Sports Channel: NASL 1984- Soccer Bowl: Chicago Sting @ Toronto Blizzard

Source:The Celebrated Misterk- NASL Soccer Bowl 84.

"Highlights of the Chicago Sting's win over the Toronto Blizzard in the final North American Soccer League game ever played, the second leg of the 1984 NASL Soccer Bowl.

From The Celebrated Misterk

America vs Canada to decide the NASL championship.

ABC Sports: NASL 1979- Soccer Bowl- New York Cosmos vs Vancouver Whitecaps

Source:The Celebrated Misterk- your 1979 NASL Champions.

"The Vancouver Whitecaps defeated the Tampa Bay Rowdies, 2-1 in the North American Soccer League's Soccer Bowl '79 at Giants Stadium." 

From The Celebrated Misterk

Short video of the 1979 Soccer Bowl the NASL championship game.

PBS: NewsHour- Spencer Michaels- 'California Law Aspires to Improve Mental Health'

Source:PBS NewsHour- interviewing Eduardo Vega, for this piece.

"The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.[6] It is a nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educational television programming to public television stations in the United States, distributing series such as American Experience, America's Test Kitchen, Antiques Roadshow, Arthur, Barney & Friends, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Downton Abbey, Finding Your Roots, Frontline, The Magic School Bus, Masterpiece Theater, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Nature, Nova, the PBS NewsHour, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Teletubbies, Keeping up Appearances and This Old House." 

From Wikipedia 

"In the wake of several recent shootings, politicians and commentators have called for improved mental health screening and treatment. Spencer Michels reports on a program in California called "Laura's Law," an unfunded mandate that has proven difficult to implement and has drawn concern about involuntary treatment for patients."

From the PBS: NewsHour

It's a good thing that California is taking a lead on something positive (for a change) as it relates to their government by funding mental health care. 

It's not as if we can't fund mental health care in this country, but it's that we've decided as a country that funding mental health care should not be a priority, or that it's too expensive. Which is not true! It should be a priority, because of the people we've lost in these shootings and we can afford it through things like health insurance and public assistance for people who can't afford it on their own. 

We're paying a bigger price in human life and I would argue financially as well when it comes to our law enforcement and corrections system and having to put mentally handicapped people in prison instead of hospitals. That if those people who committed these horrible crimes wouldn't have happened in the first place, if these people were just in mental institutions, or at the very least getting outpatient therapy and on medication. We wouldn't have seen the shootings in Aurora and Connecticut, that we've seen this year. 

NHL: NHL 1967- Stanley Cup Finals Highlights: Toronto Maple Leafs Vs Montreal Canadians

Source:Barking Clam- the Maple Leafs and Canadians in 1967.

"Color (!) highlights from the 1967 Stanley Cup Finals between the Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs! This was the last time Toronto went to the Finals; that they even made it this far was considered outstanding, as they were an old team of veterans like George Armstrong, Tim Horton and Terry Sawchuk. They would upset Montreal in six games. 

From an old NHL highlight film a friend found; I'd love to know more about where this came from. I don't know how much color footage from this period of the NHL is still kicking around. Even though the series was broadcast in color, CBC kinescopes in the NHL archive are in black and white." 

From Barking Clam 

The best rivalry in Eastern Canada playing for the Stanley Cup.

CBC Sports: NHL 1978- Stanley Cup Finals- Game Four: Montreal Canadians @ Boston Bruins

Source:Barking Clam- The Bruins and Canadians in 1978.

"Boston leads game four of the 1978 finals 3 to 2 with only a few minutes left. Can they hang on for the win?" 

From Barking Clam 

Maybe the best rivalry in the NHL playing for it all.

Tri-Star Pictures: The Freshman (1990) Matthew Broderick & Penelope Ann Miller

Source:Leather Girls- Matthew Broderick & Penelope Ann Miller.

"The Freshman (1990) - leather scene HD 720p. Penelope Ann Miller in leather skirt and jacket."

From Leather Girls

I’m not going to say The Freshman is a bad movie, because I don’t think it is. I guess I could lie about that, but I’m not, but it is certainly a very overrated preppy kind of snobby movie. With a lot of cheesy writing, especially considering this movie is at least partially about a Italian-American gangster played by Marlin Brando, or former gangster.

And movies like this don’t tend to sound so Connecticut or upper Manhattan. They don’t tend to sound so preppy and snobby and upper class, Anglo-Saxon, but this movie does at least to me. But this is one scene that I liked and it had mostly to do with Penelope Ann Miller. Who is a very funny actress and looks great in this leather suit I guess with the jacket and skirt. 

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The Fiscal Times: Thomas Ferraro & Richard Cowan- 'Will the GOP Survive the Party’s Split on Taxes?'

Source:The Fiscal Times- Congress, being invaded by escaped elephants? At least it's not escaped mental patients, this time. LOL

"Had there been a vote on Republican House Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B" to avert the so-called U.S. fiscal cliff on Thursday night, it would not have been close. He was probably 40 to 50 votes short of the number he needed to avoid a humiliating defeat at the hands of his own party, according to rough estimates from Republican members of Congress and staff members."

From The Fiscal Times

As hard as this might be to believe, the Republican Party right now is somewhat split between two political factions. The Christian-Right that probably has more power in the GOP that's made up of Christian-Nationalists,  people like Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum. And a Conservative-Libertarian wing people like Senators Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and others the people who tend to agree more often with the Ron Paul Libertarian coalition than the Christian-Right.

But the one thing that keeps this party together, the Pat Robertson coalition and the Goldwater-Reagan coalition is hatred for taxes and their love for economic freedom and fiscal responsibility. It's just that the Goldwater-Reagan Conservatives are also support personal freedom as well and if the Republican Party isn't a fiscally as well as economically conservative party, there isn't much of a reason for them to exist, because the Christian-Nationalists and Conservative-Libertarians will be arguing everything else. Like the right to privacy, free speech, cilvil liberties, America's involvement in the world, and so-forth.

Which means that Speaker Boehner has to get a good deal out of this and be able to tell House Republicans and the rest of the Republican that even if he has to give a little on taxes, he's going to have to get a big deal on spending cuts. That at least matches whatever revenue is raised through tax hikes. And President Obama knows the position that Speaker Boehner is in right now and is trying to holdout for the best deal that he can and put as much pressure on the Speaker as possible.