Oh, this is just perfect.
Fort Lupton Municipal Judge Paul Sacco says his novel punishment of forcing noise violators to listen to music they don’t like for one hour has cut down on the number of repeat offenders in this northwestern Colorado prairie town.
About four times a year, those guilty of noise ordinance violations are required to sit in a room and listen to music from the likes of Manilow, Barney the Dinosaur, and The Platters’ crooning “Only You”.
I could think of some gangsta rappers in their cars around here to whom I’d like to do that.
Justice.  Buford.  T.  Justice.
Is this a great country or what? 
I see here that the Union Of Mentally, Psychologically, Emotionally And Politically Challenged People Who Earn Money By Reading Other Peoples’ Writings™ is about to go on strike.
The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed despite the help of a federal mediator.
Federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez adjourned the talks between SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers shortly before 1 a.m. after two marathon sessions failed to produce an agreement. No new talks are scheduled.
The SAG, representing more than 120,000 actors in movies, television and other media, said in a statement that it will launch a “full-scale education campaign in support of a strike authorization.”
All together now…
Memo to TTech fans:  Ouch.
at #15 Texas Christian 44, Air Force 10
UBuffalo 40, at Bowling Green 34 (2OT)
at #6 Oklahoma 65, #2 Texas Tech 21
at Dallas 35, San Francisco 22
Call ’em the Cardiac Bulls.
Drew Willy rallied UBuffalo from 20 points down with fourth-quarter touchdown passes to Brett Hamlin and Naaman Roosevelt, then the Bull defense forced a fourth-down incompletion from Tyler Sheehan to Corey Partridge on BG’s second-overtime possession.  On the very next play, James Starks rumbled 25 yards for the winning score.
Starks wound up with 62 yards on 14 total carries.  Willy was 29-41-297.
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It looked almost too good to be true.  On TCU’s opening drive, the Frogs sliced through Air Force’s defense like the proverbial hot knife through the proverbial butter.
Then, on the Falcons’ opening drive, they attempted to force their will on the Frogs using their vaunted running game.
Bad move.
Save for a 54-yard run in the first half (which led to a field goal), and a 57-yarder in the second half for a touchdown, the Falcons’ rushing attack was non-existent, as was pretty much all Frog opponents’ ground games this year.  Not a good thing when you can’t pass (Air Force, ironically, managed only 11 yards through the air).
Dalton was 21-27-321 and 2 touchdowns, ran for two more, and Joseph Turner & Aaron Brown managed 95 yards between them.
In other words, a fairly methodical win for the Tadpoles.
TCU will now wait to see where it goes for their bowl game.  Likely candidates are the Pioneer Bowl in Vegas or the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego.
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Earlier this week, Terrell Owens was overheard whining to NFL Network’s Deion Sanders about how he’s supposedly not involved in the offense.
Well, it is  whining – especially since he’s the featured receiver in the offense and they throw to him multiple times per game (memo to T.O.: Try catching the damned thing) – but he does have a point, as was evidenced Sunday.
Owens caught seven Romo passes for 213 yards and a touchdown as the Cowboys rolled over a not-quite-there-yet Niner team.  Frisco was so intent on stopping Marion Barber – he had only 59 yards on 19 carries – that they ignored how other teams were defensing Owens, and he made them pay.
Romo was 23-39-341, 3 touchdowns and a QB rating of 113.3.  Patrick Crayton & rookie Martellus Bennett also caught TD passes, and special teams, playing well for once, blocked a Niner punt out of the end zone for a safety.  The defense held SF workhorse Frank Gore to 26 yards on 14 carries, recovered a fumble and scored an interception..
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Memo to Gary Patterson:  Shut up about how you played even-up with OU after that disasterous first quarter a few weeks ago.  Bob Stoopes was merciful on your in-over-your-head ass.
Had OU played the Frogs like they played Texas Tech Saturday night, Bradford & company could easily – easily  – have hung 80 or more on you guys.
The bottom line was that Tech simply could not stop the OU offense.  Running, throwing, you name it, there was no stopping the Sooner juggernaut.  Bradford was 14-19-304 and four touchdowns, DeMarco Murray had 125 yards and two touchdowns on 18 carries, and third-straing running back Chris Brown had 108 yards and three touchdowns on 21 carries.
Even when the Red Raiders would try to get something going, they either fumbled the ball, threw a pick or got sacked to put a crimp in things.
So now the Big XII South – and the BCS, for that matter – is in a slight tizzy.  OU was beaten by TU, which in turn was beaten by TTech, which in turn was…well, you know.
It makes for some very interesting water-cooler conversation – which is a helluva lot more fun than any solution the Ayatollah Obambi could propose.
This week:  4-0.  Perfect Football Weekend achieved.  (6).  Overall:  53-15.
The PFW will return Thursday with another limited schedule, whilst I’m slaving away over hot stoves, crockpots & deep fryers…