2008 Woodie Awards
For schools with previously established football programs, the annual homecoming festivities are usually held during football season, in the fall semester. Because the University of South Alabama did not have a football team in previous years, homecoming was usually held during basketball season, in the spring semester.
"And the battle's just begun There's many lost But tell me who has won? The trench is dug within our hearts And mothers, children, Brothers, sisters torn apart" - U2, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" On soil not our own, far from the tears of mothers and fathers, America's sons fight and die to defend a cause for a people who are not our people.
In the movie "Talladega Nights," Will Ferrell's character, Ricky Bobby, is asked what the United States has given the world apart from "Cheerios, George Bush and the Thighmaster." His response is comical, since he lists as our contributions Chinese food, pizza and chimichangas -- all of these, of course, originate from other countries.
Quite frankly, I am proud to be able to say that I have never bought the global warming gimmick. It just never made much sense to me to believe that something should be done about a "crisis" for which the Earth itself is likely primarily responsible. As such, I believe that anthropogenic global warming, a term used to describe human-induced climate changes, is a "chamberpot of flim-flam," as one blogger put it.
The question of what to do about global warming hinges on three essential issues: whether or not global warming actually exists, whether or not humans caused it and the economic ramifications of doing anything about it. Though some diehards once claimed that the Earth heating was a hoax, very few respectable people doubt it now in the face of the overwhelming evidence.