The big NCAA football game today is Alabama at Texas A & M at least based on the media blitz. Don't forget that the media's job is to create the hype that gets you to pay attention and buy into it so you will watch the game.
A&M beat Alabama last year in a kind of coming out event for Johnny Football Manziel who went on to win the Heisman Trophy.
You may be caught up in all this but I think that Alabama was surprised last year by A&M and I don't think it is going to happen this year.
I don't know what the score will be but I don't think Johnny Football will be as successful this year because Nick Saban and Alabama have had the whole off season to prepare.
Take Alabama.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Friday, September 13, 2013
Pompous is as Pompous does
I borrowed this style from the
movie character Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks) who popularized the phrase ‘stupid
is as stupid does’ in the movie of the same name, Forrest Gump.
I think the first time I heard the phrase ‘pompous ass’ used
was when I was in high school. If so, it was in freshmen English class when we
were reading something by Shakespeare. Not my favorite author by any means. I
have no idea who Shakespeare was calling a pompous ass nor do I care but I know
that I got the meaning of that phrase.
In fact most of the stuff we read or attempted to read that
year was not my favorite and was not of interest to me at all. Until I and some
others who were in the same position heard the phrase ‘pompous ass’ we were
bored. When we heard the words we looked at each other and smiled and realized
that Willie S was an ok guy even if we couldn’t understand anything else he
wrote.
You might wonder why I bring up pompous ass now.
If you have been following the situation in Syria I think President
Obama is putting himself in the position of being a pompous ass.
Originally I think he believed he had the upper hand in
Syria regarding chemical weapons and decided to go to Congress for support to attack.
His motivation, I believe, was to stick it to the Republicans by requesting
Congress to take a vote. He was cruising to what, in his mind, was another
victory and he wasn’t going to let the Republicans or the rest of us forget it.
He even sent Secretary of State John Kerry to try to drum up
some support (which turned out to be potentially limited) from other countries,
mainly our allies, even though the majority weren’t interested in assisting the
US in an attack on one side or the other or both. I’m still not sure which it
is?
Ultimately Vladimir Putin, Russian President, played Obama
by offering a way out for Obama but by keeping Syrian President Assad in power
and not allowing the US to do anything in Syria. But hundreds and thousands of
Syrians continue to die daily on each side whether by conventional or chemical
weapons.
The results to this point: no changes in Syria (Assad is
still in power and Islamists are still fighting on the other side and one or both sides have chemical weapons) and the reputation
and credibility of both the US and Obama have been reduced drastically. How
about Putin and Russia? Their image and credibility have been greatly enhanced and
their effectiveness in the entire Middle East has been and will be significantly
improved if Obama and the US don’t get their act together.
I don’t know about you but I grew up during the period
called the ‘cold war’ and there was an amount of insecurity to life every day
during that time. We weren’t sure if we were on track to go to war with Russia (Russia
at that time was much larger and stronger than today as it had taken over many
Eastern European countries after World War II and was referred to as the USSR) or
if we would be attacked or whether we would live another day. In school we even
used to have air raid drills where we would hide under our desks or go down to basement
hallway thinking we would be protected in the event of a conventional or
nuclear attack.
I haven’t had those feelings of insecurity in a long time.
But I have them now. With Obama at the helm and his lack of leadership and resolve I do wonder much
more about what is going to happen.
A weak leader puts his nation and his people at significant risk.
Obama’s pomposity, thinking he is smarter than all of us and can talk his way
out of this, puts us all in jeopardy.
For more see: Obama Is Lost in the Mideast Bazaar,
by Fouad Ajami
Mr. Ajami, a senior fellow at Stanford's
Hoover Institution, is the author, most recently, of "The Syrian
Rebellion" (Hoover Press, 2012).
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Faking Injuries
One current problem in the National Football League is faking of injuries by a player or players on the defensive team to slow down play by an offensive team that has momentum and is driving for a score.
One way to deal with this is to require the injured player to sit out at least the remainder of the current series or the current series plus an additional series and possibly until the opposing team scores or the ball changes hands. If the player is truly hurt this is in the player's best interest. If the player is not hurt then the team and the player are both being penalized for faking injuries.
The 'injured' player could be placed in an area on the sidelines to receive treatment similar to a penalty box in hockey.The replay official or someone else in the replay box can keep track of the participation by the 'injured' player whether he is in a specified area or not. Not a lot of work will be required to track this..
Here are some other options (the fine has to be significant - maybe the player's salary for a game or $250K as an example):
Fine the team owner for every injury, and/ or
Fine the team head coach for every injury, and / or
Fine the individual player for every injury
Or something similar
If the player can't return to the game, assuming the 'injury' doesn't occur near the end of the game, or misses the following game then the fine is refunded.
One thing that will become clear quickly is that the team won't want to fake injuries because it is making it easier for the other team to score and possibly win the game plus it can get expensive. Thus the team faking the injuries may be eliminated from playoff contention and lose additional monies.
Complicated? Yea, maybe a little bit. But the coaches and players are forcing the league to do something to deal with this situation. If you don't like that something will have to be done then blame the coaches and or the players and pressure them to stop it now.
The league should immediately develop a plan with penalties and fines and implement it quickly. It appears that more teams are moving to speedier play and as a result there will be more injuries both legitimate and fake.
One way to deal with this is to require the injured player to sit out at least the remainder of the current series or the current series plus an additional series and possibly until the opposing team scores or the ball changes hands. If the player is truly hurt this is in the player's best interest. If the player is not hurt then the team and the player are both being penalized for faking injuries.
The 'injured' player could be placed in an area on the sidelines to receive treatment similar to a penalty box in hockey.The replay official or someone else in the replay box can keep track of the participation by the 'injured' player whether he is in a specified area or not. Not a lot of work will be required to track this..
Here are some other options (the fine has to be significant - maybe the player's salary for a game or $250K as an example):
Fine the team owner for every injury, and/ or
Fine the team head coach for every injury, and / or
Fine the individual player for every injury
Or something similar
If the player can't return to the game, assuming the 'injury' doesn't occur near the end of the game, or misses the following game then the fine is refunded.
One thing that will become clear quickly is that the team won't want to fake injuries because it is making it easier for the other team to score and possibly win the game plus it can get expensive. Thus the team faking the injuries may be eliminated from playoff contention and lose additional monies.
Complicated? Yea, maybe a little bit. But the coaches and players are forcing the league to do something to deal with this situation. If you don't like that something will have to be done then blame the coaches and or the players and pressure them to stop it now.
The league should immediately develop a plan with penalties and fines and implement it quickly. It appears that more teams are moving to speedier play and as a result there will be more injuries both legitimate and fake.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Mr. Obama, You’re No George Washington!
After reading an opinion piece in the September 7, 2013, Wall
Street Journal by Peggy Noonan I thought that a particular portion of that piece,
that I have pasted below, should be titled ‘Mr. Obama you’re no George Washington’.
This idea is adapted from the 1968 Vice Presidential debate
where Democratic candidate Senator Lloyd Bentsen said to the Republican
challenger, Senator Dan Quayle, ‘…I knew Jack Kennedy (35th US
President) and Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy’.
Obviously I didn’t know General Washington but I do know
President Obama through his speeches, press conferences and various press reports
and I am comfortable stating that President Obama is no General Washington -
Unfortunately not only for America but also for the world.
Obama is proving that he is not a strong leader; neither
strong in character nor strong in conviction. What makes him most scary is his
poor judgment and lack of experience. He is like a five year old playing with a
loaded gun. It may be interesting and kind of cool to handle it because you have
seen the big boys play with it but you don’t know what to do with it and there
is a good chance that that gun will fire and someone will get hurt or killed and
many lives will be harmed.
Take the time to go to the piece and read the entire
article.
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‘Finally, this president showed determination
and guts in getting Osama bin Laden.
But a Syria strike may become full-scale war. Is Barack Obama a war
president? On Syria he has done nothing to inspire confidence. Up to the moment
of decision, and even past it, he has seemed ambivalent, confused, unaware of
the implications of his words and stands. From the "red line" comment
to the "shot across the bow," from the White House leaks about the
nature and limits of a planned strike to the president's recent, desperate
inclusion of Congress, he has seemed consistently over his head. I have been
thinking of the iconic image of American military leadership, Emanuel Leutze's
painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware." There Washington stands,
sturdy and resolute, looking toward the enemy on the opposite shore. If you
imagine Mr. Obama in that moment he is turned, gesturing toward those in the back.
"It's not my fault we're in this boat!" That's what "I didn't
set a red line" and "My credibility is not at stake" sounded
like.’
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Noonan: Why
America Is Saying 'No'
Syria and Obama:
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong plan, wrong man.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324577304579057420154706690.html?KEYWORDS=peggy+noonan
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Basics, Basics, Basics
Life is all about the basics and this story below related by
Dr Benjamin Carson shows that by learning the basics as soon as or as early as you
can will make a big a difference in your life. Even if you didn’t learn the
basics as early as Dr Carson did you still can benefit from learning and implementing
the basics in your life. Why wait longer? Get started now.
And most importantly help your children learn and implement
the basics.
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‘One of the steps
Carson’s mother took was regularly taking her children to the library, having
recognized that people who read a lot “had the ability to change the direction
of their lives,” Carson said.
In Carson’s estimation, the importance of knowledge and education cannot be underestimated both in terms of preserving our liberties, and as a factor in shaping the course of one’s life.
The average
person lives to be about 80 years old, he said, and they can either spend the
first 20-25 years of it preparing, or choosing not to.
“If you
prepare yourself, you have sixty years to reap the benefits. If you fail
to prepare yourself, you have sixty years to suffer the consequences,” he
said. “You get to make that choice. Each person gets to make that choice,
how they want to program that incredible computer, the brain that God gave us.”’
Dr. Benjamin Carson Reveals Unexpected
Childhood Hobby That Helped Lift Him Out of Poverty
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Really, you're offended by someone being called a clown
Some people really don't believe in truly free speech.
Either speech is absolutely free or it is relatively or conditionally free. When it is the latter then that means it is being controlled or limited by those with the most power or the loudest voices even though they may not be the majority.
Those whose speech is deemed offensive by a subjective standard or a group's feelings are losing their rights to express themselves.
What this says is that some one's rights are greater than another's rights. In this case the rights of the offended are more important than the rights of the one who says something offensive.
For us to believe in absolutely free speech we must be willing to tolerate whatever people say or do that expresses their beliefs no matter how offensive or stupid it may be.
I don't agree with what the rodeo clown said or did in the attached piece and video but I believe he has the right to say it without repercussions.
If President Obama doesn't come out and call off his minions who are so critical of the clown's words and actions it is just one more action or lack of that shows that he is more interested in controlling America's citizens than enforcing the rights guaranteed to US Citizens.
I am more offended by the overwhelming amount of vulgar language used in movies and on television. But I guess I have to accept that because those who are offended by someone calling someone a clown don't think multiple usage of the F-bomb in a movie is offensive.
See in the attached piece by Byron York an explanation of the situation that caused this uproar and references to much worse treatment of other US Presidents. Maybe you could say that they just don't make Presidents the way they use to.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/in-partial-defense-of-the-missouri-rodeo-clown/article/2534213
Either speech is absolutely free or it is relatively or conditionally free. When it is the latter then that means it is being controlled or limited by those with the most power or the loudest voices even though they may not be the majority.
Those whose speech is deemed offensive by a subjective standard or a group's feelings are losing their rights to express themselves.
What this says is that some one's rights are greater than another's rights. In this case the rights of the offended are more important than the rights of the one who says something offensive.
For us to believe in absolutely free speech we must be willing to tolerate whatever people say or do that expresses their beliefs no matter how offensive or stupid it may be.
I don't agree with what the rodeo clown said or did in the attached piece and video but I believe he has the right to say it without repercussions.
If President Obama doesn't come out and call off his minions who are so critical of the clown's words and actions it is just one more action or lack of that shows that he is more interested in controlling America's citizens than enforcing the rights guaranteed to US Citizens.
I am more offended by the overwhelming amount of vulgar language used in movies and on television. But I guess I have to accept that because those who are offended by someone calling someone a clown don't think multiple usage of the F-bomb in a movie is offensive.
See in the attached piece by Byron York an explanation of the situation that caused this uproar and references to much worse treatment of other US Presidents. Maybe you could say that they just don't make Presidents the way they use to.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/in-partial-defense-of-the-missouri-rodeo-clown/article/2534213
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