Saturday, May 25, 2013

Where did those guy's in the 1950s come from?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q96ylFiQK_I&feature=endscreen&NR=1...Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall In Love
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=dWlKmoqf6ew&feature=endscreen...The Crests - The Angels Listened In (1959)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=KpEA5QGYJFQ&feature=endscreen...Mickey & Sylvia - Love Is Strange
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=uM9yYL6BD-4&feature=endscreen...Let The Good Times Roll- Shirley & Lee
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=noFS4_oEakI&feature=endscreen...The Drifters - There goes my baby
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Tinker:

Look at what those 1950s people are seeing now, somehow the modern generation of people who voted in these present politicians to run Washington DC in 2013 are hardly the wise and wonderful oracle we were led to believe.

Our country's government seem to be in a very bad corrupt decline instead of becoming better?

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http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/05/24/obama-state-dept-talking-points-editor-promotion/

Obama Gives State Dept. Talking Points Editor a Promotion

by Keith Koffler on May 24, 2013, 9:48 am
The  State Department spokeswoman who played a pivotal role in deleting portions of the Benghazi talking points has been tapped by President Obama for a plum new post, bagging a nomination to become assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.
Nuland

Nuland is a career foreign service officer who had held many high-level positions, including under George W. Bush. But her nomination to handle the European portfolio will likely be seen by Republicans as an example of the president flipping the bird their way.

 Senate confirmation in the current environment would seem unlikely, at best.

 During the process of whittling the original CIA talking points down, a reference to participation in the Benghazi attack by al Qaeda-linked elements was deleted. Nuland had expressed “serious concerns” about mentioning the terrorists. And she also asserted that including references to previous attacks against foreigners in Benghazi “could be abused by members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings.”

 Nuland was particularly aggressive, pursuing the matter until the concerns of her superiors were satisfied.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/23/lois-lerner-irs_n_3328418.html

Lois Lerner, IRS Official, On Leave Of Absence: Reports

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Lois Lerner, the embattled head of the Internal Revenue Service's exempt organizations division, has been placed on administrative leave after invoking her Fifth Amendment rights during a hearing examining the IRS' targeting of conservative groups, according to a report by the National Review Online.

 "Due to the events of recent days, I am on administrative leave starting today. An announcement will be made shortly informing you who will be acting while I am on administrative leave. I know all of you will continue to support EO’s mission during these difficult times," Lerner wrote in an email to employees in the exempt organizations division, according to National Review.

Congress and the Department of Justice are investigating allegations laid out in a Treasury Department inspector general's report that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative organizations applying for tax exempt status for deeper review and harsh questioning from 2010 through 2012.

Before taking the Fifth at the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday, Lerner told the committee in an opening statement, "I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated IRS rules and regulations and I have not provided false information to this committee."

 Kelly O'Donnell and Frank Thorp, both of NBC, tweeted Thursday that Lerner was on leave. Lerner's leave of absence was reported on the same day that Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) issued a joint statement pushing for Lerner's suspension, saying that they have "lost confidence in her abilities to fulfill her duties."


"We are writing to urge you to suspend immediately Lois Lerner from her office as Director of the Office of Exempt Organizations at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)," Levin and McCain wrote in a letter to incoming IRS commissioner Danny Werfel. "We believe that Ms. Lerner failed to disclose crucial information concerning the IRS’s inappropriate targeting of some conservative 501(c)(4) organizations during the course of a Subcommittee investigation into how the IRS enforces the 501(c)(4) law, leading to an incomplete account of the full operations of her unit."

 Levin and McCain are, respectively, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Permanent Select Committee on Investigations. It is the only committee that has announced plans to investigate, but that has not yet held a hearing.

 Lerner, who was in charge of the division that targeted conservative groups, preempted the release of the inspector general's report when she responded to a planted question at an American Bar Association meeting on May 10 by acknowledging the targeting and apologizing for it.

 See the full Levin and McCain letter to Werfel below:

Dear Acting Commissioner Werfel:We are writing to urge you to suspend immediately Lois Lerner from her office as Director of the Office of Exempt Organizations at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). We believe that Ms. Lerner failed to disclose crucial information concerning the IRS’s inappropriate targeting of some conservative 501(c)(4) organizations during the course of a Subcommittee investigation into how the IRS enforces the 501(c)(4) law, leading to an incomplete account of the full operations of her unit.

 Since March of last year, the Subcommittee has been examining whether the IRS adequately and appropriately enforces tax code provisions and implementing regulations regarding the extent to which tax-exempt 501(c)(4) groups may engage in political campaign activity. The Subcommittee asked the IRS why it was not enforcing the 501(c)(4) statute which states that social welfare organizations should be used “exclusively for the promotion of social welfare” and instead enforcing the more lenient IRS regulation which states that a social welfare organization may be used “primarily” for social welfare. It also asked the IRS about how they reviewed applications filed by certain Democratic and Republican leaning 501(c)(4)s. Our investigation has included a year’s worth of correspondence between the Subcommittee and the IRS, as well as document productions and repeated consultations with IRS staff.

 On April 30, 2013, Ms. Lerner and seven IRS colleagues spent six-hours being interviewed, on a bipartisan basis, by Subcommittee staff. That interview covered, among other topics, how the IRS determines which groups to review, what actions are taken in connection with the IRS reviews, and how the laws and regulations are used to examine those groups. Ms. Lerner failed to disclose the internal controversy over the search terms used by the Cincinnati office to identify 501(c)(4) groups for further review, the actions taken by that office in reviewing the identified groups, the investigation and imminent findings by the Treasury Department Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA); and TIGTA’s conclusion that the IRS had used inappropriate criteria to target Tea Party and other conservative groups. Ms. Lerner also failed to disclose that she was fully aware of these issues as early as June 2011, and, according to TIGTA, had been personally involved in reviewing questionable actions taken by the Cincinnati office.

 Given the serious failure by Ms. Lerner to disclose to this Subcommittee key information on topics that the Subcommittee was investigating, we have lost confidence in her ability to fulfill her duties as Director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS. Ms. Lerner’s continued tenure in the office she holds, where she is responsible for overseeing 1.6 million tax-exempt organizations, would erode public trust and confidence in the IRS and its professional integrity. We believe that the immediate removal of Ms. Lerner from office would be a vital step in helping to restore public trust in the agency.
Sincerely,

John McCain
Carl Levin
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4uxdAt4-M...Paul Anka - Put Your Head On My Shoulder (1963 Version)
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Hey rant, don't make it bad (A song to cheer you up)  (Posted on 5/25/13 at 12:46 am)

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Highlights from today's games  (Posted on 5/24/13 at 9:06 pm)

Highlights of today's game
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Separation Anxiety

As spring practices give way to summer doldrums, coaches have less contact with their players. It's a time often filled with more anxiety and frustration than rest and relaxation. Mark Schlabach » Blog »
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY3vgBzgYn4...The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There [Full Length Version]
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SEC Blog


SEC's toughest three-game stretches

May, 24, 2013

By Chris Low | ESPN.com

We'll be taking a closer look in the coming weeks at every SEC school's 2013 schedule with our annual schedule analysis.


In just about every schedule in this league, there’s an ominous three-game stretch somewhere along the way.


Who faces the most difficult three-game stretch next season in the SEC?


We’ve selected the top five, and for clarification, it has to be three games in three successive weeks without a bye.

So here goes:

1. Arkansas: at Florida, Oct. 5; South Carolina, Oct. 12; at Alabama, Oct. 19


The skinny: All three opponents will start the season in the top 10 nationally, and two of the games are on the road. Not only that, but if you expanded it to four games, it's a stretch that starts with a home game against Texas A&M on Sept. 28. That's four games in four weeks against teams that all could be in the national championship equation.

2. Mississippi State: at South Carolina, Nov. 2; at Texas A&M, Nov. 9; Alabama, Nov. 16


The skinny: The only saving grace is that Mississippi State will have a little extra time to prepare for South Carolina after playing a Thursday night game the previous week at home against Kentucky. Otherwise, it's a grueling stretch. The Bulldogs' "reward" after facing the Gamecocks and Aggies in back-to-back weeks on the road is a home game with the Crimson Tide.

3. Ole Miss: at Alabama, Sept. 28; at Auburn, Oct. 5; Texas A&M, Oct. 12


The skinny: Any time you have to face Alabama and Texas A&M in a span of three weeks, it's going to test your manhood. Back-to-back trips to Bryant-Denny Stadium and Jordan-Hare Stadium are never a lot of fun, and then the Aggies come to Oxford on the back end of that stretch. The good news for the Rebels is that Texas A&M's visit is the first of six straight home dates.

4. LSU: at Georgia, Sept. 28; at Mississippi State, Oct. 5; Florida, Oct. 12


The skinny: We'll know what the Tigers are made of by the middle of October. They open the season against TCU at Cowboys Stadium. Traveling to Athens and Starkville in successive weeks won't be any picnic, and then Florida comes to town to complete a stretch that could make or break LSU's season.

5. Florida: Georgia (in Jacksonville), Nov. 2; Vanderbilt, Nov. 9; at South Carolina, Nov. 16


The skinny: It's a stretch that includes two tough games away from home against a pair of preseason top 10 teams, and the days of Vanderbilt being a pushover are long gone. The East race could easily come down to that showdown in Columbia, where the Gamecocks are 25-3 over the past four seas
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Tigers stay alive in Hoover, eliminate Tide

May 24, 2013   -   © 2013 Tiger Rag 

LSU pulls off the improbable, rallies for two ninth inning runs.

 FINAL: LSU 3, ALABAMA 2.



By HUNT PALMER
BBI Senior Writer

HOOVER, Ala.- With a ticket back home to Baton Rouge all but assured, LSU managed to string three do or die hits together in the ninth inning to push across a pair of runs and advance to the SEC Tournament semifinals Friday afternoon at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium.

It appeared the Tigers would waste another sterling starting pitching performance, this time from junior Ryan Eades, but the bats finally woke up after a three day slumber to produce a 3-2 win against Alabama.

“Ryan kept us in the game. Our defense kept us in the game,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “Even though we were a little frustrated, we felt that we were having some really good at bats up there. We were down to our last bullet, and (Christian)Ibarra got a base hit to get us going. Tyler Moore stepped up and came through in the clutch for us.”

Eades plowed through seven strong innings, allowing just four hits and a single run against the Crimson Tide lineup that tagged him for five runs on eight hits in four innings back in April. After failing to toss a clean inning in two consecutive weeks, Eades managed to face the minimum through four innings with the help of a caught stealing in the second.

He faced just one three-ball count and needed only 72 pitches to navigate seven innings.

“I just wanted to make some adjustments after my start last week,” Eades said. “Our role as starters is to go out there and pitch the whole game. When they take the ball from us, they take the ball from us.”

Eades exited with a 2-1 deficit, and the bullpen he yielded the ball to made his work stand up.

Junior Nate Fury dominated the eighth, striking out two of the three men he faced which set the table for the Tiger bats to get three more hacks against Crimson Tide starter Mike Oczypok with the deficit still one.

Mason Katz yanked his third hit of the game through the left side and represented the tying run at first base as Raph Rhymes dug in.

“I wasn’t going to bunt,” Mainieri said. “First of all, I don’t play for the tie when we’re on the road. If he’d have bunted him over and we got a groundball single, they still have a chance to walk us off in the bottom of the ninth. I am a traditionalist when it comes to that.

“He’s been driving in runs his whole career, and I wanted to let him hit. I did consider a hit and run play, but I didn’t let him do it.”

Rhymes, who had rolled into a double play immediately following the first two Katz singles, rapped into a third to seemingly choke off LSU’s final fleeting threat.

Then Ibarra sizzled his first hit in 10 tries through the left side of the Tide infield to breathe one last breath into his team, and with the count full and pinch runner Jared Foster on the move, Moore whipped a double into the gap in right-center that sent Foster chugging for home in front of a fully revived Tiger following beyond the third base dugout.

That ended Oczypok’s afternoon as Alabama coach Mitch Gaspard summoned reliever Jay Shaw to face Ross.

The Tiger catcher skipped an RBI single into left field to plate Moore and give LSU its first lead since the third inning of Thursday’s game with Arkansas.

“That’s the widest range of emotions you go from,” Maineiri said. “Katz got a clutch hit to lead off the inning, and then we hit into a double play that really took the wind out of our sail…what a way to win our fiftieth game of the year.”

Chris Cotton gave Alabama no hope in the bottom half, striking out the side in order for the first time all season to earn his fourteenth save of the season. Fury and Cotton combined to strike out five of the six hitters they faced.

The starters weren’t as dominant in terms of strikeouts. Both allowed their defenses to work.

In fact, LSU ushered the leadoff man aboard in the first five innings, but thanks to double plays in the first and second, and some poor small ball execution, the Tigers were only able to break through in the third.

Moore walked to open that frame and came all the way around on Sean McMullen’s two-out double to the wall in left-center.

Meanwhile, Eades kept the ball in the strikezone and worked efficient inning after efficient inning.

The lone blip on the Eades radar came in the fifth when he issued his only walk, this one of the leadoff variety to Ben Moore.

Freshman shortstop Mikey White then pumped a triple just beyond the reach of a diving Andrew Stevenson in left-center. White would trot home to give Alabama the lead on Brett Booth’s line drive single to right field two men later.

“Those leadoff walks, they’ll get you I’d say 90 percent of the time,” Eades said. “I just minimized the damaged a tried to make pitches to get out of the inning.”

Eades work completed a three day run of exceptional starting pitching by the Tiger weekend rotation. Cody Glenn, Aaron Nola and Eades collaborated on a 21 inning, three run effort as the trio looks ahead to NCAA play.

“They all pitched great, and this ballpark allows you to pitch great because you can be very aggressive,” Mainieri said. “They pounded the strike zone. When you get two walks in three days from your starting pitching in a ballpark that’s conducive to pitchers, I think the guys are doing a great job.”

By virtue of the strong work from the pitching staff and the late game heroics, LSU earns another date with Arkansas at noon on Saturday. The winner moves on to the tournament final. The loser heads home to learn its NCAA destiny.

Bottom of the 8th inning

 Nate Fury is the new LSU pitcher, taking over for Ryan Eades … Fury has a great 8th inning, tallying two strikeouts while setting the Tide down in order. Last chance coming up for LSU. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left. LSU 1, Alabama 2




Top of the 9th inning

 Wow. What an insane momentum shift … Katz singles through the left-hand side … Rhymes grounds into his third double play of the day … All hope looked lost when Ibarra singles through the left side of the infield … Mainieri put Jared Foster in the game to run for Ibarra … Tyler Moore, he who Mainieri questioned his clutch hitting ability, stroked a double into RCF on a 3-2 pitch to knot the game at two … Ty Ross lined a single into LF to score Moore and give LSU the lead. Unbelievable. 2 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 1 left. LSU 3, ALABAMA 2.

Bottom of the 9th inning

 Chris Cotton comes on to nail the door shut … He strikes out No. 2 hitter Georgie Salem … He gets No. 3 hitter Will Overstreet to look at strike three … He gets cleanup man Ben Moore to whiff at strike three. What a comeback. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left. LSU 0, Alabama 0 FINAL: LSU 3, ALABAMA 2. 
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