Happy Thanksgiving!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Not earthshaking but still pretty cool!

It won't change the world but it was still cool to hear that the University of Pittsburgh was putting cursive "script" back on the football helmet!


The block PITT looked OK and it was better than the "Dinocat" gracing Pitt's headgear from 1997-2004.  But nothing compares to the classic cursive Pitt.

Some clamored for a return to the old uniform but I like darker colors. 

The uniforms still have the block PITT on the neck part, which I like since it is like a link to history. I think they should put the "dinocat" on the sleeve but I am not complaining.

Go Pitt!

I might start watching college football more closely.

Now if only East Carolina stops wearing black and looking like the Baltimore Ravens......

Rebuke

The people are POed......

"Hope and Change" is a sad joke and the voters got mad. Even Democrats tacked their course rightward away from Obama.  It is pretty bad when your own party deserts you

Welcome to lame-duck status

All this talk about impeachment is premature though.It is not going to happen.

The Republicans have the next best thing: they have Obama reduced into irrelevance.

Back in 2010, the Republicans won a massive landslide election and proceeded to squander the advantage.  Will they do the same thing in 2014? Only time will tell.

About 65% of America thinks the country his headed in the wrong direction so patience is running thin.  The Republicans need to quickly determine if their vision has any appeal and if it has any value.

It is going to be an interesting two years

Prayers for Canada

In memorial of the tradgedy in Ottawa.

What a senseless act in a country that rarely sees it.

Iraq 3.0?

There may be simply no option here.  No matter what anyone says, Iraq just seems to get worse.  Maybe the Ottomans were right nearly a century ago by dividing the area into three provinces.

JCS chairman Martin Dempsey is proposing the US troops on the ground in Iraq assume a more direct role in trying to stop ISIS.  They were directing the airstrikes hitting ISIS but it seems that the US is trying to give the Iraqi army some backbone. 

If this is what we have to do, then the cause in Iraq may be lost.

But what are we supposed to do?  Let Iraq collapse? On the other hand, do we continue to fight a cause that is collapsing?

What the Pentagon is probably hoping for is to stop ISIS long enough for the Islamic tendency toward factionalism to kick in and the self-proclaimed caliphate will collapse on its own.

The frightening thing is that this might be the strategy that might work?

This is the Middle East and it has been this way since at least 3500 BC. No amount of airstrikes is going to change that.  It's not anything partisan, its just history.

Michelle and I are celebrating our anniversary today!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!

I LOVE YOU, MICHELLE!!!

Giant slayers! Two years in a row!

Note the Demon Division look....

East Carolina 70, yes, 70!, University of North Carolina 41.....

For the second year in a row, East Carolina took out the vaunted UNC Tarheels!

It was a wild score and the defense was a little leaky, but if you win, all is well!

East Carolina came out in all black, looking a lot like the Demon Division from HeavenSteel and Aries Marching and did a number on UNC.  The Tarheels did lead briefly 13-7, but that did not last long. 

Never, never back down!  The problems are never as formidable as they seem at first glance!

Thus endth the sermon.

Now, GO FORTH AND CONQUER!