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About as boring a football Sunday as there could be for the first couple of hours, Denver and San Francisco exporting horrible football to London; the Redskins stinking it up at Detroit; the Cowboys looking as pathetic as the '62 Mets; Kansas City and Buffalo playing offensive football like it was 1930 and not 2010; the Jets throwing a slumber party for their offense.Then some interesting things happened. Lots of them. The benching of The Solution by Mike Shanahan; Troy Smith grabbing hold of the 49ers quarterback job; Ndamukong Suh playing like not only the Defensive Rookie of the Year but also a Defensive Player of the Year candidate; the Packers shutting out the Jets with a tour de force defensive performance that would have made Lombardi proud. And we haven't even gotten to the Patriots lacerating Favre and the Raiders humbling Hasselbeck and, Saints alive, the Saints coming alive.Off we go on a tour of the NFL as the calendar turns to November.Jerry's got heartburn, and he needs to act on it.To: Jerry Jones.From: Me, representing everyone in the football world.Re: Your team.As much as it pains you to admit it, Jerry, you have to do what you know needs to be done right now. You've never fired a coach in the middle of a season and there's no good reason to do it under almost any circumstance. Except these. Your team has given up. In the span of six days, Eli Manning and David Garrard have come into your sparkling new stadium and made sure the entire town turns its attention down the street to the Texas Rangers and the World Series. They've each thrown four touchdowns against your team in a week, combining to put up 76 points on what was supposed to be a top-five defense.But everyone can see your Cowboys are not playing hard. We saw it in the NBC viewing room Sunday, and Garrard saw it, too. He told me: "It just looked like they weren't into the game like an NFL team should be.'' Said he noticed a "woe-is-me'' attitude among some of your players. You don't see that with a Baltimore or Pittsburgh. Andy Reid's teams don't do that. Your team's embarrassing. You said it yourself after the game. And at 1-6, there's no hope for the season. You've got to put Wade Phillips out of his misery, and you've got to do it now.We all know Wade's a prince of a guy. But he's the exact wrong man for this job right now. This team has abused Phillips' decency. It's time to put a guy in the job for the rest of the year who won't take the same crap Phillips is taking right now. I'd choose offensive coordinator Jason Garrett or special-teams coach Joe DeCamillis. Garrett will be uber-organized, and he'd show you whether he should or shouldn't be a candidate for the full-time job when you interview John Fox, Leslie Frazier, Bill Cowher and maybe Jon Gruden after the season. DeCamillis has some fire to him, as you well know, and it looked like he wanted to bite some heads off after a shoddy special-teams play Sunday. As for the defense, Paul Pasqualoni has been a coordinator on a 3-4 team before -- last year in Miami. He can do it for the rest of the year, and he's right there on your staff.One and six. An ugly 1-6. A give-up 1-6. You said this: "There's no way the result and the way we played tonight, there is no way I can rest, sleep, eat well with a diet of that right there. There is no way. If you look at what we're about, our team, our stadium, the pride I have in this franchise, you know it doesn't digest. It doesn't go down. We've got to do something that changes this on the field."There's only one thing to do. You've never shied away from the tough calls, Jerry. This isn't even one of them, honestly. But it's got to be done. You've got to fire your coach.***McNabb in a weird place.When Washington coach Mike Shanahan made the move he made Sunday with 1:45 left in the fourth quarter and Washington trailing by six at Detroit, removing a healthy Donovan McNabb for Rex Grossman to run the two-minute offense, he said it was because of Grossman's familiarity with the two-minute offense from working with offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan at Houston in 2009. But the move tells me three things:1. Mike Shanahan can't be happy with the work ethic or the performance in the clutch, or both, of McNabb. To say you're more comfortable with Rex Grossman than Donovan McNabb with the game on the line is something that should strike McNabb to the core. There's no way after a full offseason in an offense, particularly with an offense as quarterback-friendly as the one run by Shanahan father and son, that an experienced quarterback with pelts on the wall wouldn't know it very well. If he doesn't, the inference is clear: McNabb hasn't worked hard enough to master it.2. Shanahan is simply going by what he's seeing. I went back and looked at the first eight games of the Redskins' season. McNabb has had the ball four times inside the two-minute warning of the fourth quarter. Once, against Green Bay, he led Washington on a seven-play, 53-yard drive that ended in a game-tying field goal that forced overtime. On the other three drives, he threw one interception and couldn't get a first down on two others. Four two-minute drives at the end of games, three points. But that's not unlike McNabb's overall production. As of this morning, at the season's midpoint, he's the NFL's 25th-rated quarterback ... and he's also in the lower 20s in fourth-quarter passer rating. Don't show Washington owner Dan Snyder the quarterback rankings, by the way. McNabb's three spots behind Jason Campbell.3. McNabb turns 34 this month. His contract is up at the end of the year. All along, we viewed the long-term deal of McNabb in Washington as a formality, to provide the fitting coronation to the Easter-night trade from the Eagles to the Redskins. Not so fast. Do the Redskins want to pay a flawed player -- and how else would you look at McNabb after Sunday's yanking -- $15 million a year to be their quarterback for the next four years? And does McNabb want to remain in Washington for a second season after getting blindsided with the game on the line in Detroit?I tend to think McNabb should be the more worried party after Sunday. Is he really that desirable a quarterback? The Eagles dangled him for two months last spring, and the only team to give a market offer for him was Washington. If the Eagles didn't want him with three or four prime years left, and if the Redskins no longer want him, what are teams around the league to say? Well, Andy Reid and Mike Shanahan -- those are two guys who sure don't know quarterbacks! I'll take McNabb! Doubtful. Very doubtful.Maybe McNabb needs to have a heart-to-heart with Mike Shanahan in this off week. Maybe he needs to emphasize to him he'll do whatever it takes to win the trust of the Shanahans through the offseason, even if it means working daily beyond the regular OTA periods with Kyle Shanahan on the mechanics and footwork of the position the way the Shanahans want him to play it. If I were McNabb, and I still wanted that one big contract, and I wanted to play with a team that has a chance to be good in the next three or four years, that's what I'd do.***Raiders on a roll.Can't you just imagine Al Davis this morning? Told you I was right to trade the one for Richard Seymour. Told you Darren McFadden was a franchise back. Told you this pass-rush would work. Told you Darrius Heyward-Bey had some Cliff Branch in him.The 4-4 Raiders are alive, .500 or better in November for the first time since 2002, when they made their last Super Bowl appearance. (Their last relevant football game, really.) They've been so dominant the last two weeks, beating Denver and Seattle by a combined 92-17, that they've got to be taken very seriously as contenders in the AFC West. This week the Chiefs come to town, and a Raiders win would pull them within a half-game of first place Kansas City after nine weeks.Last week against Denver, the front seven, led by Seymour, Tommy Kelly and Kamerion Wimbley, was voracious in a four-sack beatdown of the Broncos. They turned it up higher Sunday in the 33-3 rout of Seattle. They sacked Matt Hasselbeck eight times, and when they weren't sacking him, they were pressuring him into quick throws. That helped them turn it back over to their offense, which, for the first time in the half-century history of the franchise, has had back-to-back 500-yard games. The running game looks unstoppable. The 328 yards against flawed and struggling Denver was one thing. But Seattle came into the Coliseum holding teams to 3.3 yards per rush, second in the league ... and Oakland riddled the Seahawks for 239 yards on 39 carries.Watching chunks of Sunday's game, I found one thing evident: The Raiders are playing harder than they have been, flying to the ball like the Steelers and Ravens do on defense especially. Quarterback Jason Campbell points to a speech coach Tom Cable gave the team the night before the Denver game, when he implored them to stop worrying about making mistakes and to just play with abandon. And after Sunday's game, Cable said: "Good teams get breaks. They make their breaks because of how hard they're playing.'' That's exactly what it looks like the Raiders are doing.Suddenly, it looks like if the Chargers are going to mount another charge to win the division, but they'll have to leapfrog two teams, not just Kansas City. And that first-round pick the Patriots got for Seymour? Now it looks like it might be in the teens or lower, not in the top five.It's only two games, and they weren't against the cream of the league, but the Raiders haven't looked this good since their Super Bowl season.***Saints on a mission.Until Sunday night, the Saints hadn't smothered anyone all season. They hadn't unleashed any real Gregg Williams fury in the first half of the season, not like the ferocity we'd seen consistently last year, especially late, when the defense was as important as the offense to the New Orleans cause. It didn't look like it'd happen Sunday when the marauding Steelers came to town for Halloween either, not with New Orleans' top three corners -- Jabari Greer, Super Bowl hero Tracy Porter and Randall Gay -- out with injuries. When first-round rookie corner Patrick Robinson was lost on the third play of the game against Pittsburgh after rolling his ankle, what was New Orleans to do?Williams, the Saints defensive coordinator, teamed Malcolm Jenkins -- college corner, NFL safety -- with nickel back Leigh Torrence at the corners. Torrence had one of the game's fastest players, Mike Wallace, in coverage much of the night. Helped by the kind of blitz that frustrated Brett Favre in the NFC Championship Game, the Saints held Ben Roethlisberger touchdown-less and the Steelers to 279 yards in a 20-10 stunner at the Superdome. A week after being embarrassed by the Browns in the same stadium, the Saints played a physically battering style of football -- the kind Pittsburgh plays -- and punished Pittsburgh.Torrence got the first interception of his five-year career to clinch it with 1:40 left and the Steelers driving. Wallace's totals for the night: three catches, 43 yards."Once Gregg saw we could match up with them, I think he started feeling comfortable with the blitzes,'' Torrence told me after the game. "I don't think I've ever taken that many snaps in a game at corner. It was definitely a big task, especially against Wallace. He's gotten behind every secondary he's played. But I've been with Gregg for a while; we were together back in Washington. He just said to me, 'We've been in battles like this before. Just go do what you do.'''He did, and the Saints have life now, with one game left (at Carolina on Sunday) before their bye. For as badly as they've played for much of the first half, the 5-3 Saints are only a half-game behind 5-2 Atlanta and Tampa Bay in the NFC South.***Moss on a milk carton.Now we can see why Randy Moss was so emotional after Sunday's 28-18 New England victory over Minnesota. I think he sees his career as an impact NFL player is declining; I wouldn't say it's over yet, because he's got the kind of speed and savvy that -- if he wants to apply himself and play with the fire clearly lacking in his game right now -- he could be better than he is right now. But the move to Minnesota to play with his friend Brett Favre has barely been any better than when he played with his other quarterback pal, Tom Brady, in New England. He's played four games with each this season, and here's what we see so far:It's not going to get any better for Moss when Sidney Rice returns (probably in a couple of weeks) and Brett Favre (or Tarvaris Jackson) has Rice and Percy Harvin to further dilute his chances.***Performance of the day, team: The Green Bay defenseI liked what the Patriots did, liked the moxie of the beat-up Saints, oohed/aahed at the Raiders. But the Packers held down the league's second-rated rushing game (LaDainian Tomlinson and Shonn Greene struggled for 76 yards) and forced Mark Sanchez to try to win the game. He couldn't. Sanchez was a 42-percent passer and threw two interceptions, dealing with pressure all day."We wanted to put the ball into Sanchez's hands,'' said Clay Matthews, who had five tackles and a late, demoralizing sack of the Jets up-and-down quarterback. "We knew if we held down their running game, we had a good chance to be successful on defense.''Packers 9, Jets 0. At the Meadowlands. "I'm sure if you asked people which of us would have had a shutout today, everyone would have said the Jets," Matthews added. "That's a really good team. But we'd lost three games, all by a field goal, and we haven't played our best football.'' In beating the Vikings and Jets in succession, Green Bay might have started playing its best.Performance of the day, player: David Garrard"How 'bout them Jaguars!'' Jacksonville owner Wayne Weaver said in the locker room after the Jags routed Dallas 35-17 at Jerryworld. How 'bout that Garrard? With a 17-of-21, four-touchdown outing, Garrard had the best day of his career. It helped that the Cowboys were in mail-it-in mode, for sure. But what was impressive was Garrard's performance against the blitz. He almost invited it, and on two of his four touchdown throws, he beat an extra rusher or rushers, with ease. "It was pitch-and-catch for us,'' said Garrard, who'd missed last week's game with a concussion.It was a thrill for Garrard -- who grew up in East Orange, N.J., eight miles from the Meadowlands -- to do it with Phil Simms in the CBS booth upstairs. "You're my childhood idol,'' he told Simms after the game. The first football season Garrard remembers well is the Giants' Super Bowl XXI season (and the 39-20 win over Denver), and now he has something in common with those mid-eighties Giants' teams -- they buried the Cowboys with regularity. "We just wanted to dig them a little bit deeper,'' he said. Mission accomplished.***Suh on fire.Sacks by Ndamukong Suh at midseason: 6.5.Sacks, combined, by Jared Allen, Julius Peppers, Albert Haynesworth: 5.01. New England (6-1). Adrian Peterson found out Sunday it might not be so easy to try to make a season-saving yard against the Patriots defensive front, which looked absolutely impenetrable for stretches against the Vikes.2. Pittsburgh (5-2). Very uncharacteristic late mistakes led to a loss that, ultimately, is understandable because it happened in New Orleans on Halloween night, and the Saints played defense the way they played it down the stretch of their Super Bowl season. I doubt this loss will linger with the Steelers.3. Baltimore (5-2). The bye made the Ravens look a lot better in the AFC, didn't it? With the Jets and Titans losing, and the Chiefs looking shaky in holding off the Bills in overtime, Baltimore's back in the top-of-the-AFC mix.4. New York Jets (5-2). An inexcusable performance coming off the bye. Scariest thing is how the offense couldn't make a play, either in the running or passing game.5. Indianapolis (4-2). The Colts probably couldn't have asked for a better time to have 15 days between games. They've had some good rehab time. Reggie Wayne's back to near full health.6. New York Giants (5-2). "In my mind, the Giants are the best team in the NFC,'' Sean Payton said Friday.7. Tennessee (5-3). No shame in losing to San Diego at Qualcomm. But the Titans have to get off the Vince Young-Kerry Collins merry-go-round; it's difficult for Young, obviously, with his problematic left ankle getting hurt again.8. Miami (4-3). I like how Tony Sparano laid down the gauntlet to his team after the game, telling them to put a stop to the inconsistencies of their season. Tough road the next two weeks -- at Baltimore, home to Tennessee. And I think I've beaten this one into the ground pretty well, but it's November, and the Dolphins haven't won at home and haven't lost on the road.9. Green Bay (5-3). Nice eight days. Getting the Vikings off their back, then shutting out the Jets, coming off a bye, and doing it on the road.10. Atlanta (5-2). See number 4 above for locker-room motivation this week, Mike Smith.11. New Orleans (5-3). The first sniff I've had in weeks that things might get back to some semblance of Super Bowl normalcy sometime this year.12. Kansas City (5-2). On the one hand, it's good to overcome an off day and play good enough to come out with a win. Yet to need 74 minutes, at home, to beat the Buffalo Bills ... that shows the Chiefs aren't in the Premiership yet.13. Oakland (4-4). A big jump into the Fine Fifteen, and it's well-deserved. Raiders have scored 91 points the past two weeks and absolutely pummeled Denver and Seattle. Neither are good teams, but if you've seen any more than the highlights, you've seen how unleashed and vicious the defense is playing right now.14. San Diego (3-5). See how quick I am to let the Chargers off the mat? Even with another special-teams gaffe (the fourth blocked Mike Scifres punt in eight games, incredibly), San Diego's still too formidable on offense, and too capable on defense, to forget.15. (tie) Houston (4-2). Arian Foster has really had a remarkable season -- 815 yards from scrimmage in six games. He'll need at least an average game tonight in Indianapolis.15. (tie) Tampa Bay (5-2). Big game this week. Bucs at Falcons, with Atlanta coming off its bye. That's a gutsy way, Tampa Bay, to come back and win a game that looked like it should been lost Sunday in the desert."After we just had this big disappointment here today, I wouldn't have red blood in my veins if I wasn't thinking about a lot of different things.''-- Dallas owner Jerry Jones, in the wake of the Cowboys losing, embarrassingly, to Jacksonville to fall to 1-6. This is the first time Jones has seemed to indicate he would make an in-season coaching change for a team that obviously isn't playing hard for Wade Phillips."I just want to be able to tell the guys [on the Patriots] I miss the hell out of them ... Man, I miss them guys man, I miss the team ... I love you guys, I miss you, I'm out.''-- Minnesota receiver Randy Moss, in a typically weird (for him) news conference after the Vikings lost to New England. It was a five-minute monologue, with no questions taken. He said he will be conducting his own interviews for the rest of the year, asking himself the questions and answering them.Whatever you say, boss. (Walking very lightly around the extreme weirdness.)"To mentally understand the game the way he does is just remarkable.''-- Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh, after Cardinal quarterback Andrew Luck completed 19 of 26 with a touchdown and no interceptions Saturday night in Seattle in a 41-0 rout of Washington. The ballyhooed matchup of Luck versus Washington quarterback Jake Locker (7 of 14, 64 yards, no touchdowns, two interceptions) was a dud.Locker is a senior. Luck is a third-year sophomore. It's now looking like Luck, should he decide to enter the draft, likely will be the highest-rated player in it, with Locker floating somewhere around the middle of the first round."For five seconds now, I just thought in my head, 'Why do I play football in the first place?' ''-- Jets defensive tackle Kris Jenkins, being videotaped by his wife, Tashia, minutes before his Sept. 29 surgery in New Jersey to repair a torn ACL -- the third ACL surgery in his career. His candid reflections were shared with Greg Bishop for a story in the New York Times.1. Tom Brady, QB, New England. Stacked below Wes Welker on the Patriots receiver leaderboard, Brady's next five favorite targets this year didn't play with him last year: Aaron Hernandez, Brandon Tate, Deion Branch, Danny Woodhead, Rob Gronkowski. The quarterback has to be pretty valuable in that case, and Brady's 65-percent first half of the season, with 12 touchdowns and four interceptions, proves him most valuable.2. Peyton Manning, QB, Indianapolis. As usual, think of the two-loss Colts with Curtis Painter playing. I rest my case.3. Haloti Ngata, DT, Baltimore. Played like the best defensive player in football in the first half of the season.4. Clay Matthews, LB, Green Bay. Just watching the Packers shut out the Jets, and seeing Matthews playing with such ferocity for four quarters, I thought he deserved a spot on this list -- as much for leadership and top defensive play as anything else.5. Philip Rivers, QB, San Diego. No quarterback through eight games has thrown for as many yards as Rivers has in his first eight this year (2,649). It's tough putting the quarterback of a 3-5 team on this list, but Rivers has kept the Chargers afloat and within a prayer of surviving this awful start.Offensive Player of the WeekTroy Smith, QB, San Francisco.Smith hadn't started an NFL game in 34 months -- since a Dec. 30, 2007 win over the Steelers as a Baltimore Raven. And to find out you'll get the start while in London, five days before the game, when you've never worked with the first-unit offense .... Pretty amazing deal. And Smith played well: 12 of 19, 196 yards, one rushing touchdown, one passing touchdown, no interceptions, and a gaudy 115.2 rating. "I'm not looking back at what should have been or what might have happened,'' Smith told me from London, after the Niners beat the Broncos in the league's international game at Wembley Stadium. "I'm just taking this chance and running with it.''As I said on NBC Sunday night, you'll almost certainly see Troy Smith replace Alex Smith, regardless of Alex's health, when the 49ers come off their bye in 13 days against the Rams. My take is that Mike Singletary sees Troy as the make-something-happen sparkplug he never saw in Alex -- or in backup David Carr.Defensive Players of the WeekNdamukong Suh, DT; Cliff Avril, DE; and Kyle VandenBosch, DE, Detroit.What an oppressive game these three Lions played, combining for 15 tackles, six sacks (for a loss of 54 yards), two more quarterbacks hits, two more tackles for loss, a forced fumble and a fumble returned (by Suh) for a touchdown in the 37-25 Detroit victory over Washington. The Lions are 2-5. Their defensive front is playing like it's 5-2.Special Teams Player of the WeekDan Carpenter, K, Miami."How about this damn kicker!!!'' Tony Sparano yelled to his team in his postgame remarks after the Dolphins beat Cincinnati 22-14. How about him? Carpenter, in the span of 30 minutes, kicked field goals from 38, 42, 24, 54 and 31 yards, scoring the first 15 points of the game and, with the last one, giving the Dolphins a lead they wouldn't relinquish. He did it through a nice breeze -- 11 mph winds -- without missing. And he did the five-field-goal thing for the second straight week. That's right. Two weeks, 10 field goals for Carpenter.Coach of the WeekNorv Turner, head coach, San Diego.For one of the few times in his 197-game NFL coaching career, Turner got ticked off at halftime. His 2-5 team was down 19-14 to the Titans, and having had ANOTHER punt blocked (the fourth in eight games), Turner had seen enough. The players responded. Second-half score: San Diego 19, Tennessee 6. That led to a win the Chargers, very slightly, needed.Goats of the WeekThe entire Dallas punt coverage team.But specifically wide receiver Sam Hurd, linebacker Brandon Williams, tight end Scott Chandler, long-snapper L.P. LaDouceur and wide receiver Jesse Holley (and shouldn't Holley, the winner of Michael Irvin's football reality show that landed him in Cowboy camp in the first place, NEVER be seen as dogging it?). This play perfectly illustrates why the Cowboys have been the biggest disappointment by far this year in the NFL.In the second quarter against Jacksonville, Mat McBriar dropped a punt inside the Jacksonville 10-yard line. Returner Mike Thomas, though surrounded by the onrushing and aforementioned Cowboys, did not call for a fair catch. And the Cowboys watched him take off like a rabbit being frightened by a shotgun blast. They chased Thomas, who ran for 16 yards, to the Jag 25-yard line. The picture of special-teams coach Joe DeCamillis reaming out his guys on the sidelines was worth a thousand words. Perfect.Sam Bradford had a lot to adjust to this year. He had to adjust to playing football following major shoulder surgery last fall, which caused him to miss most of his senior year at Oklahoma. And he had to adjust to being a savior for a bad franchise, a 6-42 team over the past three years. Consider Bradford pretty well-adjusted at the season's midpoint. In his last three-plus games, covering 187 minutes, he hasn't thrown an interception, has won two of the three games, and has the Rams at 4-4 -- a half-game out of first in the absolutely winnable NFC West.Check out the stretch of interception-free football by Bradford:Consider the shaky group of receivers he has, and you really can't say enough good things about the job Bradford's done in making the Rams relevant again.There were between 15 and 20 NFL scouts at the First Draft Choice Bowl Saturday night in Seattle -- Andrew Luck of Stanford versus Jake Locker of Washington. As I mentioned earlier, Luck outplayed Locker badly and the Cardinal won in a rout, 41-0.One team took the unusual step of having two scouts in attendance: Cleveland.Play well while the floor is yours, Colt McCoy. Play very well.I shared a dressing room with Rihanna Saturday.Kind of.On home Notre Dame Saturdays, I dress for the NBC halftime segment in the room where my TV clothes are stored, along with Rodney Harrison's and Tony Dungy's. That's also the room where the star of Saturday Night Live dresses. [You may remember 51 weeks ago how I stepped on Taylor Swift's red gown in the same dressing room. Then again, if you have a life, you may not.] This week, the star was Rihanna. After the Notre Dame halftime show, I went back in the room to change, and I was nearly through when a woman, maybe 28, walks in and, with a look of You are NOT supposed to be in here, says, "Ohhhh. Uh, this is Rihanna's dressing room.''"I'm almost done,'' I said. "One minute.''"This was supposed to be locked,'' she said, annoyed, and turned and closed the door.To the closed door, I called out, "I didn't steal anything. It wouldn't really fit me.''So my Montclair buddy Jack Bowers and California daughter, Laura, took a busman's holiday Thursday to see World Series Game 2 at AT&T Park in San Francisco. A great trip. The highlights:• Rode two cable cars.• Smelled marijuana near Fisherman's Wharf.• Stood at the northeast corner of Clay and Sansome streets near the Embarcadero and could see three Starbucks within 50 yards -- one to my left, one straight ahead, and one to my right -- all the while evading people trying to enter Peet's right behind me.• Smelled marijuana near Lefty O'Doul's, the quaint only-in-San Francisco bar-cafeteria downtown.• Learned to like Fat Tire Amber Ale, thanks to a tap at Lefty O'Doul's.• Saw the greatest collection of T-shirts and signs ever at a ballgame. Overnight, Cody Ross has been immortalized on T-shirts all over town (As THE BOSS.) A bar two blocks up from the park advertised on its signboard: "Josh Hamilton Drinks Free.'' Everyone had fake jet-black beards in honor of closer Brian Wilson, he of the jet black beard. Saw lots of "TIMMY SMOKE'' T-shirt with marijuana leaves on them, in honor of Tim Lincecum getting pinched on a marijuana charge last year. Think that doesn't make him a favorite of the locals?• Loved the ballpark and the fans and the atmosphere and the cove and the center-field denizens. [See photo of me with my new, uh, hairy friend.] I've been to big sports events before where the fans have more of an interest in saying they were at the game than actually being into the game. That was one intense crowd, from the first pitch. The cutest 5-year-old girl in our row was clutching and pounding her glove, waiting for a ball all night, and never missed one pitch.• Learned I might be able to manage better than Ron Washington. Giants led 2-0 in the bottom of the eighth. Two out. No one on. Buster Posey singles. Pitching change. In comes lefty setup guy Derek Holland. Four straight balls to Nate Schierholtz. Men on first and second. Up comes Cody Ross, hottest bat in the Giant postseason. Ball one. Ball two. Ball three. "He's got to warm up Feliz,'' I say. [Neftali Feliz, the trusted closer.] Nope. Ball four. Bases loaded. Eight balls, no strikes. NO ONE WARMING UP. NOT FELIZ, NOT ANYONE.Up comes Aubrey Huff. Ball. Ball. Ball. At some point here, righty reliever Mark Lowe sprints out to the bullpen from the dugout and starts speed-throwing. Foul. Ball four. Twelve balls, one strike. Run in. Now it's 3-0. Still a game. Where is Feliz? Texas is still in the game; only 3-0, and there's an off-day tomorrow, and they need one out -- one measly out ... and you're telling me it's not an important enough out to get Feliz up?Rangers stall for time. Now comes Washington to yank Holland. In comes Lowe. Up comes Juan Uribe. He walks. FOUR WALKS IN A ROW. HAVE I EVER SEEN THAT IN A GAME BEFORE? PROBABLY, BUT NEVER IN A GAME OF THIS MAGNITUDE. Giants, 4-0. No Feliz. A white flag in the World Series, with your 4-5-6 hitters due. I don't understand. Edgar Renteria singles; 6-0. Somebody with the last name "Kirkman'' comes in next. Aaron Rowand pinch-hits a triple. Giants, 8-0. Andrews Torres doubles. Giants, 9-0. Neat note of the inning: Freddy Sanchez, who struck out swinging to make the second out, strikes out swinging to make the third out. Not a good frame, Ron.• Smelled marijuana walking out of the park, then a block later on Second Avenue, walking from the stadium.I feel the same way about San Francisco as I do about San Diego, which is my favorite Super Bowl city. Can the Giants make the World Series every year? Please?Postscript: Ten hours after walking out of the stadium, I'm sitting in New York Jets special teams coach Mike Westhoff's office in suburban New Jersey, interviewing him for a story. Isn't it a wonderful travel world?"NFL apologists alert: This will be 9th WS winner in last 10 years. How many times has NFL had 9 champs in 10 years? Nada.''--@jaysonst, Jayson Stark, the estimable ESPN.com major-league baseball analyst and a writer whose stuff I've long admired. Having said that, I submit my MLB apologists alert:Including this year, the last 15 seasons have produced nine different World Series winners. The last 15 NFL seasons have produced 11 different Super Bowl winners."DANG''--@AdrianPeterson, Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, after Minnesota's 28-18 loss in New England Sunday.1. I think this is what I liked about Week 8:a. Kyle Vanden Bosch is such a smart player; he had a looping sack of Donovan McNabb that underscored it. He lined up over the nose, looped to his right, had the option of which hole to pick, went all the way outside to the right, and nailed McNabb. Underrated speed for an old guy.b. Kyle Orton to Brandon Lloyd, back shoulder, between two Niners. Thing of beauty.c. The Chad-T.O. celebration post-touchdown. A simple gentleman's handshake. Kind of cool.d. Favre played. He was glad he did. Played well too. "I was shocked I was able to play and move around the way I was,'' he said. No reason he won't play again next week too.e. Buffalo's effort. Chan Gailey doesn't have a good team, but he has a team that's fun to watch and that plays hard.f. Kansas City cornerback Brandon Flowers ... just physical enough. He's playing so well, and in part because he knows how physical he can be past the five-yard bump zone.g. The two Jet fans dressed as Sideline Rex Ryan for Halloween. Perfect -- all the way down to the headset he wears and the black vest over the white long-sleeve shirt underneath -- and the laminated playsheet he holds. Now that's clever.h. Officials made the right call on the Denver chop block against San Francisco. When Knowshon Moreno dropped down after pitching the ball back to quarterback Kyle Orton, and then the onrushing 49er got pushed over the kneeling Moreno, that constitutes a chop block. "Intent'' is not a factor in chop blocking -- and clearly, Moreno didn't drop to his knees to attempt a chop block. But that doesn't matter. The only thing that matter is whether the defender was chop blocked, which, in this case, did happen.i. Jon Kitna deserved a much better fate. His receivers got their hands on all three balls Kitna had intercepted by the Jags.j. Jamaal Charles, 22 for 177. Heck of an elusive back, and he can break tackles too.k. Fantasy players who picked up LaGarette Blount.l. Darius Heyward-Bey! A Darius Heyward-Bey sighting! And a 105-yard receiving day for him.m. Mike Shanahan's stones.n. Ron Brace. Huge play in Minnesota-New England late in the first half, with the Vikings having a first-and-goal at the Patriots' one with the score tied at 7. Brace, a second-year defensive tackle from Boston College (looks like he has classic noseman size), lined up on the head of Minnesota right tackle Phil Loadholt. At the snap, Adrian Peterson took the ball and ran right behind Loadholt. One problem: Brace was pushing Loadholt back. Peterson couldn't find a hole, and he was enveloped by the Patriot defense. Never would have happened if Brace hadn't win the man-to-man battle with Loadholt.2. I think this is what I didn't like about Week 8:a. Teams wear throwbacks too often. Those Ram throwbacks were ugly when Dick Vermeil coached, and they're still ugly.b. Brutal, brutal sked of early games. Simms and Nantz at Jax-Dallas (combined record 4-9) ... London getting the 3-11 combo platter of Niners/Broncs.c. I don't say this lightly: I am shocked at how much the Cowboys stink. Miles Austin and Felix Jones -- and the defense -- are the latest to smell it up. Austin and Jones dropped Jon Kitna throws, turning them into interceptions. The defense ... pick a player. It's awful.d. Randy Moss implying the Vikings should have gone for the field goal at the end of the first half on fourth-and-goal from the Patriot one in a 7-7 game. I guarantee you'd have heard grumbling from the Vikings if Brad Childress had gone for the field goal instead of using the best running back alive, Adrian Peterson, to try to make a yard, and a touchdown.e. The ridiculous fake punt the Jets tried, and that punter Steve Weatherford evidently had permission to try if he felt he had the open space, on a fourth-and-18. How can you think you've got room to make 18 yards? Ridiculous that Weatherford ran it, and more ridiculous if he had the freedom to do so from the coaches.f. Mark Sanchez responding to pressure. Not a good day for the Sanchize.g. LaDainian Tomlinson and Shonn Greene, 22 for 76. It's vital to do better than that.h. Carson Palmer. I don't care what the stats say, he throws too many Rick Ankiel balls. In other words, the football equivalent of a ball ending up on the backstop.i. Amazed that Drew Brees held onto the ball so long in the fourth quarter, giving the Steelers a chance to sack, force a fumble and recover. Not like Brees.j. Max Hall. Looks like he's playing with zero confidence now, totally unlike the guy I saw in training camp.3. I think the reports of the Houston Texans doing drug sweeps in the wake of two of their players being suspended this year for testing positive for PEDs are a little off-base. This happened five weeks ago, when left tackle Duane Brown got whacked for four games. The Texans met with their players and told them the only supplements they wanted to see on the premises were NFL-approved supplements. Three companies manufacture these supplements and are marked with the NFL seal of approval. So the players were told if you have anything else in your locker, get rid of it.Team officials did a visual inspection, though not very close and involved, to make sure players were complying. But if a player had unapproved supplements behind a door in his locker, for instance, the team wouldn't have gone in there to inspect, according to Houston GM Rick Smith. "We didn't go down there and search through lockers,'' Smith told me. "We just wanted players to know the only way you could avoid testing positive for sure would be to only take the NFL-approved supplements.''What the Texans did, in effect, is put the dog-ate-my-homework onus on the players. If the players want to say they took a tainted supplement, they can do that ... but then they'd have to admit they took a supplement not approved by the NFL, which is what the team is trying to make sure they don't do.4. I think because many of you have asked about NFL Films' Top 100 Players series, I thought I'd take a minute to explain how the thing worked. The final show, with the top 10 players, will air Thursday night on NFL Network, followed by a one-hour wrap show with four or the voters (me, veteran NFL executives Ernie Accorsi and Mike Lombardi, and Jarrett Bell of USA Today) discussing the pros and cons of the vote with moderator Steve Sabol. (We taped the show the other day in Mount Laurel, N.J., in NFL Filmsville.)Anyway, here's how the balloting went: 85 voters --owners, GMs, NFL executives and retired execs, coaches, owners, former coaches, broadcasters, media and Hall of Fame voters -- got a list of 260 players. We were asked to grade the players from 1 to 10 (with 10 being the best). When all the ballots were gathered, NFL Films tallied up the votes, and the 100 highest-rated players were ranked from 1 to 100 based on total points. For instance, if Johnny Unitas was given a 10 by 70 voters and a 9 by the other 15, his point total would have been 835. I have no idea about Unitas' point total; I use him only as an example. But you see how the things works.Seems the biggest controversy so far has been the ranking of the modern quarterbacks (surprise) who've played since 1970. They've fallen in this order: Brett Favre 20, Tom Brady 21, John Elway 23, Dan Marino 25, Roger Staubach 46, Terry Bradshaw 50, Troy Aikman 80, Steve Young 81, Kurt Warner 90, Joe Namath 100. Obviously, there are a couple of quarterbacks I haven't named who just might be in the last show. One is active and might be playing tonight. Another is retired and has the same last name as a western state with a very big sky. Anyway, it was a fun exercise. Thursday night will be fun TV.5. I think I liked two things Mike Tomlin said to Bob Costas in the NBC Football Night in America interview last night. Costas asked Tomlin about what changes he's seen in Ben Roethlisberger since the QB returned from his four-game suspension. "As a player, he's enjoying the monotony more,'' Tomlin said, and truer words can't be spoken. Roethlisberger saw what was taken away from him, missed it desperately, and came back a more interested man in what used to be the menial tasks of the job. Tomlin also said of his quarterback having to much fame too early in life: "Success ... can be a trap door for you.'' Good stuff.6. I think the Lions probably want to play the Redskins every week. Great stat from Mike Florio: In the past 40 Detroit games, the Lions are 2-0 against Washington and 2-36 against everyone else.7. I think we shouldn't let the weekend get away without leaving you with a snippet from SI's David Epstein's report in the magazine this week on a groundbreaking study of high school football players. Writes Epstein:"The findings suggest that while the NFL is going to unprecedented lengths to control the violent collisions that produce concussions, brain trauma in football may start much earlier, and much less conspicuously, with hits that never raise an eyebrow, much less a penalty flag."Epstein also describes the potential of blood and genetic testing to diagnose brain trauma:"Bone breaks have X-rays and muscle strains have MRIs, but no form of medical imaging has yet been able to quickly and reliably quantify the type of brain trauma a concussed athlete might suffer. But a number of promising technologies are in the medical pipeline."8. I think the oddest stat -- or maybe not, if you consider how offensive coordinators target who they consider the weak link in a secondary -- is that DeAngelo Hall had the highest completion completion-percentage-against of any cornerback in football after seven weeks ... yet had his fifth interception in 32 minutes Sunday against the Lions. (added to his four picks against the Bears last week, all in the last 25 minutes of the second half). I'm sure no player has ever had five interceptions in 32 minutes in NFL history. Small consolation to the Redskins, of course, today.9. I think Jenn Sterger is probably more likely to sue the New York Jets than she is to take action against Brett Favre, if the investigators working for her attorney find it was a Jets' employee in 2008 who funneled her phone number to Favre.10. I think these are my non-football thoughts of the week:a. MLS Eastern Conference semis: New York vs. San Jose. Come again?b. I thought it was weird when Phoenix was in the NFC East. Well, I guess San Jose is east ... of Honolulu.c. Always learn a lot reading the New York Times. Always. Like last Wednesday: Did you know Bill Clinton's a vegan? That a public school superintendent of a system in Maine with declining enrollment traveled to China to try to convince parents to send their kids to school in his town? That, in the past 26 years, 24 New Yorkers have been killed or seriously injured in fights arising over Halloween eggings? That (and I particularly liked this one) the World Series mayors are both former baseball players themselves and, in their own way, are politically/baseball correct -- Democrat Gavin Newsome of San Francisco throws left, Republican Tom Leppert of Dallas throws right.d. I have heard people complain that the price of newspapers is going up, or that newspaper websites, in starting to charge people for content (which is long overdue), are turning people away from the papers. Well, I guess paying $2 for the Times is prohibitive outside of New York City compared to recent days, when it could be had for less than a dollar. But I paid $2.49 for a Zone bar in Logan Airport the other day and $2 for the newspaper. I was finished with the Zone bar in seven bites -- maybe five minutes. I spent 75 minutes with the Times, then put the crossword in my bag (frustratingly) to work on it later in the week. Pretty good deal if you ask me.e. Speaking of journalists who deserve praise, Stan Grossfeld of the Boston Globe is amazing. He's done great work this year on the Bernie Carbo-played-high story, the story of the other Marinovich -- Syracuse pass-rusher and NFL prospect Mikhail Marinovich -- and the Travels-With-Charlie-style story in which he was a fly on the wall in London with Red Sox owner John Henry as he closed the deal to buy the Liverpool soccer team. What's more, he takes the pictures for the stories too. Now that's a photojournalist for you.f. Speaking of Liverpool, my brother Ken lives in England. He's a big Yankees fan. He's a big Liverpool fan. Now he's got to root for the owner of the Red Sox to turn around his flagging soccer team.g. Coffeenerdness: Thank you, United Airlines, for at least trying to make good airline coffee. The Starbucks United serves -- had it again last Wednesday -- is the best in the air.h. I have not run into many (or any, maybe) companies with the public conscience of Harpoon Brewery in Boston.i. Thanks, Celtics, for allowing my buddy Pete Thamel and me to parachute into the Celts-Heat LeBron Bowl opener. Very generous of you. Even got to meet my favorite player of my youth, Hondo Havlicek. That was fun. Except for me asking one too many stupid questions when trying to find out where some of the guys from that team were now. "Where's Larry Siegfried?'' I asked. Said Hondo: "He died two weeks ago.''j. And I know less about the NBA than I know about Norwegian politics. But I did leave the basketball game wondering how in the world anyone would think Chris Bosh is on LeBron's and Dwyane Wade's level. It should be the Big Two and Three-Quarters in Miami instead of the Big Three, shouldn't it?k. Count me among those who cannot figure out for the life of me how a kid (or an adult, for that matter) would be allowed to go up in one of those portable scissor rigs that house film crews at football practices when the wind is blowing at an estimated 50 mph. Notre Dame student Declan Sullivan was killed when the wind blew one of the rigs over at an Irish football practice the other day. The investigation continues. I've been at many a practice when those things are skyward. Without being there, it's tough to figure out exactly what happened, obviously. But if it's that windy, it stands to reason it's quite a risk.l. Come on, Charlie Sheen. Get a hold of yourself, man.Indianapolis 30, Houston 23. This game can go a lot of ways, because both teams ought to feel pretty good coming off the bye. But if I'm analyzing a football game, and Peyton Manning has had two weeks to prepare, and Bill Walsh has had two weeks to prepare, I'd still probably pick Manning. Thus the prediction.


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Timing of elections on issues of great interest certainly is a factor in what the outcomes may be. The issue out front is the proposed three-quarter-cent sales tax proposal for transportation that the General Assembly agreed to put on the ballot. For a while, with some lawmakers, it appeared placing it on the ballot to let voters decide somehow would indicate a vote in favor of the tax. However, most of the lawmakers did the correct thing — let the voters decide.
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Edward Landry
Published: Monday, November 8, 2010 at 10:14 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 8, 2010 at 10:14 a.m.
Edward Peter Landry, 85, a native of New Orleans and a resident of Houma, died at 9:12 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010.
Visitation will be from 5 to 10 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to funeral time Tuesday at Chauvin Funeral Home. Service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, withe burial in St. Francis de Sales Cemetery No. 2.
He is survived by his wife, Eula LeCompte Landry, of Houma; four daughters, Linda and husband, Richard Gaston, of Vonore, Tenn., Brenda and husband, James Marcel, of Houma, Darlene and husband, Jerome Lirette, of Houma, and Karen and husband, Lee Guidry, of Montegut; one sister, Edna Breaux and husband, Wilton, of Bayou Blue; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Tanile Landry and Alida Kraemer Landry; two brothers, Jeffrey Landry and Lawrence Paul Landry; and one sister, Velma Rogers.
He was a parishioner of St. Bernadette Soubirous Catholic Church and employed by Gracey and Hellum Oil Company.
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RENO, Nevada — A World War II-era fighter plane flown by a veteran Hollywood stunt pilot plunged Friday into the edge of the grandstands during a popular air race, killing three people, injuring more than 50 spectators and creating a horrific scene strewn with smoking debris.
The plane, piloted by 74-year-old Jimmy Leeward, spiraled out of control without warning and appeared to disintegrate upon impact. Bloodied bodies were spread across the area as people tended to the victims and ambulances rushed to the scene.
Authorities are investigating the cause, but an official with the event said there are indications that mechanical problems are to blame.
Maureen Higgins of Alabama, who has been coming to the air races for 16 years, said the pilot was on his third lap of a race when he lost control.
She was sitting about 30 yards from the crash and watched in horror as the man in front of her started bleeding after debris hit him in the head.
"I saw body parts and gore like you wouldn't believe it. I'm talking an arm, a leg," Higgins said "The alive people were missing body parts. I am not kidding you. It was gore. Unbelievable gore."
Among the dead was Leeward, of Ocala, Florida, a veteran airman and movie stunt pilot who named his P-51 Mustang fighter plane the "Galloping Ghost," according to Mike Houghton, president and CEO of Reno Air Races.
Renown Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Carter confirmed two others died, but did not provide their identities.
Stephanie Kruse, a spokeswoman for the Regional Emergency Medical Service Authority, told The Associated Press that emergency crews took a total of 56 injured victims to three hospitals. She said they also observed a number of people being transported by private vehicle, which they are not including in their count.
Kruse said of the total 56, at the time of transport, 15 were considered in critical condition, 13 were serious condition with potentially life-threatening injuries and 28 were non-serious or non-life-threatening.
"This is a very large incident, probably one of the largest this community has seen in decades," Kruse told The Associated Press. "The community is pulling together to try to deal with the scope of it. The hospitals have certainly geared up and staffed up to deal with it."
The P-51 Mustang, a class of fighter plane that can fly at speeds in excess of 500 mph (805 kph), crashed into a box-seat area in front of the grandstand at about 4:30 p.m., race spokesman Mike Draper said.
Houghton said at a news conference hours after the crash that there appeared to be a "problem with the aircraft that caused it to go out of control." He did not elaborate.
He said the rest of the races have been canceled as the National Transportation Safety Board investigates.
Tim O'Brien of Grass Valley, California, has attended the Reno air races every year since 1973. He said he was photographing the event when he saw the plane pitch violently upward, roll and then head straight down about 100 yards (90 meters) away.
O'Brien said that from the photos he took, it looked like a piece of the plane's tail called a "trim tab" had fallen off, which is what he thinks caused the plane's sudden climb.
O'Brien said the plane hit the ground and "absolutely disintegrated."
"The propeller (was) spinning very fast, and there was a lot of mass coming down all at once," he said. It was a "very violent impact."
Afterward, there were a number of people standing around, and "all we could do was hug each other," O'Brien said.
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Joseph Joffo
Joseph Joffo (born 1931) is a French author who is perhaps best known for his memoirs Un sac de billes (A Bag of Marbles), which has been translated into eighteen languages.[1]
Joffo was born in Paris in the 18th arrondissement. He left school at 14 with a certificat d'études (a former school leaving certificate, taken at the end of primary education) in his pocket and joined his brothers in the family's barber shop.
A Bag of Marbles[edit]
His memoirs Un sac de billes (A Bag of Marbles) were published and written in a novel fashion and tell the account of Joffo as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust.[1] When Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother five thousand francs each and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, by foot, train and bus, join their brothers Henri and Albert in Menton on the Mediterranean coast, where they'd be safe. The book "A Bag of Marbles" tells of this journey.
Joffo and his twelve-year-old brother, Maurice, travel all around France by themselves. They are attempting to escape from the grasp of Hitler and his S.S. men as they infiltrate France. They travel through northern France to the de-militiarised zone in the South. The boys then spend four blissfully safe months in Menton with their brothers, Henri and Albert, before having to leave the town for Nice where their parents are waiting.
Joffo returns to Paris shortly after its liberation is announced in an over-crowded train. Maurice does also, although in his typical style he also takes enough cheese to make a very large profit on. They are both re-united with their family in the coiffeur - although sadly not their father, who perished in a concentration camp before the end of the war.
Other works[edit]
Joffo has also written the book Anna et son orchestre (Anna and Her Orchestra), which tells the story of Joseph's mother, from the time she is 11 years old to the time she meets Joseph Joffo's father in Paris.
His novel Baby-foot, published in 1977, follows on from Un sac de billes and describes his life in Paris following WWII and his discovery of American values.
La Vieille dame de Djerba, published in 1984, was written after Joffo met a woman called Liza at a synagogue in Djerba, an island off the coast of Tunisia. He was amazed to discover, after assuming she was a beggar and offering her money, that she knew the name of his mother and grandmother.
Other media[edit]
On 10 December 1975, Un sac de billes premiered in France as a motion picture. The film was also released internationally entitled A Bag of Marbles. They are currently filming 'Un Sac de Billes' for release later in 2015. It has caused quite a frenzy among locals in Nice, where the production team hung a Nazi flag from the Palais des Rois Sardes. [2]
- ^ a b Joffo, Joseph (2000). A Bag of Marbles. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-40069-3.
- ^ https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nazi-flag-surprises-french-city-only-movie-175801637.html?.tsrc=yahoo#a9qh2MN
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injuries and replacements would come later today.
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Jefferson County Fair features Little Big Town, Gloriana and Casey James this weekend
It's that time of year when county fairs across the state become a must-stop destination for some of country music's biggest stars.
This weekend, country fans heading a few miles west from Milwaukee will find two big shows at the Jefferson County Fair (503 N Jackson Ave. in Jefferson). Tonight at 7, Gloriana is joined by former "American Idol" contestant Casey James on the grandstand. Saturday night, it's Little Big Town headlining at the fairgrounds with Madison-based Madison County opening. With a mix of first-come, first-serve general admission seating included with fair admission and reserved spots at an additional price point, the shows can be an affordable way to catch these acts in a unique setting. General admission to the Jefferson County Fair is $10, with a few money-saving deals outlined on the event's website. »Read Full Blog Post
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Bruce Springsteen — one of many musicians, from Bob Dylan to Kacey Musgraves, who are unimaginable as we know them without Woody Guthrie — once described Guthrie's music as "the core of what it means to be an American," adding that "such songs don't get written anymore, because no one knows how to write them."
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Skip to comments.McCain launches pro-stem cells ad
Posted on 09/12/2008 9:42:44 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Republican presidential nominee John McCain debuted a radio ad Friday designed to declare his unequivocal support for stem cell research.
McCain voted in the Senate to expand federal funding for the controversial research but Democrats and advocates of the science have expressed concern that McCains support has wavered.
Not so, according to the radio spot and a McCain spokesman.
The ad does not specifically refer to embryonic research, which is opposed by most politicians and activists who, like McCain, do not support abortion rights.
The omission is not a signal that McCain is backing away from his record in favor of embryonic stem cell research, spokesman Brian Rogers said.
Clearly, John McCain supports it, he said, emphasizing that the ad is intended to refer to all forms of stem cell research, including experiments using human embryos and those using cells from adults.
The Obama campaign dismissed the radio spot, charging that McCain should have fought harder when President Bush twice vetoed stem cells legislation and that his choice of Palin signifies weak support for embryonic stem cell research.
"While its good that that Sen. McCain says he supports stem cell research, it would be far better for the millions of Americans awaiting new cures if he had shown leadership when it really mattered: when he chose his running mate and when he failed to marshal his allies to override the presidents veto, Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) said in a statement issued by the Obama campaign. "Theres only one team in this race with a real commitment to expanding stem cell research, and thats Barack Obama and Joe Biden," said Langevin, a longtime stem cell research advocate who is paralyzed from the waist down as a result of injury.
The ad posits stem cell research as something that will unlock the mystery of cancer, diabetes and heart disease and help free families from the fear and devastation of illness.
John McCain will lead his congressional allies to improve America's health, the ad said.
Stem cell research to help doctors repair spinal cord damage, knee injuries, serious burns. Stem cell research to help stroke victims.
Scientists believe that stem cells derived from embryos can be programmed to replace virtually any cell in the human body, thus enabling breakthroughs in treatments for countless ailments.
McCains views would prevail were he to win the White House, Rogers said, regardless of reports that his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, opposes embryonic stem cell research.
The McCain-Palin campaign and the Republican National Committee co-sponsored the ad.
Despite the ads reference to McCains allies in Congress, most Republican lawmakers voted against overturning Bushs limits on federal funding for the research. The bill passed Congress twice anyway, only to be vetoed by Bush.
The launch of the ad comes just days after Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden criticized McCain and Palin for their stance on embryonic stem cell research.
Democratic presidential nominee Obama (Ill.) and fellow Sens. McCain (Ariz.) and Biden (Del.) all voted in favor of legislation to expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research several times between 2005 and 2007. Such funding is strictly limited under a policy established by President Bush seven years ago.
Nevertheless, Obamas campaign has sought to portray McCains support as shallow, noting the Republican Party platform calls for an out-and-out ban on embryonic stem cell research.
McCain, in turn, has said little about embryonic stem cell research which is opposed by much of the conservative base during his run for the presidency.
Biden started Tuesdays spat with remarks made at a rally in St. Louis. I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect, Biden said, according to press accounts. Well, guess what, folks? If you care about it, why don't you support stem cell research? he said.
McCains camp fired back, accusing Biden of disparaging Palin, whose infant son has Down syndrome. Obamas campaign rejected the charge.
Senator Biden, have you read A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift? Wouldn't it be true that eating round plump human babies would solve a population's famine problem? Embryonic stem cells, same thing.
McCain shouldn't go near the embryonic stem cell question. It is a mistake.
This is the reason that my family will not be voting for John McCain this year. If Sarah Palin were at the top of the ticket then we would support her.
John McCain needs to repent of his support of embryonic stem cell research or he will be losing votes in November.
CFR was a horrible mistake.
As is embryonic stem cell research.
Sigh, every time one starts to get excited about McCain, he comes up with something that just makes one shake one's head and say McCain's being McCain again. Another such moment was when he praised Obama's community organizing work as "outstanding" the other day. Oh well, on the whole, I'd much rather have him than Obama, so I'll still vote for him.
Agreed. However, at Saddleback, he did seem to be backing away from Embryonic a bit. If he can talk about non-embryonic stem cell research, then it could help him.
Is McCain trying to blow it?
Embryonic stem cell research, man-made global warming...these are issues where average Americans want to hear the truth.
I tell ya, if McCain supports embryonic stem cell research after all the new findings that show adult stem cells can be used instead...he's crazy.
There's no way Sarah Palin can support it.
"If he can talk about non-embryonic stem cell research, then it could help him."
It's weird, because McCain's website says that he opposes the creation of human embryos for stem cell research. It also says that he is advocating adult stem cell research. I'm a little confused of McCain's position right now.
I will still vote for him because we CAN'T let Obama win in November!
He's not being McCain again, he always was and always will be McCain...he just wants to get elected.
Who can honestly believe that anything a candidate says after the primaries, is anything other than what they think is necessary to get elected?
They will just have to ask him his specific thoughts on this. Hopefully he will use the opportunity to explain the successes of non-embryonic types of stem cell research and the failures of embryonic stem cell therapies.
Sarah, talk some sense into McCain. This is why I am voting for the ticket, new conservative blood and counsel.
I've seen Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk on EWTN's "World Over" and he is excellent. Thanks for the link.
The Left's support for embryonic stem cell research is not about curing people...it's about protecting their love for abortion.
Man-made climate change isn't about protecting the environment...it's about the Left's hatred of capitalism and industry.
How can McCain fall for this crap? Who in the McCain camp is telling him these are winning propositions? I think someone is trying to sabotage his campaign.
Cap & trade. Amnesty for illegals. Now this, again. John, the only reason you look good is because Obama looks so bad and Sarah looks really good.
According to Sarah Palin, the ticket opposes the creation of embryos for research. I think McCain is oozing toward Bush's position—against the creation of new embryos and the creation of new embryonic stem cell lines.
One can hope that the total failure of ESCR and the successes of ASCR will help McCain to ooze farther in the right direction.
McCain shifted on offshore drilling before picking Palin—and he had to know that Palin is a drilling enthusiast. I think the same is true regarding ESCR—he picked Palin knowing her position.
At least McCain will be pressured to ooze in the right direction by his VP and his party. Obama is a killer, and his VP and his party will only cheer him on to kill more and more and more.
This is good. McCain is grabbing the Dim points and turning them around against the Dims. Perhaps McCain can even get Michael J. Fox to come on TV, skip his meds and tremble for the cause.
He has supported embryonic stem cell research in the past. I think his position is evolving to the good.
McCain is baiting Obama into a discussion about medical science and pro-life issues, and he started off by taking the center ground.
McCain, for whatever you feel about him, is pro-life, and will appoint pro-life justices. But by waving the red cape of embryonic stem cell research, it signals to the center that, hey, I like science and medical research too.
But it's a red herring. Most Americans aren't really tracking on the difference between types of stem cell research. But they do understand grisly pictures of late term abortions, and the visceral late term practices that Obama voted to protect.
So, either Obama abandons this point to McCain, or he jumps into the unborn life issue, the grim details of which he is far too extreme on for most of America. McCain's deep in Obama's OODA loop again.
It's another nail in Obama's "liberal extremist" coffin if he does, or it's a battlefield abandoned to McCain if he doesn't.
Clearly, John McCain supports it, he said, emphasizing that the ad is intended to refer to all forms of stem cell research, including experiments using human embryos and those using cells from adults."
He's given us Palin and now believes that he can go full blown lefty.
John McCain opposes the intentional creation of human embryos for research purposes
JohnMcCain.com ^ | September 13, 2008 | John McCain
Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008
-"As president, John McCain will strongly support funding for promising research programs, including amniotic fluid and adult stem cell research and other types of scientific study that do not involve the use of human embryos". - www.johnmccain.com
John McCain-Pro Abortion
Thanks for the link!
It seems this McCain spokesman, Brian Rogers, is contradicting McCain's position.
They need to clear this up, and how.
Good points!
McCain is used to being around battlefields and live ordnance to boot, this is one minefield Obama will be wise to avoid.
On another thread today he was quoted as saying he was opposed to embryonic stem cell research.
I declare we have more trolls on this forum then we know what to do with trying to stir up trouble. It won't work, the idiotic bozObama is going down in a big way.
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I agree. That's why these things are done on Friday. The McCain website is very clear, he does not support this.
I'm also willing to bet his campaign spokesman never even said this.
A HUGH mistake! It cancels out the Trig Factor.
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Netflix, the master of video subscription services, has updated their mobile app to Version 7.0. Now the Netflix app is optimized for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus so you can see more content, and you'll be able to watch your favorite shows and movies in 1080p on the iPhone 6 Plus. They have also added iOS 8 support and Chromecast improvements.
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The Alchemists (with Warner Bros.) has just released new app called Transcendence: Origins, which also serves as a prequel plot for upcoming sci-fi major motion movie Transcendence, due out in theaters in mid-April 2014.
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Fan of the BigStar Movies app and those looking for a new subscription-based video streaming service will be happy to hear about the latest update. Along with their catalog of lesser known titles including some gems, the app now supports AirPlay for HD streaming, and HD upscaling on iOS devices happens faster. Also added is a new "collections" section to help find specialty items, with five categories to start and the promise of more to come. The movie info now shows in a side panel and the whole app was rebuilt for increased stability.
BigStar Movies is a lot like Netflix, but it doesn't replicate the service. There aren't tons of mainstream movies here and practically no TV, but there are lots of smaller film festival award winners, and lots and lots of indie across genres. The pricing plan and payment methods are also different. Netflix and similar services require you to sign up and create an account online. They use their own billing services and cost a bit more. BigStar Movies allows you to do the same, and you'll even find a good discount through online sign-up right now – three months for $4.99, the price of one – but the app also allows you to subscribe via iTunes, nice for those who don't have credit cards.
The app has the requisite social media integration, enhanced in this update, along with trailers and user ratings. The catalog of movies is the same in Canada as the US, which is unusual and suggests the app's service is available in its entirety wherever the app is available for download. BigStar is definitely for a certain type of movie lover, so be sure to check out their selections before subscribing. If underground and small indie films are your thing, though, this is a great time to give BigStar Movies a try.
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Was listening to a podcast in iTunes at my desk, left my desk briefly and as I sat down, the volume faded.
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