"We're Becoming a Nation of Wussies"

PA Gov Ed Rendell on NFL and Snow: US Becoming a 'Nation of Wussies'
ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell raised eyebrows Sunday when he complained that the NFL postponed the planned Philadelphia Eagles games against the Minnesota Vikings because of the snowstorm that crippled much of the East Coast. He quibbled Sunday with a Philadelphia Meteorologist Sunday about the severity of the storm . Rendell's anger at the postponed game carried into Tuesday, when he called into “The Fanatic” sports Talk Show on a Philadelphia radio st...

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We've become a nation of wusses. The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything. If this was in China do you think the Chinese would have called off the game? People would have been marching down to the stadium, they would have walked and they would have been doing calculus on the way down. -- Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania, after the NFL postponed Sunday night's Eagles-Vikings game because of snow Is he right? Why, or why not? Examiner.com is looking for writers, photographers, and videographe...

OReilly Factor Panel Debates: Are We A Nation Of Wusses?
Somehow, the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles find themselves at the center of the news cycle this week. If people aren’t talking about President Obama praising team owner Jeffrey Lurie for giving Quarterback Michael Vick a second chance after his Prison sentence, then they’re talking about the assertion of Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell that the postponing of Sunday night’s scheduled Eagles game to tonight (due to the blizzard that blitzed the Northeast) represents America’...

Ed Rendell: We're a 'nation of wusses'
It's worth noting that while Michael Bloomberg is chastising his constituents for not reacting well to the Northeast snowstorm, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (D) has gone a step farther, railing against the whole country over the rescheduling of a football game. From the Early Lead: Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell really disliked the NFL's decision to move the Sunday night game between the Minnesota Vikings and Philadelphia Eagles to tonight because of a blizzard forecast. After calling the pos...

Eagles-Vikings: Did the NFL cave in to Mayor Nutter?
You've all heard about it by now, especially if you're a sports fan: Soon-to-be-erstwhile Pennsylvania Democrat Governor and former Philly Mayor Ed Rendell's comments about the postponement of the Eagles-Vikings game have been nothing if not cutting and scathing. And Rendell is on point about everything, strange as that may sound. (Strange since this writer holds much disdain for one of America's worst governors) Here's a quick rundown if you've been a) living under a rock for the past few days ...

Rendell Sounds Off
We’re unfamiliar with Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s politics … but we couldn’t agree more with his take on the National Football League’s Controversial decision to cancel Sunday’s night’s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Minnesota Vikings. “It goes against everything that football is all about,” the soon-to-be-former Keystone State chief executive said Monday on a Radio Show in Philadelphia. “My biggest beef is that this is...

Chinese would handle snow better: US governor
Stumble This! The Governor of Pennsylvania blasted the precautions over this week's blizzard as a sign of growing US feebleness, saying that the Chinese would not have flinched at the snow. "We've become a nation of wussies. The Chinese are kicking our butts in everything," Ed Rendell, the Governor of the eastern state, told a Philadelphia Radio Station on Monday. Rendell was upset about the National Football League's decision to postpone the Philadelphia Eagles' home game against the Minnesota...

Chinese would handle snow better: US governor
The Governor of Pennsylvania blasted the precautions over this week's blizzard as a sign of growing US feebleness, saying that the Chinese would not have flinched at the snow. "We've become a nation of wussies. The Chinese are kicking our butts in everything," Ed Rendell, the Governor of the eastern state, told a Philadelphia Radio Station on Monday. Rendell was upset about the National Football League's decision to postpone the Philadelphia Eagles' home game against the Minnesota Vikings sche...

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell Calls Delay Of Football Game A Joke, Argues With TV Weatherman Over Snow
Gov. Ed Rendell thinks we’re becoming a “nation of wussies” for delaying the Eagles-Vikings game because of the blizzard not “in any way, shape or form a blizzard.” The Pennsylvania Governor went on FOX’s Philadelphia station, saying it was a “joke” that the football game had been scrubbed, saying that football fans were smart enough to make their own decisions about getting safely to the stadium̵...

Ed Rendell Not Happy With Eagles-Vikings Game Being Cancelled Because of Weather, "It's Ridiculous, This Is Football"
Rendell talks to Fox News and says the reason the game is not being played tonight is because of money, "As and eagle's fan, I am ticked off about this"...The country has become more and more "wussified" "Vince Lombardi would be laughing at us" ...

Justice workers’ load on oversight of secret wiretaps expands
WASHINGTON — Even as the Justice Department reports a two-year decline in the number of wiretap applications approved by a secret US intelligence court, the workload of Justice Department lawyers assigned to request and oversee such sensitive Surveillance activities appears to be growing. The activity by the department’s National Security Division, which is responsible for obtaining authorization from a secret court to tap Americans’ telephone calls and e-mails and conduct oth...

Oakland's pot industrial park founders over its profit motive
Former Construction Industry executive Jeff Wilcox has a $20 million bet riding on the future of marijuana commercialization in California. That is what his AgraMed Inc. venture has invested in a warehouse near the Oakland waterfront and a bid to open a "business park for the cannabis industry." He hopes to lease the space to pot growers, bakeries, labs and processing facilities and to create hundreds of well-paying jobs. But Wilcox is in limbo after Oakland officials last week suspended a pla...

The DEA Searches for Ambiguity in Michigan
The Associated Press reports that the Drug Enforcement Administration is demanding Medical Marijuana records from Michigan's Department of Community Health "as part of an investigation in the Lansing area." The department is resisting, citing a state law that makes it a Misdemeanor to release information about patients who use Medical Marijuana or the caregivers who are authorized to supply them. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Bruha has asked a judge to order the department's compliance, saying t...

WSJ slams Obama for 8-week break in military commissions
The Wall Street Journal carried an editorial this morning (reg. req.) that slams President Barack Obama for purportedly not intending to bring any more cases before Military commissions at Guantanamo Bay The notion that the Military commission process is rather constipated has been aired before. The pace of cases does appear to have gotten wrapped up in the saga of the 9/11 trial once headed for civilian court and now probably not. I've also written on the limbo the U.S.S. Cole bombing case se...

DOJ Withdraws Bush Rules for Fast-Tracking Death Penalty Cases
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Department of Justice has withdrawn regulations from the Bush Administration that would fast-track federal review of state death penalty cases. In withdrawing the rules, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama DOJ would submit its own rules, but he did not provide a timetable. The fast-track rules were initially authorized by Congress under then President Clinton. San Francisco attorney Michael Laurence, whose Habeas Corpus Resource Center succ...

No More Mister Nice Blog
WHAT COMES AROUND, GOES AROUND Every now and again, fate gives you a second chance. Even in Washington. Robin C. Ashton, the woman Attorney General Eric Holder just named to head of the Justice Department's internal ethics office, was reportedly herself a Victim of improper politicization during the Bush Administration at the hands of Regent University graduate Monica Goodling. "As a Veteran career prosecutor, Robin is uniquely qualified to serve as Counsel for Professional Responsibility, and ...

Report: Misconduct By Feds Led To Lighter Sentences For Defendants
USA Today is out with another report critical of the actions of Federal Prosecutors. The newspaper found that, in at least 48 of the 201 cases since 1997 in which federal courts found that prosecutors violated laws or Ethics Rules, defendants were convicted but were given shorter sentences because of that misconduct. In Washington, D.C., alone, Court Records show the Justice Department agreed to shorter Prison sentences for at least eight convicted murderers during the past decade after judges...

Eagles defend mayor on blizzard call
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The Philadelphia Eagles said Monday Mayor Michael Nutter is coming in for unfair criticism after the team's Sunday night game was postponed by a blizzard. Fans and local media blasted Nutter after the game was pushed back to Tuesday night because of a blizzard warning, citing his decision to call a snow emergency well before any snow actually hit the city -- about 6 hours before the contest between the Eagles and the Minnesota Vikings. Philadelphia eventually recei...

Amid gloom, census losers score points
For the nine states that learned last week they will be losing House seats, the reaction to the Census results hit similar notes, ranging somewhere between melancholy and dread. But in many of those places, the news also offered a chance to score a few political points. The chairman of the New York Republican Party, Ed Cox, called the loss of two seats in reapportionment evidence that the heavily Democratic state was a “shrinking empire,” marked by “policies that drive peopl...

Punishing winter storm sacks Vikings Eagles game
A fierce winter storm sacked Sunday’s Vikings-Eagles game like a blitzing Linebacker, forcing a postponement in Philadelphia that displeased Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, and disrupted travel plans elsewhere in sports. But, overwhelmingly, the games went on. The New York Jets were forced to spend the night in Chicago, where they could mull their 38-34 loss to the Bears. The New England Patriots routed the Bills 34-3 in Buffalo, but victory came at a cost. They were unable to travel home im...

What we lost
Somewhere in Lancaster County tonight, Steve Van Buren is laughing at us. Meanwhile, Ed Rendell and I were both on "Daily News Live" on Comcast SportsNet, where the outgoing gov nominated me for a Pulitzer Prize. I hereby nominate Rendell for the Nobel Prize in physics, for proving the theory of media omnipresence. If you must, you can also catch me on Fox-29 tonight at 10 o' clock, spouting my right-wing blather. ...

Was The NFL Wrong To Cancel The Vikings/Eagles Game?
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was irate in a live interview Sunday night that the Philadelphia Eagles game was postponed by the NFL. The Guv was obviously upset during a phone interview with Fox 29 and at one point, he was arguing with Fox 29 chief Meteorologist John Bolaris about the details of snow amounts in the Philadelphia area. When Bolaris told Rendell that measurement was taken at 7 p.m., Rendell argued the point. He also said with only several inches on the ground in the Pennsylvania sub...

Eagles-Vikings Tuesday night football to make history
Forget that the 5-9 Minnesota Vikings were pretty terrible even before Brett Favre began showing his age and before star running back Adrian Peterson banged up his legs. Forget that the 10-4 Philadelphia Eagles have been one of the most dominant teams all year, have already clinched a Playoff spot, and are Las Vegas' two-touchdown favorite in the game. Forget that the Eagles last year knocked the Vikes out of Playoff contention and that the Green Bay Packers have already handed the Eagles t...

Blizzard blasts Northeastern pols (Politico)
There’s nothing like a bitter winter storm to put Northeastern pols in the hot seat. And this week’s massive Snowfall across much of New England and the northern Mid-Atlantic region seems to have done the trick. In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent a second day Tuesday batting back questions about his administration’s response to the Christmas weekend deluge, urging citizens to stay calm while city agencies work to clear the streets. Across the river in New Jersey,...

Rendell on postponement of the Eagles game: You think the Chinese would cancel?
- Jennifer of Cubachi Governor Ed Rendell was not all that impressed with the postponement of the Vikings v. Eagles game last night. He said it proved our nation is full of wussies. "My biggest beef is that this is part of what’s happened in this country," Rendell said. "I think we’ve become wussies." ...