The toughest in the nation immigration law passed by Alabama is having a serious effect on their ability to farm. Apparently, no one is signing up to do the work the immigrants have abandoned.
This is not a great economy, with nearly 1/4 of every able-bodied person out of work. So it's pretty much going to be proof positive if Americans in the South, especially within Alabama, are going to take these jobs the "illegals" have given up.
We'll find out if farmers can afford to even pay citizens the minimum wage, and if so what will the price increases be on the produce.
Thank you, Alabama. I look forward to the results!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Lets Just Make Some Shit Up...
Cover of NYTIMES today is an article about Republican Senators moving to the right of President George W. Bush on military tribunals in America.
In other words, they pretty much have no foreign policy right now, so they figure, "Why not? This seems like something we can at least argue about!"
He captured bin Laden, Quadaffi is out of power, he's drawing down troops, and at home voters are showing contempt for all spending and military action.
So they're just gonna make some shit up. See if they can go FURTHER right...
Congressional Republicans increasingly reject any use of the civilian criminal justice system for handling cases involving Al Qaeda, hardening their stance in a dispute with the Obama administration over whether such suspects should be held and prosecuted exclusively by the military.
Republican senators are pushing to include a provision in a 2012 military authorization bill that would require Qaeda suspects accused of plotting attacks and who are not American citizens to be held in military custody — even people arrested in the United States. The White House opposes such a blanket rule.
Amid negotiations over the bill, Republicans — who see their position as a potent election issue in 2012 — delivered an overwhelming show of unity in support of such ideas late last week, as 45 of the party’s 47 senators voted for a similar proposal to ban civilian trials for such “enemy combatants.” The endorsement highlighted a dramatic shift to the right in the politics of counterterrorism since President Obama succeeded George W. Bush.
In other words, they pretty much have no foreign policy right now, so they figure, "Why not? This seems like something we can at least argue about!"
He captured bin Laden, Quadaffi is out of power, he's drawing down troops, and at home voters are showing contempt for all spending and military action.
So they're just gonna make some shit up. See if they can go FURTHER right...
Oakland PD is Dumb
Here's why there's an issue, and why there's a dude in critical condition, and why this is now an anti-war protest (it kinda is/always way, regardless), and is a protest for animals rights, women's rights, minority rights, workers rights, every person's rights...
1) Because it's the Bay Area, which is obvious, and you're like 5 miles from Berkeley and San Francisco.
2) The cops are idiots. They decided to clear people out of the square at 4:30 AM on Tuesday. I mean, who likes being woken up at 4:30 AM, and told to go somewhere else? No one does. They seemingly did this to avoid having to deal with the removal of people during the rush hour (which, btw, is limited anyway). They wanted this cleaned up before 8:30 AM.
This was a bad call.
They then told the protestors they could assemble there at 9 AM, during park hours (or whenever the park opened). So, at 9 AM they all came back. BUT...the city had decided they were going to clean up the park first, etc. etc., so when the protestors came back the park wasn't yet opened up. This created the beginning of the conflict. People were aware they were breaking the law, and couldn't be in the park. They all could be arrested if the city wanted to divert it's manpower from the other crime centers in the area, known by most as "most of Oakland."
Had the police come at 9AM on Tuesday morning, the mayor specifically, and spoke to them all, explaining the situation, things may be different. They would have to leave when the park closed, and they could return the next day.
This didn't happen.
Now people are getting shot at.
Awesome.
Don't get me wrong for I am not anti-police in any way. I just think they handled this situation as poorly as possible. If you want proof of this just take a look at every other OW sit-in nationwide.
This isn't happening anywhere else. But when you have a police for that is used to responding with force in most situations, this is what you get.
1) Because it's the Bay Area, which is obvious, and you're like 5 miles from Berkeley and San Francisco.
2) The cops are idiots. They decided to clear people out of the square at 4:30 AM on Tuesday. I mean, who likes being woken up at 4:30 AM, and told to go somewhere else? No one does. They seemingly did this to avoid having to deal with the removal of people during the rush hour (which, btw, is limited anyway). They wanted this cleaned up before 8:30 AM.
This was a bad call.
They then told the protestors they could assemble there at 9 AM, during park hours (or whenever the park opened). So, at 9 AM they all came back. BUT...the city had decided they were going to clean up the park first, etc. etc., so when the protestors came back the park wasn't yet opened up. This created the beginning of the conflict. People were aware they were breaking the law, and couldn't be in the park. They all could be arrested if the city wanted to divert it's manpower from the other crime centers in the area, known by most as "most of Oakland."
Had the police come at 9AM on Tuesday morning, the mayor specifically, and spoke to them all, explaining the situation, things may be different. They would have to leave when the park closed, and they could return the next day.
This didn't happen.
Now people are getting shot at.
Awesome.
Don't get me wrong for I am not anti-police in any way. I just think they handled this situation as poorly as possible. If you want proof of this just take a look at every other OW sit-in nationwide.
This isn't happening anywhere else. But when you have a police for that is used to responding with force in most situations, this is what you get.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
It's Always a Shit Storm in Oakland
And it's always sunny too, btw...
Yesterday's non-stop action in downtown Oakland was borderline insanity. I am stationed directly across from the city, and was able to see through buildings. Between the lights, sounds, smoke, helicopters, etc, it looked like a battle was taking place. And yet I can't help but ask myself why is this happening?
Now that it has it strikes me as necessary to point out how terrible a thing it is that it has.
First off, a young man is in critical condition after police fired tear gas canisters into the crowd, and one struck him in the head. Then while people were tending to him an officer fired a flash grenade into their group. Watch it all here.
Oakland cops should know better. If anyone has been to this city they know there's clearly A LOT MORE BAD SHIT GOING DOWN THAN THIS! Just drive around, uhh, anywhere, and you'll find it. Attacking peaceful protestors, is that a good use of resources? I think not.
I have passed by the OW Protest downtown at least 5 times in the last 2 weeks, every time at night, and I've never noticed anything that would concern me, or make me fear for my safety.
And Oakland PD, you're drawing attention to your force, and meanwhile you're under investigation by the FBI for corruption. Good job.
The unfortunate aspect all of this, besides the obvious injuries, etc, is how this protest is now being turned into a battle of people vs police vs Wall St vs other causes vs everything. If you thought Occupy Wall St was a bit misguided at the outset (it wasn't), now it's really going off the rails here in California. Pictures and videos will come across peoples' televisions from coast to coast, and the generally non-violent protest will be made to look horrific.
The unfortunate irony in all of this is how these people are continually compared to the Tea Party, which is so stupid. What, no one in the Tea Party has lost a job? No on in the Tea Party is suffering? Everyone in the Tea Party has health care? No one in the Tea Party is underwater on their mortgage?
Well, if that's the case, when why does anyone give a shit about the TEA PARTY?!?!?
I'll say one thing about the Tea Party, they received tons of positive coverage, and suffered VERY LITTLE. Not at rallies, not at townhalls, now in Washington D.C. did you ever see a Tea Partier living amongst rats in a city park, getting sprayed with hoses, having tear gas launched at them. It seems to me the Tea Partiers are DOING ALRIGHT!
So if the country wants to really pay attention to who is sacrificing their own well-being in order to achieve something better, maybe focus on the people getting the shit kicked out of them in downtown Oakland.
Try not to make them look like the clowns during all of this.
Yesterday's non-stop action in downtown Oakland was borderline insanity. I am stationed directly across from the city, and was able to see through buildings. Between the lights, sounds, smoke, helicopters, etc, it looked like a battle was taking place. And yet I can't help but ask myself why is this happening?
Now that it has it strikes me as necessary to point out how terrible a thing it is that it has.
First off, a young man is in critical condition after police fired tear gas canisters into the crowd, and one struck him in the head. Then while people were tending to him an officer fired a flash grenade into their group. Watch it all here.
Oakland cops should know better. If anyone has been to this city they know there's clearly A LOT MORE BAD SHIT GOING DOWN THAN THIS! Just drive around, uhh, anywhere, and you'll find it. Attacking peaceful protestors, is that a good use of resources? I think not.
I have passed by the OW Protest downtown at least 5 times in the last 2 weeks, every time at night, and I've never noticed anything that would concern me, or make me fear for my safety.
And Oakland PD, you're drawing attention to your force, and meanwhile you're under investigation by the FBI for corruption. Good job.
The unfortunate aspect all of this, besides the obvious injuries, etc, is how this protest is now being turned into a battle of people vs police vs Wall St vs other causes vs everything. If you thought Occupy Wall St was a bit misguided at the outset (it wasn't), now it's really going off the rails here in California. Pictures and videos will come across peoples' televisions from coast to coast, and the generally non-violent protest will be made to look horrific.
The unfortunate irony in all of this is how these people are continually compared to the Tea Party, which is so stupid. What, no one in the Tea Party has lost a job? No on in the Tea Party is suffering? Everyone in the Tea Party has health care? No one in the Tea Party is underwater on their mortgage?
Well, if that's the case, when why does anyone give a shit about the TEA PARTY?!?!?
I'll say one thing about the Tea Party, they received tons of positive coverage, and suffered VERY LITTLE. Not at rallies, not at townhalls, now in Washington D.C. did you ever see a Tea Partier living amongst rats in a city park, getting sprayed with hoses, having tear gas launched at them. It seems to me the Tea Partiers are DOING ALRIGHT!
So if the country wants to really pay attention to who is sacrificing their own well-being in order to achieve something better, maybe focus on the people getting the shit kicked out of them in downtown Oakland.
Try not to make them look like the clowns during all of this.
So You Think Your Frat's Alumni Suck?
Check this out:
SAE Vanderbilt alumni had a hell of a Saturday night. One highlight, "Also of note, on Saturday night an alumni had to be stopped from defecating in the rush chair's refrigerator with a roomful of his contemporaries".
Concerned Alumni,
We appreciate your concern at the state of the house and thank you for coming by this weekend. We agree that the house is currently in the worst state that we have ever seen it and sympathize to a large degree with your concern about a lack of respect for the property. However, we think it is only fair, in the spirit of full disclosure, to let you know a bit more about how the house came to look, and smell, the way that it does.
Our officers and other concerned brothers spent a great deal of time and effort in the two weeks leading up to Homecoming to make sure that the house was presentable and that our alumni would be proud to come back. We had brothers painting, cleaning, repairing dry wall, vacuuming, etc. in order to make sure the house was in good order. We had brothers go to great lengths to get food together for the cooking that they preformed on Saturday - a new addition to homecoming that we hope you all enjoyed. We planned and paid for a cash bar that had been approved through appropriate channels, but the school later reneged and it had to be shut down. All this to say that for a 101 year old house, 2500 Kensington Place was looking as good as I've seen it in my time here. Then our alumni came.
To keep this short we will make a list of a few of the damages done by our alumni over the weekend:
2 4' X 12' sections of dry wall completely destroyed
17 broken windows
2 broken ceiling fans (all blades removed and glass shattered)
Every toilet in the house clogged with various objects including beer cans, toilet paper, etc.
Paint splattered all over the bar room
A slur painted on the basketball goal, which was also broken
Broken porch lights
5 broken door frames and locks
3 broken exit signs
2 discharged fire extinguishers (sprayed into the rooms of officers and onto the cars of active brothers with more slurs and graphic pictures drawn into the chemicals)
Officers rooms:
Treasurer's room:
All furniture broken with over $2000 worth of damage and his ottoman thrown through his window onto the adjacent roof
President's room:
Broken bed
Desk chair thrown through two different windows (incidentally both the chair and the shattered glass hit our president in the face as he was cleaning up beer cans in the front yard after the tailgate)
Rush chair's room:
The entire contents of the rush chairs room were found thrown through a window and onto the roof of the chapter room
Also of note, on Saturday night an alumni had to be stopped from defecating in the rush chair's refrigerator with a roomful of his contemporaries
House manager's room:
Relatively little damage with the only issue being that every window was broken out
Social chair's room:
It is currently impossible to walk into the social chair's room without stepping on glass as 8 Champagne bottles and 7 handles of liquor were smashed on his floor
His bed was also vomited in and had a couch placed upside down in the vomit
Total (Minimum): $12,000
- Taken from the minimum cost for replacing or repairing all issues listed above.
- Costs include labor and materials provided by Vanderbilt Plant Operations
As this kind of destruction has become increasingly commonplace over the past few years, we anticipated some level of mayhem. What we got however was much worse than we expected. There is, without doubt, a very serious issue concerning the lack of respect for the property of SAE. The same can be said for the property of the brothers currently residing in the house. It is interesting to note that all of the destruction done this weekend, and in homecoming weekends past, has come from alumni and not the active brothers. There is a wealth of evidence to back up these claims and we take no issue if anyone would like to discuss the issue further.
The house means a lot to those of us who have enjoyed the opportunities that it affords us. For many, it has been an opportunity to meet lifelong friends and have the time of our lives; we would love to see it return to its former state. However, that process of transformation cannot happen solely through the hard work of current brothers. It will require a serious and concerted effort by both alumni and brothers to raise a good deal of funding in order carry out any kind of renovation plan. In so doing we will be able to create a place that commands respect and that will be much less inviting to the kinds of activities witnessed this weekend. We share your in your vision and in your frustration; there is little that would make us happier than to see the house returned to the majesty apparent in pictures we've seen from the 60's. We welcome any suggestions on how we might make the house a better place and hope that we will be able to use this past weekend as a way to bring us together with the common goal of improving the house for future True Gentlemen. We sincerely appreciate all of the contributions that you have made, past and present, that have made the house what it is today. We along with the actives of TN-Nu sincerely hope that the actions of a few will not sour our relationship in the future.
Please feel free to reach out to either of us with any questions or concerns that you might have.
Yours in the bonds,
Peyton Davis
EA
&
Patterson Fenelon
Alumni Relations Chair
SAE Vanderbilt alumni had a hell of a Saturday night. One highlight, "Also of note, on Saturday night an alumni had to be stopped from defecating in the rush chair's refrigerator with a roomful of his contemporaries".
Concerned Alumni,
We appreciate your concern at the state of the house and thank you for coming by this weekend. We agree that the house is currently in the worst state that we have ever seen it and sympathize to a large degree with your concern about a lack of respect for the property. However, we think it is only fair, in the spirit of full disclosure, to let you know a bit more about how the house came to look, and smell, the way that it does.
Our officers and other concerned brothers spent a great deal of time and effort in the two weeks leading up to Homecoming to make sure that the house was presentable and that our alumni would be proud to come back. We had brothers painting, cleaning, repairing dry wall, vacuuming, etc. in order to make sure the house was in good order. We had brothers go to great lengths to get food together for the cooking that they preformed on Saturday - a new addition to homecoming that we hope you all enjoyed. We planned and paid for a cash bar that had been approved through appropriate channels, but the school later reneged and it had to be shut down. All this to say that for a 101 year old house, 2500 Kensington Place was looking as good as I've seen it in my time here. Then our alumni came.
To keep this short we will make a list of a few of the damages done by our alumni over the weekend:
2 4' X 12' sections of dry wall completely destroyed
17 broken windows
2 broken ceiling fans (all blades removed and glass shattered)
Every toilet in the house clogged with various objects including beer cans, toilet paper, etc.
Paint splattered all over the bar room
A slur painted on the basketball goal, which was also broken
Broken porch lights
5 broken door frames and locks
3 broken exit signs
2 discharged fire extinguishers (sprayed into the rooms of officers and onto the cars of active brothers with more slurs and graphic pictures drawn into the chemicals)
Officers rooms:
Treasurer's room:
All furniture broken with over $2000 worth of damage and his ottoman thrown through his window onto the adjacent roof
President's room:
Broken bed
Desk chair thrown through two different windows (incidentally both the chair and the shattered glass hit our president in the face as he was cleaning up beer cans in the front yard after the tailgate)
Rush chair's room:
The entire contents of the rush chairs room were found thrown through a window and onto the roof of the chapter room
Also of note, on Saturday night an alumni had to be stopped from defecating in the rush chair's refrigerator with a roomful of his contemporaries
House manager's room:
Relatively little damage with the only issue being that every window was broken out
Social chair's room:
It is currently impossible to walk into the social chair's room without stepping on glass as 8 Champagne bottles and 7 handles of liquor were smashed on his floor
His bed was also vomited in and had a couch placed upside down in the vomit
Total (Minimum): $12,000
- Taken from the minimum cost for replacing or repairing all issues listed above.
- Costs include labor and materials provided by Vanderbilt Plant Operations
As this kind of destruction has become increasingly commonplace over the past few years, we anticipated some level of mayhem. What we got however was much worse than we expected. There is, without doubt, a very serious issue concerning the lack of respect for the property of SAE. The same can be said for the property of the brothers currently residing in the house. It is interesting to note that all of the destruction done this weekend, and in homecoming weekends past, has come from alumni and not the active brothers. There is a wealth of evidence to back up these claims and we take no issue if anyone would like to discuss the issue further.
The house means a lot to those of us who have enjoyed the opportunities that it affords us. For many, it has been an opportunity to meet lifelong friends and have the time of our lives; we would love to see it return to its former state. However, that process of transformation cannot happen solely through the hard work of current brothers. It will require a serious and concerted effort by both alumni and brothers to raise a good deal of funding in order carry out any kind of renovation plan. In so doing we will be able to create a place that commands respect and that will be much less inviting to the kinds of activities witnessed this weekend. We share your in your vision and in your frustration; there is little that would make us happier than to see the house returned to the majesty apparent in pictures we've seen from the 60's. We welcome any suggestions on how we might make the house a better place and hope that we will be able to use this past weekend as a way to bring us together with the common goal of improving the house for future True Gentlemen. We sincerely appreciate all of the contributions that you have made, past and present, that have made the house what it is today. We along with the actives of TN-Nu sincerely hope that the actions of a few will not sour our relationship in the future.
Please feel free to reach out to either of us with any questions or concerns that you might have.
Yours in the bonds,
Peyton Davis
EA
&
Patterson Fenelon
Alumni Relations Chair
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Sports
I am very excited for this weekend's UFC because without question I know for sure both fighters won't be on steroids. In this case it's BJ Penn and Nick Diaz, two guys who I know to be clear of performance enhancing drugs. It's not that there are no other fighters who are clean because there are certainly some, but rare do you get TWO GUYS fighting in a main event who are.
I've been in touch with BJ, and around people out here in Oakland who know Nick quite well, and both seem to be very ready for this fight. This coming on the heals of the two of them not really wanting to fight each other, but the UFC magically manages to get everyone they need to into that cage. No different this time in that they both want a chance at Georges St-Pierre, who, not surprisingly, has injured himself. I say "not surprisingly" because I don't think he was prepared to fight Carlos Condit, and there's no way a guy like GSP jeopardizes all he has built. If you ever watch the way he fights he rarely puts himself at risk, so he's certainly not going to do that before the fight.
Side story on this few are aware of, there's a little birdie telling me that the UFC, ehh hemm, Dana White, kinda screwed up when he cancelled the Diaz vs St-Pierre fight. Rarely doing something that would affect the company without thinking it through, White did not take into consideration the one thing which guides Las Vegas: The Casinos. They had already collected millions in bets for that fight, and when White called it off the Sports Books went bananas. They forced him to put Diaz back on the card in the hopes the money would stay on the table, one way, or another.
Again, a rare bad call by White when it comes to his product, but that's why Diaz and Penn not only is happening, but HAD TO HAPPEN.
---
Do you ever watch a sporting event and realize a game is over before either team has scored? Well, I sure have, and it has happened to me twice in the last 5 weeks.
The first time was when the Ohio State backup Quarterback Joe Bauserman through a screen pass into the dirt on his first pass against Miami. That's when I new that particular game was over before anyone had scored.
The second time? This past weekend when I watched the Raiders play the Chiefs, and not because Kyle Boller was starting at Quarterback, or Darren McFadden got hurt. It's because on the first series the Raiders came out and moved the ball. Then on 3rd and half a yard, somewhere around midfield, rather than take Boller and push for the first down, they bring in Rookie Terrelle Pryor, who has yet to play a down in the NFL, to do it for him. But they didn't just have him sneak for a first down, no, not at all. They put him at Wide Receiver while Boller was in shotgun, sent him in motion where he then stopped under center, took the snap, and went forward for the yard. Except he didn't wait "one second" under center, and the play was called dead. The Raiders were given a 5 yard penalty. Pryor left the field, and on the next play Boller through a pick-6 on third down. Game. Set. Match.
That's just coaches being stupid.
Rather than one the field position game, maybe get 3 points, who knows? They're down 7 points with a shitty Quarterback.
Nice job, coach.
---
Andrew Luck is not going to the Colts. I don't care if they go 0 and SEVENTEEN. The Colts will not have Andrew Luck. Now, I did predict months ago this was coming, that Manning would miss the season and Luck would be there for the Colts, but even if he is there, he ain't going.
And why should he? Because they drafted him? You know what? Fuck the Colts. That's my take. They're one of the teams that screwed legions of fans when they left Baltimore, so why do I care when a particular player decides not to work for them? I don't blame the kid at all. Indianapolis sucks, and yes, I've been there 4 too many times having been there 4 times.
The thing about Luck too, is like John Elway and Eli Manning before him he has the ability to do what he wants on the field, and OFF THE FIELD. The kid has the leverage, and he can basically tell a team "I'll never play there." And if he wants to, he should. We live in the most me-society at the height of "me." Facebook, twitter, billionaires who want tax cuts, "that's my kid you're talking to!" Everything is me, and if I'm Andrew Luck I'm going full "me."
He's a great kid no matter how yo spin it. Not wanting to be in Indianapolis doesn't make him a jerk. No, it makes him smart.
And the NFL, they want that kid in Miami for sure. Which for me would be great so I can stop hearing Dan Marino talk. I'd love to see that guy knocked down one peg.
Last week he said, "I hope no one breaks my record!" Of course you feel that way because they can't break your championships...
And btw, Luck is FAR AND AWAY the best player in College Football. Watch him for one quarter, and you'll soon realize he's better than Tony Romo, Jay Cutler, Eli Manning, Alex Smith, Carson Palmer, Andy Dalton, Joe Flacco, Mark Sanchez, Josh Freeman, and others RIGHT NOW.
---
Wow, the NBA just cancelled more games. The good part about that is...no shitty games in the ultimate "me" sport.
The bad part...there will be blood. Some NBA player is going to get bored and shoot someone. If we're lucky his target will be David Stern.
He's the Rutgers graduate I'm slowly starting to hate, and it's tough to hate your own.
---
I just heard a Terrell Owens interview where he discussed the "teams" who are interested in him. He said he wants to "play for a contender", and that he's going to make a decision after he "speaks to his agent."
So, I may as well jump to the future and let you know that discussion.
"Hey, Tee Oh, it's me Drew."
"Whassup, my agent?"
"Listen, buddy, I just got a phone call from the..."
"Yes!"
"What?"
"Oh, nothing. Go on..."
"I just got a call from the accountant handling your money, and he says things aren't looking so good."
"...I was hoping this call was about something else. Any good news?"
"Well, I did just save a shit ton of money on my car insurance..."
I've been in touch with BJ, and around people out here in Oakland who know Nick quite well, and both seem to be very ready for this fight. This coming on the heals of the two of them not really wanting to fight each other, but the UFC magically manages to get everyone they need to into that cage. No different this time in that they both want a chance at Georges St-Pierre, who, not surprisingly, has injured himself. I say "not surprisingly" because I don't think he was prepared to fight Carlos Condit, and there's no way a guy like GSP jeopardizes all he has built. If you ever watch the way he fights he rarely puts himself at risk, so he's certainly not going to do that before the fight.
Side story on this few are aware of, there's a little birdie telling me that the UFC, ehh hemm, Dana White, kinda screwed up when he cancelled the Diaz vs St-Pierre fight. Rarely doing something that would affect the company without thinking it through, White did not take into consideration the one thing which guides Las Vegas: The Casinos. They had already collected millions in bets for that fight, and when White called it off the Sports Books went bananas. They forced him to put Diaz back on the card in the hopes the money would stay on the table, one way, or another.
Again, a rare bad call by White when it comes to his product, but that's why Diaz and Penn not only is happening, but HAD TO HAPPEN.
---
Do you ever watch a sporting event and realize a game is over before either team has scored? Well, I sure have, and it has happened to me twice in the last 5 weeks.
The first time was when the Ohio State backup Quarterback Joe Bauserman through a screen pass into the dirt on his first pass against Miami. That's when I new that particular game was over before anyone had scored.
The second time? This past weekend when I watched the Raiders play the Chiefs, and not because Kyle Boller was starting at Quarterback, or Darren McFadden got hurt. It's because on the first series the Raiders came out and moved the ball. Then on 3rd and half a yard, somewhere around midfield, rather than take Boller and push for the first down, they bring in Rookie Terrelle Pryor, who has yet to play a down in the NFL, to do it for him. But they didn't just have him sneak for a first down, no, not at all. They put him at Wide Receiver while Boller was in shotgun, sent him in motion where he then stopped under center, took the snap, and went forward for the yard. Except he didn't wait "one second" under center, and the play was called dead. The Raiders were given a 5 yard penalty. Pryor left the field, and on the next play Boller through a pick-6 on third down. Game. Set. Match.
That's just coaches being stupid.
Rather than one the field position game, maybe get 3 points, who knows? They're down 7 points with a shitty Quarterback.
Nice job, coach.
---
Andrew Luck is not going to the Colts. I don't care if they go 0 and SEVENTEEN. The Colts will not have Andrew Luck. Now, I did predict months ago this was coming, that Manning would miss the season and Luck would be there for the Colts, but even if he is there, he ain't going.
And why should he? Because they drafted him? You know what? Fuck the Colts. That's my take. They're one of the teams that screwed legions of fans when they left Baltimore, so why do I care when a particular player decides not to work for them? I don't blame the kid at all. Indianapolis sucks, and yes, I've been there 4 too many times having been there 4 times.
The thing about Luck too, is like John Elway and Eli Manning before him he has the ability to do what he wants on the field, and OFF THE FIELD. The kid has the leverage, and he can basically tell a team "I'll never play there." And if he wants to, he should. We live in the most me-society at the height of "me." Facebook, twitter, billionaires who want tax cuts, "that's my kid you're talking to!" Everything is me, and if I'm Andrew Luck I'm going full "me."
He's a great kid no matter how yo spin it. Not wanting to be in Indianapolis doesn't make him a jerk. No, it makes him smart.
And the NFL, they want that kid in Miami for sure. Which for me would be great so I can stop hearing Dan Marino talk. I'd love to see that guy knocked down one peg.
Last week he said, "I hope no one breaks my record!" Of course you feel that way because they can't break your championships...
And btw, Luck is FAR AND AWAY the best player in College Football. Watch him for one quarter, and you'll soon realize he's better than Tony Romo, Jay Cutler, Eli Manning, Alex Smith, Carson Palmer, Andy Dalton, Joe Flacco, Mark Sanchez, Josh Freeman, and others RIGHT NOW.
---
Wow, the NBA just cancelled more games. The good part about that is...no shitty games in the ultimate "me" sport.
The bad part...there will be blood. Some NBA player is going to get bored and shoot someone. If we're lucky his target will be David Stern.
He's the Rutgers graduate I'm slowly starting to hate, and it's tough to hate your own.
---
I just heard a Terrell Owens interview where he discussed the "teams" who are interested in him. He said he wants to "play for a contender", and that he's going to make a decision after he "speaks to his agent."
So, I may as well jump to the future and let you know that discussion.
"Hey, Tee Oh, it's me Drew."
"Whassup, my agent?"
"Listen, buddy, I just got a phone call from the..."
"Yes!"
"What?"
"Oh, nothing. Go on..."
"I just got a call from the accountant handling your money, and he says things aren't looking so good."
"...I was hoping this call was about something else. Any good news?"
"Well, I did just save a shit ton of money on my car insurance..."
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