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Denizens, as we enter into a substantially slimmed-down version of the Perfect Football Weekend, I’m going to show you guys something I found over at Ace’s.

The thing is, this is so odd, I think we can take this out of the category of “doesn’t know the snap-count” and safely put it in the category of “is suffering from delirium due to concussion or heat stroke.”

Here, watch for yourself:


Actually, it rather reminds me of former major-league pitcher Roger Moret and the infamous “catatonic trance” in which they found him in the clubhouse one day.

Pitcher Roger Moret didn’t accomplish much on the field; but he will forever be remembered for a pre-game scene in 1978 when teammates found Moret standing in a catatonic trance next to his locker, holding a shower shoe.

On to the PFW.&#160 This week’s candidate in our game of Kick Sulphur Springs’ Ass Outta The Playoffs&#153 is…Denison High (12-1)

As Her Doublewideness told me many times over the course of our marriage, there is no love lost between Sulphur Springs & Denison High, so I expect this one to be somewhat of a bloodbath.&#160 With Sulphur shedding more of the blood.

MERLIN:&#160 !!!!!

VENOMOUS:&#160 Figuratively speaking, Wizard.

MERLIN:&#160

Saturday, we have two games to cover.&#160 The first is that evening here a couple blocks down the road from me, as the Big Three & The Little Nine XII (sorry for the Bidenization, HDD) Championship Game will pit Bo Pelini’s Nebraska Cornhuskers against Texas’ Third Pro Team&#153, the TU Shortdicks Longhorns.

(And I will say again – You bring in Mackie Brown, who didn’t win shit&#160 at North Carolina, down to a TU program that was spinning its wheels under Fred Akers, and suddenly they’re world beaters?&#160 Something ain’t kosher in Austin.)

TU is favored by 14, but Nebraska’s defense is playing well, and the first time these two played in this game, TU stole one from upset a heavily-favored Nebraska unit.&#160 So, we’ll see.

And for this week (and possibly as an audition for 2010, depending on whether Turner Gill can put a defense on UBuffalo’s field next year or not), we elevate Bucky from “meanwhile” status to a featured team in the PFW.

They’re in Hawai’i this week to play the Rainbow Warriors, who are still shooting to host their former coach June Jones and SMUT in their backyard bowl game; a win over Bucky will seal it.

Bucky, however, isn’t planning on cooperating; Vegas has made them a 12-point road favorite.&#160 Put the over/under for trick plays by Hawai’i at three.

Sunday afternoon, the first of the NFC East return matches is set to go in Noo Joisey, where the Dallas C’girls square off against the New York Football Douchebags.&#160 Fortunes have reversed since the D-bags pulled out a last-second upset against Dallas in Week 1; they’ve lost five of their last six to fall two games behind in the division.&#160 Expect a close game; a field goal might win this one, as well.

We’re back Monday (hopefully) for the recap, by which time we’ll know where TCU will be playing its BCS bowl (and damn, but it still feels good to type that.&#160 &#160 )

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Yeah, I’m still up.&#160 Don’t ask why – I’m not sure I&#160 know.

So here are the folks at Hot Air, and it looks like they’re pooh-poohing Der Sarahcuda for asking the same question that a helluva lot of us have been asking:&#160 where’s the birth certificate?

(Side note:&#160 Allahpundit and Antagonist?&#160 Just between the three of us – fuck you pussified little needle-dicked douchebags.&#160 Either one of you wanna call me an “embarrassment” to my face, let’s see you do it and see what it gets you.&#160 Asswipes.)

Anyway, for months now on this issue, I’ve been hearing shit like “the issue is settled, the debate’s over”.

Yeah?&#160 The issue of “global warming” was supposedly “settled” and that&#160 debate was supposedly “over”, too.&#160 How’d that work out?

(Incidentally, stay tuned – this won’t be the only time I mention East Anglia.&#160 I’m about to rub a certain religious denomination’s – and a certain pastor’s – face in it.&#160 Hard.)

Seriously.&#160 Bambi has spent millions&#160 in attorney’s fees suppressing something, the producing of which would not only humiliate the so-called “Birther” movement, but also encourage a severely lagging (right now, anyway) Demoscum party and&#160 probably jack up his sagging poll numbers, all in one fell swoop.

Yet he won’t produce it.&#160 Why?

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The Generalette forwarded the following to me just now, and she received it from one of her former students (who is now in middle school). What totally shocked me is the network that actually allowed the comments to air.

It’s a long one so be sure to read on after the fold….

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are, Christmas trees.

It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her ‘How could God let something like this happen?’ (regarding Hurricane Katrina).. Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, ‘I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?’

In light of recent events… terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said okay.

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves..

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit..

If not, then just discard it… no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards,
Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein

All I have to say is, “Well said Mr. Stein, well said.”

ThatIsAll&#153

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Yeah, yeah, I know what I said about going silent.

But Denizen & fellow blogger Alan K. Henderson pointed me to this, and it’s just too good.&#160 (And too true, too, but that’s another post.)


No kidding.&#160 (sigh)

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