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NFL Scheduling

It's Spring so it's time to think about football. Dallas opens up at Jacksonville. ESPN, which has Monday Night Football this fall, has scheduled two back to back games on September 11th (With the first one starting at 6:00 p.m. CST). The Tampa Bay Bucs come to Texas Stadium on Thanksgiving. And the NFL has added a Thanksgiving night game. The story here. I don't think the complete schedules will be revealed for a few weeks. Edit: I overlooked the first Sunday night primetime NBC game will be Indy Colts at New York Giants on Sept. 10. Yep, Manning vs. Manning.

Immigration

You know, all of the marches against revisions to our immigration laws is a little unsettling. Today, thousands of high school students protested in Los Angeles and 1,500 or so protested in Dallas. There has not been so much passion on American streets since Vietnam. The issue is all over the talk radio stations and the tone is, well, in a word, racist. There are so many calls referring to "those people" and "them". We have a problem we need to deal with. Anyone who thinks we can (and should) simply scoop up millions of illegal aliens and send them back to Mexico lives in his own fantasy world. And as President Bush said today, "“If you are doing a job that Americans won't do, you're welcome here for a period of time to do that job.”

Who Writes This Stuff?

There is a short editorial in the Dallas Morning News today entitled "Don't Silence Victims' Voices" about a couple of cases pending before the Supreme Court. I'm amazed at how accurate the editorial is in discussing a very confusing area of the law that concerns "excited utterances", "testimonial" evidence, and the Confrontation Clause. Simply put, a member of the Morning News editorial board did not write it. Someone who specializes in criminal law (and is pretty darn smart) did. And another boring thought: Just who exactly is the editorial trying to persuade?

Final Four

Yahoo ran a contest of picking the winner of the NCAA Tourney If the link works, this guy is in the lead - somehow he correctly predicted the Final Four (which, of course, includes George Mason).

World's Top 15 Skylines

Link here (with cool pictures). Suddenly I realize I've not seen very much of this world.

Happy 31st B-Day to Fergie

Dale Hanson's Scholar Athlete of the Week

. . . was Stacy Smalley of Bridgeport High School. Watch it here.

Before Its Time

The 1996 movie "Executive Decision" is playing a lot on cable these days. I think the flick is really, really good. I actually saw it in the theater when it first came out (with a date that turned out to be a little crazy, but that's a different, perhaps better, story). But the movie was soooooo ahead of its time. Its plot involves terrorists hijacking a commercial airliner with the intent to use it as a weapon against the United States. It even had a land based suicide bombing in its opening scenes. Creepy, good stuff.

Spring Cleaning

I cleaned out my garage yesterday and came face to face with a rat. Not a mouse. But a big rat. I screamed like a school girl.

I'm Scared To Look In A Mirror

I decided to get most of my hair chopped off today and gave great leeway to the hair stylist (who probably works for minimum wage at Sports Clips where I got my hair cut). Anyway, she was tricking my hair up quite a bit, but I liked what she was doing. Then, near the end of the haircut, she tells me how much she wants to see the new Larry the Cable Guy movie. Then it dawned on me. I owe my new look to a fan of Larry the Cable Guy.

Dixie Chicks

Those bad girls of country music have a new album coming out in May --- Three years or so after Natalie made some of us angry and some of us pleased when she said she was embarrassed that President Bush was from Texas. The first single off the album will be "Not Ready to Make Nice" (the group's web site quickly loads with the lyrics of the song while it plays in the background). The lyrics include: I made my bed and I sleep like a baby With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’ It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger And how in the world can the words that I said Send somebody so over the edge That they’d write me a that I better shut up and sing Or my life will be over

Bad Indy Car Crash This Morning

Quick loading video at youtube.com. Edit: One of the drivers, Paul Dana, has tragically died because of the accident. In this photo, he is in the vehicle to the right (very blurry) a split second before it strikes the vehicle in the center of the picture.

Mrs. Tom Cruise Is Getting Close

Six Killed

Big story out of Seattle about a guy killing six people in a home and then himself at a party. Noteworthy items: (1) All dead were in their teens or twenties (2) All had been at one party but had gone to the home to "continue partying" (3) The shooting occurred at 7:00 a.m. (4) According to the story, it was "unclear whether drugs or alcohol was involved." As to that last time, let me go [edit] out on a limb and say "uh, yeah".

VP Demands

Before Dick Cheney stays at a hotel on, presumably, government business, he has a list of demands. Fox News and 68 degrees are among them.

Hispanic Marches

It looks like there were quite a few large marches across the country yesterday regarding federal immigration reform: "Congress is considering bills that would make it a felony to be illegally in the United States, impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border. The proposals have angered many Hispanics." Can you say "hot button" issue?

As I Check Back . . .

. . . after an extended period of time away from the Internet, I noticed that the Religious Wars started again. Nothing stirs this place up like religion, gays, and high school issues. Play nice and put things back where they belong once you're [grammar edit] done. :) But two very interesting news stories I saw this morning in the Star Telegram: 1) Elizabeth Rohr was convicted in Denton County but given probation (you have to read how she went a little nuts in the courtroom). 2) A pretty hot young former teacher (pictured) was acquitted of sexual conduct with a 15 year old who was not her student. (If you have to register to the Star Telegram to see the sites, bypass it by using "bobo" as a username and "bobo1" as a password). I'm off to jog outside on a beautiful day.