I wonder if she is Thankful....

That nobody watched her TV 'Variety Show' abortion?


Worst....Show...........Ever!

See ya, Vick.

Ryan playing like no rookie before him
By Mark Bradley | Sunday, November 23, 2008, 09:48 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

It was a moment in a game that was slipping away, and if this game slips away then maybe this improbably sunny season does, too. Third-and-10 at the Atlanta 45-yard line, Carolina having closed within 17-13, and here the Falcons looked at their rookie quarterback and said, “Make a play.”

The play as designed fizzled on the launch site. The pocket collapsed and the rookie was forced to scramble to his left, away from his first read, and now he had a choice: He could keep running and come up short of the vital first down, or …

Running left, he threw to his right. Michael Jenkins caught the ball and skittered for 19 precious yards, and five snaps later the Falcons had an 11-point lead. And right about here the realization struck:

In Matt Ryan, we are watching the greatest rookie quarterback ever.

Tom Brady threw three passes his rookie season; Brett Favre threw four. Bart Starr and Joe Montana each started one game as rookies. Troy Aikman had to be benched midway through, having gone 0-11 as a starter. Peyton Manning threw 28 interceptions his first season. John Elway completed 47.5 percent of his rookie passes, Terry Bradshaw 38.1 percent.

Joe Namath was 3-5-1 as a lavishly salaried — he was making $400,000 — rookie. Fran Tarkenton was 2-8 as a first-year starter; Johnny Unitas was 4-3, Bob Griese 3-7. Ben Roethlisberger was 13-0 as a rookie quarterback on a loaded Pittsburgh team but didn’t start until Week 3. Sammy Baugh made All-Pro as a rookie but threw six more interceptions than touchdown passes. Bob Waterfield was league MVP as a rookie but started only four games. (Doubtless he got bonus points for being married to Jane Russell.)

Dan Marino is considered the gold standard of rookie quarterbacks, but his first start only came in Week 6, and he joined a team that had reached the Super Bowl the previous season. And now we consider Matt Ryan, who has started from Day 1 for a dilapidated team the Sporting News pegged to finish 1-15, who stands now as the chief reason the refurbished Falcons are 7-4.

He completed 17-of-27 passes for 259 yards against Carolina Sunday. He completed nine of his first 11 passes in staking the Falcons to a 17-0 lead. Said Roddy White, who ran under a 30-yard rainbow off a Ryan pump-and-go on the second snap Sunday: “Sometimes you luck up and get the guy. We got the guy.”

Eleven games in, the Falcons have stopped waiting for Ryan to have a Rookie Moment. “He hasn’t given me a reason to [expect one],” said Mike Mularkey, the offensive coordinator. And then, asked if Ryan has already absorbed the entire playbook and thereby given the Falcons license to call anything at any time, Mularkey said, “Yes.”

We saw it again Sunday, same as we’ve seen it since August. We saw it in the fourth quarter, the Panthers having drawn within a field goal again, the Falcons facing third-and-11 at their 25 with eight minutes left. We saw Ryan drop back and step forward into a big rush and loft the ball down the right side for Douglas to snatch, and the 69-yard gain positioned the Falcons to bang home the clincher.

“I threw it on time, actually a little early,” Ryan said. “He had man coverage, and I was hoping he’d roll his hips back toward me. But he was able to put his foot in the ground and stop [and make the catch]. It was a great play by Harry Douglas, not me.”

That’s typical Ryan. Everybody else makes the plays. He just carries out his assignments. But we on the periphery, having watched all along, know better. We know this rookie quarterback has made a difference in a way no other rookie quarterback — not Marino, not Roethlisberger, not anybody — ever has.

and they still pine for this man

Later today, Jerry and I will be making our sunday trek to the Ga Dome to see our rookie lead Falcons take on the Carolina panties....And we will see the same idiots in their Vick jerseys whining about getting their 'dawg' back on the field.

Here's a nice lil article from Friday:




Report: Vick put family pets in ring
Witness in USDA inquiry paints grim picture of dog-fighting operation
The Associated Press

Friday, November 21, 2008

Richmond, Va. — Michael Vick put family pets in rings with pit bulls and thought it was funny watching the trained killers injure or kill the helpless dogs, a witness told federal investigators during the dogfighting investigation that brought Vick down.

In a 17-page report filed Aug. 28, 2008, by case agent James Knorr of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and released Friday under the Freedom of Information Act, a person identified as confidential witness No. 1 said Vick placed pets in the ring against pit bulls owned by “Bad Newz Kennels” at least twice and watched as the pit bulls “caused major injuries.”

The witness said Vick and co-defendants Purnell Peace and Quanis Phillips “thought it was funny to watch the pit bull dogs belonging to Bad Newz Kennels injure or kill the other dogs.”

Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison in Dec. 2007, and is due to be released from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., on July 20, 2009. He returned to Virginia on Thursday and is being held in Hopewell pending his appearance in Surry County Circuit Court on Tuesday, where he is expected to plead guilty to two felony charges but receive a suspended sentence.

The report, which has some names and other information redacted to protect some of the parties involved, also details the killing of several dogs at property Vick owned on Moonlight Road in Surry County in mid-April 2007, just days before the first search warrant was executed on the property, turning a drug investigation into the one that sent Vick to prison.

It says Vick was administered a polygraph test by the FBI in October 2007 and denied taking part in the killing of dogs in mid-April. When told he had failed that part of the test, Vick recanted his story and admitted to helping hang six to eight underperforming dogs.

The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback, once the highest paid player in the NFL, has been suspended indefinitely by the league and his football future is uncertain. He’s also in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings with $16 million in assets and $20.4 million in liabilities.

Peace, who also was convicted in the case, said there were times he suggested that dogs unwilling to fight be given away, but that Vick said “they got to go,” meaning be killed.

The dogs were killed by shooting, hanging, electrocution and drowning, and in at least one instance, according to one of the witnesses, when Vick and Phillips killed a red pit bull by “slamming it to the ground several times before it died, breaking the dog’s back or neck.”

When he finally admitted to his role in the dogfighting operation, Vick also said he purchased his first pull bull, named “Champagne,” while a student at Virginia Tech in 1999. The dog was never used in fights, but was bred with other dogs, according to the report.

Champagne was among the 53 pit bulls seized from the home in a raid in April 2007.

Chili eatin man

damn hard to play stringed instruments in 36 degree weather, but the whiskey helps.

Or, so I've been told:-)

where are the hard working Americans?

...As I sit here it has been one month since My wife and I rolled out some stocks into hard cash so we could develop our properties. One of the things to be done was cutting down a dead tree that was threatening our domicile.

After the ridiculous city permits were attained, the tree fellers arrived and in all of 45 minutes dispatched the lumering oak~ then left is cut in huge pieces in my yard! Susequent phone calls, and the guys never call back or returned to finish the job.

I interveiwed a landscaping company to tend to my yards. Nothing for 3 weeks now. The only: read this~ ONLY CONTRACTOR that showed up ready to work? The mexican maid service.

Of course, the shitty painter was not done yet.

And were in some sort of economic crisis? You would think the lure of easy $$$ would have these guys a jumpin at the bit. That is not the case.

And this is not the exception. It is the RULE.

American contractors suck. Overall.

No wonder our economy is falling apart.

why do the French hate Lance Armstrong?

http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?bfromind=7533&eeid=6217822&_sitecat=1526&dcatid=0&eetype=article&render=y&ac=2&ck=&ch=sp&_lid=332&_lnm=todays+guide+sports+tglink


because he reminds them that they aren't as good as him at thier own stupid 'sport'.

slugs, the lot of them.

Not Evil, Just Wrong

Oh, those 'tolerant progressives'

As the media keeps gushing on about how America has finally adopted tolerance as the great virtue, and that we're all united now, let's consider the Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment.

Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment in political tolerance and diversity of opinion at her school in the liberal suburb of Oak Park.

She noticed that fellow students at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama for president. His campaign kept preaching "inclusion," and she decided to see how included she could be.

So just before the election, Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then bravely wore a unique T-shirt to school and recorded the comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore the simple yet quite subversive words drawn with a red marker:



"McCain Girl."

"I was just really curious how they'd react to something that different, because a lot of people at my school wore Obama shirts and they are big Obama supporters," Catherine told us. "I just really wanted to see what their reaction would be."

Immediately, Catherine learned she was stupid for wearing a shirt with Republican John McCain's name. Not merely stupid. Very stupid.

"People were upset. But they started saying things, calling me very stupid, telling me my shirt was stupid and I shouldn't be wearing it," Catherine said.

Then it got worse.

"One person told me to go die. It was a lot of dying. A lot of comments about how I should be killed," Catherine said, of the tolerance in Oak Park.

But students weren't the only ones surprised that she wore a shirt supporting McCain.

"In one class, I had one teacher say she will not judge me for my choice, but that she was surprised that I supported McCain," Catherine said.

If Catherine was shocked by such passive-aggressive threats from instructors, just wait until she goes to college.

"Later, that teacher found out about the experiment and said she was embarrassed because she knew I was writing down what she said," Catherine said.

One student suggested that she be put up on a cross for her political beliefs.

"He said, 'You should be crucifixed.' It was kind of funny because, I was like, don't you mean 'crucified?' " Catherine said.

Other entries in her notebook involved suggestions by classmates that she be "burned with her shirt on" for "being a filthy-rich Republican."

Some said that because she supported McCain, by extension she supported a plan by deranged skinheads to kill Obama before the election. And I thought such politicized logic was confined to American newsrooms. Yet Catherine refused to argue with her peers. She didn't want to jeopardize her experiment.

"I couldn't show people really what it was for. I really kind of wanted to laugh because they had no idea what I was doing," she said.

Only a few times did anyone say anything remotely positive about her McCain shirt. One girl pulled her aside in a corner, out of earshot of other students, and whispered, "I really like your shirt."

That's when you know America is truly supportive of diversity of opinion, when children must whisper for fear of being ostracized, heckled and crucifixed.

The next day, in part 2 of The Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment, she wore another T-shirt, this one with "Obama Girl" written in blue. And an amazing thing happened.

Catherine wasn't very stupid anymore. She grew brains.

"People liked my shirt. They said things like my brain had come back, and I had put the right shirt on today," Catherine said.



Some students accused her of playing both sides.

"A lot of people liked it. But some people told me I was a flip-flopper," she said. "They said, 'You can't make up your mind. You can't wear a McCain shirt one day and an Obama shirt the next day.' "

But she sure did, and she turned her journal into a report for her history teacher, earning Catherine extra credit. We asked the teacher, Norma Cassin-Pountney, whether it was ironic that Catherine would be subject to such intolerance from pro-Obama supporters in a community that prides itself on its liberal outlook.

"That's what we discussed," Cassin-Pountney said about the debate in the classroom when the experiment was revealed. "I said, here you are, promoting this person [Obama] that believes we are all equal and included, and look what you've done? The students were kind of like, 'Oh, yeah.' I think they got it."

Catherine never told us which candidate she would have voted for if she weren't an 8th grader. But she said she learned what it was like to be in the minority.

"Just being on the outside, how it felt, it was not fun at all," she said.

Don't ever feel as if you must conform, Catherine. Being on the outside isn't so bad. Trust me.

Dontcha mind nobody...

....grinnin' in yo face.

Last week, we lost another voice. Cora Mae Bryant sat in the family section over a decade ago as I walked the plank....uh, I mean got married. Shw was the closest thing to a grandparent I had left..

Too many stories to recount. From the first moment I met her to the subsequent gigs we would do together. Cora was a real, valid link to 'the blues'. She grew up in segregated Newton County. Her family was a 'who's who' of blues musicians. She bounced on the drunken knee of Blind Willie McTell and sang spirituals in the cotton fields.

She loved me and my wife, and even got to see my son. Very few things have made me proud: but watching Cora look in wonder at mini me swelled my heart. I will miss Sean Costello, Mr Frank Edwards and Cootie Stark: but I will mourn the loss of my friend Cora Mae Bryant.

I regret going to the funeral, as my last glimpse of her was in the box. I almost wish I did not go, so my memory of her was as she lived. But I will carry the image of her in the casket with me for awhile.

I love you Cora, and I miss you.

The one person madder then Hillary

'damn...I wish I had cut his nuts off.'

yikes!

The new president!

For the record, Obama is our president, and if anyone tries to wack him, we need to unleash hell upon them.

Buckle up, Wall Street.It's going to be a hell of a ride!

Christmas Day a little early...

if it quacks like a Douche....

...have you ever had a friend that glommed onto a particular craze, and became a zealot for the cause, and years later you find the same friend and they are completely different?

I have an old friend that was a 'Dead Head' who is now a hedge fund mangager. We took acid together numerous times, now he looks like the consumate GOP guy. Suit and all.

He will not tell me what happened to change his life view, because I used to make fun of him and the Grateful Dead. I went along for the free drugs and sex with hairy chicks, but I always told him "I think thier music plain stinks. Kinda like the guy in the hemp sweat pants next to me that hasn't bathed in a week". I can respect the genre, and this band was a part of American history, but when I hear thier off tune singing, it's like nails on a chalkboard.

Because of this, my old friend will not explain his journey to self awareness. I know he believes in the free market capitalist system. I also know he used to think very differently about 'suits'. Now, he is one.

I bring this up because some people who I have been in touch with seem to really like Bob Barr, who is the libertarian candidate for POTUS.

Mr Barr is alot like my friend. He used to be very different. And if you ask him, he will tell you that 9-11 was the event that changed him from GOP attack dog to 'new found' Libertarian.

But, I just do not buy it. Folks, this guy is a phony with a capital P.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barr

Please do not vote for this creep. He does not buy into the LP platforms.