USC dismantled Ohio State on Saturday night 35 to 3. This illustrated a few things. One, Ohio State is not as good as the number five ranking, right? Maybe, but back to that in a little bit. What it really did was solidify things for the Trojans the rest of this season. But keep in mind, it was a Pac-10 school that tripped them up last year. Another thing it did was add the name of Mark Sanchez in to the Heisman trophy discussion.
Now back to Ohio State. The Buckeyes are a good team that I sincerely believe will finish the season as a top ten team, possibly back in Southern California in January. Not in Los Angeles, but in Pasadena for the Rose Bowl to play the Pac-10 runner up. Guessing Oregon right now.
Mizzou had a big win on Saturday over Nevada, 69-17. Nevada is not a bad team. But Nevada should not be on the same field as a top ten team. But I do not fault them. I fault the University of Missouri for the lack of confidence in their program to put together a schedule that anyone can be proud of. It is a joke and it helps NO ONE.
In fact, it hurts. It hurts Chase Daniel specifically. Mizzou is running a campaign to get him the Heisman Trophy. They have a rather clever campaign. They are sending voters out View Masters with photos from last year and they will send new discs during this season.
But when he puts up obscene stats and gets the attention for doing so, voters will notice. Then the first thing they will go to look at is who the Tigers played. They will get credit for the Big 12 schedule, but they have no control over that. When everyone sees that they played Illinois, they will get credit for that.
As soon as they see Southeast Missouri State, Nevada and Buffalo, heads will shake.
And more importantly, pens will move off of the name Daniel on the ballot and go somewhere else.
I am not saying he WON'T win the Heisman, I am just saying that a wimpy schedule hurts his chances. So, if he doesn't win you can place the blame on Mike Alden and Gary Pinkel.
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Tennessee beat Alabama-Birmingham 35 to 3 on Saturday at Neyland Stadium.
I am not a fan of the Vols playing these games either. But, I give UAB more credit than I do Nevada right now. Not much, but some.
But what hurt the Vols more than anything else this weekend was the massacre in Provo. Brigham Young University just hammered, hammered the cruddy little bruins of fucla. 59 to NOTHING, ZIP, ZERO, NADA!!!!
As the song goes, u-c-l-a sucks!! (That would be Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" for the uninitiated.)
But they beat Tennessee. What should that tell me?
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The more I look in to Barack Obama's promises of a tax cut for most Americans, the more I have my doubts.
Obama is promising a tax cut to 95 percent of American families. Problem number one is that 40 percent of American families don't pay any income taxes.
So, how would he do this? By sending a check. How is the check funded? By taking money away from those who are successful.
This is income redistribution, which is Socialism in my opinion, and this is, also in my opinion un-American, wrong!
Now, many of you may not see things this way, and I get that. So I add this observation.
George H.W. Bush broke his promise to not raise taxes. (Consider that he was beat up to do it, then those doing the beating used his "flip-flop" against him politically.)
Bill Clinton raised taxes on the middle class after saying that he wouldn't. I saw this coming because I never believed ANYTHING that man said. I still don't.
So, now we move ahead to Barack Obama. He claims to be a DIFFERENT kind of politician. I used to believe that. Now I know better.
But how can I believe a man will not raise my taxes when he broke his promise on something much less important. Barack Obama promised to play by the campaign finance rules that kick in when a candidate accepts public matching funds.
When he saw that he could raise more money, he broke that promise without giving it a second thought. He hasn't even tried to defend it. Just did it.
Sorry, I really do not want the future of my, already too small, paycheck in that man's hands.
Do you REALLY want to do that?
Oh, and as for Alan Greenspan, I think he needs to simply go away. He is the one who is responsible for a lot of the mess we are in now. I won't go into details, but keep in mind that Mr. Greenspan used to work for Charles Keating. You can probably connect some dots from there.
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Preview of tomorrows show. McCain top economic advisor and chair of Victory 2008, Carly Fiorina is appearing at 8:47am CDT. Fiorina is also the former Chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard. You may have seen her on ABC's This Week yesterday appearing opposite Senator Claire McCaskill.
On Friday, I had Susan Montee talking about Barack Obama.
Keeping it balanced. But I can't help it if one campaign makes better known folks available over the other.
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Have a great week.
Comments
I think Obama's "Tax Cut" will redistribute income like Bush's "economic stimulus" package did. Both wrong with our deficit but everyone will cash the checks.
(Jay adds - Agreed. That is what I did. I said it was dumb to send the checks, but I paid some bills with the money.)
Posted by: Margaret Kersting | September 15, 2008 06:55 AM