Saturday, November 5, 2005
In the rout of the weekend, the Arizona Wildcats (3-6, 2-4 PAC-10) crushed the seventh-ranked UCLA Bruins (8-1, 5-1 PAC-10), 52-14, in Tucson tonight.
Willie Tuitama, an 18-year-old freshman in his second college start, threw for two early touchdowns and Arizona rolled for 519 yards in a 52-14 rout of the previously unbeaten and seventh-ranked Bruins.
“It was wild out there,” Tuitama said, “really crazy.”
The scene on the field was incredible as Wildcat fans finally got something to cheer for, and all those close games that just seemed to never pan out for UA finally did tonight.
Hundreds of fans, mostly students, stormed the field at the finish. Some climbed the goal posts in jubilation but couldn’t bring them down.
Thursday, November 3, 2005
Meet Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon.
These two are accused of exploiting Native American tribes for over $66 million, diverting the funds to buy favors from “powerful members of Congress and the executive branch,” writes Salon’s Michael Scherer.
In a memo that was read during a Capitol Hill hearing on November 2, from Scanlon, former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Sugar Land, Tex.), sent to the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, outlining his plan for protection of Tribe’s gambling businesses:
“The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees… Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.”
It is no surprise to many how the GOP uses and abuses the religious right for political reasons but shocking that that no one within the party calls them out on it.
