March Madness on Demand

If you want to be able to see all of the NCAA tournament games live, you can go to NCAASports.com/MMOD and sign up to watch all of the games live on the web for free. This is great if you've got a job that won't let you off to watch them but is still "kushy" enough that they'll let you watch them on your computer.
I'm not sure about the video quality, however. It may turn out to be pretty crappy with and may lag a bit, but it's still probably better than nothing.

On another note, does anyone have any idea why the Big 12 semis weren't being aired on ESPN2 on Saturday as advertised? On ESPN2 they showed ESPNnews instead of the games. THAT SUCKS!
And when I tried to view the games online on espn360 it said the "requested video file was not found." So I listened to it on the radio instead. At least I got to hear the Voice of the Texas Longhorns, Craig Way.

My Bracket v 1.0

Here's my official bracket for the 2007 NCAA Tournament. (click to enlarge)

Firefighters Union Blasts Giuliani on Post-Sept. 11 Cleanup (from Foxnews.com)

WASHINGTON — While he touts his leadership in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks as a key component of his 2008 presidential bid, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is facing bitter opposition from the union representing the 343 firefighters who died that day.

FOX News has obtained a scathing letter prepared by the influential and politically active International Association of Fire Fighters union, written late last month but never released. The letter informs the more than 270,000 members that it would not be inviting Giuliani to a forum for presidential candidates on March 14, citing what the union called Giuliani's "egregious acts" after Sept. 11.

In the letter, the IAFF, whose president Harold Schaitberger is a longtime supporter of Democratic Senator John Kerry blames the former Big Apple mayor for "unforgivable" post-terror attacks decisions, including reducing the number of firefighters involved in the recovery operation and instituting a "scoop and dump" operation to expedite cleanup, which the union says shows a "disgraceful lack of respect" for the victims.

It also attacks Giuliani's devotion to fallen firefighters, arguing that the changes in the cleanup operation followed the recovery of millions in gold and silver from Ground Zero. The reversed course shows Giuliani "valued money and gold … more than the lives and memories of those lost."

The union says the mayor's actions "rise to such an offensive and personal attack … that the IAFF does not feel Rudy Giuliani deserves an audience." It also recommends that if the Giuliani campaign approaches members asking for support in 2008, union members should tell Giuliani "not just 'no' but 'hell no.'"

• Click here to read the letter.

That letter was never sent. Ultimately, IAFF officials decided that every candidate should be present at the forum. Sources apparently told New York Newsday that Giuliani's campaign learned of the union's plan and worked behind the scenes to secure an invitation to the event.

But now that the fire has been put out, so to speak, the candidate's campaign has revealed that Giuliani won't attend the event due to a scheduling conflict.

Last month, Giuliani met with firefighters in South Carolina, and touted his Sept. 11 credentials to appeal to them as a candidate. He stressed that one of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's duties is to make sure first responders "have the training and protection you need to defend your country."

"The first people that arrive on the scene of the bombing or the anthrax attack ... it's going to be one of your brothers or your sisters or you that gets to do it," Giuliani told about 200 emergency workers. "Your ability to do it well will once again determine if we save lives, save America."

The IAFF was the first labor union to endorse Kerry in 2004, and dedicated resources to a Kerry presidential victory. Its political action committee, FIREPAC, also doles out millions of dollars in political contributions, mostly to Democratic candidates and causes.

But an IAFF spokesman noted for FOX News that 35 percent of its PAC money went to Republican candidates in 2006, and while IAFF endorsed Kerry in 2004, the group's New York local chapter supported President Bush in his re-election.

FOX News' Aaron Bruns, Matthew Alexander and Mosheh Oinounou contributed to this report.

Dude from Blues Traveler

Crazy story about him and all his guns HERE.

Crazy Trade offer

This is a trade offer I got this morning in one of my fantasy basketball leages.
If you click on it you can enlarge it.

March 4, 2007

ANDOHBYTHEWAY,
Sunday was our 1 year anniversary. I'm trying not to sound too cheesy, but it really was the best year of my life.

That's a picture of Kari on the right, just being Kari. It's actually from our honeymoon in San Diego.

Ann Coulter

Over the weekend, at a Conservative fundraiser, Ann Coulter was giving a speech and said, "I was going have a few comments on the other Democratic Presidential Candidate Jonathon Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word faggot."

Personally, I thought it was very funny. When I first heard it I cracked up. But some people think the word "faggot" is very offensive to gays.
Coulter was on Hannity and Colmes on Monday to explain her comments. They showed several clips from that same speech. You can tell from the entirety of the speech that it was a joke. There were several other jokes in that same speech. She doesn't want to discriminate against gays, she was just telling a joke about Jonathan Edwards and about the fact that Isaiah Washington, from Gray's Anatomy, went into rehab after calling a fellow cast member a faggot. She explained the term as a schoolyard taunt, meaning wuss.
Thoughts?