Friday, February 10, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Denzel Washington
"Safe House" with Denzel Washington opens this weekend. I usually love Denzel Washington movies so I'm looking forward to it. Here are my Top 10 Denzel Washington movies:
- Training Day - 2001
- American Gangster - 2007
- Remember the Titans - 2000
- Crimson Tide - 1995
- The Hurricane - 1999
- Philadelphia - 1993
- Anwone Fisher - 2002
- The Great Debaters - 2007
- Unstoppable - 2010
- Malcolm X - 1992
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
TPSG NFL Mock Draft 2.0
The Super Bowl has has been played, we've passed the deadline for underclassmen to declared for the NFL draft and the week of Senior Bowl practices has come and gone, that must mean that it's time for the TPSG NFL Mock Draft 2.0. Here goes:
Risers: Whitney Mercilus, Courtney Upshaw, Mike Adams, Chris Polk & Michael Brockers.
Fallers: Ryan Tannehill, Alonzo Dennard, Jerel Worthy, David Wilson & Dwayne Allen.
I have a feeling that RGIII will be going top 3 when all is said and done, I think someone's going to try to jump ahead of the Browns to get him (perhaps the Redskins).
Look for TPSG NFL Mock Draft 3.0 after the scouting combine.
- Colts - Andrew Luck - QB - Stanford
- Rams - Justin Blackmon - WR - Oklahoma St
- Vikings - Matt Kalil - OT - USC
- Browns - Robert Griffin III - QB - Baylor
- Bucs - Trent Richardson - RB - Alabama
- Redskins - Morris Claiborne - CB - LSU
- Jaguars - Dre Kirkpatrick - CB - Alabama
- Panthers - Michael Brockers - DT - LSU
- Dolphins - Riley Reiff - OT - Iowa
- Bills - Quinton Coples - DE - North Carolina
- Chiefs - Jonathan Martin - OT - Stanford
- Seahawks - Whitney Mercilus - DE - Illinois
- Cardinals - Michael Floyd - WR - Notre Dame
- Cowboys - Janoris Jenkins - CB - North Alabama
- Eagles - Luke Kuechly - LB - Boston College
- Jets - Courtney Upshaw - LB - Alabama
- Bengals - David DeCastro - OG - Stanford
- Chargers - Nick Perry - DE - USC
- Bears - Kendall Wright - WR - Baylor
- Titans - Melvin Ingram - OLB - South Carolina
- Bengals - Mark Barron - DB - Alabama
- Browns - Zach Brown - OLB - North Carolina
- Lions - Mike Adams - OT - Ohio State
- Steelers - Devon Still - DT - Penn St
- Broncos - Chris Polk - RB - Washington
- Texans - Alshon Jeffery - WR - South Carolina
- Patriots - Peter Konz - C - Wisconsin
- Packers - Dontari Poe - DT - Memphis
- Ravens - Vontaze Burfict - LB - Arizona State
- 49ers - Mohamed Sanu - WR - Rutgers
- Patriots - Jared Crick - DE - Nebraska
- Giants - Cordy Glenn - OG - Georgia
Risers: Whitney Mercilus, Courtney Upshaw, Mike Adams, Chris Polk & Michael Brockers.
Fallers: Ryan Tannehill, Alonzo Dennard, Jerel Worthy, David Wilson & Dwayne Allen.
I have a feeling that RGIII will be going top 3 when all is said and done, I think someone's going to try to jump ahead of the Browns to get him (perhaps the Redskins).
Look for TPSG NFL Mock Draft 3.0 after the scouting combine.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
K-Love Stomps on Luis Scala's Face
C'mon K-Love, stomping on someone's face will not be tolerated.
I wonder if that was payback for this.
I wonder if that was payback for this.
Monday, February 6, 2012
AZ Tidbits
- AZ Senator John McCain blasts Super PACs and Citizens United ruling again.
- The state GOP refuses to rid itself of Russell Pearce.
- Kyle Stanley wins the 2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open.
- Yahoo!Sports did a nice profile on Diamondback President Derrick Hall.
- Meet the 2012 Arizona State football recruits here. U of A recruits can be found here.
- The Phoenix Human Relations Commission calls for Joe Arpaio to resign.
- The 2012 Arizona Republican Presidential Primary is set for Tuesday February 28.
- ASU alum and Chandler, AZ native Terrell Suggs wins the NFL Defensive POY Award.
- Phoenix named 18th best place to stay young.
- Insight.com ends bowl sponsorship.
Best Super Bowl Commercial
Overall, I was a bit underwhelmed by the Super Bowl commercials, this one was probably the best of the lot though.
That's Catrinel Menghia by the way. AutoTrader apparently liked it too.
That's Catrinel Menghia by the way. AutoTrader apparently liked it too.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Super Bowl XLVI
New York Giants 21, New England Patriots 17
The NFL proves once again why it's the most popular sport in America with another 4th quarter comeback victory. I can't recall the last time we've had a bad Super Bowl. Perhaps the Giants and Patriots should play every Super Bowl. I don't think the Giants will go down as one of the greatest Super Bowl winning teams, but they did go on quite a run when they needed to, they had a 7-7 record at one point this season before running the table and winning all of their remaining games. It just goes to show, you just need to get hot at the right time.
Observations:
-Amazing catch by Mario Manningham, easily the play of the game.
-2 Super Bowl wins & 2 Super Bowl MVP's now for Eli Manning, he is some rare air.
-The Giants are the first team in a 16 game regular season to win the Super Bowl with fewer than 10 regular season wins.
-The Giants defensive line is good!
-At 65, Tom Coughlin is the oldest coach to win a Super Bowl. He's won 2 now.
-Madonna was ok during the halftime show, isn't it time they book someone a little more relevant though?
-Kelly Clarkson did a nice job on the national anthem.
-Bring on the NFL Draft! April 26, 2012.
-From all reports, Indianapolis did a nice job hosting the Super Bowl, props to them.
-2013 Super Bowl will be in the Superdome in New Orleans, LA.
The NFL proves once again why it's the most popular sport in America with another 4th quarter comeback victory. I can't recall the last time we've had a bad Super Bowl. Perhaps the Giants and Patriots should play every Super Bowl. I don't think the Giants will go down as one of the greatest Super Bowl winning teams, but they did go on quite a run when they needed to, they had a 7-7 record at one point this season before running the table and winning all of their remaining games. It just goes to show, you just need to get hot at the right time.
Observations:
-Amazing catch by Mario Manningham, easily the play of the game.
-2 Super Bowl wins & 2 Super Bowl MVP's now for Eli Manning, he is some rare air.
-The Giants are the first team in a 16 game regular season to win the Super Bowl with fewer than 10 regular season wins.
-The Giants defensive line is good!
-At 65, Tom Coughlin is the oldest coach to win a Super Bowl. He's won 2 now.
-Madonna was ok during the halftime show, isn't it time they book someone a little more relevant though?
-Kelly Clarkson did a nice job on the national anthem.
-Bring on the NFL Draft! April 26, 2012.
-From all reports, Indianapolis did a nice job hosting the Super Bowl, props to them.
-2013 Super Bowl will be in the Superdome in New Orleans, LA.
POTpourri
- 2012 NFL Hall of Fame class elected.
- Mitt Romney wins Nevada GOP Presidential caucus.
- Packer QB Aaron Rodgers wins NFL MVP Award.
- Climate scientists rebuke Rupert Murdock.
- Donald Trump endorses Mitt Romney.
- I really enjoy the BodyRock.tv web site!
- Reason number one that we need to get money out of politics?
- Candace Swanepoel in a bikini!!! Hot!
- RIP Ben Gazzara.
- Cam Newton & Von Miller win NFL Rookie of the Year Awards.
Ronald Reagan on Unions
Perhaps the current crop of Republicans could learn a thing or two from their idol Ronald Reagan.
"Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost"
"Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost"
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Mitt Gore? Mitt Kerry?
Check out Jacob Weisberg's recent article in "Slate", he argues that Mitt Romney's problem may that he too closely resembles Al Gore and John Kerry. I was recently thinking the same thing. Considering that Gore won the popular vote back in 2000, I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, still, it's an interesting read. Some highlights:
"He's too handsome, too rich, and too pompous to win the hearts of ordinary Americans. . . . . . . . . .Republicans are doing something quite strange at the moment. They are in the process of choosing a candidate whom hardly any of them actually likes. Though Mitt Romney won the Florida primary handily yesterday, rumbles of dissatisfaction with him continue. Romney isn’t so much winning the Republican nomination as having it default to him for lack of any compelling alternative. . . . . . . . . .The case for voting for Romney goes as follows: Of the Republican presidential candidates, he is the only one with any real chance of defeating President Obama in November. . . . . . . . . . Seldom, however, do his half-hearted supporters evince any affection or enthusiasm for the man himself. They generally acknowledge Romney to be an insipid, somewhat blank personality, who is almost absurdly variable in his positions and core beliefs. . . . . . . . . . In this respect, Romney strongly resembles two similarly unloved Democratic nominees from the recent past, Al Gore and John Kerry. Gore and Kerry both suffered from the same characterizations that get applied to Romney—too wooden in person while too flexible in their views. Their supporters often argued that qualifications were what mattered. But ominously for Romney, both Gore and Kerry lost winnable races because of their flawed personalities. George W. Bush, on the other hand, got elected and re-elected, despite his enormous, substantive shortcomings, because ordinary people found it easy to relate to him at a personal level. They felt he wasn’t trying to be someone different from who he was. . . . . . . . . .Romney, Kerry, and Gore are all, in a way, versions of the same political type. Statuesque, handsome, from privileged backgrounds and impeccably credentialed, they have no log-cabin stories to humanize and ground them. Unlike a Lyndon Johnson, a Richard Nixon, a Ronald Reagan, a Bill Clinton, or a Barack Obama, they didn’t overcome humble origins or broken families. . . . . . . . . .In his attempt to overcome his privileged origins, the unloved candidate struggles to establish his plain-folks ordinariness in ways that inevitably backfire. He touts his plebian tastes—pick-up trucks, country music, trashy food—and inevitably overdoes it or gets the background music wrong. Al Gore’s attempt to look less like a Washington politician yielded the “earth tones” fiasco. John Kerry asked for his Philly cheesesteak with Swiss cheese, and was photographed nibbling at this alien object rather than tucking in, as one does. Romney defended his claims as a sportsman by asserting that he had gone out hunting for rodents and varmints “more than two times” . . . . . . . . . .The public usually picks up on this authenticity gap—the space between who the candidate really is and how he wants to be seen."
Good read, the entire article can also be found at Financial Times.
"He's too handsome, too rich, and too pompous to win the hearts of ordinary Americans. . . . . . . . . .Republicans are doing something quite strange at the moment. They are in the process of choosing a candidate whom hardly any of them actually likes. Though Mitt Romney won the Florida primary handily yesterday, rumbles of dissatisfaction with him continue. Romney isn’t so much winning the Republican nomination as having it default to him for lack of any compelling alternative. . . . . . . . . .The case for voting for Romney goes as follows: Of the Republican presidential candidates, he is the only one with any real chance of defeating President Obama in November. . . . . . . . . . Seldom, however, do his half-hearted supporters evince any affection or enthusiasm for the man himself. They generally acknowledge Romney to be an insipid, somewhat blank personality, who is almost absurdly variable in his positions and core beliefs. . . . . . . . . . In this respect, Romney strongly resembles two similarly unloved Democratic nominees from the recent past, Al Gore and John Kerry. Gore and Kerry both suffered from the same characterizations that get applied to Romney—too wooden in person while too flexible in their views. Their supporters often argued that qualifications were what mattered. But ominously for Romney, both Gore and Kerry lost winnable races because of their flawed personalities. George W. Bush, on the other hand, got elected and re-elected, despite his enormous, substantive shortcomings, because ordinary people found it easy to relate to him at a personal level. They felt he wasn’t trying to be someone different from who he was. . . . . . . . . .Romney, Kerry, and Gore are all, in a way, versions of the same political type. Statuesque, handsome, from privileged backgrounds and impeccably credentialed, they have no log-cabin stories to humanize and ground them. Unlike a Lyndon Johnson, a Richard Nixon, a Ronald Reagan, a Bill Clinton, or a Barack Obama, they didn’t overcome humble origins or broken families. . . . . . . . . .In his attempt to overcome his privileged origins, the unloved candidate struggles to establish his plain-folks ordinariness in ways that inevitably backfire. He touts his plebian tastes—pick-up trucks, country music, trashy food—and inevitably overdoes it or gets the background music wrong. Al Gore’s attempt to look less like a Washington politician yielded the “earth tones” fiasco. John Kerry asked for his Philly cheesesteak with Swiss cheese, and was photographed nibbling at this alien object rather than tucking in, as one does. Romney defended his claims as a sportsman by asserting that he had gone out hunting for rodents and varmints “more than two times” . . . . . . . . . .The public usually picks up on this authenticity gap—the space between who the candidate really is and how he wants to be seen."
Good read, the entire article can also be found at Financial Times.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
POTpourri
- Mitt Romney wins Florida Republican Presidential primary.
- RIP Don Cornelius & Angelo Dundee.
- Polls show a majority still blame Bush for the economy. And rightfully so.
- Ana Beatriz Barros is looking good!
- Alabama signs #1 recruiting class on college football's National Signing Day.
- Can Democrats win back the House of Representatives in 2012?
- Celebuzz lists the top bikini bodies of 2012 (so far).
- Book recommendation: The Obama Hate Machine by Bill Press.
- Brandi Glanville is hot!! More here.
- Mitt Romney "not concerned about the very poor". Ugh.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
2012 GOP House Agenda?
Nice blog post by Steve Benen on the obstructionist GOP House majority in The Washington Monthly, you should give it a read. Some highlights:
"House Republicans, both the leadership and rank-and-file members, are not unaware of their circumstances. After massive wins in the 2010 midterms, GOP officials started 2011 with high hopes. . . . . . . . . . Things haven’t exactly gone according to plan. Republicans have seen their popularity deteriorate; they’ve failed to persuade much of anyone as to the value of their policy agenda; and most independent projections suggest the GOP will lose quite a few seats, if not their majority, in November . . . . . . . . . . With this in mind, Republican leaders realize 2011 was a horrid year, and have sketched out a game plan for 2012, sharing a legislative agenda with its caucus. Jake Sherman reports today that rank-and-file GOP members have seen the plans and think it’s “lame" . . . . . . . . . . "Staring nervously at a high unemployment rate, with the November elections around the corner, GOP lawmakers are concerned that what their leadership is revealing for this year’s work is simply not enough. . . . . . . . . . “We need to get more done”. . . . . . . . . . And with Congress’s approval ratings in the gutter, Republicans are sick of blaming the Senate for their inaction. They want real legislative victories, not just GOP bills that pass out of the House and go nowhere on the other side of the dome. . . . . . . . . . Granted, Republicans won’t be eager to hand the White House any election-year victories, but at a certain point, self-interest also kicks in — voters are probably more inclined to like lawmakers who can point to some accomplishments. “Look at all the bills that didn’t go anywhere” makes for lousy campaign commercials. . . . . . . . . . "We can’t blame everything on the Senate. The average American doesn’t realize that,” Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) said. “We need to quit passing bills over here and cheering for ourselves when we know they’re dead on arrival over there.”
Again, the whole blog post can be found here, give it a read.
"House Republicans, both the leadership and rank-and-file members, are not unaware of their circumstances. After massive wins in the 2010 midterms, GOP officials started 2011 with high hopes. . . . . . . . . . Things haven’t exactly gone according to plan. Republicans have seen their popularity deteriorate; they’ve failed to persuade much of anyone as to the value of their policy agenda; and most independent projections suggest the GOP will lose quite a few seats, if not their majority, in November . . . . . . . . . . With this in mind, Republican leaders realize 2011 was a horrid year, and have sketched out a game plan for 2012, sharing a legislative agenda with its caucus. Jake Sherman reports today that rank-and-file GOP members have seen the plans and think it’s “lame" . . . . . . . . . . "Staring nervously at a high unemployment rate, with the November elections around the corner, GOP lawmakers are concerned that what their leadership is revealing for this year’s work is simply not enough. . . . . . . . . . “We need to get more done”. . . . . . . . . . And with Congress’s approval ratings in the gutter, Republicans are sick of blaming the Senate for their inaction. They want real legislative victories, not just GOP bills that pass out of the House and go nowhere on the other side of the dome. . . . . . . . . . Granted, Republicans won’t be eager to hand the White House any election-year victories, but at a certain point, self-interest also kicks in — voters are probably more inclined to like lawmakers who can point to some accomplishments. “Look at all the bills that didn’t go anywhere” makes for lousy campaign commercials. . . . . . . . . . "We can’t blame everything on the Senate. The average American doesn’t realize that,” Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) said. “We need to quit passing bills over here and cheering for ourselves when we know they’re dead on arrival over there.”
Again, the whole blog post can be found here, give it a read.
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