Alternate uniforms

This is the Golden Age of Alternate Uniforms....especially in football.  I have never seen so many alternate uniforms in one year as I have in college football.  The Oregon Ducks have been doing it for years but now it seems a lot of teams are finding some way to turn their uniforms inside out.  Some look pretty good.  Some are awful.  If you can stomach it, look at the University of Indiana's or University of Maryland's

The NFL seems to fixate more on throwback uniforms and to be honest, most of them deserve to be called "throwaway."  My Steelers have the worst looking one but Michelle likes their socks, so we may be stuck with them for a while.  The only problem is that sometimes I cannot tell who is playing.

"Black out" uniforms are a failure.  Sorry, they just are.  Although they remind me of the Northmarcher elite Demon Division, the problem is that they all look the same.  No distinctiveness.  I don't know about the psycobabble about all black causing fear but anyone who steps out onto the field with 300 plus pound linemen is out of his mind anyway.

East Carolina has suddenly started wearing black pants with black helmets and purple jerseys.  Looks too much like the Baltimore Ravens....definitely need to change that!  Better to go to all purple but then you end up getting Minnesota Viking comparisons....

And so it goes on.....:-P

Daylight Savings Time

Why not just stick with one "time" and stop confusing everyone?

Daylight Savings Time started, I think, in 1917 to give farmers an extra hour of daylight.  Since less than 1% of our population is engaged in agriculture, it might be time to rethink this policy.  Personally, keep it and watch the sun go down an hour later.  This changing the clocks just confuses everyone and throws off everyone's "internal clock" for about a week.

I am not sure who to call but if you figure that out, tell me and we can see what can be done. Yes, there are bigger and worse things out there but if nothing else, we will know what time it is!

ObamaCare Train Wreak

This what a government run enterprise looks like

Max Baucus called back in April.

ObamaCare was going to be a trainwreak.

The hundreds of millions of dollars spent on a website that does not work could have been used for anything else.  Like, perhaps, a working website or putting it towards UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE!

There is really nothing to say other than "I told you so" but to be honest, it would be better to scrape the whole thing...unless this was the whole intent.  Why would this be the intent? Who knows.  Just please don't give it to the government!

Laughing at DC

They can read...they can reason too!

Despite a few park rangers playing out Nazi fantasies and following directives to "make it hurt", Americans are ignoring their government and walking into national parks anyway.  Most park rangers appear to be waving at them as they go in though they insist tourists stay away from cliffs and hazards since the shutdown has deprived the park service of manpower to patrol everything.  A few rangers have acted like idiots but after World War II vets pushed aside barricades to go into the always open memorial, the rest of America has followed the example of men who landed at Normandy and Iwo Jima uninvited. Yellow tape and bureaucrats are not going to stop them.

I am beginning to hope this shutdown never ends.  Looks like the NSA and IRS is having problems functioning but I really wish the idiots in Congress would be furloughed.  Can't have everything I guess.....Not bad though!  Not bad at all!

Shutdown!

This is what happens when you have incompetents who live in a bubble and have never had a real job are in a position of running something......

At 12:01 am today, the US federal government shut down non-essential functions due to no funding.

This, of course, comes as no surprise.  The federal government is $17 trillion in the red and the ObamaCare fiasco in not the cause but a symptom. Would it have not been easier to go to socialized medicine?  Odd how liberals dodge that question and how conservative hate the term but most have some form of it anyway. 

The point is that the United States government is broke.

Both Republicans and Democrats are responsible (reprehensible?) and both deserve blame if not expulsion and imprisonment. At the very least, everyone on Capital Hill, the Supreme Court and the White House should be handed pinkslips and given the "five and five" treatment---five minutes to pack up your crap and five minutes to leave.  Whatever is left behind goes to the world's largest yardsale...we have a $17 trillion deficit to work on...have to start somewhere.

Happy Anniversary!!!

Today is the anniversary for Michelle and I!  And East Carolina pummeled UNC today in Chapel Hill, 55-31!

Nobel Peace Prize for Putin?

The Russians have shown more sense than the United States over this Syrian thing.  This makes me wonder how insane this situation is.  There might be some common sense emerging but it is coming from Moscow, not Washington.

The United States appears to be pushing for a strike.  Kerry had declared that the Syrian offer to let UN inspectors as "too little, too late" and even now is saying that a thirty day program to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control is not enough.  The United Nations is not going to let any resolution authorizing force to pass.

The United States government says it has evidence that Assad launched the chemical attacks but won't show the evidence citing national security.  If you don't show the evidence, why would I believe you? Given the scandals this summer--NSA, IRS, Benghazi etc...--why would anyone trust this administration even if they did show "evidence".  The rest of the world remembers the build up to 2003 and Iraq.

No one condones chemical warfare.  No one condones out of control military aggression either.  Especially on flimsy pretexts.

I think it is likely that Assad did launch a chemical strike.  But we don't know that conclusively.  The opposition, full of al-Qeida elements, may have done it to pull the US into another quagmire.

If you thought Iraq was bad, Syria would be even worse.

Would a US strike even change anything?  The Russians will rebuild whatever gets destroyed.  Any chemical weapons that are hit will drift around and in the chaos, may even fall into the wrong hands.  Of course, the Syrian government would constitute "the wrong hands".

Welcome to the Middle East.

Stay out of it.