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Most of the Loyal Citzenry from the Rott will remember a little fuckhead going by the name of “actus” – a smarmy little erudite pisspot who thinks that sipping latt&#233s at George Washington U qualifies him as somehow more intelligent than the rest of us.

It’s an attitude that got his skanky ass banned at the Rott, so now he has to try and lord it over others elsewhere.&#160 He just recently got that skanky ass handed to him over at Froggy’s site, courtesy of yours truly (among others), so now he thinks he’s gonna invade here and shit all over my nice, clean carpet.

(sarcasm) Being sooooooooooo much smarter&#160 than the rest of us (/sarcasm), of course he’s a True Believer&#153 of the Religion of Evolution&#153.&#160 Which, as has been firmly established by now, is nothing more than a theory&#160 – and an unprovable one, at that.

But that won’t stop Professor Jact-ass, no-sirree-Bob.&#160 He thinks he’s found the “proof”, as it were, at this website called Talk.Origins, and their FAQ BS sheet says, in part:

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Now that&#160 was a sweet birthday present.&#160 And I don’t care what&#160 Heights did – it still counts as a Perfect Football Weekend.

Arlington Heights 8, Azle 19
TCU 51, UNLV 3
Oklahoma 36, Texas A&M 30
LSU 16, Alabama 13 (OT)
Dallas 21, Filthydelpha 20

This is the third straight “one-and-done” playoff run for Coach Duke Christian and the Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets.&#160 Azle’s Hornets flat-out shut down the Jacket offense – Heights’ points came on a punt snapped out of the end zone and a didn’t-mean-squat TD pass with three seconds left in the game. (Never mind that Fort Worth’s other two playoff schools got dumped the same night – this is the PFW, remember?&#160 I don’t give a flip about your teams – just mine. (grin))

One wonders whether it’s that Heights just doesn’t have the horses, or doesn’t have the coaching&#160 The same question was asked of Forney coach Mel Maxfield a couple years back, and he wound up leaving.

Forney went 4-6 this year. (shrug) So who knows?

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TCU seemed absolutely bored in dispatching UNLV.&#160 They looked a step-and-a-half slow at times, and still&#160 averaged 17 points per quarter for the first three.&#160 Was a very nice way to end a very nice season.

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JoMarcus Russell threw a touchdown pass to Dwayne Bowe in overtime after holding the Crimson Tide to a field goal on their possession.&#160 Bo Pelini’s defense was tough once again.

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OU jumped out to a 28-7 lead, then hung on late.

Probably the one thing the Sooners did more than anything else to shoot themselves in the foot…was to knock Aggie quarterback Reggie O’Neal out of the game during a tackle in the end zone for a safety in the third quarter.&#160 Seemed that backup Stephen McGee ran the A&M offense a little more efficiently after that.

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When David Akers kicked a field goal with 9:02 left to go in the game last night to make the score 20-7, I cut the radio, having heard more than enough.&#160 Spent the rest of the trip home cussing out the Cowgirls for playing like pussies and letting a bunch of backups push them all over the Lincoln Financial Field turf.&#160 Was ready to take Jerry Jones, Bill Parcells and&#160 Drew Bledsoe and shoot ’em all out a photon tube, y’know?

I get home, get on here to check email, and the SpatulaGoddess (Long May She Reign) gets on IM and tells me that Dallas is…leading.

My response (verbatim):&#160 “WHAT???”

In the interim, Bledsoe had driven the ‘Boys 72 yards for a touchdown to make it 20-14, then Roy Williams intercepted a very&#160 ill-advised Donna McNabb pass and took it to the house.&#160 It’s the second straight year that Williams has done serious damage to a Beagles’ season, having knocked Little Terri Owens out with an injury last year.

They must really&#160 hate him Right About Now&#153. (snicker)

Linebacker Bradie James threw a block on McNabb during Williams’ return, and apparantly re-aggravated McNabb’s sports hernia injury that he’s been nursing; Donna’s next drive was three-and-out, and third-stringer Mike McMahon came in to finish the game (where he very nearly drove the Beagles for a game-winning field goal).

The Cowboys now lead the NFC East via tiebreaker at 6-3, and I’m going to count it as a third straight PFW (despite the Heights loss), just for the facts that one of my teams (OU) beat one of my anti-teams (A&M), and the Cowboys swept the City of Brotherly Shove for the first time since 1998.

We’ll take one more shot at a PFW Thursday or Friday, as OU, LSU and the Cowboys play this weekend.&#160 I’ll try to find a high-school team to round things out.

Denizens, I have too much to do today, so here’s a partial reprint from a post from two years ago.&#160 Kinda ties in with Terri Cox and all.

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I said yesterday that I would explain the significance of Terri Cox’s 43rd birthday.

It is this:&#160 It comes one day before the birthday of a very lovely woman named Darla Addison Young.&#160 Darla was born November 14th, 1962.

“Okay, Spatula-butt”, you’re saying, “so what?”

Well, the significance of Darla’s birthday is that she shares it, right down to the year…with me.

That’s right, Denizens.&#160 I’m 43 today.&#160 Whoop-de-freakin’-doo.

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Now, if you’ll pardon me, there a dose of Geritol&#153 with my name on it… (sigh)

This is rather shocking.

Eddie Guerrero, a professional wrestler who spent time in three of the four major promotions, was found dead in his hotel room this morning of an apparant heart attack.&#160 Eddie Guerrero was 38.

Those of you who do not follow the sports entertainment industry will not know who this man was.&#160 Suffice it to say that losing a talent of Eddie Guerrero’s caliber would be very similar to losing someone like, say, Emilio Estevez or Ray Romano.&#160 By no means was Eddie the brightest star in the business, but he was one of the hardest working and most respected.&#160 Eddie had fought his way back to the main stage of World Wrestling Entertainment, after winning a long battle with drug addiction, to once again become one of its stars.

Eddie Guerrero will be very much missed by all who either knew him personally or watched him perform.

Terri Cox was a girl I knew in first grade.&#160 And from the moment I met her, I have always remembered her birthday.

And I’ll explain why tomorrow.

Denizens, it probably will come as little shock to you guys that I was somewhat of a smart-ass in grade school.

One time, in third grade, I was forced to stay after school and follow my teacher – old and Crotchety (with the proverbial capital C) Miss Richards – a spinster if there ever was one, but I digress – around the school making a “put your hand down” hand gesture.

My cardinal sin?&#160 Mocking her for doing the same thing to one of my friends…who, at the time, really needed to go,&#160 if you catch my drift.&#160 Anyway, Old & Crotchety made that gesture, I mocked it, and she caught me and issued discipline – putting her on my personal shit list the remainder of the time I attended that school.

That’s nothing compared to what happened at a school in Pennsylvania the other day.

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Seems that the more liberal Demoscum infiltrate the halls of academia, and the more they try to turn their noses up at the rest of us Great Unwashed (a little Blackie Sherrod lingo, there)…the more they get hung up on the smallest of words.

You all remember that Kaiser Wilhelm von Slickmeister had a problem a couple years back with the definition of the word “is”.

Now the Lame Stream Media seems not to understand the meaning of the word “if”.

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The NCAA has a rule regarding postseason participation:&#160 A team has to win a minimum of six games to be bowl-eligible.

If only that were the case with Texas high schools.

We’re now in the playoffs in Texas “hah skrewl” (a little Rush lingo, there) football, and we have a matchup in Class 4A, Region I, Division I.&#160 I am going to cut & paste, for your edification, this playoff pairing (the school’s season record is in parentheses):

Sherman (3-7) vs. Stephenville (10-0)
7:30 Friday at Denton ISD Stadium

Now, I researched this a bit, and it seems that Sherman tied with Wichita Falls for second in their district with a 3-2 record.&#160 Sherman advanced based on head-to-head; they beat WF, 30-14, back in October.&#160 But Wichita Falls at least won a couple of non-district games, while Sherman posted a big honkin’ oh-fer.&#160 Oh-fer as in 0 for 5.

Seems to me that Wichita Falls, which missed the playoffs entirely, might have been a better representative at 6-4 than Sherman is at 3-7.&#160 This makes the BCS look positively sane by comparison. (sigh)

On to the PFW.&#160 Speaking of playoffs, my Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets have a return engagement with the Azle Hornets Friday at 7:30 in Burleson.&#160 Heights barely won the season opener against the Hornets, 24-21, so Gang Green – yeah, their colors are really green & white – will be out for revenge.&#160 Heights hasn’t been much of a playoff team the past couple years, either, so this game worries me.

Saturday night, I’ll be at eighteenth-ranked TCU’s “victory lap” game in Fort Worth as they celebrate their Mountain West Conference championship by taking on the UNLV Rebels in a tuneup for whatever bowl game they eventually play in.

Saturday afternoon, Bob Stoops’ Oklahoma Sooners are at home, where they will take part is what is, for me, a “double whammy” game.&#160 This is a game where one of my teams takes on one of my “anti-teams”.&#160 And in this case, that anti-team is – who else? – Dennis “The Mercenary” Franchione’s Texas A&M Aggies.&#160 A&M is having a tough time getting out of its own way this year (snicker), but they’re still talented enough to pull one off vs. OU, if the Sooners aren’t careful.&#160 I’ll take OU and you can have four points.

Later that afternoon, fifth-ranked LSU will travel to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to take on the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide.&#160 If this were in Baton Rouge, I’d feel a lot more comfortable – as it is, give me LSU and seven-point-five.&#160 Straight up, I just think Bama has more talent.

The Dallas Cowboys have a second straight Sunday off.&#160 Because Monday night, they will be in the City of Brotherly Shove, aka Philthydelphia, to take on the Beagles, who have said bye-bye to Widdle Terri Owens.

Owens, who was dismissed from the Eagles on Monday, had 20 touchdowns in 21 regular-season games with Philadelphia. Losing the All-Pro wideout puts more pressure on McNabb, running back Brian Westbrook and the rest of the offense.

“Everyone wants to say we didn’t win championship games without a big-play receiver. Well, our big-play receiver was hurt last year and we won a championship game,” cornerback Sheldon Brown said Wednesday.

Yeah.&#160 And your hula-skirted, Mommy-feed-me-Campbell-soup QB is hurt this&#160 year.&#160 And hopefully, the ‘Boys can plant his ugly ass in the FieldTurf&#153 a few more&#160 times Monday night.

Still, the Beagles are at home, and that’s worth something.&#160 Give me the Cowboys and 10.

We’re back on Tuesday for the recap. (Incidentally, that means the PFW recap will be Tuesday.&#160 I’ll still be here ripping on Demoscum the rest of the weekend, mkay?&#160 So make sure you stop by.)

Feel free now to praise or bust on your favorite teams.&#160 Let the tailgate party begin!

A liberal Demoscum gubernatorial candidate wins in Noo Joisey, a Demoscummic state that typically has its collective head up its collective ass.&#160 And we’re supposed to be surprised…why again?

Ballot initiatives proposed by a Republican governator governor are defeated in California, a Demoscummic state that typically has its collective head up its collective ass.&#160 And we’re supposed to be surprised…why again?

A Demoscum gubernatorial candidate wins in Virginia, where the previous governor was a Demoscum.&#160 And we’re supposed to be surprised…why again?

A ballot initiative defining marriage as one man and one woman passes overwhelmingly in Texas, a state that knows the difference between rights and special privileges.&#160 And we’re supposed to be surprised…why again?

The point:&#160 Crow all you want, libtards.&#160 You didn’t win anything you weren’t expected to win yesterday, and you sure as Hell&#153 haven’t won anything substantial.

Bush wasn’t on the ballot yesterday…and as much as you wish it were so, neither was Mother Shitcan.&#160 Iraq wasn’t on the ballot anywhere yesterday, so your asinine claim that it was some sort of referendum on Bush is just so much putrid BS, despite what Mykki Chickenshit or the rest of the Kosnutsack dick-suckers are bleating.

Republicans still own the House; Republicans still own the Senate; Republicans still own the White House; both Libby and&#160 DeLay are going to be exonerated, it sticks in your craw like a burr under the saddle…and I and the rest of the Right-Thinkers&#153 are laughing our asses off at you.

Still sucks to be you, doesn’t it? (snicker)

Not really time today to take anyone or anything on, Denizens – although I have a minor potshot at the Puppy Blender&#153 warming up in the bullpen – so today’s blurb comes from the Mothergoose in Denton.

Enjoy.&#160 Oh, and spew warnings. (grin)

UPDATE:&#160 Yeah, I know – it’s not the easiest thing in the world to see.&#160 Sorry – did the best I could with it.

Denizens – you’re aware, no doubt, of the tendency of liberal shitheads to live in the past.&#160 “Ooooh, kumbaya, remember the Clinton Administration, when we balanced the budget, hm?”&#160 (Never mind that it was the Republican-led&#160 Congress which balanced that budget, but that’s another subject for another post.)

By chance, guys, do any of you remember when I pontificated at length about the cheap-assed tabloid tv show “Cheaters”?

(Yes, I realize – that was back in May, and you’ve slept since then.)

Well, there appear to be some&#160 fuckwitted shitheads who apparantly want to suck the dick of executive producer Bobby Goldfart Goldstein and his merry little band of harassers, and don’t like what I had to say about Bobby’s motley little crew.

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Normally I don’t enjoy being wrong.&#160 Except, of course, when I’ve picked my teams to lose and they surprise me. (grin)

Arlington Heights 33, Southwest 27 (OT)
TCU 33, Colorado State 6
LSU 24, Appalachian State 0

Well, at least Bo Pelini’s unit tossed a shutout.&#160 Les Miles didn’t seem to be too concerned.

“I tried to let our team know that this team we were playing is a good football team,” Tigers coach Les Miles said. “It didn’t make any difference what division they’re in. I thought that considering it was not the emotion that we’ll have in a week, it was a good outing. We promise you it’s been very difficult not to look to the next opponent.”

Play like this against Alabama, Les, and you’ll be on the other end of that score.

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Arlington Heights jumped out to a 27-17 lead, then watched it evaporate as Southwest kicked a 22-yard field goal with seven seconds left in regulation.

Quarterback Eric Burleson, subbing for an injured Jeff Jones, scored the winning touchdown in OT after Heights held the Raiders Rebels to a missed 51-yard field goal attempt.

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Gary Patterson has a reputation as a defensive wizard.

Understand, I still think he’s the wrong coach for the TCU Horned Frogs.&#160 But his defense stepped up this year, particularly the much-maligned-since-last-year secondary.

That secondary intercepted four more passes Saturday night against Colorado State (two by safety Brian Bonner), giving them an NCAA-leading 23 for the season.&#160 Ram quarterback Justin Holland was sacked 5 times, one of them for a safety.

Jeff Ballard was 13 of 25 for 160 yards and a touchdown, plus he ran for another touchdown.&#160 Robert Merrill had 95 yards on 16 carries, and Aaron Brown and Cory Rodgers each had one rushing touchdown.&#160 Rodgers also caught the Ballard TD pass.

With the victory, TCU clinched the Mountain West Conference championship, their first outright title since 1958.&#160 The 18th-ranked Frogs will now play in either the Las Vegas Bowl or the Liberty Bowl.

One wonders, however, how high the Frogs could’ve climbed had they not leid a colossal egg against the Shitland Ponies of SMUT.

For now, I’ll happily accept my second straight Perfect Football Weekend, and my third in the last four.

The PFW will return Thursday for a shot at three in a row.

My, my, my – how the mighty have fallen.

Couple of years ago, Dennis “The Mercenary” Franchione was college football’s golden boy.&#160 Brought TCU back from the doldrums of Pat Sullivan, brought Alabama back to respectability after taking a proverbial dump on the Frog faithful, then was expected to do the same with Texas A&M after doing the same thing to the Crimson Tide fans.

Except for one minor detail, as Kevin Sherrington notes:&#160 Aggie supporters haven’t quite seen the results he produced at his last two stops.

He’s a good coach. Organized, driven, inventive. Proved it at several stops, notably TCU. And most Texas media figured it was only a matter of time before he did the same at A&M.

Only it hasn’t happened. Certainly not this season. He’s nearly three years into his dream job, working under a deal that pays him $2 million a year through 2012, and what have the Aggies gotten for their money?

A 16-16 record. And it doesn’t look like the returns will be any better any time soon.

Welcome to the big time, Denny baby.&#160 That water isn’t quite as easy to swim in when it’s up around your eyeballs, now is it? (snicker)

On to the PFW.&#160 Or what I wish would be a PFW.&#160 Hell&#153 – I have two teams off this week, and it’s still&#160 not gonna be a PFW.

Because this week, my Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets take on the likely district champions in the Southwest Raiders Rebels tonight at 7:30. (No, you PC bastards in the NAA(L)CP – I don’t kowtow to your sniveling little whims.&#160 I grew up with them being called the Rebels; I grew up with their symbol being the Confederate flag; that’s what they will always be to me.&#160 Just like you people will likely always be whiny little fuckheads.&#160 Deal with it.)

Anyway, Southwest is head & shoulders better than Heights at this juncture, so I expect a Rebel squash.

Saturday evening, the TCU Horned Frogs play for the Mountain West conference championship when the Colorado State Rams come to town.&#160 It will not surprise me if CSU wins this game, since I think the Rams are bigger and faster than the Frogs.

Then again, I didn’t think the Frogs would beat BYU either, so…Anyway, give me the Frogs and eight.

Saturday night LSU continues its two-week working vacation when Appalachian State comes in for the requisite drubbing.&#160 The Tigers could start third-stringers and still squash this Division I-AA outfit.&#160 If the final margin is less than 42 points, calls will emerge for Les Miles’ head.

The Dallas Cowboys and Oklahoma Sooners are both off this week.&#160 In honor of that fact, Barry Switzer will attempt to pass another gun through airport security. (grin)

We’re back, likely Sunday, for a mini-recap.

Time for another RCOB moment, Denizens.

The Ninth Socialist Circus Court of Appeals has decided, in its infinite finite extremely finite practically non-existent definitely non-existent wisdom, that our kids don’t belong to us and we have no say in what they’re to be taught.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday against parents who sued their local school district after their elementary-age children were given a sexually charged survey, saying there is “no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children.”

The three-judge panel of the full court further ruled that parents “have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed while enrolled as students.”

Six parents sued the Palmdale, Calif., School District after finding out their kids had been asked a series of sexual questions in class. They included asking the children about the frequency of:

Touching my private parts too much

Thinking about having sex

Thinking about touching other people’s private parts

Thinking about sex when I don’t want to

Washing myself because I feel dirty on the inside

Not trusting people because they might want sex

Getting scared or upset when I think about sex

Having sex feelings in my body

Can’t stop thinking about sex

Getting upset when people talk about sex

Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote the opinion for the court. Referring to the fact the parents lost their case at the district-court level, Reinhardt wrote:

We agree [with the previous ruling], and hold that there is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children, either independent of their right to direct the upbringing and education of their children or encompassed by it. We also hold that parents have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed while enrolled as students. Finally, we hold that the defendants’ actions were rationally related to a legitimate state purpose. [emphasis Reinhardt’s].

How much longer will it be before Child Protective Abductive Services SS troops begin to take our children from us, simply because we object to what they’re being taught in government schools?&#160 Or for trying to avoid said schools by homeschooling them?

Ropes, lampposts, Ninth Socialist Circus.&#160 Some assembly required.

UPDATE:&#160 As usual, Misha has nailed it on the head and expounded thereupon in a way that I seem to be unable to do lately.

Hm.&#160 Must be the unemployment thing. (shrug)

Flags in the Realm&#153 and the Empire fly at half-staff today.

We have lost one of our own – LC Warspite.

My Grandfather known to you all as Warspite (from the Royal Navy ship he used to regal us with in bedtime stories, first my Dad and Uncles and then us grandkids) sadly passed a few days ago. He asked me to make this post, and I am doing his bidding.

The Old One was a fine man and I am proud beyond words to he known him and to be his grandson. My Dad was a Navy pilot and went down when I was three in a Med accident so he pretty much raised me. We understood each other, I think. I loved him-but I liked him too. That is rare among relations in my experience. I will miss my Grandfather always.

For the last 13 years he worked like a man on a mission to translate and annotate Plutarch’s “Parallel Lives”. I guess he figured it was his only possible fight in the culture wars. He believed deeply in the old virtues, and defined men by their heroism. Blind and wheelchair-bound, he made the project work through sheer butt-fascist dogged determination. The scope and scale of the effort was almost beyond human ability-over 1 million words in the end-which explains why it had not been done since 1680. The work was finished recently and, like a light going out, Grandfather declined rapidly. As he so long kept hidden, eventually the battleground of illness that was his final lot became impossible to conceal.

I was very fortunate to be with him as he finished his life. He said:

“O inscrutabilis Scrutator animarum, cui patet omne cor, si me vocaveras, olim a te fugeram. Si autem nunc velis vocare me indignum”.

Unlike my Grandfather, I provide translations:

“O inscrutable scrutinizer of souls, to whom every heart is open, if you had called me, once I would have fled from you. If however now you should wish to call me, though unworthy, I go”

He didn’t change much.

Our family is grateful to Misha and all you guys and gals. The Old Man really had a blast here-and I loved working with him long distance to make it happen. God bless and keep you all.

AVE ET ATQVE VALE

Words can’t express.&#160 So I’m not even going to try.

Our prayers are with Warspite’s family at this time.