The Guild 9-17-2002 When did your fav TV show Jump the Shark?

This site offers alphabetical listings of TV shows, movies and assorted other happenings that when you pick one out you can see when most people thought the show started down hill.

First Show 1996
Last Show 2002
Genre Talk
Network SYN
Slot Day Various
Slot Time Various
Jumped The Shark when....

Votes
Day One................... 35
Tom Selleck's appearance.. 29
Never Jumped.............. 17
She's a hypocrite......... 12
Rosie is an expert
on all social issues....... 7
Not That There's Anything
Wrong With It (Rosie)...... 4
Elmo....................... 3
Singing.................... 3
The Barbra Striesand
interview.................. 3
Party of Five cast appears. 1
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First Show 1947
Last Show ?
Genre Talk
Network NBC
Slot Day Sunday
Slot Time Various
Jumped The Shark when...

Votes
Tim Russert takes over... 10
Special Guest Star
(Jesse Ventura) 1 Special Guest Star
(Rush Limbaugh) 1 Special Guest Star
(Hillary Clinton) 1 Special Guest Star
(John McCain) again 1
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First Show 1999
Last Show ?
Genre Drama
Network NBC
Slot Day Wednesday
Slot Time 9 pm
Jumped The Shark when...

Votes
Never Jumped... 146
A Very Special...(the terrorist episode) 39
Ted McGinley... 23
The LEFT wing... 19
Will he or won't he run?...
18 The President has M.S.... 15
Death (Mrs. Landingham)... 14
Third Season finale... 12
Day One... 11
Special Guest Star (Lily Tomlin)... 8
Special Guest Star (Mark Harmon)... 7
First Season Finale... 7
Aaron Sorkin gets busted... 6
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Ted is the patron saint of shark jumping. Chances are that if Ted is anywhere near your cast, consider the show on the downward spiral. That's not to take away from Ted's fine acting skills. Consensus here enjoys Ted more on the big screen (Revenge of the Nerds) than on our sets. Then again, we wouldn't have a patron saint...thanks Ted!

An overwhelming majority of "Never Jumped" votes is required for safe passage here. And you've got to have more than a handful of total votes as well. We present the few, the proud...

Fraud is what has me the most worried this election cycle. The rat bastards know no low point. Thankfully someone is paying attention.

$12,000 paid to person in voter fraud probe

The South Dakota Democratic Party reportedly paid the person at the center of a voter fraud investigation more than $12,000 in the last three months.

The figure comes from Federal Election Commission records from July, August and September.

They show that Becky Red Earth-Villeda received 18 paychecks totaling $12,867. The reason given for the money were administrative or voter drives. One check for $3,500 was credited to travel expenses.

Democratic Party spokeswoman Sarah Feinberg said the contractors are paid by the number of voter registration cards and absentee ballots they collect.

The news marks the latest development in a widening controversy over voter registration and absentee ballots in and around American Indian reservations in South Dakota.

One out of every 10 new voter registrations in Shannon County is being investigated, said Sherrill Dryden, county auditor for Fall River County, which handles voter registration for adjacent Shannon County. [snip]

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Shannon joins counties with voter trouble

One in every 10 new voter registrations for people in Shannon County during the past few months is suspect and under investigation, Fall River County Auditor Sherrill Dryden said Wednesday, adding to problems surrounding a push to increase the number of Native American voters in South Dakota.

Fall River County handles voter registration for the adjacent Shannon County, which makes up about half the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota. More than 1,000 new registrations have poured into Dryden's office from the reservation this fall, some from new voters and others from people who haven't voted for awhile and need their registration updated.

"We had different birthdays and different signatures. Some of the middle initials were wrong," Dryden said. "We just got suspicious when we see a birthday that's a day or two off or a year or two off. It just sent up a red flag."

Both the state and the FBI have been asked to investigate the problems, she said. [snip]

Tommy's friends don't like to play fair. Shocking!

Fire up your phones ladies and gentlemen.

Votes on Homeland Security Department Blocked

Senate Democrats and Republicans yesterday blocked each other's moves to force votes on legislation creating a Department of Homeland Security, dimming if not dooming prospects for action on the measure before the Nov. 5 midterm elections.

The weeks-long stalemate continued -- and deepened -- as the Senate appeared ready to join the House and go home until after the elections unless called back by its leaders. Some lawmakers have said they believe the homeland security bill might have a better chance in the "lame duck" session after the elections, when it will no longer have immediate political implications. Others are not so sure.

As it has been from the start, the key substantive issue in the homeland security debate is whether to grant President Bush the broad powers he seeks to hire, fire and reassign the 170,000 workers whose 22 agencies will be transferred to the new anti-terror department. [snip]

One little sticking point these dims won't get over, time to tell our Senators what we expect them to do.

Florida Attorney General Jim Smith (R) asks USAG Ashcroft to send in the troops for our elections. Whew! :-)

MIAMI - The federal government will post civil rights monitors at the polls in several Florida counties during the Nov. 5 election, state officials said Friday.

Florida Secretary of State Jim Smith had asked the Justice Department (news - web sites) for help after the botched Sept. 10 primary, when problems delayed some vote tallies for a week and polling places did not open on time.

Among the counties that will have monitors are Miami-Dade, Orange and Osceola, which were all involved in the 2000 presidential election debacle.

The Justice Department said other counties will have monitors, too.

"Our paramount concern is to protect access to, and the integrity of, the voting process for all qualified voters," Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) wrote to Smith in a letter released Friday.

Ashcroft also said up to $100,000 will be provided to Florida for additional training for poll workers, who complained about the state's new touchscreen voting machines.

Alan Stonecipher, spokesman for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill McBride, said the campaign is trying to obtain more details of the agreement.

"The presence of outsiders at the polls can either be helpful or inhibiting in the process of everyone voting," Stonecipher said. "Our interest is in making certain that everyone has a clear opportunity to vote."

Stonecipher again criticized Republican Gov. Jeb Bush for not ensuring the primary went smoothly, especially after the marathon 2000 presidential election won by Bush's brother.

"His election reform package failed to get the job done and now they are calling in the reinforcements from Washington," he said. [watchful eyes not of your party making you a bit nervous McBride? One would think that making sure us evil republicans don't sneak in to those heavly dim counties and hi-jack the election would be a good thing.]

Bush spokeswoman Katie Muniz said the governor welcomed the help and she called the McBride campaign's criticism "ridiculous."

The primary was Florida's first major test of new and expensive touchscreen computers that replaced the punchcard ballots made infamous during the 2000 presidential recount.

Most counties using new touchscreen machines had only minor problems. Miami-Dade and Broward, however, had myriad technical glitches stemming from poor planning that left improperly trained poll workers with the task of troubleshooting the machines. Thousands of votes cast in both counties were not counted until days later.

Public outrage following the primary and a desperate wish to avoid becoming the butt of international ridicule once more has resulted in dramatic changes in how counties will approach the general election.

In Broward County, elections supervisor Miriam Oliphant gave up most of her responsibilities under pressure from state and local officials. Her predecessor's deputy, Joe Cotter, is overseeing poll worker training and all poll station duties.

In Broward, elections supervisor Miriam Oliphant gave up most of her responsibilities under pressure from state and local officials.

Some 1,200 paid county employees, not volunteers, will be in charge of setting up and troubleshooting the voting machines. Workers also will be required to confirm when they arrive at polls, open for voting and report any problems so the county can keep tabs on trouble spots.

Earlier this week, Miami-Dade officials decided to hire a group that monitors elections in developing democracies for corruption and error to watch the polls. Link

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AG Jim Smith was so angry when McBride and Reno tried to blame Gov. Bush after the primaries he said, "It's all a load of crap!" Right there on TV and everything!! LOL

Several weeks ago, Kate O'Beirne had a great article in National Review why we shouldn't create a department of Homeland Security. In essence, she said it just create more bureacracy. I have to agree.

My personal hope is that Tenet and Mueller will be fired. Oh yes, I know Mueller had only been FBI director a few days before Sept 11th, but it is what he has said since becoming director - about Sept 11th and how it could not have been prevented, which convinces me he is a cover your ass kind of guy.

Rudy should lay down his hope to be pres for now and step in as "Homeland Sec Director" and work within the current set-up to get the job done. He could do it.

We don't need a dept of Homeland Security. What we do need is to damn well start holding accountable those who have responsibilities in these areas - the head of the CIA, the head of the FBI, the NSC, etc.

I just received the latest National Review mag - and it is appalling how we allowed 15 of the 19 Sept 11th hijackers into the country on such bogus applications as these 15 submitted. Joel Mobray (sp?) has done us a terrific service of exposing the idiocies in the State dept's assessment of risk re: non-immigrant visas.

Please, let's get focused on what we need to do to change the idiocy (in fact, to re-evaluate everyone at State) that now exists in the State department. I hope that after the elections, W will start a major culling situation.

Ok, rant off.

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