Merry Christmas!

Well, another wonderful Christmas at home with MDB!

It was another strange and wonderful week in Brownsworld! It was announced that Mike Holmgren has agreed to fill the position of "Football Czar" with the Browns a week after Josh Cribbs set the all-time NFL record for career kick-off return touchdowns AND the all-time Browns single game rushing record (and the third most in NFL history) was set by Jerome Harrison!

Of course, Kansas City was the opponent, but THAT doesn't matter, does it?

Mangenius has the Browns playing half-way decent the last couple of weeks, so maybe they can close out on a high note and get some momentum going into next year!

Meanwhile, MDB got me a new leaf blower (my request) for Christmas and a card to Lowe's. I was planning on getting a power washer, but I may spend it on our new patio cover...

...I haven't decided!

I got her jewelery from James Avery, a new leather jacket and a Wii game (well....we got each other the Wii game) and she seemed happy with it all!

So....Merry Christmas!

Uncharted waters

Hello again, blogfan!

We're in uncharted waters tonight. My "Light" team won again last night by the lopsided score of 62 to 41, taking their record to 4-0. As I'd hoped for, the team that gave us a game (in the end...we had them down by 21 and had to take our foot off the gas per league rules) last week rose up and beat the only other undefeated team, leaving us alone in first! When we come back from the Christmas break, we face a 2-2 team that we really shouldn't have any problem with, and then play three teams in a row that are sub .500.

THAT'S the scary part! I'm afraid that we'll play a bunch of soft competition, get soft ourselves, and then play that other team to close out the season as a soft and unprepared basketball team.

I can only say....I'd rather be where we are than where THEY are!

Pointy-headed libs at it again!

Hello again, blogfan!

Well, it seems as though the pointy-headed libs at the University of Texas (smack-dab in the middle of the People's Republic of Austin) are upset that the University increased Mack Brown's salary to $5 million per year. It seems that the poor faculty of that cash-strapped university is upset that, at this time of financial tumult, a sports figure would be offered a raise.

Anyone up there ever heard of Capitalism? Uhhh....its the financial system of this country, Mr. and Ms. pointy-headed liberal economics professors!

Coach Brown has once again taken his Longhorn football program to the national championship game, which, in and of itself, would warrant a raise. He has taken UT football to a plateau that it has never known before, not even in the time of the revered and renowned Daryl Royal, which means that it is bringing in MEGA bucks! According to the article, Coach Brown's salary is paid entirely by receipts of the UT athletic program and has no impact on the receipts of the university, either pro or con. IN FACT, the article says that the UT athletic program has generously donated some 6.6 MILLION dollars to UT academics in recent years despite having no mandate to do so.

Sounds like a little socialism gone amok there, pointy headed libs!

I tell you what. Why don't you FIRE Mack Brown and hire some nobody that will bring in no recruits, no acclaim, and no success; THEN you can control the government-issued piece of pie that's left and act as though you had it coming all along!

You people are stupid, degree or no degree!

Sheesh!

Houston, we have a problem!

So, Houston now has the nation's first openly gay mayor.

Does that qualify her to govern, or is it just a statement of some sort from the nation's gay rights activists?

Well, duh!?!?

She CLEARLY was not the most qualified candidate, but every gay, lesbian, cross-dressing, hermaphrodite weirdo in the country got behind her with a national fundraising effort, attempting to make her candidacy a referendum on the legitimacy of being gay instead of how well (or not well) she would govern Houston.

Thanks for not showing up, NORMAL Houston!

You know, I don't throw that term "normal" or "abnormal" around loosely. From any perspective (except the gay perspective, of course) homosexuality is simply NOT normal. What IS normal? From a simple statistical standpoint, "normal" is any part of the bell curve that falls within two standard deviations of the mean. Typically, "normal" encompasses about 95% of the sample population, which means that about 5% of any population could be expected to be "abnormal" in some way. This, of course, is why the gay rights people are so adamant about pronouncing that, according to them, 10% of the population is homosexual. THAT would mean that about 50% of that population falls withing the range of "normal." Which half is abnormal, gay rights guy? The half that becomes a priest and molests little boys or the half that becomes a serial killer and eats people?

Just wondering...

In any case, even if you buy the gay rights statistics (which I clearly DON'T by the way!!!), look at it from a clearly anatomical standpoint. Sex, by its very nature, is meant to cause propagation of the species. We're built so that the female partner donates 23 chromosomes and the male partner donates the other 23 and the zygote winds up with the normal number of 46. Although I do not mean by any stretch of the imagination to be insensitive, this is exactly why Down's Syndrome children are not normal; they have an extra chromosome (47) that causes any number of physical problems for them.

Having an extra chromosome falls within the 5% of the population that could be considered "abnormal" from a statistical standpoint. I'm sorry if that offends some; but it IS the truth!

Anyway, try as they might to represent themselves as "normal" through "Partner" adoption, artificial insemination, or some other form of parenthood by artificial means, gay unions are not capable of procreation in the manner intended by God.

They are therefore, NOT normal!

All that said, it's clearly a sickness that activists do whatever they can to push their agenda DESPITE what may or may not be good or acceptable from the standpoint of pure governance. Anise Parker was caught in several untruths during the course of the campaign, ranging from fabrications of her own voting record while on city council to made up endorsements.

Well, since the Clinton years, we know that lying isn't that big a deal to the electorate....

even if it SHOULD be!!!

So, much like the nation in which it resides, Houston is stuck with an unqualified, if decidedly PC candidate for at least 4 years.

I hope I'm not anywhere near here when the wheels fall off!

3-0; NOW what do we do?

Well, dear blogfan, it's been a wonderful and strange week in Dan's sports world; my 7th-grade "A" team is 3-0 and tied for first place in the district, and my beloved Browns actually won a game, beating the despised (pronounced dE- SPIZE- eD) Steelers and essentially knocking them out of any hope they may have had for the playoffs this year (snicker...snicker...). Strange and wonderful, no?

My "A" basketball team is special. They don't look it, but they're absolutely the most athletic bunch of kids I've ever coached! Even better, they put the ball in the basket when they get and take a shot! I've had teams in the past who worked really hard, got a good look at the basket, but actually put it in the hole at an alarmingly pitiful rate! Well, this bunch gets the good looks AND sinks the shots they get! AMAZING!!!!! They scored 64 last week and 53 this week. I hate to sound like I'm bragging, but that's a LOT of points in only 28 minutes of basketball especially when you consider that on the night they scored 64 the clock ran for the whole 4th quarter!

This past week, we built up a 21 point lead before we had to stop pressing (league rules prohibit pressing with a 20+ point lead) only to finish with only a 5-point margin of victory. Having to take our foot off of the gas took us out of our rhythm.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

This week, we face a team that lost last week to the only other undefeated team in the district, so this is going to be another tough week in basketball! Fortunately, the team who made such a valiant come-back on us this past week faces the other undefeated team; maybe (good Lord willing) WE'LL be the only one left standing after the week is over! That would be AWESOME!!! I hate to hope for someone else's demise, but we don't face them ourselves until the final week of the season, so what's wrong with hoping that someone gets to them before WE do?

On the other front, it sure is nice to see my Browns play well for a change!

Well, it may have been more of a function of Pittsburgh playing poorly, but who (outside of Pittsburgh) is going to look this gift horse in the mouth? Certainly not I!!!

The Browns sacked Rothlisberger (sp?) 8 times overall, I believe. Uhhh....how about a little protection for Big Ben, what do you say Steeler's O-line? Didn't he just recover from a concussion? Seems to me like you'd want to offer a little more protection for your franchise quarterback than that........I'm just saying!!!

I'm not complaining, mind you! It was really nice to see Brown and Orange all over that black and yellow, not to mention the pain and bewilderment in his eyes, but, were I a Pittsburger, I think I'd be looking for a little more "max protection" calls from Mike Tomlin and a lot fewer "everyone in the pattern" calls......I'm just saying!!!

What was really nice was the fact that the Browns seemed to be able to run on Pittsburgh almost at will, especially in the first half. Josh Cribbs did to them what he usually does; slice and dice like a vegamatic on steroids! Why would anyone wearing black and yellow EVER punt a ball to Josh Cribbs? Do they have game tape in Pittsburgh? Has anyone seen what Josh Cribbs ALWAYS does to Pittsburgh? Maybe they should consider NOT punting the ball to him anymore...I'm just saying!!!

Well, that's enough advice for the evil empire. They have enough else to worry about, what with searching for a new head coach and all. Maybe they can bring Chuck Noll back; he was such a breath of fresh air, wasn't he?

He made Bill Belichick look like Robin Williams in comparison!

I'm just saying!!!

basketball, broken arms, and multiculturalism!

Hello again, blogfan!

Well, another busy week in the books! My 7th graders came on strong again this week and took a lopsided 64 - 31 victory over another team that I've never been able to beat! Looks like it's going yo be a good year! I told them Thursday that putting that kind of whooping on someone has pluses and minuses. The big plus is that teams in the district see the same scores we see and it adds a little fear factor to us walking in the gym. The big minus is that other teams see the same scores we see and it puts a big bulls eye on us! Oh well; I'd rather be where we are than where they are!

I told one of the parents the other day (who was bubbling because of our early-season success) that I've coached this bunch pretty much the same way I've coached every other team I've ever had. The difference with this bunch is that they're actually going out and executing the things we've worked on!

You can go from idiot to genius in about two nanoseconds in this business! Coaches with good athletes are geniuses by and large and the ones without them are idiots (or so it would seem!).

This Wednesday we have our first home game. The team we play is one that is always tough but I've managed to get wins over two of the last three years. Their coach is pretty well schooled in the game and always has his teams prepared for us. I say we've beat them two of the last three years; we've beat them in the tournament at the end of the year despite losing our regular-season game against them. This year I'd like to get the regular-season game and let the tournament take care of itself!

It's a strange year so far! 5 of the ten teams in the district are undefeated at 2-0 and 5 do not have a victory! STRANGE!!! I'm glad to be one of the teams at 2-0! It's hard getting motivated when you know your season is already over with only two games in the can!

Toward the end of our game this week, a kid from the other team fell down and broke his arm. From all appearances, both the radius and the ulna were pretty much snapped in two, though the skin was not broken. Despite that, there was MAJOR deformation (it was UGLY!!!) and naturally, a lot of pain! Having been trained for 15+ years as an EMT in my former career, I went to see if I could help and wound up doing the splinting. The young man was able to hold the clipboard (all they could find for a splint was a clipboard) without a sling, so we tucked it under his arm and off to the ER he went (mom was at the game, thank goodness!!!). Thursday, I sent an e-mail to the opposing coach and asked him how the young man was doing. The coach e'd back that he was set to either have surgery or get the bone set that day and that the ER doctor was very pleased with the job I'd done with the splint. He also passed along gratitude from the mother who was very happy that her son had been efficiently and professionally taken care of in his time of need. Then the phone started ringing; the 7th-grade AP called and left a message with a voice mail from the mom in question attached. She had called my school and left a very nice message praising the work I'd done on her son. THEN the school principal called and enclosed the same message! THEN I got down to the coaches office and our AD played it for me AGAIN!!! WOW!!! It's nice to be appreciated!

Meanwhile, I hope the young man is doing okay; he did not cry during the whole ordeal despite what must have been excruciating pain and he exhibited a great deal of courage!

My thoughts on multiculturalism probably ought to go on a whole new entry, but here's the gist of it; pride in America is waning because we have inculcated in our youth that what we honor is NOT the country that allows us the freedom to celebrate our cultural differences, but the country from which those traditions arose. Put simply, we need to make sure our young people realize a few things; America is the greatest country ever to grace planet Earth! The constitution of this country allows people to be different while still being Americans! That said, if you live here, if you draw your sustenance here, if you make your living here, you need to honor and pay tribute to the country that allows you the freedoms you enjoy! Try NOT honoring China in China! Go to Mexico and tell them that America is WAY better than Mexico and see what happens to you! Have pride in your heritage, but realize that you're an American now and America is the country that needs and DESERVES all of your allegiance and pride both now and in the future!

Why don't some black athletes do what the libs want?

Hello again, blogfan!

I listen to a lot of sports talk radio, so I hear frequently from listener-callers about how they wish Tiger Woods and/or Michael Jordan would speak out about social issues. Jim Brown, the best running back in the history of football and notorious advocate for social change, has mentioned this, most recently in an interview on the Jim Rome show. Brown basically wished out loud that either Tiger, Jordan, or both would use their considerable sway with the public to elicit change in public policy.

So, why don't they do it?

Well, obviously liberal agents of change ASSUME that black athletes like Jordan or Woods would trumpet the "party line" and sing for Obama-esque change; more government assistance, affirmative action, and government control over whatever CAN be controlled by government. However, what would happen if their assumption is wrong? What if Woods and other insanely rich black athletes would take a conservative stand and ask people to assume personal responsibility for their own well-being? Not only would that be treacherous to "their roots" in the eyes of the libs, but it would severely undermine whatever credibility they enjoy in African-American culture, or at least the liberal version of it.

Maybe Woods and Jordan know this and therefore refuse to say anything at all! At least they don't risk the ire of the community that hold them up as examples of success by not speaking out.

How ironic would it be if THAT were the case?

Busy week!

Well, there's lots going on, so lets get to it!

The Senate votes today on whether they should debate their version of the health care bill. Republicans vow to filibuster, but the Dumocrats have the 60 votes they need to bring it to a vote if they vote in lock-step (like they do on everything else!), so don't be surprised if it comes to debate, passes, and goes to conference.

The Dumocrats just don't get it; we don't WANT nationalized health care! It doesn't work anywhere it's been tried! In fact, the several states that have similar plans in place already are going broke faster than the rest of the states and SURELY wish they could go back (but we all know that once you've opened this can of worms a la Social Security, Medicare, etc., it's next to impossible to put that lid on again!), but it's too late.

Dumocrats just don't learn the lessons of history!

Did Socialism work in the Soviet Union or in Eastern Europe? Has it been a huge success in Korea, Viet Nam, or any other country you can name? Oh, and don't get off on China! They adopted (very successfully I might add!) Capitalism a long time ago. The difference there, of course, is that they have a HUGE, VERY CHEAP labor pool upon which to build their brand of Capitalism and that is exactly why they have been so successful in world markets!

In short, please pray with me that a few Dumocrats actually LISTEN to their constituents and vote NOT to proceed instead of voting "aye."

Write it down: if this bill passes, it's the absolute beginning of the end of this Republic.

Then there's this; my kids are coming for our Thanksgiving celebration today! Woo-hoo! I'm really proud of all of them! They're all making positive steps toward a long and happy life! It should be a lot of fun!

Finally, my 7th graders went to BHI to play the Bears on Wednesday. Now, everyone (I guess) has that rival that they can never seem to get past. BHI has been ours. I've coached at PVI for 6 years and I've never had a team that's beat them. They get superior athletes year in and year out and they have very good coaches who have them prepared to play and prepared for whatever we throw at them. As I said, we haven't beat them in six years and who knows how long it'd been before that.

Well, that all changed on Wednesday! We beat BHI to start our season (34-30) and now we're tied for first place in the district! The boys played their hearts out! Naturally, being the first game of the season, we didn't execute our offense all that well, but our defense was outstanding and BHI was never really able to get going against us! What a hoot!

Oh well, that's enough for now! Pray with me that socialized health care in this country does NOT happen. We can't afford it and, as bad as I feel for those who don't have health care for whatever reason, sinking the ship to make sure everyone is in the same water just doesn't make any sense!

Going Rogue!

Well, Sarah Palin has been all over the news recently doing interviews and pimping her new book, "Going Rogue." Naturally, the left has done everything they can to discredit her.

Of course, they don't challenge her on the issues because they have no basis for such a challenge. They go straight to their favorite tact, "the politics of personal destruction," and attempt to discredit her personally rather than ideologically.

Why do they fear her so?

Simple. Sarah Palin is intelligent, well-spoken, down-to-earth, firm in her beliefs, and....

wait for it....

Conservative!!!

You see, the libs have come to see themselves as the "owners" of women's issues. You know, equality in the workplace, the right to decide about their own bodies, the right to exist as an autonomous entity, etc. So here comes Sarah Palin, a working woman who chooses to be happily married, chooses to have children, chooses to find strength in family and faith AND chooses to succeed despite coming from the polar opposite side of the political spectrum as the libs (who believe its not POSSIBLE to succeed without THEM)! The fact is, they can't afford, literally AND figuratively, for her "template" to be seen as a viable alternative for women because it discredits THEIR contention that theirs is the only way for a woman to be seen as successful.

I've got to hand it to her; she's taking on all comers. Her interview on Oprah was one of the best I've seen, but you would fully expect "O" to toe the party line and do everything she could to pull the rug out from under her. Props to you, Oprah! You played it fair and Palin came across as honest, intelligent, well-spoken, and right on the issues.

What a shock since she IS those things!

Take note, libs! This is a conservative nation and Palin is the flag bearer for the conservative movement at the moment; attack at your own risk!

Happy Veteran's Day!

Hello blogfan!

I'd be remiss indeed if I let this day pass without a heartfelt "Thank You!!!" to all of our veterans. The freedoms I enjoy today were bought and paid for with their toil, sweat, blood, and tears and I've done little, if anything, to earn any of it. So, thank you, men and women of the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard; I owe you a debt of gratitude and I'll NEVER be able to pay it back!

I was fortunate, I guess. As I came up through High School, the Viet Nam war was in full force. Oh, there was talk of cease-fire and an eventual end to the conflict, but we'd been hearing that for how long? Almost as long as I could remember! So, I turned 16 in 1973 and those "don't forget to register for the draft" notices started coming to the house, I grew concerned that I may have to go to Viet Nam. A lot of my friends were already talking about going to Canada, burning their draft cards or simply not responding, but I'd already decided that I was going to do my duty and report if I were called.

I never got an opportunity to make that choice. The war ended in 1974, the draft was discontinued not long afterward, so that dreaded notice never came and I never had to serve.

I often wondered how things would have been different if I DID have to go. Would I have come back? If so, would I have been in one piece? I only know one thing; God knew what path my feet would take and I can only thank Him that I am here today to share this with any who care to read it.

I thank God and I thank our veterans, many of whom did NOT come back and allowed me the opportunity to not go at all. Thank you, veterans!

When computers get in the way

Wow! Two posts in two days! It's a miracle!

Well, not really, but it may seem like one!

Anyone who knows me at all KNOWS that I think the technology that's available to us today is remarkable, EXTREMELY useful, and a wonderful contribution to society far more often than it is a detractor.

That said, it IS a detractor at times and it is for us, the users of said technology, to figure out when it gets in the way of progress and avoid those applications!

To wit: Once upon a time, in my previous career, my department occasionally had to write up accident reports. Sometimes, legal wheels would begin turning before the mess was fully cleaned up and people from Corporate would immediately start pressuring us for our report. WAY in the early days of computer usage in business when we had ONE to share for our entire department, we typically wrote such reports by hand, gave them to the department secretary to type up, proofread them for corrections, mistakes, or other changes, sent them back for a final copy, signed it and sent it up the chain of command. On one occasion, just such an accident had taken place and, as the guy on call, I had to get the investigation done and issue the report. It was a case of "legal wheels turning," because I had scarcely returned to the office when the phone was ringing, looking for the report. I wrote it up as quickly as I could, told the secretary that it was a "needed it yesterday" report, and asked that she drop pretty much everything and get to it right away. She acknowledged me and, ostensibly, got to work. I went to work on something else and, after what I considered to be a reasonable time, went to get the report.

But she hadn't even started it yet!

When I asked her what was taking so long (even with my HORRENDOUS skill on a typewriter I could have written it about ten times already!!!), she said that she was trying to learn a new computer program and was having difficulty with some of the commands (an old DOS-based program).

I probably wasn't very diplomatic, but I instructed her to write it up on the typewriter and learn her program when it was a little more convenient to the flow of work through the office!

Sheesh!

Anyway, I said all of that to say this: computers STILL get in the way at times and when we reinvent the way we do things JUST to make sure we include technology JUST for the sake of using technology, we're missing sight of the what we're trying to produce (the product) in favor of HOW it's produced. If the old way produces just as good a product in LESS time with LESS hassle, I say keep with it until the application of technology catches up!

Sheesh!

Good job, Dumocrats!

Well, despite the stinging repudiation from the electorate during last Tuesday's election, the Dumocrats went ahead with their planned destruction of capitalism and voted up on their stupid health care reform legislation.

Yes, it theirs, lock, stock, and barrel. I hope they're big enough to own it in 2010 when the electorate will speak again about their displeasure with the measure!

Unfortunately, I'm afraid it will be too late at that point. Much like Social Security or Medicare, it may be too late to put the cap back on the bottle at that point and put things back in the hands of the free market. Too many people dependent on the largess of government

Again!

How sad that we've come to a place where so many people are willing to trade freedom for so-called security.

I guess it's like a lot of other things. We've got to hit absolute rock bottom, where government dictates absolutely EVERYTHING about your life, before people look up and go "remember when I didn't have to have a permit to flush the commode? Do you recall, back in 2009, when we could go to any doctor we wanted to see? I remember seeing grandma at the old folks home; that was before the government decided that geriatric care was too expensive and mandatory euthanasia went into effect! I wish we still had freedom in this country!"

I won't forget, that's for sure!

Black is white; white is black!

Hello again, blogfan!

Today, it's unAmerican to tell a liar that he's a liar; or so it seems.

Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina reacted emotionally to Obama's claim that illegal aliens have never been on the projected roles of those he intends to cover with "Obamacare."

Obama lied, but everyone nodded politely and agreed with the lie because it's not nice to NOT agree with the liar while he's still lying! Joe's only mistake in my eyes was his choice of place and time!

Obama and the cronies he keeps trotting out to replay his lies keeps telling us that nearly 20% of Americans are without health insurance. Well, we KNOW that 10% are without it since his stimulus bill that failed to stimulate anything except the pockets of his cronies has driven unemployment up to nearly 10%, but what about the other half of their claims? Most of the rest of the people he's talking about have no legitimate claim to any largess of the US taxpayer in any case because they're here ILLEGALLY! What's worse (and this is truly the dirty little secret that Obama doesn't want you to know), nearly ALL of the ailments THEY would seek treatment for under Obamacare are already covered under existing programs OR the "mandatory treatment in the ER" laws that already exist!

This in not about health care; it's about grabbing as much power and money as possible while he's got a double-majority in Congress!

In short, he's lying to us (again!). Poor Joe didn't time it well, but he's the only one who spoke the truth during the president's speech the other night!

Obama on education

Here's a new one; I think the President of the United States ought to be able to address the schoolchildren of America without all the hoopla! The fact is, parents need to do their job and inform their children!

What a sad day it is when we can't trust the guy to deliver a plain ol' "stay in school, work hard, get a good education and be a productive member of society" message. What a sad day indeed!

What a sad day when parents are concerned that their parenting skills will be overridden by a US President! I'd have to say, "listen to him, kids! If he tries to indoctrinate you into National Socialism, I'll set you straight!"

There are so many sad things about this day, it's hard to know where to begin! Superintendents of school districts across the country are being asked to take sides; show the President and risk a schism among the parents of the district or don't show him and risk the same! The bottom line here is, we have a President who has managed to polarize this country like none I can remember and he basically did it in a very simple way; he said one thing during his candidacy and now he's doing another thing altogether (i.e., he lied to us!) and, like any other liar, we simply don't trust him now!

The worst of all is the hypocrisy that is coming to the fore. You say, "Let's show the President's address and if your kids don't like it, you can tell us and we'll send them to an alternate location to do something else!" If I said, "let's allow prayer in school; if your kids don't like it, they can go somewhere else while everyone else enjoys it!" , you'd say "Uh, it's not fair to single out certain kids or make them feel somehow inferior. We cannot allow it!"

Well, you DID say the latter, so where's the fairness in the former? It's strictly a double standard (something libs are EXCELLENT at, BTW!) and I don't know how any fair minded individual could ever even SUGGEST it!

What do you expect from the same folks who brought you "(you) travel in a shoebox that gets 400 mpg to save the planet and we'll meet you in the private jet that belches enough greenhouse gas to destroy the entire ozone layer in about 30 minutes!"

Hypocrisy everywhere!

So, go ahead and say what you want, Mr. President. With your track record, no one except the blindest of your minions will believe what you say anyway!

Michael Vick, Ted Kennedy, and PC run amok!

Hello again, blogfan!

Michael Vick resumes his NFL career this evening with the Philadelphia Eagles.

As me if I care?

Frankly, I think it's fine. I mean, we're a Christian nation despite what Obama says! If anyone can appreciate a second chance, it's someone who's been redeemed by the sacrifice of Jesus for us all, so I think we need to understand the shortcomings of others and give them second chances when we can.

He among you who is without sin, cast the first stone!

Of course, the PC aspect of this is that PETA, who most people I know thinks is a bunch of fruitcakes and nut-jobs, has somehow managed to make a large group of people think that what Vick did was tantamount to the murder of a human being!

Look, what he did was terrible, reprehensible, and absolutely shameful, but it was not the same as the killing of a human being!

Not even in the same city, let alone ballpark!

Enough of Vick, already! The women of New England can breath a sigh of relief! The womanizing (allegedly) Ted Kennedy has finally gone to a much warmer place and taken his ultra-liberal politics with him! I'm not going to cry for a 77 year-old man who lived in the absolute lap of luxury, got just about anything and everything he ever wanted (including EXCUSED for the killing of at least one young woman), and did everything he possibly could to turn the US into a North American version of Red China! Vick at least did his penance and has shown signs of remorse for what he did! The coward Kennedy never admitted or showed contrition for any of his deeds!

Of course, the Dems have trotted out the notion that Obama's health care bill should be re-packaged as the "Kennedy Memorial Health Care Plan" in the hopes that they can actually garner some sympathy for the ostensibly failed package.

Look, Dumocrats! A bad idea is a bad idea regardless of who's name is on it!

Driving me CRAZY!!

Hello again, blogfan!



Well, I'm taking a break from telling you how ridiculous the current administration, their policies and their proposals are; today I'm going to reprise my disgust with people who climb behind the wheel of their car with no more intention of driving a car than Ray Charles (and Ray was probably a better driver than most of these idiots!)



I understand driving for fuel economy; I do it myself. However, the optimal economy in almost any vehicle is achieved when you keep your RPMs at or below 2000 and, generally speaking, the rate at which you achieve that optimal engine speed has little or nothing to do with how much fuel is consumed in the process (within reason, of course!). Therefore, if you take off so slowly that your car spends most of its time at the upper ranges of that gear's range before it shifts to a lower gear, you're actually getting LESS fuel economy than you would if you simply got it up to speed and let it shift into a lower gear where the engine turns more slowly. GOT IT?



I didn't think so! If you did, you wouldn't go from 0 to 60 in 6.5 weeks and hold everyone else up! By the way, having to stop at every light because you've got turtles peeing on your tires costs you and everyone else a lot of gas as you sit there idling with your A/C blowing as well, you inconsiderate moron!

The other form of highway inconsideration that is driving me absolutely loony has to do with communication. I remember a time when no one, and I mean NO ONE was so important that they couldn't sacrifice contact with friends, co-workers, and loved ones for at least as long as it took to drive from A to B. In this modern age of instant communication via cell phone and the marriage of cellular technology to the Internet, no one can really get away from instant access to whomever they choose, even if they desired to do so. All that is fine and really useful under most circumstances, but the same guy who seems to be able to handle about ten things at once in an office or at home seems to turn into a jello-brain once he tries to drive and do ANY of the above at the same time. I'm serious! I've had to wake so many people up at red lights lately that my horn is about to wear out! I'm tired of getting run off the road as people attempt to text and drive at the same time! I've had it with cars moving fine in two lanes and that one car in the middle causing people to swerve and slam on their brakes because the driver of the slow car is too busy talking on a cell phone to pay attention to their direction or speed!

Here's a suggestion, morons! If you can't handle the cell phone AND the driving, do the one that will certainly kill people if you do it poorly! DRIVE THE FREAKIN' CAR FIRST!!!! Or better yet, if you're unable to do both, put down the phone and NEVER EVER pick it up in the car if you can't handle it!

Guess what? Even though you're usually in the giant Tahoe that no one else can see around, your car will crash and roll just like any other if you continue to drive like its Stevie Wonder behind the wheel! So, if you won't do it for us, do it for yourself, loser!

Sheesh!

Town Halls

This week, all the talk's been about the so-called "Town Hall" meetings that have been taking place across the country to "discuss" the President's health care proposals.

Of course, "discuss" isn't exactly what's been going on, but there've been groups of people showing up for one purpose or another!

If you've gone to one of the Obama-led meetings, you were hand-picked because you're able to shake a pom-pom and ask puffball questions that the Comedian-in-Chief can handle without his teleprompter telling him what to think!

If you went to a Shirley Jackson-Lee meeting, you learned that it's okay in "Shirley World" to ignore your constituents by answering your cell phone in the middle of a cancer survivor's question and then go on Greta Van Susteren's show a little later and lie about it while being equally rude to Greta!

If you went to Benedict Arnold "Arlen" Specter's town hall meeting, you're still "waiting a minute" since he told one poor old dude who had apparently been promised an opportunity to speak to "wait a minute" about 3500 times. If you're waiting all the minutes he told you to, you should be free to move about your home sometime next Thursday!

In all but the Obama-choreographed meetings, it should be apparent that America does not want and does not feel that it needs Obamacare! I've said before that I think it would be a good idea for them to clean up their Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security messes before they start another one, but that doesn't seem to be what they want! Frankly, as I've said before, I think they should phase Medicare and Medicaid out altogether and let market forces determine the cost of health care without the artificial influences of those "price-fixing" government entities, but, much like Social Security, it's not likely to happen as long as the elderly depend on the programs as they apparently do.

So sad to be fed a bill of goods like that! Sadder still that now we've all been suckered into placing ourselves into this situation where they can force this crap down our throats whether we want it or not!

Is it 2010 yet?

Life's little ironies!

I'm constantly amazed by life's little ironies!

The other day, I was pulled over for failing to fasten my seat belt. As the officer penned the ticket, a group of helmetless motorcyclists passed us doing what was probably at least 15, perhaps 20 miles per hour above the speed limit.

Am I not less likely to be deathified in a car crash without my seat belt than the motorcyclists without a helmet? Where's big daddy doing all he can to protect THEM from themselves?

By the way, I thought I had a constitutional right to kill myself if that's what I want to do? It MUST be constitutional! Oregon will pay for assisted suicide in lieu of life-saving cancer drugs, or haven't you heard? Not to say that that's the only thing they'll help you off yourself for, mind you, but that's the most bizarre example I've heard to date!

And speaking of killing yourself, hasn't big daddy gone on the rampage to stop cigarette smoking?! Have you SEEN the price of a pack of cigarettes these days? That's $5.50/pack in taxes of one kind or another, 15 cents for the retailer, and a nickel for Philip Morris! And that's here in TEXAS!! I've heard that in places like the People's Republic of New York, it's nearly twice that!

Look, I just want a little equity in all of this. If it's NOT okay for me to kill myself in my car by refusing to wear a seat belt, then it's not okay for a bunch of motorcyclists to go helmetless, either! I don't care how powerful their lobby is! However, as I've stated before, I think both are okay, as long as I'm not endangering someone else with my actions! I don't think my demise at the hand of a telephone pole is going to affect anyone other than me any more one way than the other, quite frankly!

Big Daddy government, get out of my life! I thought I had a right to privacy! Or does that only apply to pregnant women?

Sheesh!

I NEVER would have figured THIS!!!

Nadya Suleman, the mother of octuplets most recently and 14 children altogether, has reportedly signed a deal with the company that produced "The Biggest Loser" to star in a reality TV show.

The biggest loser, indeed!

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I never would've believed it if I hadn't read it on Yahoo!!

The woman with no skill, no job, no income (well, no skill other than getting pregnant, apparently) and no viable prospects has agreed to assist her kids (read as "exploit," "use," "manipulate," or "rape" as you see fit) with their future by inking them to a reality TV deal! That always works out, doesn't it, Jon and Kate? Danny Bonaduce, you wanna chime in here? Where's Willis when you need him?

I thought selling kids was illegal? Why don't we just attach little shackles to their ankles and make them drag rocks around or something? That might be entertaining as well, don't you think?

There's a really warm place in hell for people who exploit children like this and Jesus is coming soon, so I'd see if I couldn't spend some of that easy money on icewater if I were you, Nada! (No, I didn't misspell it! If there was ever a zero, this one's it!)

Sheesh!

Another symptom!

Well, the headline this morning was "States Where Job Seekers Have Given Up," or something to that effect.

To me, it's just another symptom of the "Everyone Gets a Trophy" generation. If you can't find that perfect work experience, you just give up and let Big Daddy Government take care of you. I mean, it's actually their responsibility anyway, isn't it?

This is just the sort of shift in our collective thinking as a society that makes me physically ill! If you can't find that "perfect" job, then you take one that's a little less perfect until that "perfect" one comes along! Since I was 17, I've been out of work a total of three days! I never willingly left a job without having another in place and, even though I may not make as much money as I could if I really "worked" the system for all it's worth, I make a fair wage and I'm happy with what I do. Who could ask for more?

Here's an idea for all of you "Discouraged Job Seekers;" Get up real early, log onto "Craig's List," and start applying for anything legitimate that will actually earn you a paycheck until your ideal job comes along! Frankly, I'd hang off of a garbage truck and pick up trash for the city before I'd sit around feeling sorry for myself and let someone else take care of me or my obligations!

Shake yourselves, losers! Go get a job!