Not scared of anyone

November 7, 2009

Boise State has made the ultimate offer to the college football world. They’ll play any top 10 team in the nation on its home turf. No strings attached. I’ll bet no one bites.

Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier is all but begging for a major opponent – any major opponent – to play his Broncos, particularly in 2011. He can hardly get his calls returned. Not by the SEC. Not by the Big Ten. Not by anyone.

Bleymaier is making a nearly unheard of offer in college football scheduling – Boise will bring its popular, high-profile, top-10 team to any stadium in any town to play any big name team in America in 2011. And they don’t have to return the date in Idaho.

So far, no one has bit.

ESPN has even become involved trying to broker a deal that will almost assuredly be nationally televised. Still no luck.

Boise BCS blocked – College Football – Rivals.com

Irony

November 7, 2009

President Obama has made General Casimir Pulaski, a Pole who fought for us in the Revolutionary War, an honorary citizen of the United States. In other words, a man who fought for our freedom has been honored by a man who is trying to take it away.

Finally, Gen. Casimir Pulaski became an American citizen on Friday, 230 years after the Polish nobleman died fighting for the as yet-unborn United States.

President Barack Obama signed a joint resolution of the Senate and the House that made Pulaski an honorary citizen.

Pulaski’s contribution to the American colonies’ effort to leave the British Empire began with a flourish. He wrote a letter to Gen. George Washington, the Revolution’s leader, with the declaration: “I came here, where freedom is being defended, to serve it, and to live or die for it.”

Revolutionary War hero becomes honorary US citizen – Yahoo! News

Democrats still don’t have the votes

November 6, 2009

Let’s stay on these people to make sure they don’t get the votes.

House Dems say Sat. vote on health care may slip – Yahoo! News

Reality hits

November 6, 2009

The Memphis Tigers have played their first exhibition game, a 98-68 victory over LeMoyne-Owen. I wasn’t there, but from everything I’ve read, this is definitely not a Memphis Tigers’ team that is going to go 33-4 again. We told ourselves when Coach X took the #1 recruiting class in the nation with him to Kentucky that we weren’t going to be as good, secretly hoping that there would be enough leftover talent to still put together a top-notch, if not elite team. But we really aren’t going to be as good as we’re used to being. Really. And that’s okay, because Josh Pastner is going to squeeze every ounce out this team as he can, and brighter days are definitely ahead.

John Calipari left for Kentucky, taking everything with him but the expectations. People can say all they want that they understand this year will be different. But it’s hard to really understand until you see it unfold before you.

These are not those Memphis Tigers. This is not a team that can physically overwhelm the other guys.

Small wonder Pastner didn’t have the easiest time on the eve of the opener.

“I couldn’t get to sleep,” he said. “I was sick to my stomach.”

Geoff Calkins: Memphis’ coach Josh Pastner never got past dang »

The Obama economy

November 6, 2009

The unemployment rate in the U.S. is now up to 10.2%.

Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since ‘83 – Yahoo! Finance

Bend over and grab the ankles

November 6, 2009

The law of unintended consequences

November 6, 2009

As a result of the ridiculous cash-for-clunkers program, not only are the taxpayers out several billion dollars, but the average price for low-end used vehicles is now higher. Really helping out the little guy.

TaxingTennessee: Cash for Clunkers was an even bigger disaster

Hardball questions

November 6, 2009

Ben Cunningham had a link to a YouTube video of a tea party activist who confronted Congressman Lincoln Davis (D-TN) in a darkened parking lot to more or less ask him “What the heck are you insane people doing?” This is priceless.

Rent-a-suit

November 6, 2009

Folks, the global warming movement continues to get wacker and wacker. The UK government now says consumers should start renting clothes and accessories rather than buying them in order to save a planet that is NOT in peril. A fiction writer would be declared insane for making this stuff up.

TaxingTennessee: UK Govt Greenies say rent clothes instead of buying

As if one $1.4 trillion budget deficit weren’t enough

November 6, 2009

Economics made easy

November 6, 2009

A hat tip to Ben Cunningham for pointing toward this column by the great Thomas Sowell. (Rush Limbaugh always says that if he didn’t have his own brain, he would want Antonin Scalia’s. I, on the other hand, would want Thomas Sowell’s.)

1. If we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical drugs now, how can we afford to pay for doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical drugs, in addition to a new federal bureaucracy to administer a government-run medical system?

2. Economics and politics confront the same fundamental problem: What everyone wants adds up to more than there is. Market economies deal with this problem by confronting individuals with the costs of producing what they want, and letting those individuals make their own trade-offs when presented with prices that convey those costs. That leads to self-rationing, in the light of each individual’s own circumstances and preferences.

Politics deals with the same problem by making promises that cannot be kept, or which can be kept only by creating other problems that cannot be acknowledged when the promises are made.

That’s so easy that only a politician couldn’t understand it.

Conservatives march on Washington

November 5, 2009

Rush Limbaugh played this up on his Tuesday and Wednesday shows, and apparently it was met with great success.

Chanting “Kill the bill,” thousands of conservatives incensed over the Democrats’ health care overhaul protested at the Capitol on Thursday, arguing that the legislation amounts to a government takeover of the nation’s medical system.

The crowd, invited on national television by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., was staunchly anti-government — “Politicians lie, people die,” read one sign — but loudly cheered the House Republicans who hosted the event. The protest attracted many of the so-called Tea Party demonstrators angry with increased spending and an expanded government role under the Obama administration.

“This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I have seen,” House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio told the crowd.

‘Kill the bill’ protesters target health care – Yahoo! News

Quote du jour

November 5, 2009

“Sometimes the Forces of Darkness defeat the Virtuous.” — Commenter on Beerleaguer regarding the evil Yankees beating the Phillies in the World Series.

ObamaCare WILL pay for abortions

November 5, 2009

Even though President Obama has repeatedly claimed that ObamaCare would not fund abortions, those of us who pay attention to these things knew from the outset that he was lying, because Obama means the opposite of what he says. Now we have the proof.

Please call Jim Cooper’s office now

November 5, 2009

I just got off the phone with Congressman Jim Cooper’s office. The gentleman with whom I spoke said that the congressman is still making his way through the 1,900-page bill and is as of yet undecided. This is sort of unsettling, because, really how many lawmakers are still truly on the fence about ObamaCare? I hope this isn’t a case of Congressman Cooper quietly supporting ObamaCare and just being afraid to admit it. If he really is on the fence, we, the people, must pull him off the fence and onto the “no” side.

More here.

Laughed my head off

November 5, 2009

A hat tip to the pro bono research assistant for sending me this:

PoliticalCartoons.com Cartoon

Great political ad

November 5, 2009

I actually saw this tonight while watching the World Series and thought, “Man, what a great ad. Thanks to whoever put this out.” It turns out that the Chamber of Commerce is responsible. Thanks, guys. It’s so effective that the spokesman for the AFL-CIO has called it racist. Imagine that. A liberal shooting his intellectual blanks by playing the race card where race isn’t even a factor. Typical. Weak, but typical.

Michelle Malkin » Ridiculous “RAAAACISM” charge of the day

What happened in NY-23?

November 5, 2009

You can just call it the attack of a scumbag RINO. I dislike RINO’s even more than Democrats, and Michelle Malkin explains why:

Conservatives owe NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman immeasurable gratitude. He overcame impossible odds (single digits just a month ago) to come within two points of defeating Democrat Bill Owens. Hoffman had zero name recognition. National Republican Party officials dumped nearly $1 million into the race on behalf of radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava, who then turned around, endorsed Owens and siphoned off 5 percent of the vote with her name still on the ballot after she dropped out.

Michelle Malkin » The GOP elite’s $1 million object lesson — and the message of NY-23

What about separation of church and state?

November 5, 2009

Breitbart.com has uncovered 11 videos showing elementary students singing songs of praise to the Obamessiah.

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » ELEMENTARY EPIDEMIC: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama

Phillies season ends in defeat

November 5, 2009

The Philadelphia Phillies lost to the evil New York Yankees in game six of the World Series 7-3. The good guys just ran out of gas. That’s all I can say. But even with defeat looming and playing on enemy ground, the good guys fought all the way to the final pitch. I can honestly say they gave it everything they had in them. That’s all a fan can ask.

Thanks, guys, for a terrific 2009. This was my 29th season as a Phillies fan, and I’m blessed because we are witnessing the golden age of Phillies baseball, with nine consecutive winning seasons, three consecutive division championships, two consecutive National League championships, and one World Series title. Never before has so brief a span produced so much hardware.

I love those Phillies.