Fishersville Mike

• Alabama vs. Texas

  
  Elisha Cuthbert (via The Classic Liberal) in Texas colors vs. a certain Alabama-loving blogger in his swimsuit.
  Any questions? Maybe if he goes to Pasadena, he'll get some color.
  
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 7:02pm EST
  

• Blogger peer review

  I like this phrase from the Wall Street Journal.
  Unlike Watergate, Climategate didn't come to light because investigative journalists ferreted out the truth. Instead, this story so far has played itself out largely on blogs, often run by the same scientists who had a hard time getting printed in' [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:11am EST
  

• Working on health care reform

  How come when I read about various Senate amendments to the health care bill, I think of these guys?
  
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 8:27am EST
  

• The "Health Care Reform" Bowl

  The Ravens lost to the Packers Monday in a game featuring seven turnovers and 23 penalties for 310 yards. So many mistakes, you'd think Harry Reid was running the show.
  All the penalties reminded me of the health care bill.
  GrandpaJohn has a picture of the star of' [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 6:49am EST
  

• Limos and private jets

  Thanks to the London Daily Telegraph for catching us up with the Copenhagen silliness. They supply the numbers to enhance the snark.
  h/t Instapundit [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 4:34am EST
  

• Monday Night ugghh

  The Ravens trail 17-0 at halftime.
  Lots of penalties, turnovers and sluggish offense.
  Like watching the Senate debate health care. [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:12pm EST
  

• Really stuck on Stupak

  Will dealing with abortion in the health care reform bill tear the Democratic party apart? One can only hope.
  The Stupak amendment in the House's bill has been driving progressives crazy ever since. Blue Virginia links to a meeting of folks hoping to pressure Democrats who voted for Stupak.
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 6:55pm EST
  

• Rotten Reid

  Apparently, all wrong decisions in the history of the entire world can be traced to the current Republican senators. At least Harry Reid seems to think so.
  Jonah Goldberg takes apart the thought that being against this health care reform bill is the same as opposing the Civil [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 5:54pm EST
  

• Your climate summit update

  Instapundit brings together the important numbers from Carbonhagen, I mean Copenhagen. [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:49pm EST
  

• How to get the left to like global warming

  Remember, if the sea levels rise, Rush Limbaugh will have to leave his oceanfront mansion in Florida.
  Don't you feel better about the seas rising now?' [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 1:16pm EST
  

• Facebook friend

  Dan Riehl has a good take on Sarah Palin's use of Facebook to advance her agenda.
  Talk about stripping away the media filter, or going over the media's heads? Every time Obama launches another new initiative, there is Sarah Palin on her Facebook page trying to knock it down.
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:11am EST
  

• Filling in on the nature desk

  SWACgirl is known for posting her pictures of the Augusta County countryside. But this weekend we have the first snow of the season and she's not here. What to do? SWAC Corps bloggers fill in.
  David put up a pair of links.
  I offered an early picture [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 6:13am EST
  

• Who fell for the hoax and who didn't

  Don Surber lists the groups who accepted warnings of global warming - and those who were right. [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:38am EST
  

• Hook 'em Horns - It's Science

  We have 32 days of hype until Alabama and Texas meet for the college football title at the Rose Bowl.
  Time for some learning. Mrs. Fishersville Mike, doing some research for her graduate education, found a Youtube video about the "Hook 'em Horns" hand sign. It's research to learn how' [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 8:34pm EST
  

• Will Stacy McCain claim credit for this?

  Via Sports Media Journal, the Alabama-Florida game gave CBS its best ratings for a regular season football game since 1989.
  The best ratings ever for an SEC championship on CBS.
  The best ratings of a non-bowl game since 2006.
  Was the reason
  
  1. [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:59pm EST
  

• Undefeated teams watch

  The Colts won, making it to 12-0. They get Denver next Sunday as the Broncos appear to be moving back up.
  The Saints came back somehow to beat the Redskins in overtime. They visit the Falcons next Sunday, with four games to go to a 16-0 regular season. The Aint's' [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 4:55pm EST
  

• Snowy sunrise in Fishersville

  
  It's a frosty morning after Saturday's snow. But it's enough melting time to get schools open Monday.The sun is coming up over Skyline Drive in the far distance.
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 7:41am EST
  

• Finding Mike, Jon, Ron Announcing

  It's time for the Monday Night Football game I've been waiting for all season - the Ravens against the Packers. The team I root for against the one Troglopundit and GrandpaJohn like.
  And it looks like there might be snow. Football in the snow is great TV. I don't [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 7:06am EST
  

• Other "Family Ties" news

  So Meredith Baxter, after three marriages and being a famous TV mom, decides to come out as a lesbian.
  What's her Family Ties TV husband, Michael Gross, up to? His smiling face is on the website for the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore. My grandfather worked with the [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 10:39pm EST
  

• Mark's number two

  The Boston Herald tells the distressing news that John Kerry is no longer the richest senator.
  Kerry's now number three, trailing Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and Virginia's Mark Warner.
  Obviously, Warner knows more about investing and good financial decision making than Kerry. That's not a high bar to reach.
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 6:16pm EST
  

• DPV live feed

  Blue Virginia sees the Republicans' live feed from Williamsburg and wonders where the Democrats' feed is.
  I think I found an excerpt from it.
  
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 2:31pm EST
  

• A Global Warming scene

  
  It's a snowy day in Fishersville, from four to seven inches of snow forecast.Troglopundit has the quick link to the Automotivators. [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 2:12pm EST
  

• Not so fast, my friend

  Lee Corso picks Alabama to win.
  Kirk picked Florida.
  Game time is approaching. [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:02pm EST
  

• Maybe Deeds should write a book

  I wonder if Creigh Deeds has checked out Sarah Palin's book. He could write about his bad experiences on the campaign trail in 2009.
  I doubt he'd have the lines at book signings like Palin did, but I have a title idea for him -
  "Virginia Going Rouge."[...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 10:06am EST
  

• Snow in Fishersville

  
  At 7:30 a.m., snow has begun falling in Fishersville. Snow on Dec. 5 is okay in the Shenandoah Valley.Snow on a Saturday is hard for the boys to deal with. Will it be enough to close school Monday?If it's seven inches, then probably.[...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 7:31am EST
  

• Crabs for Christmas

  If you're not from Baltimore, you've probably never heard of David DeBoy and his Christmas song. Enjoy.
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:53pm EST
  

• Blast from the past

  Through Facebook, I connected with a friend from my college newspaper. He wrote a note about TV shows from the 70s, and mentioned the Gong Show.
  That got me thinking, and I found this video of "Gene, Gene, the Dancing Machine." I think you can see young David Letterman in [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:31pm EST
  

• Do as we say (or else)

  Tertium Quids looks at what Virginia's senators are thinking and doing about the health care reform debate. [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:15pm EST
  

• Time to go back to being Eldrick

  His name makes Tiger Woods too great a target for jokes. Sorry Tiger, that's the way it is.
  Just got a pair of new jokes through Facebook.
  "When speaking of his multiple mistresses I heard him exclaim "They're Grrrreat!"
  And
  "Did anyone else notice that these three girls all look' [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:45am EST
  

• Global warming skepticism - it's so easy

  Whatever you think about the emails from the Climate Research Unit - proof of lies or just scientists talking (and we're sorry you don't understand the lingo) - it's hard to think the world is warming when you watch the Today Show Friday. And see that snow is expected in [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 10:08am EST
  

• Oughts for naught

  Is the '00 decade almost over?
  Time for a month of looking back at the first 10 years of the 21st century. Troglopundit finds a link to the 10 most watched TV shows of the last 10 years.
  We have a month of these look backs across all media.[...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:44am EST
  

• Weekend watchdog

  Remember back 20 years ago, when conferences determined their champions through their regularly scheduled games? Then the Southeastern Conference picked up South Carolina and Arkansas to become a 12-team league, and used a rule established for a Division II league to have their own December conference championship game.
  Saturday, football [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 6:27am EST
  

• It's a Warmerful Life

  Mark Steyn's take on the latest global warming scare ad.
  A new commercial shows polar bears dropping from the skies onto city streets and crushing the cars below. To those of us who still quaintly recall 9/11, it evokes grotesquely those poor souls who chose to jump from the' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:57pm EST
  

• Going Red

  Kellie Pickler has decided to color her hair, going from blonde to red. Going red is good in politics, and also in hair coloring.
  I heard her talking about the change on the radio. She said she might go with purple hair sometime.
  I didn't' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:16pm EST
  

• Long in the tooth

  NRO's Campaign Spot lists the Democratic House members over 60, starting the long post with the 29 members over age 70.
  There are four House members over 80. Three of them are from Michigan.
  Guess all the young people have moved out, and they are the ones left.[...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:16pm EST
  

• Choking off stimulus

  Chris Graham at the Augusta Free Press looks at the struggle of one business trying to get help from the government's stimulus act.
  Graham likes to focus on government doing a better job with its money, seeing Mark Warner as an example of doing that right.
  Read the whole [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

• More on a town without pity

  Michelle Malkin has an update on the Oregon man whose medical plight was the subject of a New York Times' column Sunday.
  At the time Kristof’s article was published this past Sunday, Brodniak was already being treated and cared for by some of the best neurologists in the country![...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:43am EST
  

• Tiger, remember Fuzzy

  Tiger Woods is trying to make his way out of the rough. It's going to be tough.
  Just ask Fuzzy Zoeller, still remembered for a poor joke he made 12 years ago.
  Sweden's Jasper Parnevik has the words Tiger should have remembered.
  "It's a private thing, of course," [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:08am EST
  

• Have a Merry Redneck Christmas

  Every snowman ought to wear a camo hat.
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:05pm EST
  

• Jimmy V week

  ESPN begins a week of promoting the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research Wednesday night. One of my favorite parts comes at 55 seconds on this clip, where coach V reacts to the teleprompter.
  That screen is flashing up there thirty seconds like I care about that screen right [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 7:24pm EST
  

• A Stupak for Senate

  NRO's Corner reports that Orrin Hatch is working on an amendment like the Stupak Amendment in the House.
  Good news. [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:49pm EST
  

• It figures

  We should have seen the problems with Global Warming data coming.
  The guy is from Penn State.
  The 11th member of the Big Ten.
  Figures they would have trouble with figures.
  I trust an original member of the Big Ten. People from Minnesota. [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:49pm EST
  

• So that's what he meant

  Pat in Shreveport has the new official spelling of Taliban, based on President Obama's pronunciation.
  Tolly-bohn.
  You've got to trust an English teacher on that.' [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 10:50am EST
  

• Politicians speak; soldiers implement

  Lots of talk about President Obama's speech about Afghanistan.
  National Review's Rich Lowry looks at where the real action is going to be.
  I went back and looked at Bush's speech announcing the surge. It holds up very well. It's prescient even. But at the time, as a piece [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:14am EST
  

• ACORN's team

  
  The Richmond Flying Squirrels have their new logos out.I like the Richmond one. ACORN likes the acorn one.We'll see how members of the San Francisco Giants like being called Squirrels. Then again, they could be members of the Montgomery Biscuits.
  
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 6:23am EST
  

• Remember the Puntrooski

  One of Bobby Bowden's most famous wins came in 1988, when the "Puntrooski" helped the Seminoles beat Clemson.
  
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:51am EST
  

• Why watch when you can read?

  Should I watch the presidential address? That's so 1970s.
  There's shows for the kids on Nick. Malcolm in the Middle beats Barack in the Middle.
  Besides, I can check out Instapundit's roundup.
  Or visit Powerline,
  or Victor Davis Hanson at NRO
  or Max Boot at Commentary [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:54pm EST
  

• Government rules mean no help for you

  I like Megan McArdle's look at the possibility of a jobs program in the current economic downturn.
  She looks at how quickly things were done during the Depression, and compares it to the vast jungle of red-tape covering government today.
  The obstacles arise out of things that individually, people, [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 8:49pm EST
  

• Please don't kill the goalie

  Ace of Spades posts the worst sports video of Monday - an unhappy ice hockey defenseman trying to whack the net after a goal and hitting his goalie in the head instead.
  And not noticing what he'd done, but taking a second whack and heading to the bench.[...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:04pm EST
  

• 2035, 2350, what's the difference?

  Pajamas Media has an interesting link stating where the global warming crowd got information that Himalyan glaciers could melt by 2035.
  They saw 2350. And reported it as 2035. Missed it by 315 years.
  h/t Instapundit [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 4:29pm EST