Posted on 01/27/2008 6:57:51 AM PST by Mo1
More than two dozen of the nation's best high school football players are considering enrolling at LSU, according to online scouting service Rivals.com. Twenty-eight of the Rivals 100 have either committed to the Tigers or have the school on their short list. That includes Russell Shepard, a quarterback from Houston who is ranked fourth by Rivals; Rueben Randle, a quarterback/wide receiver from Bastrop who is considered to be the best player in Louisiana; and Janzen Jackson, a defensive back from Lake Charles. "
Don't know how good Rivals track record is but I thought y'all might want to check out the list.
Wednesday Jun 11, 2008
Politics & Prose Really Supports Journalism
A FishbowlDC spy was at Scott McClellan's book signing at Politics & Prose last night (a bookstore that's already come under fire recently for some heavy-handed practices) and tried to ask the former White House press secretary some questions following his remarks.
Said one P&P employee (paraphrasing) to our tipster: "Are you with media? There's absolutely no questions. Not even one or two. The media shouldn't be here. We can't allow you to ask him anything."
Huh. So Scott McClellan is making loads of money off a book in which he admits to deceiving the American people and failing to properly answer questions from the media...and then during his book tour for said book, he again won't answer questions?
Redonk.
Or perhaps he's just got an exclusive contract with Olbermann.
BUSH'S AMERICA: 100 PERCENT AL-QAIDA FREE SINCE 2001
In a conversation recently, I mentioned as an aside what a great president George Bush has been and my friend was surprised. I was surprised that he was surprised.
I generally don't write columns about the manifestly obvious, but, yes, the man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.
Produce one person who believed, on Sept. 12, 2001, that there would not be another attack for seven years, and I'll consider downgrading Bush from "Great" to "Really Good."
Merely taking out Saddam Hussein and his winsome sons Uday and Qusay (Hussein family slogan: "We're the Rape Room People!") constitutes a greater humanitarian accomplishment than anything Bill Clinton ever did -- and I'm including remembering Monica's name on the sixth sexual encounter.
But unlike liberals, who are so anxious to send American troops to Rwanda or Darfur, Republicans oppose deploying U.S. troops for purely humanitarian purposes. We invaded Iraq to protect America.
It is unquestionable that Bush has made this country safe by keeping Islamic lunatics pinned down fighting our troops in Iraq. In the past few years, our brave troops have killed more than 20,000 al-Qaida and other Islamic militants in Iraq alone. That's 20,000 terrorists who will never board a plane headed for JFK -- or a landmark building, for that matter.
We are, in fact, fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them at, say, the corner of 72nd and Columbus in Manhattan -- the mere mention of which never fails to enrage liberals, which is why you should say it as often as possible.
The Iraq war has been a stunning success. The Iraqi army is "standing up" (as they say), fat Muqtada al-Sadr --the Dr. Phil of Islamofascist radicalism -- has waddled off in retreat to Iran, and Sadr City and Basra are no longer war zones. Our servicemen must be baffled by the constant nay-saying coming from their own country.
The Iraqis have a democracy -- a miracle on the order of flush toilets in that godforsaken region of the world. Despite its newness, Iraq's democracy appears to be no more dysfunctional than one that would condemn a man who has kept the nation safe for seven years while deifying a man who has accomplished absolutely nothing in his entire life except to give speeches about "change."
(Guess what Bill Clinton's campaign theme was in 1992? You are wrong if you guessed: "bringing dignity back to the White House." It was "change." In January 1992, James Carville told Steve Daley of The Chicago Tribune that it had gotten to the point that the press was complaining about Clinton's "constant talk of change.")
Monthly casualties in Iraq now come in slightly lower than a weekend with Anna Nicole Smith. According to a CNN report last week, for the entire month of May, there were only 19 troop deaths in Iraq. (Last year, five people on average were shot every day in Chicago.) With Iraqi deaths at an all-time low, Iraq is safer than Detroit -- although the Middle Eastern food is still better in Detroit.
Al-Qaida is virtually destroyed, surprising even the CIA. Two weeks ago, The Washington Post reported: "Less than a year after his agency warned of new threats from a resurgent al-Qaida, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden now portrays the terrorist movement as essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world, including in its presumed haven along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border."
It's almost as if there's been some sort of "surge" going on, as strange as that sounds.
Just this week, The New York Times reported that al-Qaida and other terrorist groups in Southeast Asia have all but disappeared, starved of money and support. The U.S. and Australia have been working closely with the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, sending them counterterrorism equipment and personnel.
But no one notices when 9/11 doesn't happen. Indeed, if we had somehow stopped the 9/11 attack, we'd all be watching Mohammed Atta being interviewed on MSNBC, explaining his lawsuit against the Bush administration. Maureen Dowd would be writing columns describing Khalid Sheik Mohammed as a "wannabe" terrorist being treated like Genghis Khan by an excitable Bush administration.
We begin to forget what it was like to turn on the TV, see a tornado, a car chase or another Pamela Anderson marriage and think: Good -- another day without a terrorist attack.
But liberals have only blind hatred for Bush -- and for those brute American interrogators who do not supply extra helpings of bearnaise sauce to the little darlings at Guantanamo with sufficient alacrity.
The sheer repetition of lies about Bush is wearing people down. There is not a liberal in this country worthy of kissing Bush's rear end, but the weakest members of the herd run from Bush. Compared to the lickspittles denying and attacking him, Bush is a moral giant -- if that's not damning with faint praise. John McCain should be so lucky as to be running for Bush's third term. Then he might have a chance.
Siamese twins walk into a pub in Ontario and park themselves on a bar
stool. One of them says to the landlord, ‘Don’t mind us, were joined at the
hip. I’m John, he’s Jim. Two Molson Canadian beers, draft please’.
The landlord, feeling slightly awkward, tries to make polite conversation
while pouring the beers. ‘Been on holiday yet, lads?’
‘Off to England next month,’ says John. ‘We go to England every year and
hire a car and drive for miles, don’t we, Jim?’ Jim agrees.
‘Ah, England !’ says the landlord. ‘Wonderful country... the history, the
beer, the culture...’
‘Nah, we don’t like that British stuff,’ says John. ‘ Hamburgers & Molsons
beer, that’s us, eh Jim? And we can’t stand the English - .’
‘So why keep going to England ?’ asks the landlord.
‘It’s the only chance Jim gets to drive.!
(not quite) My Shark Story.
A friend of mine, let’s call him Chuck, who is somewhat crazy, tells this story. Knowing him I believe it!
One day, Chuck was out diving with friends off Davenport, about half way between Half Moon Bay, and Santa Cruz CA.
He was swimming along, minding his own business, trying out his new $80 flippers. A seal grabbed one of his flippers. Annoyed, he kicked his foot up to shake the seal loose. This flipped HIM up under what he describes as a boxcar with fins. His “seal” was a Great White Shark!
The shark didn’t like the taste of rubber and spit out the fin. He boosted for the surface stuck his head up and said “HELP!” Head back down, look for shark. Head up: “SHARK!” At this point he sees everybody on the boat franticly running to and fro. He and the boat manage to get together.
Later he found out that some local fishermen were in the habit of cleaning their catch in that area.
Soooo, the shark came up beside the boat looking for a handout. Finding none it then swam off in his direction. His friends said it was as long as the boat, 12 feet.
OK, now fast forward a month and a half. Chuck is visiting friends in San Diego, They go out for a dive. There are Basking Sharks, a harmless filter feeder, in the area. So his friend who knows about the earlier dive says, “Hey, Chuck! Wanna swim with the sharks?”
Slow Learner Chuck says “Sure!”
Soon, he’s in the water. He sticks his head up and can see the dorsal fin of a shark approaching him. Oh goody! Dunks his head and looks. The water is too murky. Head up. Fin still coming. Head down, too murky. Then…
Out of the gloom a mouth “big enough for me to stand up in in any direction” suddenly appears.
His friend says it was the funniest thing he ever saw. Chuck came straight up out of the water, walked 10 feet across the surface and sank back down…
With friends like that who needs high colonics?
At least I get enough spam offering them that somebody must think so...
Out East we only talk about high colonics when joking about California. Apparently only the Left Coast is full of it. Most people out here haven’t heard of it.
Definition: The imperialist domination by Europeans of upper mountain areas. alt: Hippies in the Sierras.
I was struck by the innocence of this simple sign when such a high-powered meeting is going on behind those closed doors.
FOFLOL Oh, grrrrroan.
A: Because they can’t tell the difference between a Bishop and a Queen
Sad, but true.
Aren’t they the same thing?
Heartbreakingly true.
FOFLOL.
Was that the sign on the door of the Congressional subcommittee for offshore drilling?
TEEHEE
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