Opening Stuff:
Happy Ground Hogs Day everybody! It looks like Punxsutawny Phil saw his shadow, meaning six more weeks of Winter! The question of the day: How can the little furry animal predict 6 more weeks of winter when we haven't yet seen winter?
In case you are interested, Phil or relatives of the woodchuck have been predicting the end of winter for 125 years today! He only predicted an early Spring 16 times! Today he gave us 6 more weeks of winter, but only had to look at yesterday to find Spring.
Enough of this...it's time to spring into some interesting news and opinions. The European economy is still our biggest potential threat, and it looked a little brighter yesterday after a quite successful French bond offering. But as one London observer noted. The EuroZone is basically on morphine, as most of the action to date is only masking the pain from serious underlying disease. The problems with public employee laden Greece and Portugal are deep. But, some of the current solutions on the books may eventually get them over the hump. If the Unions there get sensible. In Spain however, another in morphine dreamland, the EU is looking at much bigger situation, much too large to be treated with the Portugal/Greek drugs. Things might appear better across the pond, but it will be all the way til the end of 2012 until the treatment neutralizes the disease.
The Question:
It seems as though I've heard of Angelo Dundee for the entirety of my life. Angelo, one of the great boxing trainers of all time, died late last night. Name five of the most prominent fighters trained by Dundee (Even non-boxing fans should get this one).The Headlines:
--New Unemployment Benefit Requests Drop To 357,000; Stocks Up On News.--AA, Microsoft Layoffs Biggest Part Of 53,000 Planned Layoffs Announced In Jan; 2012 Planned Reductions Up 39% From Jan 2011, 41% from December
--The Donald To Endorse The Newtster Today.
--75 Die In Egyptian Soccer Riots.
--Indiana Becomes 23rd "Right To Work" State; Unions Expected To Mar Super Bowl Festivities.
--Two Americans Killed In Monterrey Mexico Home Invasion.
--Environmentalists To Block Christos's Colorado Canyon Project.
Well, it's Thursday. That's the day the Tids sports department sucks it up, and picks the NFL winners. I didn't think we did too well this year. But, in fact it was a topsy-turvey year (See Indy 2-14). First the Giants-Pats match-up should be a Pick-em' instead of 2.5 point bulge for NE. It is that close. I'm actually having trouble getting my heart to go with the Pats. The Giants have quick strike power with a hot Eli throwing to some very good receivers. Their "D" line is being painted as legendary by the adoring scribes. Their run through the playoffs has been quite impressive. But, I'm thinking that most of the loudest sports opine-ers are from NY. And then, I have this nagging, naive, innate faith in my beloved Pats. I'm guessing they will find a way to win and the final score will be New England Patriots 27, New York Giants 17.
I know, I know I sound like a broken record, but I just can't leave the Tids today with out once again pointing the ineptitude of the so-called journalistic guardians of the truth. Romney, as everybody knows by now made an unfortunate remark that implied he didn't care about the very poor. Wait a minute, he didn't say that, the press said that. Once again their lackluster reporting of the whole truth left out the entire sentence. he was saying that the energy of America should be focused on the plight of a once world envied middle class. He didn't express him self well enough at all, but the press didn't attempt to report it honestly.
Everybody Republican and Democrat alike keep on saying we have to fix our "immigration problem". We don't have an immigration problem. Immigration is working just fine. We have a sneaking-into-America-illegally problem.
Donald Trump's latest money making adventure is cemeteries! He will build a luxurious final resting place next to his glitzy Bedminster NJ golf course. So for a mere $300,000 you can lie in peace remembering every bad shot you ever hit. Oh, wait, that's hell! But, Trump Plots isn't the most expensive. Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge Mass loaded with early American heroes is closer to the 1/2 Million dollar range. At Woodlawn in the Bronx NY you can get an antique mausoleum for $3.5 Mil! So in death as in life, it is location, location, location!
There is no truth to the rumor that the SB kickoff will be delayed until they can get rid of OWS tents on the fifty yard line.
The X-Factor fired a bunch of people mainly it appears because the program wasn't as successful as they had hoped. Believe me, it wasn't the judges. The talent was too drab, too similar to each other. I think the producer/judges more for the singers sad stories instead of the talent.
The Answer:
I can't imagine anybody didn't make a guess of Cassius Clay -- Mohamed Ali. In all he trained fifteen World Champions including some other of the truly greats Sugar Ray Leonard, Carmine Basilio, George Foreman, Jose Napoles, Willie Pastrano, Luis Rodriguez, Ralph Dupas, Pinkton Thomas, Trevor Berbick, Wilfredo Gomez, Michael Nunn, Sugar Ramos and Jimmy Ellis. Angelo also trained Russell Crowe for his role as James J. Braddock in The Cinderella Man.Life was fun before environmentalists and nutritionists.
It's hard to write the Tids while pacing up and down worrying about the Pats - Giants game. Life is tough.
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