Hail to the Redskins...

...making their last trip to Texas Stadium memorable.

Why the hell am I not hearing about this on the news?

Check it out. Maybe it's because they're all in Alaska looking for (and not finding) dirt on Sarah Palin.

With a full game of Harrison Beck coming up...

...This should be required reading for NC State Fans. Just substitute references to Harrison Beck for references to Rex Grossman.

This guy gets it.

Republicans now have a war hero running for president, Ronald Reagan reincarnated as a woman running for vice president, and an opponent in Barack Obama who has voted 97% of the time in lockstep with the failed leadership of the do-nothing Democratic Congress,
a Congress which has failed to pass an energy bill, which has failed to stop earmarks and pork barrel spending, and which has failed to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq with the result that we won the war that Congress said was unwinnable!

Republicans are on the right side of all of the truly big issues of the day: Winning the war on terror; cutting pork barrel spending; vetoing all bills that have earmarks; supporting choice in education; stopping efforts to increase taxes; promoting even more free trade; appointing judges who will not legislate from the bench; passing a comprehensive energy bill that includes more drilling, more nuclear power, development of shale oil, and development of wind and solar; recalibrating the tax code subsidy that makes health care unaffordable for many of those without jobs; and creating a culture of life in which child rearing and raising a family is supported and not looked down on. It is enough to make anyone a Republican.
---Stephen G. Calabresi
Professor of Law
Northwestern University

If Friday was International Talk Like a Pirate Day...

...then Saturday must have been International "Kick a Pirate's Ass" Day. GO PACK!

I love this poem...

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

Freedom of speech...

...as long as it's on our side. Senator, are you afraid to let people hear anything not processed, recycled and spin-doctored? Are you afraid they might decide against you if they hear what's really going on?

What the hell was this guy thinking?

So much to talk about...

Starting with this: So, Senator, do we get them out now? Or do we leave them there for our own political advantage? Good question, huh?



The Wolfpack defense plays like men, but damn all to the offense. Everybody's hurt and those that aren't hurt apparently can't play. Shout out to Nate Irving for being a bright spot in a very dark place.



Apparently, the news that refineries will be shut down until after the hurricane creates an instant shortage. I don't know what it's like in the Triangle, but the closest station to my house was selling it for $4.899/gallon Saturday morning. Unlike some of the increase that's been going on over the last 2 years, this clearly seems to be price gouging by individual station owners. I give as evidence the fact that the second-closest station to my house held out at $3.499 until last night when they moved up to $3.959. Drill more and in more different places, and supply will not be an issue like this.

Looks like the daughter's boyfriend...

...had better look out for these guys next time.

In other news, after 30 years of Sunday School and religious education, I finally learned the true nature of Christ the day before yesterday. You see, Jesus was a community organizer. According to the same source, Pontius Pilate was a governor. THis stuff never ceases to amuse me...

RIP Eric Allen Cranford

Friend, Wolfpacker, Hero
Murdered in cold blood along with 2,997 others
09-11-01

7 years ago today

May We Remember the Fallen and May God Bless America.

Too Funny...

I'd like to post this image in honor of Senator Barack Obama, who apparently knows all about putting lipstick on pigs.

I love it...

Sarah knocks one out of the park.

I especially liked this part:

This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger ... take more of your money ... give you more orders from Washington ... and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy ... our opponent is against producing it.

Victory in Iraq is finally in sight ... he wants to forfeit.

Terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay ... he wants to meet them without preconditions.

Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights? Government is too big ... he wants to grow it.

Congress spends too much ... he promises more.

Taxes are too high ... he wants to raise them.

This election could be interesting after all...

Today's Musical Selection:
Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson--Good-Hearted Woman

I thought feminism was about...

...being able to have kids AND a career if one chose to do so. Of course, I also thought the children of political candidates were off-limits to the media. Looks I've been proven wrong twice by the press corps. They have publicly speculated about Sarah Palin's ability to raise her children while campaigning for (and hopefully winning) the Vice-Presidency of the United States. Where were these questions when Nancy Pelosi or Barbara Boxer were running for their congressional seats or when Hillary Clinton was running the country from 1993-2001? Also, Bristol Palin's unwed pregnancy is big news to the same press corps that kowtowed to Bill and Hillary when they declared Chelsea's life to be (rightly so) off-limits to press coverage? You may say, "Well, Chelsea didn't get pregnant while she lived in the White House." To that, I reply "How would you know if she had?" Andrea Peyser of the NY Post has the same questions I do. She just writes better. The bottom line is this: Can Palin do the job? If so, nothing else matters.