Pro football super genius...

It’s not easy being right all the time!

Go back and read the Facebook posts. 

Go back and listen to the radio shows.

Yours truly has been saying since DAY ONE that Byron Leftwhich was a mistake waiting to happen.  That Charlie Batch should be left of the bench and Dixon started.  My logic was that Dixon best has the skills to escape if things got dicey AND you want the experienced guy coming off the bench cold instead of doing it the other way around.

So Batch made me look like a genius again!  LOL!

The Steelers are 3-0 with a home game coming up against Flaccoverde.  4-0 is not out of the question!

One, small complaint.  (And I know the talking heads on radio and television say we as fans are not allowed to complain after a win, but please amuse me for a second.)  Why in the name of all that is good and green, with a third and two inside the 20 with a huge lead did Bruce Arians go with an empty backfield pass?!?!  It’s those kinds of boneheaded calls that frustrate the heck out of the fans!  He calls a well executed game and then gets this giant brain fart just to try and play and see if it works!

Anyway…the team is really gelling right now.  Ben comes back in one week and has two weeks to prep for the game at home against Cleveland.  Barring injury this team is on a mission that it will not be denied from finishing!

Elsewhere around the NFL:

The Bengals like to refer to T.O. and Ochocinco as “Batman and Robin”…but they are looking more like Abbott and Costello.  Through three games they have a combined 389 yards receiving and ONE touchdown.  Of course it doesn’t help that the starting QB has a 71.3 QB rating.  The fans in Cincinnati should be on their knees every night praying Defense Coach Zimmer doesn’t bolt for a head coaching job at the end of the season.  He’s the only thing keeping that team together right now.

The Raven beat the Browns.  No surprise there as the game was in Baltimore too, but the final spread of seven points was way too small.  Cleveland has been playing better this year, but if the Ravens can’t beat up on them at home what chance will they have coming in to Pittsburgh next week?  Its same old, same old.  Defense is playing well but the offense is just offensive.

Dallas finally won a game and Houston finally came back down to earth.  Don’t look for either trend to continue next week.

Atlanta beat the Saints in the Superdome in OT in big part due to a missed field goal by the Saints.  Matt Ryan is going to be a force, but the Saints comeback (even with the loss) just shows how dangerous they are now.  All he pressure of being the Champions is off now along with any talk of a 9-0 start like last season.  Better to lose this one then the last one of the season.

The Vikings finally remembered they have a great running back and had the good fortune of playing the Lions at the same time!  Detroit is the hard luck team of the league.  Just when they start showing signs of improvement they have their starting QB go down.  Hang in there Lions fans!  There’s always next year!

The Buffalo Bills are not a good football team, yet they put up 30 points on the Patriots…AT Foxboro!  My dislike of Brady and Belichick are well know, but if the “genius” coach doesn’t find a defense soon it will be another one and done if they make the playoffs.

The Ram beat the Redskins.  Read that a second time just to let it sink in.  Maybe Andy Reid was right when he let McNabb go.

The Eagles beat up with Jacksonville with Mike Vick continuing to play out of his head.  I’m in the camp of he never should have been allowed to play in the NFL again, but he certainly has the skill set to do well…until the playoffs.  And just to reinforce my point above about Leftwhich (and because I love taking jabs at him) how bad did he have to be that the Jaguars cut him for Gerard?

The Phillip Rivers Meltdown watch started last night with a close-but-no-cigar loss to the Seahawks.  Carroll must have found some boosters to help the players out in Seattle the way they are playing for him!

The Raiders and Cardinals played in the “Who cares” bowl and the Cards held on when the first round pick kicker for the Raiders shanked one on the last play of the game.

The Chiefs are 3-0!  In what could be the worst division in the AFC (the NFC west is in a neck and neck race with them) they have found a way to win and since they have a bye this week they are guaranteed of being of the last undefeated teams in the NFL after four weeks!

Vince Young got off the psychiatrist couch bench and led the Titans over the Giants.  I sincerely have no idea what is wrong with the Giants unless it’s the poor QB play, porous defense, and bad coaching.

The Jets, one of the top defenses in the league, allowed the Dolphins to throw for 363 yards and score 23 points…but won anyway. 

The Colts beat Denver and in other news the sky is blue and rain is wet.

Tonight the Packers and Bears meet in the oldest rivalry in the NFL with both teams undefeated!

Religion isn't usually multiple choice

Sharron Angle: Rape, Incest Part of God's Plan -- Opposes Abortion No Matter What


Read the article here.


(and h/t to Drudge Retort for the OP)


I wasn't going to share this, as I could give a rat's hairy hiney about Reid or Angle, but there's a glaring mistake in her response:

When she says: "You know, I’m a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives..."

Then she shouldn't have said: "Well, I'm pro-responsible choice. There's choice to abstain, choice to use contraceptives ..."

Er, no.  Can't use condoms or birth control pills or anything really.  Just a calendar and a thermometer.  We teach couples preparing for marriage and contraception is right out.

Too often the "good Christians" pick and choose which parts of Christianity they like.  Can't stand abortion...love the death penalty for example.  


Killing is killing.  


I wish Jesus had made some kind of distinction, but he really kind of wanted us to take it easy on the sinners and love one another.


So how much of a good Christian is she and how much is she playing for votes?

Perfectly Awful...

I suppose by now everyone has heard how this ump blew a call with two outs in the 9th  inning of a baseball game that took away a PERFECT game from Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers. 

The call wasn’t even close.

The runner was out by a good step.

I’d really like to know what was said in the conversation between Ump Jim Joyce and Manager Jim Leyland!

The nice thing about conspiracy theories is that you get to pick and choose the facts that support your theory!

So here’s my theory (that it is).

There have already been not one but TWO perfect games this year in Major League Baseball.  PLUS a no hitter.

Imagine you are running the league.

For the past decade you have been fighting off the rumors that steroids have inflated all the offensive stats.  Several players have admitted to using drugs to enhance their production.  You’ve tried to convince the public that you are doing everything you can to test the players and that the problem is not as bad as the media has made it out to be.

Now you have pitchers just dominating the hitters.

Eventually the whispers will start again that it was all the steroids that caused the big home run numbers.

So if an ump has a chance to stop it with a “close” call…shouldn’t he?  I mean if it had been "suggested"?

Now IF this is what happened MLB STILL managed to screw it up by doing it with two outs in the 9th inning!  LOL!  I didn’t see the game so I have no idea if there was anything else that was that close where they could have made a “bad” call though.

At least the ump came out and faced the media.

But if this doesn’t show how baseball needs some sort of instant replay nothing else does.

The technology is readily available and what’s another five minutes per challenge to a game that gets delayed that long after almost every pitch sometimes!

At the very least that ump needs to be disciplined.  I understand that humans make mistakes, but anything so glaring that EVERYONE knows its wrong needs to be handled differently.  Because now he is going to heitiate when making calls for fear of making such a big blunder again.  Which is why the umps are gainst instant replay…they don’t want to have people second guessing their decisions on the field.  They would rather they be WRONG!

The governor of Michigan has come out in support of Galarraga and the guy took it as well as you can expect, but if anyone wonders why baseball is sinking in popularity they should just look at this one game, one call, and see it.

Of course Commissioner Bud Selig will find a way to screw it up even more probably!

It’s a game that wants to pretend its still nineteen-ought-nine.

That kind of denial you usually only find in Washington….

~ Glenn

Follow the money.

Trinity Sunday is probably the worst time for a born and raised Catholic to post how much he think the Catholic church is deteriorating...but I've never been one to let a moment pass.

The Greensburg Diocese has close a Catholic School in Uniontown, PA.

Now many of you could care less.  The enrollment was around 120 students so its not like the school was bustling with involved families and community support.  However it is just one more sign of the way things are run anymore.

God please forgive me bu I can NOT understand why the church feels it needs to run on a profit all of a sudden!

And it really isn't a *new* thing per se...I've been railing against it for over 20 years now.

When a church gets closed there are always a myriad of reasons given but first and foremost is the lack of priests.

Enrollment in seminaries has dropped over the years and fewer priests mean fewer people to run the individual churches.  So while I may not like it I can understand it.  Although I would argue that perhaps the church could look into alternatives like allowing priests to marry and female priests...but I'm not here to argue theology this morning.

But they always have to take it that one extra step and complain about the COST of keeping the churches open.

The early disciples not only had to deal with people literally killing them for their beliefs but they also traveled great miles to spread the word of God.  And now we are told that one priest can't possibly handle two churches?  Not that I don't feel for the people who would have to do double duty but they DID sign on for the job, ya know?  When our church was closed a few years ago the overriding factor was cost.  Period.  Yes, we shared a priest with another near by church, but that wasn't the reason given.  It was always lack of priests...and cost.

Now, two years later the church isn't even there anymore.


Torn down.

Gone.















And you know how we were told about it?

We weren't.

So what happened to the stain glassed windows?   The organ?  Any of the valuables?

Some of the statues made their way to our current church...but still no one has spoken, in church or in the Catholic Accent, as to WHY the building was torn down.

And now another school has bit the dust.

Parents were apparently not given much notification either.

And it pisses me off.

The Catholic church I grew up with wanted to teach you and spread the word of the Gospel.

Now it wants to make sure the bottom line is black.

And don't bother arguing with me...I've seen enough to be firm on this one.

I don't care if there were TEN students in that school the church could provide an education for them!
(And I am aware that there is another school where the students can go.  That is not he point of this rant.  The point is that the bogus reasons of cost and debt are the wrong reasons to close to the school in my opinion.)

My children attended Catholic school right through this year.  The decision to move them to public school for next year was based on many factors, but one was cost.  The financial aid forms for the grade school is like filing of aid for college!  Facing in tax returns and forms...please.  All in the name of making a buck.

As soon as someone shows me that the Catholic church as a whole is losing money I'll buy the argument.

We're talking about a world wide resource.

And yes they pour great amounts of money and effort in to expanding to new countries and opening the eyes of new Christians...but at what expense in other places?

The philosophy of worrying more about the bottom line while giving lip service to the true calling of the church will only lead to a weakening of the church's base.  Especially here in America.

I still love my church.

I still have my faith.

But I have my doubts about the humans running the church and teaching the faith.

I'm not saying anything new.  People complained during Vatican II that the church was become too secular.  They complained when the mass wasn't held in Latin anymore.

People don't like change.

Well I want change.  Back to when the church cared more about giving than getting.

~ Glenn

Fox News must have horrible video editing equipment!

Like him or not Michael Moore has a point.

Watch the official White House feed:
(Click on the link if the embed code isn't working.)
The relevant part is 10:28-10:38



Now here is the same clip from Fox News:
(Click on the link if the embed code isn't working.)





Odd. The applause is gone. As is the cutaway to the cadets applauding.

Now they may have just been applauding to be polite...but why is it missing from the Fox News video?

I've had sound drop when doing videos before...but I'm not working for a multi-billion dollar organization with the latest equipment.

Must be "user error" 'cause you KNOW they'd never do something like that on purpose!

And when I say "never" I mean they do it all the time.

~ Glenn

Da plane! Da plane!

What?  Oh...wrong tattoo!

Anyway, you think that tat you had your best friend put on your arm in 7th grade is cool?

Check out these!

~ Glenn

Feel good stories for the afternoon!

I know many of us are slaving away at our jobs and that can get you down quickly!

If the weather is bad its just makes it worse...and if the weather is nice you want to be outside instead!

So here's a couple stories to brighten your mood!

-----------------------------------------------------

My question is I wonder if anyone asked her to the prom?

And my mom would check on me every ten minutes when I was just playing in the yard!

Think they'll let him sleep on the bed now?

~ Glenn

Okay LOSTies!  Someone finally has all the answers we've been looking for!

In fact its the best summation of the finale and the previous six seasons that I've seen yet!

In the beginning....

So this is the new blog!

I won't make any promises about the frequency of updates...or the content...or even the quality of the content!  LOL!

However I WILL cover everything I think is important and I always welcome feedback and criticism.  If people never disagreed some things would never change.  And Blackwater would be out of business and still just a cool song by the Doobie Brothers...but I digress.

You can link up and be a follower (of the blog...not me) and if you want your blog or site linked here drop me a line and let me know.  I'm working on the layout still and will be adding a links box in the near future.

So stay tuned...

~ Glenn