A Boyle On The Anti-Abortion Butt!!!

The former Mayor of Omaha , Mike Boyle, did something heroic yesterday and got a ticket for it. Hooray for the former mayor (who got recalled from office for throwing a butter patty at a Governor) because he decided to stand up to bullies and fools.

Barak Obama, in some sort of pie-in-the-sky stupor, actually opened a campaign office here in the big city of Omaha. Somewhere between 600 left wing nutjobs (if you are a right wing radio listener) and 900 outnumbered, brave Omahans (if your brain is still intact) showed up to dedicate the small strip mall office. Unfortunately, so did one paid employee of the kookburger Rescue the Heartland. You see, what this paid employee of this anti-abortion cult does is drive around Omaha in one of those trucks with the high sides on which they haul giant panes of glass. There's no glass, but there are giant photos of what they purport to be aborted fetuses. If you've ever seen it, it is offensive, gross and frightening to small children. The paid employee showed up and parked his exhaust spewing truck right there. Our former mayor, a brave man, decided to hold his own protest and blocked the cult's truck with his own vehicle so nobody could see it. The paid employee of this cult, cried to a policeman and the policeman ticketed Mayor Boyle.

Good for you, Mr.Boyle. Standing up to these bullies is all they understand. In fact, why don't you run for mayor again?

Forgive Me, America!

I used to be that guy who indignantly expressed my ugly American-ness by claiming how much I hated soccer. That sport played by greasy Euros and third world urchins was not American enough for my jingoistic thought process. Oh no, soccer is played by wimps. Football, baseball, basketball, hockey, boxing, now those are manly sports. Soccer is boring. It's for non-athletes. It's for little kids to get hold of their coordination before they move on to real sports. I refused to listen to those people, mostly foreigners, who told me to give it a chance. You like baseball, they'd say, soccer is a lot like it. Relaxed, slow moving, lots of strategy. Oh yeah? Lots of 1-0 games ,I'd respond, and if you're lucky, 2-0. Then a few years ago when the World Cup came to the United States I was challenged to watch a game or two by those pesky foreigners. I watched a couple of games. I lied to the foreigners. It still sucks I'd proclaim. In reality, it intrigued me. I wanted to learn more. I started watching the sport in a clandestine manner, late at night, in the dark, with sound down really low. That GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL guy was the best.

Then Max began playing at the age of 4. I could now watch soccer without being demeaned. I like soccer. There, I said it. It's a great sport. Not as great as baseball, but still great. I love to sit there and watch it unfold before my eyes. Now I know this isn't popular, especially here in a state that worships 19 year old children in pads and helmets who grow to unnatural sizes and push each other around. Football, the state religion, often bores the hell out of me. It's 5 seconds of action, then they stand around and talk about the next 5 seconds of action. People are on the edge of their seat, stomachs gripping, veins bulging, lives shortening, over a game. Now I know soccer fans in other countries are the same, in fact, often worse, but let's face it, soccer is the football of the rest of the world. Soccer here in the U.S. is relaxing and often attended by tens of people. Perfect for me. Lots of room to stretch out, relax, and watch a game in which the clock never stops.

My confession is complete. You don't like soccer? Good, more room for me.

Cavaliers 5 Falcons 1

Max picks up his Most Improved Player Trophy! The Cavs move to 2-0/

Little Bo's Peeps!!!

The most perfect Husker coach in history goes for win # 3 against Saint Joseph State on Saturday and 85,000 people will show up and give the upper management no incentive whatsoever to schedule teams that crack the top 200 in the future. Bo will go to 3-0 lifetime with a huge victory over a team that ran up 13 points on somebody from Davis, California last weekend. Yawn! Go Bo!

The best investment of the week is Georgia. Give the 25 and watch something else. Get a life. Mow the lawn. Read a book. Watch Sarah Palin again and tell me she's not a smug, sneering, sarcastic trollop. Oh yeah, USC covered last week so we are 1-0.

Well, Wasn't That Special???

How Many Closets Are There In Saint Paul?

Barbara Bush shows up in Saint Paul looking better than she ever has, uhhh what? Rudy who? Keynote speaker? To the Republicans? I shoulda known.

It Was A Dark And Boring Night!

Well at least one Republican knows how to cope with Fred N Joe! It's not exactly 80,000 living, breathing people at a Stadium now, is it?