Bush Victory In Question, Opponent Claims Win Illegitimate!

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This is pathetic.

Yes, this is another installment of "I can't believe some people are this desperate, greedy and whorish". No, my title is not referring to the 2000 Election and the now-insane Al Gore, driven mad by his razor thin loss after defeat was nailed to his forehead by the Supreme Court.

No, this Bush I'm talking about is the one who is on the edge of becoming the first person in the 75 year history of the Downtown Atheletic Club's Heisman Trophy to have it stripped away. Whether he deserves to or not is not my gripe. That's a different story. What I'm in disbelief over is that another team, another coach and another University are trying to use this scandal to pad the number of baubles in their Trophy Hall by adding Bush's potentially revoked Heisman to their own coffers. This is what full corked madness looks like, sports fans. Unbelievable.

Giving the award to Vince Young would be sad and pathetic. I know Mack Brown doesn't mind scraping his knees begging, cheating and lying for all the scraps he can get, but... this is just sad. Look, Reggie Bush was the best college football player in 2005, period end of story. Bush had 784 first-place Heisman votes while Vince Young only had 79. I don't care what happened off-field, on-field Bush ruled and Young was a distant second place to him and rightfully so. Bush was #1. Either let him keep it or void the year's winner.

Giving it to a second place loser sets up a dynamic that now, every time a player wins and another school doesn't like it, all they have to do is get an investigator to drudge up dirt and get him DQ'ed so their own player gets it. That's dangerous. That's why when championships or games are voided, there is no win shown, they don't gift the losing team the win...it opens a can of worms that can weave deep into past years. The only fair and logical thing to do is just void it. And frankly, to try to *win* the Heisman for a far distance second place finisher by disqualification is embarassing.

If V. Young or M. Brown had one iota of class they would refuse the award. The Heisman committee is right to say if it's taken it away no one gets it. For crying out loud, this isn't 3rd grade where the second place whiners get the award 5 years after the fact. It's over. In 2005 Bush was better, Bush beat Young in a landslide because he WAS the better player that year so Bush rightfully got the Heisman. For the DAC to take the award back is between Bush and the DAC. UT, Mack Brown and Vince Young have nothing to do with it and they're classless jerks to try to make the whole thing an excuse to chalk up another Heisman for UT.

How pathetic is it to celebrate that? "Ooh! We won by default 5 years later! Whee!" How sickening and sad. It does sound just like Mack Brown, though. If a National Champion team is declared to have violated rules and their championship is taken away, they don't call up the losing team and tell them they're now the champions. There simply is no champion that year. It's the only fair way. You don't give losers the trophy by default years after the issue is over, so why try to do it for an individual award? That's mentally ill. The only way to keep a lid on 'surprise' information that can knock teams or players out of awards or trophies is to just void the win. Period.

Hypothetical Question: If the NCAA retracted USC's National Championship from 2004 and gave it to Oklahoma (who USC crushed 55-19 in the Orange Bowl that year), would that make OU a legitimate National Champion? Would UT accept that OU now had another National Championship, raising their football championship total to 8? Twice that of UT's 4? Do you see the parallel? A clear cut winner demolishes his second place rival, but as the clouds of doubt reach to take away the title, the second placer (who got mercilessly crushed because they weren't even remotely competitive) now wants to be crowned champion as a result. Galactically moronic, profoundly unsportsmanlike and indescribably deceitful.

So back to my hypothetical; would Coach Mack and his Brown Cow Cult gleefully accept OU getting the big glass football trophy for an eighth time if USC was DQ'ed? Hell no, they wouldn't. They'd scream like Joe Perry after Steven Tyler agreed to be on American Idol. And they'd be right to. USC ripped OU apart in that game so no reasonable person would give the '04 crown to OU based on a disqualification. So why would giving the Heisman crown to Young after Bush is DQ'ed make any more sense? It doesn't. Making Vince Young the Heisman winner by Reggie Bush losing it is just as wrong.

Why is it so hard for UT fans to NOT filter everything through their over biased orange blooded cultism? Not everything in the universe is about the Longhorns or UT. Seriously, I've never seen a greedier, more self-obsessed culture than that sick, cow worshipping cabal in Austin.

OK, so you ask why the heck am I writing about 'em? Because I hate them. That's why. Sure, spending as much time as I do ripping on them is kind of sad and pathetic in it's own way too, I suppose. But what the heck, if anyone deserves it they do.

Besides, college football is one of these sports in which hating a team is almost as good as loving a team. So, rah rah rah!! Sis boom bah!! Stick a Heisman up Mack Brown's craw!

Yaaaaaay team!


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That’s Why God Made Mexico - NOT (with apologies to Tim McGraw)

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See that flag cartoon? It's an op-ed cartoon by a guy named Daryl Cagle and, man...has it got Mexican officials steamed.

Good. They need to be. And it's good other folks outside of Texas and Arizona are starting to understand just how dangerous this situation is with Mexico's drug cartels. The rest of the nation is just now seeing what we’ve been witnessing for about 15 years now. 28,000 people killed in what, 7 years? Oh, yeah it's the perfect time to make a movie about a Mexican 'Machete' killer! Very sympatheic audiences here in the states, now...

Robert Rodriguez's childish, racist fantasies aside, the reality is Main Street America is starting to awaken to just how bad this situation realy is. Thinkgs like a bomb going off this week in a Cancun bar killing 8 people can do that. That's a huge tourist town. Now, the bomb didn't kill any tourists, it did go off in a local bar a few miles from where the gringos visit, but the fact is the violence is creeping in on places like that, an irreplaceable tourist cash cow for Mexico. Now, when the tourist trade starts drying up in places like that and Acapulco (because the cartel will go there eventually – they’re too good of targets not to) due to fear, then expect Mexico to do what all third world nations do when they admit defeat – they’ll ask America to move in and solve the problem for them.

Except now it's probably too late to help them because no one is left that has the political will to do what needs to be done. These are Mexican cartels and when they shoot at you, you have to shoot back – which means you are shooting Mexicans. And what politician is going to advocate shooting at hundreds of folks that belong to the same demographic as the fastest growing demographic in the US?

Can't you just hear CNN? "US soldiers today shot and killed 238 Mexicans in Coahuila today..." Oh, that's great for the ol' poll numbers, isn’t it?

Being from Texas and having contacts in law enforcement that have worked the Texas-Mexican border, I can say without question the problem is far, far worse than the outside world knows. It's an open war.

Mexican drug runners, coyotes (running illegals) and corrupt military members doing escort duty are going as far as 50 miles or more into American territory to protect their trade - brazenly, openly and without fear. Because they know no one on either side has the stones to do anything about it.

Anyone who thinks this isn't an open border war just doesn't know the truth. There are many places in South Texas that US lawmen will not go due to being fearful for their life or, more to the point, they are simply unwilling to get caught up in the political powder keg of shooting Mexican nationals or Mexican soldiers, even if it is on our side. It isn't worth it when they believe the politicos on this side will just throw them under the bus. Want proof? Thousands are dying on border and Washington is filing a suit against Sherriff Joe Arpaio. An American. Who is trying to shut down the illegals and the cartel in Arizona. That’s their solution? Sheesh, no wonder we're in deep fertilizer.

A big part of the problem is the cartel knows Americans are hooked like junkies on the cheap, below-market labor that the illegals bring to the agricultural, livestock, construction and service industries. This of course makes for cheaper goods and services, which we just can't live without, right? They know shutting the cartel down means shutting down the border, which means giving up the all cheap goodies open borders bring.

And what politician in an severe economic downturn is going to advocate closing the border when he knows it will almost instantly bring higher prices, more unemployed folks on the dole (legal or not) and the appearance of 'racial intolerance' by turning Mexicans away at the border or sending them home? To the politically timid, that's a disaster.

The cartel has Mexico by the balls because it is so disgustingly corrupt (and has been for decades) and full of politicians that sold out years ago. Mexico’s government no longer has the moral will or the integrity to attack the cartels full force and end the problem. In a few years, the cartels could be openly running the entire nation of Mexico (which they have been by proxy for awhile now anyway) because nothing is left to stop them from simply buying the leadership of the nation. The cartel's intelligence units (they have them and they are damn good) are better informed on all the politicians in Mexico than Mexico's own state intelligence is. And they’re better armed and better trained, too.

And now the cartel has America by the balls because of our demand for cheap housing, clean hotel rooms and affordable groceries and cheap services. (Gee, isn't this Walmart Worldview how we got so upside down with China, too?)

And the transparent, soulless, scheming political slime on our side are too cowardly to stand up for what's right; they'd rather just hide behind duplicitous yowls to 'fix the dang border!' while they take huge campaign $$$$$ from same damn companies that HIRED the illegals in the first place! (Hello, Rick Perry? Anyone home you yellow spined, lying, corrupt, elitist jerk?)

No wonder so many ranchers in the Southwest are arming themselves to teeth when they check their property. Because our government, businesses and media have betrayed them for ethnic political pandering, cheap quick-return profits and 'diversity and tolerance.'

This situation is going to turn into the American equlivalent of the British/IRA war if it's not ended soon. It is that bad. But when reminded of it, what does Mexico do? Whine about an ‘offensive’ cartoon. You know, when tens of thousands of people are getting slaughtered in an open border war the rages on a daily basis and the only thing the idiotic Mexican government can to find scream about is a cartoon of a flag, I'm not in the mood to listen to it.

Ok, flame off. I've powered down now.
Breath in, breath out…

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