In his undrafted rookie debut, Anthony Morrow stole the show. The rookie became the teacher and taught the class how to ball. The 6-5 Guard from Georgia Tech only made the Warrior’s roster via their Summer League.
I knew I put in the work. I just wanted to refine my entire game in the summer league, and itβs working out pretty well for me right now.
This is the line for the number one pick of the 2008 NBA Draft Derrick Rose’s debut game against the Milwaukee Bucks. This highly anticipated rookie debut could be the start of a long history of basketball excellence that was once anchored by Michael Jordan. Could Rose be the answer Chicago have waited for since Jordan left? Ask Chicago native Derrick “the baller”:
"You have to realize how frustrating it is to watch your guard dribble away 21 seconds of the 24 second clock, never giving the ball up, then taking an off balance jump shot with 3 seconds remaining, and then your team turns around and commits a silly foul when the other team is in the bonus to send Pierce to the line." - Mike Fratello aka The Czar, 2008.10.28 (Cavs vs Celtics)
Anyone that things the mortgage meltdown is only between the evil bankers and the evil home speculators should read this article.
"There, more than 1,000 homes stand vacant and decaying in a neighborhood that once thrived with families living the American dream of home ownership."
Cleveland city leaders have been dealing with the subprime mortgage fallout for several years and can enumerate the ways it has cost their city:
Lost property tax revenues
Foreclosures are straining Cleveland’s police and fire budgets, too, as drug dealers and addicts gravitate to abandoned homes
In 2007 and 2008 the City of Cleveland will have spent $12 million demolishing foreclosed and abandoned homes.
The number of homeless students in Cleveland’s public schools has increased by 40% over the last year
"When the Federal Reserve didn’t intervene to stop what the city saw as predatory lending practices, the City Council passed an ordinance to ban predatory loans. The Ohio State Legislature rendered it null and void by passing its own law prohibiting cities from regulating lenders: "The state solely shall regulate the business of originating, granting, servicing, and collecting loans and other forms of credit in the state and the manner in which any such business is conducted, and this regulation shall be in lieu of all other regulation of such activities by any municipal corporation or other political subdivision."
"Cuyahoga County treasurer Jim Rokakis has been following the crisis for close to a decade and trying to clean up the mess. He said the loans on offer weren’t like anything that borrowers had ever encountered before."
JIM ROKAKIS: Back in the old days when there was no sheriff in town, people would rob the banks. Well, here we are in modern day era. And there’s no sheriff in town. The banks were robbing the people.
NOTICE to “Dancing” With the Stars: Len, Bruno, Carrie and the “Pros” take notice of what real West Coast Swing really is. From everyone’s comments other than Lacy, nobody knows West Coast Swing on the show. Have anyone of them even went to the West Coast?
This is West Coast Swing. See how the dance just fits the music.
BTW: this competition is a Jack & Jill, which means the couples are randomly put together right before they start dancing. There is no prep at all. The whole thing happens in real time.
Lewis Hamilton wins the Chinese Gran Prix and continues his lead in the overall Driver’s Championship standing. But the win though easy was not without some controversy. Two Ferraris were tailing Hamilton in second and third place the whole time. But Filipe Massa would benefit more if he finished 2nd instead of 3rd place. This would give Massa two more points to be 7 points behind Hamilton going into the last Gran Prix of the year in Brazil. What to do? Race orders of course. But this is strictly forbidden in the F1 rules.
Suppressing the vote has long been a cornerstone of the GOP’s electoral strategy. Shortly before the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, Paul Weyrich β a principal architect of today’s Republican Party β scolded evangelicals who believed in democracy. “Many of our Christians have what I call the ‘goo goo’ syndrome β good government,” said Weyrich, who co-founded Moral Majority with Jerry Falwell. “They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” Block the Vote : Rolling Stone
From the Moyer article:
All of this distracts from several important points. ACORN has registered 1.3 million voters, and maintains that in virtually every instance they are the ones who have reported the incidents of fraud.
“The concept was to disrupt lines of communication. That’s a fancy way of saying, ‘make it so the phones didn’t work,’ ” Raymond said recently. “No calls going out. No calls going in.”
“Even if that meant suppressing the votes. So if that means they were trying to steal the election, yes, then they were trying to steal the election.”