So sorry

Not that my blog is that interesting to everyone but I have to apologize. Most of my blogging efort has been focused on Clemson football this season over on the Sporting Gnomes. I understand i'm not a writer but I've been reading, commenting and researching on the net as much as I can. My efforts are refocused and I'll eventually return with something semi interesting, eventually.

Go Tigers.

Hope You Can Float Alone for Eleven Months!

SO! Let’s talk about all those Clemson people who jumped shipped last week after our double overtime loss to BC. For an entire week I took it on the nose from a VT, West Virginia, NC State, and Auburn Alumni. The worst of the ribbing came from none other than a fellow Clemson graduate. I endured nearly hourly reminders that Tommy Bowden sucks, Clemson sucks, Jad Dean Sucks, our team is in the "shitter". Well, after last week I would like for all which jumped the boat to envision this. You bailed and jumped into frigid waters my friends. The good ship Tiger Rag is still sailing to a divisional championship and if you try and clamor back aboard you will be catching the broadside of an ore in the forehead. I’ve been an Atlanta Falcons fan now for 16 years, I’ve seen them in the good and bad and never bailed on them. That is what a true fan is. As for all you Clemson scabs out there, I have great aim with my trusty piece of Basswood. Hope you can tread water till next season!

Taps

Anthony, we'll miss you. I hope you'll be on the sidelines this season supporting everyone. We still need the leadership.

You Can Cram Your Chocolate Right Up Your...

On a tour of the decimated Ninth Ward, Nagin tells Pitts the city has removed most of the debris from public property and it’s mainly private land that’s still affected – areas that can’t be cleaned without the owners' permission. But when Pitts points to flood-damaged cars in the street and a house washed partially into the street, the mayor shoots back. "That’s alright. You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair."

Nagin is confident New Orleans will be whole again and will even be able to withstand another hurricane of Katrina strength, pointing out that taller and stronger levees are being built. It will take time.

Bottom line, the 1906 and 1989 San Fransisco Quake, the Galviston Hurricane of 1900, and lets not forget the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. What do all of these have in common. The common bond between all of these is simple. All of the disasters were cleaned up and the cities were rebuilt primarily from PRIVATE FUNDS!!!!! Nagin, get off your ASS and get to work. Stop Bitch about how the government isn't giving you enough money (what demographic do we usually here this from anyways). Oh, and by the way, you're not even going to be able to pull that off since you alienated white people with your "chocolate" comment and now you've single handly pissed of me and every other patriot in the world. As far as I'm concerned, this is my offical stance:

Nagin, you can have your poverty ridden, murder rampant, ghetto fab chocolate city. Because as long as your are in charge it will never be anything but that. There is one thing your are right about. You said this would have never happend it were in Orange County of Boston, your exactly right, it wouldn't. Those cities wouldn't have turned into hell in a matter of days and remained as such a year later, "we would have handled it differently". With any luck you'll be at the bottom of that hole when they fill it in up there in the great city of NYC.

T-minus 6 Days and Counting Down

So this past Saturday Skippy and the future Mrs. Skippy attended a wedding. A wedding in the most wonderful places, Clemson (Congrats Jessie). After the ceremony we hoped in the SUV and drove through campus, of course we managed to make our way over the football stadium and it hit me. Amid the grunting stacy could bairly make out that I was saying, "football". IT"S LESS THAN A WEEK! I have had the Clemson countdown wallpaper on my two comuters at work since day 82. The wonderful day is almost upon us. To celebrate, I downloaded two new ringtones on my cell. Incoming calls are now the Clemson Band playing, what else, Tiger Rag and all of my text messages are now "Eye of the Tiger". Do I have Clemson Football on the brain, Yes. I promise you though someone that reads this will want to know if the version of my ringtone is a good one and where they can get it. I will know then, I'm not alone. Honeslty don't we all have Clemson Football on the Brain...Go Tigers!

There Are Rules Here?

Fun read from our friends at ESPN…

It's early August, which means most college football fans have regressed into 5-year-olds with a week left until Christmas. The suspense is killing them and the calendar is moving in cruelly slow motion. Labor Day weekend seems eternally out of reach, with too many soul-killing baseball games still to be played between now and kickoff. To pass this excruciating time constructively, I say it's time we get educated. In homage to Bill Maher, whose schtick is blatantly and unapologetically ripped off here, I offer the New Rules for College Football Fans, 2006 edition:

New Rule: If the scoreboard says you lost, you lost. That's not going to change. Take an hour to vent postgame, then try to regain your sanity. Do not diminish your quality of life -- and the quality of life of those around you -- by spewing for days about the refs who cheated your team, the flagrant league bias against your team or the complete lack of class displayed by the team that beat your team. Your team l-o-s-t. Try to deal.

New Rule: If you know the tailgate lot at the stadium like the back of your hand but wouldn't be able to find the campus library without joining a tour group, reevaluate your priorities.

New Rule: It's August. Refrain from posting on your team's message boards that your coach needs to go. At least let him fall behind by a touchdown in September -- or if you really want to be patient, let him even lose an entire game -- before demanding regime change.

New Rule: Try using your real name on a message board. It might be a liberating feeling to stand behind your words, instead of hiding behind the handle "GatrHatr88," or whatever lame nom de cyberplume you choose.

New Rule: The offensive coordinator has feelings, too. Try to remember that.

New Rule: Nobody else thinks his or her team gets enough respect from the media, either. You're encouraged to come up with a new complaint.

New Rule: If you know the name of the long snapper but don't know the name of the school president, reevaluate your priorities.

New Rule: By all means, have a couple of pregame beers if you want. Try to stop before 12, though.

New Rule: If you didn't stop at 12, remember this: The people sitting around you in the stadium or standing next to you at the urinal don't think you're funny. And they don't want to hold you up when you tip over. Especially at the urinal.
(Aside: colleges might want to study the new Bengals initiative: they have instituted a "jerk" hotline for fans to call to report abusive, profane and intoxicated louts in the stadium to authorities. Then again, considering the arrest record of Marvin Lewis' squad, fans could easily report a bunch of the guys in uniform.)

New Rule: Yes, Notre Dame is different. Get over it. If your school were important enough to get its own NBC contract and thumb its nose at conference affiliation, do you really think it would decline?

New Rule: If you spend more on face paint, clothes in school colors, tailgate accessories and an RV horn that honks the school fight song than you spend on charity, reevaluate your priorities.

New Rule: If you insist on smugly condemning the complete lack of morality and ethics at Rival U when one of its players gets in trouble, prepare a good defense for when one of your team's players screws up the next week. Today's "great kid" could be tomorrow's armed robber.

New Rule: Every other team in America says it had a great summer in the weight room, too. Every other team in America had great attendance at "voluntary" summer workouts, too. Every other team in America says the chemistry and attitude are better than last year, too. So don't get prematurely overconfident based on the usual August rhetoric.

New Rule: When the hotshot freshman quarterback isn't playing yet, rationally consider the possible reasons why. I mean beyond the fact that the coach is an absolute moron. Maybe the kid is an absolute moron who cannot learn the playbook.

New Rule: We know you have a brilliant, unique, surefire plan for an NCAA football playoff. Your barber, your bank teller and the kid working the espresso machine at Starbucks have playoff plans too. And Myles Brand isn't interested in any of them.

New Rule: USC won a share of the 2003 national title, no matter what the BCS says about the LSU-Oklahoma Sugar Bowl being the title game. Quit being greedy, and quit talking about it three years later.

New Rule: If you're on a voice-recognition basis with a call-in show producer or have your own call-in show persona and handle (like "Wolverine Mark"), reevaluate your priorities.

New Rule: An 0-1 start is not the end of the world, especially with a 12-game schedule. Unless you start 0-1 with a buy game against what was supposed to be a guaranteed chump. Then you can pound the panic button.

New Rule: Before your fan message board mounts an e-mail lobbying campaign to poll voters demanding higher rankings for your school, consider: Is it effective or obnoxious to send out 200 e-mails that all parrot the same "talking points"? And how silly is it for football fans to have "talking points"? After careful consideration of those questions, hit the delete button.

New Rule: If you're over the age of, say, 14, beseeching players as they leave the field for a receiving glove is unseemly and best avoided. I mean, who other than Michael Jackson is going to get excited about a single glove?

New Rule: Flying a car flag when your team is 5-0 is easy. Try it when your team is 0-5.

New Rule: It is understandable and acceptable to wonder (out loud) why Temple is still playing Division I-A football.

New Rule: If you turn to a sportswriter for guidance on how to be a college football fan, reevaluate your priorities.

AArrrrgggg!!!

The Dems are attempting to get the country's min wage up from 5.15 to 7.15! They are pushing for it by the end of this session.

http://www.letjusticeroll.org/

Let justice roll indeed...let me state this plainly, YOU FLIP BURGERS!!!! What in your lame bag of skills makes you think you desearve a 40% raise! Fine give a wage hike and then abolish Welfare. I think the Dems would see this as resonable, don't you? Hey Teddy, put the highball down and think about it for a minute.