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More madness.

March 15, 2011

I know it’s only March, but for Time’s Person of the Year 2011, I think the clear frontrunner is Mother Nature.

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Yesterday I posted that there was ONE good basketball team in Northern California – the Stanford women. But realized later, I had forgotten the St. Mary’s Gaels, who just missed the NCAA men’s tournament and got a one seed in the NIT.

Tonight the Gaels lost in the first round to Kent State.  So the Stanford women stand alone.

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Here’s a thought about the NIT.   With the new NCAA 68 team format, does the NIT winner get to cut down the nets and yell “We”re number 69?

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Al Gore has apparently signed a deal to write a new book. No word on the title yet, but the volume will apparently be marketed as the best thing since Tylenol PM.

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T.C. wonders if Paul the Octopus could pick the Elite Eight.  And across America, millions of Americans struggling to fill out their brackets are muttering “why did that creature have to die before I really needed him.”

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Michele Bachman said she “made a mistake” saying that the Revolutionary War started in Lexington, NH. But that this proves media bias since they didn’t make as much of Barack Obama’s saying he’d campaigned in 57 states. Well, maybe because Obama made the gaffe once and acknowledged it quickly.

And Bachman repeated her misstatement in a second speech and didn’t acknowledge the mistake for days.

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Many in England are wondering why Sarah Ferguson wasn’t invited to the Royal Wedding.  Uh, maybe because she’s the closest thing British royalty has these days to Charlie Sheen?

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Yes, Virginia, there are limits. In Florida, despite NRA lobbying, Senate Republicans scrapped plans to allow guns on college campuses. Guess even the GOP didn’t want to risk arming fans at Florida-Florida State games.

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Despite a spate of injuries and pressure from their sponsors, the NHL is leaning towards not implementing rule changes to curb concussions. Instead, the league will push for tighter enforcement of current penalties. Here’s a suggestion – you injure someone with an illegal hit, you are suspended as long as they are unable to return to the ice.

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Interesting and distracting question on a KNBR talk show tonight – if you could go back in time and attend one sporting event, what would it be? My first choice might be the Belmont in 1973. (The one that Secretariat won by about 33 lengths.)

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Hard choices?

March 15, 2011

While it is against the law for Medicare to pay for prescriptions for  Viagra and other ED  treatments, the Health and Human Services department found the government health program paid claims worth over $3  million for those drugs.

So where are the Tea Party members of Congress standing up and saying government needs to make some “not so hard” choices?

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Meanwhile, the bitching begins about NCAA tourney picks.  And agreed, the Big East and ACC and Pac 10 were probably ranked too high.    But come on, teams with 8-9-10-11  losses, complaining  they didn’t get a chance to play for a national championship?

At TCU, for example, they’re not getting out the violins.

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Michele Bachman on her “geographic malfunction.” “So I misplaced the battles Concord and Lexington by saying they were in New Hampshire. It was my mistake, Massachusetts is where they happened. New Hampshire is where they are still proud of it!” If she’s going to insult states’ patriotism where’s her comment on all the Texans who want to secede?

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Or from Marc Ragovin:  Michele Bachmann has apologized for mistakenly saying that the battle of Lexington and Concord occurred in New Hampshire and not Massachusetts. She said that what she meant to say was that Barack Obama is a Muslim

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Nestle’s Lean Cuisine division announced a major recall of their spaghetti with meatballs because it may contain foreign materials. What, like meat?

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Commie pinko time:

The situation in Japan is beyond awful. But part of the problem apparently is that the Japanese regulatory agency largely leaves it to the utility company to determine if a site is safe. Yeah, that deregulation has worked so well in the U.S., with say, the financial industry.

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Back to reality, or rather unreality. So who made the bigger mistake? The NCAA by, again, not picking Virignia Tech? Or Brad by not picking Chantal?

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Monday night was “the Bachelor” season finale.  A good night for many American households – most women got to control the VCR, while men cheerfully worked on their brackets.

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Jed York just posted this about the NFL lockout on the 49ers website “The ultimate goal is to establish an agreement that is good for the long-term health of the league and provides a tremendous product for you, our fans.” Wonder if he typed this with a straight face?

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If  the NFL lockout shows signs of going more than a few months, will Cam Newton apply for a  amateur reinstatement and another year of eligiblity,  saying his father told him to go pro?

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No Northern California teams are in the mens’ NCAA tournament. Which is a shame. The Sacramento Kings could have been at least a six seed.

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All this talk about a “No-fly” zone over Libya. Northern California travelers would know it would be simpler if we really wanted to bring air traffic to a halt – just put SFO air traffic controllers in charge of the country.

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