Tim Lincecum

Interesting article on Lincecum by Tom Verducci in SI.

The kid really is a freak.

Also included is a video analysis of his pitching.

Waterboarding Isn't Torture...

No, not at all...

Hmmm

News is fear of terrorism at its lowest point in years.

According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday, 35 percent of Americans believe a terrorist attack somewhere in the United States is likely over the next several weeks.

The figure is the lowest in a CNN poll since the September 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.

Between 2002 and 2006, summertime polls typically showed that a majority of Americans believed that a terrorist attack was likely. Last summer, that figure dropped to 41 percent. This summer, it dropped another 6 percentage points.

The latest CNN poll also indicates that the war in Iraq remains deeply unpopular. Three in 10 voters favor the war, while 68 percent oppose it. Similarly, a third of voters would like to see the next president keep the same number of troops in Iraq that are stationed there now.

For McCain, who is seeking to highlight his national security credentials and has staunchly defended the U.S. presence in Iraq, the latest poll results may not be viewed in a positive light.

That's right it's not positive for McDouche. That's basically the only issue he has left to campaign on.

No, no, those terror alerts when Bush ran for a second term were just a coincidence.

And I ask again, when is the next alert coming?!?!?!

Our Chinese Trailblazers

Helping America become a stronger nation.

The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”

What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.

The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency...

And to think we actually went to war on false information. No shit. Look at the people running the show.

pffff

to think this is actually the headline of an article is hilarious.

facebook is a liberal sympahtizer!!!

One of the things that seems to bother conservatives is hyphenated last names. I've heard many complain that a "woman should take her husband's name because that's the tradition..." Seemingly, more liberal women have added the hyphen, and it's becoming more and more common.

Well, expect it to become even MORE common because in order to be discovered in a Facecrack world you need to post your name as such:

Erica Davis Miller

It'd be too insulting too your spouse to only put your former name, and of course you wouldn't be found at all if you were to take his last name only. As women become more comfortable using it in the facecrack world it'll slowly become even more common in the regular world, as some actually become referred to as such.

So that leaves you with the whole Stacey Goldberg McCullough, whose parents are none too happy for other reasons, I can assure you...

Oh, facecrack, how did we survive?

Mushnick on Johnson

Pretty much on the money.

The school that wouldn't print an article against the sports program written by MILTON FRIEDMAN.

Academics first!

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the reason Carlin got this job was because of the very Mike Francesca who put this planet on the map in the first place. And, taking it one step further, you can bet your ass Bob Mulcahey, AD of Rutgers, who has canceled more sports than he supports, was probably involved as well.

Mulcahey loves to yap it up at the Garden during the years when RU actually makes the Big East Tournament. Every time I see the guy who is taking an opportunity to promote BOB MULCAHEY. To Bob, this is a chance to help Rutgers shine (even thought it won't), and get himself a bit more face time.

Allow Me to Shed Some Light

I heard Scott McClellan on the radio this morning discussing the White House, his actions, and the reasons for his book, etc. The interviewer asked him a question about whether or not the Bush Administration is really practicing bipartisanship as promised early on, or whether during this election they were going to continue to divide, more or less. McClellan began with his usual, "Well, when I first worked for the President..." and continued with the same line of "I thought he would...he used to...I believed when he brought me on...things haven't been what I expected...I thought it was my duty..." blah blah blah, buy my book. But something stuck out here.

McClellan, and other former Bush supporters (many of whom have written books. I know, they're ALL lying...) have made the same comment about the old Bush, the one who was Governor, and how they expected him to be the same Bush. More or less, that comment is , "Bush was a uniter as Governor of Texas, and we expected him to bring the country together. He has not done that...yes, the country seems more divided now. I feel I was misled."

Allow me to shed some light here. Bush is a moron, and no, that's not the light. The light is because he's a moron he was easily manipulated into being the divider guy. When he was Governor of Texas he was dealing with TEXANS. He was being advised by TEXANS. The people around him, and in state politics were TEXANS who often see the state of Texas as its own country, where the people can find a way to get along. For Bush to bring people together in Texas was not that difficult. He is one of them. He speaks like them. He knows them. He can grab hands and slap backs with the people on both sides of the aisle, and be comfortable. He would LISTEN to the people of TEXAS. When Bush became the President, all that changed.

As President Bush had new advisers, many from Texas, and many foreign voices around him telling him "these people are _____...and these people won't agree with your stance on _______." It was no longer his friends, neighbors, and fellow Texans. Now it was the "Harvard elite", and the same types of people who were calling him an "idiot", "brat", "son of privilege", or "abandoner" who did not serve his time. Not TEXANS, but rather, his enemies. Once he felt the heat from these people, or rather, once he was told by others these people cannot be trusted, spoken or listened to, he took the path of his mostly non-TEXAN advisors, who formed the divide. A smarter man would be less manipulable. He's not a "smarter man."

So lets forget the idea, or notion, of why Bush is a divider, not a uniter, and why he did it. He did it because he wasn't comfortable with people he doesn't know, and doesn't understand. Probably the same reason the man hardly ever left America, and more accurately, rarely left TEXAS except to vacation in the midst of the elite. Has nothing to do with politics, but more to do with the man having the curiosity and mind of a child. He was convinced by others these people were his enemies, unlike the TEXANS he personally knew (or thinks he knows), and decided to travel the road someone else pointed out to him.