| UPI Sports Calendar for Friday, Feb. 22
New Jersey at Indiana, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Sacramento at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Toronto at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Washington at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
Milwaukee at Detroit, 8 p.m.
Houston at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Denver at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Dallas at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Boston at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.
Utah at LA Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Portland at Seattle, 10:30 p.m.
Atlanta at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
NCAA
No Top 25 games scheduled
Hockey
NHL
Edmonton at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Detroit at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Colorado at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
Obama gains momentum with 2 more victories
Jesus.'…So I say, we should all get a grip, stop all this unseemly mooning over Barack, see him and the political landscape he is a part of in a cooler, clearer, and more realistic light, and get to work." Joe Klein, writing at Time, notes "something just a wee bit creepy about the mass messianism" he sees in Obama's Super Tuesday speech. "We are the ones we've been waiting for," Obama said. "This time can be different because this campaign for the presidency of the United States of America is different. It's different not because of me. It's different because of you." Says Klein: "That is not just maddeningly vague but also disingenuous: the campaign is entirely about Obama and his ability to inspire. Rather than focusing on any specific issue or cause — other than an amorphous desire for change — the message is becoming dangerously self-referential.
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Service award for Cherokee businesses Email this page Print this page
On Jan. 15, the Oklahoma Hotel & Lodging Association presented the awards at the Oklahoma State University Alumni Center in Stillwater. The program honors Oklahoma's outstanding hospitality companies and professionals for their service and commitment to the guest service and hospitality industry.
''We are ecstatic to receive this award,'' said David Stewart, CEO of Cherokee Nation Enterprises. ''As a company, we are committed to supporting our local communities across northeastern Oklahoma. This doesn't happen without our generous employees who have worked so hard throughout the year committing extra time outside of work for community projects. We're excited about the recognition of our community involvement.''
The award was based on service projects completed in 2007 across all seven communities in which Cherokee Casino has locations.
Alberta is the promised land, or so we have been told-
Don't sit there waiting for another empty promis from Buzz and Dalton about re-opening some doomed factory for a few more years. Go get a new job in a new industry. You are responsible for you. Posted 29/01/08 at 1:25 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
So Much for Compassion: Leftist Trashes NIU After NIU Shooting
Here's one media bias everyone accepts (and expects): showing compassion and sympathy for a community after a horrifying mass murder, such as the killings at Northern Illinois University. The leftist website Alternet proved the exception to the rule, printing a bizarre article by an author named Mark Ames that trashed NIU as a mediocre school for mediocre students, and suggested that the "flat" plains of Middle America could make anyone shoot up a school or a post office. The headline was: Northern Ill. University: Was the Killer Crazy, or the Campus Hopeless? Bracket this massacre as the work of a lunatic on drugs, and you miss the chance to consider the horrors of life in middle America. Ames granted that the killer, Stephen Kazmierczak, was a loser -- if we grade on a curve for the depressing Midwest: "Let's assume he's at least partly right: Kazmierczak probably was a loser, by the standards of Midwestern American winners." Ames trolled the message boards of college students looking for people trashing NIU, which he summarized: "What you find is an enormous amount of anger and regret -- the sort of regret you'd expect from a middle-aged Willy Loman looking back on a wasted life." After Ames circulated several hate-NIU notes, he concluded that perhaps the college in some way earned the massacre with its mediocrity: If you're wondering why Kazmierczak transferred out of NIU to the University of Illinois-Champaign last spring, this might help explain it; if you're wondering, as many bloggers have, why he'd come back and shoot up NIU rather than his current university, these sentiments are at least worth considering.
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