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Archive for October, 2007

Girardi Agrees To Yankee Offer

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Filed under Baseball, New York Yankees, Sports

It won’t be completely official until the press conference, but it looks like the Yankees have a new manager:
Joe Girardi, rebuffing last-minute attempts by the Dodgers to become their manager, has agreed to succeed Joe Torre as Yankees manager.
And, in a major twist, Torre may switch from the Yankees to the Dodgers. Now that Girardi [...]

World Series Ratings Second Lowest Ever

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Filed under Baseball, Sports, Television

Apparently not many people wanted to watch the Red Sox dominate the Rockies:
NEW YORK –Boston’s sweep of the Colorado Rockies drew better ratings than last season’s World Series but fell short of previous years.
The four games averaged a 10.6 rating, the second-lowest ever, ahead of only the 10.1 in 2006 for the St. Louis Cardinals’ [...]

Why I Love Gmail

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Filed under Internet, Technology

Because no matter how much spam my email address gets bombarded with, almost none of it gets through.

Bush Criticizes Congress On Spending

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Filed under Congress, George W Bush, Politics

No, seriously, the man whose increased Federal spending more than LBJ did, is complaining about the spending bills coming out of Congress:
WASHINGTON — President Bush scolded lawmakers on Tuesday, saying the Democratic-led Congress hasn’t “seen a bill they could not solve without shoving a tax hike into it.”
Bush, who has been criticized himself for government [...]

Milton Friedman vs. Phil Donohue

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Filed under Economics, Individual Liberty

This is what it’s like when an intellectual giant and Nobel Prize Winner, debates a sanctimonious fool:

H/T: Club for Growth

X-Files 2 To Start Shooting In December

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Filed under Movies

Apparently, there will be a sequel to The X-Files movie after all:
After years of David Duchovny talking about the sequel, and almost 10 years after the first feature, 20th Century is finally ready to start production on The X Files 2 with the actor in place to reprise his role of Special Agent Fox Mulder. [...]

Those Crazy Guys At Democratic Underground Are At It Again

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Filed under Blogging, Dumbasses

Back in July of 2006, one of the moonbats over at Democratic Underground tried to disprove the idea that the World Trade Center was brought down by airplanes and fire by using, I am not kidding, chicken wire, a concrete slab, and a can of kerosene.
Now, they’re out to test a hypothesis about waterboarding:
A DUer [...]

Torre, Mattingly Headed To Dodgers

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Filed under Baseball, Sports

It’s not official yet, but Peter Abraham is reporting that Joe Torre is headed to the Dodgers, and Don Mattingly is coming with him:
The Los Angeles Dodgers have decided to fire manager Grady Little and replace him with former Yankees manager Joe Torre, The Journal News has learned.
Torre, 67, could be named manager as soon [...]

George Bush The Jacobin

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Filed under Individual Liberty, War On Terror

Bruce Fein has a great column in today’s Washington Times calling the Bush Administration to task for the harm it’s done to one of the Great Writs of British and American Common Law:
In confronting international terrorism, President George W. Bush and Congress have abandoned the Founding Fathers’ suspicion of unchecked power in favor of the [...]

Huckabee’s Dollars Starting To Flow

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Filed under 2008 Election, Mike Huckabee, Politics

With the poll numbers turning around, Mike Huckabee is starting to see money come in the door:
From October 1 through 24, Huckabee took in nearly $30,000 per day.
That’s way above average.
In the first quarter, Huckabee averaged about $6,054 per day. (That’s $544,880 divided by 90 days)
In the second quarter, Huckabee averaged about $8,391 per day.
In [...]

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