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MOB

Below is the MOB Roll...

WWIII

Stories about situations that put World War III as real possibility. Israel vs the anti-Semites; Iran vs US; Pakistan vs India...you get the idea.

8/22/06 Iran opens fire on Romainan oil rig
8/21/06 22 August 2006
8/11/06 The battleground is here
8/10/06 UK thwarts mass murder plot
8/8/06 Missing foreign students and WWIII
8/7/06 Worldwide News Sources...not a good source
7/20/06 Updating the WW III sides
7/18/06 Whose on which side Updated
7/17/06 They won't stop but a few get it
7/14/06 WW III watch
7/14/06 May as well know whose on which side
7/14/06 Whose side to take in WWIII
7/13/06 Archduke Gilad Shalit

Wendy's

Wendy's Finger In The Chili Story
This topic is mostly over with, but I still have an icon for it. When there are enough topics to retire to an archive this will go there.

1/18/06 Finger biter goes to prison
4/22/05 Woman in Wendy's Finger Case Arrested - Yahoo! News
4/13/05 Woman Won't Sue Wendy's for Alleged Finger
4/10/05 Finger finder has history of playing litigation lottery
4/8/05 Home of Woman in Finger Claim Searched

Terri

This is for the stories about Terri Schiavo.

9/11/06 Awareness found in Vegatative Patients
8/3/05 Brain dead delivers baby
5/25/2005 Terri's husband cashes in same day she dies
5/4/2005 Brain patient speaks again
4/12/2005 St. Cloud Times gets Schiavo case wrong
4/8/2005 See, I told you the slippery slope would continue
4/5/2005 Schiavo Parents to Arrange Funeral Mass
4/4/2005 Observations Around Terri's Case
4/3/2005 Americans Not in Favor of Starving Terri Schiavo
3/31/2005 Brain-Damaged Child's Family Mulls Life And Death
3/31/2005 The more I hear of him the less I like him
3/31/2005 Rest In Peace
3/25/2005 Letter from a soldier to Terri
3/25/2005 Greer Just wants her dead
3/24/2005 Mayo Clinic Neurologist says Terri's no vegetable
3/24/2005 Greer the Judge of Death?
3/23/2005 Next time we hear about the children starving to death
3/23/2005 Terri is No Different than My Child :: Testimonials :: BlogsforTerri
3/23/2005 My theory on Michael Schiavo
3/23/2005 Not all Pull-the-Tubers are Nazi-In-Training
3/23/2005 I have been calling them Nazis
3/22/2005 Strib's editorial board gets facts wrong
3/22/2005 She was improving until her husband had his way
3/22/2005 Right-to-die advocate nails Schiavo's national implication
3/22/2005 Michael Schiavo is a monster
3/21/2005 Mercy Killing of Newborns Being Advocated
3/20/2005 Terri Schiavo - Never Properly Diagnosed
3/19/2005 The Innocent May Live?
3/17/2005 This is Not Right-to-Die
3/17/2005 Abortion done 'in good faith'
3/16/2005 One more reason to detest the U of MN Faculty

Theory

Theories and postulations
Theories that I am working on or speculations about various things in the world or universe will be here. This may also include discussions about other people's theories.

Silence Is Support
When 9/11 happened we thought that the only threats were the "extremist" Muslims from the Middle East. We thought that the "extremist" terrorists were infiltrating the West in order to attack it.

We never gave a second thought to the fact that Muslims clerics (leaders at different levels within the religion) never condemned the terrorists. We never thought about the excuses and rationalizing that Muslims did to avoid condemning the terrorists.

But we thought we could trust the quiet Muslim sitting next to us on the bus. We never imagined the Muslim that was teaching our kids could be a part of the enemy.

After 7/7/05 we learned that everything we believed was wrong. The Silent Muslims are silent because they deep down do not have a problem with the "extremists". The Islamic Nations' leaders continue telling us (through the United Nations) that the terrorists are not "extremists" but mainstream.

Silence Is Support. If the Silent Muslims do not support the terrorists they need to speak up and take action that rids their religion of the terrorists. Until that time there are two facts that exist. One, the terrorists are defining to the rest of the world what the Muslim religion is about. So long as the clerics and other leaders concur and so long as the rest of the members do or say nothing explicitly otherwise the other fact will exist: Silence Is Support.

TradeSports

TradeSports is a website where you can invest in futures. From sports to financial markets to current events there is the ability to invest in what you think will happen.

For the purpose of this blog TradeSports OTHER function is what will be featured. That other function is its predictive and advance knowledge function.

10/14/06 Pawlenty vs Hatch update
10/09/06 Political Update from the investors
10/09/06 MLB League Championships 2006
10/02/06 MLB Playoff 2006
9/27/06 MLB Playoff update
9/25/06 From bad to worse
9/22/06 Coming Down the Home Stretch
9/15/06 Movement on TradeSports
9/12/06 TradeSports Quick Primary Day Update
9/05/06 Trade Sports update on November 2006
8/14/06 Pennant winner predictions
8/9/06 TradeSports predictions and what Lieberman means to the GOP
8/8/06 Update on political investing
7/18/06 Downward ticking for GOP
6/14/06 Investors opinions on Kennedy and Pawlenty
4/6/06 TradeSports Senate election predictions
4/5/06 2006 TradeSports election predictions
4/5/06 Already a World Series prediction
3/5/06 Oscars predictions from TradeSports
2/3/06 Super Bowl XL
1/23/06 Canadian Control of Parliament
1/20/06 NFL Conference Championships
1/6/06 TradeSports new Drive Calculator
1/3/06 Wild Card Week
12/15/05 Academy Awards
12/8/05 College Bowls 2005
11/21/05 TradeSports Update
11/7/05 Trade Sports Alito contracts
11/6/05 TradeSports
10/27/05 Miers withdrawal was predicted on Friday

Scoreboard Positions

These are the positions that are compared in the platforms of candidates. These are not the rationalizations for my positions, only a brief description of what kind of a position will garner a +5.

Taxes
Only a consumption tax is the ultimate goal. Cutting taxes permanently.

Spending
Cutting government spending is always the ultimate goal. Line-item veto is not a solution...only a way of striking selective "pork". Balanced budget amendment is unacceptable.

Federalism
Only the military and very selected programs (if any) should be controlled or administered at the federal level. ANY reliance on the federal government for state, county or city items is unacceptable. All regulation should be at the state level or smaller.

Family Values
Any candidate that invokes "Family Values" without defining them is ONLY politicizing the term. Moral issues are typically under this term and should NOT be regulated at any level higher than the state if at all.

Abortion
I think this issue should be settled at the state level. Overturning any and all laws that federalize this (or any social) issue is the goal.

Immigration
All illegal immigrants should be deported when discovered. Businesses and people hiring illegal immigrants should be fined heavily. Fences should be built on all borders. Amnesty (in any name) is unacceptable.

Legal immigrantion, as a process should be simplified, but security checks more stringent. Quotas should be more diversely determined instead of South and Central America-heavy.

Iraq
We should take the time needed to make certain the new democracy is able to defend itself. We need to understand that deomcracies take time and countries take decades to rebuild. Doing an incomplete job is dangerous and timetables are irresponsible and unacceptable. Task tables are fine...goals that must be met before withdrawal.

Terrorism
Using all tools needed outside of the borders to prevent terrorism. Balancing citizen's rights against citizen security must be maintained. Enemy combatants are not covered by Geneva Conventions; not subject to American civil rights.

Military
Strong military. One of the few federal progams that are needed. Missile Defense is a priority.

Education
School Districts should determine curriculum. States should have graduation standards on reading, writing, arithmatics and American history. They (or the federal government) should NOT have any other funding requirments or have any funds to education in any manner. Exceptions can be made for special education.

English as a Second Language classes, bilingual education are not acceptable. Social promotion must be ended. Problem children should be expelled. Parent involvement in some manner ought to be required. Parents being held accountable for children behavioral issues is desired.

Transportation
Roads, roads and roads. Spending on roads should be above all other transportation always. Commuter rail should not be pursued/continued. Gas taxes should be ended. Ethanol requirements are unacceptable.

Energy
Refineries must be allowed to be built. ANWR must be drilled. Off-shore drilling must allowed. Subsidies for all energy must be ended. Nuclear energy must expanded.

Voting
Same Day registration must be ended. Government issue ID should be required to vote. Executive in charge of voting should be non-partisan.

Health Care
Government, keep your hands out. The best system is private, without any tax credits or taxation, that is portable like auto insurance.

Government Size and Scope
Beware of Smaller-Than-Government types. They expand government, just not as fast other people. This is worse than bigger government types as they claim they are small government but actually are "big, just not super big yet" types. A lot of federal involvement is big government or bigger government. Cutting (not in the 'cut the rate of growth' sense but in a shrink, decrease and lessening sense) is the only way to gain points in this category.

Simpsons

Simpson's Trivia

Simpson's Trivia Questions (answers are given on the following day)
7/21/06, 7/20/06, 7/18/06, 7/14/06, 7/13/06, 7/12/06, 7/11/06, 7/10/06, 7/5/06, 6/29/06, 6/28/06, 6/27/06, 6/26/06, 6/23/06, 6/21/06, 6/20/06, 6/19/06, 6/14/06, 6/13/06, 6/12/06, 6/5/06, 6/2/06, 6/1/06, 5/31/06, 5/30/06, 5/26/06, 5/25/06, 5/24/06, 5/23/06, 5/22/06, 5/18/06, 5/17/06, 5/16/06, 5/15/06, 5/12/06, 5/11/06, 5/10/06, 5/9/06, 5/8/06, 5/5/06, 5/4/06, 5/3/06, 5/2/06

4/13/06 Simpsons to hit the big screen

Schools

Schools, Colleges, Universities and Education
Any story related to education or schools (K-12, home schooling, higher ed, etc) will be here. This includes school boards and administration as well as budgets and referendi.

9/20/06 Gas prices and conspiracies
8/31/06 School's 'No Drug Policy' is Void While Making Fun of President Bush
6/14/06 College women sign petition to end women's suffrage
5/18/06 Sex Survey in School
5/10/06 California's not all lost
5/3/06 Free racist speech
5/2/06 Dreyfuss right on the mark
4/20/06 Continual failure of educators
4/5/06 School bans American Flag
3/31/06 Immigration Reform and educators failures
3/5/06 Jay Bennish
1/26/06 NoIndoctrination.org
1/20/06 Higher Ed failing highly
1/13/06 More Ohio school education
12/22/05 Intelligent Design in the classroom
11/22/05 If this were a guy...
10/3/05 Public Schools Successes in CA
9/1/05 Graphic elementary school sex ed
8/30/05 Teacher's Union: the drag on education
8/12/05 Gerry Rinehart--stupid or malicious
8/9/05 HI school not allowed to discriminate by race
7/22/05 Ebonics to be a foreign language in CA
7/21/05 AFSCME sues University
7/6/05 The books handed to kids by gays
6/15/05 TV show depicts 9/11 as Bush plot
6/10/05 General College will close
6/10/05 ROTC gone, but not.
5/24/05 General College should go
5/5/05 You can love your vagina, but not your penis
4/25/05 I Was Just On Glenn Beck About Winona
4/24/05 Responding to Letters
4/21/05 Minnesota Killer was a Pothead
4/21/05 Winona liberals think vulgarity in schools is free speech
4/20/05 Is this the proper role of a labor union?
4/13/05 State of education? Sex assualt coverup
4/11/05 Poster sparks dispute at WMU
4/3/05 If They Don't Like Red On Their Paper They Should Do Better Work
4/3/05 Academia Abusing Academic Freedom
3/30/05 Moral Indignation aside...
3/22/05 Red Wing school shooting
3/16/05 One more reason to detest the U of MN Faculty
3/15/05 Harvard Leader Loses No-Confidence Vote