Thanks to all who went out in the rain last night to enjoy some chili at the FIRST Annual Naught-Naught Agency Chili Cookoff as part of the Tour of Missouri.
Eleven teams competed for votes for the best chili. To be perfectly honest, there were a lot of really good chilis produced...something for everyone's taste.
The best two, in my opinion, were the Carroll Shelby recipe that was produced by The Mike Kehoe Autogroup and the team right next to them consisting of Bruce Ring (Zesto South), Brian Schrimpf (Robo Car Wash) and Brian Welch (Nicklas Financial)....the last three being key members of the Capital City Cookoff committee. I had to cast a vote and it was tough. I teased Mike that he was getting my vote because he has taken care of me (Mike runs ads with me). But the reality was, his chili just barely edged out the other guys. Might have been a couple of reasons, but those two chilis had a great full rich flavor without burning your tongue off.
The other nine were not bad. None of them were bad, but two were better than the others.
Thanks to the folks at Naught-Naught for putting on the show.
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I have explained in the past that I do not link to stories from the Associated Press. The reason, in brief, is that they want bloggers to pay to link.....even though you can get to it for free on your own. Makes no sense. But anyhow, here is my beef today.
The headline reads, "Palin tries to defend qualifications in interview."
TRIES? Really? This is not bias?
Why take seven words to say something when five will do? My guess is that they have been cheerleading for Barack Obama so long that the AP can't be pithy any longer.
"Palin defends qualifications in interview" is pretty much the message that should have been pushed forward. The difference is that the one that they used allows the reader to infer that she did not succeed. The one that I have written leaves that decision up to what is in the content of the story.
In the story, the AP writers say that Palin "struggled with foreign policy" because she could not explain the "Bush Doctrine" when asked by Charles Gibson.
So, before you judge her, explain the Bush Doctrine to me. Name the number of politicians at a national level who can clearly articulate it. (I expect jokes about Bush and articulation to follow.)
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I did not see the part of the interview ABC aired last night. I have seen excerpts. Charles Gibson did a good job of not throwing the "gotcha" questions at her, but rather went with the tough, but fair kind of questions.
Time permitting, I hope to watch the entire interview over the weekend.
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BIG GAME on Saturday. No, I am NOT referring to Mizzou's game with Nevada. I am also not referring to Tennessee's home opener with Alabama-Birmingham, though it is MUCH more respectable than playing SEMO.
I am referring to The Ohio State University Buckeyes at The University of Southern California Trojans.
This is at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, so this favors the Trojans. The Trojans had a HUGE win over a team from a BCS conference in week one, then an open week. The Buckeyes had games with teams that shouldn't have given them much trouble, but one of them did.
So, did Ohio University give Ohio State the scare they need to face the Trojans in Los Angeles? We will see.
Fight On!! Beat the Buckeyes!!
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As for my Volunteers, what will UAB do for them? Great question. Hopefully show that Jonathan Crompton was not as bad under center as I thought he was after the game with fucla. And that Dave Clawson is not as bad of an offensive coordinator that I though HE was.
Both were certainly offensive.
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Mizzou playing Nevada....the words to describe this are, uh, well, um....well, not any point in continuing.
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Have a great weekend.
