4 Days Til ?

I thought that Gov Sarah "my head is exploding from all these lies coming out of it" Palin had dug about as far as she could. This afternoon, however, she proved that I had once again underestimated the depths of her ignorance. I heard her with my own ears say "I don't know whats going to happen here if I can't call Obama out on his associations. I think my constitutional rights to free speech is being violated by the press. In other words, why are those mean old people in the press calling BS on the line of half-truths and outright falsehoods I have been spewing over the past month.

To avoid being fooled by this tripe, I went to the Bill of Rights and here is what the first ammendment says:
Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Now if I understand this correctly, The infamous Gov of Alaska is the one that wants to violate the constitution by infringing upon the rights of the press to report what they hear. This ammendment even gives FOX news the right to report on the kind of issues they want to talk about, no matter how ignorant they may be.

The handlers for this out of control wreck should try and keep a muzzle on Gov. Palin. The POTUS and his cronies have already violated several tenents of the Bill of Rights and I don't think we need this loon from Alaska trying to take away another. Go home Governor and shoot a moose! Maybe you are good at that, you certainly stink as a candidate for a major office in the US government.

6 Days Til

I am tired of the characterization of the folks on the right that all liberal are lazy and on the dole from the government. I would like to say that my wife and I work very hard every day of our life.
We have not been bailed out. When I lost a business due to foreign competition, no one bailed me out and I don't expect them to. I don't appreciate Joe the Flubber or Gov. Sarah "Flailin around" Palin and Sen John McCain saying that I am not a real American because I don't buy what they are trying to sell.

I am a christian, I have only been married once, I have never cheated on my wife, beat my child, I think America is the best place in the world. I own a gun and know how to use it. I pay taxes and I hurt for all the people that are losing their jobs due to greed and incompetence in Washington and on Wall Street. The difference between me and Mr. Plummer, I try to do something to help the people in my county. Tell me Joe what have you done to advance the cause of anyone but yourself. Ever since your made up plea to Sen. Obama, you have shamelessly promoted yourself, hiring a publicist, looking for a book deal, a recording contract. Well Joe, don't give up your day job, because when you are through with your fifteen minutes of fame, you will need the tax breaks that that socialist is offering. Get real Joe and while you are at it go away and take the plastic queen with you!

7 Days Til ?

With seven days to go, the McCain/Palin "I'll say anything to win tour" is out in full force. They still can't stay on task and their storyline bounces all over the place. First Sen Obama is a socialist, then he will fail in Iraq (if we had listened to the Senator and me, we wouldn't have been in that mess to begin with). They are trying to scare off young voters, tell dems that their election day has been moved til Wednesday and any other dirty trick that they can think of.

Don't let them win. We need a change and we absolutely, I know it in my heart do not want Gov Sarah "I am a Diva and I admit it" Palin one heartbeat away from being POTUS. If you haven't made up your mind by now, then think about what our enemies would try with the governor in the Whitehouse. Pleas oh please don't let this happen. I wouldn't mind it if it were just the conservative base and the really patriotic Americans that would suffer, but they would take the rest of us with them. If the majority does not speak then they deserve to suffer whatever fate a Gov. Palin can bring to bear.

On a slightly different note, I don't believe there are any undecided voters left at this point. If you can't choose between the obvious difference in this election, you probably can't decide on whether or not to get out of bed. Make up your mind and vote

8 Days til?

My friends the Chowan coaching staff continue to flounder in their first season. After berating the team for another bad performance, they announced that the offense would be running for the entirety of the practices this week. I find it odd with one week to go that they are trying to make a point and don't have a clue what that point is. If the point is that they are in control, I think that is lost in their 2 and 7 record. If it is that they want to run off the players they have left and start over, they will probably be successful. I want attack them on a personal level but as football coaches they leave a lot to be desired!

On to the political front, the GOP candidates are stuck on the socialism kick and once again, especially in Gov. Sarah "these clothes aren't mine, I am just trying them out before I send them back" Palin seems to have forgotten about her native Alaska. In are report from the New Yorker magazine (which I am posting a section of below) she is part of a plan that takes huge amounts of money from oil companies that have oil leases in Alaska and turns it over to her citizens. She calls this sharing, I call it redistributing or if you want to get down to it: socialism! Hello pot, my name is kettle! Or maybe she just forgot about this while she was gazing across the Bearing Sea to Russia.

For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.” Perhaps there is some meaningful distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it (“collectively,” no less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist.

9 Days til ?

The presidential race is coming to an end and thankfully, so is the football season for Chowan University. The new coaching staff have bullied and stumbled their way to a 2-7 mark thus far, losing games to teams that are not that good by huge margins. The latest example was a 51-36 (not that close) decision to JC Smith. The Bulls did whatever they wanted on the field and shouldn't have been able to. For a coaching staff that is fond of telling players that were starters last year and should be playing this year:" you aren't playing because you aren't good enough. Tell that to your parents." Well let me tell you: YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO COACH AT THIS LEVEL AND YOU SHOLDN'T BE HERE NOW! You can't motivate the players, you don't know how to treat your supporters and most of all you don't know how to build a program (here's a hint, you don't do it by ignoring a coaching legacy, who is still around and has the stadium you play your home games in named after him.) I am appalled that this is going on and I think the football alumni that support this program should be as well (HERE'S A HINT, LOOK AT THE DONATIONS THE PROGRAM ISN'T RECEIVENG THAT THEY HAVE IN TIMES PAST.)

I don't understand their motivation and I don't understand why they don't have their best team on the field (by all indications the scout team O easily handles the first team D on a daily basis)
I do hope they enjoy their ride and if they don't improve they fade back to NAIA or High School, where they belong. There, coaches have to worry about what parents say. At the college level, it shouldn't matter. To these thin skinned coaches, it must. It is a shame they haven't advanced beyond that level and I don't think they ever will!

Good luck to the players, no matter where they are next year.

11 days til?

Will it ever end? Just watched Charles Gibson interview Sarah "The clothes really don't belong to me" Palin and Sen. McCain. Why is the Senator there? Doesn't he trust her to answer the questions? Is he afraid of another blown interview? Does he just enjoy her company? She is a big girl, send her out and let her take care of herself. That's the way it will be, if heaver forbid, they get elected and something were to happen to the Senator. There wouldn't be any do overs, the decisions would be hers. That is a thought to terrifying to consider. Voter early and often (oops, I better watch it or I will be accused of voter fraud.)

12 Days Til ?

I think the world is tired of this election, I know I am. I think the candidates have been running for election all their lives. I know Sen. McCain has been running since 2000 and Sen Obama has been running since 2004. The process is too long and way too expensive. I hope they have energy to work on the huge mess they are going to inherit, since our current Non-POTUS has decided to just walk away and leave it in more capable hands. That might be the best decision he has made since 2001.

Hurry up Nov 4!

On another note of dismay, the so-called coaching staff at Chowan U decided to leave my son off their football travel squad this week. I am thankful in a way, now he won't have to stand on the sideline and be ignored while they make their mess. Here is a very telling stat: the CU offensive line (and they are offensive) has given up 4.1 sacks/per game on average this year. That is double the number they averaged last year. I hope the quarterback has good health insurance. I do hope the team finishes up the season healthy. I hope for wisdom for the coaches, so far that is a distant dream.

Latenight with Roy in one day! Go Heels!