Bits, Pieces and Other Folks Snatches

U of A takes the phrase “Blowing your Nutt” to new levels.

Help please! The closest thing to a national football championship in Arkansas was a 1965 Cotton Bowl victory against Nebraska when the players still wore leather helmets (sort of) and Nixon was around. Things were as screwed up then as the BCS is now and sportswriters twisted that win up enough to convince all the folks here in Arkansas that they had actually won a national championship. Just because the Razorbacks are among the bottom feeders in the best football conference in America doesn’t mean they absorb football tradition, talent and become a magnet for major recruits. We have actually had morons on sports radio here reason that since Arkansas beat LSU, that they should be considered for a higher National rating better than 46th behind Appalachian State, who was able to do something Arkansas has never done in football, beat Michigan.

How about this as a great summary of how things are here: “Arkansas is a complete tragedy. Arkansas can’t do anything right. Arkansas couldn’t even fire the intensely fireable Houston Nutt, who bumbled around for years — losing winnable games and alienating blindly loyal fans — and still was begged to stay.

This is how bad Arkansas football has become: Houston Nutt took a paycut to leave … for Ole Miss.”

Link for those who give a rats ass: http://sportsline.com/columns/story/10521564

This being my token college football post is not meant to inflame the people here who have blind devotion to a less than mediocre sports program, but to simply state a fact: Arkansas is NOT a college sports powerhouse. They do however have a great agri department.

E Mail circulating among the rednecks here in the “Land of Opportunity” attempts to “warn” of Obama’s past. Yes, it was sure to happen sooner than later and it’s no surprise, this kind of crap is resurfacing. I’m not going to post the contents of the message, all of which is old news, but it does “warn” everyone of his religious past. Never mind the man joined a Christian church (even if for political reasons). If he was really a Muslim and he defected to Christianity and stated it publicly, that would go to show how serious his Muslim inclinations were if there were any at all. It also states some obvious and already disproved lies. Knowing that it’s easy to cut, paste and forward an email, even for an inbred redneck, we’ll be seeing more of this shit to be sure. Unfortunately, these are the same folks who forward shit to 10 of their friends then believe Bill Gates is going to hand them a free computer. My guess is that this stuff will be floating not only from the Right Wing Conspirators but also the Yellow Dog Democrats will be squeezing out a few Obama tidbits as well.

The South has traditionally been a Democratic stronghold. However, the fact that a black man is showing some promise as an electable candidate has thrown things into turmoil. The problem with rednecks these day’s is that they’ve seen too many movin’ picture shows that may go something like this: a terrorist is raised from childhood as the typical American boy, goes to high school and college, starts a business, marries an all American girl, has 2 kids, gets elected to a few local councils then ultimately makes it to the White House. All of a sudden things turn and this sleeper terrorist unleashes his minions on the world from within the walls of the White House. To make things worse, Obama isn’t the typical American boy that everyone thinks should be running for President, even those loyal Democrats.

When Obama’s wheels get rolling, there’s going to be big problems for the Democrats particularly here in the south. All of the black voters that have traditionally gravitated toward the left are going to see just how loyal the Democrats are to the black voter when the true feelings towards Obama and minorities surface. They’re going to realize that the black voters best interest was only an interest of convenience. My guess is that the Democrats of the South will vote Republican before they vote “black”. Even the Yellow Dogs may have a change of heart.

First, the Hillary lovers said (and I’m quoting a real HL here from a last Sunday discussion). “Just wait until she cries. All the people will say that means she’s too weak to be president, (just like Sleepy Edwards did when asked about Hillary’s episode). Others will say if she doesn’t cry, she cold and emotionless”.

I take a 3rd perspective, crying is a genuine show of emotion and because it’s true she has no emotions other than the pre-programmed ones she uses for politicing, this really couldn’t have been considered a cry as we know in the traditional sense. She didn’t actually work up a cry, it was more of a crackly throat with dry puffs of air poofing from her tear ducts. My guess is that her advisers suggested an attempt at emotion to woo in some fringe voters without showing weakness by actually producing real tears. The planted question (which coincidentally was reported to be the final question of the tea) was asked to get the tears rolling.

All of the angry feminists in that little coffee shop bought it and all were moved to dry tears and voice changes as well so the ploy may have helped for the moment.