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I’ve gripped about this before, over and over. It is important to me, and I feel it should be important to you.

With the way national opinion is so polarized, every candidate is out after the seemingly dwindeling “undecided” vote. To what advantage that is, I do not know. I would think that the bigger motherlode would be the typical politically apathetic non-voter.

If that population ever became mobilized politically, they would be the unchallenged deciding factor in local and national elections.
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John McCain keyed in on something I have noticed not-so-recently:
The nation is very polarized to the right and left [conservative and liberal] [Democrat and Republican] and the moderates are few and far between. (I think this is also an illusion, given the percentage of people who do not vote, but that was an argument for yesterday.)
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I was browsing Global-Security-dot-org and noticed this little headline:
CG-50 decommissioned
Valley Forge takes its place in history
The U.S.S. Valley Forge, is officially the first Ticonderoga Class Missle Cruiser to receive this fate.
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There was an old joke I used to appreciate:

A passenger jet full of politicians crashes in the desert, who survives?

Everyone else

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John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Arnold Schwarzenegger; the Media has been heralding these three men as Republican “Moderates”.

All the talking heads have been bragging about the fact that the Republican Convention was showing its more moderate side with these men as keynote speakers, instead of their more conservative face.

We’re these newsies even watching the convention? All three men and their speeches were pure conservative ideals and echoed the Republican Platform. But yet the Media keeps pushing this “moderate face”.

Is this a case of Media Bias, or Media ignorace?
Rush Limbaugh asked this question in an Opinion-Journal-dot-com editorial.

If you ask me, I don’t think people understand what makes a Conservative Republican.
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How odd that James Garfield (who by-the-way has his own Movie) comments on Labor Day, as he was assassinated a year before the first Labor Day, which was in 1882.

And for your Labor Day enjoyment, a A Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Flashback article

Here is the Labor Day edition of the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Searchy Fun.

For those of you who came in late, these are the top 20 search results used on various Search Engines to reach Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com.
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I’ve talked about a fair view of The Conservative Agenda, it is only fair to talk about the Liberal Agenda in the same light.
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Jimmy Carter sent a rather frustrated letter to fellow Georgia-Democrat Zell Miller, this past weekend, after Miller spoke at the Republican National Convention.

You may remember how I called, Miller a political hero in my Modernist #2. Well, Jimmy Carter disagrees with me.

From Best of the Web Today
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Disclaimer: This is a pro-Bush website, so the views are biased in that direction. However, I’m trying to take a more intellectual and Nuanced approach.

The Conventions are over, and I see a clear demarkation between the two candidates:

• George W. Bush is a wartime president, standing for the safety and the morals of the United States of America. He is concerned with the Domestic side of things, but is more concerned with National Security at this stage in the game.
• John Kerry is trying to be the anti-thesis of George W. Bush. However, in this role, he is coming off as an angry, bitter, confused democrat who wants to bring his party back into power.

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I leave you with this “Bang quote”

“It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists,” he begins, “but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims.”

Now read the whole thing from The Boston Globe.
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There have and there never will be any ^Superscripts on Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com.

All these electrons are forgery proof.
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With all this mindless banter about these supposedly forged supposed documents about supposed military misconduct by a supposed AWOL Texas National Guard Lieutenant, I think we are ALL missing a very subtle but important point.

The Texas National Guard could have been using secret Microsoft Office version 1965 technology left over from the secret investigation left over from the JFK Assassination, and ALL this could be true!

Didja think of that?
Well Didja?

I didn’t think so.
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How come nobody in the press or the DNC is questioning the Timing of these supposedly forged supposedly documents supposedly pointing the supposed finger at a supposed miscarrage of supposed justice.

I think the timing is VERY questionable?
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Who were we those days?
Who are we these days?
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Finally, I can take J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion off my Reading List. It took me almost half-a-year to read, (but at the same time, I read through a whole mess of other books, so I don’t feel too bad.)
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It sucks that I missed these games on TV, but my two favorite teams won in the first week of Regulation Football:

• The Philadelphia Eagles
• Anyone who is playing the Dallas Cowboys (This week, it was the Minnesora Vikings)

This week was especially sweet, as the Eagles trounced their division rivals (and favorite team of my sister and brother-in-law) the [New Jersey] Giants.
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From todays Cox and Forkum

Okay, Okay, I’ve heard enough about the polls. What do polls have to do with elections anyways, its all about the Electoral College, right?

And we hear all these buzzwords from the talking heads: Battleground States, Swing States, “in-play”, Base States, blah blah blah.

So I decided to map this stuff out, with the help of Opinion-Journal-dot-com‘s Electoral College calculator.

Disclaimer NOT an excuse not to vote. You must still Vote! This is just an excercise of my overly analytical mind.
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You might remember my Quip on the Deginated Hitter in Baseball. One of my major quips with Football is the rules regarding the intentional grounding of the football by the Quarterback:
From NFL-dot-com

Intentional Grounding of Forward Pass

1. Intentional grounding of a forward pass is a foul: loss of down and 10 yards from previous spot if passer is in the field of play or loss of down at the spot of the foul if it occurs more than 10 yards behind the line or safety if passer is in his own end zone when ball is released.

2. Intentional grounding will be called when a passer, facing an imminent loss of yardage due to pressure from the defense, throws a forward pass without a realistic chance of completion.

3. Intentional grounding will not be called when a passer, while out of the pocket and facing an imminent loss of yardage, throws a pass that lands at or beyond the line of scrimmage, even if no offensive player(s) have a realistic chance to catch the ball (including if the ball lands out of bounds over the sideline or end line).

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Marshie, Stinkin Rick, and The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com were pondering on how to improve the game of baseball, and make it more entertaining to watch.

We added a few nuances to the game to make things a little more unpredictable, we hope you appreciate them:
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As I was reading though my usual editorials this morning, I stumbled on an article in the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion-Journal-dot-com that struck close to home.

Literally.

Wonderland: Kerry and Bush Take a Swing At Lehigh Valley

Meeting real people in a swing district turns up some surprising things.
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As I was getting ready for work, I saw The haughty french-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by-the-way also served in Vietnam bantering on about whatever it was he banters on about. But suddenly, I heard him actually propose something constructive.

Well Maybe not.
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I love when the Eagles play on Monday Night. It is one of the rare opportunities in the season when I can see my all-time-favorite team play the whole 60 minutes of a football game.

And this was a great game to watch.

While I thought it would be a high scoring game, I wasn’t too disappointed with the results: 3 touchdowns, and a Field Goal, and some great defense by the boys in teal-green.
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So there I was, walking into the office, walking tall, with my coveted Eagles baseball cap, (courtesy of Matthew Maynard) and an unknown co-worker asks an innocent question.

“So you are an Eagles Fan?”
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This is the official Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Quote of the Day

Humor like This is priceless.

(Emphasis Mine)

Mendacious moviemaker Michael Moore is lying again–this time about fellow Bush-basher Bruce Springsteen. Check out this post from the deceptive documentarian’s vanity Web site (ellipsis in original):

If I hear one more person tell me how lousy a candidate Kerry is and how he can’t win . . . Dammit, of COURSE he’s a lousy candidate–he’s a Democrat, for heavens sake! That party is so pathetic, they even lose the elections they win! What were you expecting, Bruce Springsteen heading up the ticket? Bruce would make a helluva president, but guys like him don’t run–and neither do you or I. People like Kerry run.

“Guys like him don’t run”? In fact, as Springsteen himself has made clear, transient individuals of his ilk, baby, are predestined from birth to run.

Everybody’s out on the run tonight but there’s no place left to hide…

For being an Anti-Football fan, Stinkin Rick sure reads about Football, alot. Which is why he sent this story my way:

Flag Football Season gets under way

While Kevin Hench doesn’t talk about the deplorable crime of intentional grounding it just adds to the fire that Quarterbacks are getting a free ride this season.

Congratulations, crybabies. You went to the principal’s office and tattled and now you’re getting your way. Here’s a hanky – a bright yellow one – to wipe away your tears.

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Its been awhile since I’ve talked about the latest in the U.S. Naval SuperCarrier Deployment.

(All the excitement is over from Summer Pulse 04)

But the mighty-mighty SuperCarriers are still very exciting.

Don’t ya think?

Sources: Global Security-dot-org
Navy-dot-mil
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How could I not post this?
From Best of the Web Today

Swimming Through The Spin: These Aren’t the Droids I’m Voting For

Its pretty uncanny how Kerry sounds like one of the five most annoying characters in the Star Wars Universe.
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This is to all those “experts” who thought that the Detroit Lions would be a likely upset of the Philadelphia Eagels.

Detroit is now 2-1
Philadelphia is now 3 and oh

Next stop, Chicago and “Da Bears”

Now lets see who wins the Dallas/Washington game tomorrow night. (Its hard to root for Washington, but they are my second favorite team this week.)
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Okay, so I pulled out the Black and Teal Eagles Jersey from 2-years ago (Its freakin’ Awesome!)

So a supposed football fan, accosts me in the corridors of the cubicle jungle and says, “How can you wear that Jersey?”

Uh… he wooped up on the Lions yesterday, you AFC fan.
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In shocking news, John Kerry is backpeddling… again.

Weeks after the Anti-Gun-nuts’ tripe about the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban (and Kerry’s reproof of the Bush Administration for letting it happen), John Kerry and George W. Bush enjoied a candid interview with Outdoor Life Magazine.

The questions which has most heads suffering from whiplash are these:
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Today is Nostalgia day at Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com, and to celebrate, The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com present you with the following Link:
Yo-Joe-dot-com
Dedicated to G.I. Joe of the 1980s, 1990s, and beyond – G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero!
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Last night as I was fixing up some details of my cool GIJoe Nostalgia post (If you havn’t seen it, you should, I’m quite proud of it) I was watching the not-so-latest Jim Carrey vehicle, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. While I’m no fan of Carrey [and consider him the worst actor ever.] I appreciated his work in this film. It showed depth, and he was able to let go of his annoyingly zaney acting style.

—+++=== SPOILERS BELOW ===+++—
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From The Selective Service System-dot-gov

Notwithstanding recent stories in the news media and on the Internet, Selective Service is not getting ready to conduct a draft for the U.S. Armed Forces — either with a special skills or regular draft. Rather, the Agency remains prepared to manage a draft if and when the President and the Congress so direct. This responsibility has been ongoing since 1980 and is nothing new. Further, both the President and the Secretary of Defense have stated on more than one occasion that there is no need for a draft for the War on Terrorism or any likely contingency, such as Iraq. Additionally, the Congress has not acted on any proposed legislation to reinstate a draft. Therefore, Selective Service continues to refine its plans to be prepared as is required by law, and to register young men who are ages 18 through 25.

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