The battle for the Governor's Cup is today at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium as my beloved Kentucky Wildcats meet Louisville for their football teams' season opener. It will be very interesting to see how both teams will perform after losing key players due to graduation and off-the field troubles. My prediction: UK 28, UofL 24.
Post your thoughts...GO BIG BLUE!!!!
UPDATE at 4:05pm: End of First Quarter: No score...
4:20pm: Cats score a field goal with 9:53 in the second quarter. Cats lead 3-0.
4:33pm: Cats miss field goal...but they still lead 3-0.
4:37pm: Cats score TD by Ashton Cobb...extra point good with 5:58 until halftime...10-0 CATS!!!
Halftime: Kentucky 10, Louisville 0
End of 3rd Quarter: Kentucky leads 10-0.
6:06pm: With 14:17 left in the game, Louisville comes on the board with a safety, making it 10-2.
6:28pm: With 6:37 to go, Lones Seiber scores a field goal to expand Kentucky's lead to 13-2.
6:34pm: Cats score TD and extra point to make it 20-2...Card fans are headin' to the exits!!!
6:46pm Myron Pryor scores a TD...extra point is good...Cats lead 27-2.
FINAL: Kentucky 27, Louisville 2
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Game Thread: Cats-Cards
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Morning Trio
AP: Hurricane Gustav gains strength on way to Cuba
Times of London (UK): Kremlin announces that South Ossetia will join 'one united Russian state'
Computerworld: Microsoft: No more Windows Live Mail crashes with IE8 Beta 2
Friday, August 29, 2008
Evening Trio
Newsweek/Washington Post: McCain's Choice Inspires Evangelicals
National Hurricane Center: Gustav becomes hurricane again
MarketWatch: Speedway Motorsports to Proceed with Kentucky Speedway Acquisition
McCain-Palin: Analyzing the ticket
As I mentioned in the flash earlier, I did not expect Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be picked by John McCain. There were denials from the Palin camp at first, but the GOP guarded the pick very well.
In an e-mail sent to supporters, McCain stated:
"Sarah Palin is a trailblazer and a reformer. As the first female governor of Alaska, she challenged a corrupt system and has been a tireless advocate for reform - passing a landmark bill on ethics reform. She has taken on the old politics in Alaska and reformed the state's energy industry. She rejects wasteful pork barrel spending. She's fearless - exactly the type of leader I want at my side and the type of leadership we will bring to Washington."
Sarah Palin is the first woman to run for VP on the GOP ticket. At 44, she is younger than Barack Obama. She and her husband have five children, including one with Down Syndrome. In her speech today, she lauded Democrats Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro for helping to break the "glass ceiling." She has strong conservative credentials: a strong stance against partial-birth abortion, pro-gun (she is an avid hunter and fisher), and a supporter of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Her selection will undoubtedly raise McCain's chances of winning the White House. She will definitely go after Democratic women who supported Hillary Clinton and will, along with the very strong pro-life, pro-family GOP platform, bring more evangelical conservatives to McCain's side.
Already, one of Obama's campaign spokesmen is criticizing and smearing Palin. The spokesman criticized her for being a former mayor of a town of 9,000 people. This is the same Obama campaign that criticized rural America for "clinging to guns and religion." However, Obama and Biden later said in a joint statement: “We send our congratulations to Governor Sarah Palin and her family on her designation as the Republican nominee for Vice President. It is yet another encouraging sign that old barriers are falling in our politics. While we obviously have differences over how best to lead this country forward, Governor Palin is an admirable person and will add a compelling new voice to this campaign.” Obama and Biden must, however, fire the spokesman who smeared Palin.
John McCain and Sarah Palin is the right ticket for America: fighting corruption, preserving America's values and standing up to our enemies. Obama and Biden is the real "more of the same" ticket: the same old pro-abortion, anti-family, pro-Big Government candidates that Democrats produced for years.
FLASH: MCCAIN PICKS PALIN
Who will it be???
John McCain has picked a running mate. It won't be Palin, Pawlenty, or Romney. Will it be Ridge, Lieberman, or a dark horse?
I will be away for part of the day. But I will have a post regarding the pick later today.
Comments???
Morning Trio
Wall Street Journal: Obama Frames Campaign As Vote on Economy, Bush
Voice of America: Russia: G7 Condemnation over Georgia Shows 'Bias'
ESPN: Louisville-Kentucky game full of unknowns
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Evening Trio
ABC News: BREAKING: McCain picks running mate, will make announcement at noon tomorrow in Dayton
Fox News: Gustav threatens GOP convention
BetaNews: Deeper inside IE8 Beta 2
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
BREAKING: DRUDGE: MCCAIN PICKS RUNNING MATE
BREAKING: FLOODING IN FLEMING-NEON
Evening Trio
Voice of America: Nearly 600 Arrested in US Immigration Raid
Channel Web: Microsoft Launches Privacy-Rich IE8 Beta 2
Morning Trio
Fox News: Roll Call Vote Will Put Clinton’s Unity Speech to the Test
WorldNetDaily: Archbishop: Democrats don't know Christianity
Knoxville News-Sentinel: Songs of Appalachia: Carrying on tradition
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Faith Under Fire: Violence in Orissa
From Gospel for Asia:
Increasing attacks on Gospel for Asia-related work in Orissa have resulted in the deaths of at least six local believers since radical mobs went on a rampage after the murder of a leading anti-Christian activist. Saturday night, Swami Laxamanananda Saraswati, a top leader of the VHP (World Hindu Council), was killed in an attack by 20 men suspected of being Maoist rebels. The Maoists had earlier warned the swami to leave the area. The attack, which included gunfire and a hand grenade, also killed four other people.
GFA President K.P. Yohannan strongly condemned the gruesome killing of Swami Laxamanananda and demanded that those who were guilty should be punished. Because the swami was a leading opponent of Christian work in India, his followers in the ultra-fundamentalist VHP have used his murder to incite hundreds of their followers to go on a rampage of death and destruction across several districts in India's Orissa state.
According to the latest reports, at least six Christians who attended GFA-related churches have been killed. The latest detailed reports list more than 15 GFA-related church buildings destroyed and at least 110 church members' homes burned to the ground. Other Christian groups have also suffered, with many deaths reported and attacks on ministers and missionaries being widespread. There are even reports of Catholic nuns being gang raped and murdered by the extremists.
Click here for the full story. PRAY for the Christians in the Indian state of Orissa.
Report: Archbishop of Washington Chides Pelosi; Denver Archbishop Warns Biden to Skip Communion
Pelosi and Biden do not realize what God's Word, which they claim to profess, says about when life begins.
Fox News: Archbishop of Washington Chides Pelosi; Denver Archbishop Warns Biden to Skip Communion
