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BYU 40, Texas 21

Posted on September 8, 2013 | 2 comments

BYU was David Ash’s winning debut in 2011. This year the boys in Utah were his humiliation. His offense couldn’t protect him. When he dropped back to pass, there were three Brigham Young University defenders in his face. His defense looked comical with one missed tackle after another.

The secret “elevation masks” apparently didn’t make a difference. After sacking him repeatedly, BYU finally knocked Ash out of the game in the first half of the fourth quarter with a possible head injury.

Always hard to see the Longhorns lose, especially when an unranked team like BYU runs over them. Literally—with 550 rushing yards, the most by any opponent ever. In truth, though, it was predictable. The Horns were lackluster in the first half against cupcake New Mexico State last week.

Now Texas, which already was a miserable 15th in the AP ranking, could fall out of the Top 25 altogether. Just like last year. Once more dismantling the pre-season narrative of better, faster, tougher, etc. And, once more, reinstating calls to fire Coach Mack Brown and Defensive Coordinator Manny Diaz. Might as well add Co-Offensive Coordinator Major Applewhite to the list, too.

The Horns might come back. Maybe. We’ll see if they can come back far enough to at least win another Alamo Bowl. They certainly won’t beat Oklahoma or Oklahoma State, and may well lose to West Virginia, TCU, etc. Sigh.

UPDATE:  As expected, Texas has fallen out of the AP Top 25, replaced in its No. 15 slot by Miami. That’s what happens when an unranked team whips your ass, like BYU did.

Ironically, USC, the team Texas beat for the national title back in ’05, has also fallen out, for only a 10-7 loss to Washington State. Something to worry about, maybe: Ole Miss, Texas’ next opponent, debuted this week at No. 25.

MORE:  Texas has fired Defensive Coordinator Manny Diaz. Pity, I think, but somebody’s head had to roll. It was for sure it wouldn’t be Brown’s.

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Save a local retailer: shop til you drop

Posted on September 8, 2013 | 2 comments

Sad but true. But the fact is we have a consumer economy and if we don’t consume it fails. Especially since Obongo, Pelosi and Reid aren’t doing a damn thing to help. Al Q keeps hitting out at Wall Street, too dumb to realize that finance is a movable feast. As long as they leave the malls alone. But the economy is so bad that retailers are starting their Christmas sales now. Save a local retailer: Shop ’til you drop.

Via Op-For

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Prescription for losing the White House

Posted on September 7, 2013 | 5 comments

If the Lizard Queen is to have the anticipated chance to take the handoff from Obongo in 2016, all this wind and solar to save the planet nonsense better not go the way of Germany.

“Electricity is becoming a luxury good in Germany…The political world is wedged between the green-energy lobby, masquerading as saviors of the world, and the established electric utilities, with their dire warnings of chaotic supply problems and job losses.”

It could certainly happen here, with the EPA’s war on coal over the next three years. If it does, even the food stampers and welfare voters the Democrats count on might see the (cost of the) light. Not to mention the heat. And the cool.

Our sorry high-unemployment economy, where even sycophant Paul Krugman sees a Democrat failure, alone should be enough but turning electricity into a luxury will do it for sure.

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Of proportionate response and so forth

Posted on September 5, 2013 | 7 comments

Crawford42, a commenter at Instapundit, has a good one I will repeat:

“Lefties have this bizarre idea you can ‘tune’ the level of violence to get the result you want. The result is rhetoric about ‘shots across the bow’ and ‘just muscular enough.’ They also have a child’s faith in how Hollywood depicts violence, with unarmed men (and small women) taking out hordes of heavily armed soldiers, guns shot out of peoples’ hands, etc.

“The result is the ‘redefinition’ [Obongo & pals are seeking re Assad]. They’re trying to find just the RIGHT LEVEL of violence to get the result they want, without actually engaging in anything resembling war fighting.”

And, of course, it won’t work. Too little and they’ll only get a sneer. Too much and they may get more than they bargained for in response. Either way, it’s a fool’s game probably based on the wellknown Lefty aversion to military service, hence military reality.

Although I remember President Nixon (who did serve in WW2) doing the same thing in incrementally bombing North Viet Nam, following LBJ’s lede. That worked so well.

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Presto-Chango: our 13-year-old president

Posted on September 4, 2013 | 5 comments

Obozo is a lot like a 13-year-old whose first weapon in his arsenal is the lie. The “red line” has come back to haunt him. So guess what? He never said it.

“First of all, I didn’t set a red line,” Barack Obama said [Wednesday] at a press conference in Stockholm. “The world set a red line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the world’s population said the use of chemical weapons are [sic] abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use, even when countries are engaged in war.”

Except that he did set a red line, specifically, way back on August 20, 2012.

“We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.”

He didn’t just say it once and let it go. His own spokesfolk were later authorized to underline it:

“‘We go on to reaffirm that the President has set a clear red line as it relates to the United States that the use of chemical weapons . . . is a red line that is not acceptable to us, nor should it be to the international community,’ an unnamed ‘White House official’ said during introductory remarks in an April 25, 2013 conference call with reporters.

“‘Lest there be any question, the official went on to say in response to a question: ‘The people in Syria and the Assad regime should know that the President means what he says when he set that red line. And keep in mind, he is the one who laid down that marker.'”

Until President-Pass-the-Buck decided that his red line not only made him look stupid but committed him to something he really doesn’t want to do. Then—presto chango!—he never said it.

Except when he did. Has he now made his mendacity perfectly clear?

Via Best of The Web Today.

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Why the Lizard Queen?

Posted on September 4, 2013 | 5 comments

Why, indeed. The Dems will say it’s her turn. They’ll ignore the rest:

“She has more sooty baggage than a 90-car freight train. And what exactly has she ever accomplished — beyond bullishly covering for her philandering husband? She’s certainly busy, busy and ever on the move — with the tunnel-vision workaholism of someone trying to blot out uncomfortable private thoughts. . . . ”

What has she ever done for anyone except thieve and lie?

Even as secretary of state, she just mailed it in. Benghazi should have destroyed her, or at least her subsequent tantrum about it before Congress. But they won’t. The Democrat media will never remind voters of either event nor ask her any tough questions. She’s one of them, after all.

As for the voters, well, here’s where it gets really cynical: she’s got a uterus, and to millions of unthinking, low-info sister uteri, that is plenty enough. I know several of them.

Plus, of course, she has money and pow-wer, via Slick Willie and their corrupt, tax-evading family foundation. When it comes to the IRS, Democrats walk.

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GK for saint?

Posted on September 3, 2013 | 5 comments

From a 1921 interview British author G.K. Chesterton gave the Cleveland Press:

“The men whom the people ought to choose to represent them are too busy to take the jobs. But the politician is waiting for it. He’s the pestilence of modern times. What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them. The villagers who met under the village tree could also hang their politicians to the tree. It’s terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hung today.”

Q: How can you tell when a politician is lying?
A: His lips are moving.

These days some Catholics want to make GK a saint. Works for me.

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