The plan is God's plan
Headlines are blaring about how Sarah Palin used the words "God's plan" when she was first asked how she felt about being John McCain's running mate.
Since everything is "God's plan" why is it singled out?
Only one reason. The godless liberals find it odd, any believe in God.
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Tell them how the weather was... -- Ernest Hemingway bryce_martin_1@Lycos.com
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
McGwire is still a big phony
I have no information on why Mark McGwire would want to get back into baseball as a coach. I can guess though that if he had the bucks he would stay away and remain in hiding. He needs the money. I'd bet on it. To get back in, he had to fess up, admit what we knew, that he was a cheater who took steroids.
After he came clean, some came to his side and told how they really respected him and how he stood tall in his disclosure. Bull. It was necessary to clear the air and start drawing his first check. Like I said, if he was still financially secure, there is no confession. Period.
Even his confession was phony. He said he did it for health reasons, not to add strength. Does he really think we would believe that? When you develop a massive, cartoon-type superhero body such as he did, you don't think about the strength aspect? Or the acne that goes with it? You don't know the side effects?
Please.
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Update on Reid
News headline: Reid Says He Will Not Dwell on Obama Controversy
Neat twist. We don't care what Reid will or will not dwell on. The fact that we're dwelling on it is what matters.
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I have no information on why Mark McGwire would want to get back into baseball as a coach. I can guess though that if he had the bucks he would stay away and remain in hiding. He needs the money. I'd bet on it. To get back in, he had to fess up, admit what we knew, that he was a cheater who took steroids.
After he came clean, some came to his side and told how they really respected him and how he stood tall in his disclosure. Bull. It was necessary to clear the air and start drawing his first check. Like I said, if he was still financially secure, there is no confession. Period.
Even his confession was phony. He said he did it for health reasons, not to add strength. Does he really think we would believe that? When you develop a massive, cartoon-type superhero body such as he did, you don't think about the strength aspect? Or the acne that goes with it? You don't know the side effects?
Please.
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Update on Reid
News headline: Reid Says He Will Not Dwell on Obama Controversy
Neat twist. We don't care what Reid will or will not dwell on. The fact that we're dwelling on it is what matters.
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Reid is clearly right on Obama... Duh
Harry Reid should resign. So should Nancy Pelosi. So should Barack Obama. But, I digress on the last two.
It's Reid in the news for his comment about Obama not having a "Negro dialect." I never thought I would back Reid on anything, but on this one I don't see a problem.
Obama doesn't have a Negro dialect. Al Sharpton does. Jesse Jackson does. The latter two are also much darker in skin color than Obama. With Obama, it's as if we didn't elect a black person. He's light skinned and talks like a white person. That in large part helped him to get elected.
Sam Phillips wanted a white person who sounded black, and America, while not necessarily wanting, could accept a black person who sounded white.
Taking all that into consideration, Reid still should resign. But, for the same reason as always. Because he's Harry Reid and what all that amounts to. A pile of cow dung on a forlorn Kansas prairie.
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Harry Reid should resign. So should Nancy Pelosi. So should Barack Obama. But, I digress on the last two.
It's Reid in the news for his comment about Obama not having a "Negro dialect." I never thought I would back Reid on anything, but on this one I don't see a problem.
Obama doesn't have a Negro dialect. Al Sharpton does. Jesse Jackson does. The latter two are also much darker in skin color than Obama. With Obama, it's as if we didn't elect a black person. He's light skinned and talks like a white person. That in large part helped him to get elected.
Sam Phillips wanted a white person who sounded black, and America, while not necessarily wanting, could accept a black person who sounded white.
Taking all that into consideration, Reid still should resign. But, for the same reason as always. Because he's Harry Reid and what all that amounts to. A pile of cow dung on a forlorn Kansas prairie.
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
Just Asking
On a light raining, 45-degree December late night, I ask:
Why is there a Wanda Sykes show? Or, for that matter, a Wanda Sykes?
Why would anyone plunk down their hard-earned cash, or even their easily-earned cash, for a Kenny Alphin album?
Does Garth Brooks think those staredown publicity mug shots of him give him an air of edginess? Yeah, sure, he's a real outlaw.
Not two years later, but from Day One I wanted to puke when I saw that Robert Plant was doing some recording with Allison Krauss. I knew what was coming. Any time someone from the rock field slums their way into the country music neighborhood, the bowdowns and hosannas just never stop. As if it is so wonderful that some washed-up rocker would want to humble himself by stepping on a country music stage.
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On a light raining, 45-degree December late night, I ask:
Why is there a Wanda Sykes show? Or, for that matter, a Wanda Sykes?
Why would anyone plunk down their hard-earned cash, or even their easily-earned cash, for a Kenny Alphin album?
Does Garth Brooks think those staredown publicity mug shots of him give him an air of edginess? Yeah, sure, he's a real outlaw.
Not two years later, but from Day One I wanted to puke when I saw that Robert Plant was doing some recording with Allison Krauss. I knew what was coming. Any time someone from the rock field slums their way into the country music neighborhood, the bowdowns and hosannas just never stop. As if it is so wonderful that some washed-up rocker would want to humble himself by stepping on a country music stage.
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Fine me, please
by Bryce Martin
Keith Bulluck of the Titans tosses the football into the stands each time he makes an interception and the play has ended. That is an automatic fine from the NFL.
Bulluck always boasts that he doesn't care, he's always going to do it anyway.
Of course, he is. It's to his advantage. He needs charity write-offs to help keep money from his salary that would otherwise go to Uncle Sam.
In fact, many of the so-called NFL "bad boys" have been using this ploy for years.
Player fines collected by the league have been used to support retired player programs, including the NFL Player Care Foundation and NFLPA Players Assistance Trust, disaster relief programs and and other charities.
The fined player chalks it up as a donation to charity. Thus, he gets his tax deduction that he was going to need to discharge in some form anyway.
It surely beats having to get up early and spend all day some Saturday in the off-season showing a bunch of eight-year-old campers how to run a slant pattern all in the name of some caring charity.
I keep forgetting my Hemingway tip:
"The weather it was fine." Isn't that a line from "Oh, Susanna" by Foster?
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by Bryce Martin
Keith Bulluck of the Titans tosses the football into the stands each time he makes an interception and the play has ended. That is an automatic fine from the NFL.
Bulluck always boasts that he doesn't care, he's always going to do it anyway.
Of course, he is. It's to his advantage. He needs charity write-offs to help keep money from his salary that would otherwise go to Uncle Sam.
In fact, many of the so-called NFL "bad boys" have been using this ploy for years.
Player fines collected by the league have been used to support retired player programs, including the NFL Player Care Foundation and NFLPA Players Assistance Trust, disaster relief programs and and other charities.
The fined player chalks it up as a donation to charity. Thus, he gets his tax deduction that he was going to need to discharge in some form anyway.
It surely beats having to get up early and spend all day some Saturday in the off-season showing a bunch of eight-year-old campers how to run a slant pattern all in the name of some caring charity.
I keep forgetting my Hemingway tip:
"The weather it was fine." Isn't that a line from "Oh, Susanna" by Foster?
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Tennessean newspaper needs to consult styleguide
by Bryce Martin
In a Tennessean news story ("Path cleared for Tennessee to execute 1980 Killer," December 1, 2009), reporter Kate Howard details some events that led to a man's murder conviction. The killer shot and killed three people while robbing a grocery store. One was a 12-year-old boy who was working the cash register at his father's store. Howard wrote, "The 12-year-old sold Cokes and snacks... ." So, are we to understand that a grocery store would sell nothing but Cokes when a multitude of soft drinks were on the market then as now. A small grocery store selling only Cokes would greatly hamper its sales possibilities. It's a journalism problem. I blame not Howard but the editors at the Tennessean, if they have any. Coke is a brand name for Coca-Cola. Coke is not a generic word for any soft drink. To spell Coke with a lower case "c" in printed form is incorrect, and in Coca-Cola's opinion, illegal. You still see it in newspapers even though the journalism industry has warned against it for years in its trade periodicals. The next worse thing is to do as Howard did, capitalize it but write it in a way that implies the same thing: That all soft drinks are Cokes, or cokes.
I guess that is the choice of soft drinks today in McNewsrooms.
by Bryce Martin
In a Tennessean news story ("Path cleared for Tennessee to execute 1980 Killer," December 1, 2009), reporter Kate Howard details some events that led to a man's murder conviction. The killer shot and killed three people while robbing a grocery store. One was a 12-year-old boy who was working the cash register at his father's store. Howard wrote, "The 12-year-old sold Cokes and snacks... ." So, are we to understand that a grocery store would sell nothing but Cokes when a multitude of soft drinks were on the market then as now. A small grocery store selling only Cokes would greatly hamper its sales possibilities. It's a journalism problem. I blame not Howard but the editors at the Tennessean, if they have any. Coke is a brand name for Coca-Cola. Coke is not a generic word for any soft drink. To spell Coke with a lower case "c" in printed form is incorrect, and in Coca-Cola's opinion, illegal. You still see it in newspapers even though the journalism industry has warned against it for years in its trade periodicals. The next worse thing is to do as Howard did, capitalize it but write it in a way that implies the same thing: That all soft drinks are Cokes, or cokes.
I guess that is the choice of soft drinks today in McNewsrooms.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Three University of Tennessee Football Players to Pay Penance
The three UT football players who tried to rob some fellow UT students were sentenced to watch an Adam Sandler movie (in its entirety) as punishment for some early morning misdeeds. Coach Lane Kiffin said let's move on, as if needing to concentrate on its next opponent, Vanderbilt, required such focus.
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The three UT football players who tried to rob some fellow UT students were sentenced to watch an Adam Sandler movie (in its entirety) as punishment for some early morning misdeeds. Coach Lane Kiffin said let's move on, as if needing to concentrate on its next opponent, Vanderbilt, required such focus.
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