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• Hook 'em Horns - It's Science

  —Fishersville Mike

  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?

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  
  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  
  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  
  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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)

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

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

• Jimmy V week

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  
  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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?

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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

  —Fishersville Mike

  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?

  —Fishersville Mike

  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
  

• Dadgumit

  —Fishersville Mike

  Florida State's Bobby Bowden has announced his retirement.
  In 1994, the Bluefield High chapter of Fellowship of Christian Athletes traveled to Wake Forest to watch Florida State play, and I tagged along with the team. The team's sponsor hoped to have Bowden speak to the team, but NCAA [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 3:32pm EST
  

• For Ravens-Packers week

  —Fishersville Mike

  I'm gearing up for next Monday's big game between the Ravens and Packers.
  Carol at No Sheeples Here offers some items to help pump up the Maryland faithful.' [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:59am EST
  

• Who will Charles Johnson root for?

  —Fishersville Mike

  What does Little Green Footballs think of SEC football?
  They don't like Stacy McCain, so he can't pull for Alabama.
  But Florida quarterback Tim Tebow has Bible verses on his eye black strips. That's something James Dobson and the entire religious right would approve of, so LGF' [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:03am EST
  

• Cold shoulder

  —Fishersville Mike

  Blue Virginia doesn't seem very impressed by this "Climategate" stuff.
  He posts about an NPR segment defending the climate researchers, and lets deniers know he'll delete any of their comments.
  Not a problem. It's his blog. He can do what he wants.
  Besides, he's not subject to Freedom of [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 8:43am EST
  

• Undefeated teams watch

  —Fishersville Mike

  New Orleans passed one of the toughest remaining hurdles to a 16-0 regular season, beating the Patriots. Next weekend they visit Washington. Can the Redskins slow them down?
  The Colts rallied for their win Sunday, and have red-hot Tennessee coming to town.
  The 1972 Dolphins have seen this before, two [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:33am EST
  

• Only 13 percent

  —Fishersville Mike

  Abortion continues to be the tar gumming up the works of health care reform. Despite the fact that only 13 percent of abortions in 2001 were paid for with private insurance money.
  Megan McArdle doesn't understand all the complaining from abortion rights groups.
  So I don't get the [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:56pm EST
  

• Good news for blogs

  —Fishersville Mike

  There's another blog aggregator out there - yes, we need another one.
  Lucianne is behind this one. The site is BlogsLucianneLoves.com.
  You'll probably find some of your favorite news blogs posting there, so check it out.' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:03pm EST
  

• Dangerous decorations

  —Fishersville Mike

  Our family bought a little Yorkshire Terrier in February, so this is her first Christmas in a home.
  I took her for a walk today, and one of our neighbors had a nativity scene in the front yard. Not realistic, just white plastic figures to be seen at night.
  The [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:52pm EST
  

• A town without pity

  —Fishersville Mike

  Blue Commonwealth liked this column about health care reform.
  Professor Bainbridge ripped it apart.
  Kristoff here invokes a single but attractive and sympathetic example as an argument for a major shift in national policy. Presidents do this when they invite a symbolic figure to sit next to [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:31pm EST
  

• NFL playoff picture

  —Fishersville Mike

  With five weeks left to go, NFL.com looks at the likely playoff teams.
  I like they have the Ravens as the sixth seed, possibly facing the Chargers.
  Now, if the Ravens can beat the Packers and then have the Packers beat Pittsburgh, life would be good. [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:14am EST
  

• What Obama was doing Nov. 3

  —Fishersville Mike

  Creigh Deeds knows what he was doing Nov. 3 - losing on Election Day.
  Now we know one of the things President Obama did that day - catch a pass.
  Peter King of Sports Illustrated reports that was the day the NFL filmed a commercial for the Play60 program [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:37am EST
  

• Coal in Playboy

  —Fishersville Mike

  The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports on a letter to the editor in Playboy. It's not that bad.
  Playboy decided to let coal producers tell their side of the story after Woody Harrelson attacked mountaintop removal.
  Bill Raney, president of the West Virginia Coal Association, got his words in the [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:49am EST
  

• Stayin' Alive

  —Fishersville Mike

  The Baltimore Ravens are tied for the final playoff spot in the AFC, thanks to an overtime win over Pittsburgh. Now starts Packer week.
  The Colts stayed perfect after falling behind 17-0 early. I saw that score before heading home from West Virginia. Driving through the Virginia mountains at 5 [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:13am EST