Jun
26
wisemancumth asked:
I didn’t know comic books, sports illustrated and the articles in playboy counted as ‘reading’. Since most Liberals I’ve ever talked to couldn’t name the speaker of the house or who their Senator is, I dont take much stock in surveys.
DELMAR
I didn’t know comic books, sports illustrated and the articles in playboy counted as ‘reading’. Since most Liberals I’ve ever talked to couldn’t name the speaker of the house or who their Senator is, I dont take much stock in surveys.
DELMAR
Jun
24
What Does The Apple iPhone Have To Offer In Applications
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Gloria Gangi asked:
The Apple IPhone is truly amazing, it has opened the door to may new possibilities in today’s technological world. While previously we required having a variety of gadgets on us the IPhone has now compressed everything into one phone. No longer do you need to carry a phone, navigation system, mp3 or computer with you; it is all there in one small package
Categories of iPhone Applications
You cannot go wrong with an IPhone it is a great gadget. There are so many applications on it that can make your life so much easier. The application categories are: Calculate, Entertainment, Games, News, Productivity, Search Tools, Social Networking, Sports, Travel, Utilities, and weather.
Calculate, Productivity, Search Tools, Utilities
Your Iphone calculator is not an ordinary calculator it can help you to measure just about anything. There’s one for mileage, compound interest, federal tax, simple savings calculator, converter, and many more. The iPhone Productivity applications offer services for everyday tasks. Some of the great productivity ones are: Quote Sheet, Receipts Tracker, To Do Lists, StockWatch, Attendance Countdown, Get all the Deals, and BudgetBuster Daily Expense Tracker. Then, there are the Utilities applications. These are tools like dictionaries and references that can be accessed right from the phone. For instance, there’s Chem Dictionary, eBooks Explorer, and Weight Tracker.
Entertainment, Games, News
In Entertainment, you can find iPhone applications like Outalot which shows you where the nearest restaurants, bars, and movie theaters are located. They also offer a TV guide and GoLark Mobile, which finds the best local events. The iPhone Games applications offer a wide variety of games. There are games in all different categories like puzzle, strategy, action, roleplay, and so on. There’s one called Speedway and you just race against other cars like you would on a regular game system. You can even really race against other people. The News iPhone applications are possibly the coolest ones. There’s a Stitcher Radio where you can listen to all of the entertainment, politics, sports, music, gossip, and more, like you would on a regular radio. Plus, you can get latest headline alerts or find out what’s going on in your specific area.
Sports, Travel, Weather
For sports lovers, the iPhone Sports application is golden. For one, they offer Live Stats Tracker which is amazing if you are on the go but want to keep up with games that are going on. They even have an application called Get all the Sports! and it gives top headlines from the best sports sources like ESPN, Fox Sports, and Sports Illustrated. Travel applications are designed for busy people on the go. There’s one called iTraffix US and it breaks down the traffic by the minute from cities all over America. It also has a language translator in case you’re traveling in another country. There’s also one called Get all the Travel! that gives the latest travel news and deals.
The weather iPhone application is remarkable. Weather Made Simple is an application that gives the current weather conditions and a 10-day forecast. Other applications allow you to check the weather for anywhere in the world so if you’re going on vacation you know what to expect.
Applications in a Nutshell
It is understandable why the IPhone has become so popular. It has all the gadgets you can want on one devise, how much easier could it be.
CHASE
The Apple IPhone is truly amazing, it has opened the door to may new possibilities in today’s technological world. While previously we required having a variety of gadgets on us the IPhone has now compressed everything into one phone. No longer do you need to carry a phone, navigation system, mp3 or computer with you; it is all there in one small package
Categories of iPhone Applications
You cannot go wrong with an IPhone it is a great gadget. There are so many applications on it that can make your life so much easier. The application categories are: Calculate, Entertainment, Games, News, Productivity, Search Tools, Social Networking, Sports, Travel, Utilities, and weather.
Calculate, Productivity, Search Tools, Utilities
Your Iphone calculator is not an ordinary calculator it can help you to measure just about anything. There’s one for mileage, compound interest, federal tax, simple savings calculator, converter, and many more. The iPhone Productivity applications offer services for everyday tasks. Some of the great productivity ones are: Quote Sheet, Receipts Tracker, To Do Lists, StockWatch, Attendance Countdown, Get all the Deals, and BudgetBuster Daily Expense Tracker. Then, there are the Utilities applications. These are tools like dictionaries and references that can be accessed right from the phone. For instance, there’s Chem Dictionary, eBooks Explorer, and Weight Tracker.
Entertainment, Games, News
In Entertainment, you can find iPhone applications like Outalot which shows you where the nearest restaurants, bars, and movie theaters are located. They also offer a TV guide and GoLark Mobile, which finds the best local events. The iPhone Games applications offer a wide variety of games. There are games in all different categories like puzzle, strategy, action, roleplay, and so on. There’s one called Speedway and you just race against other cars like you would on a regular game system. You can even really race against other people. The News iPhone applications are possibly the coolest ones. There’s a Stitcher Radio where you can listen to all of the entertainment, politics, sports, music, gossip, and more, like you would on a regular radio. Plus, you can get latest headline alerts or find out what’s going on in your specific area.
Sports, Travel, Weather
For sports lovers, the iPhone Sports application is golden. For one, they offer Live Stats Tracker which is amazing if you are on the go but want to keep up with games that are going on. They even have an application called Get all the Sports! and it gives top headlines from the best sports sources like ESPN, Fox Sports, and Sports Illustrated. Travel applications are designed for busy people on the go. There’s one called iTraffix US and it breaks down the traffic by the minute from cities all over America. It also has a language translator in case you’re traveling in another country. There’s also one called Get all the Travel! that gives the latest travel news and deals.
The weather iPhone application is remarkable. Weather Made Simple is an application that gives the current weather conditions and a 10-day forecast. Other applications allow you to check the weather for anywhere in the world so if you’re going on vacation you know what to expect.
Applications in a Nutshell
It is understandable why the IPhone has become so popular. It has all the gadgets you can want on one devise, how much easier could it be.
CHASE
Jun
22
For Recreation, Sports Collecting is a Great Hobby
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Joey Singer asked:
In this fast-paced, stressful age we live in, everyone needs a little recreation. Sports collecting is a hobby that can fill your spare minutes with interest and offer a diversion to the everyday grind. Sports collecting takes many forms depending on the person who is pursuing the hobby. Many people choose to collect memorabilia from their favorite professional teams, but others collect items related to golf, fishing, and other recreation sports. Collecting requires a certain amount of space, but collectors are creative about finding ways to display their collectibles.
If you have a favorite pro team or two there are many items you can collect related to those teams. For instance, you can create scrapbooks in which you save clippings about exciting games, favorite players, and special interviews. You can keep ticket stubs and photographs in your scrapbook, too. Other items, however, won’t fit into a scrapbook, such as a game ball, team jersey, or a team’s annual yearbook. These items will need other storage. There are stands for special balls, and jerseys look great hanging on a hanger on the wall.
You might like to collect souvenir items from all types of sports. Most professional teams sell small metal pins with their insignia on them. Pin collecting is a widely practiced hobby, and sports teams are one of the hottest types of collectible pins, as are those commemorating the Olympics. Another option for sports collecting is to collect antique sports equipment. Vintage baseball gloves are an example of this type of collectible.
Baseball cards have long been a source of recreation. Sports collecting enthusiasts have collected baseball cards, football cards, and basketball cards for many years, although baseball cards were the first. This is such a popular hobby that some cards are worth a lot of money, such as a rookie card of a player like Willie Mays.
Other collectors like to accumulate things that illustrate their favorite recreation sports. Collecting items decorated with fish, horses, or golfers are examples of these types of collections. For instance, if you enjoy hunting with dogs, you can decorate your home in a hunting dog theme. There are throw pillows printed with handsome hunting dogs, as well as with the game they help you find. You may find lamps that have a hunting dog as the base. You can even have curtains made from hunting dog printed material! The same can be done around the theme of golf, horseback riding, whether western or eastern, bass fishing, sailboats, and other popular recreation sports. Collecting is a hobby that offers many options!
MILTON
In this fast-paced, stressful age we live in, everyone needs a little recreation. Sports collecting is a hobby that can fill your spare minutes with interest and offer a diversion to the everyday grind. Sports collecting takes many forms depending on the person who is pursuing the hobby. Many people choose to collect memorabilia from their favorite professional teams, but others collect items related to golf, fishing, and other recreation sports. Collecting requires a certain amount of space, but collectors are creative about finding ways to display their collectibles.
If you have a favorite pro team or two there are many items you can collect related to those teams. For instance, you can create scrapbooks in which you save clippings about exciting games, favorite players, and special interviews. You can keep ticket stubs and photographs in your scrapbook, too. Other items, however, won’t fit into a scrapbook, such as a game ball, team jersey, or a team’s annual yearbook. These items will need other storage. There are stands for special balls, and jerseys look great hanging on a hanger on the wall.
You might like to collect souvenir items from all types of sports. Most professional teams sell small metal pins with their insignia on them. Pin collecting is a widely practiced hobby, and sports teams are one of the hottest types of collectible pins, as are those commemorating the Olympics. Another option for sports collecting is to collect antique sports equipment. Vintage baseball gloves are an example of this type of collectible.
Baseball cards have long been a source of recreation. Sports collecting enthusiasts have collected baseball cards, football cards, and basketball cards for many years, although baseball cards were the first. This is such a popular hobby that some cards are worth a lot of money, such as a rookie card of a player like Willie Mays.
Other collectors like to accumulate things that illustrate their favorite recreation sports. Collecting items decorated with fish, horses, or golfers are examples of these types of collections. For instance, if you enjoy hunting with dogs, you can decorate your home in a hunting dog theme. There are throw pillows printed with handsome hunting dogs, as well as with the game they help you find. You may find lamps that have a hunting dog as the base. You can even have curtains made from hunting dog printed material! The same can be done around the theme of golf, horseback riding, whether western or eastern, bass fishing, sailboats, and other popular recreation sports. Collecting is a hobby that offers many options!
MILTON
Jun
10
If you were featured on the cover of a magazine, you would most likely want it to be which magazine?
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mEn7aL asked:
Rolling Stone
US Weekly
Sports Illustrated
Cosmopolitan
People
Seventeen
I wouldn’t want to be on a magazine cover.
BRIAN
Rolling Stone
US Weekly
Sports Illustrated
Cosmopolitan
People
Seventeen
I wouldn’t want to be on a magazine cover.
BRIAN
Jun
10
Mud Bogging - Proof You Should be a Redneck
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Fred Morris asked:
t: the sleek, shiny bodies, all in peak condition, battling it out in filthy, mud-slinging competition, emerging heated, covered in mud, and victorious even if they lost. No, these muck-covered beauties won’t be on the cover of Sports Illustrated; they’re more likely to be found on the pages of Off-Roading, especially the ones with tractor-grade tires.
Mud bogging is a sport that combines the thrill of racing, the love of top-performance vehicles, the fun of off-road mudding, and the never-outgrown little boy love of playing in the mud, getting as dirty as humanly possible. The sport began in the 1970s, when off-road afficionados started racing their vehicles through the most boggy, muddy, dirty areas they could find - notably, the swamps of North Carolina. Motorsports show organizers picked up on the trend and began including long mud-filled pits for racing in their shows, and as the sport grew in popularity among racers and spectators alike, mud bogging grew into its own organized competition.
In 1988, the National Mud Racing Association was organized in Dayton, Ohio, making this rebel sport a legitimate member of the auto sports racing family. Today, you can see mud bogging exhibitions and competitions throughout the country.
Mud Bogging Rules
Vehicles that compete in professional mud bogging are required to have four-wheel drive, and are generally turbocharged, high-clearance, oversize-tire vehicles, often with nitrous injections and other nifty modifications. Picture a monster truck on steroids, and you pretty much have it. There are six classes of mud bogging vehicles, from stock four-wheel-drive vehicles all the way up to non-street-legal paddle and scoop tired madly-modified vehicles.
Bog tracks can range across a variety of types, from flat or progressive tracks to open bogs, even hilly tracks with rises punctuated by mudholes along the way. Tracks are up to 300 feet in length, usually determined by the amount of space allowed by the arena rather than what promoters think the vehicle can handle. It is common today to see mud bogging competitions at the same events that feature monster trucks because the two types of vehicle overlap; in fact, some of the best mud bogging racers first became known for driving monster trucks.
The racing is serious, and is generally as simple as a set of matches pitting winners versus winners. But if you go to watch mud bogging, you’re almost certainly interested in the fun of the flying mud, not in who wins. Like in mud wrestling, both vehicles win, provided they come out thoroughly covered in mud.
If you want to get into mud bogging for yourself, the best route is by getting involved in mudding locally. Most country areas have a group of guys - and sometimes gals - who go mudding on a regular basis, seeking out the nastiest muddiest holes and driving ordinary four-wheel-drive vehicles through it. Many of these groups are happy to teach you how to get your car as dirty as possible, as fast as possible, and they frequently hold meets or are associated with mud bogging groups.
Honestly, though, if it sounds like fun, just go do it. Just make sure your cell phone has power before you get started - just in case you find more bog than mud.
DESMOND
t: the sleek, shiny bodies, all in peak condition, battling it out in filthy, mud-slinging competition, emerging heated, covered in mud, and victorious even if they lost. No, these muck-covered beauties won’t be on the cover of Sports Illustrated; they’re more likely to be found on the pages of Off-Roading, especially the ones with tractor-grade tires.
Mud bogging is a sport that combines the thrill of racing, the love of top-performance vehicles, the fun of off-road mudding, and the never-outgrown little boy love of playing in the mud, getting as dirty as humanly possible. The sport began in the 1970s, when off-road afficionados started racing their vehicles through the most boggy, muddy, dirty areas they could find - notably, the swamps of North Carolina. Motorsports show organizers picked up on the trend and began including long mud-filled pits for racing in their shows, and as the sport grew in popularity among racers and spectators alike, mud bogging grew into its own organized competition.
In 1988, the National Mud Racing Association was organized in Dayton, Ohio, making this rebel sport a legitimate member of the auto sports racing family. Today, you can see mud bogging exhibitions and competitions throughout the country.
Mud Bogging Rules
Vehicles that compete in professional mud bogging are required to have four-wheel drive, and are generally turbocharged, high-clearance, oversize-tire vehicles, often with nitrous injections and other nifty modifications. Picture a monster truck on steroids, and you pretty much have it. There are six classes of mud bogging vehicles, from stock four-wheel-drive vehicles all the way up to non-street-legal paddle and scoop tired madly-modified vehicles.
Bog tracks can range across a variety of types, from flat or progressive tracks to open bogs, even hilly tracks with rises punctuated by mudholes along the way. Tracks are up to 300 feet in length, usually determined by the amount of space allowed by the arena rather than what promoters think the vehicle can handle. It is common today to see mud bogging competitions at the same events that feature monster trucks because the two types of vehicle overlap; in fact, some of the best mud bogging racers first became known for driving monster trucks.
The racing is serious, and is generally as simple as a set of matches pitting winners versus winners. But if you go to watch mud bogging, you’re almost certainly interested in the fun of the flying mud, not in who wins. Like in mud wrestling, both vehicles win, provided they come out thoroughly covered in mud.
If you want to get into mud bogging for yourself, the best route is by getting involved in mudding locally. Most country areas have a group of guys - and sometimes gals - who go mudding on a regular basis, seeking out the nastiest muddiest holes and driving ordinary four-wheel-drive vehicles through it. Many of these groups are happy to teach you how to get your car as dirty as possible, as fast as possible, and they frequently hold meets or are associated with mud bogging groups.
Honestly, though, if it sounds like fun, just go do it. Just make sure your cell phone has power before you get started - just in case you find more bog than mud.
DESMOND
Jun
8
KING asked:
Well lets see:
Well lets see:
NBA Seasons:
Shaq: 15
Duncan: 10
Kobe: 11
Wade: 4
Nash: 11
Iverson: 11
Lebron: 4
NBA Titles:
Shaq: 4
Duncan: 4
Kobe: 3 (as a 2nd option to Shaq)
Wade: 1
Nash: 0
Iverson: 0
Lebron: 0
NBA Finals MVPs
Shaq: 3
Duncan: 3
Kobe: 0
Wade: 1
Nash: 0
Iverson: 0
Lebron: 0
League MVPs
Shaq: 1
Duncan: 2
Kobe: 0
Wade: 0
Nash: 2
Iverson: 1
Lebron: 0
Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year
Shaq: 0
Duncan: 1
Kobe: 0
Wade: 1
Nash: 0
Iverson: 0
Lebron: 0
ESPY Best Basketball Player:
Shaq: 2
Duncan: 2
Kobe: 0
Wade: 1
Nash: 1
Iverson: 0
Lebron: 1
Scoring Titles:
Shaq: 2
Duncan: 0
Kobe: 2
Wade: 0
Nash: 0
Iverson: 4
Lebron: 0
Assist Titles:
Shaq: 0
Duncan: 0
Kobe: 0
Wade: 0
Nash: 3
Iverson: 0
Lebron: 0
Steal Titles:
Shaq: 0
Duncan: 0
Kobe: 0
Wade: 0
Nash: 0
Iverson: 3
Lebron: 0
All-Star MVP (not much of an honor)
Shaq: 2
Duncan: 1
Kobe: 2
Wade: 0
Nash: 0
Iverson: 2
Lebron: 1
Now after you break it all down with nba titles, honors, stat titles, and etc., you can then see that other NBA Players has made a better mark for greatness then Kobe has. You see what Wade has done in ONLY 4 seasons? He’s already got a NBA Finals MVP, Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, and etc. I bet after 11 seasons his RESUME is going to BLOW Kobe’s away!
KOBE BRYANT *****!
LARRY