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Johnson: Presidential Politics Trumps Jets’ Fate

By LYNN ZINSER, The New York Times

October 1, 2012, 2:34 pm

(Jets owner Woody) Johnson, in a statement likely to irk Jets fans unhappy with the team’s 2-2 start, said: “Well, I think so you always have to put country first, so I think it’s very, very important, not only for us but for particularly our kids and grandkids, that this election come off with Mitt Romney and Ryan as president and vice president.”

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In that statement, Johnson stepped back from throwing more fuel on a debate he has played a role in fanning in the past. While at the Republican National Convention, Johnson said in an interview with CNBC that, “I think you can never have too much Tebow,” despite Sanchez being acknowledged as the starter and the team trying to keep a quarterback controversy from breaking out with every Sanchez incompletion.

Colin Kaepernick of 49ers beats Jets’ Tim Tebow at his own game

By Matt Wilhalme, Los Angeles Times

October 1, 2012, 1:02 p.m.

Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback, had the best game of his career in the team’s 34-0 blowout of the Jets, and looked more like how New York Jets fans might have envisioned Tim Tebow would be after their team traded with the Denver Broncos for him.

On five carries he rushed for 50 yards and scored on a 7-yard touchdown run from the wildcat in what would be the game-winning score in the second quarter.

Kaepernick’s only pass attempt of the day was an incompletion.

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Tebow, on the other hand, connected with Dedrick Epps for a 9-yard pass — his first completion of the season — who subsequently fumbled the ball to the 49ers.

Tebow’s two rushing attempts of the day went for a combined total of 0 yards.

Heh.

The Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club!  Originally posted June 7, 2011.

Clara Bow– Love Among The Millionaires (1930) (1:16)

“I’m a big freak, because I’m myself!”

Clara Bow had ‘It’, it being sex of course.  The same year she made It (the movie), she also made Wings, the first Best Picture winner.  A non-conformist, she was dogged by a savage press which accused her (among other things) of exhibitionism, incest, lesbianism, bestiality, drug addiction, alcoholism, and laying the entire 1927 USC Football Team no doubt accounting for their one tie (to Stanford) and subsequent loss of the 1928 Rose Bowl spot to those very same Cardinals (where was BCS when you needed it?).

Love Among The Millionaires is a talkie (she hated them) but otherwise quite typical of the roles she was offered.  Sixteen years after retiring from films she was institutionalized for chronic insomnia, diagnosed schizophrenic “despite experiencing neither sound nor vision hallucinations”, and subjected to electro-shock treatment.  She spent the rest of her life a recluse.

Mary Pickford– Pollyanna (1920) (:57)

Somebody was wondering what a ‘Pollyanna‘ was (besides Pickford’s first film for United Artists).

Zombie Rabbits for pets or food.  Originally posted here on June 7, 2011.

Scab Wefewee.  Originally posted June 6 2011.

Dart bombs.  Posted June 3, 2011.

Bah!  Nobody shares the spotlight with Bruno the Magnificent!  Originally posted June 2, 2011.

It is said they invented Sam because Elmer was too sympathetic.  Originally posted here May 31, 2011.

Lon Chaney– The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (1:34)

The history of Lon Chaney is the history of unrequited loves. He brings that part of you out into the open, because you fear that you are not loved, you fear that you never will be loved, you fear there is some part of you that’s grotesque, that the world will turn away from.- Ray Bradbury

Mary Pickford– Sparrows (1926) (1:47)

America’s sweetheart until she cut her hair, Pickford was actually Canadian and while she is best known for her ‘Little Girl’ roles Sparrows is straight melodrama.

Yes, those are real live alligators and a real live baby too.

Speedy is much rarer than you think.  Originally posted May 30, 2011.