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Showing posts with label curses. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Dallas Cowboys 31, Washington Redskins 38, and the reason that Jerry Jones is cursed
God hates Jerry Jones.
The Dallas Cowboys just lost to the Washington Redskins. RG3 went into the Debt Star and autographed the place.
The Dallas Cowboys, America's Team, God's Team, and one of the teams picked to go to the Super Bowl this year, well, they won't even be going to the playoffs.
They've gotten one playoff win in 16 years. It's about to be 17 years. Dallas is 5 and 6 for the year.
It is because God hates Jerry.
And that's because Jerry is a freakin' thief.
There is no other way to explain it.
Jerry Jones and the city of Arlington, Texas, stole some houses to build their new stadium, the Temple Of Baal. They used Eminent Domain, and it was all legal. Jerry obeyed all the laws that Arlington wrote. But they're still thieves.
They must atone.
What needs to happen? Well, let's look at some history.
The Cowboys franchise got its start in 1960. Tom Landry was head coach.
When Landry was fired by Jerry Jones, Landry had a career record of 270-178-6. However, Landry (before the start of the 1989 season) had not won a playoff game since 1983. That's five years. It was probably time for a change.
When Jerry Jones purchased the team, he made himself General Manager. He has supposedly been in charge of all personnel decisions since 1989.
Jerry put the great Jimmy Johnson in as head coach. Johnson had been coaching at the University Of Miami, and was familiar with many of the players soon to be drafted by the NFL. We'll never know who made the decisions that led to the Cowboys era of greatness in the 1990's, but my money is on Jimmy.
....appointed Barry Switzer as Cowboys head coach.
Using Jimmy's players, Switzer was able to win a playoff game in 1994, and he won the Super Bowl in 1995.
The Cowboys won a single playoff game in 1996 (a year soon to be known as "the good old days), but went a disappointing 6-10 in 1997.
General Manager Jerry Jones.....
....knew he had to do something after his head coach didn't win a playoff game in 1997. He fired Switzer, and replaced him with Chan Gailey.
Gailey went 10-6 in 1998, and then 8-8 in 1999. He didn't win any playoff games.
So then, Jerry Jones, who was supposedly still making all of the personnel decisions....
...fired Chan Gailey and replaced him with Dave Campo. (Gailey is now doing a good job in Buffalo, BTW.)
Campo was head coach in 2000, 2001, and 2002, and had a won/loss record (respectively) of 5-11, 5-11, and finally, 5-11. No playoff wins.
So General Manager Jerry Jones, who was still in charge of ALL personnel decisions....
....fired Campo and replaced him with Bill Parcells.
Despite winning a couple of Super Bowls with the Giants, and an AFC Championship season with The Patsies, Parcells was unable to do anything with Jerry's Kids in Dallas. There were lots of discussions about "They want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries." Some former Parcells players got signed, and Parcells had some small authority over the team.
From 2003 through 2006, the Dallas Cowboys went 10-6, 6-10, 9-7, and 9-7. They didn't win any playoff games.
(It was at the beginning of the Parcells era that I discovered that God hates Jerry Jones, and I started making a small fortune betting against Dallas. That has nothing to do with the matter at hand. I wasn't worth a crap at left guard at North Sunflower Academy, but I can tell who God doesn't like.)
Parcells retired.
Then Cowboys General Manager Jerry Jones, who hadn't won a playoff game since 1996....
...thought that he could improve the situation by bringing in Wade Phillips.
Maybe Jerry Jones had discovered the source of his problems. Maybe this coach would be the one who could properly use Jerry's draft choices.
God now hates Jerry Jones. The Lord God Jehovah hates Jerry Jones with the white hot passion of a thousand dying suns. And Jerry must atone. Now. Unless he wants to spend another decade with fewer playoff wins than any current NFL General Manager over a 15-yearyear period.
Here's the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel, speaking out on the subject of Jerry, The Cowboys, and Arlington:
Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
I don't think there are any Eagles, Redskins, Giants, or Packers fans who could've said it any better.
So what do we do?
Here is a purification ritual that Jerry could undergo. This comes from the Holman Bible Dictionary.
A cleansing agent (to atone for sin) was required: water, blood, or fire (Numbers 31:23). Water, the most common purifying agent, symbolized cleansing and was used in the rituals related to a waiting period. The person was to wash the clothes and bathe the body (Leviticus 15:7). Blood was used to cleanse the altar and the holy place (Leviticus 16:14-19). It was mixed with other ingredients for cleansing from leprosy (Leviticus 14:1) and contact with the dead (Numbers 19:1).
The final element of the ritual of purification is sacrifice. Purification from discharges required two pigeons or turtledoves, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering (Leviticus 15:14-15,Leviticus 15:29-30). A lamb and pigeon or turtledove were offered after childbirth (Leviticus 12:6). Sacrifice in the purification ritual for lepers was quite complicated, indicating the seriousness of leprosy as a cause of impurity (Leviticus 14:1). The priest also touched the person's extremities with blood from the offering and with oil, cleansing and life-renewing agents. The poor were allowed to substitute less valuable animals for use in their sacrifices.
To cut to the chase: If we're ever going to have a succesful NFL franchise in Tarrant County, Jerry Jones must strip down to his skivvies, wash one of his suits on the 50-yard line of his gaudy Temple Of Baal, mop the field with the blood of Jason Garrett, and perform a ritual sacrifice by slaughtering some of his worst draft picks in the City Of Arlington's luxury suite.
That should do it.
But what about all the little people, Jerry's victims, the refugees who were dispossesed by Eminent Domain ?
Once again, let's see what the Holy Scriptures have to say:
Leviticus 6: 1-7 : "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt... "
It's fairly simple, isn't it? Jerry and Arlington must determine the current value of the stadium, the parking lot, the team, along with the value of having God on their side. They must give that amount of money, plus 1/5th, to the people they stole the land from.
Until that happens, we will labor under an Old Testament curse.
You have violated the decrees of God, Jerry Jones. And you....will....atone....
The Dallas Cowboys just lost to the Washington Redskins. RG3 went into the Debt Star and autographed the place.
The Dallas Cowboys, America's Team, God's Team, and one of the teams picked to go to the Super Bowl this year, well, they won't even be going to the playoffs.
They've gotten one playoff win in 16 years. It's about to be 17 years. Dallas is 5 and 6 for the year.
It is because God hates Jerry.
And that's because Jerry is a freakin' thief.
There is no other way to explain it.
Jerry Jones and the city of Arlington, Texas, stole some houses to build their new stadium, the Temple Of Baal. They used Eminent Domain, and it was all legal. Jerry obeyed all the laws that Arlington wrote. But they're still thieves.
They must atone.
What needs to happen? Well, let's look at some history.
The Cowboys franchise got its start in 1960. Tom Landry was head coach.
When Landry was fired by Jerry Jones, Landry had a career record of 270-178-6. However, Landry (before the start of the 1989 season) had not won a playoff game since 1983. That's five years. It was probably time for a change.
When Jerry Jones purchased the team, he made himself General Manager. He has supposedly been in charge of all personnel decisions since 1989.
Jerry put the great Jimmy Johnson in as head coach. Johnson had been coaching at the University Of Miami, and was familiar with many of the players soon to be drafted by the NFL. We'll never know who made the decisions that led to the Cowboys era of greatness in the 1990's, but my money is on Jimmy.
Jimmy Johnson coached his Cowboys to Super Bowl victories in 1992 and 1993. But he couldn't get along with Jerry and left after the 1993 season.
Then General Manager Jerry Jones....The details remain shrouded in a late-night haze, but it seems the trouble started when Jones toasted the Cowboys and was offended when Johnson reciprocated but did not invite Jones to join his table. A few hours later, Johnson alleges, Jones told a group of reporters in a bar that he planned to fire Johnson and replace him with Barry Switzer, an old foe of Johnson's from his college coaching days.
....appointed Barry Switzer as Cowboys head coach.
Using Jimmy's players, Switzer was able to win a playoff game in 1994, and he won the Super Bowl in 1995.
The Cowboys won a single playoff game in 1996 (a year soon to be known as "the good old days), but went a disappointing 6-10 in 1997.
General Manager Jerry Jones.....
....knew he had to do something after his head coach didn't win a playoff game in 1997. He fired Switzer, and replaced him with Chan Gailey.
So then, Jerry Jones, who was supposedly still making all of the personnel decisions....
...fired Chan Gailey and replaced him with Dave Campo. (Gailey is now doing a good job in Buffalo, BTW.)
So General Manager Jerry Jones, who was still in charge of ALL personnel decisions....
....fired Campo and replaced him with Bill Parcells.
Despite winning a couple of Super Bowls with the Giants, and an AFC Championship season with The Patsies, Parcells was unable to do anything with Jerry's Kids in Dallas. There were lots of discussions about "They want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries." Some former Parcells players got signed, and Parcells had some small authority over the team.
From 2003 through 2006, the Dallas Cowboys went 10-6, 6-10, 9-7, and 9-7. They didn't win any playoff games.
(It was at the beginning of the Parcells era that I discovered that God hates Jerry Jones, and I started making a small fortune betting against Dallas. That has nothing to do with the matter at hand. I wasn't worth a crap at left guard at North Sunflower Academy, but I can tell who God doesn't like.)
Parcells retired.
Then Cowboys General Manager Jerry Jones, who hadn't won a playoff game since 1996....
...thought that he could improve the situation by bringing in Wade Phillips.
The first year, 2007, it almost worked. The Boys went 13-3, but didn't win a playoff game.
The next year, they went 9-7, but didn't make the playoffs.
In 2009/2010, perhaps to illustrate the old proverb that "even a blind hog can sometimes find an acorn", Jerry's draftees went 11-5, and beat the Philadelphia Eagles in a playoff game. The curse was lifted.
The next week Minnesota beat the tar out of them 34-3.
And on and on and on. Then Jerry Jones, the worst G.M. of the last 17 years....
fired Wade and promoted in Jason Garrett on 11-8-2010. Garrett is something like 16-17 since his promotion.
Jerry's Kids barely beat a pitiful Cleveland team last week, and just got their asses handed to them by lowly Washington in front of a national Thanksgiving audience.
Jerry Jones, the Cowboy's General Manager has fired the following Dallas Cowboys Head Coaches: All of them but Garrett.
Once more for Google.... Who are the coashes that Jerry Jones has fired? They are Tom Landy, Jimmy Johnson, Barry Switzer, Chan Gailey, Dave Campo, Bill Parcells (resignation), Wade Phillips, and (soon) Jason Garrett.
It's impossible for an owner who cares to go for 16 years without more playoff wins than one. It cannot happen. The way NFL parity works is that you get higher draft picks and an easier schedule if your team is a loser. What we've seen simply cannot happen.
That's where God comes in.
Jerry Jones and the city of Arlington have taken people's homes by force, bulldozed them, and built the greatest sports facility on this planet on the site of their theft. All to host this mess. That was like tearing down the Taj Mahal to put up a movie theatre that only shows "Sex And The City".
Here's the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel, speaking out on the subject of Jerry, The Cowboys, and Arlington:
Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
I don't think there are any Eagles, Redskins, Giants, or Packers fans who could've said it any better.
So what do we do?
Here is a purification ritual that Jerry could undergo. This comes from the Holman Bible Dictionary.
A cleansing agent (to atone for sin) was required: water, blood, or fire (Numbers 31:23). Water, the most common purifying agent, symbolized cleansing and was used in the rituals related to a waiting period. The person was to wash the clothes and bathe the body (Leviticus 15:7). Blood was used to cleanse the altar and the holy place (Leviticus 16:14-19). It was mixed with other ingredients for cleansing from leprosy (Leviticus 14:1) and contact with the dead (Numbers 19:1).
The final element of the ritual of purification is sacrifice. Purification from discharges required two pigeons or turtledoves, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering (Leviticus 15:14-15,Leviticus 15:29-30). A lamb and pigeon or turtledove were offered after childbirth (Leviticus 12:6). Sacrifice in the purification ritual for lepers was quite complicated, indicating the seriousness of leprosy as a cause of impurity (Leviticus 14:1). The priest also touched the person's extremities with blood from the offering and with oil, cleansing and life-renewing agents. The poor were allowed to substitute less valuable animals for use in their sacrifices.
To cut to the chase: If we're ever going to have a succesful NFL franchise in Tarrant County, Jerry Jones must strip down to his skivvies, wash one of his suits on the 50-yard line of his gaudy Temple Of Baal, mop the field with the blood of Jason Garrett, and perform a ritual sacrifice by slaughtering some of his worst draft picks in the City Of Arlington's luxury suite.
That should do it.
But what about all the little people, Jerry's victims, the refugees who were dispossesed by Eminent Domain ?
Once again, let's see what the Holy Scriptures have to say:
Leviticus 6: 1-7 : "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt... "
It's fairly simple, isn't it? Jerry and Arlington must determine the current value of the stadium, the parking lot, the team, along with the value of having God on their side. They must give that amount of money, plus 1/5th, to the people they stole the land from.
Until that happens, we will labor under an Old Testament curse.
You have violated the decrees of God, Jerry Jones. And you....will....atone....
Sunday, January 1, 2012
New York Giants 31, Dallas Cowboys 14
God hates Jerry Jones.
The Dallas Cowboys just lost to the New York Giants 31-14.
The Dallas Cowboys, America's Team, God's Team, and one of the teams picked to go to the Super Bowl this year, well, they won't even be going to the playoffs.
They've gotten one playoff win in 15 years.
It is because God hates Jerry.
And that's because Jerry is a freakin' thief.
There is no other way to explain it.
Jerry Jones and the city of Arlington, Texas, stole some houses to build their new stadium, the Temple Of Baal. They used Eminent Domain, and it was all legal. But they're still thieves.
They must atone.
What needs to happen? Well, let's look at some history.
The Cowboys franchise got its start in 1960. Tom Landry was head coach.
When Landry was fired by Jerry Jones, Landry had a career record of 270-178-6. However, Landry (before the start of the 1989 season) had not won a playoff game since 1983. That's five years. It was probably time for a change.
When Jerry Jones purchased the team, he made himself General Manager. He has supposedly been in charge of all personnel decisions since 1989.
Jerry put the great Jimmy Johnson in as head coach. Johnson had been coaching at the University Of Miami, and was familiar with many of the players soon to be drafted by the NFL. We'll never know who made the decisions that led to the Cowboys era of greatness in the 1990's, but my money is on Jimmy.
....appointed Barry Switzer as Cowboys head coach.
Using Jimmy's players, Switzer was able to win a playoff game in 1994, and he won the Super Bowl in 1995.
The Cowboys won a single playoff game in 1996 (a year soon to be known as "the good old days), but went a disappointing 6-10 in 1997.
General Manager Jerry Jones.....
....knew he had to do something after his head coach didn't win a playoff game in 1997. He fired Switzer, and replaced him with Chan Gailey.
Gailey went 10-6 in 1998, and then 8-8 in 1999. He didn't win any playoff games.
So then, Jerry Jones, who was supposedly still making all of the personnel decisions....
...fired Chan Gailey and replaced him with Dave Campo. (Gailey is now doing a good job in Buffalo, BTW.)
Campo was head coach in 2000, 2001, and 2002, and had a won/loss record (respectively) of 5-11, 5-11, and finally, 5-11. No playoff wins.
So General Manager Jerry Jones, who was still in charge of ALL personnel decisions....
....fired Campo and replaced him with Bill Parcells.
Despite winning a couple of Super Bowls with the Giants, and an AFC Championship season with The Patsies, Parcells was unable to do anything with Jerry's Kids in Dallas. There were lots of discussions about "They want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries." Some former Parcells players got signed, and Parcells had some small authority over the team.
From 2003 through 2006, the Dallas Cowboys went 10-6, 6-10, 9-7, and 9-7. They didn't win any playoff games.
(It was at the beginning of the Parcells era that I discovered that God hates Jerry Jones, and I started making a small fortune betting against Dallas. That has nothing to do with the matter at hand. I wasn't worth a crap at left guard at North Sunflower Academy, but I can tell who God doesn't like.)
Parcells retired.
Then Cowboys General Manager Jerry Jones, who hadn't won a playoff game since 1996....
...thought that he could improve the situation by bringing in Wade Phillips.
Maybe Jerry Jones had discovered the source of his problems. Maybe this coach would be the one who could properly use Jerry's draft choices.
It's very simple, folks.
God hates Jerry Jones. The Lord God Jehovah hates Jerry Jones with the white hot passion of a thousand dying suns. And Jerry must atone. Now. Unless he wants to spend another decade with fewer playoff wins than any current NFL General Manager over a 15-yearyear period.
Here's the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel, speaking out on the subject of Jerry, The Cowboys, and Arlington:
Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
I don't think there are any Eagles, Redskins, Giants, or Packers fans who could've said it any better.
So what do we do?
Here is a purification ritual that Jerry could undergo. This comes from the Holman Bible Dictionary.
A cleansing agent (to atone for sin) was required: water, blood, or fire (Numbers 31:23). Water, the most common purifying agent, symbolized cleansing and was used in the rituals related to a waiting period. The person was to wash the clothes and bathe the body (Leviticus 15:7). Blood was used to cleanse the altar and the holy place (Leviticus 16:14-19). It was mixed with other ingredients for cleansing from leprosy (Leviticus 14:1) and contact with the dead (Numbers 19:1).
The final element of the ritual of purification is sacrifice. Purification from discharges required two pigeons or turtledoves, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering (Leviticus 15:14-15,Leviticus 15:29-30). A lamb and pigeon or turtledove were offered after childbirth (Leviticus 12:6). Sacrifice in the purification ritual for lepers was quite complicated, indicating the seriousness of leprosy as a cause of impurity (Leviticus 14:1). The priest also touched the person's extremities with blood from the offering and with oil, cleansing and life-renewing agents. The poor were allowed to substitute less valuable animals for use in their sacrifices.
To cut to the chase: If we're ever going to have a succesful NFL franchise in Tarrant County, Jerry Jones must strip down to his skivvies, wash one of his suits on the 50-yard line of his gaudy Temple Of Baal, mop the field with the blood of Jason Garrett, and perform a ritual sacrifice by slaughtering some of his worst draft picks in the City Of Arlington's luxury suite.
That should do it.
But what about all the little people, Jerry's victims, the refugees who were dispossesed by Eminent Domain ?
Once again, let's see what the Holy Scriptures have to say:
Leviticus 6: 1-7 : "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt... "
It's fairly simple, isn't it? Jerry and Arlington must determine the current value of the stadium, the parking lot, the team, along with the value of having God on their side. They must give that amount of money, plus 1/5th, to the people they stole the land from.
Until that happens, we will labor under an Old Testament curse.
YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE DECREEES OF GOD, JERRY JONES, AND.... YOU.... WILL..... ATONE !!!!!
The Dallas Cowboys just lost to the New York Giants 31-14.
The Dallas Cowboys, America's Team, God's Team, and one of the teams picked to go to the Super Bowl this year, well, they won't even be going to the playoffs.
They've gotten one playoff win in 15 years.
It is because God hates Jerry.
And that's because Jerry is a freakin' thief.
There is no other way to explain it.
Jerry Jones and the city of Arlington, Texas, stole some houses to build their new stadium, the Temple Of Baal. They used Eminent Domain, and it was all legal. But they're still thieves.
They must atone.
What needs to happen? Well, let's look at some history.
The Cowboys franchise got its start in 1960. Tom Landry was head coach.
When Landry was fired by Jerry Jones, Landry had a career record of 270-178-6. However, Landry (before the start of the 1989 season) had not won a playoff game since 1983. That's five years. It was probably time for a change.
When Jerry Jones purchased the team, he made himself General Manager. He has supposedly been in charge of all personnel decisions since 1989.
Jerry put the great Jimmy Johnson in as head coach. Johnson had been coaching at the University Of Miami, and was familiar with many of the players soon to be drafted by the NFL. We'll never know who made the decisions that led to the Cowboys era of greatness in the 1990's, but my money is on Jimmy.
Jimmy Johnson coached his Cowboys to Super Bowl victories in 1992 and 1993. But he couldn't get along with Jerry and left after the 1993 season.
Then General Manager Jerry Jones....The details remain shrouded in a late-night haze, but it seems the trouble started when Jones toasted the Cowboys and was offended when Johnson reciprocated but did not invite Jones to join his table. A few hours later, Johnson alleges, Jones told a group of reporters in a bar that he planned to fire Johnson and replace him with Barry Switzer, an old foe of Johnson's from his college coaching days.
....appointed Barry Switzer as Cowboys head coach.
Using Jimmy's players, Switzer was able to win a playoff game in 1994, and he won the Super Bowl in 1995.
The Cowboys won a single playoff game in 1996 (a year soon to be known as "the good old days), but went a disappointing 6-10 in 1997.
General Manager Jerry Jones.....
....knew he had to do something after his head coach didn't win a playoff game in 1997. He fired Switzer, and replaced him with Chan Gailey.
So then, Jerry Jones, who was supposedly still making all of the personnel decisions....
...fired Chan Gailey and replaced him with Dave Campo. (Gailey is now doing a good job in Buffalo, BTW.)
So General Manager Jerry Jones, who was still in charge of ALL personnel decisions....
....fired Campo and replaced him with Bill Parcells.
Despite winning a couple of Super Bowls with the Giants, and an AFC Championship season with The Patsies, Parcells was unable to do anything with Jerry's Kids in Dallas. There were lots of discussions about "They want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries." Some former Parcells players got signed, and Parcells had some small authority over the team.
From 2003 through 2006, the Dallas Cowboys went 10-6, 6-10, 9-7, and 9-7. They didn't win any playoff games.
(It was at the beginning of the Parcells era that I discovered that God hates Jerry Jones, and I started making a small fortune betting against Dallas. That has nothing to do with the matter at hand. I wasn't worth a crap at left guard at North Sunflower Academy, but I can tell who God doesn't like.)
Parcells retired.
Then Cowboys General Manager Jerry Jones, who hadn't won a playoff game since 1996....
...thought that he could improve the situation by bringing in Wade Phillips.
The first year, 2007, it almost worked. The Boys went 13-3, but didn't win a playoff game.
The next year, they went 9-7, but didn't make the playoffs.
In 2009/2010, perhaps to illustrate the old proverb that "even a blind hog can sometimes find an acorn", Jerry's draftees went 11-5, and beat the Philadelphia Eagles in a playoff game. The curse was lifted.
The next week Minnesota beat the tar out of them 34-3.
This year, the mighty Dallas Cowboys have went 8-8.
Eli and the Giants just handed them their asses, 31-14.
Jerry Jones and the city of Arlington have taken people's homes by force, bulldozed them, and built the greatest sports facility on this planet on the site of their theft. All to host this mess. That was like tearing down the Taj Mahal to put up a movie theatre that only shows "Sex And The City".
That's the history of the Dallas Cowboys coaches and their playoff wins. If current trends continue through this year's playoffs, Jerry's Kids will have won a single playoff game in FIFTEEN years.
Let's hope that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who is a brilliant businessman, can figure out the root cause of his problems.
How could something like this happen?
It's very simple, folks.
God hates Jerry Jones. The Lord God Jehovah hates Jerry Jones with the white hot passion of a thousand dying suns. And Jerry must atone. Now. Unless he wants to spend another decade with fewer playoff wins than any current NFL General Manager over a 15-yearyear period.
Here's the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel, speaking out on the subject of Jerry, The Cowboys, and Arlington:
Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
I don't think there are any Eagles, Redskins, Giants, or Packers fans who could've said it any better.
So what do we do?
Here is a purification ritual that Jerry could undergo. This comes from the Holman Bible Dictionary.
A cleansing agent (to atone for sin) was required: water, blood, or fire (Numbers 31:23). Water, the most common purifying agent, symbolized cleansing and was used in the rituals related to a waiting period. The person was to wash the clothes and bathe the body (Leviticus 15:7). Blood was used to cleanse the altar and the holy place (Leviticus 16:14-19). It was mixed with other ingredients for cleansing from leprosy (Leviticus 14:1) and contact with the dead (Numbers 19:1).
The final element of the ritual of purification is sacrifice. Purification from discharges required two pigeons or turtledoves, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering (Leviticus 15:14-15,Leviticus 15:29-30). A lamb and pigeon or turtledove were offered after childbirth (Leviticus 12:6). Sacrifice in the purification ritual for lepers was quite complicated, indicating the seriousness of leprosy as a cause of impurity (Leviticus 14:1). The priest also touched the person's extremities with blood from the offering and with oil, cleansing and life-renewing agents. The poor were allowed to substitute less valuable animals for use in their sacrifices.
To cut to the chase: If we're ever going to have a succesful NFL franchise in Tarrant County, Jerry Jones must strip down to his skivvies, wash one of his suits on the 50-yard line of his gaudy Temple Of Baal, mop the field with the blood of Jason Garrett, and perform a ritual sacrifice by slaughtering some of his worst draft picks in the City Of Arlington's luxury suite.
That should do it.
But what about all the little people, Jerry's victims, the refugees who were dispossesed by Eminent Domain ?
Once again, let's see what the Holy Scriptures have to say:
Leviticus 6: 1-7 : "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt... "
It's fairly simple, isn't it? Jerry and Arlington must determine the current value of the stadium, the parking lot, the team, along with the value of having God on their side. They must give that amount of money, plus 1/5th, to the people they stole the land from.
Until that happens, we will labor under an Old Testament curse.
YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE DECREEES OF GOD, JERRY JONES, AND.... YOU.... WILL..... ATONE !!!!!
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
"At the twilight's last reaming"
Most people secretly want their enemies to crash and burn.
Then there's taking it too far by wanting to dance on their graves.
That's kind of how I feel this morning. I've been whining and griping and moaning about Jerry Jones and the City of Arlington stealing land for stadiums for a long, long time. I'm going to say it. I feel sorry for Jerry Jones. Lord have mercy, what a mess.
A few days before the Super Bowl, I posted pics of the disastrous weather, the unlikely rolling power blackouts, and all the other signs that Jerry and Arlington were sinners in the hands of an angry God.
I suggested some purifying rituals that Jerry could undergo. He apparently did none of them.
Here's the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on the game day meltdowns. Or lack of melting. Whatever:
The NFL offered 'em seats in the media area, out in the parking lot, in a bar someplace, merchandise, a chance to go onto the field after the game, 3 times the purchase price of their tickets, and a free ticket to next year's Super Bowl. Yeah. Green Bay and Pittsburgh fans are totally pumped about a chance to go see Tampa Bay and Arizona next year.
For the sadists among you, here's some video of pissed off fans chanting "Jerry Sucks". Can you imagine flying or driving from Green Bay or Pittsburgh, having paid 3K to a scalper for a ticket, and being told "Oh, your seat isn't built yet"? It....Got....Ugly....
Bill Lively eventually offered up this classic line:
"I don't think it will be harder next time," he said, "when you consider that we were laboring under the deepest recession in 70 years."
I think Mr. Lively has seen too many of Mr. Obama's press conferences.
Here's The Startlegram on the seat problem....
I've heard Willie Nelson and Roseanne Barr botch the anthem, but they weren't laboring under the Jerry Jones Eminent Domain curse. Aguilera left out lines, doubled up on others, and left us with the classic line "At the twilight's last reaming".
So, one last time before next year's football diasters start to fall on the heads of Jerry Jones, The City of Arlington, and the Dallas Cowboys....
God doesn't like it when you steal somebody's land for a football stadium.
Then there's taking it too far by wanting to dance on their graves.
That's kind of how I feel this morning. I've been whining and griping and moaning about Jerry Jones and the City of Arlington stealing land for stadiums for a long, long time. I'm going to say it. I feel sorry for Jerry Jones. Lord have mercy, what a mess.
A few days before the Super Bowl, I posted pics of the disastrous weather, the unlikely rolling power blackouts, and all the other signs that Jerry and Arlington were sinners in the hands of an angry God.
I suggested some purifying rituals that Jerry could undergo. He apparently did none of them.
Here's the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on the game day meltdowns. Or lack of melting. Whatever:
These weren't the text messages, phone calls and e-mails that Bill Lively had envisioned.People waited outside for three freakin' hours to get inside of The Debt Star. According to DFW talk radio, cops were instructed that if anyone left their place in line to go to the restroom, they had to go to the back of the line. Half the gates were shut down because of ice overhanging the Dome Of The Wreck. 1200 people had no seats.
On Monday, the president of the Super Bowl Host Committee and his staff expected to revel in the afterglow of the region's first Super Bowl, which they had promised would be the "the biggest and best" ever. Instead, they found themselves among several entities facing a barrage of questions about what went wrong and who was to blame.
After more than 31/2 years of work and with a well-choreographed plan that was praised by National Football League officials, the Host Committee is under fire for a series of events that were out of its control during Super Bowl week.
For his part, Lively said he would essentially use the same approach, with a few refinements, when the region makes its next Super Bowl bid.
"The stadium is a great venue and it will get us another Super Bowl, whether it is 50, 51 or 53," he said.
Problems at Cowboys Stadium on Super Sunday and unexpected bad weather in the days leading up to the game have called that faith into question.
The biggest single-day event in the country once again set a record for the most-watched TV program of all time.
But a number of the 103,219 people in attendance Sunday might be wishing they had stayed home to watch. About 1,200 fans had to be moved just hours before kickoff because temporary seats in the end zone and on the main concourse were completed too late and judged unsafe.
And ice and snow on the giant domed roof prompted closure of some stadium gates, creating long delays for fans trying to enter. Six people were injured by falling ice on Friday. Even Lively felt the pain, waiting for two hours to get inside, a member of his staff said.
The NFL offered 'em seats in the media area, out in the parking lot, in a bar someplace, merchandise, a chance to go onto the field after the game, 3 times the purchase price of their tickets, and a free ticket to next year's Super Bowl. Yeah. Green Bay and Pittsburgh fans are totally pumped about a chance to go see Tampa Bay and Arizona next year.
For the sadists among you, here's some video of pissed off fans chanting "Jerry Sucks". Can you imagine flying or driving from Green Bay or Pittsburgh, having paid 3K to a scalper for a ticket, and being told "Oh, your seat isn't built yet"? It....Got....Ugly....
Bill Lively eventually offered up this classic line:
"I don't think it will be harder next time," he said, "when you consider that we were laboring under the deepest recession in 70 years."
I think Mr. Lively has seen too many of Mr. Obama's press conferences.
Here's The Startlegram on the seat problem....
Several days before the Super Bowl, the National Football League, the Dallas Cowboys and the city of Arlington knew that the installation of about 15,000 temporary seats was behind schedule, but they still believed that the seats would be finished in time.And then there was the national anthem.....Christina Aguilera has more talent in her little finger than most of us have in our entire 210-pound selves. She has been on stage since she got out of diapers.
Some of the bleacher seats were deemed dangerous and placed off limits during the game. On Monday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league will not only refund affected fans $2,400 per ticket but also invite them to next year's Super Bowl in Indianapolis.
"There were some very unhappy fans, but people went home safe," said Arlington Fire Chief Don Crowson said. "That is what matters to us."
Arlington fire inspectors had been monitoring the installation of the vertical metal bleachers for at least two weeks before the game, he said, and there was a concern that their completion "was going to be close." Contractors were working on the stands, set up in the end zones and along the main concourse, through the afternoon of game day.
But time ran out.
At about 2 p.m. Sunday, Crowson said he told the NFL that about 500 bleacher seats in the west end zone were not going to open. The staircases leading up to sections 425A and 430A, at either end of the stand and about 30 feet tall, didn't have guardrails and handrails as required.
"We were hopeful work would be completed, but it was not," Crowson said. "When it became apparent the stairs were not going to be completed, we told the NFL those seats were not going to be in use."
The NFL and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones wanted to break the Super Bowl attendance mark of 103,985, set in 1980 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. In the end, they fell short with a crowd of 103,219.
I've heard Willie Nelson and Roseanne Barr botch the anthem, but they weren't laboring under the Jerry Jones Eminent Domain curse. Aguilera left out lines, doubled up on others, and left us with the classic line "At the twilight's last reaming".
So, one last time before next year's football diasters start to fall on the heads of Jerry Jones, The City of Arlington, and the Dallas Cowboys....
God doesn't like it when you steal somebody's land for a football stadium.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
An explanation of Arlington's Super Bowl weather disaster
I don't believe that God intervenes in human activity, or anything else.
There are only three exceptions to this rule:
1) My blackjack games
2) My football bets
3) The life and works of Jerry Jones
Let's concentrate on #3. Jerry Jones and the City Of Arlington conspired to steal some peoples' houses, bulldoze them, and build a Pharaonic Pyramid of a football stadium on the site of the theft.
It was all legal, done within the realm of Eminent Domain, and at least 51% of Arlington voters voted in favor of the theft.
You can hit the Jerry Jones or Eminent Domain tags at the bottom of this post to read some older rants on the subject.
Tomorrow's Super Bowl was supposed to be a week-long celebration of the crime, seven days of partying to reward the many who voted to rob the few. Million-dollar parties, Concerts. Swarms of media.
Full Disclosure: My employer, Jukt Micronics, got a contract to build the ESPN booth that they're using in downtown Fort Worth. Nice piece of work, but it's generally been too cold for ESPN to use it.
But what has happened? We've had ice storms, sleet, and snow. The power companies have had to implement a rolling blackout system for businesses, warehouses, manufacturers and some residences. Traffic has slowed to a crawl. Or no crawl at all, because everyone has stayed home all week. We don't do snow very well.
DFW airport and Love Field have had to operate at a limited capacity when they could operate at all.
Downtown Fort Worth was supposed to have crowds rivaling Disneyworld. On my one trip downtown I saw a few drunken Cheeseheads wandering around, Wisconsinites who know how to deal with this kind of weather. That was it.
And then, this happened:
As for the economic impact of the disastrous weather? Go here for ABC's evaluation of it. We've got hotel cancellations left and right, retailers shuttered, and restaurants operating at 10% of capacity. The national media is gleefully mocking Arlington's lack of preparedness for this kind of weather. Especially the reporters who have been told by the NFL that their cities (Denver, Seattle, Detroit) aren't good Super Bowl locations because of their....weather.
How could something like this happen? I mean, what are the freakin' odds?
It's very simple, folks.
God hates Jerry Jones. The Lord God Jehovah hates Jerry Jones with the white hot passion of a thousand dying suns. And Jerry must atone. Now. Unless he wants to spend another decade with fewer playoff wins than any current NFL General Manager over a ten year period.
Here's the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel, speaking out on the subject of Jerry, The Cowboys, and Arlington:
So what do we do?
Here is a purification ritual that Jerry could undergo. This comes from the Holman Bible Dictionary.
That should do it.
But what about all the little people, Jerry's victims, the refugees who were dispossesed by Eminent Domain ?
Once again, let's see what the Holy Scriptures have to say:
It's fairly simple, isn't it? Jerry and Arlington must determine the current value of the stadium, the parking lot, the team, along with the value of having God on their side. They must give that amount of money, plus 1/5th, to the people they stole the land from.
Until that happens, we will labor under an Old Testament curse.
YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE DECREEES OF GOD, JERRY JONES, AND.... YOU.... WILL..... ATONE !!!!!
There are only three exceptions to this rule:
1) My blackjack games
2) My football bets
3) The life and works of Jerry Jones
Let's concentrate on #3. Jerry Jones and the City Of Arlington conspired to steal some peoples' houses, bulldoze them, and build a Pharaonic Pyramid of a football stadium on the site of the theft.
It was all legal, done within the realm of Eminent Domain, and at least 51% of Arlington voters voted in favor of the theft.
You can hit the Jerry Jones or Eminent Domain tags at the bottom of this post to read some older rants on the subject.
Tomorrow's Super Bowl was supposed to be a week-long celebration of the crime, seven days of partying to reward the many who voted to rob the few. Million-dollar parties, Concerts. Swarms of media.
Full Disclosure: My employer, Jukt Micronics, got a contract to build the ESPN booth that they're using in downtown Fort Worth. Nice piece of work, but it's generally been too cold for ESPN to use it.
But what has happened? We've had ice storms, sleet, and snow. The power companies have had to implement a rolling blackout system for businesses, warehouses, manufacturers and some residences. Traffic has slowed to a crawl. Or no crawl at all, because everyone has stayed home all week. We don't do snow very well.
DFW airport and Love Field have had to operate at a limited capacity when they could operate at all.
Downtown Fort Worth was supposed to have crowds rivaling Disneyworld. On my one trip downtown I saw a few drunken Cheeseheads wandering around, Wisconsinites who know how to deal with this kind of weather. That was it.
And then, this happened:
As bowling ball-size chunks of ice fell on him from the roof of Cowboys Stadium on Friday afternoon, Win McNamee said he didn’t think he would survive.Lord have mercy, what a mess. And why do I think that it isn't over yet?
“Honestly, while it was hitting me, I was thinking I’m going to die here,” McNamee said. “It was pretty frightening.”
McNamee, a veteran photographer who works for Getty Images, was one of six people injured by falling ice outside the site of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLV in Arlington. He broke his left shoulder in four places and was planning to fly home to Washington, D.C., on Saturday and undergo surgery soon.
None of the other injuries were thought to be life-threatening, authorities said. One person remained hospitalized in stable condition Friday evening, officials said.
As for the economic impact of the disastrous weather? Go here for ABC's evaluation of it. We've got hotel cancellations left and right, retailers shuttered, and restaurants operating at 10% of capacity. The national media is gleefully mocking Arlington's lack of preparedness for this kind of weather. Especially the reporters who have been told by the NFL that their cities (Denver, Seattle, Detroit) aren't good Super Bowl locations because of their....weather.
How could something like this happen? I mean, what are the freakin' odds?
It's very simple, folks.
God hates Jerry Jones. The Lord God Jehovah hates Jerry Jones with the white hot passion of a thousand dying suns. And Jerry must atone. Now. Unless he wants to spend another decade with fewer playoff wins than any current NFL General Manager over a ten year period.
Here's the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel, speaking out on the subject of Jerry, The Cowboys, and Arlington:
Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.I don't think there are any Eagles, Redskins, Giants, or Packers fans who could've said it any better.
Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
So what do we do?
Here is a purification ritual that Jerry could undergo. This comes from the Holman Bible Dictionary.
A cleansing agent (to atone for sin) was required: water, blood, or fire (Numbers 31:23). Water, the most common purifying agent, symbolized cleansing and was used in the rituals related to a waiting period. The person was to wash the clothes and bathe the body (Leviticus 15:7). Blood was used to cleanse the altar and the holy place (Leviticus 16:14-19). It was mixed with other ingredients for cleansing from leprosy (Leviticus 14:1) and contact with the dead (Numbers 19:1).To cut to the chase: If we're ever going to have a succesful NFL franchise in Tarrant County, Jerry Jones must strip down to his skivvies, wash one of his suits on the 50-yard line of his gaudy Temple Of Baal, mop the field with the blood of Wade Phillips, and perform a ritual sacrifice by slaughtering some of his worst draft picks in the City Of Arlington's luxury suite.
The final element of the ritual of purification is sacrifice. Purification from discharges required two pigeons or turtledoves, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering (Leviticus 15:14-15,Leviticus 15:29-30). A lamb and pigeon or turtledove were offered after childbirth (Leviticus 12:6). Sacrifice in the purification ritual for lepers was quite complicated, indicating the seriousness of leprosy as a cause of impurity (Leviticus 14:1). The priest also touched the person's extremities with blood from the offering and with oil, cleansing and life-renewing agents. The poor were allowed to substitute less valuable animals for use in their sacrifices.
That should do it.
But what about all the little people, Jerry's victims, the refugees who were dispossesed by Eminent Domain ?
Once again, let's see what the Holy Scriptures have to say:
Leviticus 6: 1-7 : "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt. ... "
It's fairly simple, isn't it? Jerry and Arlington must determine the current value of the stadium, the parking lot, the team, along with the value of having God on their side. They must give that amount of money, plus 1/5th, to the people they stole the land from.
Until that happens, we will labor under an Old Testament curse.
YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE DECREEES OF GOD, JERRY JONES, AND.... YOU.... WILL..... ATONE !!!!!
Friday, October 15, 2010
A Prayer For The Texas Rangers
Dear God,
I know that I am a sinner.
I have no business asking you for anything.
One of my earliest blog entries was based on a pun on the name of your servant, Oral Roberts. I called it something funny just to get a lot of hits. It's still getting them.
Anyway, I'm sorry. Please hear my prayer, and I'll delete it.
Tonight, The Texas Rangers will face the despicable New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series.
The Yankees have won the World Series 27 times. Until we put away The Devil Rays a few days ago, we'd only won one playoff game. Ever.
The Yankees have had Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Reggie Jackson, Billy Martin, and Mickey Mantle on their roster.
The Rangers once had Mississippi taxidermist Ned Yost.
I know that the Ballpark in Arlington is built on stolen land. I know that George W. Bush threatened to pull the team out of Arlington unless he got a sales tax increase and a $205,000,000.00 subsidy. I know he bought the team for $86,000,000.00 and then turned around and sold it for $250,000,000.00 I know that he never properly thanked the taxpayers.
But the Yankees are worse. They've won it all so many times that they now personify evil.
Anyway, I'm not asking for much, God. It just wouldn't be right. We are all sinners, but can't you agree that some teams are worse than others? I mean, seriously....
I'm not going to ask for a victory over the Yankees in the ALCS, and I wouldn't dream of asking for the Rangers to win it all.
But is there any way you could arrange for Josh Hamilton to hit the game-winning RBI in World Series game seven? That wouldn't be asking for too much, would it?
The pictures of typical Yankee fans came from here. The picture of She Whose Name Is Not Spoken came from here.
I know that I am a sinner.
I have no business asking you for anything.
One of my earliest blog entries was based on a pun on the name of your servant, Oral Roberts. I called it something funny just to get a lot of hits. It's still getting them.
Anyway, I'm sorry. Please hear my prayer, and I'll delete it.
Tonight, The Texas Rangers will face the despicable New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series.
The Yankees have had Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Reggie Jackson, Billy Martin, and Mickey Mantle on their roster.
The Rangers once had Mississippi taxidermist Ned Yost.
I know that the Ballpark in Arlington is built on stolen land. I know that George W. Bush threatened to pull the team out of Arlington unless he got a sales tax increase and a $205,000,000.00 subsidy. I know he bought the team for $86,000,000.00 and then turned around and sold it for $250,000,000.00 I know that he never properly thanked the taxpayers.
But the Yankees are worse. They've won it all so many times that they now personify evil.
I know that when Major League Baseball had their last big strike/lockout about 15 years ago, and I had to lay off about half the staff of my close-to-the-ballpark retail store as a result, I swore I would never again care about this silly game. I know. I know.
This is about The New York Freakin' Yankees. All God-Fearing people in this great Republic hate The New York Freakin' Yankees.
But is there any way you could arrange for Josh Hamilton to hit the game-winning RBI in World Series game seven? That wouldn't be asking for too much, would it?
The pictures of typical Yankee fans came from here. The picture of She Whose Name Is Not Spoken came from here.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
A note from "Organizing For America" on the meaning of the Massachusetts election
During last year's election unpleasantness, I signed up for every presidential candidate's email list.
This is what Mitch Stewart, one of the Hope'n'Change folks at BarackObama.com sent me this morning. All commentary in italics is mine.
Whited,
--Yesterday's disappointing election results show deep discontent with the pace of change. I know the OFA (Organizing for America) community and the President share that frustration.
Remember reading about the crowd in Italy that shot Mussolini and his mistress, and hung them up by their heels in front of a gas station? Here's how Mitch Stewart of Organizing For America would've written the headline:
"ITALIAN CITIZENS SHOW DEEP DISCONTENT WITH FASCISTS' PACE OF CHANGE"
We also saw what we knew to be true all along: Any change worth making is hard and will be fought at every turn.
But what about the changes that aren't worth making? The unbelievable comments I see on my Statist friends' blogs and Facebook pages can be boiled down to one comment: "So we're supposed to sit back and do nothing?"
No. We could allow insurance companies to compete in any state they choose. We could have a medical malpractice reform bill written by someone other than trial lawyers. We could do all of this stuff. We could ask ourselves why the infamous Big Pharma and Big Insurance lobbyists were pushing so hard for this bill.
But there really is something worse than doing nothing, and Massachusetts rejected it.
While it doesn't take away the sting of this loss, there is no road to real change without setbacks along the way.
And may your road to real change be crowded with roadblocks, potholes, speed traps, detours, flat tires, radiator problems, psycho-libertarians with gun racks in their pickup trucks, faulty road maps, highway patrolmen who have to meet a quota, construction crews, complicated New Mexico fuel taxes, and may you have 4 kids in your back seat with a McDonald's at every exit. May the Texas Department Of Transportation crawl up your ass and pitch a tent and regulate your every move. May your road to the changes you envison have no end. May you get further and further from home while getting no closer to anything like a destination. May you wander homeless for the rest of your days.
There. I feel better now.
We could have simply sought to do things that were easy, that wouldn't stir up controversy.
But changes that aren't controversial rarely solve the problem.
Our country continues to face the same fundamental challenges it faced yesterday. Our health care system still needs reform.
May I politely suggest one more time that you go here and read this proposal for healthcare "reform"? It would cut costs in half. It does has one glaring defect: there's virtually no room for graft, kickbacks, rent-seeking, or corruption. None of it will ever be implemented.
Wall Street still needs to be held accountable.
Agreed. So when are you going to stop giving them our money? Is there a timeline in place?
We still need to create good jobs.
No. You. Don't. You can't. You need to get out of the way and stop punishing entrepreneurs so good jobs can be created. You're confusing the roles of the quarterbacks and the cheerleaders.
And we still need to continue building a clean energy economy.
The President isn't walking away from these challenges. In fact, his determination and resolve are only stronger. We must match that commitment with our own.
But Jim Webb and Evan Bay and Blanche Lincoln are already back-pedaling like circus monkeys. Have they gotten this email?
But it won't be easy. Real change never is. For that reason, I am grateful you're part of this fight with us.
Thank you,
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
I'm still trying to get over someone interpreting yesterday's slapdown as a sign of discontent with the pace of change. Does anyone out there buy it? Anybody? Anywhere?
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Minnesota Vikings 34, Dallas Cowboys 3
Jerry Jones' #9 stopped working again.
Lord have mercy, what a whoopin'.
So here's the question. The Cowboys, until last week's Philadelphia game, hadn't had a playoff victory since 1996.
Philadelphia hadn't beaten a team with a winning record all year long.
Brett Favre and company just showed the world that the Cowboys aren't really a playoff team.
If you get your rear end handed to you by a team with a 40-year-old quarterback, and I'm talking a THIRTY FOUR TO THREE blowout, does the Philadelphia wildcard game really count as an end to the Jerry Jones/Eminent Domain curse?
Lord have mercy, what a whoopin'.
So here's the question. The Cowboys, until last week's Philadelphia game, hadn't had a playoff victory since 1996.
Philadelphia hadn't beaten a team with a winning record all year long.
Brett Favre and company just showed the world that the Cowboys aren't really a playoff team.
If you get your rear end handed to you by a team with a 40-year-old quarterback, and I'm talking a THIRTY FOUR TO THREE blowout, does the Philadelphia wildcard game really count as an end to the Jerry Jones/Eminent Domain curse?
But enough about Jerry Jones' inability to put together a winner. (Hit the link above. Jimmy Johnson gets full credit for putting together the teams that won the Jones era superbowls.)
Like everyone else from Drew, Mississippi, I've been a fan of the New Orleans Saints since 1971. That's the year that New Orleans drafted Drew native Archie Manning. We've had some long, dry years. This could be the Saints' year, right?
But wait, it gets complicated. Archie and Olivia Manning had some babies. Cooper, Peyton, and Eli. Cooper can't play football any more because of a bad back. Eli is quarterback for the New York Giants. Peyton is quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. I always have to root for the Giants and Colts because of the Mississippi roots thing, right?
Let's change gears one more time. I've followed Brett Favre ever since he led the University Of Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles to beat the snot out of Florida State, against all odds, sometime in the late 80's. (Two of my siblings went to Southern Miss.) I love me some Brett Favre, even if he's now jumping from team to team like a madman.
Mrs. Sepulchre, who has forgotten more about football than I'll ever know, has been a fanatical New York Jets fan ever since the Joe Namath era. For birthdays, I've occasionally given her bouquet/gift baskets made of New York Jets merchandise and propaganda. Unlike the Saints fans, Mrs. Sepulchre has seen her team win a Super Bowl. In 1969.
Here's my nightmare scenario.... Archie Manning's Saints, Peyton Manning's Colts, and Brett Favre's Vikings will be in the NFC and AFC championship games next week. While I'm typing this, Mrs. Sepulchre's New York Jets are playing San Diego for the remaining spot in next week's games.
ALL OF OUR TEAMS MIGHT BE PLAYING EACH OTHER IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES.
Can it get any worse?
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Dallas Cowboys 24, New York Giants 31 - December is the cruelest month
Without nearly enough apologies to the works of T.S. Eliot....
December is the cruelest month, breeding
Defeats out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Fumbles in the Meadowlands.
Autumn kept us warm, covering
Earth with easy wins over lowly Oakland, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Eli surprised us, coming over the top
With a shower of passes; though we stopped not one,
Romo and Whitten set records; into the end zone
Giants returned punts, and treated us like losers.
LET us go then, you and I,
When the stadium is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through Arlington's half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of bulldozed houses near one-night cheap hotels
And bad chain restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question …
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.
In the room libertarians complain
Cursing both Jerry, and Eminent Domain.
The yellow curse that rubs its back upon the uniforms,
The yellow December curse that rubs its muzzle on the gray and blue uniforms,
Licked its tongue into the corners of the end zone,
Lingered upon the Cowboy drives that failed to move the chains,
Let fall upon its back the hopes that falls from gullible fans,
Slipped by the defense, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft December night,
Curled again about the Meadowlands, and fell asleep.
We'll soon see New Orleans riding Brees-ward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water gold and black.
We will linger in the Dome of the damned,
By cheerleaders wreathed with fabric gold and brown
Till the ref whistles wake us, and we drown.
And I have known the eyes already, known them all,
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To explain the theft of land and homes?
And how should I go on?
December is the cruelest month, breeding
Defeats out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Fumbles in the Meadowlands.
Autumn kept us warm, covering
Earth with easy wins over lowly Oakland, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Eli surprised us, coming over the top
With a shower of passes; though we stopped not one,
Romo and Whitten set records; into the end zone
Giants returned punts, and treated us like losers.
LET us go then, you and I,
When the stadium is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through Arlington's half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of bulldozed houses near one-night cheap hotels
And bad chain restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question …
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.
In the room libertarians complain
Cursing both Jerry, and Eminent Domain.
The yellow curse that rubs its back upon the uniforms,
The yellow December curse that rubs its muzzle on the gray and blue uniforms,
Licked its tongue into the corners of the end zone,
Lingered upon the Cowboy drives that failed to move the chains,
Let fall upon its back the hopes that falls from gullible fans,
Slipped by the defense, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft December night,
Curled again about the Meadowlands, and fell asleep.
We'll soon see New Orleans riding Brees-ward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water gold and black.
We will linger in the Dome of the damned,
By cheerleaders wreathed with fabric gold and brown
Till the ref whistles wake us, and we drown.
And I have known the eyes already, known them all,
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To explain the theft of land and homes?
And how should I go on?
For I will show you fear, fear in a handful of dust....
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
The Dallas Cowboys and the instruments of God's wrath - The Philadelphia Eagles
As predicted, there was a problem with #9 on Sunday. Hit this link and come back to me.I feel like the Prophet Isaiah. Or at least a Vegas odds-maker. Tony Romo, #9 for The Dallas Cowboys, had the worst game I can remember from a Dallas quarterback since the Ryan Leaf experiment. The Cowboys, at one point early in the season, were favored to go to the freakin' Super Bowl. Now they won't even be in the playoffs. They got spanked by the Philadelphia Eagles, 44-6.
Every year, I have a wager with a co-worker that the Cowboys won't win a playoff game. They never, ever do. I always eat well in January, because of all that extra money.
Why won't they win a playoff game? (Do you know what the difference is between God and Jerry Jones? God doesn't think that he's Jerry Jones.)
God doesn't like Cowboys owner/General Manager Jerry Jones.
There's no other way to explain it. How else do you explain the Romo Butterfingers on the field goal two years ago, the total meltdowns every December, or the masterpiece that Philly's Donovan McNabb put together last Sunday?
Jerry Jones and the City of Arlington have seized/stolen/taken houses and business via Eminent Domain. They've used the bulldozed space to start construction of a temple in honor of a team that is now 0-12 in the last dozen years' worth of playoff games.
As long as Jones is owner and General Manager, they're not going to win a playoff game. More than anything else, Jones wants to be known as a football X's and O's guy.
But he's not.
Jerry Jones is a brilliant businessman but a crappy evaluator of football talent and team chemistry. He needs to turn the G.M. responsibilities over to someone who doesn't labor under an Old Testament curse. (I work in the shipping, logistics, and freight industry, and that qualifies me to comment on these things.)
Those early Super Bowl wins were because of a team put together by coach Jimmy Johnson. Deal with it.
(Full disclosure: I loved the Johnson era Cowboys, and thought that Jimmy's "Turning The Thing Around" was the best sports-as-metaphor-for-life book I'd ever read.)
Jones fired Johnson because of nothing but ego.
Is there any other franchise in baseball, football, basketball or hockey whose G.M. has gone 12 years without a playoff victory? (Maybe Al Davis, the owner/G.M. of the Oakland Raiders?) Somebody help us out on this....
Next year, the citizens of Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington Texas will be able to watch an even crappier team, but with the luxury of nicer toilets.
Hardly an even trade-off.
Jerry Jones, you have taken what was not yours. You will atone. God is not mocked.
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