Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Where Is Dan Going?

It seems that right after football season we have a new season with an entirely different, though related, sport. It is called Where's Dan Going? Never wanting to miss out on a good thing it seems appropriate to get in the game. So let's start another rumor. Something better than Richt to Miami and Dan to Georgia. Something better than Dan to any and every place that had a less than stellar football season.
So, hold on to your hats and listen up; Dan will stay at MSU. That's right. I have it from a very good source that Dan Mullen will remain at MSU. As Dan himself suggested, there are not many places for him to go. We at MSU are always darned proud of everyone and everything associated with our beloved school. That means we often believe other schools want whatever we have.

We are also somewhat insecure at MSU. We don't believe that we are as good as Alabama or LSU or Auburn or even Arkansas. The school up north is another matter entirely. As long as we don't believe that we are as good as some other schools, why would anyone believe it? Do you think Alabama was really afraid of losing Nick after last year's championship year?

I read that MSU will always be chasing the four who wound up ahead of us in the SEC West this year. Note the use of the word always. Why don't we just fold up the program and go home? Because we don't intend to always be chasing anyone. We intend to let them chase us for a change. Why not?

Nowhere is it written that Arkansas, LSU, Auburn or Alabama should have a better football team than MSU. Yes, they have more money. But money is no guarantee of success. As MSU continues to improve, the program will generate more money. Hard work, success, and a great attitude about MSU can and will prove to be much more important than money alone. It's not like we have lousy facilities. We have great facilities and they are getting better.

So to sum up let me say that Coach Mullen makes well over a million dollars a year and lives in Starkville, MS. I've lived quite well in Starkville for a whole heaping lot less than that. He is loved by a community starved for football success and one that puts little pressure on him. His program and techniques are working well.

So when the rumor mill heats up just remember that you read it here first. Dan stays at MSU. Enough said.

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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

OFFENDED IN AMERICA

Dear friends let me make one thing perfectly clear, there is no place in the world where it is better to be offended than in America.  I mean, of course, the United States of America.  Only in America could someone be offended by the national flag and a 13 year old boy is told to take it off his bike.  Only in America.

Only in America could someone be offended by the nation's history and the names of schools, streets and buildings are changed.  Only in America could someone be offended by the mascot of a university and the rush to change supposedly offensive names is on.

Only in America could people who share the culture, religion and ethnicity of terrorists be offended at being scrutinized and we immediately began feeling up grandma and her 3 year old granddaughter.  Only in America.  Only in America to keep others from being offended we treat ourselves as criminals.  Only in America.

Only in America could we fight for people's freedom and safety half way around the world and refuse to protect our own border.  Only in America could we watch aliens enter daily and provide them with free health care, education and a plethora of other benefits. Only in America.

Only in America can people from other countries come here and be offended that we don't speak their language and we immediately require government documents to be printed in their language.  Only in America does the government not simply require aliens to learn the native tongue.   

Only in America are we willing to trash ourselves in order to attempt to please the offended.  The sad truth is that there will always be people offended about something and if we wish to live in a fair and orderly society we better tell them to get over it. Only in America are the rights of the offended put first.

So America, I am offended.  I am offended that you don't use common sense and profile airline passengers rather than patting down aging nuns.  I am offended that you care more about obtaining government power than using it to protect us.  I am offended that you create new entitlement programs then tell me that you need to raise taxes.  I am offended that you are willing to grant the rights of citizenship to anyone who happens to be here.  I am offended that I am not in a class you care about offending.

Only in America does the offended rule.   

Monday, November 15, 2010

NO MORE EARMARKS; NO MORE STARBUCKS

Want to make the American people really, really mad Mr./Mrs./Miss Member of Congress?  Go ahead, make our day, tell us that earmarks don't really cost much money.  Yeah, and a latte at Starbucks doesn't really cost that much either when compared to our overall expenditures, but when we have to cut spending it is one of many areas included in cutting our budgets. 

Tell us that earmarks don't cost much.  Pretend that we don't understand they are used to buy your votes on much larger expenditures.  Act as if we are too uneducated to know that earmarks have been a ticket to re-election and traded in Congress like play money in a game of Monopoly.

So here's the deal Congressperson and Senators; the first time I see you standing in front of a new bridge or reporting on your web site how you helped get a new project for us I'm writing a check to the first credible person who is willing to take you on in the next primary election.

Why?  Because we are out of money.  Yes, I can't afford to pay for a new library in Maine and they can't afford to pay for a new road in my hometown.  We are out of money.  We have spent more than we can ever pay.  We have spent our children's money.  We have spent our grandchildren's money.  Stop!

The American people are awake.  It is not just greed that motivates us.  We know that if this nation is to have any future, the spending spree must stop. 

Keep on doing what you've always done and you Congressperson will not get what you have always gotten.  You will not get re-elected.  Now stand up and represent your constituents by doing what is best for the entire country.  We, the voters, are watching what you do.  We don't much care what you say. 

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

NO MAS CALIFORNIA

I am old enough to remember when all things new and fresh started in California.  Every new trend and fad seemed to begin in California.  The hippest music and surfing and movies all came to us thanks to California.  Whenever the news reported on something new happening in California, we knew it would be heading east.  This is, most unfortunately, a testament to how old I am.

Today California elects a retread flower child old man for Governor.  California contributes an arrogant old woman to the United States Senate.  California governs under the thumb of public unions.  Yes, today California has become an overspend, overtax, over regulate state that is driving business and tax payers to surrounding states in ever increasing numbers.

The result of bad government and backward looking leaders is simply that California cannot sustain itself.  Sooner or later it will come to the Federal Government for a bail out.  When that happens we must all stand up and say "No mas, California."  You can lift your noses at the rest of us.  You can sip your wine and discuss how the world should be green.  You can pretend your liberal ideas are working.  What you cannot do is all of that while putting your hand out to hard working thrifty Americans who you look down upon.

You hold us in contempt.  You dismiss our concerns.  You are unwilling to control your own spending.  You do not respect the laws of your country.  So, do not now; do not ever; put your hand out.  No California. No mas California.