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‘Halftime in America’ — Parody
She looks great. At London’s Daily Mail , ” ‘I’ve never been with anyone that’s not a boyfriend’: Blake Lively insists she is whiter than white as she poses for Elle magazine .”
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Blake Lively’s Smokin’ Hot Photo Shoot for March Issue of Elle
AP – President Barack Obama is paying tribute to Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who resigned from the House Wednesday more than a year after she suffered a gunshot wound to the head by a would-be assassin.
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Obama pays tribute to Giffords
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Well, I’m holding off on some political analysis because there’s just too much news and commentary to digest. I’ll be blogging the reactions to the South Carolina primary earthquake later today. Meanwhile, I’m getting ready for some football. I love the playoffs more than the Super Bowl, and Bill Plaschke does too, at the Los Angeles Times, ” This Sunday is twice as good for NFL fans “: One of the hidden truths in professional football will make its annual appearance Sunday, bitten by frost, pelted by rain, awash in beauty. Advertisers don’t want you to know it. Party planners don’t want you to feel it. The NFL itself would rather you not recognize it. But with the intensity of a John Elway scramble and the passion of a Dwight Clark leap, it is a truth that cannot be denied. Sunday is the greatest single day of the NFL season. Sunday is the real Super Bowl, only twice as much and twice as good. The two conference championship games played Sunday will be more compelling than the one game played two weeks later, and it won’t even be close. Sunday is the Super Bowl minus the capital letters, Roman numerals and incessant glitz. Sunday is real football, played in real weather, in front of real fans, for real stakes. I’ve never seen a Super Bowl winner cry. I’ve seen New Orleans Saints players weeping when they beat the Minnesota Vikings to qualify for their first Super Bowl. I’ve never seen a Super Bowl quarterback quiver. I’ve seen Peyton Manning nearly faint from emotion as he staggered off the field after finally beating Tom Brady and qualifying for his first Super Bowl. The Super Bowl has become so big, both teams feel as if they’ve won by simply being there, and often act and play like it. The conference championships are very different, very down, very dirty. Heroes are made, chokers are discovered, every victory is much sweeter, each defeat more devastating. The conference championship games create so many great moments, those moments have been given enduring names. The Catch. The Drive. The Fumble. Even perhaps the most legendary postseason game of the modern was a Super Bowl semifinal game, the 1967 Ice Bowl in Green Bay. When as the last time the Super Bowl produced something so memorable that it was given a name? The Wardrobe Malfunction? This Sunday’s conference title clashes will be more of the same, a Super Bowl without some highbrow casual fan staring at the TV shouting “Super!” while other fans spend time grazing in appetizer bowls. RTWT. Also, at USA Today , ” Three-and-out: Giants, 49ers set to add to playoff history ,” and ” Three-and-out: Ravens, Patriots provide battle of contrasts .”
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NFL Conference Championship Weekend
Well, it looks like her post-meltdown recovery is coming along quite well. At London’s Daily Mail , ” Here comes young Hollywood! Vanessa Hudgens and Demi Lovato don slinky gowns as they lead the glamour at People’s Choice Awards .”
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Demi Lovato at People’s Choice Awards
At New York Times , ” Group’s Ads Rip at Gingrich as Romney Stands Clear “: DES MOINES — The attacks began three weeks ago and have not let up since: Television ad after television ad slamming Newt Gingrich for having “more baggage than the airlines,” for being fined by Congress for ethics violations, for his position on illegal immigration, even for admitting that he has made mistakes on the campaign trail. Democrats and Republicans alike have singled out the $2.8 million-and-counting air deluge as the biggest factor in Mr. Gingrich’s precipitous drop in polls of Iowa voters and Mitt Romney’s corresponding rise, reshaping the critical first contest of the Republican primary season to Mr. Romney’s benefit. The ads, which continue to blanket Iowa days before the caucuses here, were created and paid for by people with deep knowledge of the Romney campaign’s strategic thinking, close relationships with Mr. Romney’s most generous donors, and even research on what television viewers like and dislike most about Mr. Romney himself. Yet neither Mr. Romney nor his staff has had to lift a finger or spend a dollar to make it happen. In a stark illustration of how last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance has created powerful new channels for outside money to influence elections, the negative onslaught is the work of a group called Restore Our Future. The most prominent of the “super PACs,” which can accept unlimited donations for purposes of supporting or attacking candidates, it operates independently of the Romney campaign but under the direction of former Romney aides who do not need to be told what the candidate needs. Romney seems to really have the momentum. Ron Paul’s still up in Iowa, but he won’t go far after that. It’s quite the opposite for Romney, of course. New Hampshire’s voting January 10th and by that time some of the other candidates could be quitting the race.
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Restore Our Future Attack Ads Harm Gingrich in Iowa
See Atlas Shrugs, ” BARE NAKED ISLAM IS BACK …FOR NOW ,” and Instapundit, ” A WORDPRESS / BARENAKED ISLAM UPDATE… ” And at BNI, ” Bare Naked Islam is back……sort of .” Plus, ” Thanks, Meghan, the more you Muslim apologists trash LOWE’S, the more business they get from real Americans. Keep it up! ” Katrina vanden Heuvel is the added bonus. Oh, the horrible bigotry! (Scroll forward to 2:00 minutes.)
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Bare Naked Islam is Back Up
