Note that the first LTE is from Readers' Forum regular Deb Phillips.
Ideological views
As surely as the sun rises and sets each day, liberal progressives are intent on forcing their ideological views upon America. In progressives' utopian world:
- Marriage can become whatever one wants it to be.
- Abortion-on-demand is protected ad nauseam and funded by taxpayer dollars.
- The voting system remains conveniently vulnerable to fraud.
- Religious expression is forbidden in public life.
- The ideals and principles expressed by the Founders and encompassed in the founding documents are virtually irrelevant and must be overhauled for the 21st century.
- Citizens' wealth belongs to the government, and private property is increasingly confiscated through an unconstitutional application of "eminent domain."
- The government unfairly favors labor unions over the private sector.
- Energy independence gives way to the demands of radical environmentalism, while billions of taxpayer dollars are wasted on crony energy partnerships and "green" scams.
- Class-envy warfare is waged by power-hungry elites.
- Crises are exploited, or created, for the purpose of grabbing power.
- Terrorists are those who brandish opposing political ideas, instead of the militant Islamists who hate America.
- Unrestrained government spending and borrowing continues on a reckless course.
- The U.S. dollar is devalued through the printing/digitization of money by the Federal Reserve.
- Taxes continue to rise, choking the economy and the well-being of all Americans.
With hope, with each passing day, more Americans will awaken to the reality that liberal progressive ideology is antagonistic to self-governance, freedom, prosperity and individual responsibility.
DEBORAH S. "DEB" PHILLIPS
Lewisville
Misconceptions
The writer of the Sept. 19 letter "Needs for all students" seems to have many misconceptions about his topic.
Writing in response to the Journal story "LGBTQ
center at WFU
to offer support services to students" (Sept. 2), about the opening of the new
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender, Queer and Questioning Center at Wake
Forest University, he felt that the story singled out "one group without due
regard to the others," which he considered to be "biased and
discriminatory."
But obviously, the story wasn't intended to be a comprehensive view of all
the support systems offered to all students on campus, which I'm sure are
considerable; it was about the opening of this new center, which was
newsworthy.Nor would it be wrong for this "one group" to be singled out for a facility of its own. While there are plenty of support systems available to the majority of students, LGBTQ students, a misunderstood and sometimes persecuted minority, have often been left out; it was biased and discriminatory to not provide for them.
Perhaps an analogy would help: If a new Girl Scout
facility is opened and the Journal reports on it, must the Journal include in
its report every Boy
Scout facility in the county? It seems to me that the overly comprehensive
approach would be a prime example of "political correctness."
That a new facility opens is news; that others remain open really is not.
RICKY S. PHILLIPS
Winston-Salem
Answers
In the Sept. 11 letter "Favorite topics," the writer asked, "How can it be cheaper to make something 5,000 miles away (in China) with 9 percent unemployment here?"
Beijing
raised the city's minimum monthly wage by 20 percent in January, from 960 yuan
to 1,160
yuan, or about $175 a
month. Many other Chinese cities followed suit. Not mentioning the working
conditions and child labor, is that really what U.S.
workers should be competing with?
The
writer also commented on the number of abortions and out-of-wedlock births.
Make contraceptives readily available and free or near-free. Stop moralizing and
judging and do something practical. It would save money in the long run to
boot.
Pro-contraception:
Nothing started, nothing to stop.
E.T. SHAFER
Seven Devils
CORRESPONDENT OF THE WEEK
Father Ed
I read with great sadness about the death of Father Edgar Holden ("Beloved priest and columnist Father Ed dies," Sept. 21). Many claim Father Ed as their close and trusted friend, but it was he who loved claiming all of us as his friends. He wasn't just a humble servant of God in Franciscan robes; he had a charm and humility that was simply infectious. He was able to elicit my deepest thoughts and fears in brutal honesty in my darkest hours of theological doubt and then commend me for my faith. I could call him on the telephone at any time for any reason and he never uttered a single word of impatience or frustration.
He once shocked me by asking if he was a good
priest or not. I told him he
was the greatest I have ever known, yet he admonished me to tell him the
bitter truth.
He could give a sermon as a
visiting priest at my parish, St. Leo, and you could hear a pin drop.
He was my spiritual
counselor who saved my faith on more than one occasion. He was neither a
Pharisee nor a sanctimonious soul. He reached out to others, regardless of their
faith traditions. He could discuss theology at the highest levels, and tell a
joke that would have everyone roaring with laughter. Simplicity was his calling
card.
This earth has lost a great and wonderful man, but
Heaven has gained a powerful saint. Thank you, Father Ed.
PATRICK G. VALE
Winston-Salem
Deb's LTE:
ReplyDelete1. No, people cannot marry Billy Goat Gruff. And they should not be allowed to so do. I abhor cruelty to animals.
2. Abortion on demand is not protected ad nauseum, but yes, taxpayer dollars are involved. And always will be. Both the right to abortion and some tax dollar involvement are lost battles.
3. Yes, the system is available to fraud, but voter ID is a small component of the fraud. The fraud occurs on a wholesale basis, not with individuals. Yes, Dems benefit from fraud far and away more, as they control politics in most big cities.
4. No, public expression of religion is not prohibited. Public expression of religion at taxpayer expense is. That is in line with the wishes of the FF, which are cited next in Deb's LTE.
5. To some extent, Deb is correct here, as the 1st Amendment is tortured into approving of arson in public places, while the 2nd Amendment has been somewhat reworked, whlle the 10th Amendment has been ignored. The 1st Amendment is also ignored as portions of employee's paychecks at placed at collectivists' disposal to make political statements without consent from those employees.
6. The Left does disrespect private property, as collectivism takes precedence, but eminent domain is a complex issue, and we cannot be entirely doctrinaire here. Sometimes, a road must go thru. A shopping center is another matter.
7. The extent to which the current Administration favors unions is criminal and unconstitutional.
8. Deb is somewhat correct here, but perhaps a bit hyperbolic. It is paramount that we have an energy policy. We do not.
9. Yes, class envy warfare is indeed practiced, but political hyperbole is not confined to the Left. Unfortunately, the media buy-in to hyperbole is oriented toward the left.
10. Yes, crises are exploited. The Left is more willing to do this, IMO, but the Right is not blameless. WMD's are an example of Rightward culpability, and a manufactured crisis at that.
11. The current Administration is careful not to single out militant Islamists as terrorists. It is also careful not to single out domestic terrorists like the ILWU.
12. The spending and borrowing issue is complex, but at the moment, someone needs to be spending to keep business furnishing goods, services, and jobs, and business itself is sitting on stacks of money, perhaps $1T, that it is not spending. A case can be put forward that taxpayer money/borrowed money must be spent to create a demand that will get that sequestered dough moving to meet that demand.
13. Yes, the quantitative easing gives one pause, though inflation remains low. The real pause from QE comes from the realization that things are so dire that is needed.
14. Where are taxes rising? Yes, there are proposals to increase taxes on those with the reserves to pay, and there are idiotic demands that consumers pay more taxes thru corporate tax increases. But, so far, the last change in tax rates that I recall is the massively stimulating 1-cent state sales tax rollback that has led to teacher layoffs, with more coming. I really appreciate the 15-cent reduction in the 10-pack of Stellas I recently purchased. I would have one to celebrate, but it's late, so I bid Deb and the Branch Office posters good night.
Deb,
ReplyDeleteThank you so very much for writing in. It's refreshing to see someone who lives in the real world put the liberal agenda in perspective.
The monthly propaganda written into the Journal by the same old liberal proponents that bash Republicans and push their form of big government on the people is getting real old. I hope more conservatives, like yourself, start to write in.
There's an old saying that the 'silent majority' is always just waiting to speak. I have a feeling that we are going to hear from that group in a big way in 2012, which will ultimately end Obama's presidency.
Remember, there could be gay bucks a-bangin in every public bathroom, so be careful out there.
Sincerely,
Bucky
♫♪♫♪æ♫♪♪♫♫ leitmotif, idee fixe, and a partridge in a pear tree.
ReplyDeletejust a boy and his I-pod, and his anti-bucky app.
ReplyDeleteTake it away WW: "Nobody knows........
you keep knocking your balls out of bounds, Buckapotamus.
ReplyDelete"da trouble I seen, nobody knows da sorrow"
ReplyDeleteOr something like that. Fish ain't bite'n.
Residual Chocolate Fudge
ReplyDeleteThat's the name of the new ice cream I would like to suggest to the CEO(s) of 'Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream' to develop and make. The owners and founders of 'Ben & Jerry's' have a long history of creating ice cream for liberal causes. It seems they created 'Hubby Hubby' to support gay marriage a few years ago.
The name of my ice cream suggestion would represent what's left over after a gay buck love making session.
That flavor, like 'Schweddy Balls', oughta to sell well.
Abby
ReplyDeleteAbby who?
ReplyDeleteAbby Normal
ReplyDeleteI figured you'd like my suggestion, Bobby.
ReplyDeleteBucky, ya know, gay sex may not be "normal" but what is less than "normal" is a heterosexual man who constantly thinks and writes about it no matter what the previous subject.
ReplyDeleteYou think about it more than anyone I have ever known.
ReplyDeleteThat just seems odd to me, but I guess what is odd to one is not to another.
ReplyDeleteAnd to speak so often about something you claim to know so little about.
ReplyDeleteI probably wouldn't think about it that much if it wasn't being rammed down our throats by all these liberal newspapers, Bobby. A day doesn't go by when some liberal writer isn't saying how wonderful the gay and lesbian lifestyle is.
ReplyDeleteYou can blame me if you want, but liberal newspapers, like the Journal, are much to blame too.
there are conservative newspapers online too. Reading newspapers is a choice, especially in today's world of technology. Even reading specific stories is a choice. Perhaps you might consider making better choices.
ReplyDeletetrue, we're never to blame ourselves
the journal makes me do it, I'm just a victim of the journal and other liberal news outlets.
ReplyDeleteIn a military survey, 63% of the servicemen and women said there will be problems as a result of DADT being repealed.
ReplyDeleteThe hightest percentage was among the Marines who are the first-line fighting men and women. But the newspapers bury that information because it's not politically correct.
Bobby, I said you can blame me. What more do you want from me, Bobby? A scoop of 'Residual Chocolate Fudge'? Jeez...
ReplyDeleteI have no mind of my own, they control what I say and when I say it, what I write and when I write it.
ReplyDeleteyes, if I want, but I'm not looking to place the blame for your idee fixe, just point it out
ReplyDeletetouch me there one more time and you're pureed green beans and carrots. Ya know, bucky, I really wanted a bird.
ReplyDeleteHmm, Herman Cain won the florida staw poll. Beat Perry by 20 points.
ReplyDeleteBobby, I'd like to also point out that you are the one that brought up that grotesques ice cream made by Ben and Jerry's-Schweddy Balls. I was merely following up on your own sexually deviant thoughts.
ReplyDeleteYes, I actually did bring up an actual Ice Cream Flavor by B&J, one avialable at your local markets. That was the other day. As far as today is concerned, I refer you to your 8:33am
ReplyDeleteit's an idee fixe, bucky, but I'm preaching to the choir, you know that.
ReplyDeleteI see that Ms Hysteria is back doing her Joseph Goebbels act, based on the proven fact that if you repeat your lies often enough a certain number of fools will begin to believe them. Just look at all the dittoheads that wander around parroting Rush Limbaugh, including several Republican "candidates" for president.
ReplyDeleteNot worth a response. She'll keep on repeating the same canards until she is raptured to fantasyland.
Yeah...I don't think she likes people like me very much. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteOff to destroy freedom and kill some babies.
I didn't realize that the Philippine-American War was still going on. You're a member of the expeditionary force?
ReplyDeleteStill holding out for the Spaniards.
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I heard Amigo was pretty good. I mean to get it on Netflix (excuse me, Quickster) when it comes out on DVD.
Wow, it looks like Josh Fattal, the released hiker, has a real attitude. He's probably related to Rush/Kitty Kat in some way.
ReplyDeleteShane Bauer seems like a pretty squared away guy, whoa...on Fattal though.
ReplyDeleteWith the Bush tax cuts set to expire, and Obamacare coming into effect, we can expect $2 trillion in new taxes soon.
ReplyDeleteDon't you just love Democrats?
Arthur, I've read some of the reviews for Amigo. Maltin complained that one of the most brutal American officers was a "cliche". I don't know how you turn something like this into a cliche:
ReplyDelete"I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn; and the more you burn and kill, the better it will please me. I want you to reduce Samar into a 'howling wilderness. '"
General Jacob Smith, USA
Samar, Philippines, October 23, 1901
Smith clarified his order by explaining that all males ten and over should be killed. He was tried for war crimes by a phony military tribunal after the war and sentenced to be "admonished". There was such an outcry at that that President T. Roosevelt, who was responsible for the whole evil mess, suggested that he also be ordered to retire.
Smith was not alone. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died in concentration camps. Thousands of Philippine women were raped by US troops. And in one typical incident, 130 POWs were made to dig their own graves. A local priest heard their confessions. Then they were shot and buried. The priest was hanged above their graves.
Years later Roosevelt stated that the whole Philippine business was a huge mistake. But he never apologized for the many war crimes committed at his urging. Since he referred to Philippine citizens as "wild monkeys", I guess he saw no reason to feel bad about slaughtering them.
Good evening, folks! And a good evening it is. The Steelers are on, and the Stellas are cold.
ReplyDeleteBucky, letting taxes increase (or tax cuts expire, if you must be euphemistic) is the easiest way to make up some of the deficit. No legislation is required. The R's in the House can try to extend, but the Dems in the Senate will not. As far as political capital gain or loss is concerned, it will be a draw. We'll have to put up with the class war kabuki dance from the two parties, but I suspect both already know the outcome.
OT: Deb's LTE may be off in some respects, but she's dead on re this Administration and unions.
There are two recurring obsessions on this forum. Both are meaningless in the greater scheme of things.
ReplyDeleteWhen corporations, with their unrestrained spending made possible by a pathetically political supreme court, make Ricky Perry the first billion dollar president, I hope we won't hear any carping from anyone about the second ignorant cracker in four years to occupy the White House.
Stab...we're going to get hammered with new taxes soon, and Obama wants to tax us more. He says he's only going to tax the rich, but everybody knows that's just a ruse.
ReplyDeleteI'll be glad when 2012 gets here, at least we'll have a chance to throw the bum out.
Hey Rush/Kitty Kat...I saw your cousin on TV today. What an idiot! Josh Fattal sounded just like you.
ReplyDeleteOT, my obsession is with violation of individual rights by unions, as I have (no doubt tiresomely) explained before. Bullying people into contributing to a political organization seems to bother liberal types not. The government suing a business for doing business in a particular state? These seem to be gross intrusions on freedom.
ReplyDeleteAs for the USSC decision allowing corporations the same rights as unions, that just leveled a playing field. Unions shoveled hundreds of millions into the 2008 campaign in spite of laws against. And that money came from people who had no say in its spending, and scant say in the choosing of the ideologues who spend it. If I don't like whom a corporation supports, then I don't buy its products, just as I try to buy non-union where possible.
There was an effort in Congress to dilute the effects of the USSC decision. Unfortunately, the Dems wrote it in a way that unions were excluded from the bill's provisions.
Corporate influence of politics is corrosive, to an extent, but corporations furnish paychecks, products, services. Unions sap the economy and the body politic.
Bucky, we survived with the pre-Bush tax rates, and there is justification for letting the cuts expire, as we need to start paying taxes for things we bought with money that was borrowed instead of collected. It appears that deficits did matter after all.
ReplyDeleteStab.......I saw a map today of the right to work states, and all of the union states are in the northeast and out west. Almost all of them are going bankrupt and have extremely high taxes. Unions are still killing America.
ReplyDeleteBelieve what you like. I will repeat irrefutable facts:
ReplyDeleteCampaign spending: Corporations AT LEAST 2.5x over unions over the last two decades. The business about "in kind" won't hunt, because that must be reported as well, and is.
Lobbying: Nobody really knows here, because despite laws requiring it, many lobbyists don't register and report. Example: In the last administration, the VP was a hard core lobbyist for big oil. Did he register? Was he registered before? Is he now registered? Just one of many.
Best effort attempts to quantify lobbying show that corporations spend between 10x and 100x over unions.
As to the "freedom" issue...give me a break. Corporations allow no freedom to their workers. Workers are expected to show total loyalty to employers. There is zero in the other direction.
As cited before, a VERY TINY example, WF Baptist Medical Center and their poor whistle blower. This goes on every day, everywhere.
I once got a chance to see the war between unions and corporations up close and personal. It was nasty and ugly, with the corp involved holding the upper hand every step of the way. No sex, plenty of lies, and I wish there was videotape.
Bucky, I noted in the print edition of today's "Journal," that there was one page of large ads from a number of employers, and quite a few jobs, at that. One of the employers was seeking call center staff. More interesting is that the other large ads were for manufacturing jobs here and in Mt. Airy. I suspect that we can thank right-to-work at least partly for this upsurge. Nevermind the call center, though. That employer is unionized (and the starting rate for those call center jobs is $9.96/hour before union dues are extracted).
ReplyDeleteYour map is geographically incorrect. A number of non-RTW states are in the Midwest/Great Plains. NM is an NRTW state, also.
Actually, I can understand where an employer might prefer that if employees vote for a union, that it is more convenient to have the entire bargaining unit in the union. That wouldn't bother me that much if we could keep the union from spending members' money for political activity.
OT, how is in-kind support documented? Unions can say that they hired administrative assistants, organizers, outreach people, but how is it established that those people actually assisted, organized, reached out?
ReplyDeleteI don't understand your reference to "freedom." Employees of corporations can vote for whomever they wish in the privacy of polling places. Yes, employers expect loyalty. I once worked for AmEx. That fine company would have been a bit chagrined with me had I touted Visa cards. Apostate union members can be harshly treated by union goons. I remain mystified that I cannot get a response regarding the intimidation factor of card check.
Also, I don't read any justification for the NLRB lawsuit. And responding by listing corporate perfidy or claiming how beneficial unions were in the time of Samuel Gompers is not a response to the issues I cite.
Obama is getting slammed again on his position on Palestine. I guess he must be used to it by now.
ReplyDeleteThere has been a 29% drop in approval by Jewish voters of Obama since his election in 2008.
Obama could screw-up a screw.
I left out union contributions to like-minded outfits, also. That is a convenient way to launder political activity. The SEIU allowed ACORN to colocate its offices in some of the union's quarters here and there.
ReplyDeleteDidn't mention Samuel Gompers once above, or any other union history.
ReplyDeleteJust said that unions, after 30 years of all out warfare on them at federal and state levels, are approaching irrelevancy.
If your beloved corporations produce jobs, where are those jobs? Not in the USA. China. India. Indonesia. Singapore. Malaysia. Taiwan. Korea. Even effing Mexico. that's where they are, and where they will remain. Corporations are NOT a part of the American Dream. All they care about is the bottom line, and attracting more money, money, money.
Corporate America began with the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers and other rapacious souls and has not changed for 150 years. The war that I mentioned above was a response to the wishes of corporate America. When TR said that it was a big mistake, he didn't mean the horrors visited upon the Philippines. he meant that through his own ignorance and that of corporate America, it turned out that the Philippines were not nearly as important for "opening" Asia as they thought, just as Dick Cheney's ideas about Middle Eastern oil have proved wrong.
Witness the result of those ridiculous ideas. Who is sucking hind tit today? It ain't Asia.
Why do I ignore the repetitious question about "card check"? Simple. It will not pass, so I do not waste my time on it.
ReplyDeleteMuch more interested in the local elections in 2012, especially county commissioners and school board. These have way more effect on me than anything that is going on in Washington.
I want a new library and better schools.
OT, you have previously mentioned the allegedly beneficial history of unions, but you are correct in that you have not mentioned Gompers. That was a bit of allusion on my part to historical references on yours.
ReplyDeleteAs for corporations and jobs, we actually do export things, and we also have to pay folks to process the imports. Also, did you miss my reference to the manufacturing jobs posted in the "Journal"? Apparently, there is still work for Americans. I note car plants in various places (non-union), where cars with foreign nameplates assembled.
I still await comment re the coercion that is card check, and the egregious Boeing lawsuit.
Rush/Kitty Kat....it's too late for you. No school or library will get you out your psychotic mental state.
ReplyDeleteStab....the latest rumor is the next stop for Boeing is China. I think the CEOs have had enough of the Democrats.
ReplyDeleteOT, card check is being instituted by bureaucratic fiat, courtesy of union stooges in the NLRB, stooges appointed by President Obama. Comments?
ReplyDeleteThe Boeing lawsuit?
As for the library, I voted for the bonds. As for education, I may run for school board. Remember, Mrs. Stab is a teacher. She works very hard. We don't spend much time together because she has to do lesson plans at home, and grade papers. Why? She has 2 meetings tomorrow, 2 on TU, and 3 on WE. I have been in the business world for all or part of 6 decades (effectively 4); I hate despise meetings as much as I do unions. Both sap productivity.
My electoral aspirations hinge on my responsibilities to my various households, but we'll see. Want to help? I suspect our outlooks toward local politics are less dissimilar than to national.
Bucky, I doubt Boeing will outsource there. China has a bad reputation for "borrowing" technology.
ReplyDeleteStab..if you'll promise to get rid of the nitwit Don Martin, I'll vote ya.
ReplyDeleteI regret getting involved in the union discussion. In fact, I found myself the other night violating two of my grandmother's injunctions in a single post.
ReplyDeleteShe had two simple rules:
1. Never argue religion. Unions clearly qualify in this case.
2. Never say the name of the devil, for he will surely come. I did and he did. And of course, as always, he cited his religion, which involves bad ends.
I have not run for office since about 10th grade. But I have been involved in politics behind the scenes for much of my life...not so much in recent years, but lately pushing others to find a way to modernize our local boards, specifically the County Commissioners and the School Board, both of which have fallen under the control of backward looking people.
I have already mentioned your name to the folks that I am talking to. My main thrust is not candidates but process, so I have no idea how that will go. My only concern with candidates is that they be vigorous, intelligent, educated and without ideological limitations. That leaves out a considerable part of the current boards.
Bucky, a disclaimer: Mrs. Stab requests that I state that any opinions that I state re local education are solely mine and do not reflect hers.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I do not know the sources of the requirements for the idiotic meetings and clock-punching workshops, but teacher working conditions would be my focus, with a narrow focus on allowing them to discharge their core function of teaching. I also am very concerned with the system's "you're stuck with it" approach to teachers and troublesome students. If Martin is not part of the solution . . .
All that said, I have to be able to meet my own responsibilities before I can educate myself to be qualified for the post, run for it, and then discharge my responsibilities.
As to this football thing. I used to be a sports nut, played varsity in HS and college and the military, even though I am NOT a physical wonder. All about desire and figuring out how to beat somebody...more Billy Martin than Billy Cunningham.
ReplyDeleteBut I have pretty much lost interest in recent years as money has taken away the physical and mental joy of sport.
I COULD watch tonight's game free on my computer. But, as mentioned, corporations have the right to arrange things the way they want them. But I find that NBC has decided to require a Microsoft program called Silverlight to view their broadcasts.
Since I live in a world where Microsoft is irrelevant, I choose not to use their software. So...
I did take a peek, though. The play I saw had a Colts receiver faking a Steeler defender out of his jock. A well delivered pass and the Colts have six. But the guy throwing the pass does not have the name MANNING on his jersey. Are the Steelers playing the Colts jayvees?
OK, OT, I'll lay off unions for a bit.
ReplyDeleteAs for school board or other local offices, I'm not particularly ideological, to the extent of seeing that teachers have no one to speak for them (a motivation for me to seek office). I actually like Mayor Joines, have talked with him briefly on a few occasions. He has done a good job for this city.
OT, I really liked the NFL a lot more in earlier days, but I have enjoyed pulling for the Steelers and visiting Pittsburgh, so I let the game play and now watch the end game.
ReplyDeleteI used Silverlight to watch Richard Feynmann's Messenger lectures, worth involving oneself with Microsoft.
Manning is injured, but the Colts still field some good players, especially a couple of defenders.
Sloppy Steelers win 23-20.
ReplyDeleteYes, the Steelers are fun. Like the old Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, they are always on the brink of breaking their fans hearts, but usually, somehow, find a way to make things right.
ReplyDeleteYou want to talk conservative, when it comes to sports I make Barry Goldwater look like a flaming liberal. If I had my way, major league baseball would still have sixteen teams, with three in NY and two in Boston, Philly, Chicago and St. Louis.
And football would be the way it was originally founded...no goal posts and only one way to score, by touching the ball down in the end zone.
I'm with you on baseball. As for football, I hadn't thought about the scoring that much, but like your scoring preference, but think safeties are worth something as well.
ReplyDeleteAnd I liked the NFL better before the merger with AFL, but the Steelers were exercises in futility for most of the years prior to the merger.
Is the new ice cream name Schweddy Balls in bad taste? CNN Poll
ReplyDeleteBobby doesn't think so, he loves the stuff.