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This ad was banned by Fox and the NFL read here

"After our first ad was aired, the NFL became upset and they, together with Fox, decided to pull the ad from running a second time."

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Here is the link for the ad on Go Daddy also.

Is this ad crossing the line? Was Go Daddy in their rights to have this spot aired when it was previously contracted by FOX? The ad was by no way some secret video that nobody in the league had seen. Did the phones ring off the hook from the PTC? Go to the site listed above or here and see it again. BTW: Our experience with Go Daddy has been excellent.They actually have people answer the phones for technical and customer services issues without long waits. Try to find another hosting company that does that.(We were not paid or given free services to say that. lol)

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From TPM

I'm actually a little surprised Vice President Cheney said this. But if he wants to be upfront about the folly of his administration's proposal, who am I to complain?

This from Fox ... "We're going to borrow $758 [b]illion over the next 10 years to set up the personal retirement accounts. We think that's a manageable amount ... Trillions more after that," Cheney said, acknowledging that the personal accounts will help younger workers but will not solve all the problems of solvency.

As the Fox interviewer, Chris Wallace, made clear in the interview, the $758 billion number is itself the product of a little numerical flimflam. As Wallace says at one point in the conversation, "Isn't that misleading? Because under your plan, the accounts, the program wouldn't actually start til 2009. So, if you take the first full 10 years, when people can actually invest in the program, the cost is over $1 trillion, and for the following 10 years, it's $3.5 trillion. Isn't it a lot more expensive?" read on...At what point does this proposed policy collapse under the weight of its own ridiculousness?

Ist Quarter Parents Televison Council 7 : scoring TD: no creativity allowed

Sane People 3 :scoring FG: for Go Daddy

2nd Quarter Parents Televison Council 14 :scoring TD: no creativity allowed

Sane People 0 : boring

3rd Quarter Parents Televison Council 21: scoring TD: no creativity allowed

Sane People 2 : boring+ safety(hot chick from Tobasco)

4th Quarter Parents Televison Council 31: scoring TD+ idiocy for the "Easy Button" spot by Staples: no creativity allowed

Sane People 0

Final Score PTC 31 Sane People 5

Review: Usually the Super Bowl is viewed by millions of people as we know; but just as many people stay glued to the T.V. for the one time of the year to see the creativity in advertising. It's their Super Bowl too. In other words Tivo's fast forward takes a rest. Actually for most Super Bowls the commercials are the real treat. This years spots were the all time low. I couldn't find one commercial that Elaine Benes from Seinfeld would say is "sponge worthy." There were cars, and trucks, and movie trailers, and Fox TV shows, and monkeys, plenty of monkeys, and very safe beer commercials, but nothing that you would say was inventive. So the PTC has won this year's Super Bowl of ideas and creativity by scaring advertisers into banality.

via Atrios

Eagles vs. Patriots.

I suggest we choose a charity for each team. If the Pats win, all us betting on the Eagles have to donate to the American Friends Service Committee (Ntodd's choice).

I'm going local. If the Eagles win, all you New England losers have to donate your bet to Project Home.

Count me in for $50. Pledge your bets in comments here or at Ntodd's place or on your blog, if you have one. I'll throw up a link to everyone's blog who's in (subject to my ability to keep up).

We bet on the Pats!

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Rumsfeld with George Stephanopoulos :

Q: Let me press the question. How long will it take to get enought security forces to secure Iraq?

A: It's not knowable

Q: Why not?

A: We don't know the behavior of Iran and Syria. We don't know if the political process it going to tip people away from supporting the insurgency. We got a clue when you saw people standing in line to vote.

Next, the money flow. The people causing the trouble are Baathists, jihadists, and criminals who are doing it for money. So if money flow is restricted... you need economic progress. That will determine the level of the insurgency.

Q: But those are a lot of ifs.

A: Of course, that's life.

Q: So you can set no expectations for the Am public right now.

A: I can say that as the Iraqi security forces grow, some are well trained, others just came out, there's another 15,000 currently in training. People are trying to complexify it.

Ask Howard Dean

... who remarked at a recent New York City fund-raiser that he "hated the Republicans and everything they stand for." Hmm. Like elections in Afghanistan and Iraq?

The Republican Party stands for elections in Afghanistan and Iraq? If only. Truth is: Sadly, No! You want to know the kinds of things Howard might have in mind? Why not read the official platform of the Republican Party of Texas?

Of course Dean's remarks will fuel the RWNM and FNC. It will actaully be a hell of a hoot(not about shooting afgan's) to see Dean lay to waste to O'Reilly and Hannity.

We've also added Sadly No to our blogroll.

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By Mortimer B. Zuckerman

His Social Security reforms are neither 'social' nor 'secure'

Privatization thus gets things upside down. Social Security was not meant to re-create the free market; it was intended to insure against the vagaries and cruelties of the market and to permit Americans to count on the promise that the next generation will take care of them in their old age.

Frank Rich and Nipplegate

Robert(The Crypt Keeper) Novak said this on the Capital Gang about Howard Dean and the DNC chair:

"I will say this. This is suicidal and lunatic by the democratic party. And that's an opinion shared by a lot of democrats that I talk to"

Outside of the Crypt Keeper being in jail for treason. My question is: Besides possibly Joe Lieberman, what democrats actually talk to him, and if so, where can we find them.

Update for Oliver and here

B.S. Alert