I'm an Eagles fan, but I really don't like Donovan McNabb, I think he is a choker. Plus he always gets hurt or ends up throwing up on the field.
Now it looks like Andy Reid and company are doing all they can to protect the guy from a quaterback controversy by not giving Jeff Garcia a contract.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jeff Garcia is disappointed he never got a contract offer from the Philadelphia Eagles after leading them to five straight wins and a playoff victory following Donovan McNabb's season-ending knee injury. "I was surprised I wasn't offered a contract. There was never anything to negotiate over," Garcia said Monday in an interview with Comcast SportsNet. "We never know what it would've amounted to. It wasn't about the money. It was about being in a great situation." The Eagles agreed to a three-year contract extension with backup quarterback A.J. Feeley on Sunday, eliminating the chance Garcia would return to Philadelphia. Garcia, who turned 37 on Saturday, will become a free agent on Friday."We just wanted to have a reasonable opportunity to be respected, to be appreciated for what took place last year," Garcia said. "Are there other reasons why I wasn't offered a contract? We'll never know."
A three-time Pro Bowl quarterback in San Francisco, Garcia revived his career in Philadelphia. He completed 61.7 percent of his passes for 1,309 yards, 10 touchdowns and two interceptions.
The Eagles were 5-5 and seemingly out of the playoff picture when McNabb tore a knee ligament on Nov. 19. But with Garcia leading the way, they captured their fifth NFC East title in six years and advanced to the second round of the playoffs.
So that's the thanks he get for taking a losing team to the playoffs? I hope Donovan breaks his leg in the preseason, then they'll be sorry they didn't sign Garcia.
Al Gore won accolades and an Oscar for his film, An Inconvienent Truth. The film about global warming is the poster movie for people pushing the green agenda.
Now the man behind the movie chastizing us all for using too many of the Earth's resources is himself, well a typical liberal hypocite.
A day after receiving Oscar glory for a documentary on global warming, former Vice President Al Gore was called a hypocrite by a Tennessee group saying his Belle Meade home is using too much energy.The home’s average month electric bill topped $1,359, according to the group.
“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk (the) walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Drew Johnson, president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.
Electric bills obtained by The Tennessean, however, showed that Gore is paying a premium on his bills to be part of the “green power” program. Gore purchased 108 blocks of “green power” for at least each of the last three months, according to a summary of bills from Nashville Electric Service.
That’s a total of $432 a month spent to pay extra for solar or other renewable energy sources. NES power – outside this program - is derived largely from coal, which emits carbon, a green house gas.
The green power purchased by Gore in those three months is equivalent to recycling 2.48 million aluminum cans, or recycling 286,092 pounds of newspaper, according to comparison figures on the utility's Web site.
Gore’s movie details how greenhouse gases are trapping heat next to the earth, causing a changing climate with melting ice caps and more violent storms.
“Every family has a different carbon footprint,” said Kalee Krider, a spokeswoman for Gore.
The Gore’s 10,000 square foot house on Lynnwood Boulevard doesn’t have a small one.
So I get heat from greens for burning coal and wood to heat my 2,000 sq foot home. Even though Al gets a greater percentage of his electricity from green resources the raw amount he still gets from non green sources is still probably double what mine is.
So for liberals it is live as I say, not as I do.
Ikea is going to start charging for plastic bags.
Doesn't matter to me. I don't shop there. I think their stuff is kitschy, and people who shop there are suburban dummies.
Snow does suck. Especially when you are dead smack in the middle of the mess you might of seen on the television about Pennsylvania. We had three interstates closed for the better part of three days. All of this is our Governor's fault. As a way for him to pay for a lot of his socialist plans, he drastically cut PennDot's budget for snow removal and limited their ability to subcontract out. That means while the hard working PennDot employees were busy clearing the closed interstates, secondary roads were left with nothing done to them.
Ellen Goodman, in a recent column, compared those of us who are skeptical of the claims of global warming on par with "holocost deniers".
I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.
This is a typical tactic being used by the global warming supporters. Their agendas are more on par with Karl Marx than with that of a true scientists. They are anti-corporate, anti-American types who would love to see our current dominant role as a leader in the world diminish. Instead of touting the plight of the working man, they instead use environmental rhetoric.
I say shame on this lady to compare skeptics of global warming to holocaust deniers. True science is about being skeptical. It shows them for who they truly are. Blind supporters of a movement rooted more in anti-americanism and anti-corporate policies in true environmentalism.
And some science is showing that it is the Sun causing 'global warming'.
Governor Rendell of my homestate of Pennsylvania wants to increase the sales tax, to 7%. Making it the second highest in the nation.
He calls it tax shifting. It is meant to reduce property taxes. But we heard that 4 years ago when he pushed gambling parlors down our throats. Since then, just about every other tax in the state has gone up.
My property tax continues to rise. My income tax went up. The "Occupational Privelege" tax went from $10 a year to $52. My Per Capita local and state went up. Every single tax went up in the state. The governor has not shown a history of ever lowering a tax, so why would we believe him when he says this recent set of tax hikes will lead to lower property taxes. Nothing he has done in the past 5 years in office backs up his assertions.
Rush Limbaugh is an idiot. He says the media is picking on Rex Grossman because he's white. It's not because he's white. It's because he sucks.
I used to listen to Rush a lot, but then I found satellite radio and stopped listening to the fat idiot.
Ed Rendell is a socialist scumbag. Five years ago he promised property tax relief if we only allowed gambling. Well, we have gambling and not only has my property tax not gone down, it has gone up a couple hundred dollars a year.
Plus he raised income tax, and now proposes more tax hikes including an increase in our sales tax, a new tax on our electric bill, and new taxes on cigars.
--Increase the state sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent. About half will be combined with slot-machine gambling revenue to provide about $900 million in property-tax cuts. --Impose a new electricity consumption tax amounting to about 45 cents a month for the average household, to pay off $850 million in borrowing for alternative power development and energy conservation. --Increase municipal solid-waste disposal fees by $2.75 per ton, for hazardous-waste cleanups and the environmental stewardship fund. --Impose a new tax on oil companies' gross profits and exempt those companies from the state's corporate net-income tax. --Increase the cigarette tax from $1.35 to $1.45 per pack, levy a new tax on other forms of tobacco and impose a new 3 percent payroll tax on employers who do not provide employee health benefits.
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According to Consumer Reports, McDonald's coffee is the best coffee...period.
It beat out Starbucks, Burger King, and Dunkin Donuts.
I view this as a mixed bag. McDonald's coffee is awful. It is plain awful. So for them to rate McDonald's as the best shows me these people are dorks.
But on the other side, anytime Starbucks gets kicked in the ass makes me happy. I love watching Starbucks junkies get thrown into tantrums.
For real good coffee, go to DoubleShot Coffee Company
A respected Meteorologist speaks on Global Warming
This excerpt proves some of what I've been saying. It's the money stupid!
*Billions of dollars of grant money is flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story. Even the lady at “The Weather Channel” probably gets paid good money for a prime time show on climate change. No man-made global warming, no show, and no salary. Nothing wrong with making money at all, but when money becomes the motivation for a scientific conclusion, then we have a problem. For many, global warming is a big cash grab.
It also proves my theory. Everything breaks down to economics.
I'm really getting sick of global warming. Sure the Earth is warming, but I don't think man really has anything to do with it. I think that many of the scientists (funded by groups desperate to prove global warming) are simply finding causations instead of correlations.
I think the climate change mantra is becoming a religion. It seems that most of the people advocating the idea of global warming are not so much scientists, but socialist progressives and (yikes!) communisits who are more against capitalism and free market economics than they are for a clean environment.
I like this comparison to religion.
The term “skeptic” has historically been a badge of honor proudly worn by scientists as indicating their commitment to the idea that, in the pursuit of truth, nothing is beyond question, every bit of knowledge is open to improvement and/or refutation as new evidence or better theories emerge.However, in the topsy-turvy field of climate science, “skeptic” is a term of opprobrium and to be labeled a skeptic is to be dismissed as a hack. Being a skeptic concerning global warming today is akin to being a heretic in the Middle Ages—you may not be literally burned at the stake, but your reputation will be put to flames.
Don't beleive me? Look at The Weather Channel
Cullen's diatribe, titled "Junk Controversy Not Junk Science," called on the American Meteorological Society to start requiring all meteorologists to toe the line on liberal interpretation of global warming, or else lose the organization's certification.George Orwell's 1984 couldn't have concocted a better form of thought control.
Here is the money shot.
lobal warming scaremongers jumped on the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the busy 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and went on to predict that 2006 would be a potentially devastating year of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean. As it was, not one single hurricane made landfall in the U.S.
If forecasters can't reliably tell us what will happen in two to three months from now, why would anyone trust that they know what will happen with the weather in 50 or 100 years from now and let them tell us how to live our lives accordingly?
I think next time someone mentions "Global Climate Change" or "Global Warming", i'm going to cut down a tree and not plant another one!
I'm really getting sick of global warming. Sure the Earth is warming, but I don't think man really has anything to do with it. I think that many of the scientists (funded by groups desperate to prove global warming) are simply finding causations instead of correlations.
I think the climate change mantra is becoming a religion. It seems that most of the people advocating the idea of global warming are not so much scientists, but socialist progressives and (yikes!) communisits who are more against capitalism and free market economics than they are for a clean environment.
I like this comparison to religion.
The term “skeptic” has historically been a badge of honor proudly worn by scientists as indicating their commitment to the idea that, in the pursuit of truth, nothing is beyond question, every bit of knowledge is open to improvement and/or refutation as new evidence or better theories emerge.However, in the topsy-turvy field of climate science, “skeptic” is a term of opprobrium and to be labeled a skeptic is to be dismissed as a hack. Being a skeptic concerning global warming today is akin to being a heretic in the Middle Ages—you may not be literally burned at the stake, but your reputation will be put to flames.
Don't beleive me? Look at The Weather Channel
I think next time someone mentions "Global Climate Change" or "Global Warming", i'm going to cut down a tree and not plant another one!!