RWC Unfiltered 8-18-11

• Weiner Wars Erupt
• Perry Jumps Out In Front of GOP Field
• Obama And Tax Fraud and His Million dollar “Made in Canada” Bus
• Monday Night Football 41-year’s Worth
• Buffet says “soaking the rich” is right thing to do.
• Perry Parries Schultz To Blast Obama.
• World’s First University Still In Rubble
• Moon Mere Teenager

The two things that can hurt American business most are: war and a Federal Reserve Bank meeting - Will Rogers

America’s two largest hot dog makers took their legal beefs to federal court this week. As the weiner makers and dozens of lawyers swarmed into the courtroom the judge joked “Let the Weiner Wars begin.”

The battle pits Chicago-area companies Sara Lee Corp., which makes Ball Park franks, against Kraft Foods Inc., which makes Oscar Mayer, in a case that could clarify how far companies can go when boasting that their product is better than a competitor’s.

The meat of the matter is hundres of millions of dollars of profits from the billions in annual hot dog sales and who indeed has America’s Best Hotdog.

A new California law requires the State’s hotels to use fitted bedsheets ostensibly  to protect maids from hurting their backs lifting mattresses to tuck-in flat sheets.

A new Rasmussen Poll finds Perry sprinting to the lead at 29%; followed by Romney atb 18%; not sure by 16% and 13% for Bachmann and Ron Paul at a tepid 9%. Perry whoo has gone straight after Obama and his policies has moved right to the front of the GOP pack less than a week after saying he would be a candidate (he officially announced last Saturday deflating every other GOP candidate,

Obama, who fell below the 38% job approval threshold remains there and in almost every poll even  left leaning polls the trend remains down.

For the 17^th time since he’s been in office Obama said he’ll focus on jobs. He is now promising a “Jobs Plan” in September when he returns from his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. Typically Obama suggest that he may need yet another Czar or Czarina and another federal department entitled the Department of Jobs.

A Hollywood based group wants a ballot initiative so LA voters can vote to make it a law that porn actors must use condoms.Taxpayer costs will exceed $2 million.

As Obama spends millions of taxpayer dollars on what he calls an official business and touts his current “Made in USA theme on a Midwestern bus tour comes news that his “purchase” of a “buffer” zone around his ritzy Chicago-area mansion from convicted felon Tony Rezco involved tax fraud.

The “buffer zone” parcel Obama’s mansion in Chicago’s upscale Kenwood neighborhood purchased by the wife of convicted felon Tony Rezko was transferred to Barack and Michelle Obama without ever being assessed or taxed, in apparent violation of Illinois law, according to a debt-collection expert.

“The Cook County assessor’s office says that there is no record of any tax assessment having been done on this transfer of the buffer zone property into a Northern Trust Co. Deed in Trust.”

A debt collection and skip tracing company based in Birmingham, Ala., noted the buffer zone “does not have an address attached to it, which is probably how the assessment and tax were avoided.

To add insult Obama is riding around in a “blacked-out” luxury $1.1 milion bus wearing a Made in Canada tag — also at taxpayer costs. It should also be noted that Obama is only stopping in  county’s with half the rate of national unemployment. More Hocus pocus.

The Church of Monday Night Football began at a bar in Goleta, California 41-years ago.

Forty-one years ago Monday Night Football began.

The story leading up to that first telecast in September of 1970 was based on the efforts of then NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle. During the early 60’s, Rozelle wanted to expand the game to offer additional opportunities for the American television audience. An attempt in 1964 to play games on Friday nights was quickly dismissed with critics claiming attendance at high school football games would suffer. Not to be deterred, Rozelle contracted with CBS to air one NFL prime time game on Monday night during the 1966 and 1967 seasons. At that time, the rival American Football League had a television contract with NBC. Seeing the success of the first Monday night games, NBC followed suit by airing AFL games on Monday night during the 1968 and 1969 seasons.

After the New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, the NFL and AFL merged. Rozelle acted quickly on the growing popularity of the sport to negotiate a contract to air weekly Monday night games. At that time, CBS and NBC were the dominant networks and both were reluctant to enter into what was perceived as a risky venture. Rozelle then approached ABC, which was the lowest rated network, about the possibility of signing a contract to air the games. Even with their lowest rating status, ABC shared their network rivals sentiment that the prospect of airing weekly games on Monday night was a less than stellar proposition. Sensing ABC’s reluctance, Rozelle approached the independent Hughes Sports Network, an entity wholly subsidized by reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, with the proposed Monday night games. Upon hearing this news, ABC, although still less than convinced, entered into a contract with the NFL to begin airing games on Monday night for the 1970 season.

After the contract was signed, ABC selected Roone Arledge to produce the new show. Arledge began his career at ABC 10 years earlier when he was hired as an assistant producer. Arledge was quick to recognize that the network needed to present sports telecasts in a way the viewer hadn’t seen. As opposed to the somewhat rigid style of broadcasting the game on a play by play basis, Arledge wanted to provide the viewer with a spectacle. In September of 1960, ABC aired the network’s first college football telecast utilizing Arledge’s theories. The game featured the University of Alabama hosting the University of Georgia and college football was never the same again. Arledge had established a benchmark in the way the viewer watched the game. Expanding upon the same formula for success with college football, Arledge saw a wealth of possibilities for the new MNF program and began developing a product that was to be both entertaining and visually appealing. As his first order of business, Arledge hired Chet Forte as the director of MNF and they quickly brought innovations to the broadcast. MNF would have twice the number of cameras covering the action, graphics and displays that presented more information to the viewer, and added a third person to the typical two man broadcast booth.

With the production plan in place, Arledge set about the task of hiring an announcing team. Arledge was a friend of Frank Gifford and wanted him to be the play by play announcer for the telecasts. However, Gifford was under contract with CBS until 1971 and thus Arledge had to find an anchor. He initially tried to lure Curt Gowdy away from NBC and Vin Scully, the radio voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Being unable to secure the services of either, Arledge selected Keith Jackson, who at that time had yet to achieve his status as “the voice of college football” as he was to attain later in his career. Arledge then announced the hiring of Howard Cosell, a well educated attorney who had made a name for himself by establishing a unique relationship with the current heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali. To fill out the three man booth, Arledge turned to his friend Frank Gifford who suggested Don Meredith, the former Dallas Cowboy quarterback that recently retired from football. With the three man team of Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell, and Don Meredith in place, ABC was set to broadcast their first Monday night game.

ABC’s Monday Night Football hit the airwaves for the first time on September 21, 1970. The game took place in Cleveland with the defending Super Bowl champion New York Jets visiting the Browns. Little did anyone know at that time what an icon of American culture MNF was to become. The game drew a 33 rating, bringing elation to ABC executives and making Pete Rozelle look like the well deserved genius he was. Advertisers were charged $65,000.00 dollars per 60 second commercial, at the time an amount of money considered to be a bargain. The Browns went on to defeat the Jets, 31-21 and the groundwork had been set for the longest running primetime program in American television history.

“Dandy Don” Meredith, April 10, 1938 - December 5, 2010, one of the most recognizable figures of the early Dallas Cowboys and an original member of ABC’s “Monday Night Football” broadcast team died last year he was 72.

Monday billionnaire Warren Buffet gave Obama’s tax plan a boost agreeing that the rich should be taxed more. An unscientific Monday CBS News online polls had 91% agreeing with the idea of soaking the rich..

Also Monday Obama started a weeklong Midwestern bus tour to tout his economic plan that he claims will spark jobs growth. It is either politically inspired to insert himself into the post Iowa GOP frenzy or a disaster. Also on Monday Gallup released a poll showing Obrama’s job approval rating has fallen below 40% for the first time, at a nationwide average of 39% his disapproval rating is 54%.

Obama will leave on an eleven day vacation to Martha’s Vineyard this weekend.

Buffet misses the point that the number sof those “rich” earning more than $200,000 a year is dropping faster than almost every other group, and so raising taxes on fewer and fewer taxpayers will drive tax revenues down

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf. Bell’s original interest in the telephone was as a hearing aid,

The newest member of the 2012 presidential race, Texas Governor Rick Perry took aim Monday at Obama, faulting him for creating barriers to job growth while touting his own record on job creation in Texas.

 Texas has created more than a third of all jobs created in the nations since Obama has been in the White House. Critics say Perry has created mostly burger flipping jobs which Perry pooh - poohs.

Texas, which has no income taxes and low corporate taxes has activiely used incentives to attract companies to it from adjoining states and elsewhere, and it has worked.

“My message is Mr. President, set the people free, set the people free to get back to work, set the people free from these regulations,” Perry told Fox News, calling for a “moratorium” on new federal regulations. 

Perry says 40 percent of the nation’s new jobs have been created in Texas since June 2009. He attributes that record to low taxes, few regulations and predictability that attracts employers to the state. An estimated half of those jobs are believed to have come from California where businesses have been in headlong flight and being courted by neighboring states that offer lower taxes, less choking regulations, lower or no taxes and a generally more favorable business climate such as Texas.

But Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said Sunday Perry is overstating his role in Texas’ success and Obama’s stimulus package gets much of the credit.

It is a political hoax that Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.  Allegation that he was illegitamtely conceived have also circulated for years because he was two months premature.

The world’s first University was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

Buddhist monks, under the patronage of the Gupta emperor Kumaragupta I (r. c. 415–455 B.C.), founded Nalanda in about 427. The location of the center of learning in this part of ancient India was of special significance, since it was a place the founder of the monks’ religion, Gautama Buddha (c. 563–483 B.C.), had made his “capital” to teach his students. The name “Nalanda” in Sanskrit means “giver of knowledge”: a combination of “nalam” (lotus, representing knowledge) and “da” (”to give”).

Chinese scholar Xuanzang (c. 603–664) wrote extensively about Nalanda University.

Nalanda University was not only devoted to teachings of Buddhism; the instructors taught subjects such as fine arts, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, war tactics, and politics. Nalanda was also known for its architectural beauty and splendid visual setting. It was a complex, massive campus of several-story buildings containing several classrooms and meditation halls, with eight separate compounds dotted with lotus-adorned lakes and parks decorated with mango trees.

Emperor Ashoka the Great is reputed to have built parts of what would become Nalanda University.

At its zenith, Nalanda University housed more than 2,000 professors, providing free education to more than 10,000 students of varying religious backgrounds from South Asia through southeastern Europe to the Middle East. It also enjoyed patronage from regional rulers, thus securing its finances and even being endowed with additional buildings.
Nalanda University was destroyed thrice: in the mid-5th (when it was only a few years old), early 7th, and late 12th centuries. The first two times, Nalanda was rebuilt by the rulers of the day. But by the Muslim invaders destroyed it for a third time in 1197, the enthusiasm for Buddhist learning had long declined and there was no ruler in the region with enough clout to restore the institution to its former glory. As a result, Nalanda has languished in its ruins ever since.

Discussions of rebuilding it have been ongoing for several years. But, it still lies in rubble while many details are worked out.

Humans use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

CBSSports.com columnist Gregg Doyle evidently took offense to Tim Tebow, the Denver Broncos’ quarterback’s comments made in an interview with the Denver Post.

Tebow was quoted as saying:

“Others who say I won’t make it are wrong. They don’t know what I’m capable of and what’s inside me. My family and my friends have been bothered by what’s gone on, and I tell them to pay no attention to it. I’m relying as always on my faith.”

Doyle’s disdain for the Christian faith was evident when he responded to Tebow’s statement with:

“He’ll make it in this league - for the Bible tells him so. From the outside it looks like Tebow equates his love for God in heaven with tangible rewards here on earth. And that’s more than wrong. It’s blasphemy.”

Doyle’s remarks were very unprofessional and inappropriate. Various sport networks have disciplined reporters in the past for making disparaging comments about individuals, yet to date, they don’t seem to be doing anything about it. I wonder if they would rethink their non action if every Christian refused to watch CBS Sports.

Giraffes can not swim.

Despite radio commercials that try to scare voters not to sign ballot petitions signatures calling for a referendum on the so-called Amazon tax law requiring out-of-state Internet companies to collect sales taxes from California buyers are piling up. The necessary signatures to put the referendum on the ballot will likely be in hand well before the 90-day deadline.

The eager response on an opportunity to stop a tax comes at a time when tax talk may come back to the state capitol. Hoping for new revenue, the state budget included a failsafe — a trigger to be pulled mandating further cuts if billions in expected revenue does not show up.

California tax collections are already $500 million behind schedule and it appears headed full steam toward the billion mark triggering the automatic tax cuts.

Polling show that if this makes it to the ballot Californian’s will vote to revoke the tax on internet sales.

Evergreen, a Massachusetts company got $43 millions of Obama directed “stimullus dollars” to create green jobs,in the U. S. has filed for bankruptcy laying off hundreds of U. S, workers, but, it may be hiring in China. In the bitter irony the company blamed China for prouducing solar panels so cheap they couldn’t compete.

Moon younger than previously thought
Analysis of a piece of lunar rock brought back to Earth by the Apollo 16 mission in 1972 has shown that the Moon may be much younger than previously believed.

This is concluded in new research conducted by an international team of scientists that includes James Connelly from the Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen. Their work has just been published in Nature.

The prevailing theory of our Moon’s origin is that it was created by a giant impact between a large planet-like object and the proto-Earth very early in the evolution of our solar system. The energy of this impact was sufficiently high that the Moon formed from melted material that began with a deep liquid magma ocean.

As the Moon cooled, this magma ocean solidified into different mineral components, the lightest of which floated upwards to form the oldest crust. Analysis of a lunar rock sample of this presumed ancient crust has given scientists new insights into the formation of the Moon.

“We have analysed a piece of lunar rock that was brought back to Earth by the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. Although the samples have been carefully stored at NASA Johnson Space Center since their return to Earth, we had to extensively pre-clean the samples using a new method to remove terrestrial lead contamination.

Once we removed the contamination, we found that this sample is almost 100 million years younger than we expected,” says researcher James Connelly of the Centre for Star and Planet Formation.

According to the existing theory for lunar formation, a rock type called ferroan anorthosite, also known as FAN, is the oldest of the Moon’s crustal rocks, but scientists have had difficulty dating samples of this crust.

The research team, which includes scientists from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Carnegie Institute’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and Universite Blaise Pascal, used newly-refined techniques to determine the age of the sample of a FAN that was returned by the Apollo 16 mission and has been stored at the lunar rock collection at the NASA Johnson Space Center.

The team analysed the isotopes of the elements lead and neodymium to place the age of a sample of a FAN at 4.36 billion years. This figure is significantly younger than earlier estimates of the Moon’s age that range to nearly as old as the age of the solar system itself at 4.567 billion years.

The new, younger age obtained for the oldest lunar crust is similar to ages obtained for the oldest terrestrial minerals - zircons from Western Australia - suggesting that the oldest crust on both Earth and the Moon formed at approximately the same time.

This study is the first in which a single sample of FAN yielded consistent ages from multiple isotope dating techniques. This result strongly suggests that these ages pinpoint the time at which this sample crystallised.

The extraordinarily young age of this lunar sample either means that the Moon solidified significantly later than previous estimates - and therefore the moon itself is much younger than previously believed - or that this sample does not represent a crystallisation product of the original magma ocean. Either scenario requires major revision to previous models for the formation of the Moon.