.
For years it's been that Christmas is all about buying stuff. You got to buy stuff. Or you're a bad guy.
Not that I don't want to give special people special gifts. But what makes them special is when they aren't expected. But at Christmas, it's expected. And I don't like that.
Now, the look in a child's eyes when he sees something special ... that's wonderful. But does that make it all worthwhile?
That depends. Can you achieve the same thing without all that commercialization of the holiday? I think it can be done. But we're lazy people. So it's easier to go along with putting up with hearing "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" on the radio and bumper-to-bumper traffic than it is to make something really special.
No, I don't like lots of things about Christmas.
Check that.
I don't like lots of what's happened to Christmas.
Traffic, for instance.
Okay, those of you that live in places where bad traffic is a day-to-day occurance don't want to hear about my little whine. But I got to wonder about living in that kind of traffic every day. I don't. And I don't like that kind of traffic at all.
Around here, traffic is really bad around Christmas. It's because so many people are out shopping. And that's another thing I don't like about Christmas.
For years it's been that Christmas is all about buying stuff. You got to buy stuff. Or you're a bad guy.
Not that I don't want to give special people special gifts. But what makes them special is when they aren't expected. But at Christmas, it's expected. And I don't like that.
Now, the look in a child's eyes when he sees something special ... that's wonderful. But does that make it all worthwhile?
That depends. Can you achieve the same thing without all that commercialization of the holiday? I think it can be done. But we're lazy people. So it's easier to go along with putting up with hearing "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" on the radio and bumper-to-bumper traffic than it is to make something really special.
No, I don't like lots of things about Christmas.
Check that.
I don't like lots of what's happened to Christmas.
Headlines News 12-19-2005
From CNN:
Final passage of torture ban nears in Congress
Senators' heads held under water until they agree
From CNN:
Official: Terror head mistakenly released
Unfortunately, his body was released with it
From WGAL:
Black ice surprises drivers
Rev. Jesse Jackson calls report 'racist'
From WCVB:
Snoop Dogg's mom pleads for peace
Hopes Christmas dinner goes better than Thanksgiving
From WEWS:
Plunge from highway bridge was 'a sign'
Driver: Bill Engvall was right*
From KMGH:
Affidavit: Stylist stole Kevin Costner's laptop
Collector of bad movie scripts
From CNN:
Author of Roswell 'flying saucer' news release dies
Bright light he saw on deathbed was just a weather balloon
From CNN:
Cell phone driving on the rise
How cell phones obtained driver's licence still unclear
From CNN:
Groups sue to protect polar bears
Coca-Cola to appeal ruling, continue filming commercials
From CNN:
Weezer singer staying celibate
Rivers Cuomo wants to get laid, but just too ugly
Final passage of torture ban nears in Congress
Senators' heads held under water until they agree
From CNN:
Official: Terror head mistakenly released
Unfortunately, his body was released with it
From WGAL:
Black ice surprises drivers
Rev. Jesse Jackson calls report 'racist'
From WCVB:
Snoop Dogg's mom pleads for peace
Hopes Christmas dinner goes better than Thanksgiving
From WEWS:
Plunge from highway bridge was 'a sign'
Driver: Bill Engvall was right*
From KMGH:
Affidavit: Stylist stole Kevin Costner's laptop
Collector of bad movie scripts
From CNN:
Author of Roswell 'flying saucer' news release dies
Bright light he saw on deathbed was just a weather balloon
From CNN:
Cell phone driving on the rise
How cell phones obtained driver's licence still unclear
From CNN:
Groups sue to protect polar bears
Coca-Cola to appeal ruling, continue filming commercials
From CNN:
Weezer singer staying celibate
Rivers Cuomo wants to get laid, but just too ugly
Supper 12-19-2005
Try one of these specials with your supper:
- Oddybobo says last year's Christmas list did no good
- Dr Phat Tony looks at what some e-cards say about us
- Lost In Lima Ohio looks at the Florida sex offender registry
- Maggie loves her newspaper
- Mean Ol' Meany looks at the 4th Amendment
- Miriam's Ideas are on the wiretap issue
- MrsSatan isn't exactly wild about Harry
- Naked Villainy says the air marshalls did their job
- Neddy's Palavar has Longfellow's poem set to music
- Julie with a B has a pun. Oh, and we missed her blogiversary.
Lunch 12-19-2005
Try one of these specials with your lunch:
- SondraK picks a winner
- The Goober Queen has her to-do list
- Grandma's House thinks the Bold New City of the South has students that are too bold
- Hector Vex reports the Man with the Yellow Hat is losing his patience
- Jack Army says stuff needs doing
- GOP and the City is preparing for a strike
- In The Bullpen looks at Dubya's speech
- ScrappleFace has the original draft of Dubya's speech
- HundredPercenter News says the Iraqi Stock Exchange has potential
- Life-of-Rubin has more on Jew Da Maccabi
- Kerfuffles looks at the Trojan Donkey
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