Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
I was going to save this for next year....
but it cannot wait. This picture story is called Aggy Wedding.
This is the brides cake.
This is the grooms cake
This is a picture from the bachelor party.
This is the brides cake.
This is the grooms cake
This is a picture from the bachelor party.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Red River Rivalry
I have read the article provided below by Thayer Evans in THE New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/sports/ncaafootball/26recruit.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
Geoff Ketchum wrote a a rebuttal for Orangebloods.com. I read it too.
Not that my opinion counts for much here, but usually in these types of emotionally charged disputes between the two, I consider the source. It would be a no-brainer NYT vs. Orangebloods? Are you kidding me.
Well, not so fast my friends....Thayer Evans it seems has an obvious fascination about the Oklahoma Sooners. In fact, here are a list of some of his articles and biography.
Here is the scoop folks. Mind you, this is pure specualtion.
The recruit is a dumbass. The mother is a greedy dumbass. Recruit really wants to play for Texas but is not sure, but Mom really likes OU's 'offer' for a scholarship. ENTER "unbiased" Reporter.
Now here is the rub folks. I find it hard to believe that the New York Times would publish such an article, then I noticed it was December 25th. I guess the editor was in the Hamptons for Christmas thus weak article almost void of credibility gets published.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/sports/ncaafootball/26recruit.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
Geoff Ketchum wrote a a rebuttal for Orangebloods.com. I read it too.
Not that my opinion counts for much here, but usually in these types of emotionally charged disputes between the two, I consider the source. It would be a no-brainer NYT vs. Orangebloods? Are you kidding me.
Well, not so fast my friends....Thayer Evans it seems has an obvious fascination about the Oklahoma Sooners. In fact, here are a list of some of his articles and biography.
Here is the scoop folks. Mind you, this is pure specualtion.
The recruit is a dumbass. The mother is a greedy dumbass. Recruit really wants to play for Texas but is not sure, but Mom really likes OU's 'offer' for a scholarship. ENTER "unbiased" Reporter.
Now here is the rub folks. I find it hard to believe that the New York Times would publish such an article, then I noticed it was December 25th. I guess the editor was in the Hamptons for Christmas thus weak article almost void of credibility gets published.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Friday, December 26, 2008
Internets
I have a file called, "stuff that might be blogworthy". Sometimes when I have nothing of note to write about, I simply put up a picture and then make some stuff up. Like this above.
So there ya go....
Monday, December 22, 2008
official holiday message/rant
I learned this year that no matter what, it is never too late. I also found out that despite the absence of alcohol and nicotine in my system, life is still hard. However, it is so much easier without it, especially the sleeping part. I have been sober 5 months yesterday, the awake part is pretty good too.
I feel lucky and grateful to be alive.
"So what do you want for Christmas?" my father asks me.
"I want for nothing." I say then I ask, "what do you want?"
"I want World peace, of course." We both laugh. I thought that was cool because he means it and also he knows its not possible at the same time. Still he says it. Consider the gift given.
This is really stupid to admit, but my emotional well being is subject to the outcomes of Texas Tech football games. I think my new addiction to break besides too much food and Jones Root Beer is emotional dependence on football. It can be done, but then what?
Then what? Really?
I am seriously considering three possible career moves. The first is, continue in the meat business. That seems underachieverish but the money is good.
The second is, become a Communications or History Professor. Become a doctor. Be poor. What a life that must be. I was told there would be no math on this exam.
The third is, work for the National Parks Service. Become Russ the Park Ranger.
It seems I am indeed destined to wear bad shades of green:)
I feel lucky and grateful to be alive.
"So what do you want for Christmas?" my father asks me.
"I want for nothing." I say then I ask, "what do you want?"
"I want World peace, of course." We both laugh. I thought that was cool because he means it and also he knows its not possible at the same time. Still he says it. Consider the gift given.
This is really stupid to admit, but my emotional well being is subject to the outcomes of Texas Tech football games. I think my new addiction to break besides too much food and Jones Root Beer is emotional dependence on football. It can be done, but then what?
Then what? Really?
I am seriously considering three possible career moves. The first is, continue in the meat business. That seems underachieverish but the money is good.
The second is, become a Communications or History Professor. Become a doctor. Be poor. What a life that must be. I was told there would be no math on this exam.
The third is, work for the National Parks Service. Become Russ the Park Ranger.
It seems I am indeed destined to wear bad shades of green:)
Package beer and Liquor sales vote in Lubbock
Little bird just flew in and said that even though 8 thousand signatures were thrown out, the petition to have a vote for package alcohol sales succeeded.
Lubbock will vote in May.
Lubbock will vote in May.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Goodbye Texas Stadium
I can't remember exactly how old I was when I went there for the first time but it was the mid 70's. I loved the big scoreboard with all of the lights and I thought Crazy Ray was cool.
I saw Guns and Roses, INXS, Iggy Pop, and Ziggy Marley at an all day concert 20 years ago there.
In the 90's during the rebirth of the Dallas Cowboy dynasty some friends and I became fascinated with the term "Blue Parking"....
Good times were always in abundance at Texas Stadium.
I saw Guns and Roses, INXS, Iggy Pop, and Ziggy Marley at an all day concert 20 years ago there.
In the 90's during the rebirth of the Dallas Cowboy dynasty some friends and I became fascinated with the term "Blue Parking"....
Good times were always in abundance at Texas Stadium.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Lubbock and Acuna to become sister cities.
Lubbock is the fat one that goes to church all the time and has the personality of a piece of old leather. Acuna is the slutty one that only goes to church to pick up a trick and is always wearing leather.
I can't make this up.
The comments are delightful. Enjoy.
I can't make this up.
The comments are delightful. Enjoy.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
assholes screaming boomer sooner
In this video it is Billy Sims from the University of Big Red Sports, Motors, and trailer house and trailer house accessories...
Notice how the MOM has a nice new fur coat. Enjoy.
In my superior opinion, the best football player in college football is Percy Harvin of Florida. The Heisman is nice I guess. The Miss America pageant is nice too. It is the same, except that only 6 or 7 schools have a realistic chance to have a winner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Heisman_Trophy_winners
Harrell got to go to the White House with Mike Leach. Can you imagine? W and T$O (the Strange One=Leach) in the same room conversing? To be a fly on the wall.
Notice how the MOM has a nice new fur coat. Enjoy.
In my superior opinion, the best football player in college football is Percy Harvin of Florida. The Heisman is nice I guess. The Miss America pageant is nice too. It is the same, except that only 6 or 7 schools have a realistic chance to have a winner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Heisman_Trophy_winners
Harrell got to go to the White House with Mike Leach. Can you imagine? W and T$O (the Strange One=Leach) in the same room conversing? To be a fly on the wall.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Monday, December 08, 2008
Hotty Toddy
Texas Tech vs. Ole Miss
I think Tech will lose 31 to 9. We don't play well in the Cotton Bowl. The Rebels are hungry and the Raiders are disappointed.
OU is playing in the National Championship. I heard today that OU might be going through another investigation regarding players getting paid. Maybe they should look into academics too. OU is last in graduation rates.
What a joke.
I think Tech will lose 31 to 9. We don't play well in the Cotton Bowl. The Rebels are hungry and the Raiders are disappointed.
OU is playing in the National Championship. I heard today that OU might be going through another investigation regarding players getting paid. Maybe they should look into academics too. OU is last in graduation rates.
What a joke.
Friday, December 05, 2008
Quotations
Federal Reserve Quotes
"I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgivable to our wonderful country. Deep down in our heart, we know that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected."
- John Danforth (R-Mo)
Federal Reserve Quotes
"This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on Earth. When the President [Wilson} signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized....the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill."
- Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. , 1913
Federal Reserve Quotes
"The [Federal Reserve Act] as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency... I do not like to think that any law can be passed that will make it possible to submerge the gold standard in a flood of irredeemable paper currency."
- Henry Cabot Lodge Sr., 1913
Quotes on the Federal Reserve
"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class."
- Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863
Federal Reserve Quotes
"The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny."
- Congressman Wright Patman, Congressional Record, Sept. 30, 1941
Federal Reserve Quotes
"The Federal Reserve banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the International bankers."
- Congressman Louis T. McFadden (speaking in the Senate)
Federal Reserve Quotes
"When you or I write a check there must be sufficient funds in our account to cover the check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check there is no bank deposit on which that check is drawn. When the Federal Reserve writes a check, it is creating money."
- Putting it simply, Boston Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Quotes
"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance."
- James Madison
Federal Reserve Quotes
"Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are the United States government's institutions. They are not government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign swindlers."
- Congressional Record 12595-12603 - Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, June 10, 1932
Federal Reserve Quotes
"Neither paper currency nor deposits have value as commodities, intrinsically, a 'dollar' bill is just a piece of paper. Deposits are merely book entries."
- Modern Money Mechanics Workbook, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 1975
Federal Reserve Quotes
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws."
- Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
Federal Reserve Quotes
"From now on, depressions will be scientifically created."
- Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. , 1913
Federal Reserve Quotes
"The regional Federal Reserve banks are not government agencies. ...but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations."
- Lewis vs. United States, 680 F. 2d 1239 9th Circuit 1982
Federal Reserve Quotes
"...the increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve banks from 143 million dollars in 1913 to 45 billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks."
- Eustace Mullins
Federal Reserve Quotes
"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
- Henry Ford
Federal Reserve Quotes
"The modern Banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banks can in fact inflate, mint and unmint the modern ledger-entry currency."
- Major L .L. B. Angus
Federal Reserve Quotes
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits."
- SIR Josiah Stamp, (President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain)
Federal Reserve Quotes
"Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing."
- Ralph M. Hawtrey, Secretary of the British Treasury
Federal Reserve Quotes
"People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt. nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan."
- Thomas Edison
Federal Reserve Quotes
"By this means government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft."
- John Maynard Keynes
Reply | Quote
"I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgivable to our wonderful country. Deep down in our heart, we know that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected."
- John Danforth (R-Mo)
Federal Reserve Quotes
"This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on Earth. When the President [Wilson} signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized....the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill."
- Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. , 1913
Federal Reserve Quotes
"The [Federal Reserve Act] as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency... I do not like to think that any law can be passed that will make it possible to submerge the gold standard in a flood of irredeemable paper currency."
- Henry Cabot Lodge Sr., 1913
Quotes on the Federal Reserve
"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class."
- Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863
Federal Reserve Quotes
"The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny."
- Congressman Wright Patman, Congressional Record, Sept. 30, 1941
Federal Reserve Quotes
"The Federal Reserve banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the International bankers."
- Congressman Louis T. McFadden (speaking in the Senate)
Federal Reserve Quotes
"When you or I write a check there must be sufficient funds in our account to cover the check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check there is no bank deposit on which that check is drawn. When the Federal Reserve writes a check, it is creating money."
- Putting it simply, Boston Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Quotes
"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance."
- James Madison
Federal Reserve Quotes
"Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are the United States government's institutions. They are not government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign swindlers."
- Congressional Record 12595-12603 - Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, June 10, 1932
Federal Reserve Quotes
"Neither paper currency nor deposits have value as commodities, intrinsically, a 'dollar' bill is just a piece of paper. Deposits are merely book entries."
- Modern Money Mechanics Workbook, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 1975
Federal Reserve Quotes
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws."
- Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
Federal Reserve Quotes
"From now on, depressions will be scientifically created."
- Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. , 1913
Federal Reserve Quotes
"The regional Federal Reserve banks are not government agencies. ...but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations."
- Lewis vs. United States, 680 F. 2d 1239 9th Circuit 1982
Federal Reserve Quotes
"...the increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve banks from 143 million dollars in 1913 to 45 billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks."
- Eustace Mullins
Federal Reserve Quotes
"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
- Henry Ford
Federal Reserve Quotes
"The modern Banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banks can in fact inflate, mint and unmint the modern ledger-entry currency."
- Major L .L. B. Angus
Federal Reserve Quotes
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits."
- SIR Josiah Stamp, (President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain)
Federal Reserve Quotes
"Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing."
- Ralph M. Hawtrey, Secretary of the British Treasury
Federal Reserve Quotes
"People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt. nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan."
- Thomas Edison
Federal Reserve Quotes
"By this means government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft."
- John Maynard Keynes
Reply | Quote
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Thank you Guns Up Jesus!
Mike just took his name out of consideration for the Washington job.
Ummmm...I feel AWESOMENESSTOWN!
Ummmm...I feel AWESOMENESSTOWN!
Mike is gonecakes.
Mike Leach isn't returning any calls from Tech. Several sources reported Wednesday afternoon he is going back to Seattle for a second interview with the University of Washington. We all know what that means. Well maybe, anyone that is familiar with Mike knows it is possible to need two interviews to understand the man.
This is the third off season that there have been rumors of Coach Leach shopping his services. This is the first time that a school appears interested. As it stands with incentives and bonuses, Mike will make 1.9 million for coaching the Red Raiders this season. Mike stands to receive a bonus of $800,000 should he be the Red Raiders coach on Dec 31, 2009, which would make his total package in 2009 worth 2.85 million if he wins at least 7 games. His contract supposedly includes a $500,000 buyout.
It has been vague and sketchy, but many believe that Tech was in the process of re-working his deal to be negotiated after the season. Of course, I do not know the exact details of the new contract or any offers from Washington. But if I were a betting man, and I am. I would guess that UW will have to offer Mike a total package in excess 3.2 million per year to get him. I do not think this is about getting the most out of Tech in the negotiation, but it could be.
If Texas Tech has to pay Mike Leach in excess of 3 million per year, then it is not worth it in my opinion. I like Mike and I love what he has done, but that is too much. Nothing against his accomplishments, and I do not want to suggest he hasn't earned his pay. I believe he deserves a raise with incentives for Conference Championships and BCS berths. I think he should make 2.75 million for 5 years with a $750,000 bonus for a Conference Championship. $500,000 for a BCS berth and 1 million for winning a MNC.
I will be shocked if Tech hasn't tried to make an offer to Mike. I would not be shocked if Mike wants to leave for greener pastures or a new start. If that's the case, then let's get Art in here.
What is pissing me off? This is recruiting season and our rivals are on the road getting the job done. For the third straight December our coach is screwing around, and I bet for a third straight January our football team is going to be behind and have to pull a massive comeback to win.
Things are not good in Raiderland. It's been a tough month.
This is the third off season that there have been rumors of Coach Leach shopping his services. This is the first time that a school appears interested. As it stands with incentives and bonuses, Mike will make 1.9 million for coaching the Red Raiders this season. Mike stands to receive a bonus of $800,000 should he be the Red Raiders coach on Dec 31, 2009, which would make his total package in 2009 worth 2.85 million if he wins at least 7 games. His contract supposedly includes a $500,000 buyout.
It has been vague and sketchy, but many believe that Tech was in the process of re-working his deal to be negotiated after the season. Of course, I do not know the exact details of the new contract or any offers from Washington. But if I were a betting man, and I am. I would guess that UW will have to offer Mike a total package in excess 3.2 million per year to get him. I do not think this is about getting the most out of Tech in the negotiation, but it could be.
If Texas Tech has to pay Mike Leach in excess of 3 million per year, then it is not worth it in my opinion. I like Mike and I love what he has done, but that is too much. Nothing against his accomplishments, and I do not want to suggest he hasn't earned his pay. I believe he deserves a raise with incentives for Conference Championships and BCS berths. I think he should make 2.75 million for 5 years with a $750,000 bonus for a Conference Championship. $500,000 for a BCS berth and 1 million for winning a MNC.
I will be shocked if Tech hasn't tried to make an offer to Mike. I would not be shocked if Mike wants to leave for greener pastures or a new start. If that's the case, then let's get Art in here.
What is pissing me off? This is recruiting season and our rivals are on the road getting the job done. For the third straight December our coach is screwing around, and I bet for a third straight January our football team is going to be behind and have to pull a massive comeback to win.
Things are not good in Raiderland. It's been a tough month.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
TSO
The Strange One aka Mike Leach. The greatest football coach in the history of ever.
He is in Seattle talking to University of Washington officials about their coaching vacancy. The Huskies went 0-12 this season. We were tied for 1st..yada yada yada..if you care you know the deal.
Life as we know it in the Hubaplex is about to implode. This is 10 times worse than any recession. To Tech fans, this is the equivalent of Barack Obama all the sudden announcing he is a Libertarian, and then moving to Liberia. This would be very very very very very very very very bad. Although the majority of Tech fans would like it if Obama moved to Liberia, but all of my other analogies were biblical and unoffensive only to me.
Besides punting more on 4th down and the obvious train wreck that will be his successor, this means no more Leachisms. No more dating advice, pirate outfits, smack talking to reporters, or weather reports. This means PUNTING! Aggies will be dancing in the streets. Longhorns fans will...well, they will still be the same. This means sweating out bowl game INVITATIONS AGAIN and eating shit from the likes of Okie Lite and Nebraska. This means losing to Baylor. BAYLOR people. BAYLOR.
I don't know if I can handle all of that.
Hopefully, this will not happen.
He is in Seattle talking to University of Washington officials about their coaching vacancy. The Huskies went 0-12 this season. We were tied for 1st..yada yada yada..if you care you know the deal.
Life as we know it in the Hubaplex is about to implode. This is 10 times worse than any recession. To Tech fans, this is the equivalent of Barack Obama all the sudden announcing he is a Libertarian, and then moving to Liberia. This would be very very very very very very very very bad. Although the majority of Tech fans would like it if Obama moved to Liberia, but all of my other analogies were biblical and unoffensive only to me.
Besides punting more on 4th down and the obvious train wreck that will be his successor, this means no more Leachisms. No more dating advice, pirate outfits, smack talking to reporters, or weather reports. This means PUNTING! Aggies will be dancing in the streets. Longhorns fans will...well, they will still be the same. This means sweating out bowl game INVITATIONS AGAIN and eating shit from the likes of Okie Lite and Nebraska. This means losing to Baylor. BAYLOR people. BAYLOR.
I don't know if I can handle all of that.
Hopefully, this will not happen.
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