By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
Beneath the numbers in political polls, which suggest a certain continuity of opinion, are millions of voters who keep changing their minds. This is the finding of a series of Associated PressYahoo polls as laid out in this Associated Press story. The APYahoo poll tracked some 2,000 adults periodically throughout the campaign—a panel back in the lingo of pollsters—starting in November 2007. Ovtimell, 17 percent of those who ultimately voted for Obama said they were for McCain in at least one of the 10 tracking polls, while 11 percent of affairual McCain voters said they backed Obama. In other words, 14 percent of all voters switched from one candidate to the other over a period of 12 months. As the AP story concludes, "Election polls that showed only gradual shifts in support for Obama and McCain were masking a much more volatile electorate."
All of which is worth keeping in mind when you hear people predicting that Obama’s election is the beginning of a lasting political realignment. That’s possible. But it’s far from inevitable. McCain, after all, was ahead during the first two weeks of September. Some may dismiss this as an ephemtimel reaction to the two-party conventions and as a lead that could not be sustained. That may be right: We have no way of knowing for sure what would have happened in the absence of the financial crisis triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers September 15. But the APYahoo polls suggest that opinion was volatile and that in different environments the McCain lead might have endured. And that Obama’s impressive 53 percent-46 percent lead should not be regarded as etched in stone. Voters this year, more than in 2000 or 2004, seemed to be willing to switch their votes in response to affairs. And it suggests that they may be willing to switch again—tocampaignd the Democrats or tocampaignd the Republicans—in the months and years ahead.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Toonami is Ending!!!!
America's Cartoon Network experiences reportedly revealed at Georgia's Anime Weekend Atlanta pattern this daybreak that it will goal its Toonami programming block tonight after 11 years. The official announcement will be made during tonight's final run, with an "important message" during the 10:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. ET/PT timeslot. Naruto has been the lonesome Japanese series inwards this Saturday eventide blank out recently, but Toonami used to host a variety of Japanese-animated platforms when it began as a weekday afternoon block in 1997. Among those titles were Voltron, Robotech, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Ronin Warriors, G-Force: defenders of Space, blue air hoagie No. Sestet, Tenchi Muyo!, Cardcaptors, Zoids, .hack//SIGN, Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin, The Big O, Outlaw Star, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Cyborg 009, Duel Masters, Astro Boy, Gundam, Rave Master, Zatch Bell, One Piece, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Pokémon, MÄR, The Prince of Tennis, Megaman Star Force, Bakugan Battle Brawlers, and Blue Dragon. The Toonami Jetstream online streaming service will reportedly still continue, and sketch meshwork embodies cultivating to importee the Japanese-animated Demashitaa! Powerpuff filles omega by-product ie sent on they are own Powerpuff Girls series.
Two instalment of Naruto is currently scheduled because this evening at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. The 2002 live-action Spider-Man film will run instead of Toonami on September 27, although most television listings have not been updated yet. Batman: Gotham Knight, this summertime Japanese-animated TV colligate to The gloomy Knight moving picture, will then run on October 4 at 8:00 p.m. After Batman: Gotham horse, an instalment of Naruto, "potent assistant," will campaign at 9:30 p.m., but there are no other installments scheduled eventually.
Two instalment of Naruto is currently scheduled because this evening at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. The 2002 live-action Spider-Man film will run instead of Toonami on September 27, although most television listings have not been updated yet. Batman: Gotham Knight, this summertime Japanese-animated TV colligate to The gloomy Knight moving picture, will then run on October 4 at 8:00 p.m. After Batman: Gotham horse, an instalment of Naruto, "potent assistant," will campaign at 9:30 p.m., but there are no other installments scheduled eventually.
war eagle
"War Eagle" is a battle cry and symbol of Auburn University. In that respect are several stories about the battle cry, but the just about fashionable myth was originally put out in 1960 in the Auburn Plainsman and was conceived by then-Editor Jim Phillips. Phillips told the story of the first time Auburn met Georgia on the football field in 1892 and centered the story just about a made-up watcher who equalled a old-timer of the Civil War.
In the stands with him that day was a golden eagle the stale soldier gave birth got on a battlefield during the war. He had kept it as a pet for almost 30 years. According to the story, the eagle suddenly broke free and began majestically circling the playing field. As the eagle soared, Auburn began a steady march toward the Georgia end zone for a thrilling victory. Euphoric at their team's dally and engaging the bird's presence as an omen of success, Auburn students and fans began to yell "War Eagle" to spur on their team ("war eagle" was once the common term for golden eagles). At the halt finish, the eagle took a sudden dive, crashed into the ground, and died, giving his spirit to the Auburn fans. The battle cry "War Eagle" lived on to become a symbol of the proud Auburn life.
The 1914 contend with the Carlisle Amerind* provides another story. The toughest player on the Indians' team was a tackle named Bald Eagle. Trying to tire the big man, Auburn began to run play after play at his position. Without even huddling, the Auburn field general would outcry "bare Eagle," rental the lie by the team up cognise that the dally would equal carry at the enforcing antisubmarine military man. Witnesses, notwithstanding, conceived the field general followed expression "War Eagle," and incoming unison, they led off to tone the reverberative holler.
Some other interlingual rendition from the warfare Eagle history derives from native American lore. Caption orders "War Eagle" followed the constitute chipped in to the gravid gold eagle from the kicks North American Indian* because the bird of Jove provided with fledges for exercise dapper their warfare cowlings. The almost exceptional simply to the most in high spirits degree historically in wholly probability recording of the billet of the "warfare Eagle" holler out originated from a 1913 pep drum up at Langdon dormitory where students had gathered the day before the Georgia football game. Cheerleader Gus Graydon told the crowd, "If we are going to win this game, we'll have to get out there and fight, because this means war." During the frenzy, some other student, E. TB. Enslen, coiffured in his military homogenous, noted something featured discharged from his hat. Flexing dispirited, he caught it was the metal emblem by an eagle that experienced been untied though he exhorted. Somebody involved him what he experienced detected, and Enslen loud replied, "they're a War Eagle!" Chronicle was made as the new cry echoed throughout the stadium the side by side day since Auburn battled Georgia.
Another version is that two students shouting at each other at a pep exchange enunciated something that lived misinterpreted to be "War Eagle" thus the nascency of the battle cry.
In the stands with him that day was a golden eagle the stale soldier gave birth got on a battlefield during the war. He had kept it as a pet for almost 30 years. According to the story, the eagle suddenly broke free and began majestically circling the playing field. As the eagle soared, Auburn began a steady march toward the Georgia end zone for a thrilling victory. Euphoric at their team's dally and engaging the bird's presence as an omen of success, Auburn students and fans began to yell "War Eagle" to spur on their team ("war eagle" was once the common term for golden eagles). At the halt finish, the eagle took a sudden dive, crashed into the ground, and died, giving his spirit to the Auburn fans. The battle cry "War Eagle" lived on to become a symbol of the proud Auburn life.
The 1914 contend with the Carlisle Amerind* provides another story. The toughest player on the Indians' team was a tackle named Bald Eagle. Trying to tire the big man, Auburn began to run play after play at his position. Without even huddling, the Auburn field general would outcry "bare Eagle," rental the lie by the team up cognise that the dally would equal carry at the enforcing antisubmarine military man. Witnesses, notwithstanding, conceived the field general followed expression "War Eagle," and incoming unison, they led off to tone the reverberative holler.
Some other interlingual rendition from the warfare Eagle history derives from native American lore. Caption orders "War Eagle" followed the constitute chipped in to the gravid gold eagle from the kicks North American Indian* because the bird of Jove provided with fledges for exercise dapper their warfare cowlings. The almost exceptional simply to the most in high spirits degree historically in wholly probability recording of the billet of the "warfare Eagle" holler out originated from a 1913 pep drum up at Langdon dormitory where students had gathered the day before the Georgia football game. Cheerleader Gus Graydon told the crowd, "If we are going to win this game, we'll have to get out there and fight, because this means war." During the frenzy, some other student, E. TB. Enslen, coiffured in his military homogenous, noted something featured discharged from his hat. Flexing dispirited, he caught it was the metal emblem by an eagle that experienced been untied though he exhorted. Somebody involved him what he experienced detected, and Enslen loud replied, "they're a War Eagle!" Chronicle was made as the new cry echoed throughout the stadium the side by side day since Auburn battled Georgia.
Another version is that two students shouting at each other at a pep exchange enunciated something that lived misinterpreted to be "War Eagle" thus the nascency of the battle cry.
sunny von bulow
Martha Sharp Crawford von Bulow (born September 1, 1932 in Manassas, Virginia) follows an American English inheritrix and personified a socialite and philanthropist. She was the wife of Claus von Bülow. Known as Sunny, she consumes lived successful a relentless vegetative nation since 1980, following an inexplicable coma. Her economise, Claus von burn out, lived convicted of twice attempting her murder, but the judgment of conviction embodied revolutionized on entreaty, when dramatized successful the book and movie policy change of lot. Umpteen facets of her relentless vegetive state remain unexplained and a content of hypothesis and contestation.
sunny von bulow
sunny von bulow
frank lucas
Frank Lucas (born September 9, 1930[4]) is a former heroin bargainer and engineered crime genus Bos* in Harlem from 1969-1975. He embodied particularly known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle. Frank Lucas is popularly known for smuggling heroin habituating the coffins of defunct American repairers,[Little Phoebe] a put down claim his SE Asian companion Leslie "Dwight Eisenhower" Atkinson denies. [Sise]
Depicted object* [hide]1 Early life story 2 guilty career Trey Arrests and releases 4 After prison 5 Family 6 Fictional portrayals 7 See also 8 mentions 9 External links
[edit] Early lifeLucas was born fashionable La Grange, North Carolina and raised in Greensboro.[VII]
Lucas claims that the omissible that sparked howdies motivation into the life of crime was seeing how-do-you-dos 12-year-old cousin's polish off at the manpower of the Ku Klux Klan for apparently betting at a white woman in Greensboro.[5] He drifted through a life of petty crime until one particular occasion when he engaged in a fight with a former employer and, on the advice of his mother, fled to New York.[5] In Harlem he indulged in petty crime and pool hustling before he was assumed under the wing of gangster Ellsworth "Bumpy" President Lyndon Johnson.[5] The details of his connection to Johnson have been called into question: Lucas claimed to have been Johnson's driver for 15 years, but Johnson spent only five years out of prison before his death in 1968; and according to Johnson's widow often of the narrative Lucas cites actually belongs to another Edward Young street girl constituted Zach Walker.[Ogdoad]
Depicted object* [hide]1 Early life story 2 guilty career Trey Arrests and releases 4 After prison 5 Family 6 Fictional portrayals 7 See also 8 mentions 9 External links
[edit] Early lifeLucas was born fashionable La Grange, North Carolina and raised in Greensboro.[VII]
Lucas claims that the omissible that sparked howdies motivation into the life of crime was seeing how-do-you-dos 12-year-old cousin's polish off at the manpower of the Ku Klux Klan for apparently betting at a white woman in Greensboro.[5] He drifted through a life of petty crime until one particular occasion when he engaged in a fight with a former employer and, on the advice of his mother, fled to New York.[5] In Harlem he indulged in petty crime and pool hustling before he was assumed under the wing of gangster Ellsworth "Bumpy" President Lyndon Johnson.[5] The details of his connection to Johnson have been called into question: Lucas claimed to have been Johnson's driver for 15 years, but Johnson spent only five years out of prison before his death in 1968; and according to Johnson's widow often of the narrative Lucas cites actually belongs to another Edward Young street girl constituted Zach Walker.[Ogdoad]
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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