The bad news just keeps on coming:
… Belin’s results are undeniable. This season, two of his linebackers were in the top 10 in the SEC in tackles — Chris Marve (second) and Patrick Benoist (eighth) — and Marve made the All-SEC second team. In each of the last five seasons, Belin has put one of his linebackers on the first or second team All-SEC teams.
That is a feat former linebackers coach John Jancek never accomplished.
Get The Picture 
Remember Hee Haw: Gloom, Despair, and Misery on me . . . .
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Just call me Dog In Florida…or don’t. Woe-oe-oe:
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The Grand Ole Opry hasn’t seen a show with harmony like that since Sarah and the baggers performed their gloom, despair and agony schtick at the Gaylord Opryland over Super Bowl weekend.
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Difference is one was comedy, this weekend just put a spotlight on the obvious. I never was good with all the “new math” (algebra and above) but I have always been able to “figure” pretty good. You don’t have to be an economist to see someone has to take their foot off the spending pedal. If Sarah and the Tea Party folks can open people’s eyes to that and help revolutionize Washington politics, we all would owe them.
I am not saying they can/will overcome the stupidity that has put us in this position, just saying it is so critical that something change immediately, but this Tea Party stuff isn’t fodder for laughter. It will steal votes from both parties if not incorporated into the platforms.
Everyday we go deeper into the abyss and make it less likely financial failure can be avoided; a “revolution” this Novemeber is critical and preferable to the global consequences we will face. You don’t have to go to GT or be an economist to see this coming, go figure.
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Since you guys hijacked my thread, I guess I’ll jump in here with a quick comment.
If you think the clowns that met in Nashville are all about reduced spending, you are kidding yourself.
This is my favorite part from the article:
Reduced spending is fine, as long as it affects somebody else’s district. 😉
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The only sure way to stop the spending spree by both parties would be to dissolve the federal government.
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Like any large group, it is dysfunctional and cannot be characterized as agreeing on all positions. Yes, I do believe at it’s core the key unifier is economic sanity (taxes, spending, and the policies that drive them.) That is a huge umbrella, and politics do make for strange bedfellows, but the energy seems to come from that broad issue. The Tea Party is, or will, become weakened in the same way the two primary parties are torn by the extremists in each. As the parties ignore the moderates among them, new factions will always spring up. There is enough dissatisfaction with the old for something new to succeed. Clearly the Tea Party group is “scattered” and has yet to formalize a broad platform, and may never do so. It has become the available haven for those who demand immediate change from the suicidal financial path we are now on. In no way are they as ridiculous as their older siblings, imo.
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Any political event that sponsors Tancredo is ridiculous per se.
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I take it you’re in favor of illegal immigration?
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I’m against race-baiting. There’s a big difference.
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To some, any comments regarding issues that touch minorities constitute “race baiting”. There are some serious issues that involve minorities, and I know you understand that, but how many bodies have to sacrificed to the alter of “political correctness”? Any comment not supporting “the cause” is attacked and the speaker denounced as a radical, or racist. We have become so sensitive in these areas we ignore common sense discussions while the problems continue to fester and divide us. You can find extremists, or single issues to bring arguements against any crowd of more than a dozen people. The Tea Party has some fleas, but the core is purer than the two biggies. It frightens the big boys, but I am surprised a libertarian would not favor much of what the movement stands for: lower taxes, spending cuts, and reduced government.
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C’mon, Mac, if you’re going to excuse Tancredo’s behavior on the “altar of PC”, there’s really little race-baiting you can’t excuse. Does that mean you excuse Farah’s birtherism – something that’s just as offensive as the “9-11 trutherism” that’s been thrown at Bush by nuts on the left – too?
That’s the real problem I have with your “I am surprised a libertarian” point. What do Tancredo and Farah have to do with lower taxes, spending cuts, and reduced government anyway? (For that matter, what does Palin’s strong national defense, which evidently includes opening up a third war front with Iran, have to do with any of that?)
I’m not careless enough to tar all who consider themselves to be part of the Tea Party movement with the same brush, but I remember watching the ’08 Republican Presidential debates. The candidate who most embodied the things you claim the movement stands for was the guy who was banned on a routine basis from more than one of them. He also wasn’t given an opportunity to speak at the convention. So you’ll have to pardon me if I don’t get all excited by the nuts I heard speak last weekend.
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Your interpretation of last week’s meeting is a great leap from what I saw represented in Nashville. No question there were some folks there I would not consider representative of the norm, but Tea Party advocates, by and large, are a very moderate part of the backlash against what is happening in our country today. That was my point, take the spirit of the Tea Party movement as a whole, not the isolated excerpt of a speech or an individual attendee.
The current Democratic Party is further to the left of center than the Tea Party is right of center. You can pick isolated points from last week’s speeches if you wish, but Sarah Palin is certainly not extreme right…..not even close. And race baiting and racism is much more characteristic of the left, than the right. The majority of racists I have encountered in my lifetime have been black, and I grew up in the 50s and 60s in South Georgia.
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Sorry, but you don’t get off that easy. Tancredo was applauded by the crowd and Phillips went out of his way to praise Tancredo. If he and Farah aren’t representative, why didn’t anyone voice an objection to the crap they were dishing out?
As for Palin’s extremism, I don’t know if it’s right, left, center or located some other place entirely, but what I do know is that she’s the only major political figure in either party to expressly advocate going to war with Iran. That’s a pretty textbook definition of “extreme”.
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Tancredo basically ran on enforcing immigration laws and stronger border security, how has that become anti-Hispanic, isn’t it pro-American? I don’t see that as something I am opposed to. The issue goes well beyond a racial/ethnic position. The Bush WH made a big mistake in not taking a similar stand, especially in his 2nd term, as did McCain in the 2008 election. All polls show a strong majority of Americans support a similar position.
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Did you listen to what Tancredo had to say in Nashville? Since illegals can’t vote, I’m hardpressed to understand what advocating a literacy test for voters has to do with immigration. Maybe you can enlighten me.
The crowd sure loved it.
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Senator, don’t confuse an illegal action with one that can’t happen. It is illegal for illegal aliens to vote in federal elections, but it’s also illegal for them to be in the country (and we’ve got millions of them here). Given that illegal aliens readily violate one law, it’s a real stretch to assume that they wouldn’t violate another.
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Right. Because it’s well-known that thousands of illegals cross into our country in order to vote in our elections.
Also, ACORN. 😉
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Are you referring to Palin’s statement that Obama could change his image, and thus be harder to defeat in 2012, by supporting Israel or going to war with Iran? If so, I don’t think that constitutes an endorsement for war.
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Yeah, I didn’t even bother with that because I don’t think he saw the whole discussion. Palin certainly didn’t say that, and she is right, if this administration gets better on national security issues, they would certainly be tougher to beat. A sizable chunk of their supporters have them boxed in on that front and are not likely to allow him to reverse his position. I was still in shock over that post from D in F.
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Hey, don’t take my word for it, take Daniel Pipes’.
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Pipes is the originator of the idea, so I think he is biased to see support even where it doesn’t exist.
When Palin said, “Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decided really [to] come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do,” I think she was saying she would like him to support Israel, not declare war on Iran. Given that she hasn’t proposed declaring war on Iran in any other public statements, I think that’s the best interpretation of her remarks.
If she were suggesting that we should bomb Iran, I think Chris Wallace would have immediately seized upon that line of questioning. Given that his follow up questions were asking if she thought that Obama would do that, not whether he should, I think he agrees with my interpretation.
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Hacker, her answer was so confused – starting with the fact that she mischaracterized Buchanan’s piece – that poor Chris didn’t know where to go with her.
Even if you don’t agree with Pipes’ interpretation, at a minimum Palin is suggesting that playing the “war card” with Iran would be smart politics on Obama’s part. That’s remarkably idiotic.
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No disagreement that her choice of words/phrasing was poor, but the concerns about national security with the Dim Party runs a close second to the economic problems. If they are smart enough to allay those security fears the chances of re-election go up enormously, and will definitely factor into which conservative candidate will be chosen to run in 2012.
Had she simply said “take stronger measures to deal with Iran” (which would presumably include air strikes) I don’t think anyone would have taken exception to her answer at all.
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I think you’re confused. How did she mischaracterize Buchanan’s piece? Buchanan said that war with Iran would help Obama politically. Palin said the same thing. Palin never said it would be smart, or that she endorsed it. She was simply relating a major political development, because she thinks it will take something of that scale, that would make Obama electable in 2012.
Extrapolating that Palin wants Obama to support Israel, and therefore she supports war with Iran is connecting far too many dots to get from point A to point B.
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Exactly who do you think favors war with Iran such that Obama would reap a political reward for doing so?
It’s deluded thinking from the get-go.
By the way, it’s not like she hasn’t gone there before.
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You’re anti-Palin bias is causing you to see things that aren’t there. She never said she endorses war with Iran. She never said the thinks Obama would or should declare war with Iran. She did say it would be politically advantageous to Obama, whom she doesn’t support. She stated that it would also be advantageous to him to better support Israel, a course of action she does support. To hear those statements and then conclude that she supports war with Iran is nonsensical.
And the Huff post piece was based on a simple misstatement. She was referring to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and mistakenly said Iraq and Iran. It’s forgivable. It’s like meaning to say peanut butter and mayonnaise, but accidentally saying peanut butter and jelly. Big whoop.
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Your bias, even. 🙂
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Seven out of every ten Americans think Palin is unfit to serve as President, and I’m biased? Ho-kay…
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Citing a poll isn’t an argument. It’s actually a logical fallacy called appeal to consensus. It’s actually several logical fallacies because you’re essentially arguing that Palin must endorse war with Iran because she’s unfit to be president. And she must be unfit to be president because 70% of Americans believe she is.
For the record, 80% of Americans believe the government is hiding knowledge of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. But that doesn’t mean it’s true.
And of course you’re biased. You’re concluding that Palin endorses war with Iran, based on her never having made any statement that she endorses war with Iran. What is that, if not bias?
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You accuse me of bias with regard to Palin, despite the fact that seventy percent of Americans agree with me about her lack of ability to hold the post.
Despite who she associates with and the positions she advocates, if you want to believe that she’s not in favor of bombing Iran, be my guest. That’s evidence of your Palin bias.
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Again, how is it advantageous?
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A war would be advantageous to Obama because first, the American people rally around leaders in times of crisis. And second, Obama could transform his image from a naive foreign policy stooge who tries to talk his way into the hearts of mad men, into a tougher man.
GWB got a boost in popularity after 9/11 for the same reasons.
Palin pointed that out, and people who obviously don’t understand the logic of her argument conclude that she’s a blood-thirsty idiot.
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Obama’s blowing up more people and committing more troops in Afghanistan than Bush did. I’m not seeing a lot of the rallying around you’re mentioning.
And if you think the Democratic party and the left will rally around Obama for bombing Iran – and the rest of the American public will in light of what would happen to the world’s oil market, I don’t know what else to say.
Again, parsing Palin’s words back to the bare minimum, what do you think she means by supporting Israel? No country gets more foreign aid and Obama’s done nothing more negative that toss a little stern talk Israel’s way. It still comes back to Iran.
As far as the “blood-thirsty” part, isn’t her main foreign advisor still Randy “Georgia’s Worth Fighting For” Scheunemann? He’s not exactly a flower-child when it comes to foreign policy.
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Actually, watching “everyday American” Sarah deliver her $100K speech with the talking points scribbled on her palm was high comedy, indeed.
Particularly when she reviled certain other speakers for using tele-prompters.
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She would have used teleprompters, but another politician seems to have cornered the market. He needs backups in case one malfunctions.
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Honestly, can somebody explain what the big deal is about the President using a teleprompter?
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I don’t have an issue with it. I also don’t see an issue with holding a note card or jotting down bullet points on your hand before a speech.
Although, the teleprompter in the 6th grade classroom was a bit much.
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Agreed – although it’s a bit cheeky to call out somebody for using a teleprompter while you’re relying on a telepalmter. 😉
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You don’t have an issue with someone who aspires to lead The Free World, but needs prompting on Three Friggin’ Subjects? For a hundred grand, the reknowned author couldn’t get the cogent points down?
Man, please.
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I think most (all?) stories of people who give speeches professionally without any sort of material at hand are apocryphal.
And I certainly see a difference between writing a few words on your hand and using two teleprompters in a sixth-grade classroom. Can’t you?
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Not really.
[This in response to Hackerdog @9:05.]:
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I’ll accept that he didn’t use teleprompters with the kids. But that doesn’t change the fact that he relies on them mindlessly for most of his public appearances. Search Youtube for “Obama teleprompter” and there are countless clips of Obama gaffes due to TOTUS malfunctions.
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Yeah, I see a difference. Palin wrote stuff like “budget cuts” and “lift American spirits” on her hand. Seriously, she needed hand notes to remember to say that stuff? That’s like me having to write “Go Dawgs” and “I love big boobs” on my palm.
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I still say it’s better to have a few bullet points to work from than to mindlessly read from a teleprompter, which can result in such embarrassments as the president thanking himself for inviting people to the White House.
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Here’s the agenda for this bagger splinter group:
http://www.nationalteapartyconvention.com/schedule–topics.aspx
It covered a wide variety of topics which appear to have been come to Jesus; let white people only vote; keep the Mexicans out (thank you so much, Tommy Can You Hear Me Tancredo!); World Net Daily, purveyors of the absolute best wingnut rumor-mongering ever; pack the judicial branch with far-right conservative judges; the Ten Commandments (for everybody else); my personal favorite, “Correlations between the current Administration and the Marxist Dictators of Latin America” (and who can ever go wrong with calling Obama a Marxist? Although some would think that if that’s the case, W. and Hank Paulson are Marxists, too, but really they’re just good businessmen) and the usual run of the mill incitement to riot topics such as a Marxist is our President, let’s overthrow him.
Other general discussions of good citizenship such as budgetary items like privatize Social Security, obstruct HCR and best of all stop federal spending so we can make the seamless transition from a full-blown recession left to us courtesy of Bush Cheney (somehow the baggers forgot to organize and meet during that wonderful eight year reign of pillage that left us with what? Exactly what the baggers are complaining about now!) to a full-blown depression just like the last one left to us courtesy of Hoover. That way Obama certainly won’t win re-election.
Back under Bush Cheney, a little splinter group get-together like this would have been characterized by Fox News and the mainstream media via its bleach blondes other talking heads as full-blown treason and a violation of the Patriot Act resulting in the minimum of placement on a no-fly list and a mandatory underwear wedgie check for plastic explosives.
Now, from what the baggers, Fox News and the mainstream media say, it’s just good responsible citizenship. That’s the comedy part.
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Not as funny as your rant. Now go unwad your panties.
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I thought we were talking about linebackers?
I needed a teleprompter to help me write that.
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What’s all this talk about the University of Georgia being “domed?” They have a perfectly good outdoor stadium already. In fact, I think it is one of the best stadiums in all of college football. Putting up a “dome” on top of the thing would be a waste of money and would ruin what they have already. I am TOTALLY against “doming” that stadium! Er…What’s that? They were saying “doomed” not “domed.” Well……never mind.
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I’ll attempt a Dog in Fla to English translation.
Come to Jesus = public prayer (Obviously, this is a bigger threat to the republic than Al Qaeda, and can’t be tolerated.)
let white people only vote = enforce laws already on the books against voter fraud
keep the Mexicans out = enforce laws already on the books against illegal immigration
far-right conservative judges = judges who interpret statutes and the Constitution based on plain English, case law, and US/English legal tradition instead of public polls, international law and/or opinion, and racial/sexual/political quotas.
a Marxist is our President, let’s overthrow him = all parallels between Marxist dictators in Latin America nationalizing industry and the recent nationalizing efforts in the automotive, banking, and health care industries should be ignored. And you’re a crack pot for even noticing.
stop federal spending so we can make the seamless transition from a full-blown recession … to a full-blown depression = The only cure to a recession, brought on by excessive government spending and intervention in the economy is to increase government spending and intervention to unprecedented, moonbat-crazy levels. If the recession gets worse, that means we’re not spending/interfering enough.
There were a few other examples, but it was more of the typical, bed wetter nonsense. You’ve all seen it before.
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Too bad we all couldn’t have been there with the baggers so no translation attempt would have been needed although this live action report is a pretty good one…
http://blogs.tennessean.com/politics/2010/liveblogging-the-tea-party-convention/
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No, this post would be comedy if it weren’t so sad you actually seem to believe what you wrote. Don’t let facts get on the way of your opinion. If you are truly that confused, you need to change the channel because you have damn near OD’ed on the left wing propaganda Kool Aid. You must have to rely on the computer to communicate because the hook is sunk so deep you cannot possibly be able to talk.
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The only thing that kept my attention on Hee Haw were the PYT’s in the corn field. Be still my heart.
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If I’d known this thread was going this direction I’d never have started it.
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There’s just something about Hee-Haw that gets me started but I’m over it now.
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Honestly, I don’t know why UGA will even bother fielding a football team this fall. Just look at the schedule; we’re dooooooooooooooomed.
Louisiana at home? They have all summer to get ready for us. We’ll be starting a totally unproven QB, and running a completely new defense. Tailor made for UL to come in and steal one.
South Carolina at SC? The sky is falling. It’s Spurrier. They have like 48 starters coming back. Their experienced veterans, used to winning handily, will feast on the bones of our youth and inexperience. Sure, we’ve beaten them like rented mules most every year since the invention of the wheel, but THIS YEAR IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT!!!! Just ask a Gamecock fan.
Arkansas at home? We’ll be battered and down. Petrino might be more of an offensive genius than Spurrier (just ask him). Ryan Mallett will probably throw for 9,000 yards and 28 TDs…..in the first half. Sure, Arkansas’s defense probably wouldn’t be able to hit water if they fell out of a boat, but given how awful UGA will clearly be, it’s hopeless.
Miss St at MSU? Just the ride to Starkville will probably exhaust UGA’s players. The fake Bulldogs are coached by an Urban Meyer disciple. Mullen MUST be an offensive genius. Didn’t he coach Tebow? Sure, MSU’s QB’s main shared trait with Tebow is they’re both protein based life forms, but it’s the SPREAD OPTION, PEOPLE! We’ll never stop it. And we’ll never score, because apparently only every other team in America has a decent offense.
Colorado at Colorado? Hopeless. Dan Hawkins is an offensive genius. Look how he tore us up when he was at Boise State!!! Well, errr….ok, bad example. But Colorado plays about 25,000 feet above sea level. And we’ll be exhausted from traveling. And several of our players are buffalo-phobes. Just seeing Ralphie will probably make several of them break out in hives. We’re doomed.
Tennessee at home? Well, no one has said Derek Dooley is an offensive genius yet, though we all remember him as a nice young man growing up in Athens. But Lane Kiffen did such an extensive, far-reaching rebuild last year that Mike Shula could probably coach UT to a crushing victory over UGA this year.
Vanderbilt at home? Just seeing another visiting busload of players with Tennessee plates will probably make our team assume the fetal position.
UK at UK? Their coach is named Joker! Unless Batman steps in to coach us, we’re in trouble, people. Someone get Coach Richt to send up the Bat Signal, pronto! Or, at least call Commissioner Gordon.
Florida? Urban Meyer has health issues, which as human beings, we all hope he successfully overcomes. My sneaking suspicion in that by gametime, either Tebow (who probably won’t have much else to do next fall) will come back to Gainesville and heal him, and the eerie, blinding light of Tebow will cause confusion and panic amongst the UGA players (sort of a Joshua and the Walls of Jericho thing), or the hyper workaholic Meyer will actually expire on the sidelines, leading Jeremy Foley to tape him up in a golf cart and ride him out in front of the troops for inspiration. Sort of like El Cid. Or maybe Weekend at Bernie’s. Either way, doom!
Idaho State at home? I suspect our players and coaches will be distracted by their mascot, Mr. Potato Head. Or, maybe by the fact that their cheerleaders all turn out to be survivalists and are packing huge knives and guns. Either way, we get mashed by the Potatoes.
Auburn at Auburn? We’ve beaten them almost as many times in a row as we’ve beaten South Carolina, but Gene Chizik is a genius (ask any Auburn fan, preferably one who didn’t see them try to gack up their bowl game in the last two minutes). They’ve recruited about a bazillion 5 star players, and Cameron Newton was once coached by Urban Meyer! And Dan Mullen! I think we can all see what that means.
Georgia Tech at home? Even in the worst season since UGA had a goat for a mascot, we beat these blowhards.
so, there you have it. We can’t coach, recruit, gameplan, play offense, play defense, cover a kick, or cross a street without the aid of a helpful adult. Might as well get used to it now.
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Bradley? That you?
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I enjoyed how we were doomed in every game except GT. You can’t even joke about that one, and that’s a joke in itself.
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Just don’t tell Paul Johnson. The testy little genius might try to punch me in the mouth….if he can find a stepladder to climb up high enough to reach me. And I’m only 5’9″.
Some concepts are just too ridiculous to even pretend to advance. The French will never have a great army. Steven Segal will never have more than one facial expression. Georgia Tech will never have a football program that strikes fear into anyone’s heart. QED, as they say.
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Bravo! Excellent summary. 🙂
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Senator, apparently Mr. Finebaum agrees with your sentiments of doom and gloom. In fact he thinks Mark Richt is on his way out the door.
Should we just go ahead and fire the guy now to avoid the embarassment of next season? What ever will we do?
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I saw the Finebaum article, but decided not to mention it. The guy reaches new heights of hackery seemingly every week. I’m starting to have trouble keeping up with him.
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Yeah, that’s been my sentiment regarding him. While I don’t disagree that there is certainly some unhappiness within supporters of the program. You’d have to be blind, deaf, dumb, or all of the above to not see that. That unhappiness obviously comes with watching programs around you ascend to where you were just a few years ago.
To me the whole “Richt is on a sinking ship/on the hot seat/on his way out after this year” meme is completely 3rd party produced. There are a few idiots that come around here and the AJC boards that call themselves supporters that want this, but I’d be willing to bet that these same people probably don’t contribute anything to the program in the $$ sense.
The people that make the decisions (i.e. big boosters/Mike Adams/Damon Evans) love the man and it would take more than a single five loss blip on his record to run him out of town on their watch.
At this point, I believe the man will leave because of how damned ungrateful a lot of us are because he’ll get sick of hearing complaints about all those 10 win seasons.
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Richt isn’t going anywhere. He understands that Bradley and Finebaum don’t speak for the fans and program supporters. He also doesn’t read the blogs, so he has no idea what Thomas Brown thinks (although I’m not sure TB has a firm grasp on that either).
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I think Finebum yes Bum has gotten his marching orders from Darth Saban. That UGA is going to run the 3-4 with a guy Darth Saban once asked to be his DC at Miami has got to be on the Evil Ones radar. We will be recruiting his 3-4 players and we will be coaching them up with a real NFL DC not just a Darth Saban clone. Yes it is time for Finebum to go nuclear on Mark Richt full-time to under mind UGA to the recruits. The plan comes together.
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If past history of these guys is any indication CMR has done a good job rebuilding the staff. For whatever reason our linebacker play has not been where it should be. Belin’s track record says we are in for a serious upgrade. Finebaum’s a goofball.
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Jumpin’ jehosaphat!! All of this because of Hee Haw?!?
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Carrier airstrikes?
Carrier airstrikes?
Are you kidding me?
Mac, I know you can do a better job of pitching me high and tight than you did above.
At least make me drop the bat.
In the meantime, why worry about parsing Palin’s words to divine what she intends? What she really meant was that if Obama gave the greenlight to Israel to attack Iran on our behalf, they would have her unqualified no questions asked support by golly.
Better yet if Obama would just launch a direct attack on Iran, forget about Israel as the middleman (those folks – apologies to Blutarsky and anyone else to whom this applies – don’t believe in Jesus as Savior, the Rapture and all that other hopey changey stuff so they really have no future anyway, do they?), that’s what she would do if she were President to get re-elected to a second term because after all that’s the most important thing. No second guessing allowed!
She’s just carrying the squad battle flag for the chickenhawk Dick and Liz Cheney attack Iran now neo-con proxy war cry.
She’s naive enough to think that the Republicans are actually going to let her get the Republican Presidential nomination. However, some factions are happy to let her keep walking the media talking point to keep the thrill of invasion experience alive while we’re still trying to complete the establishment of the occupations from the earlier two invasions.
I know that some I served with in the military didn’t always agree with me, and much to my amazement, some here don’t either, but after all it’s a free country, so what?
For those who’ve been in a combat zone and had their ass shot at for what turns out to be no good reason whatsoever, the last people on earth I want having any say in this are Palin, Cheney and their enablers.
Carrier ****ing airstrikes?!
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Regardless of how you interpret Palin’s words, she is much closer to reality than the current administrtion when it comes to the War on Terror. When the leadership of a country is publicly sworn to obliterate Israel and the Western way of life, and declares the US to be an enemy, putting your head in the sand and pretending this will go away is a pathetic response. There is reported to by 1 billion+ members of the Islamic faith on this planet, and an estimated 10% of those are considered “radical Jihadists”. That is 100 million souls who spend the bigger part of their day committed to finding ways to kill your and my family. That makes me want tougher leadershp than we have, and Palin wouldn’t be first choice; but she is better than what we have.
Americans are naive if they think this ended with George Bush leaving office. The problem existed long before he took office, and we are, and will continue to be, seeing additional atrocities against our nation. I want our government to fulfill their obligation to defend this country as they are sworn to do, and stop spending energy/resources meddling in areas that are not authorized by the Constitution. The next terror attacks on US soil will revive that feeling we had after 9/11, but how silly is it to soften our approach and appear weak? The matter of dealing with Iran is just a piece of the puzzle, and air strikes against Iran’s government is not the only solution, but the time for mediation with this kook is long past. No one has the total answer, and it has to be multi-faceted, but America needs to have a firm stance in this case, not a “gee, my golly” approach as if we are surprised to learn Muslims are playing hard ball. Energy self dependence is one of the first steps we should have taken, and Governor Palin knows something about that.
Palin chose words that I would not have used at this point, but she has a better grasp of this than the “czar team”. Response will come from Israel anyway, they “get it” when it comes to how to deal with these barbarians and they are able to act in ways we cannot.
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Sorry, posted in wrong location. Meant this as a response to SB’s 12:59 post. Enough of this for me, need to get back to worrying about Spring Football.
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Who can’t help but admire the librarian chick in her brave and courageous fight against all things not Republican or teabag?
http://mediamatters.org/columns/201002090002
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/palin-trumps-obama—on-a_b_457788.html
When McCain picked her off the bench and put her on third, she thought she hit a triple. That makes her a folk heroine to many who of course mostly love her for her hot librarian look. I know McCain did and so does Breitbart. That’s why they selected her.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/11/liberal_media
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An annotated Guide to the Belligerent Minority including, but not limited to Sarah, one of many highly paid spokespersons…
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/12/palin-media-florida/
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/08/who_wants_to_bomb_iran?page=full
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/palin-advocates-war-with-iran-after-misunderstanding-buchanan-column.php
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If your argument consists of Palin supports Israel, and so eventually that must lead to war with Iran, then I can’t participate. There are many options in foreign policy between appeasement and war.
While I am conservative, I don’t consider myself a particular fan of Palin. I simply don’t believe there are neocon hobgoblins under my bed, which color my world view so that I have to parse statements out of their plain English so that we can discover the “hidden meaning” that can only be discovered by exploring past misstatements, associations, and throwing chicken bones.
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And Palin has laid out a case for which of those?
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