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First, the Dallas C’girlz made it a point to say that they were going to make a big splash in free agency.

During combine, owner Jerry Jones predicted next season’s roster could feature 10 or more new players and talked about current players competing for playing time. Changes will come through free agency, draft or players already in organizations.

Then free agency started, and the ‘Girlz did a sit-by-the-phone bit while big-name free agents signed with other teams.

Now it doesn’t seem to be that much of a concern for Owner Jethro (hat tip once again to the Startlegram’s Gil LeBreton).

No one is better than Jerry Jones at providing a Jerry Jones-ism to describe the Cowboys’ approach thus far in the NFL’s uncapped year.

“There’s no angst about getting anxious here,” the Cowboys owner said. “We’re just watching it unfold.”

“We’re pleased with what we have in place with the Dallas Cowboys,” Jones said, “but if you look at our past several years, we’ve never jumped right out there in free agency.

“The last several years, we haven’t been big off the bat right out front.

Yeah, well - the last several years, the C’girls also haven’t been major players on the field - particularly so during, y’know Jerry, the playoffs.

I could  be wrong here, but I’d venture to guess there’s something of a correlation.  Particularly for a team that hasn’t been accused of drafting that well since Jimmy left.

Now, the Cowboys may - at some point - get to play the Super Bowl when it’s Arlington’s turn to host it.

Based on what I’ve seen so far, though, I’d say it won’t be this year.

LC Rurik, via email, sends us this - and it is well, well  worth your time to go see.  (You may be prompted to register - go ahead & do so; it’s free.)

Most of you are pretty well aware what I think of Whoreywood. 

Well, tonight’s their annual group circle-jerk (read:  the Oscars), and Drudge (bless his Eddie Murrow heart) has done a masterful job in scoping out the definitive liveblog thereto.

Hie thee hence & partake.  This ain’t just comedy gold - it’s comedy titanium.  Goeth.  Shooeth. 

[SCENE:  On the bridge of the New Republic cruiser Nebulon, in the Coruscant system.  Captain Anakin Madine watches on their viewscreen as ISS Titanic  of the Fourth Intergalactic Realm™ finishes rigging its tractor beam and towing ISS Phoenix  out of the system towards home.  On Madine's face, a smug smirk tugs at the corners of his mouth.]

CAPT. MADINE:  Did you make sure and plant the bomb so that they’ll not find it, Lieutenant?

LIEUTENANT:  Yes, sir.  It will take an extremely sophisticated sensor sweep for them to even catch a trace of it.  Fortunately, their sensors don’t appear to be as good as ours.

CAPT. MADINE:  And the charge will go off once they enter hyperspace, correct?

LIEUTENANT:  Yes, sir.  It’s set to go at lightspeed, and it’ll take both ships out on detonation.

CAPT. MADINE:  Very good, Lieutenant.  Carry on.

[Cut to the bridge of ISS Titanic.  Lord Darth Venomous appears lost in thought while receiving reports from the senior staff on ISS Phoenix.]

Der SpatulaGoddess (long may she continue to exude humongously massive quantities of hawtness  ) alerts us to the winner of the Demoscummic primary for the TX-22 seat in the Imperial Socialist Congress™.

And the winner is a certified…well, let’s just say she’s certifiable, shall we?

The victory in the 22nd Congressional District yesterday by LaRouche Democrat Kesha Rogers sent an unmistakable message to the White House, and its British imperial controllers: Your days are numbered. Kesha’s campaign hit relentlessly at a single theme, that President Obama must go, that his attacks on this nation – with his dismantling of the manned space program, his efforts to ram through a fascist, killer “health care” policy, his endless bailouts for Wall Street swindlers, while demanding budget cuts which will increase the death rates among the poor, the sick, the elderly and the unemployed – are not acceptable, and will not be tolerated.

Skeptics said that LaRouche’s approach is impractical, it won’t work, that Democrats will never support someone who is calling for the President’s impeachment. Obviously, the voters of the 22nd district disagreed with those skeptics, as Kesha received 53% of the vote against two opponents. As Kesha told the Galveston Daily News last night, when a reporter asked if she expected support from the Democratic Party in the fall election, “I am leading a war against the British Empire. I’m not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.”

Oh, wowzers.  A bona fide  LaRouchie.

MERLIN:  I thought they’d gone extinct once Sir Lyndon there retired.

KORRIOTH:  Dinosaur eggs, snail darters and tr’krzk  teeth.

VENOMOUS:  There’s no such thing as a tr’krzk.

KORRIOTH:  Not anymore, there isn’t.

VENOMOUS: 

K’HADIBAK’H:  Well, she’s not all bad - she does  want to impeach Bambi.

OZY MCCOOL:  Perhaps, but you’d have a hard time convincing anyone that he’s on a leash held by “British imperial controllers”.  They’re having enough trouble trying to hold off Sharia law over there while not going bankrupt.

VENOMOUS:  No one ever said the LaRouchies had brains, Commander.

OZY MCCOOL:  Point.

Anyway, the Congresscritter down in the 22nd is a GOPer by the name of Pete Olson.  And I rather doubt he’s really got anything to worry about this cycle.

OZY MCCOOL:  Shall I put the General on alert, just in case?  That is  close to the Southern Command.

KORRIOTH:  He doesn’t need target practice that  badly, does he?

VENOMOUS:  Not as bad as some blind, bumpy-headed Tiberian bat I know…

KORRIOTH:  HEY!!!!!

ALL (except Korrioth): 

ITEM:  Well, it appears now as if Bambi is on board with reconciliation on so-called “healthcare reform”

The White House knows if Obama says “reconciliation” in Wednesday’s speech that will become the headline. This will thrust Obama knee-deep into arcane Senate procedures and rules — the last place White House officials want Obama to be.

The administration doesn’t deny Obama is already in the reconciliation soup by inference — it’s his health care bill, after all. But they still see some distance between him and what’s likely to be a contentious Senate tug-of-war over reconciliation.

(And do note I put “healthcare reform” in sneer-quotes (whereas no one else has) because it isn’t, and everyone here understands it won’t reform a damned thing.)

REACTION:  From commenter happyscrapper on Michelle’s blog:

Get ready to fight, folks. This is it. This bill is the shot heard round the world and we will be at war as soon as it passes. I am serious. We are at war against our own progessive government. They must be stopped from their agenda of total destruction!! Lawsuits must be filed in every state!! We must defend the Constitution. If this is allowed to pass, we will no longer have a Constitution to defend. When that goes, our freedom and liberty are gone with it. This.cannot.stand!!

Are we, indeed, ready to fight?  Collectively, that is?

I tend to think not.  Not enough of us are, anyway.  There are only a few who could be counted on, and the rest of us are either out of practice, out of shape (or both), or too ensonced in the latest “Bachelor” controversy about how Jakie tried to hit on his ex the day he got engaged to Vienna.  (Gasp!  Arrgh!  SCANDAL!!1!ONE!!1!)

I wonder if we ever will  be ready, quite honestly.

His Nastiness will probably have more to say about this later, but after watching the current sorry excuse for a president spend about thirty minutes  lying to us, I am fighting the RCOB.

I am still waiting for the clowns in Washington to give me the constitutional basis for this monstrosity called “health care reform”. Then I want them to tell me where they are going to find the money topay for this unconstitutional infringement on my life.

I will not hold my breath on either count.

Okay, Denizens, I’m waiting for the Lame Stream Media™ to file all their megabytes of stories conclusively linking this couple to the Glow-bull Wormening Twoofer™ movement.

A seven month old baby has miraculously survived being shot after the parents killed themselves and their two year old son, citing fears over a lack of government action on global warming.

Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, are said to have shot their young son in the back, killing the toddler instantly.

[...]

In a suicide note, reportedly discovered by police, the couple cited their extreme fears over the effects of global warming.

The couple were said to have expressed anger at the government in the letter for not doing more to avert a worldwide environmental crisis.

I mean, seeing as they were champing at the bit to link Joseph Stack to the Tea Party movement, this should be an effin’ slam-dunk, shouldn’t it?

Any Minute Now™, we should expect to see the shrieking, the sniveling, the Mega-Crybabying™ over these craven cowards’ connection to the Limp-Wristed Liberal Left™.

Any Minute Now™.

Should be here.

Shortly.

Waiting…

[SCENE:  The Coruscant system.  ISS Phoenix  hovers, lifeless and adrift save for the tractor beam of a New Republic vessel holding it in place to keep it from drifting too close to the gravity well of the system's namesake planet.

This scene is playing out on the bridge of ISS Titanic  as we cut to her bridge.  The entire senior staff is on watch and in their places, eyes expectantly on Lord Darth Venomous as he takes in the grisly sight of Phoenix.

As Titanic  closes, the communications board of Lt. T-Bone McManx pings insistently.]

(Hat tip NewsBusters.)

Guess you’ve seen by now where racist eugenics evolutionary shit-for-brains professor shit-for-brains Satoshi Kanazawa has all but decreed that we conservatives and/or Christians ain’t too ed-yoo-ma-ka-ted.

Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds.

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.

There is but one thing - and only one thing, if you ask me - that can be viewed as a proper response to an asshat like this.

“Romans 1:22″.

And thank you, Sack-o-shit Kwanzaanawa, but I’ll take the Apostle Paul’s intellect - not to mention He who gave to him - over your  fecal-material-between-the-ears any day of the week.

‘Nuff.  Said.

As you may or may not have noticed, the space clock’s back…

[His Rudeness is rather brusquely interrupted by the red-alert klaxon.  Think Star Trek 2009.]

KLAXON:  (WHOOP!!!  WHOOP!!!  WHOOP!!!)

T-BONE MCMANX (over shipwide):  Red Alert!  Red Alert!  This is not a drill!  Admiral Venomous to the bridge!

[The Sith Lord moves quickly to the intercom.]

VENOMOUS:  Venomous to bridge, report!

T-BONE MCMANX:  Admiral, we’ve just received a report of a massive explosion aboard Phoenix  near the Coruscant system!  Massive hull breaches, sir; she’s adrift and burning in space!

VENOMOUS:  Intercept course, Mr. McManx - maximum warp.  I’m on my way.

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Denizens, now it’s the work machine’s turn to go belly-up.  (If it ain’t one thing, it’s another, right?)

Posting as I can manage it.

Sorry, Denizens.  The Muse™ (ha!) took the night off.

Maybe tomorrow.

[ED. NOTE:  Because my post on the Crist brouhaha eclipsed the Vicar's post before you guys even had a chance to see it, I'm bumping it to today so it can have its place in the sun.  Cthulu knows that The Six Or Seven™ wouldn't even know I had anything underneath the top post if I didn't remind them of it from time to time.  -DV]

This is one of those messages which get forwarded endlessly in email. The Story, however, long predates email, having been around at least since I was a kid. A friend recently sent it to me.

The message is timeless, and having just posted it to the Church blog, I thought I would also post it here.

Sermon without a word

A member of a certain church, who previously had been attending Services regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, the preacher Decided to visit him.

It was a chilly evening. The preacher found the man at home alone, Sitting before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his preachers Visit, the man welcomed him, led him to a comfortable chair near the Fireplace and waited.

The preacher made himself at home but said nothing. In the grave Silence, he contemplated the dance of the flames around the burning Logs. After some minutes, the preacher took the fire tongs, Carefully picked up a brightly burning ember and placed it to one Side of the hearth all alone then he sat back in his chair, still Silent.

The host watched all this in quiet contemplation. As the one lone Ember’s flame flickered and diminished, there was a momentary glow And then its fire was no more. Soon it was cold and dead. Not a word had been spoken since the initial greeting.

The preacher Glanced at his watch and realized it was time to leave He slowly Stood up, picked up the cold, dead ember and placed it back in the  Middle of the fire. Immediately it began to glow, once more with the Light and warmth of the burning coals around it.

As the preacher reached the door to leave, his host said with a tear Running down his cheek, ‘Thank you so much for your visit and
Especially for the fiery sermon. I shall be back in church next Sunday.

(Hat tip:  Babalu Blog.)

Down in The Former Temporary Home Of The Realm™ (aka Florida), Republican establishment  (and trust me on this - I do  mean that in the worst possible of ways) goober-natorial candy-date Charlie Crist has yet (in the face of a surging candidacy by conservative Marco Rubio) to see his own personal “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin” on the wall.

But that doesn’t mean his staffers don’t see it.

In the latest sign of turbulence for Charlie Crist’s wounded U.S. Senate bid, key staffers are starting to leave the campaign.

Political director Pablo Diaz, one of the first two staff members hired for the Senate campaign, is departing at the end of the month for “a new opportunity.” Sean Doughtie, a well-regarded new media consultant who had worked with Crist for years, stopped working for the campaign at the end of January.

“The campaign was going in a different direction,” said Doughtie.

Yeah.  Down. 

In another sign of Crist’s eagerness to shake up the race, he has ended his long-standing resistance to debating Rubio, who had been challenging him to debate for months. Days ago, Crist announced he wanted to debate Rubio on Meet the Press March 7 and Fox News Sunday on March 28. Rubio responded by insisting that Fox host their first debate since the network had been talking to the campaigns about it since mid December.

“I don’t care, but I hope we can do Meet the Press, too. … Doesn’t he want to meet the press?” Crist told the St. Petersburg Times. “Why not do both? Let’s giddyup.”

Curious.  Don’t the cowboys “giddyup” onto the wall to avoid the onrushing bull? 

Ah, the last desperate gasps of a dying candidacy…

Crist attended a National Governor’s Association meeting Monday at the White House. To reporters afterward he firmly defended his vocal support of the $787 billion federal stimulus package that has generated so much criticism from Rubio and other conservatives. “It doesn’t matter at all, not one iota. He’s wrong and I’m right,” he said of Rubio’s attacks.

And then he wonders how he could possibly  be getting his ass handed to him on a platter.

No, really - he does.

“We needed the money, and it saved 87,000 jobs in our state.”

Uh, no you didn’t, and no - it didn’t.  Just ask Evan Bayh.

Buh-bye, Chuckles.  Thanks for playing. 

Got this from Light29ID over at the Rott, though I’m fairly certain he didn’t write it (so I’m not sure who to hat-tip).