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You mean seven of nine?

Where's your top ten (or five) list? Get crackin!

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My wit comes in one shot. Let me see what I can do for you. I'll post when I can.

And no, I was talking about the woman who was #7 on the Letterman Top Ten thank you very much. [No disrespect to the former first lady of Illinois}

In no particular order*

1. Senate Resolution 268 declaring July 12, 2007 "National Summer Learning Day". He managed to get this controversial bill passed by unanimous consent.

2. Senate Bill 453 to prohibit deceptive practices in federal elections. Of course we should ignore his current "Pay no attention to my America hating spiritual advisor" schtick.

3. Senate Bill 737 to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 in order to measure, compare, and improve the quality of voter access to polls and voter services in the administration of Federal elections in the States. Right? Voter access. Remember, he comes from Chicago. So that includes dead people.

4. Senate Bill 823 to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to facilitating the development of microbicides for preventing transmission of HIV/AIDS and other diseases, and for other purposes. See this one in the context of Wright's statements...yeah, it is funny. There is no way that Obama didn't hear that comment and think that he had a chance to make amends.

5. Senate Bill 1430 to authorize State and local governments to direct divestiture from, and prevent investment in, companies with investments of $20,000,000 or more in Iran's energy sector, and for other purposes. Right, because $19,999,999.99 is absolutely acceptable.

6. Senate Bill 2224 to require a licensee to notify the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the State and county in which a facility is located, whenever there is an unplanned release of radioactive substances. Right? Because no one would notice the three eyed fish.

7. Senate Bill 2227 to provide grants to States to ensure that all students in the middle grades are taught an academically rigorous curriculum with effective supports so that students complete the middle grades prepared for success in high school and postsecondary endeavors, to improve State and district policies and programs relating to the academic achievement of students in the middle grades, to develop and implement effective middle school models for struggling students, and for other purposes. Yes, we should most definitely fight run on sentences.

Ironically, Number 1 is the only bill that I have found that both bears Obama's name as the primary sponsor and has been passed. I guess his message of "Change" is that he has a record of not getting things done?

*Okay, so it is in the order that I found it on THOMAS, the online record of the House and Senate.

7? I think there is something going on here with numbers today. Creepy.

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I really relished at being able to include the Simpson's reference. Every conversation should have one really.

And no, I'm not related to Bart. Thank you.

win national championship

The Jimmy Valvano NC State national championship

The Bill Walton game for UCLA in NCAA final

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar NBA championship for the Milwaukee Bucks

Colts manning super bowl win

Falcons dirty bird nfc championship

The Dominique Wilkins-Larry Bird playoff duel

The Christian Laettner Duke championship over unlv

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1.2005 White Sox World Series Win
2.Vince Young, future Rookie of the Years leads UT in a miracle comeback win over the vaunted USC Trojans Hook Em!
3.95 Cowboys Super Bowl
4-6.Bulls Dynasty #1
7-9. Bulls dynasty #2
10. Patriots lose and become the worst 18-1 team in NFL history. (god I hate Boston)

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.Let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."-Barry Goldwater
McCain/Rudy 08-kill the terrorists and punch the hippies.

and Earl Campbell was my favorite player for years at Texas and the Oilers.

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Te spoiled brats of the NFL, just because their daddy is Archie. Ozzie's gonna be hoisting up another Series trophy this year-6 days til opening day gc, are you as pumped as I am??

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.Let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."-Barry Goldwater
McCain/Rudy 08-kill the terrorists and punch the hippies.

...in '92! Christian Laettner put a stake through the heart of the Fab 5!

"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich." ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

Especially your number 1.

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2006 World Series: The Cardinals cream the Tigers making it the tenth World Series Championship in team history.

HA!

Sometimes referred to, notably by CNN, as the best ever played. Braves lost, but you can blame it on Hrbek.

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I was trying to one up gc's 1968 World Series brag about the Tigers beating the Cards.

I could care less about the Braves or Twins [except when the Cards are beating them...eh, okay...not exactly a good record there.]

World Series Moments, thematic to his list.

But I hear you.

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And I will blame '91 on Hrbek.

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I listened to the first ATLANTA Braves game on WSB, scratch, staticy nightime AM radio in, what was it, '64 and endured all those losing games along with three or four thousand other fans at the old stadium in the sixties and early seventies. And then, here I was in another world, Alaska, and the BRAVES WERE WINNING! Watched practically every game that year on WTBS, got a replica jersey with my name on it, and then that ball went out.

In Vino Veritas

I was a teenager. It was my first world series party. I'd been a lifelong fan, and here I was, with my friends, in my gear, chowing down and watching the game.

When Kent Hrbeck pulled Gant up into the air and threw him off the base, and the ump essentially nodded and said, yes, this is how we play baseball ... it was all over from there.

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Of course, there's never been a KC team worth diddly since so the Cards still get the nod with more series wins. (see, someone in KC can let it go and be nice to the other half of the state.)

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people."
A. Lincoln

Don Denkinger

Say it ain't so... that billboard in Death Valley makes me puke every time I see it.

Ugh... now I'm going to go break something. Thanks.

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10 (tie) - Quincy Carter throws 5 INTs; Holtz's 2000 Team beats UGA. Carter's Heisman hopes smashed, UGA drops out of top 10, Cocks have fine season. Good times...

10 (tie) - We finally win a bowl in the 1995 Carquest Bowl; Brad Scott beats West Virginia, and is possibly awesome for the first/last time.

9 - My first live South Carolina win over Clemson

8 - Wide Left; Jad Dean misses kick in 2006 Carolina-Clemson game

6 - BJ McKie and Melvin Watson lead 1997 Gamecocks to SEC Basketball Championship (Regular Season)

5 - 2001 Outback Bowl; Ryan Brewer pwns his home state Buckeyes

4 - The Gamecocks pwn the 3rd quarter enroute to a 2001 Gamecock victory over Clemson. It was one of the instances where I watched TV that fall, b/c I was working out of the bare bones base we'd set up at Thumrait AB, Oman for OEF.

3 - 1994: Joe Morrison/Black Magic

2 - George Rogers wins the Heisman; One of my first specific memories is going to the airport to welcome Big George back from NYC (The other early memory is the loss to Furman... welcome to the life of a Gamecock fan, kid)

1 - South Carolina throws up 22 runs enroute to winning two games in one day vs Clemson to make the 2002 College World Series final vs Texas.

Honorable Mention: Sidney Rice's wheel-around catch vs the Gators, Citadel bulldogs beat the Gamecocks in 1990 (One of the biggest victories ever for my alma mater... I hate it when the two teams play), Todd Ellis to Shannon Sharpe.

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7 - Daniel Weaver barely clears the crossbar to defeat Ohio State again in the 2002 Outback Bowl.

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ALright, here goes my Top Ten Sports memories.

10) Darryl Grant intercepts a scrren pass and goes the yard vs the hated Dallas Cowboys in the '82 NFC Championship. No Dallas Cowboys fans had anything to say about strike-year asterixes prior to the outcome of that one.

9) The NASCAR Thrilla In Manilla. Cale Yarburough gets blocked just laps from victory. He gets in a wreck and becomes a DQ. He gets out of his car and finds Bobby Allison, who's blocking move caused the wreck. Darryl Waltrip wins and celebrates like he just the Pick Six! I wish I could remember the race and the year.

8) Chaminade Upsets Ralph Sampson and the #1 ranked UVA Cavaliers!!!! They called that team the Wahoos. They probably couldn't spell Cavalier.

7) Larry Bird steals the inbounds pass and beats the Detroit Pistons in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals game 5. I honestly forget the year, but Isaah Thomas calling Larry Bird the devil was priceless.

6) Joe Thiesmann meet Lawrence Taylor, Joe Theismann meet Worker's Comp. 'Nuff said.

5) The drunk guy I just hated at a long ago Superbowl Party that yelled out "Noonan" at Scott Norwood. Just before the infamous kick.

4) Watching John Smoltz, then of the Triple-A Richmond Braves, throw a one-hit, one-bater from perfect game at The Diamond.

3) Bucky "Effing" Dent. Has a stadium or ballpark ever shut up faster.

2) 1 Superbowl Quarter. QB Doug WIlliams. 35 points. Game over.

1) 1 punch. Buster Douglas. The ref almost too stuned to count to 10. Fight over.

"I believe we must adjourn this meeting to some other place." - The last recorded words of Adam Smith.

I'm pretty sure, know it was the Daytona 500. It was the first NASCAR race televised flag to flag and most of the eastern US was shut down by a snowstorm, so there was a huge audience. That race and that audience made the modern, televised NASCAR.

In Vino Veritas

for # 6

But good list!

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I read The Sun Also Rises in college and A Farewell to Arms in H.S.

Re-read both about 2 years ago.

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10. The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw
9. Financial Peace Revisited, Dave Ramsey
8. Revolutionary Wealth, Alvin and Heidi Toeffler
7. Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Thomas Sowell
6. Adams Vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, John Ferling
5. D-Day: The Climactic Battle of WWII, Stephen Ambrose
4. The Boo, Pat Conroy
3. Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell
2. War of the Flea, Robert Taber
1. The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking

Honorable Mention (In no particular order):

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Forgotten Man, Amity Schlaes
Faith of My Fathers, John McCain
The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas J. Stanley and William Danko
Introduction to Airborne Radar, George W. Stimson

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Witness - Chambers
Battle Cry of Freedom - McPherson
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Gibbon
Slouching Towards Gomorrah - Bork
Mere Christianity - Lewis
Closing of the America Mind - Bloom
Let the Trumpet Sound - Oates
Cost of Discipleship - Bonhoeffer
Mind of the South - Cash
Up From Slavery - Washington
The Bible

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for my Amazon wishlist. Bork, Gibbon, and Oates' books were already on there, but I haven't gotten around to them yet.

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Shadows of the Empire (Star Wars), Steve Perry
Skeleton Crew, Stephen King
Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton

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Gone with the Wind - Mitchell
Our Mutual Friend - Dickens
Huckleberry Finn - Twain
The Brothers Karamazov - Doestevsky
East of Eden - Steinbeck
Go Down Moses - Faulkner
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
You Can't Go Home Again - Thomas Wolfe
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Invisible Man - Ellison
Ragtine - Doctorow
Ulysses - Joyce
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

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