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An assortment of Super Bowl tidbits: Supposedly sports gambling sites are being threatened with denial of service attacks if they don't pay protection money - also a Reuters story. Infinitus writes "The NFL's legal firm has a PDF up that outlines the NFL's intellectual property rights to words like 'Super Bowl' and 'NFL'. Including a neat little chart that tells you what you can and can't say..." VeggiePossum23 writes "Panthers Upset Patriots, 29 to 21... at least in the Sony Sponsored '989 Sports Game Before the Game' played on NFL Gameday 2004 on the PS2 Console. This annual event, held Wednesday night in Houston, has a perfect 8-year track record of picking the winner of the Super Bowl. Carolina Panthers Wide Receiver Steve Smith controlled the Panthers, winning an upset victory against New England Patriots' Wide Out Troy Brown, also controlling his own team." lordbyron writes "CBS is doing a SuperBowl of commercials that will include a vote for the best commercial in history. You can watch the top 10 now and make sure that you vote at 9pm on Sunday 1/31. It includes some classics like the Apple commercial and the exploding mosquitos from Tabasco."Wing Bowl.--->
"...connects marijuana users to terrorism."
Replace "users" with "prohibition" and that statement would be true.
What?
Panthers win 20 to 17
"MoveOn.org non-partisan campaign"
you're kidding right? move on is almost a wing of the democratic party. go look at their site. There is no need to inject politics into something people just want to enjoy. I think CBS made the right decision. give it a rest.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
"side of a controversial issue"
haha maybe to you not to most people inthe world
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
its amazing how dumb people on slashdot have become. Either that or too dull to get it
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
not offensive?
What's the ad saying? That little children are going to be forced to slave away to pay off this debt that's been inherited and growing since decades ago?
The "ad" is garbage. It's pretty telling that the "best" MoveOn could come up with is that the national debt is bad and no president has managed to do anything about it for a very long time.
I rate the ad -1 Troll
You'd think MoveOn.org would have the sense to use an ad about something GW is actually responsible for that isn't presented in such a troll like fashion.
The best Clark can do is that rich people aren't paying their fair share. Anyone interested can verify that the top 1% income earners pay 34% of the total taxes. I wonder what Clark's definition of "fair" is. And the other democrates also have this bizarro world view. Sharpton when interviewed claimed that the top 1% paid less than 5% and that fair was "more than 15%"
The top 5% pay well over 50% of the total taxes. And the government actually pays the poor.
And then Democrates whine that tax breaks favor the rich. No kidding sherlock. The Democratic policy of Robinhood Economics needs to be corrected and that's what the Bush tax cuts are doing.
I didn't vote for Bush the first time around because he's an idiot. Since we're comming up on another Dumb and Dumber election, I will be voting for him since he's demonstrated his ability to surround himself with intelligent people which makes up for his lacking in that area. I'd rather put up with Bush for four more years and wait for something better to come along than vote for a democrate who's either oblivious to the taxing situation, a liar or just simply failed basic economics.
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if you read on the "whitehouse ad" is an anti-drug ad. That is hardly a controversial topic, nor is it political. The whitehouse will score no points for it. Im sure there are people who will be offended by an anti-drug ad becasue you can't please everyone. It is the same as leftists being angry at corporate ads during the suprebowl.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
the "winning" ad is attempting to attack Bush for incurring more debt when Clinton got a second term with a worse record of increasing the debt.
So point stands.
It's a dumb (and blatently hypocritical) ad. And it's a good thing CBS didn't show it because it would hurt the Democratic party more than anything. MoveOn.org is aptly named if that's the kind of ad it's going to promote as it needs to move on itself. Only the "Hitler" ad could be considered more trollish.
It's right up there with Sharpton claiming the top 1% pays less than 5% of all taxes and that "fair" would be more than 15% when in fact they pay over 30%.
Clark is throwing out the same "fair" BS claiming that the rich need to pay more. Any credibility they had is gone.
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