Brett Favre and the Jets are playing Kerry Collins and the Titans. These guys are old. CBS just showed highlights of the 1996 NFC championship where Brett Favre and the Packers beat Kerry Collins and the Panthers. That game was a long time ago. I watched it at the Ogburns house. This was pre 9/11 and you could hang out past security in airports, and Mix 101.5 did a promotion where they asked people to show up at the airport packed for green bay and they gave away two plane tickets and two game tickets in Green Bay. I went. I was 6. That was a really long time ago. I feel really old.

Sports are weird.

Auto Bailout

This thing is scary. In the words of Thomas Friedmann on Larry King tonight, "The Big 3 are too big to fail but to dumb to succeed."

Please copy the following message or one of your own and forward it to your representative and voice your concern for the Bailout. Taxpayers cannot afford to take care of every industry that is inefficient and dying.

I write to recommend that you oppose the auto bailout currently in Congress. Giving $25 Billion to failing companies, regardless of their size, who have no intention to make changes to their business structure, is far riskier than the reward. Proponents of the legislation point to the success the Chrysler bailout in 1979. However, that bailout occurred alongside significant restructuring. No requirements for major changes in the way that GM, Ford, and Chrysler operate have been given in the current plan. Forcing the Big 3 to enter bankruptcy, consolidate franchises, and restructure Union Contracts will give them the opportunity to return to viability. Not forcing these changes to occur will hurt the American economy and taxpayers far worse than the loss of these companies.

I really don't think we can afford to let this thing pass. Take action!

LET ME OUT

Lately, no music has had the spiritual impact on me that Under Pressure has.

From the Freddie Mercury Tribute, David Bowie and Annie Lennox.


The song's baller. Don't make fun of me.

Most significantly, has been this:

Why can't we give love that one more chance
'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And loves dares you to change our way of

Caring about ourselves

It's Bowie and Queen, the purple is crucial.

I feel like the church I'm seeing isn't carrying this message and isn't out front in the fight to give love one more chance. This is rather concerning. I have a big church post coming in the near future.

Too anyone who considers them self to be my friend: if you ever observe me getting so worked up over sports that the outcome of a game dramatically affects my mood for longer than appropriate*, please smack me.

* The following lengths of time should be considered appropriate:
Regular Season, general opponent: 10 minutes (1 hour if it is a last minute victory)
Rivalry Game: 2 hours (1 week if I am in the presence of a fan of the loser. i.e. I get a week to make fun of Grant after Michigan starts beating State again next year) if preferred team wins, 20 minutes if preferred team loses.
Play offs/Bowl Game: 2 hours (win), 20 minutes (lose)
National Championship, Superbowl, Stanley Cup, etc: 48 hours if preferred team wins, 25 minutes (lose).

Note: This is only for games involving mortals. If Brett Favre ever wins another Superbowl, I will cry. And you won't make fun of me (too much).

Cabinet

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/11/obama.transition/index.html

A lot of names have emerged for potential Cabinet posts, including Sen. John Kerry for secretary of state. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska also have been mentioned for that position.

Health care is another priority, and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota is a possibility for secretary of health and human services. See who the top contenders are

Democratic sources also have said Howard Dean, a doctor who had a strong run as the Democratic National Committee chairman, is hungry for the HHS job.

John Kerry? Howard Dean? Tom Daschle?

I was under the impression that Obama was going to bring in youth and fresh faces. This list of also-rans is kind of disgusting. Also rather dissapointed that Obama's sense of "Bipartisanship" is to give a cabinet position to one of the biggest RINOs in the senate. I'm not seeing so much "change" yet.

Card Check

Question: If Detroit's auto industry is dying because of bad deals with the unions on salaries and pensions, why are the democrats trying to make it easier for Union bosses to force workers to sign up? I'd check the campaign donations.

Where are we?

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."

Complacency gave us George Bush, and apathy probably caused us to present no better alternative than John Kerry to oppose him. A very dependent segment of our population seems to have produced Barack Obama. I wonder how long we have before bondage, and what form that will take.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,
that the blind will see,
that the oppressed will be set free,
and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.

I like that one better, and it lasts more than 200 years.

According to one blind pole, I make a real good lover

Someone chalked campus last night for Obama. As I was walking to class this morning, some obvious genius noted that they wanted to take a shit on the name Obama and beat up who ever wrote it. He fricken hated Obama.

Happy Election Day! Vote for Bob Barr and Mike Munger!

I forgot to do an absentee. Sad Day.

starting return of the king extended edition at 4am is a bad idea.