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A backyard find?
Robin Brownlee
May 22 2009 04:16PM
Aaron Sorochan's name isn't on the tip of anybody's tongue when it comes to the Edmonton Oilers goaltending situation, but it looks from where I sit like he should at least be part of the discussion.
With the pecking order in the Oilers goal crease up in the air and unproven prospects -- or is it suspects? -- Jeff Deslauriers and Devan Dubnyk at the front of the line, as of now, to take over from Dwayne Roloson, Sorochan is sitting right under the noses of Oilers management.
The homegrown stopper, a two-time CIS all-star who backstopped the Alberta Golden Bears to two national titles, has finished his studies at the University of Alberta and is looking for a place to play.
Besides, it's not like the Oilers don't know about the 25-year-old Sorochan -- they invited him to camp a few years ago and even signed him to an amateur tryout contract in December 2007 to back up Mathieu Garon against New Jersey after Roloson was shelved by the flu.
So, with no Vezina Trophy candidates in the organizational fold, wouldn't it make sense for the Oilers to take a second look and maybe invite Sorochan to training camp this fall?
I think it would.
Late bloomer
Sorochan is the epitome of a late-bloomer.
While it might be a stretch to compare Sorochan straight-up to Tim Thomas of the Boston Bruins -- Thomas was a ninth-round selection of Quebec in 1994 and rattled around the pros for more than a decade before grabbing the starting job in Beantown -- there are similarities.
Sorochan wasn't even drafted after three lousy seasons in the WHL with the Prince Albert Raiders.
In 2000-01 with Prince Albert, he was 4-12-0 with a swollen 5.26 goals-against average and .870 saves percentage. In 2001-02, he was 12-20-1 with a 4.50 and .875. In this third season with Prince Albert, 2002-03, Sorochan was 15-27-2 with 3.64 and .877. Thanks for coming.
By the time Sorochan got it together with the Vancouver Giants in 2003-04, going 23-14-7 with a 2.37 GAA and .919 saves percentage, and Lethbridge in 2004-05, posting a 35-19-8 record with a 2.19 and .917, it was Alberta, not a line-up of NHL teams, who showed the most interest.
Now's the time
Suffice to say, Sorochan blossomed with the Bears. After four years at Alberta, a tenure including CIS rookie of the year honors, the two all-star selections and two national titles, Sorochan is ready to move on.
Sorochan finished the 2008-09 CIS season with a 23-6-0 record, a 2.03 GAA and a .922 save percentage. He led the CIS in GAA and save percentage and finished his career at Alberta with a record of 97-27-2 in 130 games. What's not to like?
Obviously, GM Steve Tambellini has more pressing matters on his plate than adding Sorochan to his goaltending mix -- I wonder if fired Calgary hard case Mike Keenan gets a job interview? -- but it's worth contemplating.
Now, having tried to find out what's up with the coaching situation, I know nobody is talking. Fine. But, with a potential gem like Sorochan sitting in the shadows of Rexall Place and looking for a gig, here's hoping somebody with a say in the training camp roster is listening.
-- Listen to Robin Brownlee every Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. on Just A Game with Jason Gregor on TEAM 1260.
May 24 2009, 12:38PM
@ Jay:
You could be right that I'm undervaluing Sorochan; it is just my opinion after all. On the other hand, this fall I was excited about an undrafted free agent, Andrew Perugini. Here's what I said at the time:
Even if Deslauriers stays up, I doubt that Glenn Fisher sees a ton of game action. Devan Dubnyk is expected to be the starter in Springfield, and both Bryan Pitton and Andrew Perugini are legitimate prospects who need development time. Fisher, on the other hand, is a 25-year old goaltender coming off a middling ECHL season, and I don't think the organization can afford to give him many starts. Kevin Prendergast indicated earlier that the Oilers may chose to rotate the backup position in Springfield between Fisher, Pitton and Perugini. If I had to guess, I would imagine that the Oilers make Pitton the priority, given that he's the only one of the three goaltenders on an NHL Entry Level deal. I'd also say that if the junior numbers are anything to go by, Perugini emerges as the best of the three goaltenders by the mid-season mark.
I pegged Fisher as a guy who would start in the AHL and wasn't an organizational priority; he started in the AHL and was loaned to Calgary's ECHL affiliate midseason.
I said the Oilers would make Pitton a priority in terms of getting starts; to begin the year he played often while Perugini was the seldom used backup.
I said that Perugini, based on his junior numbers, would eclipse Pitton by midseason; Pitton collapsed, and new coach Matt Thomas relied heavily on Perugini, riding him all the way to an unlikely playoff berth.
The point of this is that I pegged the Oilers goaltenders pretty well in the fall, using the same methods that I'm being criticized for now. It is just my opinion; as an opinion it is far from infallible and I'm a long ways from having a perfect record (as one example, like Brownlee, I was very optimistic on Garon to start the season). That said, the math's been pretty reliable so far, and if I had to guess I'd imagine Sorochan slides in right around where Perugini is right now on the depth chart.
I'd be an unabashed supporter of signing him to a contract, but right now the organization needs to make some room, either by clearing out Glenn Fisher (who had a tremendous late season run for Las Vegas of the ECHL; .930 SV%) or Bryan Pitton (who has two more years left in his entry level deal).
May 24 2009, 01:14PM
Trade Desjarlais for Harding, and bring up Dubynik as a backup, Goalie situation solved!
I mentioned Keenan a week or so ago, now that its official hes terminated I really like the idea.
May 24 2009, 07:43PM
Hemmertime wrote:
I mentioned Keenan a week or so ago, now that its official hes terminated I really like the idea.
You are a genius. You called the Keenan shot. Too bad he'd be a horrific mismatch here. Luckily, there's zero chance Keenan gets a sniff.
We have absolutely zero prospects in goal. I've said it before and will say it again....our scouting dept needs an overhaul. FPNF.
You're not using your 'enter' key enough. See those spaces between other people's paragraphs? Perhaps you need more practice with your computing machine.
BTW, did JW pee in your cornflakes? Is Sorochan your girlfriend's kid? If not, why the rage over JW pointing out that there's good reason to be skeptical about CIS goalies? I mean, has a CIS goalie ever done what you're saying Sorochan will do? Not to say Sorochan won't make it, but if no one in his position has made it, shouldn't we be highly skeptical. Things that have never happened over years, given multiple chances, have a low probability of happening. No?
May 24 2009, 09:50PM
@ bozo: Dont get Stauffer angry. You dont want to see him when he's angry.
Slow news day in Oilerville when folks are sittin around argueing about whether a 25 year old CIS goalie is in the future plans of the Oilers, and where he'd land on the farm.
Certainly this is WAY down the list isn't it? I mean there's no starting goalie, no head coach yet, lots of salary to shed, some contract to move or eat, etc. And we're talking about a 25 year old CIS goalie, making rediculous comparison's to Tim Thomas? Come on.
The CIS is what it is. A high level of hockey, played by (in the west anyways) a bunch of WHLers who didn't get drafted or signed to move on to the AHL or other levels of "pro" hockey. The NHL dream is over for 99.9999999% of them.
May 25 2009, 09:59AM
[...] there doesn't seem to be much of anything going on. Well that isn't entirely true. Bob Stauffer showed up on the Nation for the first time that we can recall and engaged Brownlee and Willis in a battle of CIS goalie [...]
May 25 2009, 10:24AM
oldprospector wrote:
Gregor - get a clue. Let's point out the obvious - you don't know how a guy is going to play at the next level until he gets a look.
WHich is what I said. He doesn't get ahead of JDD or DD until he proves he can play.
oldprospector wrote:
He has the lateral movement and ability to see pucks through a screen that lend well to playing at the faster paced AHL level. He is good enough to be a backup in the AHL without question.
Which is exactly where I said he would rank. Feel free to make a counter point not agree with what I say.
oldprospector wrote:
Goaltending is different than a forward or defenceman for evaluating talent. The majority of elite CIS players can't make the jump to the AHL or above because they don't have the skating ability. With goaltending this is a non-factor.
Are you on glue. Most CIS top-end players are good to great skaters. Size is what used to limit most of them from moving on. Skating is not the major obstacle holding most of them back.
oldprospector wrote:
Everyone knows you don't respect CIS hockey but at least give his WHL numbers credit
Once again talking out of your ass without a clue of what you are saying. My brother won a CIAU championship with Acadia. That team is still regarded as maybe the best University team ever.
I know many of the Bears current and former players personally and they are all very good players, just not NHL players. That is a fact. Many have gone onto to careers in Europe and they make very good money and get a great experience living abroad.
Because I say Sorochan doesn't deserve to be rated ahead of JDD or DD at this point, is far from saying I don't respect CIS hockey. Feel free to post a comment when you actually know what you are talking about.
May 25 2009, 11:03AM
J-Bird wrote:
And we're talking about a 25 year old CIS goalie, making rediculous comparison's to Tim Thomas? Come on.
Too slow a news day? Look somewhere else then and spare us the drive-by crap.
Read the reference to Thomas again (and learn how to spell ridiculous while you're at it) before running your yap.
This thread is AWESOME!
Can someone please explain to me why Sandra still refers to JDD is Dasjarlais? Is it an inside joke that I am not aware of?
Robin Brownlee wrote:
You are a genius. You called the Keenan shot. Too bad he'd be a horrific mismatch here. Luckily, there's zero chance Keenan gets a sniff.
lol ouch. Torn a new one from someone who looks like the BTK killer.
Seriously though, hes not as successful as Crow, but there is a good reason he has coached 22/25 years in the NHL (and didnt he have cancer or something that stopped him for the 2 he didnt consecutively, I may be wrong but that rings a bell). He plays a tough system, and is notorious for being a hard arse which isn't a bad thing to me. I agree he isnt likely considered for too long, but I wouldn't use the word luckily, or consider him any more of a mismatch than MacT's style would be, except he'd have the bawls to get people buying into his system
And for horrible mismatch, the words from Tambo ring to me like we want to change into a team that would fit Iron Mikes style
May 25 2009, 01:02PM
@ Hemmertime:
Keenan has never known how to handle young players and that's why he's a mismatch here. The vets might love him, but younger players would have a difficult time. I've heard enough stories first-hand from players to know Keenan wouldn't help a room inhabited by the likes of Gagner, Cogliano, O'Sullivan etc.
May 25 2009, 01:08PM
Hemmertime wrote:
lol ouch. Torn a new one from someone who looks like the BTK killer.
God Almighty, do I look that old, that bald and that crazy? Say it ain't so . . .
Good point, and the cancer thing was Quinn now that Im awake
Robin Brownlee wrote:
God Almighty, do I look that old, that bald and that crazy? Say it ain't so . . .
lol I stole that from a friend that saw ON for first time this weekend, he saw your Pic and thought you used the BTK pic for profile and that was twisted and I laughed my ass off
Robin Brownlee wrote:
Too slow a news day? Look somewhere else then and spare us the drive-by crap. Read the reference to Thomas again (and learn how to spell ridiculous while you're at it) before running your yap.
Well aren't we snarky today. :)
In any event, way down the list of priorities right now and I doubt he's gonna get a shot at the AHL team.
The thing I'll say about any goalie of the Bears is simply that the Bears are consistantly one of the best teams in the CIS, and I'd atribute stellar goaltending stats moreso to the team in front of him, not the other way around.
My speellling is fine thanks. ;)
hey robin i know we are going into a slow news season for the oil. i was wondering if you could give us some personal stories like the tidbits about ulanov and mironov in some of your recent colums. i know you can't give us the dirt and thats cool some of the vanilla stories can be just as interesting.
May 25 2009, 04:33PM
J-Bird wrote: My speellling is fine thanks.
No it's not, you f*cked up comparisons as well with "comparison's." And that's not spelling, that's dumb-ass-didn't-pay-attention-in-school-illiterate. Of course, this isn't English Nation, but when you come in flapping your jaw like you did and leave the door open, well, you've got to know I'm going to walk through it and give you a kick in the grammar pills. Nothing personal.
By the way, why do nerds use the term "snarky" and use those I'm-socially-retarded happy faces in their copy? Are you Dennis King? When I read snarky and see happy faces I expect to read nerd-speak like: "plays the toughs" and "does the heavy lifting" and "butter-soft minutes." You're just pretending to be a nerd, aren't you?
Anyway, there's no question the Oilers future doesn't pivot on what happens with Sorochan, so no quibble with that observation. And, really, there's no question he's a longshot. Still, I see him as a diamond in the rough and one that's right under the Oilers noses. He could be a nice local story down the road, that's all. And I bet he does get invited to Oilers camp. Until we get some action on the coaching front, you're going to see little sidebar items like Sorochan.
roger wrote:
hey robin i know we are going into a slow news season for the oil. i was wondering if you could give us some personal stories like the tidbits about ulanov and mironov in some of your recent colums. i know you can't give us the dirt and thats cool some of the vanilla stories can be just as interesting.
Sorry, J-Bird has ruined it for everybody by running his mouth about the Sorochan story being a waste of space. There's no way I'll risk such scathing criticism again by talking about the time I was making my way back to my hotel room at the Pan Pacific in Vancouver in the wee hours with a young lady I'd met and we bumped into Raffi Torres and . . . But noooooooooo, J-Bird had to ruin it . . .
May 25 2009, 04:38PM
J-Bird wrote:
Slow news day in Oilerville when folks are sittin around argueing about whether a 25 year old CIS goalie is in the future plans of the Oilers, and where he'd land on the farm. Certainly this is WAY down the list isn't it? I mean there's no starting goalie, no head coach yet, lots of salary to shed, some contract to move or eat, etc. And we're talking about a 25 year old CIS goalie, making rediculous comparison's to Tim Thomas? Come on. The CIS is what it is. A high level of hockey, played by (in the west anyways) a bunch of WHLers who didn't get drafted or signed to move on to the AHL or other levels of "pro" hockey. The NHL dream is over for 99.9999999% of them. Next….
May 25 2009, 04:40PM
I agree J-Bird... they are playing for the Holy Grail with our noses pressed up against the glass... again... and this is what people in E-town are talking about!! Further proof where Kevin Lowe has taken this organization.


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Skip to comments.The Phrase That Lost Romney the Election
Posted on 11/23/2012 2:11:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
What if we told you that the election was decided by a phrase?
You might not believe it, but assume were right for a minute. What word would you guess decided the election? Hurricane Sandy?
The answer lies in perhaps the single most illustrative exit poll question conducted, where CNN asked What is the most important candidate quality to your vote?
The response options were Strong Leader, Shares Your Values, Has a Vision for the Future, and Cares about People. Among folks that chose one of the first three responses, Mitt Romney won between 54-61% of their vote. But, among folks who chose Cares About People, Romney lost dramatically 81-18%.
Cares about you is the single phrase that lost Romney the election. Those for whom empathy was the most important candidate quality clearly did not get a sense that he cared about people and worse, many eventhought he was antagonistic towards many Americans. Why was this so?
Romneys business career, which was the central argument for his candidacy in an election dominated by the economy, was turned into a weakness by the left and the Obama campaign early on, with them portraying his experience leading Bain Capital as one of the opposite of care: harm. Laying people off, taking away their pensions, and destroying communities, Mitt Romney allegedly brought all of these across America.
The Bain attacks were less about vilifying Wall Street (though that too) and more about conveying the message hes not like us, he doesnt care about us.
Many voters bought into this early portrayal of Romney as one who does not care for people. Others, who did not quite buy into it, still held it as a potential lens through which to consider his future actions and statements.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Anyone that believes any government agent or any politician 'cares about you' is too stupid to live, much less vote.
The "47%" remark made me feel more confidant in him.
RE: The 47% remark made me feel more confidant in him
Unfortunately, there aren't enough people who think like this. In fact, it's the OPPOSITE.
RE: Anyone that believes any government agent or any politician cares about you is too stupid to live, much less vote.
Wow, that's most Americans right there...
Live. Vote.
Worst part is that they ***breed*** and make more stupid copies, too.
Persona Definition: The aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others.
I understand the gist of the article. When this guy was pushed in front of us as the only alternative to obama, there was something about him I just did not like (asside from the fact Romney is a RINO), and I realized it was his persona.
So I agree many viewed his persona as uncaring.
But I see persona as more emotional than logical and got over it, realized of the two choices, Romney would be the better of the two for the country.
Libs allow emotion to trump logic, so of course they would not vote for him.
1) I do not want my government to take care of me. It bothers me that 47% of the people want to mooch off of 53% of the people. Romney was correct when he tried to explain that a workable society creates conditions where people can successfully take care of themselves.
2) In terms of personality, I think Romney really does care about people. His personal history has genuine examples of this. He is a caring man -- which is part of the reason why he wants government to back off. On the other hand, I sincerely believe that Obama has a damaged soul and does not care about anyone but himself. But he seems able to hide this from weak-minded fools pretty well.
The premier phrases would have been "liar" and "tell us what really happened in Ben Ghazi"
There are a thousand others, but I don't want to use up bandwidth. The majority of thinking people know.
I'm very mildly religious, I just don't have the gene or brain wiring or whatever to be entralled by things. However, I know most people do and if they don't have religion they will need something else to believe in to fill the void. They'll go to idealogy and become true believers.
It's a religion with these people. It's why they never quit and persevere in the face of obvious fallacies and even what would normally be devasting defeats. They are mentally ill and have a long-term view of what the world should look like.
They will pursue it until the last one of them is dead.
Mitt Romney is a good man. I never questioned that he 'cared for people' However, I also realized that he didn't assume that the government was the only viable way of 'caring'. Unfortunately, as usual, the leftmedia was able to portray Romney as an uncaring plutocrat that was 'insensitive' to the 'needs' of people. With our society collectively becoming more and more dependent on government handouts and essentially feminized with 'feelings' being one of the predominate motivators of whom one votes for, even a 'moderate' Republican such as Mitt Romney was doomed to lose to the lying fraud, Obama. Now, we'll reap what the majority have sowed with their votes - and it won't be pretty.
That this is a quality that so many people think is an important qualification for office is a sign of how infantile and neurotic our society has become.
Yep, the words "plastic" and "phoney" come to mind.
What if we told you that the election was decided by a phrase?
"Even if they catch us, the Republicans are too damned spineless to do anything about our election fraud."
There are those of us who view empathy and more importantly sympathy as a vice...not a virtue.
from http://patriotaction.net/profiles/blogs/the-indolent-class-a
The Indolent class relies upon assistance from many sources for all their needs. Government, private sector, friends, and relatives may all contribute. The Indolent conducts their life with assistance from others factored in to all they do.
The Indolent is additionally freed from the outcomes of their choices and behaviors. Somebody else will fix what they break. Somebody else will feed the mouths they create.
Indolents are never to blame for creating their misfortunes.
Indolents are freed from the Cause and Effect relationships of life.
The question becomes - How can anyone learn from experience when they are purposely excluded from responsibility? What motivation will curb their appetites when nothing stands to impede their appetites?
This is why most Indolents remain on public assistance from others all their lives. They learn from birth that others will care for them. Laws require the government intervene. Citizens and non-citizens who refuse to care for themselves, or are unable to negotiate life, receive subsidy. For some Indolents, the welfare level of income, a level classified by government as poverty, is sufficient and preferred to working. The Indolent prefers free time to do what they wish, over finding gainful employment that requires their time. Many adopt crime as a means of supplementing their incomes.
At some point the empathy/sympathy must be turned form virtue into vice. The lives of the poor are not sufficiently miserable. The poor in the USA live better than 90% of the rest of the world and yet they are somehow being oppressed by those who live middle income or wealthy lives.
The socialist public education brainwashing system has done its job very well.
Actually, the mantra of the left has been Republicans are heartless rich white guys for .... oh.... decades now ?
Republicans are heartless ! Everyone says so !
PR campaign on news, TV, radio, print, movies, schools, colleges...
Repub machine counters that with the "we're kinder, gentler", "compassionate" heartless rich white guys.
So... Repub politicians usually don't even deny the accusation.
Romney campaign was continuation of the same strategy.
I's say you're full of crap........
I don't want any political leader "caring about me", especially a Democ***. I perceive a hefty cost to pay submitting to that kind of attitude.
The liberals are crowing about a great win, but this "win" started years ago...with the first issuance of a Federal government welfare check, whenever that was.
The hyphenated American class, Deadbeat-Americans was spawned on that day.
Everyone should have been able to see the handwriting on the wall when it was admitted by everybody that 47% of Americans pay NO income tax. You have to know that if the government admits to a number like that, the situation has to be much worse. And it was. We were all kind of "taken in" by the excitement of the polls and pundants like Dick Morris who was "absolutely sure" Romney would win, knowing all along that the 47% was hanging out there like a cold, wet pile of excrement.
There have been many pundants and economists throughout the last 2 or 3 hundred years that predicted essentially the same thing:
When people realize that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury, they will, and freedom will start to slip away from that moment on.
That point has been reached IMO.
We will never be able to get our country back unless we find some way to tie a valid vote to a positive contribution to our Country.
WE SIMPLY HAVE BEEN OUT BRED AND INVADED BY TOO MANY DEADBEATS LOOKING FOR A HANDOUT. Their numbers will only increase exponentially from now on and take us to the scene of the crash.
I WANT SOMEONE HERE TO SHOW ME WHERE I AM WRONG. I want to be wrong, but I see no other PEACEFUL way out of this mess...
The 47% don't follow politics, don't follow the news, all they know is that the Republicans are evil........That's pretty simple really.
Yes...and Reagan spoke about hope for all!
Romney represented having to work and think for yourself.
Obama represented Santa Claus.
Santa Claus won.
I was 11 years old in 1956 when I first heard it. That and Eisenhower would take away old people's Social Security checks.
Agreed and well-put.
Voters want to feel that office-holders are conscientious about fulfilling their responsibilities to all citizens.
A candidate who appears to be drawing distinctions between classes of citizens based on some criterion of worth is going to lose votes.
Of course this, was a fake controversy. I don't believe Romney was any less conscientious or dutiful than other candidates or office-holders with respect to poorer or humbler citizens, but it's a matter of appearances, and Romney lost that battle.
47% of Americans who receive government assistance are a lost cause.
Romney lost by a total margin of ~340,000 in 4 states.
Voter fraud was rampant.
The pony tail guy at the town hall debate in 1992 was THE turning point of American politics...when government acting as our 'parent' became the focus of presidential elections.
I don't think the "47%" remark hurt him as much as confirmed the beliefs and/or concerns of many.
When you can vote for benefiting ONLY YOURSELF and YOUR KIND, you vote DEMOCRAT.
When you want the Freedom to vote for the U.S. Constitution, and the RIGHT to Pursue Happiness, you DO NOT vote DEMOCRAT.
The 47%-Rule is in place now, and couple that with Blacks ALWAYS voting for a Black, you have no future in this country to look forward to, nor do your children and grandchildren....it's been stolen.
This is one of the most interesting questions in public life. I spent my working life either in the military or working for it. A fair number of the AF and Army civilian employees really believed 'government has the answers' in spite of the day to day reality of what n administrative regime actually is like. Other persons i went to college with or knew through alumni associations believe the same. I came to the conclusion these are people who believe as did Woodrow Wilson that the industrial and post industrial state would become a Hobbesian hell for the average man through monied interests manipulation of politics and the economy unless government was there to minimally provide basic economic benefits to the masses and to control the predatory behavior of the classes. People don't talk in these terms but their comments do infer that. The belief is 'nobody can save enough, be clever enough in predicting market behaviors, or be have enough foresight to see concrete trends that will impact average people. If government does not protect them they will be destitute or considering how many people live off of Social Security be more destitute than they are. That is why 'a union job', a'government job' or a job with a hospital or a school system are seen as so desirable. These folks believe no matter what they do they can't compete effectively as the deck is stacked against 'the average man' from the start and they have to be protected from greedy and evil rich and powerful persons and corporations.
When is the last time that happened?
"It bothers me that 47% of the people want to mooch off of 53% of the people."
It's worse than that, because another 10% (or more) want to work running the looting and vote buying mechanisms.
Romney lacked the wit to attack the bureaucrat/foundation/academic iron triangle that is ruining the country.
Excuse me. "When WAS the last time that happened?"
"they dont have religion they will need something else to believe in ..."
You got it, and these secularists feel that they can make a better world than God - of course at our expense and misery.
Drudge Report declared Singapore the least emotional city in the world. Maybe that is our last refuge.
Could the Alinskyites expose them to the PC crap and teach them how to feel?
Then again seems like the Chinese are even having their fill of communism with the nail houses over there.
This picture is amazing:
The Phrase That Lost Romney the Election:
Massive voter fraud
Romney lost because.... HE WAS ASHAMED OF BEING SUCCESSFUL..
Romney was brain washed into being ashamed.. so he LOST..
UNLESS he didn't believe he was successful and was complicit in the lie..
He was not proud of living the american dream.. proud Capitialist..
He lost because he was CONFUSED.. most people noticed..
He was coy about being a powerful capitalist.. so he LOST..
He didn't know whether he was a democrat or a republican.. so he LOST..
much like George Bush, Juan McLaim or Lindsey Graham..
People have had it with these guys..
Even democrats don't want confused democrats they want actual democrats..
Republicans have MANY confused democrats as republican officials.. its not RARE..
Some republicans are even starting to ADMIT IT...
The third party could become a happening thing..
Because the republican party is totally FUBAR..
"That is why a union job, agovernment job or a job with a hospital or a school system are seen as so desirable."
All your points are well taken, but there is also the belief or need to FEEL that you are toiling in some humanistic avocation that benefits their secular society - such as the ones you just mentioned.
Amazingly, George Orwell was a socialist to his death despite his Animal Farm epic. Big Brother to him was a necessary evil.
Quite a good read on Orwell here -
At the first of 0bama's SOU addresses, MO waved and smiled and I saw her persona: a real *itch, fake, phoney and all about herself.
0bama has shown a true desire for revenge. Rove pegged the guy years ago in saying that 0bama's the guy at a cocktail party, in the corner, making crass and snide comments quietly about others in the room. The look that man can get in his eyes, and the snide remarks, tell you all you need to know.
We are given a persona of these two people that could not be farther from the truth.
Here is demonstrated a key and growing advantage of a Democrat incumbent candidate. Federal election law forbids a candidate who is in a contested election primary from spending segregated general election funds until after his party's convention. This meant that while Obama could spend freely and position advantageous campaign spots throughout the summer, Romney had to wait until September.
Add to this that only the direct campaign ads qualify for the lowest cost ad rates, none of the 'super PACs' could equal that ad buy. Add to this the undeniable liberal media bias and you end up with a legally entrenched DEMOCRAT Advantage. Note: This is why it is an inherit DEMOCRAT advantage, when the incumbent is Republican, the liberal media is in active media attack mode during this time frame.
This is a law that has no business being on the books, it promotes a tilted playing field.
How about it, President Obama, do you think that this is (your favorite word) FAIR?
Remember, Democrats when given the choice between a false Democrat and a real Democrat chose the real Democrat every time! Which is why you can't play namby-pamby mealy-mouthed tom fool and get Republicans to show up and Democrats not!
I do not care for the leeches in America either. And I will not pretend to. Romney lost because the leeches understand that they now have a coalition that enables them to vote themselves more of other peoples money. The really bad news is that this is self perpetuating and unless their coalition partners fear for their lives this is unlikely to change
I do not care for the leeches in America either. And I will not pretend to. Romney lost because the leeches understand that they now have a coalition that enables them to vote themselves more of other peoples money. The really bad news is that this is self perpetuating and unless their coalition partners fear for their lives this is unlikely to change
What a bizarre question!
I believe that there is a mountain of reasons why we lost. I also believe there is one reason above all others.... THE MSM.
I don't believe we will ever win an election until or unless we are able to disarm our country's worst and most destructive enemy, our own media.
I don't believe that even Ronald Reagan, the greatest president in my lifetime, could have won against todays media.
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We at Magick Sandwich believe Not About Charlie Sheen, or NACS®, should be used to identify all non-Sheen related coverage for the foreseeable future. He's being so generous that I don't think the blogosphere will run out of material anytime soon...unless he dies. How many death pools are out there already? (I'm a little bitter about this subject since my Swayze Watch® was not well-received. It was ahead of its time.)
Grasping the urgent need for other subject matter, we took a few hours to wean ourselves off living the Sheen dream, reading New Yorker cartoons of his best quotes and watching Charlie interview, then translate for Muammar Gaddafi. Hey, we're only human.
What we found afterward sickened us. Okay, me. I can't maintain the illusion of multiple staff anymore. But I'm not lying about being grossed out. This seriously almost made me puke. Too much? I can't riff like the Sheenster. So here's the deal. There's a restaurant in New York that serves live lobster. Live! You pay for the privilege of wrestling, killing and cracking open your very own sea roach.
|Bring it.
And isn't that the kind of thing they pay illegals to take care of in the kitchen? I would hate to put someone out of a job. I will tip generously. Just give me one degree of separation between the living thing in the fish tank and the delectable, defaced and, most important of all, predeceased dish that I ordered.
I've got to get my mind off this. Where's that Charlie Sheen Mad Lib I was working on?


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Note: This piece ran originally on Joyce Bassett's "New York Serenade" blog and she was nice enough to let us reprint it here.
I said goodbye to my good friend and Springsteen concert buddy this week. Jean Marie, you lived an incredible 49 years.
Here are just a few words from her obituary:
Originally diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2009, she was faced with a prognosis of having four months to live when cancer spread to her brain in October 2010. The prognosis only reinforced her stubborn determination to live life to its fullest and fill her days with sunshine and chocolate. She traveled as extensively and as often as her treatment allowed, including trips to Hawaii, St. Maarten and a wonderful trip to Lourdes as guests of the Knights of Malta. She saw a Bruce Springsteen concert whenever possible and Springsteen�s �No Surrender� and �Waiting on a Sunny Day� were just a few of the themes she preached on her amazing Caring Bridge website, called Focus on the Positive. The site name was from an inspiring quote from the late Benjamin Stowell, a Blue Creek student who �taught her how to cope� with cancer.While writing the obituary for my sister-in-law Jean on a beautiful sunny day one week ago, I sent emails back and forth to her oldest daughter, Amanda, who also is a Springsteen fan. The Word document we exchanged between us and other family members we called �Jean Bassett rocks.�Her family played Springsteen music at a wonderful family gathering after the funeral service and her husband John mentioned Springsteen in his eulogy. He talked about one of my favorite Springsteen adventures with Jean. In the midst of chemo treatment, she arranged a road trip for us and our husbands to drive 4 hours to Buffalo and back to see Bruce Springsteen during the final show of the 2009 �Working on a Dream� tour. It was Little Steven�s birthday. It was Clarence Clemons last full band performance. Bruce did the entire �Greetings from Asbury Park,� his first album. He sung �Santa Claus is Coming to Town.� My favorite blurry Bruce concert photo is below, with a Santa hat covering up Jean�s �beautiful bald head� as her husband John called it.Her daughter Amanda and I have been texting each other back and forth for years when a �Springsteen moment� came up. You know what those are: When you travel and spot a Springsteen license plate; when you wish E Street Radio would play a song and it magically is on air while you are riding in the car; when your mom�s Hospice caregiver is named Shirley E. Street.A Springsteen moment I experienced in the weeks leading up to her death came full circle as I struggled with questions of �why?� Her elementary school students and teachers created a wonderful basket of hand-painted stones and presented them to Jean a few weeks ago. On a regular basis I spent Fridays with Jean, and when I saw the basket at her house, a stone painted her favorite color teal jumped out at me. It said �No Surrender. Springsteen.� Here is a photo.Jean did not surrender to this disease. Then why was she taken?Our wonderful priest, Father Butler, admired a different stone in this rock garden which was brought to the church as part of her memorial. He brought it up to the altar, mentioned it in his homily, and laid it upon her casket. Also designed using in her favorite color teal, the message was Psalm 46:10 and it said:�Be still Jean, and know that I am God.�He explained this to the packed church of family, friends and her students gathered to celebrate her life:To be �still,� he said, means to �surrender� yourself to God. We might not know the answers to all our questions about her death, but if we surrender to God, we can find peace and strength. On her final days, she surrendered. And that is glorious and it brings me peace.See you further on down the road, my friend.Follow Joyce at @JoyceB10Bassett.


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A very fine antique silvered and gilded bronze statue by French artist Joseph Gustave Cheret (1838-1894) of a child with baskets. Cheret was the son-in-law of one of renowned sculptor Carrier-Belleuse, following in his footsteps as the Director of the Sèvres factory. Cheret exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1863-1894 and at the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1891 until his death. His works were posthumously exhibited at the famed Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Excellent condition.
Circa 1890
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Seems like everyone has a different idea of which headphone sounds most neutral. So I thought it would be interesting to see what the majority opinion is on what is the most neutral tonal balance.
By neutral tonal balance, I mean the headphone that adds the least coloration (No extra bass oomph or treble, completely transparent). Btw this means ignoring soundstage, detail retrieval, speed, and all those other things that make these headphones awesome.
Hopefully this just doesn't turn into a headphone popularity contest.
Also if you think I left out a headphone that deserves a spot on this poll lemme know.
EDIT: I did not include electrostats, because relatively few have heard them, cost/barriers to entry are large (for most of the commonly known ones), and I suspected Sr 009 would take the cake.
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Skip to comments.Gabrielle Giffords receives Profile in Courage award [Exploitation Continues]
Posted on 05/06/2013 4:28:18 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords received the 2013 Profile in Courage award at the John F. Kennedy Library on Sunday in recognition of the political, personal, and physical courage she has demonstrated in her fearless public advocacy for policy reforms aimed at reducing gun violence.
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I was sickened listening to my local CHRISTIAN radio station (Moody) as it ran a long story about how JFK's daughter gave the Profiles in Courage award to GG. The entire presentation was a commercial for gun control.
The award should have gone to her husband , he is the one pushing her to these affairs.
Not that he does it out of courage, but to keep himself in the limelight AKA Ms. Brady.
These a$$wipes seems to have missed one important fact: Nothing she is advocating will reduce gun violence.
Why is this liberal twit receiving the award?
She was shot and survived; it doesn't take any courage to get shot and then deal with it. It's something you just have to do to live. This award is like the ones given to the team members who weren't that good, but wanted a trophy for showing up.
Mr "LimeLight" Giffords...
Such a courageous role model... is he still killing baby Sea Lions?
Do you think her husband has copyrighted her name, speeches, promotions and appearances?
Never heard if either of them before the nut case shot her and a bunch of others because the local sheriff was not doing his job.
There isn't anything brave or heroic about getting shot. There isn't anything brave or heroic about shilling for gun control either. The woman was a liberal a**hole before she got shot. She's a liberal a**hole now. She will doubtless continue to be a liberal a**hole in the future.
Googy Giffords is the new antigun poster child. The purpose of the award is to show she got shot.
Libs got nothing better to do than make up stupid awards to give themselves.
Profile in courage? Did she come out as gay?
I'm really getting sick of this adulation and exaltation of a common Democrat 'token.'
The standard reply to any article or news item bearing the hallmark of Giffords (or the money grubbing husband) being a gun-control advocate should be accompanied first by a picture of her pandering for votes by shooting the very weapons for which she now "articulates" (ha) control.
Many people in this country get shot and survive. What about our brave military dealing with injuries far worse than GG's? Where are their "awards"?
Gabby G. was a low level politician, not a hero. And her husband and the lefties should be ashamed of themselves for using her a pawn. There was no reason for her to resurface again as a public figure or do anything other than spend the rest of her life in recovery from her injuries in private.
She was comped salary-wise way past the time that she should have been,,ie she didn't resign and the taxpayers paid for noone to legislate from her office.
I'm sick of seeing her. She is altered and cannot make rational decisions.
She is a profile in communism.
Everybody gets a trophy!
Surrounded by dozens of men with guns.
Her heroism amounts to what: She stopped a bullet . . . not that she saw the shooter and stepped in front of someone else to prevent him from getting shot . . . but . . . that she stopped a bullet.
Lord A'Mighty, Colonel, that'd be like giving Obambi a Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing . . . Oh, that's right, they already did that.
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords received the 2013 Profile in Courage award at the John F. Kennedy Library on Sunday in recognition of the political, personal, and physical courage she has demonstrated in her fearless public advocacy for policy reforms aimed at reducing gun violence.
Another "award" becomes meaningless drivel.
You know I remember when she was shot and in the hospital freepers saying prayers and wishing the best for her survival. I refuse to wish the best for evil. I remember thinking (not sure if I put it in print) that if the sto0pid witch survived she would go right back to being a commie and would use the shooting to jam it down America's throat. Guess I was right.
Didn't the US Navy just name a ship for her?
These tiresome LIB asshats are truly insane. All "Gabby" did was stop a bullet from a lefty moonbat. Now she (and her loser husband) use her damaged brain to promote gun-grabbing. They should be deported. They are wasting spavce.
Because it's a liberal award. Winners include:
*historical note: The winner of this award is selected by members of the KENNEDY CLAN. The first winner was Gov. Lowell Weicker, for having the COURAGE to impose an income tax on Connecticut.
Thanks, we were apparently hitting "post" at the same time.
I presume this award was ghost written by Pierre Salinger too?
But it takes no courage at all to take the easy, popularly approved, know-nothing gun grabbing position. All you have to do is spout the usual liberal inanities, and you are beloved by all.
I believe that her husband is taking advantage of her notoriety to gain an extra 15 minutes for himself. Just as Mrs. Brady did and is still doing.
And then making a few Bucks on the side as idiots send their foundations money isn't so bad either. All of those paid for trips and hotel rooms, food and beverages aint nothing to cry about. A medal here and there with dinner and glad handing the swells beats sitting home with a semi-veggie.
The point os Sorenson's book was that sometimes a politician needs to go against the poplular passion of the moment. How much courage does it take to agree with 90% of the public?
I assure you, she is a willing victim.
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After a long day of work, we spent Christmas Eve at Lee and Brittany's place in Warman.  They had come by the house earlier and picked up the boys and the presents so all we had to do was go home and then drive out to their place.  We had a nice non-traditional Christmas dinner (some of that tomorrow) and then opened up presents. The key to Christmas Eve is to eat quickly and no small talk (Lee famously said to Mark one year, "Less talking, more chewing") so we can get to the presents quicker.  The tradition of the last couple of years has been to even put off dessert post Christmas present opening.
- I gave Wendy a Fujifilm Finepix JX600 compact digital camera. She has been looking for a new once since her Fujifilm Finepix J10 camera needed a desperate upgrade. This one will let Wendy take better photos, HD video, and yet still be small enough to take with her wherever she goes. It also features 3D shooting options which means I will be asking to play with it. I also lucked out in that it has the same battery that I just got Wendy for her old camera for our anniversary.  A nice bonus for her.
- Mark gave Wendy a ladies Timex Ironman Triathlon watch. Wendy rarely remembers to put a watch on and is always taking it off. The hope is that if we got her a watch she would love, she would actually wear it. So far so good but it is early yet.
- Oliver gave Wendy some earrings and a lightweight tripod so she can do some night photography. Personally I think he just wants to stay up later and is using the tripod as an excuse to hang out with mom.  He also gave her a print of him and Mark out for a walk.
- Santa Claus surprised her with an Olympus PEN ELP-2 interchangeable lens camera. Â it was used but barely used. Â Wendy has been looking at a Nikon J1, some Sony NEX series cameras and a Fuji X series camera but apparently Santa found her one with a 14-42mm lens. Â I was a little nervous supporting a second lens family (yeah I know how funny that sounds) but there are some really affordable Micro Four Thirds lens that we can add that she will love.
- The dogs partnered up with Santa and got her a 16gb memory card, a Crumpler One Million Dollar House camera bag, and a 37mm lens filter. Â I think she liked the camera bag more than the cameras. Â Story of my life.
- I gave Mark a Vivitar Action Camera. He probably wanted a GoPro but I was on a budget and he is thrilled with it. It comes with a headband, helmet mount, and bike mount. Expect to see him doing things that will hurt himself soon on his YouTube account.  That's quality parenting right there folks.
- Santa Claus stopped by and gave him a Sony Xperia J cellphone.  Mark has had two other smart phones, the Samsung Galaxy 550 and then last year we gave him a HTC Desire C and he has taken very good care of them. He loves the Desire C but it is seriously underpowered and really slow running Android and would not run some apps he really likes. The Xperia J should speed up his life a little bit.Â
- Wendy gave him some 100 watt 2.1 computer speakers while Oliver gave him some portable X-Mini speakers.
- The dogs gave him a pen and notebook set.
- Lee and Brittany gave him a set of Huskie Athletics sweats and hoodie. Â He'll never take them off.
- Wendy and I gave him a Canon 28-135mm DSLR lens mug. Â It's the closest thing he is coming to a DLSR camera this Christmas.
- Since he is doing some winter camping at school, we gave him a couple of pairs of wool socks. He is going to need them.
- I gave Oliver a set of walkie talkies and some 4×30 compact binoculars. He was thrilled because Mark has a pair of binoculars and I gave a pair to Lee as well. As for the walkie talkies, what kid doesn't love walkie talkies. Oddly enough Wendy is thrilled with them because they do Morse code.  I hear beeping in my future.
- Wendy gave Oliver, Little Big Planet 2 which has less puzzles to solve then the first one which means he won't be bugging Mark about helping him solve them. Â Of course we also got a great family game as we got him Little Big Planet Karting. Â It should be fun.
- Mark gave him Lego Batman 2 for his Nintendo DS. Oliver loves Batman and insists that Mark is Robin. Mark isn't so crazy about that.  We also got Oliver a Batman bobble head.  Something to inspire him with.
- Santa Claus dropped off a boom box for his room along with some CDs. Apparently Santa knows that Oliver loves chilling to music with Mark.
- Hutch got him an art set
- Maggi got him a compact camcorder. It's only standard definition but if it was good enough to shoot Knight Rider in, it will be fine for Oliver. He loves to make adventure movies with Mark so I can't wait to see what he shoots. The camcorder was being blown out at $10 and I tossed a 2 GB SD card in it. At only 640×480 resolution, he should be able to record himself doing a "slow punch to the face" for days. I guess I need to get him set up on YouTube (where he could be Mark's second camera operator).
- I gave Lee a full sized set of binoculars that should last him for decades. Very similar to the ones that I have and similar to the ones my grandfather gave me. The only thing that makes me sad is that they don't come with leather hard cases like they used to (long before I was born).
- The boys gave him a framed print of themselves being idiots while out on a walk. It seems to sum both of them up so well.
- We also got Lee, Bobby Orr's autobiography.
- Wendy gave Brittany a small cast iron pan with ingredients to make up brownies
- Since Wendy loved the griddle I got her last year, she gave one to Brittany as well.
- Wendy gave me an Apple TV.
- Oliver gave me a rather sharp used F 1.7 50mm lens for my DSLR. He also gave me a LowePro lens case to keep it in.
- Mark got me The Longer I'm Prime Minister by Paul Wells. (you can read a Toronto Star review here)
- Maggi collaborated with Oliver and gave me a Manfrotto compact tripod.
- Lee and Brittany gave me Battlefield 4. Â Now I have to go and fight the world myself.
- The dogs got me a lens! Â Err a coffee travel mug. Â Now I can pour myself a steaming cup of DSLR.
I also got a Lowepro Classified 160 AW camera bag
Well that's enough from me tonight. Â We are sleeping in tomorrow (as if) and then heading over to our friend's Jerry and Gloria Reimer where we are enjoying Christmas dinner. Â Then it is back to work on Boxing Day for Wendy and I.


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Hurry before they are gone! Limited edition Vic and The Rattleheads t-shirt from the secret show in Brooklyn, NY on December 12. Exclusive to Megadeth Cyber Army members. Not a club member yet? Sign up today! cyberarmy.megadeth.com
Happy Birthday Dirk!!
Choad of the Minnesota radio station Rev 96.7 recently conducted an interview with Dave Mustaine. Dave talks Megadeth Beer, Dystopia, touring and more. You can now listen to the chat in two parts below.
Don't miss the first ever Megadeth Boot Camp, from March 10–13, on Dave Mustaine's private estate in Southern California. Join the band for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Tickets + info: megadethbootcamp.com
Dave Mustaine was interviewed last month on the Fox Business program "Kennedy", hosted by former MTV VJ Kennedy. Dave talks Grammys, politics, metal and more. You can now watch the segment below.
In a recent interview with FoxNewsMagazine.com. Dave Mustaine talks bands, and drawing inspiration from Clint Eastwood. You can now see the interview below.
We kick off 2017 by announcing we'll be headlining Sunday night [August 13] at Bloodstock, one of my favorite, purely metal, British festivals! Megadeth had a blast last time and I can't wait to bring the Dystopia World Tour to Bloodstock this Summer. See ya at Catton Park in August! - Dave Mustaine. Tickets on sale now at bloodstock.seetickets.com
Join Dave, Kiko, David, and Dirk on March 10–13, 2017 for fireside stories from the road, an intimate acoustic performance, jam session + more. The epic weekend will take place on Dave Mustaine's private estate in Southern California. Megadeth Boot Camp is on sale here: megadethbootcamp.com
Megadeth is confirmed to perform at Hammersonic Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia on Sunday, May 7, 2017. Early bird tickets are on sale now at hammersonic.com
David Ellefson will perform on the Main Stage at The London Bass Guitar Show 2017 on Sunday, March 5. Tickets are on sale now. Details at londonbassguitarshow.com
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Mythic and Broadsword Online Games, founded by Mythic Entertainment co-founder Rob Denton and a number of Mythic veterans, have formed a partnership to take over the development reins of Dark Age of Camelot. EA will continue to provide billing and account services via Origin, but the development of the game will rest in the hands of the aforementioned studios.
What does the transition to Broadsword mean for Dark Age of Camelot?
EA/Mythic and Broadsword are working really hard to make sure that this transition is as smooth as possible. On February 5th, you shouldn't notice a thing. Going forward, we hope to bring about some exciting new changes, improved Customer Support, and increased correspondence with the DAoC community.
Broadsword's dedicated team will also work to modernize and improve existing DAoC content, complete long-awaited improvements to The Camelot Herald, and establish compelling new features for Dark Age of Camelot, both in-game and out.
Read the rest of the FAQ and the letter on the Dark Age of Camelot site.
What do YOU think the future holds for DAoC? Let us know in the comments!
On hiatus from EVE Online since Dec 2016 - Screw off-grid PVE boosting changes
Pouring on extra "Salt" for 2017
In my day MMORPG's were so hard we fought our way through dungeons in the snow, uphill both ways.
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Originally posted by Kyleran
As DAOC is one of my all-time favorites, this has definitely caught my attention.
Same here
Originally posted by meddyck
I've moved on to other games that aren't connected in any way to EA. It'll take a lot more than restoring the Camelot Herald to get me interested in subscribing to DAOC again.
Ditto, I also am backing Camelot Unchained... Darkage had it's day, it was good times , but RIP and anything backed by a big publisher has little promise in my book. SOE ruined their games. Activision ruined WoW. EA ruined many games.
I used to be very anti-indie games, but more and more indie games impress me and surpass my expectations. I am not saying I will not play a game made by a big publishing house, but I will wait until ratings come out first.
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Originally posted by kishe
New engine and modern UI for current DAoC and i'll be there in a heartbeat.
I second that!
I"m wondering who'd handle the account recovery aspect of the game now?
I tried recovering access to my multiple accounts and it was a nightmare that I eventually gave up on. I'd enjoy having access to my old toons again but I won't go through that circle jerk mess with "customer service" from EA again...
Until you cancel your subscription, you are only helping to continue the cycle of mediocrity.


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USA TODAY Sports' Robert Klemko and Mike Garafolo debate which Harbaugh, Jim or John, would be better to play for on the football field.
Like many who grow up around the game, these coaches and officials could not resist going into the family business - and now they are in the Super Bowl
NEW ORLEANS – Long before this duel of brothers in Super Bowl XLVII, John and Jim Harbaugh got pregame-style pep talks from their football coach dad on the way to school. Dino Paganelli and his two brothers dressed in black-and-white stripes for Halloween to be like their officiating father. Peter Hansen sat in the rain as a toddler to watch his father coach Jim Harbaugh as a high school quarterback.
Now, they're all here to participate in the NFL's ultimate game.
Football in the blood? Parental role modeling? Personal choice? For some families, it's a mix of all that, and the stories of how they got here flicker like old home movies. For them, football goes far beyond tossing a ball around the yard or sharing chips and salsa on Super Sunday.
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In the past, we've seen quarterback brothers Peyton and Eli Manning, sons of former NFL quarterback Archie, both win Super Bowls. Then there are the Stoops brothers – all four were coached in high school by their father, and all went on to become college coaches.
Right now, the Harbaughs are football's first family. Jim's San Francisco 49ers play older brother John's Baltimore Ravens in the first brother vs. brother head coaching matchup in Super Bowl history – the Har-bowl.
Parents Jack and Jackie, both in their 70s, live in the Milwaukee area. They won't be wearing 49ers red or Ravens purple. You win some, you lose some – in bowling terms, they're guaranteed a split. They got a taste of it in 2011 when the Ravens beat the 49ers in the regular season.
"That thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, and on Sunday night we're going to experience both of those great emotions," says Jack.
"We're going to hug both of them," Jackie says.
The brothers will take the field with full tanks of competitive fire. Jack coached them up on that when he was at Iowa in the early 1970s and the boys had sad faces as he drove them to elementary school on cold mornings. "We will attack this day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind!'' Jack, who coached in high school and college more than four decades, would say.
Says John: "My dad's leadership style as a coach was enthusiasm. … He was a go-getter, the best motivator I've ever heard.''
Jack always told the boys that they keep score for a reason, so play to win. Now, the parents await the score.
Carl Paganelli doesn't care about the score. His son Dino will officiate Sunday as the back judge. His other two sons, Perry and Carl, also are NFL officials. Both have worked Super Bowls.
"I'll be watching the officials more than I do the game," says the father.
As an assistant coach with the 49ers, Peter Hansen will be on the outskirts of the Harbaugh spotlight. It took Hansen a while to catch the coaching bug, but this is also a milestone moment for him and his dad, Earl, still the coach at Palo Alto (Calif.) High.
Others decided long ago they would be coaches. When Bill Belichick was in junior high in Annapolis, Md., he helped his late father Steve, a longtime assistant at Navy, pore over game films and prepare scouting reports. Belichick has won three Super Bowls as coach of the New England Patriots.
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In Youngstown, Ohio, four Stoops brothers helped their dad and coach, Ron Sr., set up the projector at home, too. Now, Bob Stoops is coach at Oklahoma, where Mike is defensive coordinator. Mark is the new coach at Kentucky. Ron Jr. is an assistant at Youngstown State. In 1988, Ron Sr. suffered a fatal heart while coaching a game. Ron Jr. was an assistant for the opposing team. This is a classic football family, too.
But just because football is the family business doesn't mean you have to join the firm. Jack Harbaugh takes no credit for instilling coaching into Jim and John.
"I don't know if we instilled anything, but I think they watched. They observed and they saw things that they liked,'' says Jack.
Bo and the boys
Deluged by interview requests, Jack and Jackie held a press conference this week in a packed ballroom at the media center. They said they viewed the attention on them as a tribute to all the parents of players and coaches in the game.
But they're a family in which one of mom's pet sayings is "one game at a time." Says Jack, "If I had a dollar for every time I've heard her say that."
The Harbaughs met while students at Bowling Green in Ohio. Jack played football. He was getting started in high school coaching near Toledo when the boys were born 15 months apart in the early '60s. Jack figures they moved 17 times in his 43-year career, which included nine college jobs. He calls Jackie "the rock." She sold and bought the houses and got the kids in schools.
Jackie tutored players at times. Daughter, Joani, younger sister to the boys, became an expert at splicing game films. "I didn't know I was in a coaching environment, I just felt that was how we lived,'' says Joani, wife of Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean.
The boys absorbed all of it.
"I think everything that we are as coaches goes back to when we were kids," John says. "So (it was) not so much about watching Super Bowls together. … Growing up as Jack Harbaugh's son, who coached for several years at the University of Michigan for Bo Schembechler, that's what molded us.''
Jack's seven-year run at Michigan (1973-1979) came as Jim and John were approaching junior high. The boys roamed the locker room. The practice field was their playground. They had all the wristbands any kids could want. Sometimes, they wrote the No. 7 of then-star quarterback Rick Leach on them and sold them at school.
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Jack credits his wife with bringing the boys to his work.
"She wanted her children to know what they're father did," Jack says. " … I can remember when they could just barely walk. … They were piling up dummies and they learned they could throw the ball around.''
During his stints at Iowa and Michigan, players would come to their home for Thursday night dinners. "Jackie would cook a great meal for them, and then pretty soon they're wrestling on the floor (with the boys)," Jack says.
Jim recalls a 1970s song, "Cat's in the Cradle," by the late Harry Chapin, about a son longing to be like his dad. The son asks, "When you comin' home dad?" The dad responds, "I don't know when, but we'll get together then son."
But the song was about a father who was never around. Jim Harbaugh said that was the opposite of his dad.
"When we were growing up, my dad would play catch with us, he would take us to games, and most of all he believed in us. We grew up just like him," Jim says.
After starring as a quarterback at Michigan, Jim was a first-round draft pick of the Chicago Bears in 1987. He played in the NFL until 2001 and went into coaching. After winning stints at the University of San Diego and Stanford, he landed the 49ers job two seasons ago.
Jim set his path in high school: "His goal was after playing as long as he could, he wanted to coach," says Jack.
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After John's playing career at a defensive back at Miami University of Ohio, the family wasn't sure which field he would choose. Law school and politics were possibilities. Jackie was excited about that.
But one night at dinner, he told his mother he might try coaching. "To which Jackie went face down in the mashed potatoes," Jack says.
Jackie clarifies that. "There were no mashed potatoes," she says. "I saw that look in his eyes and my feeling was, 'You have to do what you want to do.' ''
John joined Jack's staff at Western Michigan as a graduate assistant (while living at home). He worked his way up to an NFL job as a Philadelphia Eagles assistant. In 2008, Baltimore called.
The brothers' teams have rugged lines on both sides of the ball. Jack and Schembechler liked that. Both teams pound the defense with the running game. Jack says football is "blocking and tackle and running and chasing."
But the Harbaughs aren't carbon copies of their dad. When Jack was coach at Western Kentucky (1989-2002), Jim always wanted him to pass more.
"I think there was one time where he called a pass when I was at one of his games," Jim says. "And it did work. It went for a touchdown."
Dad made the calls
Carl Paganelli, 73, of Wyoming, Mich., officiated high school and college football for about three decades. He officiated in the United States Football League and World League. He's been a supervisor of officials for college conferences and Arena Football.
His three sons are NFL whistle blowers now. Perry is 55, and Dino is 45. The other son, also named Carl, is 52. They live in Michigan, where as kids they showed their stripes.
"They used to dress up as officials for Halloween. We used to play out in the front yard, and everybody was an official. The kids, they would make calls and things like that," says Carl (Carl T. in the family to distinguish him from son Carl).
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In junior high, they started going to high school games he officiated. On drives home, they asked about calls he made. They all played high school football, but they also got into officiating as teens.
"The Catholic league used to play on Sunday. We would go to mass and after mass go right outside because the football field was right there and officiate," Carl says.
Sons Carl and Perry officiated Super Bowl XLI together in Miami in 2007. Carl has worked three of them. It's Dino's turn.
"Dino is working a Super Bowl after six years in the NFL. It's quite remarkable what these young men have accomplished in their lifetime already," says their father, Carl, who will be at the game with his wife, Mary.
The Paganellis have dealt with suffering and loss.
Dino's wife, Christy, died from melanoma in 2011 at age 40, leaving Dino and three young children.
Son Carl's wife, Cathy, recently completed chemotherapy for cancer. The family says she is doing well.
"During the hard times the boys were able to always officiate. That's the way the girls wanted it," says their mother, Mary. "The NFL officiating family is a very special. They have done so much for our family. Their support has been overwhelming."
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Dino's children are Brady, 13; Jake, 12, and Katelyn, 5. Their grandfather says Brady and Jake are getting to know the rule book.
"It's remarkable – after being around dad and their uncles and grandpa so much talking football – what they know about things like pass interference and offensive pass interference," Carl says. "The little girl is in soccer and softball. … You'll see more Paganellis coming up in a number of years in officiating."
Mary and Carl have a ritual. "When the officials come out of the locker room, we hold hands say a silent prayer and just feel how lucky we are and so proud of what the boys have done," Carl says.
Drawn to coaching
Peter Hansen doesn't recall specifics from Jim Harbaugh's playing days under his father, Earl, at Palo Alto High School.
"I was going to the games as a little 2-year-old," Hansen says. "The strongest memory I have is that the rivalry games was in a downpour. I sat with my mom under one of those clear painter's tarps."
After playing football and basketball at Arizona, the 6-foot-8 Hansen played for a pro football club in France in 2003 (the Cannes Iron Mask). He played basketball for Club Falcon in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2003-04.
In Denmark, he did some youth basketball coaching. "We had to coach the younger kids in the club. I was kind of forced into it because I was there. And then I started feeling like I liked it," he said.
He hadn't grown up itching to coach.
"All my life, people asked me if I was going to coach like my dad," and I always said no," he says. "But then that experience, I guess it kind of triggered the coaching bug in me."
He returned to the USA to coach four years under his father. Family networking helps. Hansen became a strength and conditioning intern at Stanford under Harbaugh in 2008.
"That's how I got my foot in the door," says Hansen, who later became a Stanford assistant and moved with Harbaugh to the 49ers two seasons ago. He does video work with the defense and runs the scout team, simulating the Ravens this week. Now, he's in the Super Bowl. His dad and mother, Marilyn, will be there.
If the 49ers win, the Hansens will celebrate. Jack and Jackie Harbaugh know their deal is different.
Jack also points out that Jim's oldest son, Jay, works for uncle John as a coaching intern with the Ravens. He's doing video work and assisting with strength and conditioning.
"You've got father and son competing against each other on Sunday night as well," says Jack.
But the marquee match-up is Jim vs. John.
Jack says his sons had one request of their parents: "Both of them have shared this with us: 'Mom and dad, please promise us that you will enjoy this, enjoy this experience. That's all we're asking."


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Glasgow boss Gregor Townsend has recalled Stuart Hogg, Sean Maitland, Ryan Grant and Tim Swinson for Friday's clash with Munster.
Glasgow boss Gregor Townsend has recalled Stuart Hogg, Sean Maitland, Ryan Grant and Tim Swinson for Friday's clash with Munster at Scotstoun Stadium after the quartet missed last weekend's match at Leinster.
Ruaridh Jackson, Sean Lamont, Ryan Wilson, Jon Welsh and Pat MacArthur have been promoted from the bench, while Peter Murchie, James Eddie, Gordon Reid and Ed Kalman drop out of the 23-man squad.
Alex Dunbar and Tommy Seymour both picked up knocks in Dublin and will not be involved tomorrow night.
"We were disappointed to leave Dublin last weekend with just one point but there were a number of good elements to our game," Townsend said.
"The effort our players put in was excellent and they fought right to the end of what was a highly competitive match.
"We'll need to replicate that level of commitment tomorrow night against a very good Munster side.
"It's nice to be in a position where we have an increasing number of players fighting to get into the starting XV.
"Stuart (Hogg), Sean (Maitland) and Tim (Swinson) were injured last week while Ryan (Grant) has played a lot of rugby recently, so it's nice to be able to welcome the four of them back."
Canadian flyer, DTH Van der Merwe starts on the left wing, with Maitland starting on the right side, ahead of Tommy Seymour. Stuart Hogg replaces Peter Murchie at full-back, after playing in all five of Scotland's Six Nations games.
Scotland prop Ryan Grant comes in at loosehead with Moray Low dropping to the bench and after signing his new two-year deal with the Warriors this week, Jon Welsh starts at tighthead, in place of Ed Kalman. Pat MacArthur starts at hooker ahead of Dougie Hall, who drops to the bench.
Tim Swinson is back in the second row alongside captain Alastair Kellock and it's a familiar looking back row with John Barclay, Josh Strauss and Ryan Wilson combining.
Mark Bennett and Ofa Fainga'anuku come into the squad and start on the bench alongside Duncan Weir, Henry Pyrgos, Rob Harley, Tom Ryder, Moray Low and Dougie Hall.
In total there are nine changes from the team that lost to Leinster, with one positional switch.
"We weren't as accurate as we'd have liked against Leinster and we know we have to improve, especially defensively," added Townsend.
"Our passing also needs to be much better. The focus at training this week has been very similar to how we prepared for our clash with Ulster a few weeks ago; this is a very important match for us and we'll need to be at the top of our game.
"Munster are a strong defensive team so we must take any opportunities we get. Despite being sixth in the league, they are only seven points off the top four and they can still qualify for the play-offs.
"That makes them extremely dangerous opponents and we must approach the game in the right manner.
"There are a number of players unlucky to miss out this week, notably the likes of Ed Kalman and Peter Murchie who put in big performances against Leinster.
"Mark Bennett has been in cracking form for Scotland U20s and been doing well in training so he deserves his chance to be involved tomorrow night.
"Injured pair Michael Cusack and Chris Fusaro are both progressing well and we hope they'll be available to play in the next few weeks."
Meanwhile, Munster boss Rob Penney has kept changes to a minimum.In the back-line, Johne Murphy comes onto the wing in place of the injured Denis Hurley while this time around Duncan Williams starts with Cathal Sheridan on the bench.
In the pack, changes from last day see Mike Sherry and BJ Botha ahead of Damien Varley and Stephen Archer respectively with Paddy Butler into the back row for the injured (knee) Sean Dougall.
Hurley who tweaked a hamstring in the Connacht game didn't feel entirely happy with it after this week's training session and was withdrawn from consideration.
Form:Glasgow Warriors' record seven game winning run in the PRO12 came to an end in Dublin on Saturday night. Warriors have won their last five matches in all competitions at Scotstoun since losing there, 6-9, to Castres in the European Cup in December. Glasgow's only win in their last six encounters with Irish provinces was 20-14 at home to Ulster in round 16. Munster ended a three game winless run in the PRO12 with their victory over Connacht in Cork last weekend. The Munstermen have not won outside of Ireland in the PRO12 since a trip to Cardiff Blues on 2 November. Munster's only defeat in their last 15 contests with Scottish opponents in all competitions since 2009 was to Edinburgh at Murrayfield in September 2011.Munster have won the last six fixtures against Glasgow since the Warriors last win, 22-9, at Firhill in the opening game of the 2009/10 campaign.
Glasgow Warriors: 15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Sean Lamont, 12 Peter Horne, 11 DTH van der Merwe, 10 Ruaridh Jackson, 9 Niko Matawalu, 8 Ryan Wilson, 7 John Barclay, 6 Josh Strauss, 5 Al Kellock (c), 4 Tim Swinson, 3 Jon Welsh, 2 Pat MacArthur, 1 Ryan Grant.
,b>Replacements:16 Mark Bennett, 17 Duncan Weir, 18 Henry Pyrgos, 19 Rob Harley, 20 Tom Ryder, 21 Moray Low, 22 Dougie Hall, 23 Ofa Fainga'anuku.
Munster: 15 Felix Jones, 14 Doug Howlett (c), 13 Casey Laulala, 12 James Downey, 11 Johne Murphy, 10 Ronan O'Gara, 9 Duncan Williams, 8 James Coughlan. 7 Tommy O'Donnell, 6 Paddy Butler, 5 Paul O'Connell, 4 Donncha O'Callaghan, 3 BJ Botha, 2 Mike Sherry, 1 David Kilcoyne.
Replacements: 16 Damien Varley, 17 Wian du Preez, 18 Stephen Archer, 19 Billy Holland, 20 Niall Ronan, 21 Cathal Sheridan, 22 Ian Keatley, 23 Ivan Dineen.
Date: Friday, March 29
Kick-off: 20:05 GMT
Venue: Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow
Referee: Leighton Hodges (WRU)
Assistant referees: Peter Allan, Adrian Graves (both SRU)
Television match official: Iain Ramage (SRU)


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With thousands of students converging onto Downtown every morning and afternoon to catch their bus rides to school and back home, more accountability, better planning and tighter enforcement is needed by the Rochester City School District, Rochester Transit Authority, Rochester Police Department and City Hall to help manage those students and create a more peaceful and vibrant Downtown.
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