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Right now, liberals face a choice between health care reform that restricts abortion, or no health care at all. In essence, they're being asked to choose between mammograms for millions of women who currently can't get them, or insurance coverage for a few abortions.

HR 3962, which passed the House late Saturday prevents taxpayer dollars from being spent on abortions.  Conservative Democrats like Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), whose vote is indispensable to defeat a Republican filibuster, have said they will not support a HC reform bill without the additional abortion provisions contained in HR 3962.  Radical left wing liberals are furious. 41 radical House Democrats have already signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi swearing not to vote for any healthcare reform that contains the abortion restrictions.

In other words, House Democrats who claim that it's morally wrong to deprive millions of Americans of health care that will save thousands of lives, are willing to let people die, if aborting unborn babies is not paid for under the Public Option. 

This is the core of the blatant hypocrisy of the Marxist Democrats who control their party.  Every day they say thousands of Americans are dying in the streets because they can't get health care. Yet, these same Democrats are willing to kill the Pelosi bill and potentially thousands of people not covered by heath insurance if  the Public Option insurance plan does not fund a abortions?

I sincerely believe that Keith Olbermann is not only the biggest asshat in America, but he is my choice for the Worst Person in the World, each and everyday that he appears on MSNBC Countdown spewing his Marxist propaganda to promote liberal fascism. Rachael Maddow, who I am sure you have never seen nor heard of, is the second Worst Person in the World, today or any day she appears on MSNBC.  Neither will retain that title, when Comcast takes over NBC. Both their butts will be out the door faster than you can say, "the worst ratings in MSNBC history".

FORT WORTH, Texas -- ESPN College GameDay will make its first-ever visit to TCU and Fort Worth Saturday when the fourth-ranked Horned Frogs host No. 14 Utah. Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m. at Amon G. Carter Stadium.

ESPN's popular show, featuring hosts Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard, will set up in the Campus Commons. Air time is 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

TCU will be playing at the site of GameDay for the second time in four weeks. GameDay was in Provo, Utah, on Oct. 24 when TCU defeated BYU 38-7.  With GameDay's visit to Air Force this past weekend, this will be the third time in four weeks the show has taken place at a Mountain West Conference member.

I attended the University of Maryland and graduated from Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, GA.  My wife graduated from Kent State University and SMU law school in Dallas.  My daughter seriously considered going to TCU but decided to attend Texas State University in San Marcos where she graduated in 2005. 

TCU became my "honorary" Alma Mater when they were they were members of Conference USA.  I was a member of the Texas Association of Sports Officials and officiated high school basketball and volleyball for ten years.  TCU hired me for a couple of years to officiate some scrimmage games and I also worked as a volleyball line judge for Conference USA games at TCU.  I secured season tickets 3 rows behind the TCU bench when coach Jim Christian was hired from Kent State to become the Men's basketball coach. 

TCU is the pride of Fort Worth and I look forward to attending the big game on Saturday night!  GO FROGS



 

In the wake of the Fort Hood shooting massacre by Nidal Malik Hasan, Investigative Project on Terrorism Executive Director Steven Emerson sat down Friday to explain why he has no doubt the shooting spree was a terrorist attack. In other clips, Emerson takes on the inconsistencies put forth by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and wonders why Hasan wasn't investigated by military officials before he acted.

Steven Emerson is considered one of the leading authorities on Islamic extremist networks, financing and operations. He serves as the Executive Director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, one of the world's largest storehouses of archival data and intelligence on Islamic and Middle Eastern terrorist groups. Emerson and his staff frequently provide briefings to U.S. government and law enforcement agencies, members of Congress and congressional committees, and print and electronic media, both national and international. Since 9-11, Emerson has testified before and briefed Congress dozens of times on terrorist financing and operational networks of Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the rest of the worldwide Islamic militant spectrum.

Emerson is the author or co-author of six books on terrorism and national security, including:

• Jihad Incorporated: A Guide to Militant Islam in the U.S. (Prometheus, 2006)
• American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us (The Free Press, 2002)
• Terrorist: The Inside Story of the Highest-Ranking Iraqi Terrorist Ever to Defect to the West (Villard Books /Random House, 1991)
• The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation (Putnam's Sons, 1990)
• Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert Military Operations of the Reagan Era (Putnam's Sons, 1988)
• The American House of Saud: The Secret Petrodollar Connection (Franklin Watts, 1985)

He and his organization have been quoted or profiled in hundreds of newspaper and television stories since 9-11.

Emerson launched The Investigative Project on Terrorism in late 1995, following the broadcast of his documentary film, "Jihad in America," on public television. The film exposed clandestine operations of militant Islamic terrorist groups on American soil. For the film, Emerson received numerous awards including the George Polk Award for best television documentary, one of the most prestigious awards in journalism. He also received the top prize from the Investigative Reporters and Editors Organization (IRE) for best investigative report in both print and television for the documentary. The award from IRE was the fourth he had received from that group. The documentary, which was featured on 60 Minutes, has become standard viewing for federal law enforcement and intelligence organizations.

Emerson is recognized as one of the first terrorism experts to have testified and warned about the threat of Islamic militant networks operating in the United States and their connections worldwide. In a pioneering congressional testimony delivered in 1998, he specifically warned about the threat of Osama Bin Laden's network. Nearly every one of the terrorist suspects and groups first identified in his 1994 film have been indicted, convicted, or deported since 9-11.

Liberals & Conservatives Agree

"Steve has been on the cutting edge of [investigating terrorism] for many, many years... he has provided an extremely valuable service."
- Robert Blitzer, retired FBI Counterterrorism Chief

"[Steve] has been doing this a very long time, he is very professional, he is very thorough... Steve produces very unique, very significant information."
- Steven Pomerantz, former Assistant Director of the FBI, former Chief of Counterterrorism of the FBI

"When we would ask FBI if there were criminal violations of support to terrorism such as establishing Web sites soliciting funds or other means of terrorist financing, we would get blank stares. Rick Newcomb's office at Treasury was trying to give the FBI some guidance on where to look for terrorist money, but to little avail. When FBI said there were no Web site in the U.S. that were recruiting jihadists for training in Afghanistan or soliciting money for terrorist front groups, I asked Steve Emerson to check. Emerson had written the book American Jihad, which had told me more than the FBI ever had about radical Islamic groups in the U.S. Within days, Emerson had a long list of Web sites sitting on servers in the United States. I passed the list to Justice and the FBI…"
- Richard A. Clarke, former chief of counter-terrorism for National Security Council, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, pp217.

"'I think of Steve as the Paul Revere of terrorism'… [Clarke] credits Emerson with repeatedly warning of Al Qaeda sleeper cells in the United States. He adds that he would attend Emerson's speeches whenever possible because 'we'd always learn things we weren't hearing from the FBI or CIA, things which almost always proved to be true.'"
- Richard Clarke, former head of NSC Counterterrorism, in a feature article on Emerson in Brown Alumni Magazine

"…Emerson was helpful in preparing to cross-examine defense witnesses in the [1993 World Trade Center bombings] case....He's a valuable source of information and knowledge. And in terms of trying to find places to look for evidence, he's a very good person to talk to. He's got a lot of insight."
- Andrew McCarthy, Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the 1993 World Trade Center bombings

"[Emerson is] the most authoritative expert on Middle Eastern terrorism in the United States today and whose investigations have uncovered the existence of terrorist groups operating in the United States today…This country owes a great deal of gratitude to him."
- Senator John Kyl (Arizona)

"Mr. Emerson has for so long been right on [his] predictions about our long fight against terrorism... Mr. Emerson has shared his very important insights with this subcommittee on a number of occasions in recent years. His expertise is based on daily contact with sources in government and key financial institutions as well as his participation in major terrorist financing cases."
- U.S. Representative Ed Royce (California)

"[The Investigative Project] was a decade ahead of its time in focusing on the terrorist threat to the United States and to our homeland from Islamic extremist..."
- U.S. Representative Brad Sherman (California)

"Steve Emerson, who I think is the best in the world he's got an overview of the war on terror kinda guy, he's got a lot of information coming in."
- Bill O'Reilly, The O'Reilly Factor, December 29, 2006

"Steve was also the one who before 9/11 was saying, 'it's coming, it's coming, it's coming', and Islamic terrorists are going to hit us, and 9/11 came, and he was one of the
only ones screaming about it at the time."
- Dan Abrams, The Abrams Report, June 9, 2005

"Steve Emerson, you have been a fighter, a hero in the battle against terrorism in this country."
- John Kasich, Heartland with John Kasich, December 10, 2005

"Steve Emerson is one of the nation's best national security correspondents. His investigative work on radical Islamic fundamentalism is absolutely critical to this nation's national security. There is no one else who has exhibited the same expertise, courage and determination to tackle this vital issue."
- A.M. Rosenthal, former managing editor of NY Times.

In 1990, William Houston started writing the Truth and Rumours column at the Toronto Globe & Mail. Focusing largely on the sports media, it was noted for its strong reporting and sharp edged commentary. It was a popular feature of the Globe’s sports section for 19 years. After taking an early retirement, William Houston resumed Truth & Rumours as a Web blog in October, 2009.  www.truthandrumours.net/about/

Here is Houston's take on the departure of Gabriel Morency form Hardcore Sports Radio this week and Score Media:

Three years ago, Gabriel Morency, a shock jock and sports host from Montreal, was hired by Score Television to be the driving force in re-making of the network.

    He was going to help it get younger, louder, more compelling and more “authentic,” a term that was repeatedly used by the new head of programming Richard Garner.

   Authenticity, as Garner saw it, meant strong opinions and also profanity — swearing that was bleeped during Morency’s dinner hour show on the network, but allowed on the late night satellite radio show on Hard Core Sports, which is produced by the Score.

   But, after more than a year of internal discord and squabbling over the image conveyed by Garner’s vision, he resigned in March.

   For Morency, the beginning of the end wasn’t a philosophical dispute with the powers that be. Instead, it was his attendance at a  Toronto Argonaut game three weeks ago. He went with some friends, had several drinks and returned to the downtown Toronto studio to do his late night radio show from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m.

  “I had a few pops,” Morency said earlier today. “I forget sometimes that I’m part of a company. Did I push the envelop? Sometimes I do.”

   Morency, 39, admits he was over the top that night. He started dancing in the studio. And since the show was cybercast on the Score’s website, he was seen as well as heard.

  “The bottom line is, it’s like taboo to have alcohol in the studio,” he said. “It was a wild night. I was dancing. I might have crossed the line as far as . . . Listen, when I’m on top of the mountain, I’m King Kong. I might have said some things.”

  He was suspended for seven days. The Score also removed him from the network’s dinner hour show. His co-host Cam Stewart will continue to do the show, starting next week, apparently.

  After some Twitter remarks by Morency about his situation, the Score went the rest of the way and fired him.

   Morency couldn’t believe it.

  “I’m shocked by what’s transpired,” he said.

  John Levy, Score Media’s chairman and CEO and principal stakeholder, wouldn’t come to the phone, but Morency says Levy was a supporter.

 “I don’t have a bad word to say about John,” he said. “I just think my relationship deteriorated the past year or so with some other people in that building in the corporate structure.”

  Said a source, “There’s a real divide in the board room between Hard Core Sports and the Score. Radio and TV collided, and there’s a corporate battle going on in there. It’s really tough.”

   Morency was caught in the middle, but his departure was expedited — and his critics were given ammunition — by his act in the studio after the Argo game.

  But he’ll be back. He’s in the process of building a website called morencysports.com. He expects it to be up in two weeks. He will then resume his one-hour afternoon show and his late night show on the site.

   What’s wrong with the Score?

   It’s almost impossible to evaluate the Score Television Network without calling it a mess.

   Consider the events of the past year and a bit:

• Head of programming Anthony Cicione, well respected, forced out.
• Vice-president and general manager David Errington, well respected, gone, sources say pushed.
• Head of programming Richard Garner, radical but smart, gone, pursuing other things.
• Al Strachan, high profile hockey analyst, dumped at the end of last season.
• Shock jock Gabriel Morency fired this week.

   At best, the company’s vision and leadership is conflicted; at worse, the vision is dim and the leadership unstable.

  John Levy would disagree with these assessments, but since a request for an interview was not granted, we don’t know for sure. Levy has plenty of issues to keep him away from the phone.

  For starters, the company’s stock has plummeted to 53 cents a share from two dollars in 2007.

   It reported a net loss of $1.5-million for the fiscal year that ended Aug. 31, after earning net income of $2.5-million the previous year. Of course, it’s been a tough economic year for everybody.

  And, in April, Canwest Global bailed out as a part owner, selling its 16.6 million shares, thus denying the Score a broadcast partner for TV property purchases in the future.

   The good news? The Score cut a deal with BlackBerry in 2009 to provide mobile content. The iphone service received more than 10 million monthly page views during its peak period in the spring. Web traffic is up. The network carries Toronto Raptors and English Premier League games. That’s good content. And the $1.5-million net loss in 2008-09 can be explained in part by money spent to upgrade the downtown Toronto studio to high definition television.

  But is the Score’s future bright? Or is the future the company’s worst enemy?

   The digital universe has helped the Score with mobile content but also made it vulnerable. After all, the network’s once-important status as an analogue channel is now largely meaningless. Digital networks are beginning to get distribution comparable to the analogues. TSN2, for example, which launched just a year ago, is now in four million households, and growing closer to the Score’s six million.

  As for the programming on the Score and TSN2, there is no comparison. TSN2 airs NHL games, Raptors, NBA content and Toronto Blue Jays games, plus repeats of the premium programming on TSN.

  The Score, for the most part, has hitched its wagon to content that includes WWE, poker, and U.S. college sports, which is in this country is about as marginal as it gets.

  “If the suits at the Score had their way, they’d limit the programming to the cheap stuff — poker and wrestling,” said one source.

  And the competition isn’t letting up. It’s just a matter of time until TSN2 becomes the No.3 sports channel in Canada, ahead of the Score and behind only TSN and Rogers Sportsnet. TSN2 is already the top sports digital in the market and ranks No.3 overall among all the diginets. As well, the CBC is planning to launch its own sports digital channel a year from now.

  In the pre-digital age, the Score was able to survive by employing a programming strategy that mandated 24/7 sports news and highlights.

  But that service, in terms of being the sole domain of the Score, is long over. TSN and Sportsnet have been running news crawlers at the bottom of the TV screen for years. On Bell TV, TSN provides an interactive service that allows the viewer to select the sports news he wants.

  The Score, with its original programming strategy redundant, moved to  into aggressive, profane content, and that divided the company. The network doesn’t appear to know what it wants to be. And it’s getting rapidly overtaken by the competition.

Please go to Truths & Rumours website to post comments on this story www.truthandrumours.net/2009/11/05/the-inside-story-on-hosts-firing/

Shortly after Major Malik Nadal Hasan and two other unnamed shooters allegedly opened fire at the largest U.S. military installation in the world, Ft. Hood, Texas, President Barack Obama held a press conference to address the issue. Before getting around to the shooting that has already claimed a dozen lives and wounded at least 31 people, Obama began his remarks:

"I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It’s good to see you."

Obama apparently wrote out his statement concerning the shooting at Fort Hood,  but chose to preface the slaughter of American soldiers with a “shout out” that cheapened both the shooting and the Congressional Medal of Honor.

This quotation tells you everything you need to know about how our Commander in Chief feels.  There is no event so serious that it cannot be prefaced by a moment of glib hipness, no solemn loss so sacred he will deny himself a moment of wry self-indulgence. Soldiers were killed?  Let’s say hi to Joe Medicine Crow first to pimp more Native American votes in 2012.  

President Bush used to break into tears when addressing soldiers but was reviled as a cold hearted warmonger by the liberal press.  President Obama gives out rounds of virtual fist-bumps to his buds before even mentioning a slaughter of American soldiers and is treated as a Deity by MSNBC.

We desperately need a patriot in the White House as Commander in Chief.  Obama has again proved we do not have one.

UPDATE:  Crow is not a Medal of Honor recipient.  As noted by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society:

The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force which can be bestowed upon an individual serving in the Armed Services of the United States. Generally presented to its recipient by the President of the United States of America in the name of Congress, it is often called the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Crow's name is not included on the Society's Medal of Honor recipient list.  He was, however, awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in August.

Obama, often described as "cerebral" by the mainstream media, should know the difference between the Medal of Honor and the Medal of Freedom, especially since he personally awarded the latter to Crow.  Don't expect his blunder to receive wide coverage.  It's not something he can blame George Bush for.      

Major Malik Nadal Hasan, age 39, opened fire at Fort Hood military base in central Texas on Thursday afternoon, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left 12 people dead and 31 wounded. A female police officer employed by the Department of Defense reportedly shot Hasan. Both Hasan and the police officer are hospitalized and listed in stable condition.  Police apprehended two other suspects who have were later released.   This appears to be the worst mass shooting to ever take place at a U.S. military installation.

The shooting began around 1:30 p.m., Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said at a news conference. He said all the casualties took place at the base's Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening.

Retired Army Col. Greg Schannep, an aide to Rep. John Carter (R-Texas), said he was heading for a 2 p.m. graduation ceremony on the base when he heard numerous shots and saw a wounded soldier run by.  "Initially, I thought it was a training exercise," he said.  Schannep said he heard three or four volleys of shots with eight to 12 shots in each volley.  "A soldier came running past me and said 'sir there is someone shooting.' As he ran past me I saw blood on his back. I don't think he even knew he had been shot. He has since been treated and should be OK," he said.

FBI agents are assisting the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, which was leading the probe.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, told Fox News that military sources informed her that the gunman was about to be deployed to Iraq.  The shooter was killed and two other suspects, who are also soldiers, have been apprehended, Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone said.  The general said there were "eyewitness accounts of more than one shooter," and the others were tracked to an adjacent facility.

Hasan was born in Virginia and is a U.S. citizen of Jordanian descent.

Military records show Hasan receiving his appointment to the Army as a first lieutenant in June 1997 after graduating from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, with a degree in biochemistry.

Six years later, he graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences' F. Edward Hebert School Of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, and was first an intern, then a resident and finally a fellow at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.  Hasan was promoted to Captain in 2003, he was promoted to Major in May. 

In 2009, Hasan he completed a fellowship in disaster and preventive psychiatry and was assigned to Darnall in July.  He had been awarded the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Army Service Ribbon, but was never deployed outside the United States.

Hasan was reportedly scheduled to deploy to either Iraq or Afghanistan later this month.
 
Earlier today a law enforcement official said Hasan, believed to be in his late 30s, was killed after opening fire at the base. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

A source told CBS news that Hasan is a licensed psychiatrist in Bethesda, Md. He is a drug and rehab specialist who received his Virginia psychiatry license July 12, 2005.

It was not known whether he was treating people at the base.

Officials says it was not clear what Hasan's religion was, but investigators are trying to determine if Hasan was his birth name or if he may have changed his name and converted to the Islamic faith at some point.

Obamarx campaigned for the Democrats in both Virgina and New Jersey. Both Lost!  He did not campaign in the NY-23 and the Democrat won.  The Huffington Post, Politico & CNBC are trying to tell us that these elections were not a referendum on BO.  They can say it a thousand times today, but it will not change the the truth.

America is a center right country. Marxists and Liberal Fascists gained control of our country in 2008.  Almost immediately, the people realized that they had jumped from the frying pan into the fire.  The liberal media, as usual, underestimated the intelligence and patriotism of the American people.

Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Keith Olbermann are actually doing the country a service by revealing the  Marxist agenda of the radical Democratic party leaders and the President.  Nothing can renew your resolve more than watching these radical Marxists for just five minutes a day.

MSNBC labeled  "Tea Baggers" & "Wing Nuts" and members of the MOB are taking the country back from the real radicals. We will not rest until statism has been eradicated and capitalism restored.  Our fight is far from over.  We have a lot of work left to do.  Do not rest. Yesterday was the beginning of  the battle to insure that Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

 

"what up all!!the chains are off and so are the gloves.......me and hsr-score media group are no longer together.we have parted ways"

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With that tweet around noon today, @sportsrage aka Gabriel Morency,  notified thousands of rage-a-holics across North America that he was no longer employed by Hardcore Sports Radio (HSR) which is broadcast on Sirius 98.  Morency brought HSR to the attention of millions of Sirius listeners almost 3 years ago.  Most of the posts on HSR fan forums indicate that Morency is the Hardcore Sports brand.  The future of HSR is questionable with the departure of their only star and most recognized talent.

On November 17, 2006, Morency announced that he would be leaving the Team 990 in Montreal, Canada. 11 days later, Morency was on HSR co-hosting Hardcore Football Sunday and later, Sports Rage.  Morency teamed with producer Aaron Bronsteter, commonly referred to as 'Orville' and sports update reporter "The Big E", Eric Cohen from 11p-2a daily.

Sports Rage was known for "Road Rages".  Morency went on over 27 Road Rages in less than 3 years.  Road Rages were broadcast at various venues across North America, including Las Vegas.  Morency and his loyal listeners came together at these remote broadcasts, accompanied by guest stars, who often appeared on his show during the late night hours.

Sports Rage was known for its regular callers,  including "The Rickster", Brandon in St. Louis, Rocco in California, Rob in Boston, "Bruder", and "Baroni", among many others. "Cage Calls" became featured events on the show. The most recent Cage Call was on December 23, 2008 between "The Rickster" and Drew in Nelson, BC.  "Cage Calls" featured two callers who talk "smack" back and forth.

Morency was later joined by fellow The Score/Hardcore Sports Radio personality Cam Stewart on two shows by the names of "Morency" and "Covers Experts".  They often talk to Las Vegas Sports Insider expert Brian Blessing, who Morency has given the nicknames "Ricky Rickshaw" (from a prior incident) and "Kenny Rogers".  "Covers Experts" was simulcast every weekday at 6:30pm EST on The Score Television Network and Hardcore Sports Radio. Morency had previously appeared with Cam Stewart and Sarah Meehan on the last segment of the show "Drive This!"  which was hosted by RIchard Garner until April 2009. 

Morency was suspended by Score Media, the parent company of Hardcore Sports Radio after the October 23, 2009 Sports Rage broadcast. Morency was allegedly drinking vodka while broadcasting Sports Rage.  Morency was scheduled to return to the show on November 2, 2009 but hours before the show, Morency sent a message via his @sportsrage twitter account , "what up all..bad news.not on tonight.things not looking good.will let you know when i have news...don't worry though everything will work out".

On November 3rd, 2009, Morency announced on twitter that he had parted ways with the HSR. Morency  tweeted that he will be starting his own website http://morencysports.com which will feature Morency on a webcast from Toronto.  Morency said via twitter that he expects the web site to be up and running in a couple of weeks.  The Wolf will keep you updated on MORENCY SPORTS. 

"its all good.my site will kick the shit out of there's.all your fav guests.nothing changes.just the web address!"

Lottery ticket buyers beware! The Texas Lottery Commission backs agents who steal winning tickets!  Yesterday the Texas Lottery Commission told a 67-year-old Grand Prairie man that he is not the rightful winner of a $1 million prize – even though its own investigators have told police he bought the winning ticket!  The real winner, the commission said, is the convenience store clerk who was indicted on charges that he cheated Willis out of his ticket in May. The clerk, 25-year-old Pankaj Joshi, is believed to have fled the country.

"I feel like I've been stolen from twice," a crestfallen Willis remarked, according to his lawyers. The clerk "did it once – now the lottery's done it again."   But even as Willis' attorneys discussed whether they should sue the lottery commission for the prize, the case took another twist.

The Travis County district attorney's office jumped into the fray Monday evening, saying in no uncertain terms that Willis won the lottery. "That's Mr. Willis' money. He was the true winner," said Assistant District Attorney Patty Robertson. And the office promises to put its money where its mouth is – Robertson said $365,000 that has been seized from the store clerk's bank accounts will be turned over to Willis as soon as the paperwork goes through.

But that's not enough for Willis, whose lawyers claim the commission owes him the full prize, regardless of what Joshi did.  A lottery spokesman wouldn't comment about anything, citing pending litigation.  Litigation is not quite pending but distinctly possible, Willis' lawyers said.  "We're looking at all the alternatives we have," said attorney Randy Howry. "And a lawsuit is certainly one alternative."

The debacle began in May when, according to police and lottery investigators, Willis unsuspectingly walked into the Lucky Food Store in Grand Prairie with a winning Mega Millions ticket. Joshi told Willis that his ticket was a loser and later cashed the prize himself.

Joshi has been indicted on a charge of claiming a lottery prize by fraud, but while police search for him, Willis' lawyers are demanding the commission pay their client the full million – less taxes – right away. They say the commission was negligent to unquestioningly allow Joshi, "one of its own agents," to walk off with the prize.

That argument didn't fly with the commission. According to Howry, lottery lawyers said they empathized with the out-of-work maintenance man but that Willis had "no recourse" with them. The ticket bearer is the winner, they said. Indicted or otherwise.

Bear in mind that millions of dollars in unclaimed tickets are not cashed and become void every year. Willis is owned less than $400,000 (after taxes) now.  PAY HIM!  Your own investigation, which included video evidence proved that Willis purchased the ticket.  Willis will end up owing lawyers any money he may recover if he has to go to court.  This BS is a prime example of Bureaucrats gone wild !

Turn out the lights, the party is over. There are thousands of listeners like me, who tuned into Sirius 98 for one reason and one reason only. You never heard us call into sportsrage or saw us in the forums. But we were daily listeners to Sportsrage and Morency.

Without Gabe Morency, I am out. There is no reason for me to tune is HSR anymore. Like Howard in morning drive, Gabe Morency was able to do in late night sports radio what no other personality could. Morency is the most entertaining and knowledgeable sports personality I ever listened to on radio.

BTW, Mike Gentle & The Score suits, I am a 55 year old, non drinking retired civil servant who only bets on sports when I am in Vegas. There are thousands more like me who were entertained by Morency. Frankly, the rest of your daily lineup is weak.  I don't tune into sports radio to hear chocolate bar and sugar pops cereal talk.  We Americans don't need a daily soccer show and Sarah Meehand puts me to sleep.  You  already kicked off Koulis on hockey who actually gave us solid information that we couldn't get anywhere else in the states.  Do you think that CFL games are going to attrack listeners in the states? Good luck with all that.

I think that Morency and Sportsrage will surface on another Sirius channel.  Morency's blood is on the hands of Mike Gentile and the rest of those espn wannabe's at softcore sports radio. It is what it is.  Sportsrage will not die.  But  HSR is dead to me.

Express your outrage over the firing of Gabe Morency directly to Score Media here  www.scoremedia.com/contact-us/#usermessagea

Email the CEO & Executive VP to express your outrage
 

JOHN LEVI : CEO/ jlevy@scoremedia.ca

BENJI LEVI: Executive VP/ blevy@scoremedia.ca

 

 Mr. Wolf is on Google Voice ---->    830-BONZER1 (830.266.9371)



                                                                                       Call me "Wake Up" ! 

"Wake Up" is a moron who believes that I should move outside the United States because I think that citizens and taxpayers should hold the bureaucrats in our federal government accountable.   From his comments on the Debbie Schlussel Blog, it appears to me that he was one of those former special agents who couldn't find his ample ass with both hands.  So he became a low level bureaucrat manager who interfered with the productive workers.

Now Wake Up is retired and has no life beyond the pathetic job he formerly held.  Wake Up reminds me of the ever ignorant Sheepdog.  It has been my experience  that  mental midgets purposely post confrontational comments on blogs when they can't hold their own in conversations or debates.  They attempt to build themselves up by putting others down. 

Call me Wake Up, I will explain your flawed thinking so that even you can understand it.  How is life in Bay St. Louis?

Intelligent people are also welcome to call Mr. Wolf on Google Voice.

Wake Up's comments can be found here responding to a Bonzer Wolf comment in Debbie Schlussel's Blog :

www.debbieschlussel.com/11204/what-you-werent-told-about-the-detroit-islamic-terror-raids-priorities-shmiorities/#more-11204

Deadspin obtained a copy of Tim Donaghy's book, Blowing the Whistle, which purports to expose the NBA's "culture of fraud" and which Random House was set to publish next month — until, a source says, the league threatened to sue. The book is the former referee's account of his time in the NBA and the events that led to his conviction, in 2007, on charges that he relayed inside information on NBA games — including several that he was working — to a professional gambler.

Blowing the Whistle falls somewhere between a confessional and an indictment, both of his former colleagues and their employer. In the book, Donaghy alleges, among other things, that referee Dick Bavetta spoke unabashedly about his role as the NBA's "go-to guy." Donaghy cites Game 6 of the notorious 2002 Western Conference finals, between the Lakers and the Kings — a game that NBA conspiracy theorists still talk about as if it were basketball's grassy knoll. Donaghy, who was not assigned to the game, reports that Bavetta "openly talked about the fact that the league wanted a Game 7."

Donaghy is a dirt bag just like Jose Canseco. But dirtbags can tell the truth, and I believe Donaghy is telling the truth, which is why the NBA does not want this book to be published. The Dallas Mavericks were screwed by NBA zebra Bennett Salvatore, who should have been named the Miami Heat MVP for his performance in the 2006 NBA finals. IMHO, David Stern hates Mavs owner Mark Cuban and "company" referees like  Salvatore are happy to screw the Mavs in big games.  Here are a couple of excerpts from the book, posted this week on Deadspin.  

To have a little fun at the expense of the worst troublemakers, the referees working the game would sometimes make a modest friendly wager amongst themselves: first ref to give one of the bad boys a technical foul wouldn't have to tip the ball boy that night. In the NBA, ball boys set up the referees' locker room and keep it stocked with food and beer for the postgame meal. We usually ran the kid ragged with a variety of personal requests and then slipped him a $20 bill. Technically, the winner of the bet won twice — he didn't have to pay the kid and he got to call a T on Mr. Foul-Mouthed Big-Shot Du Jour.

After the opening tip, it was hilarious as the three of us immediately focused our full attention on the intended victim, waiting for something, anything, to justify a technical foul. If the guy so much as looked at one of us and mumbled, we rang him up. Later in the referees' locker room, we would down a couple of brews, eat some chicken wings, and laugh like hell.

We had another variation of this gag simply referred to as the "first foul of the game" bet. While still in the locker room before tip-off, we would make a wager on which of us would call the game's first foul. That referee would either have to pay the ball boy or pick up the dinner tab for the other two referees. Sometimes, the ante would be $50 a guy. Like the technical foul bet, it was hilarious — only this time we were testing each other's nerves to see who had the guts to hold out the longest before calling a personal foul. There were occasions when we would hold back for two or three minutes — an eternity in an NBA game — before blowing the whistle. It didn't matter if bodies were flying all over the place; no fouls were called because no one wanted to lose the bet.

We played this little game during the regular season and summer league. After a game, all three refs would gather around the VCR and watch a replay of the game. Early in the contest, the announcers would say, "Holy cow! They're really letting them play tonight!" If they only knew...

During one particular summer game, Duke Callahan, Mark Wunderlich, and I made it to the three-minute mark in the first quarter without calling a foul. We were running up and down the court, laughing our asses off as the players got hammered with no whistles. The players were exhausted from the nonstop running when Callahan finally called the first foul because Mikki Moore of the New Jersey Nets literally tackled an opposing player right in front of him. Too bad for Callahan — he lost the bet.

I became so good at this game that if an obvious foul was committed right in front of me, I would call a travel or a three-second violation instead. Those violations are not personal fouls, so I was still in the running to win the bet. The players would look at me with disbelief on their faces as if to say, "What the hell was that?"

Crawford wanted the game over quickly so he could kick back, relax, and have a beer; [Dick Bavetta] wanted it to keep going so he could hear his name on TV. He actually paid an American Airlines employee to watch all the games he worked and write down everything the TV commentators said about him. No matter how late the game was over, he'd wake her up for a full report. He loved the attention.

That very first time Jack and I bet on an NBA game, Dick was on the court. The team we picked lost the game, but it covered the large point spread and that's how we won the money. Because of the matchup that night, I had some notion of who might win the game, but that's not why I was confident enough to pull the trigger and pick the other team. The real reason I picked the losing team was that I was just about certain they would cover the spread, no matter how badly they played. That is where Dick Bavetta comes into the picture.

From my earliest involvement with Bavetta, I learned that he likes to keep games close, and that when a team gets down by double-digit points, he helps the players save face. He accomplishes this act of mercy by quietly, and frequently, blowing the whistle on the team that's having the better night. Team fouls suddenly become one-sided between the contestants, and the score begins to tighten up. That's the way Dick Bavetta referees a game — and everyone in the league knew it.

Fellow referee Danny Crawford attended Michael Jordan's Flight School Camp years ago and later told me that he had long conversations with other referees and NBA players about how Bavetta propped up weak teams. Danny told me that Jordan himself said that everyone in the league knew that Bavetta cheated in games and that the players and coaches just hoped he would be cheating for them on game night. Cheating? That's a very strong word to use in any sentence that includes the name Dick Bavetta. Is the conscious act of helping a team crawl back into a contest "cheating"? The credo of referees from high school to the NBA is "call them like you see them." Of course, that's a lot different than purposely calling more fouls against one team as opposed to another. Did Bavetta have a hidden agenda? Or was he the ultimate company man, making sure the NBA and its fans got a competitive game most times he was on
the court?

Studying under Dick Bavetta for 13 years was like pursuing a graduate degree in advanced game manipulation. He knew how to marshal the tempo and tone of a game better than any referee in the league, by far. He also knew how to take subtle — and not so subtle — cues from the NBA front office and extend a playoff series or, worse yet, change the complexion of that series.

The 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings presents a stunning example of game and series manipulation at its ugliest. As the teams prepared for Game 6 at the Staples Center, Sacramento had a 3–2 lead in the series. The referees assigned to work Game 6 were Dick Bavetta, Bob Delaney, and Ted Bernhardt. As soon as the referees for the game were chosen, the rest of us knew immediately that there would be a Game 7. A prolonged series was good for the league, good for the networks, and good for the game. Oh, and one more thing: it was great for the big-market, star-studded Los Angeles Lakers.

In the pregame meeting prior to Game 6, the league office sent down word that certain calls — calls that would have benefitted the Lakers — were being missed by the referees. This was the type of not-so-subtle information that I and other referees were left to interpret. After receiving the dispatch, Bavetta openly talked about the fact that the league wanted a Game 7.

"If we give the benefit of the calls to the team that's down in the series, nobody's going to complain. The series will be even at three apiece, and then the better team can win Game 7," Bavetta stated.

As history shows, Sacramento lost Game 6 in a wild come-from-behind thriller that saw the Lakers repeatedly sent to the foul line by the referees. For other NBA referees watching the game on television, it was a shameful performance by Bavetta's crew, one of the most poorly officiated games of all time.

The 2002 series certainly wasn't the first or last time Bavetta weighed in on an important game. He also worked Game 7 of the 2000 Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and the Trail Blazers. The Lakers were down by 13 at the start of the fourth quarter when Bavetta went to work. The Lakers outscored Portland 31–13 in the fourth quarter and went on to win the game and the series. It certainly didn't hurt the Lakers that they got to shoot 37 free throws compared to a paltry 16 for the Trail Blazers.

Two weeks before the 2003–04 season ended, Bavetta and I were assigned to officiate a game in Oakland. That afternoon before the tip-off, we were discussing an upcoming game on our schedule. It was the last regular-season game we were scheduled to work, pitting Denver against San Antonio. Denver had lost a game a few weeks prior because of a mistake made by the referees, a loss that could be the difference between them making or missing the playoffs. Bavetta told me Denver needed the win and that it would look bad for the staff and the league if the Nuggets missed the playoffs by one game. There were still a few games left on the schedule before the end of the season, and the standings could potentially change. But on that day in Oakland, Bavetta looked at me and casually stated, "Denver will win if they need the game. That's why I'm on it."

I was thinking, How is Denver going to win on the road in San Antonio? At the time, the Spurs were arguably the best team in the league. Bavetta answered my question before it was asked.

"Duncan will be on the bench with three fouls within the first five minutes of the game," he calmly stated.

Bavetta went on to inform me that it wasn't the first time the NBA assigned him to a game for a specific purpose. He cited examples, including the 1993 playoff series when he put New Jersey guard Drazen Petrovic on the bench with quick fouls to help Cleveland beat the Nets. He also spoke openly about the 2002 Los Angeles–Sacramento series and called himself the NBA's "go-to guy."

As it turned out, Denver didn't need the win after all; they locked up a spot in the playoffs before they got to San Antonio. In a twist of fate, it was the Spurs that ended up needing the win to have a shot at the division title, and Bavetta generously accommodated. In our pregame meeting, he talked about how important the game was to San Antonio and how meaningless it was to Denver, and that San Antonio was going to get the benefit of the calls that night. Armed with this inside information, I called Jack Concannon before the game and told him to bet the Spurs.

To no surprise, we won big. San Antonio blew Denver out of the building that evening, winning by 26 points. When Jack called me the following morning, he expressed amazement at the way an NBA game could be manipulated. Sobering, yes; amazing, no. That's how the game is played in the National Basketball Association.

In a follow-up email to the referee staff and the league office, Crawford railed about the lack of respect players had for referees and the NBA's failure to back him up. Then, in a direct shot at the league's embracing of referees like Dick Bavetta, he fired a sharp rebuke:

"I also told [Stu Jackson] that the staff is an officiating staff of Dick Bavetta's — schmoozing and sucking people's asses to get ahead. Awful, but it is reality."

Crawford also touched on the fact that he was being excluded from working the playoffs that year:

"Look on the bright side everybody, MORE playoff games for you guys and Dick, maybe you will get to be crew chief in the 7th game of the Finals, which is a travesty in itself you even being in the Finals."

Read more on Deadspin deadspin.com/5392067/excerpts-from-the-book-the-nba-doesnt-want-you-to-read
 

defoxamerica.com/  Says ACORN is doing the work of Jesus and FOX is the devil.  ACORN apparently believes that Jesus is against the United States Constitution and rights such as Freedom of the Speech & Freedom of the Press.  I find it ironic that ACORN and the far Left are bringing Jesus to the forefront in their fight for survival. Aren't these the same left wing radicals who label the religious Right "wingnuts" and worse?  DeFox America wants you to sign this petition to Congress:

Dear Congress member, I am writing to urge you to join me in "Defoxing America." Fox "News" personalities are pushing an agenda that is dangerous to ordinary Americans. Using tactics such as placing individuals singled out for censure on a blackboard and linking them to murderous dictators like Josef Stalin, Fox News has deliberately created an atmosphere of hysteria that they have used to attack organizations and individuals fighting for the issues that matter most to working families. I urge you to stand up to these new McCarthy-ite tactics by voting against any unconstitutional legislation that singles out specific organizations. This includes the Continuing Resolution that cuts off Federal support to the national anti-poverty group ACORN. Don't let Glenn Beck's blackboard dictate the people's agenda. Stand up and "Defox America".

Here is the video ACORN is using to promote their "cause" to "DeFox" America.  The WOLF reports, YOU decide!

   Let me get this straight.

We’re going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose head says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, signed by a president that also hasn’t read it, and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke.

What possibly could go wrong?

gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/10/pelosicare-is-all-about-a-government-takeover-of-health-care/

Be scared,  people: A fake Hogette is on the loose.  As if things weren’t bad enough in Redskins Land, an APB went out to hardcore  fans over the weekend: The man calling himself “Stephette Hogette” is not a real Hogette.  Fans can spot the fake Hogette because Stephette Hogette usually travels alone, said the warnings. Real Hogettes only roam in packs.


“It has come to our attention that an individual is representing himself to be a Hogette,” read the warning, which was posted late last week on Skins message boards and fan sites, including Dan Snyder’s ExtremeSkins.com. “Please be aware that ‘HOGETTES’ is a Registered Trademark and the Hogette likeness is COPYWRITED. He is currently in violation of both federal and state statutes.

“We have a very stringent set of rules and guidelines on who can become a Hogette and we monitor all of our members to insure that inappropriate action does not occur. We are very disturbed that someone would portray us in a negative manner and try to insure that this does not happen. However, from time to time we find it necessary to protect our Trademark and Copyright. If you feel that you have been approached by an impostor or become aware of a potential impostor, please contact us immediately at:hogettes.org or hogettes.net.”

A South Carolina bureaucrat  who said he was on his lunch break when an officer found him with a stripper and sex toys in his sport utility vehicle has been fired, his boss said Wednesday.  A former state legislator & current deputy assistant attorney general, age 66, was in a secluded part of a downtown cemetery when an police officer spotted him Monday, according to a police report in Columbia SC.

As an officer approached the car sped off, then pulled over a few blocks away. The state's attorney and the 18-year-old woman with him, an employee of the Platinum Plus Gentleman's Club, gave conflicting stories about what they were doing in the cemetery, Officer Michael Wines wrote in his report.  He then searched the SUV, where he found a Viagra pill and several sex toys, items the attorney said he always kept with him, "just in case," according to the report.

The attorney flashed Wines a badge showing he worked for the state Attorney General's Office.  Officer Wines, whose wife also works there, called her to make sure he was telling the truth.  The attorney and the woman were let go without charges. But as luck would have it, Wines' wife reported the call to her supervisor.

"We received credible information about inappropriate behavior Monday afternoon," Attorney General McMaster said Wednesday. "And by the close of business, he was no longer working here."  Such a trip to the cemetery "would not be appropriate, at any time, for an assistant attorney general," McMaster said.




 

Garth Brooks tickets are going for $700+ on the web after Saturday's sellout of the first 20 performances. "We have a number of people mobilized to take the necessary steps to see that the scalper tickets are canceled" says Wynn VP Jennifer Dunne. "We won't stop until we succeed" she said.

LOL. Good luck with all that, Jenny!

Even though I am in Vegas, the John Chakwin Jr rumors keep coming at me. The latest has Chakwin receiving a directed transfer to LA as Deputy SAC. Don't know if this is true but I can confirm that Chakwin's only "friend" in high places, is no longer in position to save his sorry ass.

The adventure begins tomorrow. Will be gone until October 28. Follow me on Twitter.

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