Category Archives: Obsessions

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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Rule 5: Nabilla Benattia

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Posted on September 6, 2013 in Obsessions, Rule 5

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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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Israel: Of popsicles and apartheid

Posted on August 29, 2013 | Comments Off on Israel: Of popsicles and apartheid

A nice little tale from IsraellyCool of a friend’s Tel Aviv beach encounter with two Israeli Arab women in skimpy bikinis:

One of the city inspectors, patrolling the beaches, approached us and reminded us to drink water so that we do not get dehydrated.

I told him I had forgotten mine. My beautiful beach neighbours seem to have also forgotten theirs.

“I will get a popsicle as soon as the vendor gets here,” I answered.

“So will we,” answered one of the young ladies next to me.

“Ok, ” said the inspector, “I will send him your way.” And left.

A few minutes later, all three of us were left with ou[r] mouths open.

There, in front of us was the city inspector negotiating his way barefoot on the hot sand, coming towards us.

In his hands were three popsicles!

Welcome to an “Apartheid” state called Israel!

Via Five Feet of Fury.

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Obongo: our terrorist-loving prez

Posted on August 28, 2013 | 10 comments

“Never did I imagine that the Americans would elect a president who would give open support to the Muslim Brotherhood, or that a Secretary of State would take as one of her closest advisers a woman whose family and background are connected closely to the highest levels of the Muslim Brotherhood organization,”  Howard Rotberg, on the Freedom Press blog.

Well, there is the amusing part that the close adviser turned out to be so dumb that she married a flasher. But not all of us voted for the black moron who sucks up to terrorists and we won’t vote for the Lizard Queen, either.

I’d just add that Mr. R.’s remark therein that Slick Willie disarmed American soldiers on their bases in 1993, setting up Fort Hood for a massacre, is pure BS. American soldiers have not, at least since the 1960s, carried arms on their bases except when in training or on guard duty. Nor were officers then allowed to carry personal firearms. I know the IDF does it, but that’s a holdover from 1973 when the invading Syrians caught them temporarily unarmed.

Via Simply Jews.

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Thoughts on those black on white murders

Posted on August 23, 2013 | 4 comments

I hear they are eight times more common than the white on black ones that get all the Democrat news media and all the politicians and all the hoorah. Well, maybe.

I do know that blacks mostly kill each other which, if they were only confined to the evil trash-talking losers among them, would be fine with me. Unfortunately they also tend to kill the achievers, not to mention the innocent little kids.

But really, people, my main thought is why are black people, i.e. American Negroes, so damned whiny? Well, the ones who are whiny. I know several hard-working ones who don’t bother anyone and just get on with their lives. And are very pleasant when we chat at the market.

Unlike a former Army buddy (I use buddy loosely as we never were pals) who grew up with a silver spoon in his black mouth and yet whines and whines about racism. He wants to kill George Zimmerman. What a moron.

I think the problem with these people began when the rest of us
paid attention when they got all bent whenever some of us refused to play along with their appellations-du-jour.

People of color, instead of colored people. Balderdash. Why do white people allow themselves to be forced to play this stupid race game? Okay, so nigger is a pejorative. Except when it’s in a black mouth. Hypocritical poppycock. We should take a break from this nonsense.

Let the race-baiters choke on their indignation. That’s a sight I would pay to see. If we did we might lose fewer Australian baseball players and 88-year-old WW2 vets.

UPDATE: Reading Cobb, an engineer who is not a black stereotypical in any way, I realized I’ve been missing the sensible LaShawn Barber. She quit blogging to try to make some money by writing crime novels under a pen name. I hope that’s going well.

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Is Barry insane?

Posted on August 22, 2013 | 5 comments

We know he’s a narcissist. But so are a lot of Americans these days. But, despite their destruction of at least 54 churches and monasteries in Egypt, he still backs the Muslim Brotherhood over the Egyptian military. Using the fig leaf about the MB’s dictatorship-in-the-making being democratically-elected and, as he did with Iran’s brief uprising, ignoring the popular will.

“What is the explanation for this absolutely self-destructive, even idiotic, policy on our part? There can be only one — the president of the United States is actually psychologically disturbed. He does not react in a normal manner. I know that’s a vicious and importunate thing to say, but the reaction to Egypt (and to Benghazi, for that matter) is not one of a psychologically healthy human being.”

PJMedia exec Roger L. Simon really, really doesn’t like Obongo. Even more so than me. But I’m coming around to his view.

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