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riceatusc — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:58:01 GMT

I'm doing that thing now that people do to tell you they reached another thousand and then you give them points....

I reached 6k just now and it has been great. The Goofoff people are the best, even though Garcia's tat was better. I even want to thank some of the whiny babies in the cock pit, I could'nt have reached this moment with out having to tell you to stop crying.

Thanks for having me here everyone. Enjoy the beautiful Sunday,
Rice

"SNL" Comes Down On Obama Administration For Caving On Public Option (VIDEO)

wncmountaincock — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:50:27 GMT

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_358251.html

SNL" Opened last night with sketch mocking Joe Biden, the Obama administration, and concessions they've made to get the health care bill passed. "The president wants to pass a health care bill so bad that he will literally sign anything. You can water it down however you like--as long as it's a stack of paper with the words 'health care' on it he'll sign it," an eager Biden said from the Oval Office while President Obama is abroad.
Vice President Biden (played by Jason Sudeikis) went on to run down other concessions they're willing to make in order to get the bill passed. "For those Republicans who want the bill to protect doctors from medical malpractice suits, you win, we'll agree to a provision that makes it illegal to ever sue a doctor." He also agreed that no copies of the bill would be printed in Spanish, and that the first Republican senator to cross the aisle and sign the bill would get a secret provision attached that can be anything from banning gay marriage to making it illegal to be Nancy Pelosi

if you were the coach

AtlGAMECOCK — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:49:09 GMT

of South Carolina what would you do with the week off? Seriously what would you do this is not a bash session just a thought provoking thread.

If I were the coach I would have all of the starters watch film for a few days things they need to work on and do better while the underclassmen had a few scrimmages. this would happen on Monday to Wednesday. Thursday - Saturday I would have the whole team work strictly on fundamentals together as a team not just units the whole team would work together period. Sunday I would have a the whole team go to church together and have dinner together and have fun and take their minds off a football and enjoy some fellowship. Monday get ready for the next game.

Medicare paid $47 billion in suspect claims

wncmountaincock — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:42:13 GMT

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33947028...=MSNToolbar130

updated 2 hours, 42 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient's condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year.
Excerpts of a new federal report, obtained by The Associated Press, show a dramatic increase in improper payments in the $440 billion Medicare program that has been cited by government auditors as a high risk for fraud and waste for 20 years.
It's not clear whether Medicare fraud is actually worsening. Much of the increase in the last year is attributed to a change in the Health and Human Services Department's methodology that imposes stricter documentation requirements and includes more improper payments — part of a data-collection effort being ordered government-wide by President Barack Obama this coming week to promote "honest budgeting" and accurate statistics.

Obama Boosts Free Trade Hopes In Asia-Pacific

wncmountaincock — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:30:14 GMT

http://airamerica.com/economy/11-14-...-asia-pacific/

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong before the gala dinner for APEC leaders in Singapore, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
By Associated Press

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SINGAPORE (AP) — President Barack Obama raised hopes for creating an Asia-Pacific free-trade region by announcing Saturday that the U.S. would seek to join a smaller group seen as a precursor to a broader Pacific Rim agreement.
News that the U.S. would participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, joining Chile, New Zealand, Singapore and Brunei, was announced in Tokyo and Singapore, drawing applause at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
"Significant steps like the TPP are important to help keep up the momentum in our efforts to realize the ... vision" to create a region-wide free trade area, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told other leaders at their weekend summit here.
There have been concerns that the U.S., the world's biggest economy, and other nations might turn inward as they grapple with the worst global financial crisis in decades.
Obama's move reinforced calls for expanding free trade rather than resorting to protectionist measures to cope with the recession. He pushed for progress on talks to liberalize world trade.
"In this new era, opening other markets around the globe will be critical not just to America's prosperity, but to the world's," Obama said in Tokyo before departing for the APEC forum.
APEC, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, was created to promote greater trade and integration among Pacific Rim nations from Chile to China. Its scope since has expanded to encompass a wide range of issues, including climate change, energy and food security, and politics.
The anniversary comes amid the biggest global financial crisis since the 1930s. While the worst appears over, the recovery remains fragile, leaders said.
Trade has significantly contributed to growth in the Asia-Pacific region, but there are creeping signs of protectionism with the economic downturn, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak told his APEC partners.
"It is important that we leaders bear the firm belief that free trade is the way to contribute to national development, and we should prevent protectionism and spread free trade," he said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called trade a powerful economic stimulus. "We have to do everything in our power to refrain from protectionism," he said.
Leaders said nations must time the withdrawal of stimulus packages carefully, and put better regulatory measures in place to avoid the financial collapse of the past year. They will also push for faster action on trade liberation talks and seek global agreement on climate change, according to a draft statement obtained Saturday by The Associated Press.
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk urged APEC members to work together to stimulate recovery in a "balanced" way, a comment that hints at concerns over China's export-reliant growth.
"A rising tide lifts all boats," he said. "If we work together to rise above this downturn, we can lift up all our economies and all our peoples."
Washington sees free-trade areas as a way to create jobs in the U.S., said Kirk, standing in for Obama, who arrived in Singapore later Saturday.

Who would you most like to hang with....

Natalie83 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:57:57 GMT

I was talking with some other posters in the Goof Off thread the other night and this question came to mind but I think we have done this thread before but it was like a year ago, so I am interested to see how answers have changed with new members joining daily. What five Cockytalk posters would you most like to hang out with for a day?

Sandstorm

Luke Skycocker — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:00:16 GMT

I'm worried that they are going to kill it by playing it too much. They played it 5 times yesterday.

Florida's Option

Luke Skycocker — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:58:28 GMT

Why didnt me murder Tebow every time they ran the option. We had free, legal shots at him and passed on thems

Is Florida Overrated?

usc90grad — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:23:36 GMT

This is not sour grapes and in any way an attempt to downplay how great we played for 3 quarters yesterday, but....

We exposed some major holes in the FLA defense and they looked far from unbeatable. And the FLA offense, especially Tebow, were far from spectacular. They also seem to lack the big play makers of years past.

Was anyone else not as impressed?

Deep Thoughts and some whiskey

Harrycock — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:23:43 GMT

As we all know, 1 play doomed us to start the 4th quarter. But the positives I will take from tonight are as follows:

1. Crowd noise was awesome, been at WB since the early 80's and I've never heard it louder.
2. Stephen Garcia - he put us in position to win with his scramble at the end of the 3rd quarter.
3. A.Jeffrey - consistent, I wish they had gone to him deep over the middle a couple of times.
4. B. Maddox - ran like a horse.

On the flip side:

1. We are young and fragile. The interception to start the 4th quarter totally derailed us.
2. O -line in the 4th quarter - can you say "running for cover."
3. Not enough speed to sop the outside runs, although we did a good job against Tebow.
4. Pittiful punt coverage, it has killed us all season. It definitely cost us the game against Ga., and it certainly did not help tonight. Make a change immediately.
5. Defensive Coordinator - we all know how much he wanted the job but wouldn't you like to see where we would be now with Brian VanGorder - even Ga. misses him now.

Side Notes:
Upgrade the monitor, I went to a Clemson Baseball game last year and their monitor is better than what we have in our FB stadium - no F#$%%^!
excuse. You should see what the Braves have at Turner Field - This is what recruits talk about when they visit.

And lastly, I will add that I think we are a much better team than we were when SS got here. A Charles Lattimore and an Eric Mack and a few others will put us at the top of the SEC - give SS time.

What Reagan Could Tell the Right

wncmountaincock — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:42:27 GMT

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...astoriginalsC1

Bachrach / Getty Images In slamming health-care reform, GOP leaders proudly claim the mantle of Ronald Reagan. Yet they’re ignoring how Reagan deftly distanced himself from the far right.
On the steps of Capitol Hill, at last week’s Republican-sponsored anti-health-care reform rally, actor Jon Voight told thousands of activists that President Obama’s agenda threatened to destroy democracy. Obama “has had 20 years of subconscious programming by Reverend Wright to damn America," Voight thundered. The president, he claimed, “has his own obsession with trying to ram this health bill through to create a socialist America.” House Minority Leader John Boehner echoed that Obama’s plan is the “greatest threat to freedom” in his lifetime, while rally organizer Rep. Michele Bachmann declared: “It was Thomas Jefferson who said a revolution every now and then is a good thing.”

On the broad issue of how to handle extremism in his ranks, Reagan was defter than his current conservative counterparts. For the most part, he used the fringe for his own purposes and kept himself from being used.

One sign bore a picture of Dachau’s concentration camp’s victims and likened the president’s “National Socialist Health Care” plan to the Holocaust. Another sign charged that Obama “takes his orders from the Rothchilds”—a baldly anti-Semitic theory about Jewish global dominance. “Ken-ya Trust Obama?” still another demonstrator wondered. Boehner deflected questions about the protests by simply saying that he failed to see any evidence of intolerance when he was on stage. Minority Whip Eric Cantor merely dismissed displays of bigotry as “not…very helpful” to the conservative agenda.
These Republicans routinely proclaim themselves to be acting in the tradition of Ronald Reagan. Yet they have ignored one of Reagan’s most complicated and intriguing political legacies—how he handled the extreme right.
While the hard-liners of 2009 venerate Reagan as their patron saint, the reality is that Reagan caromed between two opposite positions throughout his political career. At times, he embraced extremist politics, while in other moments he adopted a brand of pragmatism and moderation, expunging fringe elements from his party’s ranks with cold skill and workmanlike efficiency.
Reagan’s heaviest flirtation with the extreme right was in the early 1960s, prior to his decision to run for governor during the rise of the Goldwater movement. Reagan relied on shrill language, associated with dubious causes and public figures, and glided effortlessly through the far-right world of California 's flourishing conservative movement.
For example, he claimed that the Cold War would “determine whether the world can exist half-slave and half-free.” He even linked John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier to “Big Brother” and “Karl Marx” in a letter he had written to Richard Nixon.
“There is nothing new in the idea of [big] government,” Reagan said. “Hitler called his [program] ‘State Socialism,’ and way before him it was [called] ‘benevolent monarchy.’”
Reagan’s broadsides didn’t end there. He shared a stage with Christian Anti-Communist Crusade leader Frederick Schwarz, delivered a keynote at a fundraiser for a leader of the John Birch Society and member of Congress (Birch founder Robert Welch had labeled Ike a “dedicated…agent of the Communist conspiracy”), and attempted to discredit Medicare and other health-care reforms as steps on the road to socialist destruction. On a record album circulated to doctor’s wives, Reagan warned that “one of the traditional methods of imposing… socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.”

wall collapses at high school game 28 injured

The_King_Of_Sting — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:44:54 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37DCZGxPjuk

Spurrier said his team has played better, but not played with with more heart.

morgan n' 7 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:19:25 GMT

COLUMBIA � Although Steve Spurrier said his University of South Carolina football team has played better this season, they probably have not played with more heart.

But after pushing the Florida Gators to their limit for three quarters, the upset bid over the nation�s top-ranked team turned into heartbreak as the visitors claimed a 24-14 victory in front of 79,297 at Williams-Brice Stadium.

�I am proud of the effort of our players,� Spurrier said. �A lot of guys played their hearts out tonight, especially our defensive guys in the second half. We were in position late in the (fourth) quarter to maybe tie it up. One play seemed to doom us.�

Story here...
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/arti...026/SPORTS0102

Part of our problem is

USC4life7593 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:32:59 GMT

that we don't keep coaches long enough. so why don't we show more patience. everyone thought spurrier could change this progam in 4 years and obviously he hasn't done that yet so instead of jumping down his throat about it give him the time he wants because we all know he is one hell of a coach.

Will someone answer this?

CarolinaGnB521 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:20:44 GMT

There is several people on this board saying that SOS gave up.

There i s also several people on this board asking "HOW" he gave up.

The people stating that he gave up are ignoring the question, so will someone answer it please?