Where’s the Outrage?

Yuck, yuck, yuck.  As great a day was Saturday was of football, Sunday was as bad.  Look, for over three years the football “pundits” have been trying to crown Tom Brady as the next great Hall of Fame quarterback.  He’s a combination of Elway and Montana and what ever other Hall of Fame quarterback they can think of at the time.  Well, Tom Brady is human just like all the rest of us.  He basically stunk up the field for the majority of the game on Sunday. 

The only thing that stunk worse than Tom Brady would be the San Diego Chargers.  San Diego offense missed opportunity after opportunity to put the game away.  They allowed the New England Patriots to think that they still had an opportunity to win.  In the NFL, if you don’t put champion away, early, the champion will make you pay for it every time. 

As a championship team, you can never let someone like Eric Parker lose the game for you.  Or better yet, how do you intercept Tom Brady and then allow an offensive player, Troy Brown, to take the ball from you seconds later?  It was a great play by Troy Brown but an absolute abysmal play by Marlon McCree.  That’s not professional football.  That’s high school football.  Maybe Marty Schottenheimer can’t coach the big game.  It is clear that he had the best team all year.  To lose to New England at home… this New England team with its mediocre defense and just “okay” receivers is inexcusable.

I’m sorry, Rex Grossman may become an NFL quarterback in the next two to three years but right now he is just painful to watch.  On one play he can throw a 60 yard strike for a touchdown.  On another play, he holds the ball so long that you think that he’s staring down a batter in baseball.  The Seahawks have an excuse they haven’t played a great game all year so why should we expect them to play great now?  The Bears were great at times, mostly on defense.  The Bears were awful at times.  Why the Bears didn’t run between the tackles more I don’t understand.  They kept trying to run outside and they were stuffed outside.  Why they let Grossman throw as much as they did confused me and probably the Seahawks as well. 

Just some ugly football.  There ain’t nothing worst that ugly football at this time of year.

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CNN continues their coverage of MLK.  In this segment, why does Martin Luther King write his famous letters from a Birmingham jail?  In this segment the brush by the Birmingham church bombing. 

One thing that needs to be stressed is television.  Martin Luther King was the right person but so was Fredrick Douglass.  There were several Black leaders that were the right men or women.  Martin Luther King was successful because he was the right man at the right time.  He was in the era of television.  The Nightly News showed peaceful blacks marching.  The nightly news showed the dogs being turned loose.  It showed the fire hoses.  It showed King a man of peace verses those that wished to do him harm. 

 

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Representative John Lewis (D - Ga) was a young activist in the civil rights movement in the 60’s. He was with Martin Luther King on many marches. He has been a representative from Atlanta for a number of years. He continues to promote civil rights.

 

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Although McCain is correct when he states that there would be consequences if we pull out.  I don’t think that a surge of 20,000 does squat.  New York and Baghdad have about the same population - 5 million people.  There are 48,000 police on the streets at any one time.  The NYPD has a force of over 200,000 officers for that peaceful city.  So, how many troops are we putting on the ground in Baghdad?  Finally, how is this different than Operation Together Forward?

I will post Obama on FTN later on today.

 

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Barack announces.

For more information www.barackobama.com

 

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Transcript - As many of you know, over the last few months I have been thinking hard about my plans for 2008. Running for the presidency is a profound decision - a decision no one should make on the basis of media hype or personal ambition alone - and so before I committed myself and my family to this race, I wanted to be sure that this was right for us and, more importantly, right for the country. ( more… )

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Fron CNN.com:

Cuban leader Fidel Castro suffered from a serious infection of the large intestine and remains in serious condition, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported Monday.

The newspaper quoted two sources at a Madrid hospital, where a doctor, who visited the Cuban leader last month, works. The report said Castro had suffered complications after three failed surgeries to correct the problems.

The paper reported that Castro suffered from diverticulitis, an inflammation of sacs on the large intestine that can rupture and cause bleeding. The infection spread to the tissue on the walls of the abdomen, a condition called peritonitis. ( more… )

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