David Cutcliffe and the Duke Band

My brother Les is a huge Alabama fan, loves to travel and watch the games, has the means to do so. To kick off this year's season he came to Atlanta and was kind enough to share a ticket. Alabama was playing the Duke Blue Devils.
The Blue Devils are led by Peyton Manning's mentor  David Cutcliffe, a man that I consider to be an arrogant jerk-off, good coach but a real prick. For the past few years he has enjoyed making fun the Georgia Tech triple option offense, comparing it to a high school offense. There really is no great science in any football offense, only a heard mentality of coaches that intimidated by what they cannot control. Admittedly Coach Cutcliffe has backed up his mouth and had good success against my alma mater.
Circling back to the game, after about a quarter, Alabama got is act together and started beating the feathers out of Duke. In the second half, in an attempt to eat up clock and slow the game down, he started running triple option plays, and fairly often. Duke even got penalized for some cut blocks.
I enjoy the triple option offense, run well it is more exciting than and pass happy spread scheme.

The last point I want to make is that the band for Duke has taken on the persona of their head coach in their arrogance. Pictured above the Duke band taunting Alabama fans before the game. Both are assholes and deserve the David Cup.

God and the Doctor

My grandfather was a doctor who spent his career as a psychiatrist working in state hospitals all over the south. He started in the late 20's and retired middle 60's. As a little boy I remember him having a framed picture which included the poem that follows......

God and the Doctor we alike adore

But only when in danger, not before;  

The danger o'er, both are alike requited,  

God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

This poem was penned by an interesting man named Robert Owen,  a social activist to whom many quotations are attributed.
Interestingly enough, the framed picture, now at my parent house, the poem is incorrectly attributed to another poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Wilcox's best known quote is…….

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.

F*** the Chinese Government

Adam Silver has had much success as the NBA Commissioner. Under his leadership the league has promoted a star-centric promotional policy and in general given the players the upper hand in determining how rosters are composed. The balance of power in the league has shifted from the owners to the players. This fan does not appreciate the selfish players-first mentality, but I guess that it has been there all along just under the veneer of the now absent good taste.

South Park Puts NBA to Shame, Says ‘F*** the Chinese Government’

I had understood that Adam Silver was gay, but after reading his bio at Wikipedia must admit to being mistaken. After seeing the NBA cancel games and expel fans who held up mildly worded posters decrying the actions of the Chinese in Hong Kong, I am convinced that Adam Silver is simply a capitalist posing as woke.

A Tale of Two Coups

I could not agree more. The similarities between resistance to the Brexit and Trump votes are obvious. Men who expected to continue as is, willfully ignoring the measures, by votes, the desires of the people.

          A Tale of Two Coups

They are doing worthwhile work over at Gatesone, check them out.

Convert, Marry Me, or Die

The Gatestone Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit policy think tank that works to fill the gaps left by common sources of media.

Convert, Marry Me, or Die': Persecution of Christians, July 2019

Written by Raymond Ibrahim, this is of a series that describes the slaughter of Christians, attacks on churches, attacks on apostates, rape and murder of Christians, and the general abuse of everything non-Muslim. Much of this occurs in the middle east, far east and Africa. At times showing the relationship between Europe and its southern neighbors in Africa.

Fatemeh Azad, a 58-year-old Muslim woman who had converted to Christianity against her Muslim husband's will and fled to Germany, was denied asylum there and deported back to Iran. There she was immediately arrested by authorities waiting for her plane to land.... "When Fatemeh made her asylum appeal, her lawyers argued that apostasy (conversion away from Islam) is punishable by the death penalty in Iran." This, however, was insufficient for Germany. — Persecution.org; July 25, 2019, Iran, Germany.

We see parallel behavior in the United States with its immigration policies toward religious minorities from the middle east and Africa. Persons from the persecuting (majority) religion claiming asylum successfully, while the afflicted minority being denied the right to live in our place of religious freedom.
There is certainly a contingent of Europhiles in the United States, seeking to play follow the socialist state central planners who disguise their racism.
Maybe we are not quite of free as we thought.