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September 30, 2005
PFW: Will HBO get a cut of the stadium naming rights...?
In this frenzied era of new stadiums for football teams, the Noo Joisey Football Giants and the Noo Joisey J-E-T-S JetsJetsJets! have agreed on new digs of their own.
The New York Giants and Jets agreed Thursday to build a stadium in the Meadowlands that would become the first NFL venue to be owned and operated by two teams.The facility will be built near state-owned Giants Stadium, which is currently home to both teams and is among the league's oldest stadiums.
Specific details about the stadium plan are to be developed over the next several months, including its new name. The teams plan to put the naming rights up for bid.
Oh, I can see it now: "Sopranos Stadium at the Meadowlands, featuring Hoffa Field".
On to the PFW. My Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets will have one of their toughest tests tonight at 7:30 against the Western Hills Cougars. This game invariably comes down to a field goal or less, and I expect nothing different here.
The Horned Frogs of TCU are at home Saturday against the New Mexico Lobos in what could be the game for the Mountain West Conference championship. It'll come down to which TCU secondary shows up - the brick wall that shut down Utah, or the Swiss Cheese Brigade™ that tiptoed past Brigham Young.
Bob Stoops' Oklahoma Sooners welcome the Kansas State Wildcats to Norman for a Saturday evening Big XII matchup. Darren Sproles is no longer there to terrorize the Sooner secondary, but this game is still not a gimme. OU in a squeaker.
Fourth-ranked LSU (how'd they manage only dropping one spot in the polls after choking against Tennessee?) travels to Mississippi State tomorrow for an afternoon tilt. If Les Miles is worth his salt as a coach, and LSU is of a mind to take out last week's loss against the next opponent, MSU is in trouble. But we'll see.
Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys have their second of two straight games in the Bay area, this time against Th' Raaaiiiiiduhhhs of Oakland. Al Davis would be better served sending his rabid fan base out against the Boys, but just watch: Oakland has Randy Moss - and Moss traditionally torches the Cowboys. Sad to say, I have to pick Oakland to get its first victory this year in a big way.
We're back Monday for the recap.
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September 29, 2005
Global warming? What global warming? (grin)
Yesterday's high in Beautiful Metropolitan Dallas (cough) was 99 degrees or so. May have even topped 100 - not certain, but it sure as Hell™ felt like it. Not a cloud in the sky. (sweat sweat sweat)
As I type this, it's overcast and 62. Fall has officially arrived in Dallas/Fort Worth.
Yyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss...!!!!!
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September 28, 2005
Her 15 minutes were up two months ago...
The SpatulaGoddess has nailed in on the head again regarding Mother Shitcan.
Go. Shoo. Read. I'll be here when you get back. (grin)
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Common sense 2, NYPD 1
I guess some folks just can't take a compliment from the King & Tyrant™.
No sooner did I give props to the gendarmes of the NYPD for taking Mother Shee-hag and putting a cork in her piehole then they got the big head and went on a power trip.
It's an only in New York story. A woman was given a ticket for sitting on a park bench because she doesn't have children.
Gee, I wonder if this is what Queen Hilarious meant by "laws forcing women to have five children"...?
The Rivington Playground on Manhattan's East Side has a small sign at the entrance that says adults are prohibited unless they are accompanied by a child.Forty-seven-year-old Sandra Catena says she didn't see the sign when she sat down to wait for an arts festival to start. Two New York City police officers asked her if she was with a child. When she said no, they gave her a ticket that could bring a one thousand dollar fine and 90 days in jail.
Damn, she could have gotten a first-class ticket to Miami on American for that. Hope she at least gets a bag of peanuts out of the deal, y'know? 
The city parks department says the rule is designed to keep pedophiles out of city parks, but a parks spokesman told the Daily News that the department hoped police would use some common sense when enforcing the rule.The spokesman told the paper that ticketing a woman in the park in the middle of the day is not the way you want to enforce the rule.
Aw, no!!! Y'think???
Asshats...
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September 27, 2005
PFW, part II: An uninspiring Cowgirls win
As I was saying, the San Transexual FairyWhiners' offense was treating the Dallas Cowgirls' defense as if it were a Raggedy Ann© doll. The running game was shoving the ball up the Cowgirls' ass in the first half, averaging what must have been about six yards a pop. Tim Rattay looked like anything but the quarterback who suffered from a 21.0 QB rating against the Filthydelphia Beagles last week.
The Cowgirls' cornerbacks were making Arnaz Battle and Brandon Davis look like the second coming of Jerry Rice and Little Terri Owens. Davis easily ran away from Anthony Henry on an 89-yard catch-and-run.
Our running game was marginally effective early, but Drew Bledsoe was sorely harassed the entire first half. Of his two interceptions, one was run back for a touchdown and the other directly led to another TD. It made for a 15-point Whiner lead in the first half and a 12-point lead after three quarters. This from a team the Cowgirls were expected to handle fairly easily.
Even the kicking game screwed up on the first touchdown drive. José Cortez' PAT was bounced into the holder (sound familiar?) and was pulled off to the left. It was enough to earn Cortez a slap upside the head from lineman Larry Allen, though deep snapper Jon Condo was probably a more deserving target.
But Bledsoe overcame these errors to throw for 363 yards and two touchdowns, the last coming on a 14-yard toss to Keyshawn Johnson in the two-minute drill. The drive also feature a very nice looking 35-yard pass to Terry Glenn to get them into the red zone.
Rattay aided the Cowgirls' cause by throwing two interceptions in the fourth quarter, giving him 12 career 4Q picks - the last one by linebacker Dat Nguyen coming on the final Whiner drive as they were attempting to go for a tying field goal.
Yeah, it's a win. Yeah, it's a surprise, since I was expecting a Whiner squash. But all things considered, any other team yesterday would have drilled them - and one's waiting on the horizon right across the San Transexual bay.
The PFW will return Friday to discuss that.
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PFW: A coach with his priorities straight
Every once in a while, a story comes along that slaps us back into reality and reminds us that there are some things more important than football.
One of those things just happens to be a football story I found on espn.com. You really need to go read this one.
Good on ya, Coach Weis.
Let's go to the PFW.
Arlington Heights 49, O.D. Wyatt 33
TCU 51, BYU 50 (OT)
LSU 27, Tennessee 30 (OT)
Dallas 34, San Transexual 31
My Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets didn't look all that great in being the Chaparrals, but a win is a win is a win. I'd like to see a little more on the defensive end, though.
Speaking of not looking all that great, what happened to LSU? More to the point, what is it with my teams and fourth-quarter collapses? I turned back to Monday Night Football with the Tigers up 21-0 halfway through the second quarter; LSU would go up 24-7 after three. I figured that a three-touchdown lead was safe in Baton Rouge.
Beaux-y, was I ever wrong.
At that point, Vols' quarterback Rick Clausen (wonder if he's any relation to Casey?), already off the bench in favor of starter Erik Ainge, led Tennessee to a pretty impressive comeback, aided in part by a Vol defense that apparently had decided they'd had enough.
There goes that #4 ranking. (sigh)
It looks like TCU and the Dallas Cowgirls are going to have a lot in common this season - both are losing games they have no business losing, and winning games they have no business winning. Such was the case this weekend when both teams played about as crappy as they could possibly play - yet still found a way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
The Frogs swiss-cheese secondary once again reared its ugly head on Saturday, giving up 623 yards passing. Granted, it's BYU, and their passing game is usually one of the best in college football.
But it was not unlike Dallas-Washington, where the same cornerback was continually getting burned by the same receiver. I wish I knew what Gary Patterson saw in Quincy "Toast" Butler - because I don't see it...and neither, apparently, do opposing quarterbacks. More on that in a moment.
For the first two-plus quarters, this game exceedingly resembled the SMUT debacle. Tye Gunn's knees looked like they were in mud, receivers' hands looked like they were coated in butter, the running game was going nowhere fast, and Cougar QB John Beck was having his way with the Swiss Cheese Brigade™ that is our secondary. Even the BYU running game was shoving it down our throat, because Gary Patterson refuses to employ either a middle linebacker or noseguard in his precious 4-2-5 defense.
Then Gunn did what he seems to do best of all: He got hurt. (I didn't see any of this, for a wisp of a tendril of Hurricane Rita knocked out my electricity for about an hour.) A shoulder stinger set Gunn down for the rest of the game.
Enter junior backup Jeff Ballard. Ballard, who looks to have a better arm than Gunn, started chucking the ball all over the field.
Boom - 34-23. Boom - 34-29.
After a BYU score, Ballard got the ball back. Boom - 41-36. Boom - 44-41. A last-minute BYU field goal (during a drive that once again shredded the TCU secondary) got us to overtime, and then only after a Beck pass for the winning touchdown exceeded the receiver's grasp by about an inch and a half.
TCU won the coin toss in OT, and the Cougars wasted little time. BYU speedball Todd Watkins took a first-down Beck pass to the house, beating the aforementioned Quincy "Toast" Butler. This after fellow corner Drew Coleman had pretty much held Watkins, BYU's deep threat, to a standoff.
But no - Patterson and his excuse-for-a-defensive coordinator, Big Dickhead Bump-ass, had to put "Toast" on the speedball. In fact, Butler's been getting burned on a consistent basis by receivers just like Watkins since he's been at TCU, but Patterson and Bumpkin keep throwing him out there as if they don't have anyone better.
Anyway, I digress. It was at this point, with BYU up 50-44, that whatever has infected the TCU kicking game suddenly became contagious. The BYU field goal that tied the score at 44 came on a low snap, and the one on the PAT was even worse. It skipped in to the holder, who tried to run with it and got swarmed by the Frog defense.
On TCU's possession, Ballard drove the Froggies down to the 3, then handed off to wideout Cory Rodgers, who motored around the right side to the goal line. There was a controversy as to whether Rodgers fumbled before getting into the end zone, but the official's call was upheld on review. Chris Manfredini's extra point turned out to be the difference.
In like fashion, the heretofore offensively punchless San Transexual FairyWhiners took the Dallas Cowgirls defense and beat it like the proverbial rag doll. We'll cover that next.
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September 26, 2005
Hiliary reverts to form
Those of you who were worried that the Duchess Hilarious was going to shift from a screeching moonbat leftist to a position more towards the center in a vain attempt to fool us into thinking she wasn't as liberal as we thought...well, you guys can rest easy. She's reverted to type.
2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is warning that if President Bush's Supreme Court appointees succeed in overturning the federal right to an abortion, state governments would likely implement a reverse of China's one child policy that would instead force women to have five children.
Personally, I don't see what the Duchess has to worry about. Given what she looks like - and given how her offspring turned out (snicker) - I'd think she's fairly safe from having any more squids...
"There would be many places in the country that would criminalize [abortion]," Clinton says in a new videotaped message posted to her Senate campaign web site.
Yes, there are, Hilarious - because unlike you and the rest of the pro-baby-butchering Nazis, we think life: a) begins at conception, and b) is precious and worthy of protection.
"They might even send women and doctors to prison."
Well, that is what happens to murderers and their accomplices, isn't it?
Granted, you'd have a tough time convincing a jury that the woman who submitted herself to an illegal abortion was, in fact, an accomplice...but technically speaking, what else could she be? She's holding the baby in place so the doctor can kill it, right? Isn't that the technical definition of an accomplice?
The top Democrat painted a stark picture of government bureaucrats forcing women to bear children against their will if the new Bush court has its way.
Yeah, I can see it now: A Federal Matchmaking Service, where a bureaucratic hack lines up a group of men against one wall and a group of women against the opposite wall - "You - over here! You - over here! Now, fuck!!!
"It would go in the direction that I saw in my travels, where, you know, in China they mandated you could only have one child. And in some places, like Romania during the Communist era, they mandated that you must have five children."
Well, now, don't you fret, Hilly girl. You're likely safe, true - but Der Kaiser still has four to go...and I have a feeling he'd actually welcome an edict like that. 
Clinton's comments suggest a retreat from her statements earlier this year that were widely interpreted as an attempt to moderate her views on abortion - and instead establish common ground with pro-life voters.But in her latest message, the former first lady seemed to have abandoned that effort, going so far as to suggest that the right to an abortion was the most important part of the Constitution.
"If privacy in the most intimate areas of your lives doesn't exist, what do the other constitutional rights mean?" she posited.
You mean the ones you libtards keep getting from "emanations", "penumbras" and interpretations derived from international law? Or maybe the rights that are actually enumerated in the document? I don't exactly see you tripping over yourself to defend my right to protest the pro-baby-butchering movement, practice my religious beliefs in schools or own firearms...now do I?
Stupid ditz...
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PMS alert
Denizens, we'll start off your week with a bit of humor.
I managed to get this from my arch-enemies at "Momscomefirst" (or Momsslurpcum or whatever they call themselves nowadays). How I got it is for me to know and them to find out. (snicker)
Anyway, enjoy. Spew warnings and so forth.
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September 25, 2005
Where to go? How about "away from the storm"?
It's amazing the flotsam the Dullest Moaning Snooze will allow onto its opinion pages. Today's "Stuck on Stupid" candidate is Jerry Berggren of Rowlett, TX.
Re: "Long Road to Recovery – Proceed with caution in New Orleans," Tuesday Editorials.
Just to give you a background, Denizens. It's actually a fairly well-written editorial.
You stated that Mayor Ray Nagin failed to provide transportation out of New Orleans for its poorest citizens, the 23 percent who live below the poverty line.
Well, Jerry, you moronic twit, that's actually a fact. It was Nagin's responsibility to evacuate the city - and I trust it won't be necessary to show the picture of the waterlogged buses in that bus barn lot...?
Let's suppose the mayor put these people on a bus. Where would they have gone?
This is probably the most asinine question I think I've ever heard asked. And it's not the first time I've heard it over the last couple of weeks. It's posed by fuckheads who are desperate to blame the Katrina aftermath on President Bush, instead of on Ray-Ray Nagin and Kathy Babblingbimbo Blanco, where it belongs.
Where would they have gone, Jerry? How about "Away from New Orleans", you Doddering Dimwitted Dumbass™?
You got a Category 5 hurricane bearing down on your ass. You're not gonna survive it if it hits you dead-on. Are you seriously suggesting that the people of New Orleans actually stay there??? Are you out of your fucking mind???
What community in this country, much less in the Deep South, would have accepted the poorest of the poor, the disenfranchised, the needy, the part of New Orleans' population that requires federal and state assistance for support?
Have you been paying attention to the news, you Ferret Fellating Fuckstick™? Here in Texas alone, we had Dallas, Houston and San Antonio accepting Katrina evacuees. People in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and other states opened their arms to help these people, too.
But those states, if memory serves, went for Bush in 2004, so they're not "communities", are they? "Communities" are only those groups of people who are addicted to sucking on the public teat like you and your fellow Demoscum, aren't they, Jerry, you dumb son-of-a-bitch?
The answer, of course, is that no other city called the mayor and offered shelter.
What the fuck did you want, shit-for-brains? A fucking gold-plated engraved invitation?
None would take them before the storm, and only when enough Americans felt embarrassment, shame and, to a lesser degree, compassion, did New Orleans' evacuees have a place to go.
That's nothing but abject bullshit, you airheaded asshelmet. The only American that should be feeling embarrassment is you, for being such a fuckheaded freak.
Then again, you're a sorry excuse-for-an-American, so that would be embarrassment enough...if you weren't such a fucking moron.
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September 24, 2005
The secret of success...?
Denizens, today's tidbit is from the Grab-Bag™. Enjoy.
Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants over 100%. How about achieving 103%? Here's a little math that might prove helpful. What makes life 100%?If we assume that:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Then,
H A R D W O R K
8 1 18 4 23 15 18 11 = 98%K N O W L E D G E
11 14 15 23 12 5 4 7 5 = 96%But,
A T T I T U D E
1 20 20 9 20 21 4 5 = 100%And,
B U L L S H I T
2 21 12 12 19 8 9 20 = 103%So, it stands to reason that hard work and knowledge will get you close, attitude will get you there, but bullshit will put you over the top.
Mheh.
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September 23, 2005
Prayers to Houston
The Realm™ joins with the Rottweiler Empire this morning in praying for the city of Houston and its citizens.
May the God of Heaven be with those folks south of here as they face this trial, and may He wrap His arms around them during this unpleasant time.
Thatisall.
UPDATE: Don't construe that to mean we're not praying for N'awlins, as well.
We are, and have been ever since Katrina hit.
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September 22, 2005
PFW: Yer not afraid of a little wind, er ya?
Two items today before we get into our PFW:
1. Hurricane Rita has already had an impact even before it makes landfall. Texas A&M has moved its squash of Texas State U. (formerly Southwest Texas State, in San Marcos) to this evening instead of Saturday (Rice & UHouston have had their games postponed). The wager from here is that TSU would rather have faced A&M Saturday.
REF: Texas State has won the toss. Do you wish to receive?TSU: We'll defer our option and take the wind.
A&M: Ohhhhhh, shit...
You get the idea. Fourth down at your 1-inch line, breeze at your back? NO PROBLEM! 
2. Last year, the SpatulaGoddess was a team mom for a group of Pop Warner kiddos. As such, she...how shall I put this delicately?...butted heads with some of the, ah, more vocal (read: asshole-ish) parents whose squids played on the team.
Well, this year, those squids moved to another team. And got squished by their former compadres last week, 27-0.
Ah, justice. 'Tis a wonderful thing. 
On to this week's PFW. My Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets open district play Friday night against the O.D. Wyatt Chaparrals. Heights won this game last year, 14-0, so I expect Wyatt to be out for a bit of revenge here. Look for Heights to win in a squeaker.
TCU's Horned Frogs travel to Provo, Utah Saturday to take on Brigham Young's Cougars. Presumably, BYU will attempt to convert the Froggies to Mormonism before ripping their secondary to shreds.
Bob Stoops' Oklahoma Sooners have the week off - and it couldn't have come at a better time. Casting calls are now out for anything resembling a quarterback. (Rumor has it that Vinny Testaverde tried to sneak in to audition - but he was intercepted at the door. (rimshot))
LSU's number-three-in-the-country Tigers square off against #10 Tennessee in Baton Rouge. LSU had a tough time with then-number-15 Arizona State in Week 2, so this one kinda worries me, but we'll see. Give me LSU with the home-swamp advantage.
And speaking of swamps, the Dallas Cowgirls head to the marshes of San Transexual for their semi-annual bend-over-and-take-it-in-the-out-dooring from the FairyWhiners.
Philadephia manhandled the Whiners last week, 42-3, but the week before ST surprised the St. Louis Rams 28-25, so I anticipate that Tim Rattay is salivating at the thought of sending Brandon Lloyd and Arnaz Battle against that shutdown tandem of Roy Williams and Aaron Glenn.
I mean, you gotta figure: If Mark "Cement Sneakers" Brunell can do it, why not Tim Rattay? Look for the Whiners in a squash, unfortunately.
Back Monday with the recap.
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One man's pork...
Denizens, your reading assignment today is this John Stossel column, brought to us courtesy of the Lady Heather, which pulls back the curtain and reveals People's Exhibit Number 290,317 of why Washington should not be trusted with our money.
"Read it all", as our old friend Straight Up With Sherri might say. Go. Shoo.
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September 21, 2005
This is how an evacuation is done, Nagin & Blanco
Denizens, as you know, Houston's expecting Hurricane Rita here in a couple days or so.
As I write this, Drudge has this link posted atop his site.
Right above the link is this picture:
Memo to Kathy Blanco and Ray Nagin: Note that middle lane, bud. That is what you were supposed to be doing prior to Katrina hitting. Mobilizing big yellow things like the ones in that center lane right there. Not trying to figure out a way to blame it on Bush when you failed.
Get a clue, Kathy & Ray.
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September 20, 2005
NYPD 1, Crawford Ditch Bitches 0
(Hat tip Lucianne.)
The Department of It's About Time!!! has submitted for our review this piece about a police department that has zero problem actually doing its duty.
In this case, serving the people - by shutting "Shitcan" Shee-hag the hell up. (snicker)
First, we'll start with the title of the piece:
NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan
City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried
That's right - and that's one of the reasons why Bush's poll ratings are in the toilet Right About Now™. The guess from here is that, were he to forcefully accost the Crawford Ditch Bitch™, and tell her to STFU, his numbers would jump a minimum 25 points.
Cindy Sheehan may be the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. But that didn't stop members of the New York Police Department from marching into the crowd of about 150 people gathered in Union Square Monday to hear her speak and yanking away the microphone.The NYPD pulled the plug just as Sheehan was calling on the audience not to lose heart in the fight to end the war in Iraq.
She was probably grating on their ears, too. The only difference is that they're a lot less tolerant of bullshit than we are down here.
"We get up every morning, and every morning we see this enormous mountain in front of us," said Sheehan, speaking on behalf of the other parents and family members of fallen soldiers who have taken up the crusade to bring the troops home."We can't go through it, we can't go under it, so we have to go over it," she continued, just as the cops rushed the makeshift podium.
Somehow, I get the feeling that the author of this piece - a trollop whose name isn't really even worth remembering - wanted to paint the picture of white-armored Imperial stormtroopers running at top speed towards Princess Leia, knocking her down, handcuffing her and frog-marching her down to HQ for "interrogation".
Not that that would've been a bad thing in the case of St. Cindy of the Drainage Ditch - in fact, it would have amused us greatly.
Police dragged away Paul Zulkowitz, a.k.a. Zool, an organizer with "Camp Casey NYC," the small encampment that he and other activists set up a month ago in Union Square in solidarity with Sheehan’s vigil outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. The New York branch existed much to the ire of the city’s Parks Department. Today, Zulkowitz was arrested for failing to obtain a sound permit—a charge that normally warrants no more than a summons.
They'd probably gotten tired of his act. And just because such an offense "normally warrants no more than a summons", that doesn't always mean it does. And to see an asshole like Tool Zool be thrown into the paddy wagon warms this correspondent's heart but good.
Moments earlier, Zulkowitz had been chastising Parks officials for refusing to grant a permit to the encampment, and accusing the police of trying to harass the antiwar protest away. Contrasting the liberal Big Apple with the hostile environs Sheehan faced in Crawford, Zulkowitz told the crowd: "You would think that here in New York City, at Union Square—our Hyde Park—you would think that we would little difficulty having a 24-hour vigil to oppose the war. In fact, we've had two arrests and eight summonses and endless harassment from the police for doing what we do."
The Constitution guarantees you the right to freedom of speech. The Constitution does not mandate that the government pay for the podium & microphone. "Shitcan" and her fellow Shee-hags might do well to get that through the fecal matter occupying the space between their ears.
As the activists hustled away Sheehan and the other family members on the Bring Them Home Now tour, an enraged crowd of about 50 people stormed after the police, chanting, "Shame! Shame!"
While wringing their hands in well-rehearsed angst and effecting major pouts on all their faces, I imagine. (snicker)
Meanwhile Iraq war veteran and now peace activist Jeff Key played "God Bless America" on his trumpet.
Excuse me? "God Bless America"??? That's a religious song!!!!! Where's the Wrong Reverend Barry Lynn and the rest of the Demoscum when you need them? I mean, if word of this gets out, it might offend St. Shitcan's "freedom fighters"!!!
"Since when can't you talk out here in Union Square?" demanded an Upper West Side social worker who identified herself as Quha
...obviously afraid that someone in City Hall might take notice and wean her off the public teat, were she to give her real name...
who said she'd taken her lunch break to hear Sheehan because she has a 20-year-old son who is considering enlisting. "I've seen everyone and their mother come out and speak nonsense out here in this park, and for them to shut down Cindy Sheehan is just not right."
Oh, we'd loooooove to see the Ditch Ditz continue to make an utter & total embarrassment out of herself and the rest of her fellow Donk shitheads. Really, we would.
But I suspect that the NY cops have better things to do than put up with yet another group of Asinine Anti-Bush Assclowns™ polluting their fair city, y'know?
"They came in like gangbusters. It was really ridiculous," said Margaret Rapp, a retired teacher from Inwood who added that she planned to file a complaint after an officer forcibly shoved her in the chest.
That bimboid should probably count her blessings. If she had violated that officer's personal space to the point where he could reach out and do that, she's probably fortunate she only got a hand to the chest.
Instead of, say, a nightstick upside the head.
A mother of a 19-year-old, she said she'd come to hear Sheehan because she lost her fiancee during the Vietnam War.
Ah, here we go. It's the Kent Staters and the Flower Children all over again. Starved for attention these last thirty years while we right-thinkers came to the fore and gave the military their due respect, they're desperate to become relavant again. WOODSTOCK LIVES!!! (chuckle)
"This is very close to home. There is a chord that Cindy hits among people that have lost people in this war and other wars, or who have draft age children like me. We're scared to death."
"Oooooooh, Bush is gonna reinstate the draft!!!" Run!!! Hide!!! Flee to Canada!!! Hurry!!!"
Inspector Michael McEnroy, commander of the 13th Precinct, insisted the shutdown order had nothing to do with the content of Sheehan’s speech, but was instead about the "provocation" caused by Zulkowitz. "This has been going on for much longer than today," McEnroy said, adding of Sheehan, "I don’t even know the woman." That last part prompted one pissed-off onlooker to shoot back: "Haven’t you watched the news or read a paper in the last three months?"
Well, dumbass, did they handcuff Ol' "Shitcan" and drag her skanky ass away? (crickets) No? (more crickets) Then what are you kvetching for, fuckhead?
Not that we'd have minded - some time in a stockade would probably do that trollop a world of good.
F.E.T.E., as the Imperial Torturer™ might say...
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PFW: Patterson & Parcells - Interchangeable coaches
Last week, I said that Bill Parcells wasn't Gary Patterson, because he wouldn't follow up an opening victory over a quality opponent with a loss against a dog like Patterson did.
Make a note of the date & time. I confess: I was wrong.
Arlington Heights 16, Saginaw Boswell 38
TCU 23, Utah 20 (OT)
Oklahoma 24, UCLA 41
Dallas 13, Washington 14
What is it with Arlington Heights when it comes to Saginaw Boswell? The Pioneers were 4-6 last year, 0-10 in 2003 - yet they've positively owned the Yellow Jackets. Memo to coach Duke Christian - try taking care of business when the opportunity is presented, eh? We've already got one coach in Fort Worth who plays down to the level of his competition.
Speaking of TCU, what is it with the Frogs and their freshman running backs? Couple years ago, it was Lonta Hobbs, and he hasn't impressed since. Last year, it was Robert Merrill, and while he's okay, he's not tearing up the competition.
This year, it's freshman Aaron Brown, who ripped the Utah Utes' defense for 163 yards on 17 carries, earning him Mountain West offensive honors for the week.
The defense, after being shredded on the Utes' first two possessions, solidified and pretty much shut Utah down. For once.
I had a feeling it was gonna be ugly, and UCLA didn't disappoint. Bob Stoopes' Oklahoma Sooners played better than they did against TCU or Tulsa...but they were playing a team that is a damned sight better than either the Froggies or Hurricanes.
Gonna be a loooooooong year for OU. Especially if they don't do a better job of protecting the ball (seven fumbles Saturday, five lost). Ew.
And speaking of long years...(sigh) Okay, I know that Washington has a great defense and all. And I know that Mark Brunell, although slightly less mobile than Vinny Testaverde, can still throw the ball downfield.
But I expected better than what I got Monday night at Texas Stadium. I expected a helluva lot better. Especially in the fourth quarter.
The Cowgirls had been pitching a shutout. A fucking shutout. Brunell hadn't done shit all night long, except get sacked five times. Dallas had fucking dominated the Deadskins.
And then Aaron Glenn and Roy Williams let Santana Moss run past them for a touchdown catch with four and a half minutes left.
And then with three minutes left - THEY FUCKING LET HIM DO IT AGAIN!!!! The same receiver, on the same two defensive backs, for the fucking same result.
Two touchdowns in two minutes. Ball game. Now I know why Houston cut Aaron Glenn's sorry ass. He wasn't within five yards of Moss while the ball was in the air on either play, nor did he chuck the bastard at the line like he should have. We might as well have had Pete Hunter or Derek Ross back there for all the fucking good it did.
So the end result was that a Swiss-cheese defense, led by a Swiss-cheese secondary, allowed a team to come from behind to win.
Sound like anyone on University Drive in Fort Worth you know???
Bill Parcells, you were 77-0 when leading by 13 in the fourth quarter. But that was back when people thought you resembled a halfway decent coach.
We know better now. Get your ass out while people still think you're halfway decent. Before you really do turn into Gary Patterson.
The PFW will return Friday for another round.
UPDATE: Oops. Almost forgot:
Texas A&M 66, SMUT8
Gee, how the mighty have fallen. Not quite all that & a bag of chips after all, are you, Phil Bennett?
Just to give you an idea about how this game went for the Shitland Ponies, A&M was up 24-8 at halftime - and was bitching amongst themselves about how poorly they were playing. A 28-point 3rd quarter fixed that in a hurry.
Thanks, Dennis "The Mercenary" Franchione. Now I can go back to hating your guts again. (chuckle)
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September 19, 2005
Two cows
Looks like it's gonna be a One-Legged Man™ kinda day, Denizens, so here's something from the Grab-Bag™: Two cows.
• A CHRISTIAN: You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor.
• A SOCIALIST: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
• A REPUBLICAN: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So what?
• A DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You vote people into office who tax your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money and buy a cow at five times the market price cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous.
• A COMMUNIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with sour, soy milk.
• A FASCIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and sells you the milk.
• DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was given to him by the American government.
• CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
• BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, then pours the milk down the drain.
• AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.
• A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
• A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
• A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eats once a month, and milk themselves.
• AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
• A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
• A MEXICAN CORPORATION: You think you have two cows, but you don't know what a cow looks like. You take a nap.
• A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge for storing them for others.
• A BRAZILIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You enter into a partnership with an American corporation. Soon you have 1000 cows and the American corporation declares bankruptcy.
• AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them.
Yeah, sounds about right.
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September 17, 2005
American airliner fired upon???
(Hat tip to the SpatulaGoddess.)
Charles and the boys over at Little Green Footballs has a breaking story about an America West flight that was reportedly fired upon by a surface-to-air missle. Michelle Malkin has more.
48-hour rule on this, as always - but it's most disquieting, nonetheless.
UPDATE: According to Malkin, it's being classified as a "false alarm".
The sighting was reported near Colt's Neck, NJ, which is a major route south out of NY. FAA set up a small temporary flight restriction around the area while checking radar files. Turned out to be nothing more than birds, and [a] big game of "telephone."
Ooooooooooo-kay. 
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Brazile sides with the President
There might be hope yet for the Donks. At least one Democrat is ready to dispense with the finger-pointing and Bush bashing. And it's a Democrat you'd not have expected to be so conciliatory.
That Democrat: Donna Brazile
On Thursday night President Bush spoke to the nation from my city. I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush -- in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004. But on Thursday night, after watching him speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast.Bush called on every American to stand up and support the rebuilding of the region. He told us that New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would rise from the ruins stronger than before. He enunciated something that we all need to remember: This is America. We are not immune to tragedy here, but we are strong because of our industriousness, our ingenuity and, most important, because of our compassion for one another. We are a nation of rebuilders and a nation of givers. We do not give up in the face of tragedy, we stand up, and we reach out to help those who cannot stand up on their own.
The president called on every American to reach out to my neighbors in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast. The great people of this country have already opened their hearts in the immediate aftermath of the storm, and their tremendous generosity has done more than just provide extra comfort -- it has saved lives. Now the crisis of survival is over. But the task of rebuilding remains, and the president made it clear that every single one of us has a role to play.
Each of us belongs to some group -- a church, a union or a fraternal organization, or even a book club -- that can make a difference. It is those groups that can pool resources and then reach out to their counterparts in the stricken states and ask, "What can we do?" Schools, Girl Scout troops, Rotary clubs -- this is the time for every community group to step forward to lend a helping hand. We need it.
The president also laid out the federal government's goal for rebuilding. It is unprecedented in its scope and ambition, matching destruction that is unprecedented as well. He made the challenge clear: This will be one of the biggest reconstruction projects in history. But he also made it clear that we can and will do this. New Orleans, Biloxi, all of the Gulf Coast will rise again. And the residents are ready to pitch in and do their part.
Indeed, as the Puppy Blender might say. Thank you, Donna, for setting the example for your fellow libs.
Let's hope some of them follow that example.
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September 16, 2005
"Shitcan" gets ripped another new one
I was going to go off yet again on "Shitcan" Shee-hag - she's now calling NOLA "occupied New Orleans", as if our troops had as little right to be there as the bitch thinks we have to be in Iraq, the Cupid Stunt™.
Then the SpatulaGoddess ripped the trollop not just a new one, but a new three or four. Day-um, but it's good.
Hie thee hence and have a looksee. That's an order.
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J.F. Qetchup-ass: Pot-kettle-black, Part the 14,924th...
Still bitter over the fact that he lost by five million votes and four percentage point to the President of the United States, John-Boy F'n Qetchup-ass has weighed in on the restoration of N'awlins.
"Leadership isn't a speech or a toll-free number.
Well, it's sure as Hell™ not having a "plan" which you refuse to share with the American people, O Qetchup Qing. Nor it is berating our allies for waging "the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time". And it's not sitting before a Congressional committee and castigating the actions of your fellow soldiers as "reminiscent of Genghis Khan" (oh, and by the way, asshole, it's "Genghis", with a hard g). And leadership sure as shit isn't embellishing what you did in Vietnam in order to get two more Lavender Hearts than that to which you were entitled.
In fact, Horseface, WTF do you even know about "leadership"? 'Cause you damned sure don't look like one from where I sit.
Leadership is getting the job done.
We might have gotten the job done, Botox Boy, had your fellow Demoscum down in NOLA bothered to let them in, for Gawd's sake!
No American doubts that New Orleans will rise again, they doubt the competence and commitment of this Administration.
No, we on the Right who think with our heads (as opposed to you jerkwads on the Left who think with your asses) don't blame Bush at all for Katrina. We understand that Nagin and Blanco, Tweedledum and Tweedledumber, had scores of buses waiting to be deployed to get people out of harm's way - and they failed to order them into service, allowing them to get flooded, as well.
We understand that FEMA is not a first-response agency, and that they're doing the best they can. And we also understand that instead of pitching in and helping, all you bastards on the Left seem content to do is stand there and bitch. And we're fucking tired of it.
Weeks after Katrina, Americans want an end to politics-as-usual that leaves them dangerously and unforgivably unprepared. Americans want to know that their government will be there when it counts with leadership that keeps them safe, not speeches in the aftermath to explain away the inexcusable."
Then have a heaping helping of STFU, John-boy Fucking Qetchup-ass, roll up your sleeves and get to work. And don't let T'Raisin get within so much as half a mile of the French Quarter, is that clear?
Stupid-assed elitist fuck...
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September 15, 2005
PFW: Put a skirt on Donna McNabb
Cowboys quarterback Drew Bledsoe was named the NFC Offensive Player of the week yesterday for his performance against the Chargers. He's the first Cowboy quarterback to win the award since Quincy Carter a couple years ago.
Let's hope Bledsoe hangs around a bit longer than did Q-Car. (snicker)
Further demonstrating my point that I'm right in referring to The World's Greatest Quarterback Ever In The History Of Ever, Ever™ as "Donna", the National Football League fined Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Chad Lavalais $7,500 for applying a helmet to the chest area of McJerkface.
Po' widdle baby Donna. Memo to the NFL: Football is a contact sport. Put a dress on Donna if you don't want defenders to breathe on him.
On to this week's PFW. My Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets have their first "home" game (if you can call it that) tonight at 7:00 vs. the Saginaw (TX) Boswell Pioneers. Hard to handicap this game - Boswell handled Heights last year, 7-20, but the Jackets mauled the Pioneers the year before, 29-7, so I dunno. Could be a home-field advantage type thing, which would seem to favor the good guys this year. We'll see.
Also tonight the Utah Utes come to Fort Worth to hand the TCU Horned Frogs and their in-over-his-head coach, Gary Patterson, their collective asses on a platter.
I'm calling for Utah in a squash. Please. The sooner we get Patterson out of here, the better for the program.
Oklahoma University finally gets an idea of what kind of season it's gonna be Saturday, when it travels to Californication to take on the Bruins of UCLA.
Given what's happened the last two weeks, I fear the worst.
LSU is off this week.
Monday night, the Dallas Cowboys take on the Washington Redskins in the home opener at Texas Stadium. Dallas has won 13 of the last 14 against the 'Skins, so you'd think that Washington is due.
Not this week, though. You'd expect a TCU-type letdown after such a big win last week - but Bill Parcells is not Gary Patterson. Plus, the 'Boys are at home against a team that struggled to put up nine points against (snicker) Chicago. Look for Dallas to win comfortably.
And we have a bonus game on which your humble reporter will keep tabs. The World's Greatest College Football Team Ever In The History Of Ever, Ever™ (at least, if you ask them), SMUT, will travel to College Station this week to take on Dennis "The Mercenary" Franchione and the Texas A&M Aggies.
Normally, this is a game where I wouldn't care who won, so long as both teams kicked the shit out of each other.
But I'm in the unusual position of having to pull for a team I hate with a passion - that is to say, any team that Franchione coaches. I want A&M to kick SMU's ass up the field and right back down, just to prove to them that they're not all that and a bag of chips. And I think I've got a good shot at seeing that happen Saturday.
As usual, feel free to talk about your teams. (Except for you, "Dr Pepper" or whatever your name is, wanker. You're gonna continue to be my bitch. (chortle))
Back for the recap Tuesday.
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September 14, 2005
More Air Scaremerica woes
TheBlueStateConservatives has a blurb about Air Scaremerica losing two more stations in Charleston, SC and Providence, RI. Falling ratings continue to be the culprit, as the Demoscummic Party continues to enjoy huge success getting its message out.
Gotta love that law of supply & demand. (snicker)
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September 13, 2005
Law of supply & demand hits Air America
You know things are really sad over at Air Scaremerica when they virtually can't even give away their advertising:
A California radio station is pleading for advertisers to sponsor the liberal programming of the Air America shows it broadcasts, while noting the conservative Rush Limbaugh show is virtually sold out on its sister station."For liberal programming to continue ... you need to support it," said an ad by KOMY station owner Michael Zwerling, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Great Honkin' Cthulu™, have the Lunatic Leftard Laughingstocks™ discovered...capitalism??? I mean, whatever happened to "from each according to his ability", etc? Have they figured out...(gasp, arrrrrrgh)...the law of supply and demand???
Be still, my beating heart...
"You can't be coy in this business," said Zwerling. "You have to spell it out, especially in Santa Cruz where everybody thinks they deserve everything."
Uh, Zwerling, m'boy...that's not just in Santa Cruz. Go look at that Bush Country map again. Whereever you see blue, you're likely to find that particular attitude. It's called "entitlement syndrome".
Zwerling brought Air America to the Central Coast region of California in July, and during initial negotiations, he says network executives refused to allow Al Franken to share a dial with syndicated radio host Michael Savage, known for statements such as "liberalism is a mental disorder.""As soon as I said Michael Savage, the door slammed shut," Zwerling said.
I'm not surprised. The mindset over at Air Scaremerica tends to be one of an open wound, and Michael Savage is the salt.
Though there has been some letters and calls of appreciation for airing the liberal content, not a single business has purchased air time during Air America's slot since its debut.
And that's not surprising, either. Businesses trying to make money know their target demographic. And they have a good idea what that demographic likes to listen to.
And it ain't Air Scaremerica.
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September 12, 2005
Will this media whore never shut up...?
Proving yet again that it's all about her, "Shitcan" Shee-hag is now bitching at, of all people, Senator DiFi (Socialist Fuckhead-CA)
The Vacaville woman who made national headlines with a peace vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch brought her rhetorical guns to bear Friday on one of California's U.S. senators.Cindy Sheehan — whose son, Casey, 24, was a soldier killed in Baghdad in April 2004 — met briefly with an aide to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., before telling reporters the lawmaker's reasons for supporting Iraq's ongoing occupation are "very bogus."
And who would know better about bogus than ol' Shitcan herself, who keeps foolishly trying to convince us that this is alllllllll about Casey - when in fact, it's really all about her.
The Iraqi constitution, supported by the United States, is based on Islamic law and severely curtails women's rights, she said, while Iraqi leaders are "puppet leaders who George Bush put into place."
Oh, do you mean President Bush, backed by about eight million purple Iraqi index fingers? That George Bush?
U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers are seen as collaborators and can do little more than fight for survival, and Iraq's crucial infrastructure continues to be eroded by an insurgency fueled by the U.S. military presence, she said.
And of course, Mother Shee-hag's solution to all this is to back all the way out of Iraq now, let the Al-Raghaidas have it all back and force the Shiites and the Kurds back into forced Sunni servitude.
At this point, one can't tell from whose talking points she's reading - Al-Qaida's or the Demoscummic National Committee's. (Yes, I realize they're one and the same, but that's beside the point.)
Feinstein previously has acknowledged she and other lawmakers were lied to about the reasons for going to war
Ah, yes. Straight from the New York Slimes' style book.
You were not lied to concerning the reasons for the invasion of Iraq, DiFi, you bimbo. The reasons for going into Iraq were - and are still - valid. We know that Hussein had chemical weapons - the mass graves are proof that he used them on his own people. Even your own honeyboys Kaiser Wilhelm von Slickmeister and Ol' Lavender Heart have acknowledged that. And he violated 17 UN mandates that he comply with the terms of the 1991 Desert Storm armistice. The United States was absolutely, perfectly justified in going into Iraq, and no amount of moonbat screeching by either you or Shee-hag is going to change any of that.
And just because most of the WMDs have not been found yet does not mean that they "never existed". Go into Syria and that's where you'll find them. Bank on that.
and that if she knew then what she knew now, she wouldn't have voted to support the conflict, Sheehan said. "Well, if she knows it's wrong, it's time to bring our kids home," she said.
Well, how fortunate we are that it's not up to either one of you, aren't we, "Shitcan"?
The government's inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina's devastation "has just proven that what George Bush is doing in Iraq is making us less safe.
Okay, so what you're saying, bimbo, is that...let me see if I've got this...is that if YOUR CASEY (sobbbbb!!!!!!) hadn't been killed by the people you're calling "freedom fighters"...then Nagin and Blanco might have let the Red Cross into New Orleans?
We're so vulnerable right now," Sheehan added, claiming money, resources and National Guard personnel deployed to the war and is, thus, unavailable to domestic disaster victims. "The people of New Orleans are collateral damage to the war in Iraq."
Yes, the people in N'awlins are suffering so because Casey Sheehan re-enlisted of his own free will and volunteered for the assignment that cost him his life.
That makes perfect sense? How could I have not seen that before?
Sheehan said she spoke by phone Friday with U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., whom she described as "100 percent supportive" of efforts to bring the troops home.
Well, you know what, Shee-hag? We all want the troops to come home. But those of us who have our heads screwed on straight know that there's a job we have to finish in Iraq first. That message always seems to escape you for some strange reason.
But you just keep right on bleating like you're doing, trollop. Nothing like an obvious addle-brained fool parroting Demoscummic talking points, y'know.
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PFW: Fire Gary Patterson now.
Denizens, have you ever heard of the concept of "attaboy/awshit"?
It goes like this: You can collect a thousand "attaboys"...but just one "awshit" wipes them all out and you have to start All...Over...Again™.
For his victory over Oklahoma, Gary Patterson collected 999 "attaboys". For his sorry-assed job of coaching Saturday night, he earned himself yet another "awshit".
TCU 10, SMU 21
Oklahoma 31, Tulsa 15
LSU 35, Arizona State 31
Dallas 28, San Diego 24
JaMarcus Russell threw a 39-yard touchdown pass to Early Doucet on fourth down with 1:13 left to play to give fifth-ranked Louisiana State a thrilling 35-31 victory over No. 15 Arizona State in a classic non-conference showdown at Sun Devil Stadium. (Hat tip to the Sports Network - I didn't see any of the game.)
Something's seriously wrong with the Sooners. Down 15-7 deep into the third quarter, they ditched their passing game completely and force-fed Adrian Peterson the ball.
It obviously worked, as 24 points in the last quarter-and-a-half will attest - but the Sooners apparently do not have a quarterback. This does not bode well for Bob Stoopes, as OU travels to UCLA next week, nor does the schedule get any easier, with TU looming over the horizon.
That's TU, as in just-beat-Ohio-State-at-the-Horseshoe TU. Uh-oh.
I saw something Sunday I honestly had not expected to see: A Cowboy team that played well more often than it played crappy.
There were still a couple of glitches on both sides of the ball - the offense committed five straight penalties during one seriea and botched a snap (leading to a turnover and SD's first points) on another; the defense allowed an easy touchdown on a post pattern in the second quarter and Charger 3rd-down conversions were somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% - but the line protected Drew Bledsoe when it needed to and allowed Julius Jones more than a bit of room to run. And the defense came up 7's on the Chargers' last-minute drive for the winning TD, forcing three incompletions from inside the 10 and intercepting Drew Brees' last-gasp fourth-down pass in the end zone. Anthony Henry justified his major-mondo signing bonus right there, I think.
Keyshawn Johnson had a pair of touchdowns, Jones one and Patrick Crayton was 6-for-89 with a touchdown. (What'd I Tell You™ about keeping an eye out for this guy? He's gonna be a great one, mark my words.)
Bledsoe was 18 of 24 for 226 and 3 TDs, while Jones went 26 for 93.
On to that travesty in University Piss Saturday night. Seems that Gary Patterson is on his own personal "Shock the World" tour this year.
Last week, he shocked the world by beating a team previously considered good. This week, he shocked the world by losing to a team universally considered to be piss poor.
The Shitland Ponies were slogging along in first gear - three & out, three & out, three & out - until midway through the second quarter. The only reason they were in the game, in fact, was because TCU was sleepwalking through the first half themselves; a first-quarter field goal from failed-bit kicker Peter LoCoco staked the Froggies to a 3-0 lead - the only points the offense would score all night.
So on yet another three-and-out by Skip & Muffy U, they line up to punt - whereupon their punter promptly gets slammed into by our rush. (To be fair, we'd already blocked one of their kicks - but it stands to reason that they'd be a little more prepared to handle the rush next time, so why get greedy?)
Boom. Fifteen-yard penalty for roughing the punter. Five plays later, the Glue Factory Nags took a lead they would not relinquish, and the Toads wind up giving the Iron Skillet back to SMU.
Ess. Emm. Fucking. Ewe. A half-assed excuse-for-a-team to whom no self-respecting Division I-A college football program should ever drop a game.
Aw, shit.
Gary Patterson was real fond last week of saying, "duh, yeah, I beat Oklahoma with my players - no more Franchione recruits here". Yeah, Patterson, you freakin' moron - you got your ass kicked by Skip & Muffy Preppy U. Saturday night with your players, too.
I've been fooled for the last time about you. You're in over your head - you may be a halfway-decent defensive coordinator, but so was Dave Campo - and he bombed as a head football coach, just like you're doing now. I said last week that if you didn't make short work of SMU, the victory over OU wouldn't mean shit. And you didn't, and it doesn't.
From this point forward, I'm calling for whatever powers-that-be at TCU to fire your sorry ass posthaste, and to hire a bona fide head coach who can get this program turned back around before it regresses to the days of Billy Tohill and Jim Shofner - back to the days of 1-10 and 0-11.
The PFW will return on Thursday to chronicle TCU's descent into 1-2.
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September 11, 2005
In Memoriam
(The following is a column which appeared on my web site, www.spatulacitybbs.com, on September 11th, 2001. It is re-posted now in remembrance of then.)
NOTE: This column contains some coarse language. Back out now if such language offends you, please.
I got four hours of sleep last night. I'm fighting the obligatory yearly case of tonsillitis. My throat hurts like Hell (tm), my body is racked with soreness, and - not to put too fine a point thereupon - I'm in need of a tube of Prep H.
You get the idea. (sigh)
So here I am on LBJ Freeway in Dallas, plodding my way through traffic, fighting hard the urge to fall asleep at the wheel, literally. I'm listening to our sports-talk/guy-talk station on AM, the Ticket (KTCK 1310), when the sports jocks there suddenly exclaim something to the effect of, "WTF...?!". Apparently, a heavy jet has veered off course and slammed into one of the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City.
"Wow," I'm thinking, "they'll likely stay with this one all day", and I immediately turn over to the news/talk station here, WBAP 820, for all the coverage. Yes, I admit it - I'm fascinated by carnage.
At that point, though, I'm thinking tragic accident. Somebody's plane lost its hydraulics and careened out of control, and the World Trade Center, unfortunately, was simply in the way.
That was 7:50. At 8:09, my worldview - and that of 280 million Americans, I would bet - changed radically.
At that point, a second jet slammed headfirst into the other tower. At that point, it's not just a major tragedy. This looks just a weeeee bit too organized to be a coincidence.
It's 8:20 when I get to the office, and I meet my buddy and old Wingtip Courier dispatcher as he's driving up. He hasn't been paying attention to anything. We get inside the office, and I bring him and our other compadre up to speed on things (he wasn't listening to the radio, either, which was surprising). I go into my office and try pulling up a video stream for any of this. It's 8:25.
Fifteen minutes later, the message is clear: America is under attack for the first time in 60 years. Yet another heavy jet has crashed - this one into the Pentagon. Reports are coming in about multiple hijackings. I've read a report about a worldwide alert issued last Friday concerning our resident international terrorist, Osama bin Laden, Two & two are quickly starting to come together.
(Side note: Don't let them tell you they had no warning. I'm not kidding about that worldwide alert concerning bin Laden. They knew. Damned right they knew.)
I can't pull up anything on the 'Net - and I have a T1 at work. The radio offers some details, but I want to know more. I run across the street to the CompUSSR to scope out the TV images.
And ohmigod - what TV images. I saw the second plane come in behind the first tower, and a plume of fire and deep black smoke explode out the other side. I saw the collapsed side of the Pentagon. I saw both WTC towers collapse - I had to ask someone if they'd collapsed all the way, so incredulous was the scene there. (A third building nearby would collapse six hours later.) I heard reports of yet another plane crash - this one near Pittsburgh. Rumor has it that the plane was headed to Camp David - we're somewhere around the anniversary of the Camp David accords, so I hear.
Returned to work around 11:00 in a state of near-shock. Twenty minutes later, I received the go-ahead to go home. After a quick stop-off at the school to check on my wife, I arrived home and turned on the TV to Fox.
The images there were even more unbelievable than before. Fox had the direct angle on the second tower hit. They also had better angles on the collapse of both towers - although by that time, there was so much smoke & dust that one could hardly make anything out.
After a quick lunch, I sit down here to gather news stories, and I find this.
That's right, sports fans. Here are a group of Palestinian squids laughing, dancing and cheering the attack on us, whom they call "the Great Satan".
Compassionate people, those Palestinians.
Okay, now that I've bored you with my day, here's my analysis: CNN early on was doing everything it could to avoid calling it a terrorist attack. But, Spatulaites & Spatulaettes, it's too coordinated, too organized to be anything but. These events had to be planned months in advance. Certain people had to be installed at just the right junctures in order to pull this off - our airport security procedures, despite the fact that they're handled by part-timers making minimum wage, are still way too strict. People who knew how to fly those planes had to arrange for passage on these planes. This would have been a major undertaking for simply one airliner - for four to have been hijacked in this manner and turned into suicide machines screams for the fact that this is more than just a Chinese fire drill.
So. Who's got the capability to pull it off? Who has the money to train these thugs, place them right where they needed to be placed, and then turned loose? And who among them hates us enough to target us? Not to mention, who's stupid-assed enough to try it?
If you haven't figured it out by now, go back to school and take a comprehensive reading course. You think about it, there's really only one man who qualifies: Osama bin Laden.
There can be no question. The mastermind behind the 1993 bombing at the aforementioned World Trade Center is so consumed with hatred for the United States that it sticks in his craw that he failed to bring us down eight years ago. So he decided to try and finish the job, gambling that we'll be too chicken-shit to do anything about it.
(Second side note: Yeah, the Palestinians and the Taliban in Afghanistan are denying responsibility. Don't believe the bastards. This is their baby.)
This is where George W. Bush needs to prove him wrong. Take this one to the bank, my friends: The Bush presidency - whether he believes it or not, whether he likes it or not - rides on how he handles this.
America is screaming for justice. More to the point, America is screaming for revenge. This is nothing short of an act of war. Yes, war. There's been a formally undeclared one on us now, by most of the non-Israeli countries of the Middle East, for several years now. The Muslims hate our guts. The Syrians, the Iraqis, the Iranians - we're their enemy. "Death To America" has been cruising at #1 on the Middle Eastern Top 40 for several years. They're getting bolder, too - because they think we're too cowardly to fight back. They think we've forgotten how to fight.
If George Bush has any balls, now's the time to prove them wrong.
This is your solution, like it or not: Any country harboring terrorists - that would include Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, et. al. - must be wiped from the face of the earth.
Scramble 30 bombers. Five warheads each - six if the plane will hold it. Bomb the shit out of these countries - get rid of these raghead bastards.
So what if you take innocents out, too? This is war, people. They don't care about killing our innocents; why should we give a shit about theirs??
And that goes for the Palestinians, too. Let's do Israel a favor and eliminate those sons-of-bitches from the annals of history, as well. They want to laugh and make merry at our misfortune, they need to pay the ultimate price.
Show the world some balls, George W. Teach them that there's a price for fucking with America. Demonstrate to them that we have not forgotten how to fight!
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Ode to Huey Lewis...
...as in "All I really need is a COUPLE DAYS OFF...!!!"
Denizens, I'm gonna take a day off from posting - still got stuff to do around here, plus the Sibling Unit™ has insisted that I hook up his washer/dryer and VCR (he's, shall we say, technologically and mechanically challanged (grin)), plus there's the Cowboy game and all, so there won't be that much time for keyboard stuff today. (Not all that much different from Friday, except Friday was a One-Legged Man™ day.)
So, here's a little something from the Grab-Bag™: The Biggest Lies™
The check is in the mail.
I'll respect you in the morning.
I'm from your government, and I am here to help you.
It's only a cold sore.
You get this one, I'll pay next time.
My wife doesn't understand me.
Trust me, I'll take care of everything.
Of course I love you.
I am getting a divorce.
Drinking? Why, no, Officer.
I never inhaled.
It's not the money, it's the principle of the thing.
I never watch television except for PBS.
...but we can still be good friends.
She means nothing to me.
Don't worry, I can go another 20 miles when the gauge is on "empty."
I gave at the office.
Don't worry, he's never bitten anyone.
I'll call you later.
We'll release the upgrade by the end of the year.
Read my lips: no new taxes
I've never done anything like this before
Now, I'm going to tell you the truth
It's supposed to make that noise.
I *love* your new!
...then take a left.You can't miss it.
Yes, I did.
Don't worry, it's OK -- I'm sterile...
Mheh.
Will probably write the PFW recap this evening (if I have time) and post it tomorrow. Stay tuned.
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September 10, 2005
Come say it to my face, Typhoid Mary
Whaddya wanna bet that if "Shitcan" Shee-hag had tried this tack, it might have gotten her some of that White House attention she was craving?
Seems that Loony Louisiana Leftard™ senator "Typhoid Mary" Landrieu got her knickers in a twist over suggestions that the N'awlins gendarmes were forsaking their sworn duty to protect & serve the citizens of NOLA so that they could join in the looting:
Sen. Mary Landrieu threatened the president of the United States with physical violence on Sunday, saying that if he or any other government official criticizes New Orleans police for failing to keep civil order in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - "I might likely have to punch him - literally.""If one person criticizes [our sheriffs], or says one more thing, including the president of the United States, he will hear from me - one more word about it after this show airs and I - I might likely have to punch him - literally," Landrieu railed on "ABC's "This Week."
It is illegal to threaten the president with physical violence.
Gee, no kidding? Whatcha wanna bet that if she had threatened Kaiser Wilhelm like that, she'd be running a real risk of rotting in a federal pen Right About Now™? Just ask Jesse Helms - in fact, it damned near happened to him.
The [Secret Service] took a tougher stance on Senatorial threats in 1994, when then-North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms joked that President Clinton "had better watch out if he comes down here. He better have a bodyguard."After a media firestorm erupted - with some pundits complaining that Helms had committed treason - the Secret Service swung into action, launching a full blown investigation into whether Helms' statement indicated that someone in North Carolina planned to assassinate the president.
"We have followed up on the comments and [have] spoken with the senator's staff," a Secret Service spokesman said at the time.
Nothing's been done to Landrieu, so far as we know. Either no one in the White House gives a shit about stuff like that anymore...or W's been reading this blog and knows that the Limp-Wristed Liberal Left™ is nothing but a bunch of chickenshits. (snicker)
The Louisiana Democrat blasted Bush for neglecting the New Orleans levees, and demanded that he stop using the disaster for "photo-ops.""The president came here yesterday for a photo-op," Landrieu charged, while surveying the disaster scene via helicopter with "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos in tow.
Okay, does anyone else see the disconnect there? As in, Typhoid Mary accusing Bush of a photo-op...right in the midst of her video-op with Georgie-Porgie Snuffleupagus???
"He got his photo-op but we are never going to get this fixed if he does not send us help now."
Hey, bimboid, the Red Cross tried to send you people help, and your fellow Demoscum refused them entry into the Cthulu-forsaken state!!! And you have the gall to blame the President for not getting your people help, you lame-assed lickspittle bitch?
Landrieu also blamed Bush for cutting funding for levee improvement, before bursting into tears on camera.
Yeah, that's right. The levees that Bush allocated $750 million to improve, had Landrieu and her fellow Demoscum not insisted on squandering it on unnecessary port projects.
In recent days, Louisiana officials have been criticized for bungling evacuation and rescue efforts. One of those officials, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, is Sen. Landrieu's brother.
Yet another incompetent from a family of incompetents.
And Typhoid Mary - I'll happily say that to your face.
18959 Lina St, #601
Dallas, TX
I'll gladly criticize the Demoscummic shitheads who cost so many Lousianans their lives, and if you ever grow the cojones to come down and try and punch me in the face, I'll be more than pleased to take your skanky Cajun coon-ass on.
Anytime you're ready, bitch.
(Memo to the Rev. Mykki Chickenshit: Yeah, that's the new address, assmunch. And there's no gate, either. There goes your last excuse for not coming down and taking your ass-whipping like the coward you are. (chuckle))
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September 08, 2005
PFW: Why I do what I do
The question has been raised: Why am I blogging about football when people - Americans (gasp, arrrrrgh!) - are dying in New Orleans?
Well, we'll forget, for the moment, that people die every day, all over the world. And yeah - a damned good many of 'em are Americans. In fact, we had one good one die this past weekend: William Rehnquist, chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, and a damned good American, IYAM.
There are two reasons why I blog on football:
1. It's my damned blog. You want me to blog on something near & dear to your heart, email me (the address is down on the sidebar) with your idea and I'll give it all due consideration.Until then, I blog on what interests me. Not you, me. If that doesn't set well with you, get yer own damned blog.
2. I haven't much talked much about the Katrina mess because so many others have done such a better job than I could ever do. From Misha, BC and Sir George to Aaron's cc: to the SpatulaGoddess to Bill Whittle, these are masters of the craft, and you guys do yourselves a major disservice by not availing yourselves of their wisdom.There is one facet of the Katrina aftermath that I have my eye on - and if I have time this weekend, I'll blog on it. Suffice to say - Mary Landrieu, get your skanky liberal Cajun coon-ass front and center, bitch.
With that said, let's get crackin' with the PFW.
Saturday evening around 8:30, the TCU Horned Frogs will come to Dallas and say it to SMU's face. Normally, when the game's in Dallas, it's a squeaker (TCU won two years ago, 20-13, on a last-minute touchdown by Robert Merrill).
However, TCU is off that win at OU last Saturday, while the Shetlands were getting beaten at home by...uh...Baylor. That's Baylor, as in 1-for-their-last-24-Big-12-games Baylor.
Memo to Gary Patterson: I'm not expecting 44-0 like I got last year, sir - but if you want the OU win to mean anything, Phil Bennett's Ponies must be handled with relative ease. Understood?
Also Saturday, the University of Tulsa goes to Norman and pays for the Sooners' sins of last week. TCU had an outside shot in that OU game - the Tulsa Hurricanes have absolutely zero shot this week. Best bet: take your whipping, collect your check, and go home.
Sunday, we find out just how good the Dallas Cowboys might be this year when they travel to San Diego to take on LaDainian Tomlinson and the Chargers. Tight end Antonio Gates is serving a suspension for this game, so the 'Pokes key is simple: Control LT, and you have a better-than-average shot at winning. The longer you let him run wild, the longer the afternoon will be for you guys.
As it is, I think the Bolts will pull out a close one here. Six points or less.
We're back Monday for the recap. In the meantime, you know the routine - you wanna talk about your teams, have at it. For my part, I'll keep writing about what I damned well please, thank you very much.
UPDATE: Almost forgot about LSU. The Tigers were scheduled to play Arizona State Saturday in Baton Rouge.
That game will now be played in Tempe, Arizona. I expect the Sun Devils to win here, unfortunately.
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September 07, 2005
Prayer request
Denizen David Hartung reports that his uncle passed last evening after a 30 year battle with Parkinson's.
Prayers to the entire Hartung family, and our condolences.
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September 06, 2005
PFW: Guess I owe Patterson an apology, huh?
Granted, when you're a King and Tyrant™, you don't go around apologizing very much. But in this instance, I think it's probably warranted.
Arlington Heights 30, Wichita Falls Hirschi 27
TCU 17, Oklahoma 10
Dallas 27, Jacksonville 20
North Texas at LSU, postponed
Heights shot out to a 30-14 lead, then held on to beat the Huskies. This is good experience, should the Yellow Jackets reach the playoffs, where close games are not uncommon.
Jacksonville played second- and third-stringers all game last Thursday, but it's an encouraging sign that the Cowboys took care of business against them. Julius Jones ran well, and the o-line protected Drew Bledsoe well enough that he was able to complete seven of eight in limited playing time.
New acquisitions Jason Ferguson (free agent) and Marcus Spears (draft choice) each saw their first action of the season and played well. Spears contributed a sack.
UPDATE: Damn @*&%&@~!~$! post gremlins...
Two teams played a college football game last Saturday.
One team had competed for the national championship the last two years. The other team couldn't even manage a winning season last year against vastly inferior competition.
One coach was being pleaded with here in the Realm™ to come coach the Dallas Cowboys. The other coach was hearing calls for his head on a platter - not just from here, but from home fans, as well.
So you would think that the Oklahoma Sooners would have, should have decimated the TCU Horned Frogs. This should have been something on the order of 35-70 at the hands of Texas Tech last year.
The Frogs, however, had other ideas.
TCU played OU evenly in the first quarter, then the Frog defense began to flat-out kick Sooner ass. An interception due to quarterback Paul Thompson being pressured led to TCU's first touchdown, a 16-yard pass from Tye Gunn to Derek Moore on 3rd-and-11.
The Frogs would extend their lead to 10-0 on a Peter LoCoco field goal. LoCoco positively sucked as a freshman walk-on, but seems to have his head right with ball this year.
OU tied the score at 10 after having opened the second half with a touchdown drive of their own, then tackling TCU punter Brian Cortney before he could get the kick away from the TCU 16. OU made it to the TCU 5 before the Frog defense stuffed the Sooner offense.
TCU scored its final points off a turnover by OU backup quarterback Rhett Bomar. Jamison Newby sacked Bomar and caused a fumble, which was recovered by linebacker David Hawthorne. Running back Robert Merrill scored the winning points with just under 12 minutes to play, and a late Sooner comeback was thwarted by a Drew Coleman interception with under nine minutes remaining.
It was Bob Stoops's first September loss at Oklahoma, and the first time OU had lost a home opener since 1996 - oddly enough, the last time the Sooners opened with TCU.
So, Gary Patterson - consider that apology made. I wanna see you manhandle SMU next week, but maybe you're not in over your head after all.
The PFW will return Thursday or Friday or for another crack.
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