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- Want to know what the view of the official radio booth of the Dallas Cowboys is like? It's a pretty lousy one. I'm not sure how Brad Sham does it.
- I watched a little bit of the Republican Presidential Debates last night and was struck by how much more entertaining they are than, say, 20 years ago. Or maybe it's just more sound bites and crowd pandering. I think we are about to be ruled by The Cult Of Personality -- regardless of who wins -- Republican or Democrat.
- According to 105.3 The Fan's Richie Whitt last night, the monthly electric bill for Cowboys' Stadium is $500,000. I believe it. (But I also think I experience more shock when I look at my home electric bill than Jerry Jones does when looking at that bill.)
- I always write it as "Cowboys' Stadium" instead of "Cowboys Stadium" which is the official name. My spelling, for once, makes more sense.
- The morning boys on The Ticket talked about their visit to the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg. It sounds fantastic. I had no idea it was there.
- Want to know how the author of "Bush's Brain" thinks Rick Perry will win the Presidency? A short opinion piece is here and it's fantastic. Basically, he'll court the Religious Right to get the Republican nomination and then abandon that strategy and switch to focusing on the economy when going head to head with President Obama. The author is no fan of Perry which makes the article more credible. I can honestly see it happening.
- But why did Perry decide to confirm, with no pomp and circumstance, his Presidential Run through a spokesman yesterday? You have all that build up towards his speech in South Carolina on Saturday and you make the announcement via the equivalent of a tiny "poof"?
- There was another wrong way driver in Dallas last night (no link yet.) I think that was the third one this week.
- Is Decatur the professional rodeo center of the U.S.? We always here of Trevor Brazille (about to set another annual prize money record, by the way) but there's also some Brazilian named Valdiron de Oliveira who gets a lot of press.
- Watched a little bit of WFAA/Channel 8's morning newscast. Verdict: A painfully awkward lack of chemistry.
- I'm really bummed that the 100 Streak is over. Then again, I'd sit down with Guinness Book of World Records for hours as a kid.
- The Family Cat chased a bee yesterday and jumped on an accordion style window blind in the kitchen. Result: It tore in half. After I thought about drowning the cat, I wondered how a bee got in the house. If Killer Bees could engage in a cat-murder-for-hire scheme, I'm in.
- Tiger Woods, over the last year, has fired his swing coach and his caddie. I bet he's got a therapist who has told him to rid himself of anything connected to his past. After yesterday's performance at the PGA Championship (he's 14 strokes back after one round), he might want to rethink that.
- But I like that goatee he's sporting.
- Golf is weird. Once you lose it, you lose it. See Corey Pavin or Ian Baker-Finch. Edit: My bad. I meant David Duval instead of Corey Pavin (although I think Pavin might has "lost it" to a lesser degree.) Also, I think you can throw in Johnny Miller.
- Preseason football is excruciating to watch (the Cowboys were on last night.) But when did Tim Tebow fall from grace?
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2 years after he left Florida that's Tebows feats at Florida are still all anybody talks about. Including last night.
Maybe it's because his style doesn't fit well into the NFL style offenses. He still can't get a good transition from Center to QB and his throwing accuracy is pitiful.
I predict he will bounce around the league for a few more years as a #2 or #3 then end up going to a Canadian football league.
After Obama's coronation in '08, you're saying we're about to be ruled by The Cult Of Personality?? Sometimes I think you guys are just being cute, and other times I think you truly, honestly don't see how Obama was cuddled into office based on nothing but charisma, with his supporters and the media "bewitched by his eloquence."
Bacon Scale
4.4 out 5
She is hot. Nice job BG
I can't stand it when people are labelled as wrong way drivers. How do you know where they were going?
Tiger is more f'd up than the Rhome and Newark city councils combined.
I totally approve of Obama's daily fund raisers at the Ghetto House as the economy sinks deeper and deeper.
If it comes down between Obama and Perry, I'm giving up and not voting. Perry's foreign advisors are the same group from Bush's team that got us in the war in Iraq. Chosing between war-mongers or a socialist agenda is not acceptable to me at all!
We could throw a 1000 darts on a borad of people and come up with a better candidate than Perry!
This fan is still on strike! I'm tired of listening to the over paid cocky whiny babies of the new age NFL. Same old crap now days.
The corporate cabal managed by Karl Rove has found a new front man..Rick Perry. He will be just as painful to watch as W was, but like all puppets (and W) he will do as the strings are pulled.
He will be president. Thanks to this cabal's Supreme Court freeing corporations to give unlimited money, no primary opponent or Obama will be able to withstand the onslought of negative ads.
It's over.
Does Perry get to resign as Texas Governor to run for POTUS?
"Cowboy's Stadium" doesn't really make sense. "Cowboys Stadium" is a name. It is just what it is. It isn't a phrase; it doesn't have to make any grammatical sense. It's just a name. Putting an apostrophe in the middle of it doesn't make it any logical.
On the other hand, if you want to say "the Cowboys' stadium", that makes sense. It is the stadium that belongs to the Cowboys.
The National Museum of the Pacific War is awesome. I sent a day going through it. Highly recommendit if you are in Fredricksburg.
Tiger Woods is certainly leaving his past behind -- including his past winning ways.
Those of us who live south of the metroplex are still living in the 100 degree streak. I don't expect it to end until October.
Nancy
1. Watch "The Daytripper" on PBS Saturday mornings; he is based in Austin and goes on short trips from there. He visits some interesting places such as the Museum of the Pacific War.
2. Daddy is avoiding confrontation as long as possible. Reflect on the last gubernatorial election where he avoided debates and pressers as much as possible.
3. Streak or nor Streak, it's still hot!
W-Lite will make a wonderful president! Cut education by 4B so as to keep 4B state subsidy for big oil. Use all kinds of accounting tricks to make it appear budget is balanced...as in witholding August payment to schools till September....not to mention all the things put on hold second year of budget hoping sales taxes increase.
Almost as good as not puting two wars in the budget as W did.
The Random Thought Girls in quality order this week:
Tuesday (top picture)
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Friday
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Tuesday (bottom picture)
This might be a recycled comment; but for a straight man, you sure use the word "fantastic" a lot!
Last night's preseason game was not excruciating to watch. As usual, the small portion where the starters play was dull and predictable. They just wanna get out of there without getting hurt. But, the guys trying to make the team? They made it worth watching. The game wasn't decided til the last play, and it was interesting. Like Rob Ryan said before the game: "They're keeping score, so we want to win." Some of those players will be worth watching if they make the cut
It's nice to have coaches (Garrett and Ryan) who are articulate and informative, and aren't surly with the press. And don't ramble and make excuses
In case you missed church services lately Barry, the unreligious right and left far outnumber the "Religious Right" that you like to use so much...almost as much as the usual press. If Gov. Perry wins a nomination, it will be the unreligious majority that does it....they just have the numbers. Obama is the example that we have.
Your random girls for this week definitely deserve the "One-Handed Read" award.
I like to think that there's no such thing as a daily Talking Points memo that goes out from the DNC, but it's hard to believe that much ignorance is coincidental. Is Obama trying to run against George Bush again? Is that really the best thing Obama's campaign can come up with? You guys are already trying the "tie Perry to Bush" tactic, completely ignoring the facts. They differ in backgrounds and political philosophies.
The Pacific war museum is great. Go in the off season- like fall. It's cooler so you don't burst into flames and cheaper as well to stay in the area.
You can take your family once a year and never tire of it as the exhibits are always expanded/improved and there's just so much to see anyway.
PS Workyle covered it, but,"About to be ruled by the Cult Of Personality"?
Come on- really, ABOUT to be?
Yeah, the economy is so bad and with the Gubment being broke and all, I think the career welfare recipients are even beginning to feel guilty!
Having said that, Obama will still win another term hands down. It is all about demographics, sad but true. I got my ky handy, ready to bend over and take it for another 4 years; at least I will be well lubricated this go round!
I heard the Fort Worth Board was upset about schools not making AYP. Everyone in Wise County seems good with their results.
wk
Perry and bush may be different on the surface but they are controlled by the same machine run by Karl Rove.
You mention that "Rick Perry will pander to the religious right, then abandon that approach later on and talk about the economy...". Well duh, he will connect (you call it pandering) with as many groups as he can because that's what you have to do win! All of these groups are concerned solely with their own paradigm: Christians, Hispanics, Blacks, educators, Iowans, etc. The president presides over a highly diverse public. Of course he will have to say a lot of things to a lot of groups!
Gern BLansten
Your on a roll with the random girls.
Keep up the good work and I'll keep it up...
National Museum of the Pacific War is really a must see. Hell, they even got a Jap sub in there.
10:30
"Perry and bush may be different on the surface but they are controlled by the same machine run by Karl Rove."
Are you sure about that?
I'm pretty sure Rove was in the Kay Bailey Hutchinson camp when she ran against Perry, and there isn't much love lost between Bush and Perry.
Fredericksburg is worth a visit even if you don't go to the museum. I was in Fredericksburg during spring break and the sidewalks were wall to wall people and this was during the middle of the day. And the spring breakers were parents with their kids.
Golf is 20% physical and 80% mental...Ben Hogan.
That is why, "when you lose it, you LOSE it." I don't know that Corey Pavin really lost it, but David Duval went from #1 in the world to can't keep his PGA card.
The Cult Of Personality that I dread in connection to a presidential election year is that of the media whores, that live on Shock and Jaw. The apparent belief that if you put out enough extremist rhetoric, no matter right or left, the mindless masses will eventually get enough of a warm fuzzy to put an idiot that has never had a real job in the office of POTUS.
So what else is new?
We are all fat and happy in Wise County.
Fake Board Menber
Isn't Governor Perry controlled by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co as well as Goldman Sachs and Macquarie Group? Remember, there's no love between the Bush and Perry camps at the operational level.
Don't all candidates pander to their parties' extremes during the primary season and attempt to tack to the middle during the general election? I wish the late, great and curmudgeonly Maryland Senator Paul Tsongas and his Pander Bear were around. That was a great campaign bit.
Do you suppose that yesterday's cool spell and scattered rain was God's answer to Slick Rick's prayers?
Time to sick the new Family Dog on the old Family Cat.
My Other Brother Darryl
No way the country will elect another Texas repuplican governor in our lifetime.
Man, I look forward to the day when wordkyle doesn't cry about Obama at least once.
141 - Will January 2013 be soon enough?
Everything will be Obama's fault for years to come, so I doubt you'll stop then.
Besides, I can't imagine that the Republicans will beat him, what with Mormons, idiot fundie women, and Rick Perry as their leading candidates.
Well Perry announced he was announcing so the talking heads and the those at the debate ( and you ) would talk about him and he is announcing he is running on the same day as the Aimes straw poll, so the talking heads will talk about him and not Romney, Buachman and crew. Darn good p.r. man he has there...........
Your Perry opinion is a little odd in that case could be made with ever single candidate in the history of ever.
The best example off the top of my head? Your original man-crush Bill Clinton.
No, WK, 2013 will not be soon enough because as a hater you wont quit........
423 - "Hater?" Inaccurate, and purposely hyperbolic for effect. I don't care one way or another about Obama as an individual. I don't know him, and we have little in common, so there's no basis for feeling strong emotion of any kind.
Hate his philosophy and his policies? Of course. Call attention to his miserable record of performance? Yep. Laugh at those who voted for him? Absolutely.
308 - "Can't imagine that the Republican will beat him?" Better read a headline or two, pal.
Who cares about any score that is not posted on a sign at the end of a field.
Fake Boardmember ....,,
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