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Up for discussion: Harvick, Busch penalties, breakthroughs, title contenders

1. Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick each received probation and a fine for their dust-up following Saturday night's race at Darlington. Did they deserve more?

David Caraviello: If I'm king of NASCAR for a day -- and let's be honest, isn't that a ridiculous notion to begin with -- both of these guys are losing points. I still don't understand the tolerance this sport has for guys throwing punches, which stands out starkly against other leagues. And as for shoving a driverless car out of the way while people are on pit road ... well, that speaks for itself. The catch would be just how many points, given the restructured system. What's a penalty now? Five? Ten? I'm not sure. But clearly, probation and a monetary fine was enough punishment in NASCAR's eyes.

Mark Aumann: Since NASCAR probation is ludicrous, the sanctioning body basically has three deterrents: fines, suspension, points. The fines they imposed on Busch and Harvick are pocket money. I don't think they deserved a suspension. But points? Yeah, they should have docked them points similar to what Clint Bowyer lost in that wreck. Still, even taking away 10 points each, Busch and Harvick are solidly in the top 10 and locks to make the Chase. So what do you do? You could sit them for the Truck race, but that hurts the track and the sponsors. It won't change the drivers any.

Bill Kimm: NASCAR didn't need to do anything more. All you have to do is take a look at our site to realize nothing needs to be done about this. This story was huge. Yes, it took away from Regan Smith's unbelievable victory, which is unfortunate, but in a time when NASCAR needs eyes on its sport, this is perfect. No one was hurt, no damage was done ... slap them on the wrist and enjoy the headlines in Dover.

David Caraviello: Now, Bill ... I know you're only an occasional guest in Smack, and it might take you a while to get re-acclimated, but ... really? Let this go because it builds awareness? Hey, I'm sure a bench-clearing brawl in baseball would give that sport great exposure, too, but not necessarily of the kind it wants or needs. And no one was hurt -- this time.

Bill Kimm: Please David, what Carl Edwards did to Brad Keselowski in Atlanta was 100 times worse than Busch and Harvick last weekend, and Edwards got a similar penalty. And I totally disagree with Mark. Bowyer's wreck was a product of him making it three-wide. The fireworks between Busch and Harvick were before and after Bowyer's crash -- not during.

Mark Aumann: I think Bowyer was a unwitting third party. It's not his fault the two guys next to him decided to play bumper cars on the last lap.

David Caraviello: If anything, the sanctioning body went relatively easy on the penalties because they've boxed themselves in. They set the bar this low with the Edwards-Keselowski feud last year, and if you're not going to hit somebody hard for flipping another driver into the air, then you're certainly not going to hit hard for what seems a lesser offense. But that doesn't mean this sort of thing needs to be almost celebrated, which seems what you're suggesting.

Mark Aumann: Well, we could argue why Edwards did or didn't get what he deserved for that, but I'd rather see NASCAR view each succeeding incident separately rather than try to rule on previous cases. Robby Gordon supposedly punched Kevin Conway at Vegas, and that's as heinous as this?

Bill Kimm: Not suggesting it needs to be celebrated, but dock them points? No way. What happened was part of the sport, much like fights in hockey. It doesn't need to be celebrated, but it doesn't need to be over-punished, either. I will say, Harvick is lucky he didn't have his shoulder ripped out of socket. Dangerous to put your arm inside a moving vehicle like that. Throw the helmet, man -- throw the helmet!

David Caraviello: There is a culture of fighting in hockey, unfortunately. It's covered in the rule book. That's a different animal. Shoot, in some sports, a guy throws a punch in competition, he's automatically done for the next game. Here, there are zero ramifications. Sure, we can say, oh, they had their helmets on, window net was up, no big deal. But then we may have had another situation earlier in the NASCAR hauler -- between two different drivers -- where that was not the case. You just do not do that.

Mark Aumann: The thing that concerns me most is the idea of a unoccupied car rolling down pit road post-race. Obviously, the long-lens camera made it appear to be more dangerous than it might have been, but there are a lot of folks streaming around that area after the checkered flag. That's a big no-no and worthy of a penalty. And what's Harvick going to do in that instance, Bill? Busch had his helmet on. You're only going to hurt your hand anyway. Seems like theatrics more than anything sometimes.

Bill Kimm: OK Mark, let's keep things in perspective here. The car did not roll down pit road. They were at the entrance of pit road and the car took a hard left into the wall. Couldn't the argument be made that Harvick should have never got out of his car with it running? I also have to agree with Kyle Petty on this one ... where were NASCAR officials? Everyone in Darlington saw this coming, why didn't officials try to stop it?

Penalties consistent

The penalties handed down to Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick appear to be consistent with NASCAR's "hands off" policy.

David Caraviello: I don't disagree with that, Bill. But can they really keep so many crewmen flooding pit lane after the event? And on that subject, I'm surprised some individual crewmen weren't penalized, as well. The situation in the garage immediately afterward was U-G-L-Y. Not talking a royal rumble or anything, but a lot of harsh words and threatening actions that didn't need to be there. Again, likely too many people for a few NASCAR officials to do anything about.

Mark Aumann: It's all about the show. And the interesting thing to me, I can't think of an instance where one feud carried over to the next week, except perhaps Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison in 1979 -- when they wrecked at Rockingham -- but they both quickly claimed that was coincidental and not related to the Daytona 500 dust-up.

Bill Kimm: That's exactly right, Mark. You might not like it, but this is the new NASCAR. It will let these go up until a certain point. Allowing Jeff Gordon to walk up to Jeff Burton on the track and shove him the way he did -- that shows NASCAR is willing to let some of this happen.

David Caraviello: Guys, we're into semantics. Bottom line, you do not throw a punch. Bottom line, you do not send someone else's car into the wall when there are people around. Both actions are equally as regrettable. Both guys endangered other people. Both guys should have been penalized more than they were.

Mark Aumann: David, the tensions in the garage were probably very similar to the situation at Richmond. I was worried that the crews for Ryan Newman and Juan Montoya might go at it, but thankfully, things calmed down before it got to that point. NASCAR may need to hire some ex-bouncers.

David Caraviello: Yeah, given the close proximity between the two haulers, that was a very combustible situation. NASCAR officials did the best they could. They jumped in as soon as things started to escalate beyond trash-talking. I offered to intervene using my ancient martial arts skills, but nobody took me up on it. Too bad.

Mark Aumann: Well, drawing a picture of a karate chop doesn't exactly count, David.

Bill Kimm: Banzai, David-son

2. Trevor Bayne won the Daytona 500. Regan Smith won the Southern 500. So who's the next unheralded driver to break through into Victory Lane?

Mark Aumann: Marcos Ambrose at Sonoma. One of things that intrigues me about the new Chase wild-card rules is the idea that someone like Ambrose could sweep the two road-course races and get himself into the postseason, even though he really hasn't had much of a year so far.

Bill Kimm: If I had to put my money on anyone, I would say Paul Menard. He's close -- he really is. And he's due -- so my pick is Menard. And Aumann, the question asked for an unheralded driver. Ambrose is a favorite at every road course. Weak pick, Aumann. Weak pick.

David Caraviello: Well, there's one candidate who stands out above the rest -- A.J. Allmendinger. You can't say the guy has been close to winning a race, but he's run well enough often enough that you know he has it in him. Like Regan Smith, he's the kind of driver who can sneak into the top 10 on occasion, but needs the right set of circumstances to get over that hump and into Victory Lane.

Mark Aumann: Well, Ambrose hasn't been able to close the deal, Bill. So that's unheralded to me.

David Caraviello: And if you had to pick a place ... although A.J. has had some good showings at Dover, the Coca-Cola 600 really stands out. That race can turn into a fuel-mileage situation at the end, and situations like that are ripe for producing dark-horse winners as we saw with Casey Mears a few years back. He has to make it through 600 miles first -- no easy task -- but I wouldn't be stunned to see Allmendinger shock the world in two weeks.

Bill Kimm: I like A.J., he will win in the next year or two also. But Menard has Richard Childress Racing behind him, he's finally in great equipment, and he will get the victory sooner than later.

Mark Aumann: OK, so why does Paul Menard have a better chance of winning than, say, David Ragan, who has more lead-lap finishes and just as many top-10s?

Bill Kimm: I think they are right there with each other, but Menard has a little more experience. Let's put it this way: Menard isn't throwing the 500 away because he changed lanes before the green flag.

Mark Aumann: Seems to me Matt Kenseth did the same thing at Bristol? So not sure you can pin that on inexperience. Impatience, perhaps.

David Caraviello: Going back to Ambrose, he should have a road-course victory already -- he effectively gave away the event in Sonoma last year when he cut off his car to save fuel while leading the race. But that doesn't mean people wouldn't get excited about him winning. I think he would fit the bill of an unheralded driver pulling a surprise, although that would be more the case if he did it on an oval track. A run like the one he had earlier this year at Las Vegas shows that he has that in him somewhere.

Bill Kimm: Regardless of who it is, the good thing is that we have had two surprise winners this year and there are up-and-comers who will get a win or two very soon. This is good for the sport.

David Caraviello: Bill is right. It is great to see surprise winners. They add some juice to the sport. Now, if only they would fight! Hey, that's what everyone evidently wants to see, right? ...

Bill Kimm: Hey, David held off until question No. 2 before he over-generalized a comment of mine. I'm getting better at this Smack thing.

Mark Aumann: By the way, congrats to Regan Smith and his guys. That was an awesome way to score your first Cup win. And for a guy who deserved all the handshakes and pats on the back that he's gotten since.

David Caraviello: I think people undersell David Ragan as a potential race winner just because his history is so spotty, even in good equipment. No question the guy's come around in the past year or two, and crew chief Drew Blickensderfer has a lot to do with that. He's at the point now where, being in a Roush Fenway car, where people wouldn't be stunned if he reached Victory Lane. Shoot, he very well may have done that at Daytona, if not for his improper lane change.

Mark Aumann: He's been strong on the intermediate tracks, too. Just seems he hasn't been able to put together a complete race yet. I think Ragan's overdue.

David Caraviello: I don't disagree, Mark, but he's been overdue for like five years. The guy is in Roush equipment -- he should be where he is today. I think he'd be the first to admit that. Meanwhile, Menard is a guy who everyone discounted until he got in a good car. Then he opened eyes. Under the right circumstances, either of those guys can win. Maybe Ragan at the next Daytona race, and Menard the next time the circuit visits Talladega? Throw in Allmendinger at Charlotte and Ambrose at Sonoma, and we have whole bevy of surprise winners in store!

Bill Kimm: That's not good for me -- Daytona is in July, Talladega not until October. Swap those around, David! We also will have one heck of a wild-card battle. So, not to put pressure on any of these drivers, but the three of us have Allmendinger, Ambrose, Menard and Ragan all winning their first race this year. This season is going to be awesome!

Mark Aumann: Heck, if places like Daytona and Darlington have had upsets, why not Charlotte and Indy? Might as well make surprises at all the crown jewels.

David Caraviello: Mark, if fuel mileage comes into play, that could certainly be the case in the 600. And at Indianapolis ... well, would Juan Montoya finally finishing off his first oval-course victory count?

Mark Aumann: Montoya had Indy in the bag. I think he believes that place owes him.

David Caraviello: He's had it in the bag twice. I just wonder, given that he still doesn't have that first oval-course win, if him winning on a circle track would be as much of a surprise as someone like David Ragan or Paul Menard doing it? Probably not, given what we all know the guy is capable of. Montoya could win anywhere. But of course, so could plenty of other guys. Doing it is another matter altogether.

Mark Aumann: In Montoya's case, I think it's more just a surprise that he hasn't won one more than if he did. It's not like he's terrible on ovals. He just hasn't delivered yet. And if we're talking about potential first-time winners, Dave Blaney and Andy Lally fans want equal time.

David Caraviello: I'd make a remark about Dave Blaney's fans, but I want to prevent my e-mail inbox from becoming overloaded. They're a protective bunch.

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Mark Aumann: Don't you mess with the Blaniacs.

3. Carl Edwards leads the standings by a healthy 23 points heading to Dover. But second-place Jimmie Johnson is strong in Delaware and Charlotte, where the circuit goes next. Do we have an established championship favorite yet?

David Caraviello: No. And we won't have an "established championship favorite" -- who comes up with these questions, anyway? -- until about halfway through the Chase. You don't want to be the guy like Harvick last year or Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart a few years back, where you lead the majority of the season only to cede the points advantage to someone else late in the playoff. But it seems that's what happens, every time. This is for sprinters, not distance runners.

Bill Kimm: I honestly don't think we do have a clear-cut favorite, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Carl has been lights out recently -- since Phoenix he's finished worse than sixth once. But there are so many guys with very strong seasons going, this baby is wide-open for once.

Magnificent seven?

Point Standings
2.J. Johnson 1 4 6
3.Kyle Busch 2 5 6
4.Dale Jr. 0 2 5
5.K. Harvick 2 4 5
6.R. Newman 0 4 5
7.T. Stewart 0 1 4

Mark Aumann: I think you can look at it two ways: One, just like in 2010 when Kevin Harvick was the most consistent driver in the season's first half, Edwards is showing that he's a true contender. Two, nothing really matters until the checkered flag at Richmond in September. It's sort of like the Kentucky Derby. There's always a speed horse, but the race doesn't really start until they get into the final stretch. And then you see who has the strongest kick.

David Caraviello: Hey, I don't doubt that Edwards is on his game right now. Shoot, I picked him to win the whole thing this year, and he's rarely made a misstep so far. But you could say the same about Harvick last year. Really, it all depends on who can be a closer in this deal. Wake me as we approach the next Charlotte race -- in October -- then we'll know who the favorite is.

Mark Aumann: You know, maybe NASCAR should institute pari-mutuel wagering. Heck, they already have the tote board at Dover. I'll take the Edwards-Johnson-Harvick trifecta with a Kyle Busch box.

Bill Kimm: Edwards looks so cool and confident right now, those are good traits to have in a season. But the contract renewal, or lack thereof, will continue to grow as the season wears on. Hopefully he and Roush don't let it become a distraction, but the longer he is a "free-agent-in-the-making," the more chances there are to rock the boat.

Mark Aumann: I would agree, Bill, but I really think once the drivers strap the helmet on, they don't have any distractions, like contracts and salaries. I just don't know if that actually plays into the on-track stuff at all.

David Caraviello: OK, so if there's no real contender right now, can we at least say things are becoming somewhat stratified? I think you have a top tier of championship contenders right now in Edwards, Jimmie Johnson -- boy, talk about a guy under the radar -- Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick. I think they've shown enough week-to-week strength that you know they're going to be around until the end. Then there are guys like Stewart, Ryan Newman and yes, Dale Earnhardt Jr., who maybe don't look like championship material right now, but have shown enough to make you think they can fight their way into the mix.

Mark Aumann: Locks for the Chase: Edwards, Johnson, Kyle Busch, Harvick. Will the champion come from that group of four? Probably. But I'm not 100 percent certain yet. The guy who still looms out there, week in and week out, and can't seem to catch a break: Tony Stewart.

David Caraviello: And then there's everyone else. Really, everyone from Kurt Busch in eighth place on down has weaknesses, and you'd be somewhat surprised to see them make a real run at it. But then again, everything changes in the fall. And Mark, I'd take that box superfecta for the championship. Got to think the probability right now of one of those guys winning it is rather hefty.

Mark Aumann: Yeah, although the odds there would be pretty much even money, David. You'd have to throw in a long shot to get back anything worthwhile. There's nothing like holding the ticket for the winning horse and seeing "Inquiry" light up on the tote board to chill your bones.

Bill Kimm: Don't count out Denny Hamlin -- they started rough, but they have proven they can put long streaks of top-fives and wins together. Things are turning around for that No. 11 team.

Mark Aumann: Well, Johnson turned around a lot at Darlington, and see where that got him.

David Caraviello: Hamlin's team has to just get into the Chase first, and the stress of that process can take a lot out of a program. I'm not saying he isn't capable of winning it if he gets in. But there's no guarantee he will even get in. Lot of work to do yet before we can see him as a potential championship contender.

Mark Aumann: Yeah, I expected so much more from the No. 11 this season and so far, they've failed to show that consistency. However, we're just past the quarter pole and a whole lot of racing still to go, especially on Denny's best tracks.

Bill Kimm: You guys, there are some good names just outside the top 10 that could peak late in the year, and really make a run at it: Greg Biffle, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon -- all guys very capable of winning the championship.

David Caraviello: Good names, yes. Capable of winning the championship? I don't know. We're basically a quarter of the way through the season now. What you have is what you have. Miracle turnarounds in this deal are rare. That's not to say those guys can't get into the Chase, and once you're there, who knows what happens. But it's very, very hard to show sustained excellence for the 10 races it takes to win a title. Not every team can do it. The pool of contenders for the championship is much shallower than the pool of guys who can make the Chase. They're two different things entirely.

Bill Kimm: A miracle is you saying, "Bill was right," which I believed happened earlier. Biff, Hamlin or Four-Time getting into the championship hunt -- not a miracle.

Mark Aumann: Oh, quit horsing around, you guys.

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Top Headline Family Dollar Stores (NYSE: FDO ) reported a drop in its first quarter profit.

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The world of John Kerry's global test.

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President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry referred to the United Nations 17 times during their debate last Thursday on American foreign policy. Kerry’s references outnumbered the president’s more than 2 to 1. The senator’s attitude? The U.N. is the centerpiece of any definition of America’s strategic interests.

Kerry put U.N. centrality this way: “You don’t help yourself with other nations…when you refuse to deal at length with the United Nations.” Speaking of Iraq, “at length” meant “We needed to go to the U.N. The president needed the authority to use force….” Any use by a president of the option of a “preemptive strike” must be done “in a way…that passes the global test where…you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons.”

So what world is Kerry talking about? The presidential debate took place just as the General Assembly wound up its two-week opening session on September 30. At the session, dozens of world leaders told the U.N. what would pass a global test in their minds. Let’s listen in.

On terrorism:
President of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika: “[T]errorism…excludes the legitimate struggle of peoples against foreign occupation.”
Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon, Issam Fares: ” National liberation is legitimate, terrorism is reprehensible.”
Ditto numerous other Arab ministers.

On nuclear non-proliferation:
Prime Minister of Malaysia, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (Chairman of the 100+ members of the Non-Aligned Movement): “We also note with great concern the increasing tendencies to link the fight against terrorism with the campaign against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Developing countries suffer as a result of restrictions imposed on access to peaceful uses of technology….”
Foreign Minister of Iran, Kamal Kharrazi: “[P]revent[ing] the proliferation of nuclear weapons…must be done…in a comprehensive and non-discriminatory manner…. We insist on our right to technology for peaceful purposes….”
Ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Choe Su Hon: “[O]ur army and people…are…pushing ahead with their struggle to build a…powerful state with…devotion to the socialist cause….The nuclear deterrent of the DPRK constitutes a legitimate self-defensive measure….”

On the genocide in Sudan:
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Syria, Farouk Al-Shara: “We view with satisfaction the positions and measures adopted by the government of the Sudan to address the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.”
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yemen, Abubakr Al-Qirbi: “[T]here was no hard evidence of massacres [in Sudan]…. [A]ll external parties must…refrain from interference in the domestic affairs of the Sudan.”

On advancing human rights protection and democracy:
Foreign Minister of China, Li Zhaoxing: “[I]t is imperative to…promote greater democracy in international relations…China will…safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity, brook no interference in its internal affairs….”
Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe: “Zimbabwe will…welcome to [its sixth parliamentary] elections those observers whose sole and undivided purpose will be to observe the process and not to meddle in the politics of the country…. [T]he West should spare us their lessons on human rights.”
Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, Nizar Obaid Madani: “[W]e believe that the process of helping developing nations to initiate political and economic reforms should not be imposed or dictated from without…. Of course there is much that the advanced countries can provide in this process, especially in the areas of investments….”

On identifying the villains:
Foreign Minister of Cuba, Felipe Pérez Roque: “We, as non-aligned countries, will have to entrench ourselves in defending the United Nations Charter…. The powerful collude to divide us.”
Foreign Minister of Iran, Kamal Kharrazi: ” Israel…[is] the single greatest threat to regional and global peace and security.”

On the role of the U.N.:
Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe: “[T]he UN Charter remains the only most sacred document and proponent of the relations of our Nations….
Foreign Minister of France, Michel Barnier: “[T]he U.N. remains the one irreplaceable, legitimate framework for harnessing…mobilization and translating it into collective action…. The Organization…has a natural vocation to be at the center of counter-terrorism measures…. The U.N., through its legitimacy and ever-increasing effectiveness, must be the instrument of the universal conscience of which it remains the crucible.”

Let’s sum up the rules of the U.N. game as set out by its most ardent fans from France to Cuba over September’s festivities:
(1) Democracy is the governing principle between countries (read outvoting the United States), regardless of the rights of actual inhabitants.
(2) International measures to insist on democracy within states constitute unacceptable interference in a state’s internal affairs.
(3) Nuclear non-proliferation is O.K. in theory provided it won’t be put into practice until Israel and the United States are weapons-free, and any pressure in the meantime is oppression of developing countries.
(4) The only acceptable contributions of developed countries to the affairs of developing countries are cash donations.
(5) Terrorism is defined as harming one’s friends, so Israelis are fair game.
(6) Israel is the greatest threat to world peace.
(7) Sudan should be commended for its role in reducing the spontaneous humanitarian crisis within its borders and anything but minute numbers of friendly neighboring forces would be an illegitimate interference in Sudanese sovereignty.
(8) The U.N. is the centerpiece of all legitimate international action concerning peace, security, self-defense, and the war against terrorism.

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan works well at the top of this heap. He opened this year’s Assembly by drawing moral parallels between the ongoing acts of unrepentant terrorists in the name of religion and the isolated acts of American soldiers condemned and punished by their countrymen. Annan said: “[W]e see civilians massacred in cold blood and…non-combatants…taken hostage and put to death in the most barbarous fashion. At the same time, we have seen Iraqi prisoners disgracefully abused.” In his address, Annan named only one country in the world as violating international law through the “excessive use of force.” You guessed it: Israel.

Into this toxic mix came President Bush with a message as honest as it was different. While the secretary general never once mentioned “democracy,” “free speech,” “political parties,” “free press,” “trade unions,” “independent courts,” every one of these was central to the president’s address to the General Assembly. Announced the president in a statement which should have warmed tender hearts from Turtle Bay to Massachusetts: “For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, in his speech to the Assembly a few days later, asked: “Today, 60 years after this organization came into being, we must ask ourselves: What are we united for and what are we united against?”

The answer is: not terrorism, not the immediate threat of nuclear proliferation from Iran or North Korea, not the recognition of genocide or the action necessary to stop it, not the limits of sovereignty, not the requisites of democracy, not what constitutes a human-rights violation, and not the identity of the violators.

Senator Kerry would take American foreign policy on a new road. In his words: “…with other nations…you have to earn [their] respect. And I think we have a lot of earning back to do.”

American voters could not have a clearer choice: groveling for the respect of nations whose values we do not share or helping reformers build a community of peaceful, democratic nations, with or without the “United” Nations.

Anne Bayefsky is an international lawyer and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

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If you’re making money on the Wall Street scale — which is nothing like your boring, middle-management in the Fortune 500, Hamptons-and-Mercedes, barely–a–1 percenter type money — then you can buy basically anything. When real-estate investor Robert Rosania put part of his storied champagne collection up for sale in 2008, the auction was predicted to fetch $5 million — couch-cushion change to Rosania, who had not yet reached his 40th birthday, making him a good deal younger than many of the vintages in his cellar. (Known in the wine world as Big Boy, he brandishes a special saber designed for decapitating head-clutchingly expensive bottles of champagne. Bespoke vintage-champagne cutlery: That’s how you know you’re rich.) Not far from Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street was fragrantly encamped, I noticed a young man wandering into a store to buy a pack of cigarettes on a bright Saturday morning, wearing blue jeans, a T-shirt, and a $237,000 Vacheron-Constantin watch. In a world of $600,000 cars (consult your local Maybach dealer) and $4,300-a-night whores (consult Eliot Spitzer), it’s no big deal to buy a president, which is precisely what Wall Street did in 2008 when, led by investment giant Goldman Sachs, it closed the deal on Barack Obama.

For a few measly millions, Wall Street not only bought itself a president, but got the start-up firm of B. H. Obama & Co. LLC to throw a cabinet into the deal, too — on remarkably generous terms. President Obama, for a guy prone to delivering prim and smug little homilies denouncing greed, greed, greed — the only of the seven deadly sins that truly offends Democrats (though Mrs. Obama has done some desultory work on gluttony) — is strangely comfortable among the Gordon Gekkos of this world. Shall we have a partial roll call? Beat the drum slowly and call out the names: With unemployment still topping 9 percent, the catastatic world economy teetering on the brink of another, even larger financial catastrophe, and trillion-dollar U.S. deficits as far as the green-shaded eye can see, let’s hear it for Obama’s first National Economic Council director, Lawrence Summers (of hedge-fund giant D. E. Shaw and venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz), who has had some nice paydays courtesy of Lehman Bros., JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup. Let’s hear it for Citigroup’s Michael Froman, deputy assistant to the president and deputy national-security adviser for international economic affairs, for Hartford Financial’s Neal Wolin, deputy Treasury secretary, for JPMorgan’s William Daley, Obama’s chief of staff, and for his predecessor, Rahm Emanuel of Wasserstein Perella. Let’s hear it for Fannie Mae’s Tom Donilon, national-security adviser. (No, seriously: One of the luminous interstellar geniuses who brought Fannie Mae to its current aphotic state of affairs, upside down to the tune of trillions of dollars, is running national security, and the former director of the White House Military Office, Louis Caldera, was on the board of IndyMac when it finally went toes up — sleep tight, America!) And, lest we forget, let’s have three big, sloppy cheers for economic-transition team leaders Robert Rubin (Goldman Sachs, Citigroup) and folksy tax enthusiast/ghoulish billionaire vulture Warren Buffett.

That’s a pretty fantastic lineup, from Wall Street’s point of view, but the real bonus turned out to be Treasury secretary Tim Geithner, who came up through the ranks as part of the bipartisan Robert Rubin–Hank Paulson–Citigroup–Goldman Sachs cabal. Geithner, a government-and-academe man from way back, never really worked on Wall Street, though he once was offered a gig as CEO of Citigroup, which apparently thought he did an outstanding job as chairman of the New York Fed, where one of his main tasks was regulating Citigroup — until it collapsed into the yawning suckhole of its own cavernous ineptitude, at which point Geithner’s main job became shoveling tens of billions of federal dollars into Citigroup, in an ingeniously structured investment that allowed the government to buy a 27 percent share in the bank, for which it paid more than the entire market value of the bank. If you can’t figure out why you’d pay 100-plus percent of a bank’s value for 27 percent of it, then you just don’t understand high finance or high politics.

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THE FACTS: Paul Pierce finished with a season-high 34 points as the Boston Celtics fought past the Dallas Mavericks for a 117-115 win in double-overtime at the TD Garden. Boston led by as many as eight points in the fourth quarter before Dallas closed the gap behind a balanced offensive attack led by O.J. Mayo (24 points) to force overtime. With both teams winded in overtime, Rajon Rondo (16 points, 15 assists, nine rebounds) helped take command in the closing moments, enabling Boston to escape with their second straight win. The Mavericks had their three-game winning streak snapped.

QUOTABLE: "This is a good win, especially with the huge road trip coming up. We allowed them to shoot a high percentage, it says a lot about how this team has grown when you can win games like this."
-- Pierce

THE STAT: The Mavericks were incredibly sloppy with the ball against an improving Celtics defense, turning the ball over a season-high 27 times on the night. Mayo and Darren Collison alone turned it over a combined 16 times. Before Wednesday, Dallas had averaged only 15 turnovers a contest.

TURNING POINT: After both teams traded 10 consecutive misses in the second overtime, Rondo made a strong drive to the hoop against Mayo, scoring the C's second basket of overtime to give them a three-point lead with 35 seconds remaining. After a Dallas miss, Boston rode the cushion and reliable free-throw shooting from Pierce (5-of-6 in double-overtime) to hold on for the win.

QUOTABLE II: "We were right there. We had turnovers that throughout the game killed us. We can't beat anyone with that many turnovers."
-- Mayo

HOT: Collison. Hecame alive in the second half, torching Rondo off the dribble on multiple occasions as he scored 15 of his 20 points in the second half on 6-of-9 shooting from the field.

NOT: Jason Terry. The ex-Maverick struggled against his former teammates, shooting just 3-of-10 from the field and a mere 1-of-6 from downtown. Over his past three games, Terry has been mirred in a major slump, shooting just 22.6 percent from the field over those contests.

FANTASY SPOTLIGHT: Shawn Marion. The 13-year veteran didn't seem to be bothered by a strained right groin, which kept him sidelined for the past two games. Marion served as the team's center for much of the 4th quarter and overtime, posted one of his best all-around lines of the season. Marion finished with 14 points, nine rebounds and a season-high seven assists.

ROOKIE WATCH: Jared Sullinger. The 20-year-old went scoreless for Boston for just the third time all season in 11 minutes of action. Sullinger also added three rebounds, an assist and a steal.

NOTABLE: Jae Crowder missed the game with flu-like symptoms for Dallas. He will travel with the team to Toronto for their contest Friday night. In overtime with just under a minute remaining, Pierce became the 25th player in NBA history to score 23,000 points. The Celtics sent Fab Melo back to the Maine Red Claws, their D-League affiliate before the game. Derek Fisher had ten points and four assists before fouling out in overtime. Seven Mavericks finished in double figures. Boston led by as many as 14. Dallas did not grab an offensive rebound in either overtime. It was Boston's second overtime game in their past three contests. Pierce scored 12 of his 34 points in the two overtimes.

UP NEXT: For Dallas, Friday @ Toronto, Saturday @ Minnesota, Tuesday vs. Philadelphia. For Boston, Friday @ Houston, Saturday @ San Antonio, Tuesday @ Chicago.


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We used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to study 2 patients with traumatic brain injury. The first patient recovered reliable expressive language after 19 years in a minimally conscious state (MCS); the second had remained in MCS for 6 years. Comparison of white matter integrity in the patients and 20 normal subjects using histograms of apparent diffusion constants and diffusion anisotropy identified widespread altered diffusivity and decreased anisotropy in the damaged white matter. These findings remained unchanged over an 18-month interval between 2 studies in the first patient. In addition, in this patient, we identified large, bilateral regions of posterior white matter with significantly increased anisotropy that reduced over 18 months. In contrast, notable increases in anisotropy within the midline cerebellar white matter in the second study correlated with marked clinical improvements in motor functions. This finding was further correlated with an increase in resting metabolism measured by PET in this subregion. Aberrant white matter structures were evident in the second patient's DTI images but were not clinically correlated. We propose that axonal regrowth may underlie these findings and provide a biological mechanism for late recovery. Our results are discussed in the context of recent experimental studies that support this inference.

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Longitudinal measurement of plasma homovanillic acid levels in schizophrenic patients. Correlation with psychosis and response to neuroleptic treatment.

The plasma levels of homovanillic acid (HVA), a major circulating dopamine (DA) metabolite, were measured in schizophrenic patients during five weeks each of double-blind placebo-controlled neuroleptic treatment (N = 16) and withdrawal (N = 11). Both neuroleptic treatment and withdrawal were associated with time-dependent changes in the plasma levels of HVA; treatment was associated with decreases and withdrawal with increases. The levels of plasma HVA measured longitudinally during both conditions were highly correlated with psychosis ratings. Moreover, changes in individual mean weekly levels of plasma HVA were predictive of treatment response, including changes in both positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. These data are consistent with the suggestion that the mechanisms of action of antipsychotic drugs involve, in addition to short-term DA receptor blockade, a slowly developing decrease in presynaptic DA activity.

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"In war, retaliation goes like an Atari game... it never ends"

Don't think it is humour because it has graphics and sounds taken from old school vg. The point is "war sucks and counter-attack just make things worse". If some people laughed watching the plane crashing, bombing Baghdad made some politicians laugh too. This will never end.

English text version will be done as soon as i get back the editable file.

Rated 3.5 / 5 stars March 9, 2005

Peope here on newgrounds are mostly hypocrits (I don't care if my sppeling is right or wrong), they laugh about a guy with a machine gun killing religious guys, saudi-arabians, or any kind of atrocidy, but wen the 9/11 is on the cene, they become crybabies, like “Ohhh, you shoundn't talk like that, blablabla, terrorist, people have died, blablabla“ SO WHAT? People have died on both sides, by guns, racism, hunger, porverty, police power, crime and all those shit. People here can't wait the flash to finish to see the real message on it, they get the first scene and run crying to they mother skirts saing “mommy, I saw a guy mocking 9/11 on the computer“. NEWSFLASH, this isn't a mockery, this is a critick to political and military actions and retaliantion.

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Valeu pela força, tô gostando de ver que tem gente do Brasil achando o meu filme no meio desse universo que é o Newgrounds.

Rated 5 / 5 stars March 9, 2005

i loved it but...

thisisnt the place for it, on Newgrounds there are alot (and when i say alot i mean ALOT) of immature and closeminded people who follow majority and look forward to movies of violence, stick figures, agression, sprites, mario etc. Its full of people who make posts like "YOU SUXX WHAT DO YOU THINK OF PUTTING THIS SHIT HERE?" (usaully betwen the ages of like 8-11. Its a contreversial flash-not so much over the fact that at the end you eplain yourself, but because of the fact that many CHILDREN here will see the first scene and close very fast without intuition. Its sad but its true, and its sad that this hasnt scored higher. I'd love to see more.

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Rated 2.5 / 5 stars March 8, 2005

You should probably explain what the purpose of the flash is before it begins to play... Or you are going to get negative reviews about you being a 'terrorist'...

Just so you know in the future...
If I hadn't read your description, I would have said something extremely offensive and negative about you...

The Flash though...
Not too bad. Put your 'point' in your movie so people don't get the wrong intention.

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Rated 3.5 / 5 stars March 8, 2005

The only funny thing was the old atari/nintendo sounds.

And to DarkSpriite,

1. The author's profile clearly states he is in Ontario (That's Canada :o)

2. Read the author's comments and stop being a dumbass.

Rated 0 / 5 stars March 8, 2005

only here

Your god given right to express yourself that is won by every soldier dying in other countries now, in the past and in the futer. We as americans have founded this right with the blood of many an american and american supporter. This however does not give you the right to sit at home and say that what happened to america was right, or even funny. To condone the sensless acts of terrorists, cutting off the heads of people who cannot defend themselves and flaunting them on the internet is abhorrent and leaves you no better than the terrorists themselves. Whether you believe why we are in other countries right now is irrelivent to this flash. TO CONDONE THESE ACTS OF SENSLESS VIOLENCE IS WRONG IN EVERY WAY SHAPE OR FORM. If you like it so much, leave. spare us your thoughts and quit being an air thief.


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We are Teh Piconjers, the uncensored flash community that pwns the internet. Piconjo Jam #21 continues the Piconjo's tradition of giving you a glimpse of our future work with several short movies spotlighting some of the talent in our community.
If you are interested in joining in on the fun and showing us and a large audience what you're capable of, email us at
RIP, Piconjo. Your presence with us has ended, but your spirit lives on forever.

Rated 4.5 / 5 stars March 1, 2006

alright i guess

if you ask me, it looks like an older pico person. just lost some of the violence in my opinion

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Pico = teh nickname of Piconjos penor

Rated 4.5 / 5 stars March 1, 2006

really good guys

im also a Piconjo fan but this has nothing to do with that..this flash was awsome! you guys show great potential and used flash 8 quite well. The only thing i see that you could improve on is some of the animation a few of the clips were great all around but others had great art but the animation was a little lacking. but over all great collab guys you get 2 hooks up from the captin

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yarrr, thx capn' piconjo <3 j00

Rated 4.5 / 5 stars March 1, 2006

Good Flash...

...but why attack LEGENDARY FROG? WHY!?!? He's a great animator and everything and you don't give a reason why you hate him.

PLEASE REPLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, good animation, good action and parodies, and if you didn't make fun of legenday frog, this collab would have been on top flash of all time.... Oh well, good job! Keep up the good work!

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he is a lazy animator with shitty art and stolen, boring humour. he has 20.000 fans and yet he dont even animate his own movies anymore.
i hope that answers your question.

and thank you for the good review

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Rated 4.5 / 5 stars March 2, 2006

That was very cruel of you!
But the graphics are really amazing and you used so many techniques... awesome!
I agree that none of those you mentioned can do better.. but.. again..

youre cruel!

Rated 4 / 5 stars March 1, 2006

jeezus, what do you guys have against LF?

Not to say he deserves the amount of attention he gets, but he's a pretty damn good flasher (heh, flasher). I'm not one of those fanboys that whacks off to a photo of him, but I still think he doesn't deserve all this anger. Also...piconjo's stuff...well, a bunch of weird stick figures, some frogs, lots of blood, and penises doesn't really make a good flash.

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Rated 1.5 / 5 stars September 16, 2006

"And so the saga continues of me failing trying to explain this world, my little world.
I´m on shrooms. I tested them out for tonight because I got them from netherland for today.
And so I did this movie."

If you're trying to say you made this movie while on shrooms, I don't believe a single word of it. Theres nothing special about it anyway.

At all.

Rated 2.5 / 5 stars September 3, 2006

no offense

but really the only reason this got a 3 is cuz ur well known and n00bs will b likeOMGOMGOMG sqeezy is mi h3r0 555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555
lol i like the head splode tho

Rated 5 / 5 stars August 3, 2006

Depressed Much?

This reminds me of those government tested LSD experiments in the mid 20th century. Some scientists got some guy and told him to pick anyone in the room and draw him normally, then they jabbed him with the needle and asked him to draw the guy every half hour or so. It was pretty messed up. I watched it on ytmnd but I'm sure it can be found somewhere else.

Rated 3 / 5 stars July 25, 2006

That was weird!

That was intrestingly weird. You should make a hole bunch of crap like this and submit it together in a bundle.

Rated 4 / 5 stars April 4, 2006

This submission was soo crazy! But, crazy=good. I realy like how well the flash was perfectly synced with the song. Muy Bien!


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Oh, hello. This is my first submission for 2008 and I have to say, I'm pretty glad I managed to finish this. It's not that it took ages to make - it didn't - it's just that I kept on postponing it for such a long time and finally, I finished it off. Sorry for the massive filesize. At least it's not as big as it would be if I used Megadeth's 'Hangar 18' for the introduction.
This game is a finale to my series 'Dared'. I advise that you play the other Dared games, first. /portal/view/
363864 - Dared. /portal/view/
381204 - Double Dared.
I hope you enjoy this game. If there are any glitches (which I hope not because I spent an hour trying to fix them all) tell me in your review what they are. Leave a review and vote, please. I'll respond most reviews, if not all.

Play, and find out the important truth behind life.

Rated 1.5 / 5 stars April 29, 2011

nice try, but i got bored instantly.
i had no idea where i was, who i was or what i was doing.
if you made a few improvements it coold be better:')

Rated 4.5 / 5 stars October 7, 2009

short but when u pick the truth, it make me jump,u get a 9 for scaring me.

Rated 3.5 / 5 stars June 29, 2008

I'm sorry to say.....

...but I had no idea what was happening. The only reason I found out about the whole "The Truth is Hidden/The Government is lying to us/We Live in a World of Deception/Ignorence is bliss" thing was from reading the reviews and your comments . Don't get me wrong, the fact you're aiming for something very deep and meaningful is comendable, it just flew over my head completely.

Anyway, the atmoshere was intense and the whole thing was just unnerving.
Good job.Please make more, and if you do, please make it at least a little bit more understandable for us dim bulbs.

Mechabloby responds:

Ah, that's not a problem. I do hope to make another game like this which might fire off its own series, but if I was to, I don't know when I'd start work on it - I have so many other projects I want to do right now.... I guess you could say I prefer animating right now but, i really would like to create another unnerving piece like this.

Thanks for your review.

Rated 5 / 5 stars June 10, 2008

Loved it

And not just for the music. ;)

I love Adventure games, I really do. I'm going to be rather pretentious here and say that I thought the idea was something like about how knowledge is a type of power and how it is controlled (and we don't see by who), that only a few people have it and that it can be a dangerous power.

I also took from it that everything we think we know are just perceptions and the biggest obstacle of truth is life itself. Ultimately, man must remain ignorant.

The fist instance is truth aobut the real world, the second is divine truth.

I didn't even see it as political.

Mechabloby responds:

My fucking god, you're the only person who managed to point the main idea out from the whole series.

I've not been around on this submission in some time so if I said that I was basing it upon political issues and all, then I said it because the government do try and hide things away from the general public as they think we are not ready for the truth, yet.

Why the hell did we stop PMing each other? :(

Rated 5 / 5 stars May 19, 2008

Awsome game but unfortunatley for some reason I don't find it very scary. People keep saying it scared them but it's not even making me jump. I'm sorry not trying to be mean. Maybe I don't scare easy. Either way I love your game, not too difficult and had an awsome story.

Mechabloby responds:

Thanks, glad you liked it.


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Nov 14, 2009 | 3:36 AM EST

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Move the mouse to move the boxer. Click the mouse to punch. Boxer's stamina gets reduced when hit by the zombie on boxer's head. When the stamina is zero the game is a knock out. You can update the stamina if sufficient points are earned at end of a round.

Rated 2 / 5 stars November 14, 2009

Not very fun.

My first issue with this game is the perspective. I don't think a mouse controlled boxing game with this type of side scrolling only movement is a good thing. But, it doesn't work out horrible in this case.

The graphics aren't too great either. They could really be improved. I would work on the for your next flash. Maybe make an actual ring as well if you feel like it.

The sound effects aren't horrible, but you could add some type of music, because this game gets very tedious after a while.

Which brings me to my next problem, 5 rounds is more realistic, but it also makes this game very tedious. I think 3 rounds would be better.

I suggest that, because the zombie doesn't ever move. He merely stands there and waits for you to come to him, and then auto punches. He is very easy to beat by 50 points every single round.

The stamina bar you have never depletes, yet you can pay to have it replenished every single round. I was hit maybe 40 times in a round and it was still at 100. I would work on fixing that.

cagedlion responds:

In the updated version the zombie is able to move. The boxer loses stamina if he is hit on his head.

Rated 0 / 5 stars November 14, 2009

Poor game...

There really isn't any strategy to this game...all you have to do is get more points than the zombie ( I got to 5 and the zombie had 4) and just pull back the boxer till the timer runs out.

Also it looks like crap.

cagedlion responds:

See the response above.

Rated 1 / 5 stars November 14, 2009

I'm sure the concept is good...

But this game does not work. Work out the bugs, then repost it.

Rated 0.5 / 5 stars November 14, 2009

Big flaw

All I have to do is position my mouse above, and the Zombie can't even hit my head. Change that and reupload this.

Rated 1.5 / 5 stars November 14, 2009

Massive problem

Well, firtly theres not much going for it. Theres no skill needed, no nothing needed. No challenge, just click the mouse and hope for something to happen. To top it off, theres a massive problem with it. The zombie doesn't move so you can simply hit it once and then move away till the round ends

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