TC the Terrible NOW Saber Squelch

Freakdaddy can hate on me all he wants, but this is the time of year when blog posts start shifting to the NFL. If there is one thing that yesterday’s first round of the draft can teach us it is this. When someone offers you $56 million, with $26 million guaranteed – take it. If you don’t it could cost you at least $10 million in guaranteed money. Reggie Bush should have thought about his choice a little more.

But I don’t blame the Texans for going with a defensive player. They have a semi-decent offense and a quarterback that can play when he’s not on his back. What they did not have is somebody than can stop the other team’s offense. I think they should have traded out of the first spot and gotten a couple of extra picks out of the deal if they were going to pass on Bush, but that’s just me. And I think I would have passed on Bush too. As explosive as he can be, he’s not the kind of back that can play every down, or block for the quarterback. He would have made Houston exciting to watch, but he can’t carry the ball enough times to justify building a team around him. And give them credit for being ready to piss of what few fans they still have.

They may pay for it in the long run, but I think the Texans made a pretty good choice for now.

And of course the Redskins screwed up by giving away picks this year and next, for a guy that would have been waiting on them anyway.

TC

There’s something to be said for not having to worry about your poll numbers. W has always been at his best when he was in ‘screw you’ mode and talking from the hip. I really think that’s why Americans liked him so much better than Gore or Kerry when it came time to vote. And for all the talk of how bad he sucks, I think the country would elect him a third time if it could. He just reminds us too much of ourselves not to like him.

Hell, almost everyone I talk to these days wants to kick some border-crosser’s ass. Now that they’ve decided that English is not how they want to sing the fuck’n National Anthem, there’s not a redneck worthy of the name that’s not ready to go hunting. Bad enough that crack-ho Whitney had to lip sync it.

W, The President, has told them to shut the hell up and sing it right. Check this out:

“I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English, and I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English.”

The President may not be good at a lot of things, like keeping down the price of gas, but there is one thing he does really well. That’s kick ass.

I heard the new voice of Metro on the Orange Line this morning. A rather pleasant voice so they made a good choice even if the new messages tend to be a bit wordy. The chimes are different too and that tends to get your attention.

In case you haven’t noticed the comments for a couple of posts have been targeted by a spammer. Yesterday alone I had to delete over 50 bogus posts. If this keeps up I may have to move over to a moderated system.

The Washington Times (owned by Rev. Moon) is reporting that most church goers live in the South. That’s not exactly breaking news guys. And it could be that front page reporting like this that is one of the reasons your readership is on the decline. And while it’s not breaking news that Virginia (second lowest church attendance in the South) is full of God-less Heathens it does explain some things.

I really doubt that there is a single fix for driving down the price of gasoline in the United States. And maybe the current price is what it should be, just more than we are accustomed to spending. I’m old enough to remember paying less than a buck a gallon to fill up my car, but in those days I was barely making three bucks an hour. In the big scheme it evens out.

I do know that taxing the oil companies won’t work. They’ll just jack up the base line cost to cover and keep on moving. That’s how business works. Driving down the demand is the only real solution but that’s at least a generation away. The Hybrid cars on the road now are not even making a dent in the demand for petroleum. All they really do is make the owners feel superior to the rest of us. Public transportation helps out a bit, but that’s not wide spread enough to do the trick either.

If you ask me, and by reading this you sort of did, the only real solution is to create a work environment where none of us leave our homes. Two hundred years ago the demand for fossil fuel energy was next to nil. Why? Because most Americans lived and worked in the same place. No need to go in to a crappy cube means no need to buy gas, which means the prices begin to come down.

What I’m really saying is that the weather here is great today and I’m stuck in a cube instead of being out on General’s Ridge.