One Set of Laws for US Citizens, Other Laws for Corporations

My head is going to explode over the FISA court/warrant wireless wire tap issue. These so called libertarian/limited government republicans and "fair" demorcats are writing up bills with retro active immunity for telecommunication companies who knowingly broke the law.

The average citizen breaks a law and faces consequences. A company does it and they line up the pockets of political players on both sides to pass them legislation to cover the tracks of their law breaking activity.

Here are links to what is going on in Congress with regards to the FISA Bill, Here and Here.

The 9/11 argument is total manure because it was recently revealed that telecom companies were giving the govt/executive branch our phone records without a judge signing off on it BEFORE 9/11.

This issue is not about providing the government the necessary tools to catch terrorists as the former law provides a 72hour window to snoop without a warrant. It is having safeguards in place so that our rights of unreasonable search and seizure(Remember the 4th amendment?) are not voided out in the process.

Eventually, the government has to prove to a judge that their snooping is warranted. Extension of the current law guts judicial oversight and lays it in the hands of the Attorney General. We have seen how trustworthy that office has been in the past few years. "I dont recall!"

The Congressional Democratic leadership are not innocent by their enabler actions either and I wish I could throw my cell phone out the window. The telecoms behavior sickens me and I have whole post ready to rip them apart.

Thank God Presidential Candidate, Senator Chris Dodd recently showed some leadership on this issue by placing a hold on the bill that would give telecoms retroactive immunity.

I am fearful that we are soon becoming a country where we as citizens have to prove to the government that our behavior is legal under their laws, instead of the onus on the government to prove that our actions are illegal.

The Orwellian world of 1984 is alive and well in 2007.

Wiretap Debate
Telecoms giving Bush Administration our phone records BEFORE 9/11
Telecoms' political donations earn them immunity legislation
Fire Dog's FISA coverage
Senator Dodd has Balls to stand up for our rights
Dodd provides hope that political leaders fight for individuals over corporations
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Dumbest College Coach in America

Is Bill Callahan TRYING to get fired before the season is over or does he just not give a flying F anymore? I am sure it is a combination of both. He already lost the Buy Out Bowl to Denny Fran's Aggies last Saturday and his team is 3 touchdown underdogs at Texas this weekend.

During his radio show on Tuesday, Callahan commented about "watching out for Limas Sweed" this weekend vs Texas.

I understand Billy C is scared of Sweed's ability after he pissed all over his pinkshirts last year in Lincoln.

However, there is a little problem with the forewarning about Sweed from the number one "dead man walking" coach in America.

Sweed was reported injured on October 8th and already has had season ending wrist surgery!!

So a major performer in your own conference has been ruled out for over 2 weeks and you are still game planning for him or at least attempting to worry about him in the media? Unbelievable. This guy is the ultimate Used Car Salesmen by convincing himself to buy a lemon that does not even run anymore!

If I see Ricky Williams in the backfield on Saturday, I am definitely throwing the house on the Longhorns and the over. Hell, I would do it anyway but this time I would do it on WEED, Man.




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HUGE VAGINA!

What kind of tasteless, immature, sports and sex crazed male would I be without posting this video from last night's Jags/Colts game? I could watch this video from Mister Irrelevant, over and over.

Somewhere, Larry David is smiling. A HUGE SMILE!

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Pro Football Fix: Week 7

I have been slacking on my football recaps. This was supposed to be a weekly staple but it has quickly fizzled out.I have the notes every week but the execution part has been seriously lacking. I was trying to hold out for money but my agent’s demands ( large amounts of whiskey, cigs, KY) caved faster than the Tribe’s World Series hopes. My boss (ME) put me back to work over the weekend in hopes of reviving this endeavor and I was able squeeze in 2 solid days of football viewing. Here is MY NFL Football Fix:

The Week 7 of the National Football League could be summed up quickly by the fact that was only one matchup (Bucs/Lions) between above 500 teams. There were a few close finishes but overall, the play was very lackluster. Great finishes does not necessarily translate into good football and this was the case on Sunday.

The other highlighted theme was the retread QBs, who either led their team to last second victories or set them up on final drives. Brian Greise and Kerry Collins had impressive last second game winning drives. Both Sage Rosenfelds and Kurt Warner put their team in position to win games, only to see the Texan defense and Zona kicker, misfire on these opportunities.

Here is my breakdown of my observations of each game on Sunday.

Skins 21 Cardinals 19
This was one of the main games that I watched in its entirety and if the Skins had any resemblance of an offense, it would have been a blow out. Robo QB Kurt Warner, playing with a huge brace on his blown out left elbow, gave the Skins 14 points with 2 INTS. One pick was returned by London Flethcher for a score and another set up a score. The Skins still won this game with less than 200 yards total offense. The key part of the game was when the Skins blocked a Cards extra point at the end of the first half and Rackers freaked out on Carlos Rogers. . Check out the video.


When the Cards scored at the end of the game, they had to go for 2 points and their unsuccessful play choice of WR pass by Anaquan Boldin was highly questionable. Boldin, who went to FSU as a QB, had Larry Fitzgerald open but threw an absolute duck, right too a Skins Defender. The Cards recovered the onsides kick, Warner completed a few passes to the cards in Rackers range but he pushed the kick.

Fletcher was everywhere in this game and Greg Williams has been brilliant in backing off of his blitzing style. I love coaches that find success and exploit it, instead of stubbornly trying to use their system, no matter what. Sean Taylor is back to his 05 form and is playing at a high pro bowl level.

Where was Cooley in this game? He tore up Green Bay last week and he barely had any touches.
I hate the new delay of game ruling and taunting rule. It is so stupid, Fletcher flexed his muscles after making a big hit and they gave the other team a first down. NO FUN LEAGUE.

Titans 38, Texans 36
This game and the Bills/Cowboys MNF game are the 2 craziest NFL games that I have seen in 07. Schaub was knocked out on 2 separate occasions and the Texas kept turning the ball over. Sage "the Rage" Rosenfelds came in, with the Texans trailing 32-7 in the 4th quarter, and almost pulled a Frank Reich like comeback. His last TD bomb was an unbelievable throw/catch and this go ahead score was even possible after the Texans recovered 2 onside kicks in a row. The first recovery was called back because of a penalty.

I was about to stick a fork in the Titans until Kerry Collins made 2 perfect throws to get his team into FG range. Rob "My" Bironas punched his NFL record 8 FG through uprights for the game winner. Other Notes:

The Texans made this comeback attempt with 2 white receivers catching several balls. I was actually getting confused as to which whitey was making the catches and THIS never happens in the NFL.

The analyst Randy Cross pulled out a first heard superlative to describe the Texan fans and teams state during this 4th quarter rally: "Texans are experiencing a Tsunami of Emotion."HUH? Is it appropriate to use a disaster that killed a 100,000 thousand people just a few years as a football adjective? I know Cross did not mean any harm but I thought it was out of nowhere.

After Birnoas made the game winner, Enberg made 2 long winded comments to Bironas about his long struggle to make it to the NFL. This is Bironas' 3rd season in the league and he just kicked the game winning. NFL record breaking kick a few minutes ago, would you not bring up his time with AFL Swamp foxes right away?

A final shocking revelation was seeing the sweat pour down Bironas's face like he was on the 10th mile of the Chicago marathon. I never knew kicker's could perspire.

Bills 19, Ravens 14
I missed much of this game and it looks like I did not miss much. Ravens struggles on the road continue and Ray Lewis is questioning Billick's play calling abilities.

Pats 49, Fins 28
I did not mention Tom Brady in the opening paragraphs because I do not have him or Moss on my fantasy teams and the national media is doing a good enough job slobbering the Patriots. The first half of this game (42-7) reminded me of an All Star Madden Gamer crushing a beginner as it was almost comical. The Pats drove at will, Brady kept chucking TDs and Moss was leaping from nowhere to make 2 sick TD grabs.

Plus, I am convinced all owners of Pats RBs in fantasy should drop them now. Bellicheck will probably give the ball to Vrabel or Seau anyway on the goal line.

Craziest part was the Pats put in their backup Cassells, who threw a pick for a TD to bring the Fins within 21 so Brady comes back in and tosses his 6th TD.

Giants 33, 49ers 15
I saw enough of this contest that the 49ers suck on offense and Brandon Jacobs is back healthy, stealing away my fantasy RB Derrick Wards TD. They play of this game was Giants DE Big O (his name is too long) crushing Dilfer from his blindside, forcing a fumble, picking it up, and racing all the way to the end zone. Dude has more speed than Ellen Degeneres does fake doggy tears. I am shocked that the Giants seemed to have turned their season around after the stink bombs they threw up the first 2 weeks.

Saints 22 Falcons 16
The ultimate battle of 2 teams in utter disaray. The Saints can not find their 06 mojo. Coach Payton keeps burying and digging stuff back up to revive their season. The Falcons 07 season was also buried metaphorically by 50 canine graves in Virginia.

Leftwich was looking all right until he injured his ankle and John Joseph Harrington was not able to save the day. Roddy White had a career fantasy game and Reggie Bush made the end zone. Falcons LB Keith Brookings seemed clueless on this Bush TD run.



Lions 23, Bucs 16
I was hoping to see a Jeff Garcia/Roy Williams fight but those two did not square off. Roy the Pizza Boy, ripped Garcia in the media and said his 2 year old could figure out the West Coast offense. Garcia had a key red zone fumbled snap that cost the Bucs a chance at a late comeback. It appears that Kitna's preseason prediction of 10 wins for the Lions might not be so delusional after all.

For fantasy purposes Bucks RB Ernest Graham had a big yardage game, Kevin Jones looks to be a solid starter again and Bucs WR Ike Hillard is back from the dead, becoming a Garcia favorite target.

Chief 12 Raiders 10
Every time I turned it to this game, not much was going on. I did catch Cullpepper toss a pick on a potential go ahead drive in the waning moments of the game. Check out the Soulja Boy for your Weekly Chiefs Highlights.



Bengals 38, Jets31
The only reason that the Jets might win 4 games is that they get to play Buffalo and Miami again. The Bengals are not a playoff team either and Marvin Lewis could start being on the hot seat. L Coles showed some speed on some long TD catches but the Bengals Offensive was eventually just too much for Gang greenless Jets defense. Kenny Watson will be a good fantasy start if Rudi keeps sitting out games.

Bears 19 Eagles 16
This game of 2 sputtering offenses was awful to watch and the last 2 minutes was the only exciting parts. I actually said, "Can Brian Greise lead the Bears 97 yards in 2 minutes for the winning TD?" My sarcastic question was answered by the improbable Greise winning drive. As a Packer fan, I wanted the Eagles to put a dagger in deeper in the Bears season already but now they still have life. Griese gives them a more effective passing game. However, the writing is on the wall that RB Benson will forever be a bust in this league.


Seahawks 33, Rams 6
Every time I turned this game on, Bulger was either getting sacked or running for his life. It was not the week in fantasy to go up against Seahawks D as they absolutely destroyed the Rams. I have not seen a QB look so shell shocked than Bulger does under center right now. He better be happy that he signed that contract extension before the season. The Rams season officially ended when Orlando Pace tore up his shoulder in the first game. What happened to Shaun Alexander? He used to dominate fantasy football but now he can not get 50 yards against the Rams? Crazy.

I noticed Seattle backup QB and sometimes WR, Seneca Wallace was sporting large amounts of teal on his shoes. I liked the look and thus, ultimately meansn that the NFL will not and fine him thousands of dollars. I am reserving my 1000 words rant on the fascist, overbearing, micromanaging NFL for another day.

I did enjoy Ichiro waving the Seahawks 12th man towel around, sporting a bright color turtlekneck. I have never seen the guy smile, even after Japan won the World Baseball Championships.

Cowboys 24, Vikings 14
MEMO to Viqueens Head Coach: FEED APETE! Purple Jesus is the most offensively talented rookie to come into this league since LT or Randy Moss, GIVE HIM THE BALL! No one can tackle this guy and 12 carries is despicable. Can you tell that I have APete on 2 of my fantasy squads?

Tavarias Jackson is not the answer either at QB, at least not now. He has a live arm and good mobility but he is not accurate with the ball nor can he read defenses at all. I have no idea why the Vikes' personnel department thought he was ready to be a starting QB in this league. Both crappy Holcomb or Bollinger give them a better chance to win than Jackson.

It is good to see the Cowboys finally are giving Marion Barber the majority of the work load and decreasing Julian Jones' carriers. Barber might be harder to bring down that Purple Jesus. This was a strange game as the Cowboys clearly dominated but it was still close due to defensive touchdowns, yet it was never in doubt because of the limited ability of the aforementioned Jackson.

Broncos 31, Steelers 28
For a putrid day of football, this game was a well needed refresher. Both Big Ben and Culter had big days. The defenses made key plays and it came down to the leg of Bronco K, Jason Elam. He has won all 3 of the Broncos wins on last second FGs. Does this guy ever miss a key FG? Elam and Vinateri are 2 kickers of this generation that I would argue would deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. Gary and Morten Anderson too but they still keep coming back into the league.

Colts 29, Jags 7
While the announcers continually talked about the Patriots at every chance they could get, the Colts pounded the Jags right in their throat. They methodically drove down on 3 straight first half drives to make it 17-0 and put the game away. Bobby "da hitman" Sanders energy seems to be contageous on this defensive as other players fly around and make big plays. Once Garrard went down it was over and I would avoid using many Jacksonville players in fantasy. Taylor might be a decent play now that Jones-Drew is hurt. This was a total disastrous games for the Jags.

Memo to ABC: Stop putting people in the booth and have your annoucners actually talk about the game! I do not understand this idea of constantly annoying your fan base by an utter distraction for a full 30-45 minutes.

Most could care less about Russell Crowe, Jimmy Kimmel, or even my man Charles Barkley has to say during a NFL game. Unless they are directly relevant to the action on the field, do not have them talk at all.

Next can you either take off the muzzle off of Kornheiser and make him funny again or throw him to the curb. His jokes are timid/lame/dated and most guys sitting at a bar know more about the football than he does. His whole personality career has been based on self deprication humor and him ripping part everyone that he does not like. In the MNF booth, I hear none of this and it is pretty unbearable.

I am about to take PTI off my TIVO. If you made it this far, you are a true Mac Gs World reader. Your reward is nothing. word.

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Best Defender in the NFL

I just wanted to recognize one of my favorite players of All Time: Bobby "da hit man" Sanders. He deserves all of the media praise lavished on him right now and Sanders dominated that game last night. He was flying all over the field, displaying his hard hitting and ball hawking skills. I would like to see what defender is more valuable to his team than Sanders.

I posted this Hawkeye Video before but I had to take it down, long story for another post. Enjoy




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Rockies Find a Way to Finally Lose: Slinging their World Series Tickets

Colorado Rockies World Series tickets went on sale online at 10am MST today and my boy Racho was lucky enough to score 4 club level seats. Right before he was about to get his confirmation, the whole system crashed. The picture above is his screen shot.

Racho is a just a tad bit little bitter(furious actually) and the Rockies ticket office is not answering calls right now. My buddy is pretty much screwed and it looks like he is not the only one frustrated.

It turns out only a few hundred tickets were sold so far and they are going to announce a new ticket distribution plan later this afternoon.

ROCKIES HQ DENVER – Amid an angry crowd chanting ‘We want tickets,’ Rockies spokesperson Jay Alves announced World Series ticket sales have been suspended Monday.

Alves says virtually all the tickets are still available, due to a computer system malfunction. He says only several hundred tickets were sold.

‘Right now we’re shutting the system down …. We expect to be online at some point,’ Alves said.

According to Alves, the Colorado Rockies will announce new plans to sell the tickets at some point later Monday afternoon. He says the Web site received 8.5 million hits in the first 90 minutes the system was up and running.

Fans booed as Alves made the announcement outside Coors Field.

‘We’re as frustrated and disappointed as they are,’ Alves said of the fans.

Alves say they will not be selling the tickets at Coors Field. He says their goal is to get the computer system up and running again so that they can resume online sales.

Blog Recap of the Debacle
Fans are Pissed

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Happy Munday

Thanks to my man at Big Ten Tailgate for this great clip of some sassy Bruin pooners getting their celebratory groove on now that their UCLA team is 4-0 in the Pac Ten. Happy Munday.


This song just flashed me back to my youth of buying single tapes at the mall. I hope Daisy Dukes either never go out of style or always make a comeback.



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New Home on the Market, Name the Owner?

A low per month mortgage payment of only $23,206 could buy you this lovely $4,500,000, 7 Bed, 8.5 Bath home
located near Sugar Loaf golf course in suburban Atlanta.

Amenities include the following:

STUNNING CUSTOM HOME WITH PRICELESS LAKE VIEWS.
2 STORY FOYER FEATURES
DOUBLE CURVED STAIRCASE,
2 STORY STUDY,MASTER W/DOUBLE SIDED FRPL.& SITTING RM,
ELEVATOR,WETBAR,REC.RM,WORKOUT RM W/SAUNA,
THEATRE RM,FULL BAR,LEVEL PRIVATE BACKYARD,
2 OUTDOOR FRPL

Here is the google map location of the mansion.

Why is such a lovely home just built in 2004 on the market in such a short time? The owner is having some money problems.

• His former employer wants 20 million dollars back from him

• He is being sued for 1.3 million for defaulting on a loan for a wine store

• His legal bills keep rising as he is now facing more criminal charges

The answer: Ron Mexico.

Who knew that herpes, weed in a water bottle, flipping off your own fans, a posse member stealing a watch in an airport, and the inability to hit open receivers on a consistent basis would be the best possible problems that he could have right now.

Mexico's House Listing
Google Earth Map
Article in AJC


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Tree's Trip of Thoughts

I decided on a weekly post about my friend Joe's pictures and words about his kick A$$ job as a vital crew member for ESPN College Game Day. He informed me of his elated disbelief on last Friday of making both the USA today and Mac Gs World in the same day.

To recap that makes: Gannett Corporation 1, Poor blogger with a drinking/sports habit 1, BRING IT FISHWRAP!

Here is his rant about MLB playoffs and Husker football. I would email him for his take on Norman last week but he is in Lexington, KY right now setting up for tomorrow. First trip ever to UK for Gameday. He did run into Tim Couch last night and he was accompanied by some serious eye candy. Awesome.

While half the country wonders when Colorado got a baseball team.....What a story the 2007 Colorado Rockies are. Just to close out the regular season on that streak wasn't enough, how about the Monday night game against the Padres to get into the playoffs? Knocking off Jake Peavy and then Trevor Hoffman? Going 7-0 the first two rounds sweeping the Phillies and now the Diamondbacks.

And Kaz Matsui. KAZ MATSIU!!! This guy came to the Mets and looked like he had never played baseball before. He couldn't hit or field any position. Now, he's played a pivotal role for the Rockies on their run to the Series. I don't even think the Rockies were selling out games a month ago. Now, the middle of October, the Broncos suck and the Rockies are going to the World Series.

Everyone in Colorado will now tell you they've always been a die hard Rockies fan and even remember the three games Todd Helton started in '94 for the Tennessee Volunteers or Matt Holliday calling the signals for Oklahoma St. Maybe the worst thing that could of happened to the Rockies was sweeping the NLCS.

Now they have 8 days off before the Series Starts! They can kill a team's momentum. Can you imagine Cleveland/Colorado in the Word Series? All the snowed out games? Maybe the series gets over before pitchers/catchers report.

Just like the Oakland Raiders, the Nebraska Cornhuskers and finally, it's fans and boosters have quit on Bill Callahan. Looking at the remaining schedule, the Huskers probably won't win another game this year. How's this gonna look for recruiting? Probably the only thing to save Nebraska football will be T.O. They need his name more than ever.

Osborne is Nebraska. He is the typical Nebraska personality, work ethic, and attitude. I know he retired because he had a great and long career and wanted to ride out in the sunset and be able to spend more time with his family.

He'll come back to help, but not full time. He cares about Nebraska and it's people too much. I'm sure he doesn't want to go back to working 18 hour days, seven days a week. He'll restore the order. It's a tough task, right now, there are many more football programs more dominant than Nebraska.

Thanks Steve Pederson and Bill Callahan for totally screwing up the best program in college football.

GET OUT!!!!!!

Speaking of Nebraska, I heard that at Boondocker's they give free shots out for Hukser Touchdowns. Now they started giving them out for field goals!


Gamdeday Norman Pictures










Peace OUT!

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Dude! Kenny.....Maaaaaaan. Just Chill Out Bro.

Check out the vocal skirmish between Josh Beckett and Kenny Lofton. Some funny audio on the 2nd video. The audio that I wanted to hear was what Beckett had to say in the dugout to his boys about his ex-chick, Danielle Peck, singing the national anthem. I have never heard of this country singer but Spankalicious! Videos are from Awful Announcing.





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Today's Question

Real or Fake?

I lied and somehow got sucked back in to watching the Real World Sydney again last night. I am done with the show for the second time. Memo to MTV: girls sobbing on the phone to their boyfriends back home is NOT entertaining. An episode with 2 girls doing it? Awful.

Anyway, the Isaac dude just cracks me up. I can not find video of his great apology from earlier this season but it is classic. I did find the recap.

It started innocently enough with the roommates enjoying cocktails and playing Twister. During the game, Shauvon appeared to have a few too many and went to sit on Isaac's lap.

In rapid succession, she fell off Isaac's lap -- a foot and a half to a carpeted floor, not even spilling the bottle of water she was holding -- and started screaming and insisting she was bleeding. (If so, it was a teeny-tiny scrape. No gore was shown, and you know if there had been gore they would have shown it.)

The girls attempted to tape Shauvon up with a tissue-sized bandage, but she's too busy shrieking that Isaac dropped her on purpose for them to finish the job. She confronted Isaac, throwing a plate of chips and demanding an apology.

To which Isaac classically responded: "I apologize that gravity works in your disfavor."

And Shauvon lost her damn mind. She dumped her bottle of water on him and ran off. He threw his beer and baseball cap at her and called her a whole panoply of bad names. KellyAnne convinced Isaac to apologize, saying that even though Shauvon was drunk, he should have expressed some sort of concern that she was hurt.

Isaac went to Shauvon to apologize and uttered the night's classic speech No. 2: "Shauvon, I apologize for calling you a slut. I shouldn't have done that ... and I didn't mean you were a slut like that. When I get up and start yelling at a girl, that's one of the first words that comes out."

He went on from there, discussing other terms he uses when he's ticked off at a lady, but "slut" is pretty much the only one that can be printed on a family website. Even MTV bleeped out some of the alternatives. Use your imagination. Needless to say, Shauvon continued to sob on the couch.

He is the man!

Here is Isaac's note left on some porn for his guy roommate Dunbar so he would go rub one out and not be so uptight. Hilarious.



Here is a video of Isaac talking to Trisha after she was getting emotional on the street listening to these guys play some music that reminded her of home. He needs his own show.


All of these girls on the show are completely NUTS! I will not break them down in more detail because in 3 months they will be after thoughts and the only thing they will have is to make paid appearances at night clubs or get a lucky selection on one of MTV's challenge shows.

I should not post this video because Viacom loves to pull their stuff off of Youtube but this is a good short visual summary of how crazy these chicks really are.

"So Mac G, if this Real World sucks so bad and you have mostly negative things to say about it, why do you keep watching?"

Great Question. Here are some reasons why down below and would you please put the show in DC? Mac G would befriend them and dominate that house.



Oh, the consensus was fake and fabulous.

Thanks to my man, TV Tan Line, for the screen shots.

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What Happened to the Huskers?

This picture says it all as to what has happened in 2007 to the Cornhuskers team and unfortunately, symbolizes the current dismal state of the Nebraska football program. Two of their starting senior linebackers(Ruud&McKeon) look better at "bump, set, spike" than they do at "fill, shed, wrap up."

I normally would not pile on my home state college football squad but after laying down(38-0!) in the first half against an average Okie State team, with the 97 national title team being honored and looking on, this team deserves this picture to be posted. Maybe this humiliation will get them to "man up" and play with some fire/passion on Saturday.

And if this post happens to make the eyes of Father Flannagan wannabee Cowpoke head coach Mike Gundy, I am not 40, I do not have kids, and being called a man would be genuine flattery.

Only to save face for Husker fans everywhere, here are some pictures of Husker QB Sam Keller with some smoking hot poon. If you think this team is bad now, without Keller, they would be 1-11 or 2-10. Keller must have lit up the Tempe poon night life like the 07 Husker opponents do the scoreboard.




At least Slick Stevie Pederson is finally GONE!

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Kiss the Mountain Air We Breathe!

My favorite band is Widespread Panic and a have few shows(you do not want to know the number!) under my belt. Without boring everyone with the details of my past travels, I just want to show you these 2 videos. The first is a guy driving in the hills of Cali, listening to Panic's song, "Surprise Valley." The next video is girl on violin, absolutely nailing the Surprise Valley guitar rift. AWESOME! I am ready for New Year's already.

This video is killa, brah. The introduction just gave me serious MUSIC flashbacks.

Panic still has some dates on their fall tour left and they will be hitting up Atlanta's Phillips Arena for their annual New Year's Eve shows. Check it out. Here are the best fan sites out there.

Panicstream
Everyday Companion Blog
Honest Tune Podcast
Listen to Streams of Shows
Panic Tour Dates

I think this is my first post about Panic on this blog. Damn, I must have really sold out to the Blogger Man.

Oh, kiss the mountain air we breathe
Good-bye it's time to fly.
Sparrow climb, the air is thinner,
Open wings cast this valley in the shade.

Fires dance the shadows
Winds whisper the trees
Mamas talk in the waters
Spirit moves in all things.

Spirit that moves through all things ...

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Cheney's Law

I watched one of the best documentaries that I have seen in awhile last night in the PBS Frontline special, "Cheney's Law." I did not really learn anything new but it did put whole the puzzle of this Administration's covert actions together quite nicely.

CIA secret interrogation facilities, spying on Americans without a court order, ignoring the Geneva Convention, warrantless wiretaps, holding detainees at Guantanamo Bay forever, the ridding of Habeas Corpus, narrowing the definition of torture, politicization of US attorneys and the gutting of the 4th amendment of unreasonable search and seizure. This video touches on the formations of all of these key topics.

My favorite is explaining signing statements by the president, where Congress passes a law and when the president signs it into law, he puts exceptions in there which basically means that he does not have to follow the law he just signed. I think the normal citizen still believes we live in a republic of checks and balances. The exorbitant use of these signing statements by Bush proves that we do not.

Regardless, if you hate Hilary or Rudy, love Ron Paul or Obama, you must watch this documentary. It is fascinating examination of how Cheney, with the help from his legal hit man/aide David Addington, have empowered the executive branch to unprecedented levels.

Here is the Intro

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I Heart Lara Logan

CBS journalist and super hottie, Lara Logan went on the Tonight Show and told Jay Leno about her experience with reporting in Iraq/Afghanistan. I have loved Lara forever(I am a sucker for accents!) and she goes right to the point about the lack of humanizing coverage of the Iraq occupation.

Go to 2:42 left in the video below to see how she thinks things are going very badly in Iraq or you can find a condensed clip of her comments here.



It turns out hottie Lara is married to former European professional basketball player, Steve Simon. I was going to take some pot shots at him but it turns out he was Power Forward and looks pretty ripped.

Plus, Simon has some Iowa ties of being born in my boy Scooter's hometown of Spirit Lake. Scooter has a graduate degree from Okoboji University in beverage making and the best 3 months of my life were spent one summer up at the Lake Resort of Okoboji.
No Shoes, No Shirt, Tuns of Service.

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DR. TOM is BAAAACCCCKKK!

Tom Osborne will be named the school's interim athletic director at a 6:15pm est, Tuesday press conference.

Osborne met with Perlman this morning to discuss the interim post and Osborne agreed to serve, on an open-ended arrangement, until Perlman finds a permanent athletics director.

Osborne said he looks forward to the challenge.

"I've spent the majority of my life working with the Athletic Department at the university and I want to do what I can at this point to continue in the pursuit of excellence that has been previously established," he said.

Osborne will take over the job right away. AWESOME!

I will continue take credit for this historic expedient upheaval by starting the Fire Steve Pederson Blog, hours after the Missouri debacle.

Husker Nation, you are welcome. I think it is the first time as a sports fans that what I proposed doing, actually happened. I wanted the AD fired and replaced by Dr. Tom. A fresh cleansing of the Callahan staff would be my winning trifecta ticket!

Now if I could only finally end the Iraq occupation, have people stop believing the distortions spewed daily at them by Fox News and stop the government from spying on us without warrants. Oh well.

Here is link for KETV's live coverage of the Osborne press conference at 6:15est.

OSBORNE NAMED INTERIM AD

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Mother Teresa, F HER!

Al Gore won the Nobel peace prize last week for his work raising environmental awareness around the world. Check out the above 2 videos for the coverage. Of course this means that the right/Fox News goes absolutely ape shit over his deserved prize(Hey Neil Cavuto, you are not skinny yourself, fat A$$) and columnist Paul Krugman correctly labels their outrage: Gore Derangement Syndrome.

Either love him or hate him, Gore's goal of cleaner air and water are not bad ambitions. Whether you want to pick apart his movie's conclusions, there is no denying that man is warming the planet. I put my faith for global warming stats in the overwhelming majority of scientists that tell me global warming exists and not in the small minority who tell me it does not.

Not surprisingly, the scientists in denial are on the pay roll of the big polluters. Shocker? Plus, when it comes to a cleaner climate and earth for future generations, I would rather error on the side of caution for people's health, instead of being on the other side, arguing to protect the profit margins of global corporations.

Furthermore, it is nice to see a former public official actually have conviction on something other than blowing things up or killing people. Krugman illustrates the syndrome with excerpts from his column:

The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of view, is that he keeps being right. In 1992, George H. W. Bush mocked him as the “ozone man,” but three years later the scientists who discovered the threat to the ozone layer won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2002 he warned that if we invaded Iraq, “the resulting chaos could easily pose a far greater danger to the United States than we presently face from Saddam.” And so it has proved.

But Gore hatred is more than personal. When National Review decided to name its anti-environmental blog Planet Gore, it was trying to discredit the message as well as the messenger. For the truth Mr. Gore has been telling about how human activities are changing the climate isn’t just inconvenient. For conservatives, it’s deeply threatening.

The sulfuric acid in America’s lakes mainly comes from coal burned in U.S. power plants, but the carbon dioxide in America’s air comes from coal and oil burned around the planet — and a ton of coal burned in China has the same effect on the future climate as a ton of coal burned here. So dealing with climate change not only requires new taxes or their equivalent; it also requires international negotiations in which the United States will have to give as well as get.

Everything I’ve just said should be uncontroversial — but imagine the reception a Republican candidate for president would receive if he acknowledged these truths at the next debate. Today, being a good Republican means believing that taxes should always be cut, never raised. It also means believing that we should bomb and bully foreigners, not negotiate with them.

Which brings us to the biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in his case the smear campaign has failed. He’s taken everything they could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible, than ever. And it drives them crazy.Climate change is, however, harder to deal with than acid rain, because the causes are global.

Gore Derangement Syndrome

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"Look What I Can Do!"

This is a summary of the new Kim Kardashian show on the E channel. You must check out the 9 year old practicing her stripper skills. Teaching the girls to be materialistic whores out in LA LA land at an early age. Awesome.

Thanks to WWTDD for the tip.

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Husker AD Steve Pedseron has been FIRED!

Various Nebraska media outlets are reporting that embattled Nebraska Cornhusker AD, Steve Pederson has been fired. A press conference is scheduled in a few hours to announce the decision. Pederson met with University of Nebraska at Lincoln Chancellor, Harvey Perlman earlier today.

Speculation is swirling that legendary coach Dr. Tom Osborne will be replacing Pederson as new athletic director and Osborne's son has stated that he will accept the position if asked.
No word yet on the status of the Husker coaching staff.

I would like to take credit and pat myself on the back for starting this blog(Fire Steve Pederson)less than 10 days ago and having the mission of the blog come to fruition in such a short time period. This has to be a blogosphere record for the fire.com sites and thank You Fire Ron Zook.com for starting it all.

Husker Nation is rejoicing and BRING IN TO!!!

UPDATE: LIVE PRESS CONFERENCE

"I guess that means he was fired!" Great quote by UNL Chancellor Perlman answering the question of whether or not Pederson accepted his resignation request. Pederson gets a 2.2 million buy out of his existing contract. Perlman will not make any staff changes and leave that up to new AD. He will seek out Osborne's advice but he is not named AD. (At least not yet.) Perlman just mentioned that he does not read blogs but he gets stuff sent to him. More proof of the impact of firestevepederson.com. Awesome.

Perlman is getting testy when constantly asked about Osborne and he just quoted head coach Bill Callahan about his upcoming decision of finding a new AD. He just muttered something about going back to being a law school professor if he needs to. Perlman summed up the events of today by referencing how Nebraska Statehood was more important? HUH?

The press conference ended and people started clapping, another bizarre occurrence.

I will never try attempt to live blog a press conference like this again. I am not even sure this Perlman guy should be running the University of Nebraska. At least he admitted his mistake of hiring Pederson and is cutting his losses to move on, which is more than can said about the Bush administration's failed Iraq policy.

Can I start with the speculation? Bill Parcells. Just Kidding. Get a young AD with no Nebraska ties and have him hire a Defensive minded head coach. Then raid the staff of Florida or West Virginia for an offensive coordinator who knows the spread offense.

Husker fans would love the ability to see QB running again but still have the ability to pick up 3rd and longs through the air. The spread is the progressive way to go offensively in college football.

Or throw a boatload of money at Cal's head coach Jeff Tefford as he is struggling to get state of the art facilities built because some crazy hippies will not get down from some trees on Berkley's campus. I am not even making this up.

Hiring TO as an interim AD would ease the transition to a new staff and not completely devastate recruiting. The last thing Nebraska needs is a lame duck coaching staff until late January and getting TO would not completely tear everything down.

Thank YOU Perlman for getting some BALLS and ridding the state of its number one egotistical fiend. Now, 2007 Husker squad can you go play some inspired, "us against the world, F the media, the fans" football on Saturday?



Pederson Meets with AD
YOUR FIRED!
Fire Steve Pederson Blog
Pederson Out
Fire Ron Zook.com phenomenon

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GO BULLS!

Not the Chicago ones, but the South Florida Bulls! The BCS rankings came out yesterday with Ohio St, South Florida, and Boston College claiming the top 3 spots. How many preseason mags, college football fans or talking heads predicted those 3 teams? Absolutely no one!

In honor of the South Florida Bulls being in the drivers seat for a BCS national title game, I have found some cool tailgating videos from USF's demolition of UCF on Saturday.

Poon Salsa Dancing makes me crave tequila and salt.


Start this video at 39 seconds remaining and you will love Mac G's World forever. You might start liking the Bulls because I know that I am super smitten for some USF Bull poon right now.



Happy Munday!

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