tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935899595214196622024-03-06T22:33:32.848-05:00Few There Be That Find It. . .Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger331125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-69757627168438087252023-09-21T18:47:00.003-04:002023-09-21T18:47:34.031-04:00Hardcore<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD1AvmTL1Ii62V6v7rKmiNpI5JpE_nYdv4ivgmW1LhLTQS8BSbX_qfbVEgcD0MIw4sMZrca3SSZ65HXRVkKq51wL9yLX2XM9flk4Jh8WxA_1R17GOR5y4MADhqlgszq_WcrE_yNjdurA_oe-L78MT9VQNkX2VYbNylpe4MT3lsZ8tDZkv29CzohMeBZZOM/s2787/B1FAB0F0-CD8F-45AE-9F60-1FABA0E5E5D1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1507" data-original-width="2787" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD1AvmTL1Ii62V6v7rKmiNpI5JpE_nYdv4ivgmW1LhLTQS8BSbX_qfbVEgcD0MIw4sMZrca3SSZ65HXRVkKq51wL9yLX2XM9flk4Jh8WxA_1R17GOR5y4MADhqlgszq_WcrE_yNjdurA_oe-L78MT9VQNkX2VYbNylpe4MT3lsZ8tDZkv29CzohMeBZZOM/s320/B1FAB0F0-CD8F-45AE-9F60-1FABA0E5E5D1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Hardcore</b>: I saw this on Tubi a couple days ago. First time I've watched it in probably 40 years. It has held up remarkably well. The only weak point remains the *Shakespearean* climax. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I can't think of another film with a flawed *Christian* as central character in which the supposed Christian is actually *fleshed out* in terms of their belief. Most *Christians* in films, even in relatively successful ones, have their spirituality shallowly depicted. They may show them silently praying, or singing a hymn from a church pew, or clutching a rosary, but the viewer has no idea what the *Christian* believes. The character is just *Christian,* the way characters in our contemporary entertainments are just *gay* or *ethnic.* In <i>Hardcore</i>, writer/director Paul Schrader makes sure you know that main character Jake VanDorn is not only a *Christian,* but a Dutch Reformed Calvinist, and even has the character explain the Calvinist belief to another character, just so the viewer knows exactly what this Christian believes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyway, I suppose most 21st century viewers couldn't care less. They have their idea what *Christians* are, and nothing in this film would challenge their view. In other words, you can watch this film without the slightest interest in its theological point of view and still be entertained.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jake VanDorn (played in his typical gruff blowhard style by George C. Scott) is a Grand Rapids, MI businessman whose daughter goes missing while on a church retreat in California. VanDorn hires a sleazy LA private investigator (played with great greasy gusto by Peter Boyle) to find her. It doesn't take the PI long to discover what happened to her, and he seems to really enjoy showing VanDorn his evidence: a low budget porn flick starring the missing daughter. There's a great scene of George C. Scott sitting in a seedy adult theater watching what he thought was his nice young Christian daughter fornicating with two unwashed hippie-types.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In this day and age, right wing self-proclaimed Christians fixate on sexual sins, from fornication to transgenderism, but they only project an anti-Christ legalism. They believe unrighteousness is a physical act that violates the law of their legal desires (and just as their Christianity is self-proclaimed, so also are their desires, with neither reflecting their true spirit). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The greatness of the scene in <i>Hardcore</i> in which VanDorn sees his daughter in the porn flick is that the discerning viewer will understand his anguish is not just from the sordid tangle of naked flesh, but from understanding what has happened to his image of his daughter, whom he had imagined to be a disciple of Christ:</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit? (I Corin 6:19).</i></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">His daughter has become the abomination of desolation, Christ has been rejected, or, more accurately given his Calvinist belief, Christ was never received, she had been merely impersonating a Christian.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Up to this point we have a nearly flawless film, devoid of melodrama or cinematic bombast. But when the screenplay has</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> VanDorn travel to Los Angeles to try to find his now porn actress daughter, the movie increasingly declines until its rather predictable (violent) climax. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">In his increasingly desperate schemes to find his daughter, VanDorn</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> meets sex worker Niki, and pays her to help him find her. It is at this point in the film also that George C. Scott stops playing Jake VanDorn and starts playing George C. Scott. As he traverses the gutter world of pornography, playing a supposed devout Dutch Reformed believer, Scott acts more like Patton than Calvin, slapping around anyone who stands in his way.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUGOWbYQwqriOAfp0FXBJOOmnyLOB6TcyDcAZchflWM8N-8mOqy-E1wKzKXWQRsJGNy-1e1ckfngmnR8QCX6eV_mMtEW4w_5FblOmHoASOfRCmZ2Pql3u0gRuwQAPbQYzVFGRPRzZutrEYbUKMccxx6bZf64w5suVwPyYV8QSCrYhS6695aEojUrz97oNI/s2768/6AA72307-2644-47A3-AF32-7FFFF87C3F7C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1710" data-original-width="2768" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUGOWbYQwqriOAfp0FXBJOOmnyLOB6TcyDcAZchflWM8N-8mOqy-E1wKzKXWQRsJGNy-1e1ckfngmnR8QCX6eV_mMtEW4w_5FblOmHoASOfRCmZ2Pql3u0gRuwQAPbQYzVFGRPRzZutrEYbUKMccxx6bZf64w5suVwPyYV8QSCrYhS6695aEojUrz97oNI/s320/6AA72307-2644-47A3-AF32-7FFFF87C3F7C.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Hardcore</i> is saved from Scott's antics by Season Hubley, who delivers a fantastic performance as Niki. Hubley is completely believable as a sex worker, and performs her skin flick and peepshow booth scenes without a trace of artifice. She presents the absolute neutrality of carnality, and does so with or without her clothes on. Considering the era the film was made, it was a daring performance, and remains absolutely emotionally and psychologically authentic. Paul Schrader's and Season Hubley's Niki is one of most unforgettable characters of the '70s and had an influence on future characters such as Nastassja Kinski's Jane in <i>Paris, Texas</i></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">, Melanie Griffith's Lulu in </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">Something Wild</i><span style="font-family: verdana;"> and Heather Graham's Rollergirl in </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">Boogie Nights</i><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The film's devastating final scene, in which VanDorn and Niki go their separate ways, confirms VanDorn's Calvinist belief in limited atonement.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Hardcore</i> is a Dutch Reformed neo-noir pulp thriller. . .and despite a weak ending dependent on tired action movie plotting, it remains, over 40 years later, both thought-provoking and revelatory.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-23282751735408052112023-08-18T11:15:00.001-04:002023-08-18T11:15:07.733-04:00Oppenheimer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEdLrafFr6S3paEo7Drg9jCHSvIE447LkXnjsEgbKr7Uj9wkVvB9-0kLYmvL0AC82gruofwUjndktuc-XLBXeAkxn6tprTHmNh-XOKOjWHRAhnrzdW_6sI8CXb85j2Ctbq2N0J2tnXZiyOnLg5WeSpBf0rJE7Q-RpGgP1ZkjYB-Ea_aL7G7N0n_qQMIbeO/s1024/IMG_7062.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="723" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEdLrafFr6S3paEo7Drg9jCHSvIE447LkXnjsEgbKr7Uj9wkVvB9-0kLYmvL0AC82gruofwUjndktuc-XLBXeAkxn6tprTHmNh-XOKOjWHRAhnrzdW_6sI8CXb85j2Ctbq2N0J2tnXZiyOnLg5WeSpBf0rJE7Q-RpGgP1ZkjYB-Ea_aL7G7N0n_qQMIbeO/s320/IMG_7062.JPG" width="226" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Oppenheimer</b>: The most over-praised movie since <i>Saving Private Ryan</i>, and possibly of all-time. This film is piss-poor on every level. It’s edited seemingly to maximize confusion, and has a poorly drawn cast of supporting scientific eggheads whose political and personal loyalties are obscure, at best.<br /><br />The movie‘s greatest sin, however, is the filmmaker’s bizarre and mistaken belief the great dramatic issue of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life is <b>not</b> the creation of the atomic bomb and his responsibility for the horrors it inflicted upon the Japanese people, and how that crime against humanity would affect a person’s conscience and psyche, but whether or not the egghead Oppenheimer is allowed to keep his precious security clearance years after he melted tens of thousands of Japanese and expressed some vague reservations about the development of the next generation of weapons of mass destruction, thereby provoking cold war</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> über</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">hawks into limiting his influence on the Atomic Energy Commission. At least 90 minutes of the <b>tedious</b> 3 hour script is devoted to this <b>trivial</b> professional concern.<br /><br />In contrast, there is only one scene, which depicts Oppenheimer somewhat agitated as he watches a documentary on the effects his bomb had on the people of Japan, and which lasts no more than 30 seconds, that is devoted to what the viewer would reasonably consider to be the chief concern of Oppenheimer’s life.<br /><br />Add some laughably bad sex scenes meant, one supposes, to suggest not only did egghead Oppenheimer have a big brain but a big cock also, and some preposterously conceived nude scenes meant, one supposes, to suggest Oppenheimer may have suffered some post-bomb juvenile psychoanalytic crisis, and you have a <b>pitifully small</b> film masquerading as an *<b><span style="color: red;">important</span></b>* work.<br /><br />The acting is nearly uniformly atrocious, beginning with a lead actor named <b>Cillian Murphy</b>, who plays Oppenheimer so woodenly, so withdrawn and cold, you’re left to assume he and the filmmaker believed Oppenheimer was autistic. So lifeless is this Murphy person’s performance, the film’s brief attempts to portray Oppenheimer’s romantic life are cringe-inducing failures. It’s difficult to imagine any woman drawn to Murphy’s <b>anemic</b> Oppenheimer, let alone to the point of suicide, as the movie’s somnolent script suggests one woman was over the end of her relationship with the waxen egghead.<br /><br />It seems unfair, given how poorly developed their characters are, to criticize the actresses who play the two women in Oppenheimer’s life, but ask the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki if life is fair?<br /><br /><b>Florence Pugh</b> plays the first woman in Oppenheimer’s life, the one who will commit suicide. Her role consists of her sitting around naked in various rooms, annoyed that Oppenheimer brings her flowers she doesn’t want. Indeed, this <span style="color: red;">Please Don’t Bring Me The Daisies</span> scene is repeated so frequently, the viewer begins to believe he is in a movie <b>not</b> about the creation of the atomic bomb, but of a cosmic time loop.<br /><br />The other unfortunate actress is <b>Emily Blunt</b>, who plays Oppenheimer’s wife. Whereas Oppenheimer is as cold as the farthest reaches of the universe, Oppenheimer’s wife is as hot as the first moments of the Big Bang. Emily Blunt plays Oppenheimers wife in a perpetual <b>seethe</b>, she seethes at everyone and everything around her, including the laundry drying on a clothesline (one of the quiet little humanizing moments in this big important film involves Oppenheimer and his wife discussing the fate of the universe as they hang their sheets to dry, or something like that, I can’t be exact in this detail, because at that point in the time and space of the film, my attention had been wandering like a stray photon in desperate need of an observer).<br /><br />The supporting roles of scientific eggheads is played by a cast cursed with forgettable characters who are only differentiated by indeterminable accents and hairstyles.<br /><br /><b>Matt Damon</b> is the only actor who brings a little light into this black hole of a movie. He plays General Groves, the military leader of the A-bomb project. Damon infuses his cartoon-character general with enough bombast and occasional humor to snap the viewer out of his otherwise inert state.<br /><br />The movie villain, Lewis Strauss, the man the film’s script paints as monomaniacally obsessed with ruining Oppenheimer’s security clearance, is played by <b>Robert Downey Jr.</b> as if he had been transported via a wormhole from the Marvel Cimematic Universe into this *<b><span style="color: red;">important</span></b>* film.<br /><br /><b>Gary Oldman</b> has a showy minute or two as Harry Truman, who dismisses the post-Nagasaki Oppenheimer, skittish of the nuclear arms race, as a *crybaby.*<br /><br />And that’s about it. I cannot imagine why the overwhelming majority of film critics lavished so much praise on this pretentious, tedious, thematically misguided mess. It’s a mystery as great as the atom itself.</span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-68256418298029006172023-06-13T11:31:00.000-04:002023-06-13T11:31:40.699-04:00Infinity Pool<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2PlfWMMX_UBGBVPBKjnRaQZxIFvbM8fogjXxYg_ryQkm5m0G6YtErGGJoq-Rxy5wUcuzRkg726UpcvtoGTwOrC9tSW09m6rrT-lSmQ2cIZNQlDPqNyo9nGsIpcPQzeWJuNpzUN4w0Ujp_ef9M1quPc9NSRB-oKGi-AN4WxzFxeccQssP7J2MGMN1rmA/s540/tumblr_3f7dc192f9dcfda676cace034fd9ae6a_49f2145a_540.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="540" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2PlfWMMX_UBGBVPBKjnRaQZxIFvbM8fogjXxYg_ryQkm5m0G6YtErGGJoq-Rxy5wUcuzRkg726UpcvtoGTwOrC9tSW09m6rrT-lSmQ2cIZNQlDPqNyo9nGsIpcPQzeWJuNpzUN4w0Ujp_ef9M1quPc9NSRB-oKGi-AN4WxzFxeccQssP7J2MGMN1rmA/s320/tumblr_3f7dc192f9dcfda676cace034fd9ae6a_49f2145a_540.gif" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Struggling writer James Foster (played by Alexander Skarsgård) and his rich biracial wife Em (played by somebody) travel to a distant seaside land for an exotic vacation. Bored and restless with each other, they meet another holiday couple, Gabi (played by Mia Goth) and her ethnic husband Alban (played by somebody). Gabi is a fan of struggling writer James' only novel, and she and her ethnic husband Alban soon ingratiate themselves into the lives of struggling writer James and biracial wife Em. Struggling writer James and his reluctant biracial wife go on a forbidden excursion with Gabi and Alban, whereupon struggling writer James kills an ethnic local in a hit-and-run accident. After quickly being caught by the local police in this distant seaside land, struggling writer James learns his punishment is the death sentence. But. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">They have a rather curious legal code in the distant seaside land in which the guilty party can void his own death by paying a fine and agreeing to allow himself to be cloned, with his double then taking his place at the execution. This first third of <b><i>Infinity Pool</i></b> is fairly tense and creepy, with a heavy atmosphere of dread which seems to particularly hang over the head of the struggling writer James. However. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The last two-thirds of the movie are not quite as successfully worked. The film deteriorates into a trippy mishmash of grim fairytale/<i>Funny Games</i>/<i>Dogville</i>/etc. as the viewer and struggling writer James try to determine if he is the victim of a sadistic prank or being (painfully) cleansed in a rebirth ritual. Overall. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The movie is a more than watchable, moderately entertaining amusement because of its strange story, arresting visuals, and, chiefly, the charismatic screen presence of its two *stars,* Skarsgård and Goth. Unfortunately f</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">or this viewer. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Skarsgård spends more time nude on screen than Ms. Goth, though I am sure some viewers will find this preferable. All-in-all, a welcome two hour film holiday in a strange new land.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-73451363594395912122023-05-28T19:18:00.003-04:002023-05-28T19:23:59.862-04:00The Morning Star, by Karl Ove Knausgaard<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEDSojyDRBKDYwhfjMzaYLkNhxY8SFEcla3oy4M5JVrjU1sKeCSPV6hMLzzIcug2Z0xW2IjZMo74kbvaRFfQ7lWssWr4TQ_Gd1MtjqlopoXW-rwXsuMKa3uioBAps-TWJ8d81LJpvZY9RjpQOseOjWMQQtNtShWrwFPQi2NflgO_XdfQXGCpolfmjEg/s1000/ove.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEDSojyDRBKDYwhfjMzaYLkNhxY8SFEcla3oy4M5JVrjU1sKeCSPV6hMLzzIcug2Z0xW2IjZMo74kbvaRFfQ7lWssWr4TQ_Gd1MtjqlopoXW-rwXsuMKa3uioBAps-TWJ8d81LJpvZY9RjpQOseOjWMQQtNtShWrwFPQi2NflgO_XdfQXGCpolfmjEg/s320/ove.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Knausgaard is most famous for his six book autofiction series <i><b>My Struggle</b></i>. Thousands and thousands of pages of barely novelized autobiography in which he painstakingly reveals his inner being, his confessional of thoughts, feelings, emotions, his psychological state at the various stages of his life. It’s a massive literary attempt to make sense of his own existence. It’s probably the best chronicle of contemporary Western living or what Western people call living. The existential crisis </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Knausgaard</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> is obsessively concerned with, and meticulously investigates, is the authenticity of what the Western world calls living. Are people really living if they are so discontent, so restless, depressed and unhappy?</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The West is saturated with addicts. People seeking escape from their own lives through narcotics (legal and illegal), alcohol, pornography, food, gambling, video gaming, scores of therapies and religions. People don’t seek escape if they are content.<br /><br />The characters in Knausgaard's six volume <i>My Struggle</i> and the novel <i><b>The Morning Star</b></i> all wonder how much of their lives is authentic and how much of their lives is just them being swept along the social tide, mimicking what society has conditioned them into believing life should be. A life exclusively material and temporal.<br /><br />It’s not a question most Americans really consider. Most Americans live as they are told. They are distracted from examining their own individual existence by manufactured cultural concerns, issues which they believe are larger than their own lives. Safeguarding the border, safeguarding restrooms from transsexuals, safeguarding their faces from being masked, safeguarding their cherished brands from catering to people who seek escape from likewise miserable lives but through channels they deem evil.<br /><br />It’s OK to believe that our lives have been made miserable by the spouses we have made vows to and believe that by escaping through divorce our lives will be made better if we find a new and improved spouse, or just freely fornicate. That’s OK, that’s OK as long as it’s not done in a homosexual manner. And if one of our cherished brands should seem to support homosexual fashion than that brand should be punished.<br /><br />Americans live in perpetual fear their unfulfilling lives will be disrupted.<br /><br />The American is constantly distracted from himself by these manufactured irrelevancies.<br /><br />In <i>The Morning Star</i> nobody worries about the debt ceiling. No one is anxious if the government is plotting to take away their guns.<br /><br />The Knausgaard character is aware his own discontent is internal in origin, he stops and examines his life and ask himself this question, which distills the multi-thousand page Knausgaard canon into two sentences:<br /><br /><i>Why wasn't this good enough? Why isn't it sufficient in itself? </i>(p. 380).<br /><br />The Knausgaard character has never learned what the apostle Paul learned</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">:<br /><br /><i>Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. . .</i><br /><br />The main thematic difference between <i>My Struggle</i> and <i>The Morning Star</i> is t</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">hat in the <i>My Struggle</i> books </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Knausgaard</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> is chiefly concerned with the discovery of the internal discontent and the recognition of the inauthenticity of life, whereas <i>The Morning Star</i> spends considerable time on its origin and its possible remedy.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />In <i>The Morning Star</i> we read about the unsatisfying lives of nine narrators as they go about their day-to-day unrest when suddenly a huge new star blazes in the sky. Simultaneously in their individual lives strange phenomena begin to occur which may or may not be supernatural. This plot device allows Knausgaard to continue his examination of the authenticity of contemporary life but also enables him, through characters such as a priest, a journalist, a teacher, and a would-be philosopher to engage in much theological and philosophical speculation as to what has been lost in the scientific/technological secular age we live in.<br /><br />The seeming supernatural events in the story-line are briefly and sketchily detailed, and while early in the novel it appears as if they will converge, they never do, nor is much consideration given to their reality.<br /><br />The question is not whether these events are actually supernatural, it’s whether our lives are more than material, if there is something beyond that which we have been taught scientifically. Would our lives be be larger and more fulfilling if we looked past contemporary life’s scientific boundary?<br /><br />The increasing interest in the old pagan religions, which Knausgaard touches upon in a subplot concerning a death metal band, perhaps reflects this. For even modern Christianity discounts the supernatural, there are no miracles in modern Christianity, healings occur outside of the church, sick Christians go for chemotherapy, liver transplants, they take the same prescription drugs as the infidels. I chuckle over the small self-proclaimed Christian who, rightly, rails at the pharmaceutically polluted gender fluid youth, but at the same time they flock to the pharmaceuticals at the first little ache in their bodies. Their medicine cabinets are just as full. Are they any more the person God made them to be than the gender bender?<br /><br />In <i>The Morning Star</i> the reader must consider if the acceptance of the scientific boundary of life has limited it. Is it a reason our lives are so small?<br /><br />And, of course, the boundary of our science is death. Our science does not accept life after death. The consequence of this is the tiny temporal lives we live here on this earth, and that’s the main reason for our constant worrying and fretting which drives us to discontent and despair and the addictions of our escape. We must gain the impossible from this life before it ends. If there is no life after death, we must gain treasure and pleasure enough in this life to last the eternity of the void. In this life, if even paying rent seems arduous, is it any wonder most of the entire Western world is anxious, depressed, restless, discontent?<br /><br />And this question of death is another large concern of <i>The Morning Star</i>. If we were able to look beyond this life, as Christ exhorted His followers, our worries would cease, our need for escape would disappear. But in this world where the boundary has been set by science, we are not allowed to believe Christ has defeated death.<br /><br /><i>The Morning Star</i> ends rather in a rather unsatisfying fashion, it must be admitted, as Knausgaard attempts to imagine a life without the boundary at death. It’s a hodgepodge of pre-Christian beliefs and modern near death experiences that is vague in meaning, followed by an apocalyptic epilogue (the book, probably not coincidentally, ends on page 666) which, rather than tying the novel's supernatural loose threads together, just unravels one more.<br /><br />But despite the weak ending, <i>The Morning Star</i> is nonetheless another admirable attempt by Knausgaard to sort out the difficulties of the post-Christian way of life.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-20211337446461493182023-04-22T19:55:00.005-04:002023-06-14T10:41:40.415-04:00Terrifier 2<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4bfBV3kvACkWjPOlfQF4TVcs4xCoBtDP4-2mnSFyiCFdgGlSiP20AHrNiXhrXRnylTJ4TBnRc7WfKsrDJVn5a5lyO1aecSacgTbDPV-4yJ17RT6BvtKJoX_MBZv-lZdoxqnfOfiDUevdH2d2QDMk1sJFI5V81T_H0MSWT8e4wDl3z85boFhkns1fNjQ/s505/art1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="505" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4bfBV3kvACkWjPOlfQF4TVcs4xCoBtDP4-2mnSFyiCFdgGlSiP20AHrNiXhrXRnylTJ4TBnRc7WfKsrDJVn5a5lyO1aecSacgTbDPV-4yJ17RT6BvtKJoX_MBZv-lZdoxqnfOfiDUevdH2d2QDMk1sJFI5V81T_H0MSWT8e4wDl3z85boFhkns1fNjQ/s320/art1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I don’t think any filmmaker has ever championed the joys of cruelty to the degree of </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">Terrifier</i><span style="font-family: verdana;"> progenitor Damien Leone. In terms of gleeful sadism and torture portrayed in exuberant gore, </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">Terrifier</i><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">2</i><span style="font-family: verdana;"> matches its predecessors, </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">All Hallows’ Eve</i><span style="font-family: verdana;"> and </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">Terrifier</i><span style="font-family: verdana;">. Art the Clown is back to humiliate, eviscerate, mutilate and decapitate several unlucky citizens of Miles County on Halloween. In one of the film's merriest moments of mischief, Art uses the hollowed out head of one of his victims as a candy bowl for trick-or-treaters.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">In addition to Leone's trademark <i>haute couture</i> gore, <i>Terrifier 2 </i>also features his garish sets and grindhouse aura. But to me, one of the most interesting aspects of Leone's <i>Terrifier</i> trilogy is Art the Clown's chief enemies are middle class families, and he depicts their homes as drab, artless, mean spaces where parents and children grate on each other nearly to the point of hatred. Indeed, these working class Americans are almost as angry as Art, but completely lack his capacity for joy. <br /><br /><i>Terrifier 2</i> brings a new and highly successful addition to the <i>Terrifier </i>cinematic universe. This time around Art is aided in his bloody high jinx by *the little pale girl,* the ghost of a 10-year-old rape/murder victim (whether she was raped/murdered by Art the Clown is unclear). The pale clown-costumed tween is not so much an ingenue as an injure-you cheerleader who roots on Art in his Halloween murder spree. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">There's really only one bummer to <i>Terrifier 2</i>, but unfortunately it's big enough to make the film less enjoyable than its predecessors. The acting by two of the main characters is godawful. A person named Sarah Voigt plays the mother of the middle class family targeted by Art, and she's off-key in every scene she's in. Her character is scripted with a couple moments of redeeming human emotion, but this Voigt person plays them like some rookie violinist practicing on a violin with only one string. Voigt is such a horrible actor, as the movie progresses you cannot wait for Art the Clown to slowly tear her limb-from-limb. . .alas, her character is one of Art's quickest, most painless deaths. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The other acting bummer is the lad who plays the kid brother in the middle class family. He's inept, but at least he's not as gratingly annoying as Voigt. You just wish there was a vintage Edward Furlong laying around somewhere that Damien Leone could have dusted off.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The *final girl* of the middle class family is played by Lauren LeVera, and she is merely OK. Regrettably, none of the new cast members, save Amelie McLain as *the little pale girl,* have the charm of <i>Terrifier's </i>trio of female leads.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">But I understand discussing the acting talent in a highly stylized exercise in gratified gore is nitpicking, at best, and should not be taken as a caution against its viewing. <i>Terrifier 2</i> is highly recommended. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-51294117363270045922023-03-25T10:17:00.002-04:002023-03-25T13:47:06.842-04:00Working Class Hero: Easter Bunny<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcAXSRdI4zh_Nvc6MTy78NUPTwv0TJBgfGoZOd90QAwQcycH5NMwdsIejHQNORLVDdYskQH1QylgIH64iJ-Gov2rkVx8phpIFDSAqnbOBn9mMtPMWbzYGwoxCQMve7R816N9OSKd5syOgtyPhKhAclvEnz1DW-CNiijZmdyBNT0pg0lsLEv9PoGraMJw/s1590/IMG_6233x.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1590" data-original-width="801" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcAXSRdI4zh_Nvc6MTy78NUPTwv0TJBgfGoZOd90QAwQcycH5NMwdsIejHQNORLVDdYskQH1QylgIH64iJ-Gov2rkVx8phpIFDSAqnbOBn9mMtPMWbzYGwoxCQMve7R816N9OSKd5syOgtyPhKhAclvEnz1DW-CNiijZmdyBNT0pg0lsLEv9PoGraMJw/s320/IMG_6233x.jpg" width="161" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It takes a special kind of person to be an Easter Bunny. </span></span><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-72b53475-7fff-7c8f-7412-1e19b0cc41b5"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It takes a hero.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t laugh. Not unless you’ve worn that bunny head for an eight hour shift at the mall. There have been many a man, woman and trans that have tried on that bunny head and couldn’t do it.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bunny head is heavy. It’s hot inside there. Dark. The eye holes are covered with mesh. You are in a dark, hot place, weighed down. Yes, a bit like Hell. Wearing the bunny head is like looking out from Hell’s screen door at the world of the as-of-yet unjudged. And you, from behind Hell’s screen door, are told to put a smile on the miserable faces of the as-of-yet unjudged (and sell a $39.99 commemorative photo package). </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And no, it’s not just the little kids at the mall. It’s every single miserable person at the mall. Miserable people who work in the mall stores, mall janitors and rent-a-cops, delivery people, geriatric mall walkers, shoppers of all ages and genders, tween and teen school truants, anybody in the mall who walks past the Easter Bunny on the Easter Bunny’s set is owed the Easter Bunny’s attention.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway. . .</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most people, when they try on the bunny head, become anxious. Panic sets in. They feel cut-off, locked in, claustrophobic. Buried alive. They yank that bunny head off and gasp: <i>I can’t breathe! I’m not cut out for this! </i> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luckily, I’ve felt buried alive my whole life, so putting on the bunny head felt no different from any other moment.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, the rest of the Easter Bunny uniform is no joke, either. The coat weighs a ton, the pants and paws are ill-fitting and hot as fuck.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway. . .</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, the Easter Bunny does not speak. The Bunny must bring a smile to the miserable faces of the as-of-yet unjudged without saying a word.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luckily, I have a lifetime of experience as a mime. I was never formally trained. I taught myself. I’ve spent most of my life trying to avoid talking to people, so I am an expert at non-verbal communication.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To put a smile on the miserable faces of as-of-yet unjudged white folk, usually a simple limp-wristed wave of the paw will do. African-Americans require a little more effort, they are more miserable, I suppose, but my mack daddy strut usually does the trick. Police officers who happen by get my Derek Chauvin knee drop mime. It doesn’t make them smile, but the other mall bystanders chuckle in delight. Teenagers who try to crack wise at the Easter Bunny’s expense are shamed with a mime of a penalty flag toss and unsportsmanlike conduct signal. I won’t get into detailed specifics regarding certain ages and genders, fluid or not, but take my word, this Easter Bunny makes all who cross his path feel loved.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s a grueling eight hour shift that leaves you soaked in sweat with a sore neck and a head aching from breathing your own recycled oxygen. But the reward, the Christian satisfaction of giving a momentary born-again experience to the miserable souls of the mall, makes the agony of carrying your bunny head daily more than worth it.</span></p></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-80153648238963159242023-02-01T17:06:00.002-05:002023-02-01T17:06:50.071-05:00John 14:1-9<span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. <b><span style="color: red;">Thomas saith unto Him, Lord, we know not whither Thou goest; and how can we know the way?</span></b> Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me. If ye had known Me, ye should have known My Father also: and from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him. <b><span style="color: red;">Philip saith unto Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us</span></b>. <b>Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip?</b> he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?</i><br /><br />Thomas and Philip are there with Jesus at the final hour. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">They have been with Jesus for upwards of three years.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">And here, at the end of Jesus' mission, they (and doubtless the other disciples, as well), have no clue what He is talking about. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">They have no idea who He is. They have no idea where to go. They have no idea what to do. And this is made painfully clear by their (in)action after the crucifixion.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The only one who thought He knew what to do was Judas. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">They have been with Jesus upwards of three years, and are utterly clueless.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">As clueless as me, 2000 years later.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here I am, 2000 years later stranded in the Satanic World Order, and I am supposed to know where to go and what to do?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'll tell you where I won't go, and what I won't do:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I won't go and listen to a self-proclaimed Christian 'minister' who speaks with absolute confidence and certainty about how other people ought to live their lives. For I am pretty certain they don't know a God damned thing more about it than Thomas or Philip or me. As the Apostle Paul said:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. . .</i><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thomas and Philip (and the other disciples) didn't know what to do until Jesus came back from the dead, appeared to them, and told them what to do.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">What am I supposed to do, 2000 years later?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am as clueless as Thomas and Philip were.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">What do I do?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Trust Jesus has a plan to drag my sorry ass out of this Satanic World Order and into His kingdom. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I can judge my life to this point the same as I would judge the lives of Thomas and Philip and the other disciples in the period between the Last Supper and the Resurrection. My behaviors have certainly been different. But the judgment would be the same: unrighteous. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jesus got Thomas and Philip and the other disciples into the Kingdom, even though they had no idea how it would happen.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the midst of the Satanic World Order, even though I have fallen, as Thomas and Philip and the other disciples fell, though from different temptation, I look to what Thomas and Philip and the other disciples saw, the resurrected Jesus. Jesus has overcome the World, and even from the pit I am in, I see Him. That's all I need.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-26541051622451100542023-01-22T10:19:00.001-05:002023-01-22T10:19:16.775-05:00John 12:25 and Donald Trump<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxIgWYLGEDgnj9_mfH_QOipFG1iRd3RoH2Zis3Z18aTn_Fv32chskcN96QMh5h1BC7PDErHUjo62MHzkk4lSIXKmsQMj2DDk7kyDG2Pm9uQiT9l9IL-cHHQaA8Hnwu4o7q72a025--fJRaGgjjcLMWTB6qWQL4PVFjN1elUWZ2RXydAeRgVyx_gdnfg/s1060/donald-trump-tuxedo-gridiron-dinner-2018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1060" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxIgWYLGEDgnj9_mfH_QOipFG1iRd3RoH2Zis3Z18aTn_Fv32chskcN96QMh5h1BC7PDErHUjo62MHzkk4lSIXKmsQMj2DDk7kyDG2Pm9uQiT9l9IL-cHHQaA8Hnwu4o7q72a025--fJRaGgjjcLMWTB6qWQL4PVFjN1elUWZ2RXydAeRgVyx_gdnfg/s320/donald-trump-tuxedo-gridiron-dinner-2018.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></div>He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal--</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">John 12:25.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I can't think of any recent public figure who loves his life more than Donald Trump. His entire life has been about stealing enough money to *live deliciously,* as the Bible terms it (Revelation 18:7).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">He would destroy anybody or anything to keep his soft clothes and King's houses. In this regard, he inverts Caiaphas' prophecy:</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>It is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.</i></span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Trump is willing that a whole nation should perish for one man: himself. That is the measure of how much he loves his delicious life.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now that his delicious life is in jeopardy, does he calculate the wages of sin his soft life has cost? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Does he repent like Nebuchadnezzar?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">No.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The best thing for Trump would be if he were to be beaten with many stripes or lashed with a cane until he came to senses and begged God for mercy for the sake of Christ. This won't happen. He will run out the clock of his delicious life with legal ploys funded by his gullible followers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">And then he will die in his sin.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-50525574217748751322023-01-20T17:17:00.002-05:002023-01-20T17:34:16.899-05:00The Baptist According to Luke and John<p> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Just asking:</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-98534e5f-7fff-2ce1-5f37-7be5e7d039c2"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Is there any more pitiable figure in human history than John the Baptist?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">His life’s labor was to prepare the way for the Lord. And by all the gospel accounts, he did it admirably. And yet. . .</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">. . .He ended up sentenced to death, and plagued by doubt. That is. . .</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">. . .If one believes the account in the gospel of Luke. In fact, if Luke is accurate, one could well ask, did the Baptist die, as American self-proclaimed Christians like to term it, *unsaved?*</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Luke would have us believe the Baptist, plagued by doubt, sends 2 of his disciples to ask Jesus if He is the One. This is exceedingly odd, because. . .</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Luke’s infancy narrative tells us Jesus and the Baptist had maternal figures who were related, and that both their births were miraculous, and that the maternal figures in their lives knew before their births of their exact relationship to each other, that of messenger in service of Savior. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shouldn’t the Baptist have grown up with absolute certainty about his *Cousin?* Mary and Elizabeth, the maternal figures of Jesus and the Baptist, were relatives, and met before the births and discussed these matters, and Luke states the Baptist knew *in the womb* that Jesus was the One. And yet. . .</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">. . .Luke would have us believe, at the end of his life the Baptist doubted, sent out disciples to question Jesus, which seemingly irked the Lord, for He replied “blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in Me.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jesus later added that he who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than the Baptist. It would not be unreasonable to infer then that the Baptist is outside the Kingdom of God. At any rate. . .</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">. . .for this reason we say no one is more pitiable than the Baptist. . .he devoted his life's labor to preparing the way for Christ, and yet ended his life on death row, unsure if he had prepared the way for the right One. . .IF Luke’s account is true.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">On the other hand. . .</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">. . .the gospel of John records no such doubt on the part of the Baptist. In fact, in John’s gospel, unlike Luke’s, the Baptist has no idea who Jesus is until he sees the Holy Spirit descend upon Jesus, a confirming sign given to the Baptist by God, at which time the Baptist proclaims with absolute certainty Jesus is the Lamb of God. He never wavers or doubts, and consoles his own disciples who see the ministry of Jesus grow, and his ministry shrink, by stating <i>He must increase, I must decrease.</i> Not a shred of doubt is ever hinted at in the gospel of John. So. . .</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">. . .for the sake of the Baptist, let us hope John's account is the more accurate. </span></span></p><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-71743767057166988502022-12-14T18:43:00.003-05:002022-12-14T18:43:34.032-05:00Matthew 5:14-16<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.</i></span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ac91426-7fff-f530-a162-bd2bfd3b50ba"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’ve been reading the New Testament for over forty years. This saying of Jesus is recorded, variously, in the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. I have probably read this saying at least one hundred times. . .</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And every time I read it, my conscience is <b><span style="color: red;">seared</span></b>. . .</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have had the Light of Jesus’ Gospel for over forty years. . .but it has not shined before men. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have not hid the light 100% of the time. But certainly I have hid it more than 99% of the time. More than 99.5% of the time. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think of all the people I have been acquainted with over the decades. The vast, vast majority of them never knew I was an admirer of Jesus, and that I esteemed His gospel above all else.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Every time I read the saying of Jesus presented above, my conscience is seared as I admit how little I have displayed it. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s not that I would be ashamed if people knew I was a Jesus person, or that I was afraid people would think less of me if they knew I was a Jesus person. I don’t care what people think about me. . . </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wish it were that I was ashamed or fearful. It wouldn’t be more excusable, because it can’t be excused. But it would be more comprehensible. . .</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For the plain truth is incomprehensible: I have the gospel of the Savior, and almost all the time I do nothing with it. I live as if there is no Kingdom of God. I live exactly as the people who are ignorant of the gospel of Jesus live. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I ask myself: why is this? I don’t have an answer. I can say that I don’t care enough about other people to illuminate them with the gospel of Jesus, and this is certainly true, but I can’t answer why I don’t care enough about them. Why am I reasonably content to just pass the time here waiting to die as if there is no Kingdom of God, as if there is no other way to live than the way unbelievers live? The way they live is not the right way to live, of that I have no doubt. The world goes about everything the wrong way, of that I have no doubt. And yet, as I said, I am reasonably content to go along, anyway.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">And so when I read the saying above from Jesus, and must acknowledge the power and splendor of the gospel, and yet I can't be bothered about it, my conscience is seared as I contemplate the extraordinary labor Jesus undertook to bring His gospel to the world. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I can only hope this confession serves as an introduction to the gospel of Jesus to any who pass here. . .</span></span></p></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-63964007489382636142022-11-15T18:09:00.006-05:002022-11-15T18:11:20.574-05:00Faces<p><span style="font-family: verdana; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don’t know when it started. It’s been a couple months at least. Probably longer.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-09e95e49-7fff-529c-3caa-abacab9379ac"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I just can’t stand looking at peoples’ faces, anymore. It’s painful. It really is. Just a glance at somebody makes me ill. Something toxic there. I hate to say it because it will seem like I think I am better than everyone, which is the furthest thing from the truth. I can’t stand to look at my own face. When I see my own face, I automatically bark </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fuck you, motherfucker!</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fucking idiot!</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When I look at a face I see the. . .wrongness. The misuse. The abuse of their own being.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No. No. It’s not really their own being.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s the abuse of their purpose. . .their design. . .their blood.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the other hand, I don’t mind looking at small children. Toddlers. I feel tremendous sympathy. I feel so sorry for them. Look at them. Wobbling around this world. Most of them smiling, waving at strangers. They don’t know they’ve been set on the path to Hell. This life will be a hell, and then most of them will conclude in Hell. I could cry, I feel so sorry for them, wobbling around this world.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-87166552352503427622022-08-19T17:48:00.001-04:002022-08-19T17:48:34.128-04:00Just Released<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B9QTKHF9/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="" data-original-height="1545" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNMw5ftDVmHbnEKSIIkrf_kvJuvXHqkcCt3aPujLdsJeoy7nZ9lMyp9Y1eaT42Z_W8xtuJ87TdVK2kPK8g21jmYfQaO9W6lJKITKzOiuz_Hk3TrJCsZiKnoVC6gaiKE8cKgBJdw0I0E5yTwI4u_pQpuhTBxWgncqEhAY78qoTC-gjWSU5JdE41BWJNtA" width="155" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-84547559770107560412022-05-25T12:27:00.000-04:002022-05-25T12:27:29.785-04:00Uvalde: The Simple Answer<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX9F_GnYgZfkUMJa7gDRbWmN6tAOQImmePHoupDNVCBbNFAqb5qmyjM8dBc4g6SLX8NdZ57tkhnkzJuMX36cxecAxZWYx3NRUx559GRYAmWHsbw7gzLZ4363-xnxhEhS8e4JjA5_ICA3SJ9g4OckCwS7wsH6ML3FdgoxYm5x064rKxtsJM0PuPl6-zVw/s530/robb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="530" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX9F_GnYgZfkUMJa7gDRbWmN6tAOQImmePHoupDNVCBbNFAqb5qmyjM8dBc4g6SLX8NdZ57tkhnkzJuMX36cxecAxZWYx3NRUx559GRYAmWHsbw7gzLZ4363-xnxhEhS8e4JjA5_ICA3SJ9g4OckCwS7wsH6ML3FdgoxYm5x064rKxtsJM0PuPl6-zVw/w400-h201/robb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here we are. . .again.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This ain't a complicated issue, people. Don't be fooled by wicked ideologues (on the right or left) who try to score political touchdowns off the dead bodies of children.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">If you stand Salvador Ramos next to a stack of 100 machine guns, and he is content with his life, he won't pick one up and shoot up an elementary school.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This ain't about gun control. . .</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It ain't even about *mental health*. . .</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's about quality of life. . .</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's about the intent of life. . .</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We are herded from birth into anti-life world. If we have faith in Christ, we call it an anti-Christ world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's a purely material existence that can have no lasting value for a biological creature. . .</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Most people deal with the shabby quality of their life by seeking escape in alcohol, narcotics, sex, domestic violence, gambling or any of the other Western *recreations.*</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">An increasing number are now moving beyond domestic violence to community violence. . .or maybe it's not an increasing number, who knows? It doesn't matter. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The issue of community violence can be solved by:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Removing guns,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">or</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Improving the quality of Western life by cutting out its materialistic core.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Neither will be done. Right wingers are too indoctrinated into the faith of the 2nd Amendment to give up their ridiculously unnecessary guns (what the fuck does a 21st century human being need a gun for?), and both right and left wingers worship mammon.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Life is cheap, anyway. Look how undervalued it is in Ukraine, where it counts less than a cloth flag.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Don't act like Uvalde is a tragedy if you accept as a necessity abortion or war. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">You can't choose either a little life or a little death.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lastly, Salvador Ramos had no *mental health* issues. The quality of life in the Western world is awful. To sit and stare at a smartphone all day and eat Chipotle for dinner is a more a sign of poor mental health than shooting a school. Shooting a school is the act of a soul on its last nerve in an insane world.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-56282399747622135232022-05-16T11:57:00.000-04:002022-05-16T11:57:01.316-04:00Payton Gendron, Victim<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDN8XrjUenxg4SqIRMEithAiVpbLXgs-p_rGtVD6fIHZIRnO3PuHPju9qVRE9KnGNKSe8-VaZXhVlyr-i25D5FSRX1uYdr37LdUp4kMvu3QtOYR1J2_DwavP-mOJeaB19tYTDr5zZfohF5f634PMqfhRZYgE5kJH2i906GZmcQItimat0nRKcc1iY6dQ/s706/pg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="706" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDN8XrjUenxg4SqIRMEithAiVpbLXgs-p_rGtVD6fIHZIRnO3PuHPju9qVRE9KnGNKSe8-VaZXhVlyr-i25D5FSRX1uYdr37LdUp4kMvu3QtOYR1J2_DwavP-mOJeaB19tYTDr5zZfohF5f634PMqfhRZYgE5kJH2i906GZmcQItimat0nRKcc1iY6dQ/w400-h223/pg.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><i>A teenage <span style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;">white</b></span> supremacist who murdered 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket threatened to shoot a classmate at his high school graduation last year. Officials at the Susquehanna Valley High School brought in New York State Police to investigate Payton Gendron, 18, of Conklin, NY, in June of 2021 after he made statements that he would shoot fellow students. A year later he ended up shooting 13 people - 10 of them fatally - during an attack motivated by his hatred for <b>black</b> people at a Top Market supermarket in Buffalo. A school official reported that this very troubled young man had made statements indicating that he wanted to do a shooting, either at a graduation ceremony, or sometime after. After police looked into the account, Gendron was referred for mental health evaluation and counseling.</i></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br />Gendron is one of four boys born to Paul and Pamela Gendron, two civil engineers with the state who live in Conklin, NY, three and half hours south of Buffalo. Paul coached his kids in the town soccer league and at least one neighbor found him '<span style="color: red;"><b>strange</b></span>.' His mother appeared conceited, locals said. 'To be honest, the mother was kind of <span style="color: red;"><b>snooty</b></span>,' a local parent who asked not to be named said. 'Like she was better than everyone else. The father was strange. Like when you meet someone and they just seem off.'</i></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />Another shooting. . .</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The reaction to these shootings is always the same. . .the same tiresome rush to blame *the other side.*</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">This time, since the shooter is white, the reaction is devoted to blaming Tucker Carlson's rants and Lauren Boebert's Christmas card. It's the same after every shooting: juvenile ideological score settling.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">So tiresome. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">So tiresome. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Look, even if Gendron had ingested and then adopted Carlson's idiotic rantings, at a certain age the individual becomes responsible for the trash he allows to pollute his psychospace. Gendron is of that age. . .old enough to willfully deceive himself.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Whatever source for his racial angst, he choose to make racialism his creed. Living in America, he cannot have failed to have heard the name Jesus, and thus he either refused to study Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, or he read and rejected them. Whichever, he bears responsibility for rejecting the gospel for the moronic manifestos of racial mischief makers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">[And anyway, racialism seems rather the excuse to kill, than the reason to kill, since he had earlier threatened a school shooting in his neary-all white hometown.]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">If any external actors can be assigned the sin of omission for Gendron's actions, it must be his </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">parents, for they clearly failed the test of Proverbs 22:6. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">But instead of making a second agent guilty, and smearing *the other side,* which again has now become so predictable and tiresome, let us show how there is no *other side,* there is only one side.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please, do you really believe Gendron killed 10 people because he doesn't like black folk? That's as far as it goes? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Whether a white kills a black or a black kills a white, or an Arab kills a Jew or a Jew kills an Arab, or an incel kills a girl, or whoever kills whoever, the killer does so for the same reason:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The killer believes he is the victim.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The victim believes he’s under attack, and thus believes when he reacts with Satanic violence he’s acting in self-defense, and is therefore innocent.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our friend Payton Gendron wasn't under attack from black folk. He had to drive hundreds of miles to find enough to kill to calm his nerves.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Every human being, including Adam and Eve, was brought out of nothing and thrown into this world. . .but Adam and Eve were brought into a world of perfect harmony, they lived free of care. . .how must they have shined, compared to the anxious wrecks who walk the earth today?. . .but Adam and Eve victimized all who followed when they rejected their Easy Living for the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They were banished from harmony, and every one of us who followed, follows them into this world of chaos. It's impossible to live in this world. That is the lesson of history.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Every person who followed rightly believes himself a victim. Even those who chance into material favor believe they are victims. Look at Donald Trump. Over and over, he paints himself the victim.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">If Payton Gendron could live, he wouldn't kill black people. He killed black people because he couldn't live. It was impossible for him, or anybody else, to live in this world. Black folk are merely the scapegoat. Without black folk to blame, Gendron has no hope. How can he live if he admits life is impossible? So he adopts one of the fairy tales of racialism: without black folk, I can live.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">No person can live in this world, which is out of order, but to admit that means the only answer is to live in God's world. . .but the door to that world is Jesus. No other way into it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Payton Gendron didn't want that. He passed over Jesus, the door to life, and instead choose a retarded racialism.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Every person is a victim of Adam and Eve, and in that, there is some pity. Whether or not that pity withers when we see Gendron pass over God's remedy for an assanine rememdy of his own depends upon our willingless to believe Gendron passed over Christ and choose negrocide from *Free Will.*</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">In any event, Tucker Carlson is not the problem. The problem is the impossibility of living outside the Kingdom of God.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-24240933225486641702022-04-07T16:48:00.006-04:002022-04-07T21:00:08.753-04:00The Witch Who Came From The Sea<span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs-bt39I7wuvGC_qHq0kvS2VFhe-u5lo5fk4G1BV9y-yiNtDyXQ9pAh-BbSo7VVZrW0zfKzg73CuwertuH-C7HKFk-cEuIP_prRwDb1hRtZQhj50H7q14SRwVEgCj1rU82XFJol6vu2h6eDvEN73ptX5kx9OSXGSInw4wWSwYKOA9-sH77VCs58nZukw/s600/The_Witch_Who_Came_from_the_Sea_poster.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="393" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs-bt39I7wuvGC_qHq0kvS2VFhe-u5lo5fk4G1BV9y-yiNtDyXQ9pAh-BbSo7VVZrW0zfKzg73CuwertuH-C7HKFk-cEuIP_prRwDb1hRtZQhj50H7q14SRwVEgCj1rU82XFJol6vu2h6eDvEN73ptX5kx9OSXGSInw4wWSwYKOA9-sH77VCs58nZukw/s320/The_Witch_Who_Came_from_the_Sea_poster.jpg" width="210" /></a></div>Molly’s enjoying a relaxing day at the beach, regaling her tween nephews with stories of their family’s adventures at sea, when she notices a group of male bodybuilders working out. She nearly salivates at the sight of their bulging muscles and, more particularly, the huge bulges in the crotches of their speedos. From her erotic revery, she descends into a trance-like state which climaxes(!!) in a blood-stained vision of their deaths-by-mutilations! Well, can any movie have a better opening scene? Nope. No way. But can any movie <b>NOT</b> go downhill from such a brilliant beginning? Probably not. And certainly not this one, a low-budget ‘70s grindhouse sexploitation shocker which has long dreary sequences of inept police procedural as the authorities try to track down the psycho who is mutilating he-men who appear on TV (football players, Marlboro Man-type commercial actors, etc.). Of course, the psycho is Molly, and the only other memorable moments are the porn-grade death scenes and ultra-lurid flashbacks which distastefully detail the nautical childhood trauma which turned adult Molly into an alcoholic homicidal nymphomaniac(!). Despite the tedious whodunnit interludes, the film remains watchable to its gOOfball tragic ending because of the offbeat seductive S&M charm of lead actress <span style="color: red;"><b>Millie Perkins</b></span>. Her Molly is the strangest broken character you’ll ever see, and that she remains somewhat believable and always sympathetic throughout the muddled psycho-sexual babble is a testament to her performance (and her forty-year-old body, which shines like a star in its several nude scenes). And has any actress ever played two more polar-opposite characters than Millie Perkins? Molly in this crazy-ass thing, and Anne Frank in her film debut seventeen years earlier! That’s about as insane as this <i><span style="color: red;">Shudder</span></i> trash bin movie.</span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQKNKzOXz0PAALsX947YMxLddqsftmkw52KvmMTwMA9yR_9JdIVFWFleqyxX1WZJ_0uPT9RKqNlMuU_ZwsSQCspcEamxBaOcxBG39kBnPSgYnq3cw4q7CmTtq-bCkj4UDfDmpwHkHjaYitiVdmjdLw5Od3p9bIi8ek9glAI-W2f7gvCCy6KCQrbKV4Q/s913/perkins%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="913" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQKNKzOXz0PAALsX947YMxLddqsftmkw52KvmMTwMA9yR_9JdIVFWFleqyxX1WZJ_0uPT9RKqNlMuU_ZwsSQCspcEamxBaOcxBG39kBnPSgYnq3cw4q7CmTtq-bCkj4UDfDmpwHkHjaYitiVdmjdLw5Od3p9bIi8ek9glAI-W2f7gvCCy6KCQrbKV4Q/w400-h109/perkins%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-57163375345842106102022-03-31T11:52:00.007-04:002022-03-31T13:11:09.655-04:00Trauma<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7raf8T_LD1eo1OH89Yk3roQwgKFSKKdA9NNgiM2ceJIaRh-e3KjVgspUAMAxGpYrXLolQ88pfRyt2sWnzYuwi0I0FXfzyy8EotSQG21RIZsSs3elog0XvDYMgHMyzeqZqvb5CIXh_P0zl8CX4jGQHDnK8NBpLUGE2XMe6LVAW08Fh3mtTisb_YMpH-A/s600/IMG_3170%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="600" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7raf8T_LD1eo1OH89Yk3roQwgKFSKKdA9NNgiM2ceJIaRh-e3KjVgspUAMAxGpYrXLolQ88pfRyt2sWnzYuwi0I0FXfzyy8EotSQG21RIZsSs3elog0XvDYMgHMyzeqZqvb5CIXh_P0zl8CX4jGQHDnK8NBpLUGE2XMe6LVAW08Fh3mtTisb_YMpH-A/s320/IMG_3170%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The only point in attempting to detail the plot of a </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Dario Argento</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> movie is for the amusement value that results from the realization the story is actually 10x more absurd than what you thought it was while watching it.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />So:</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Trauma</i></b>:<br /><br />16-year-old anorexic Aura (played in one of her trademark *eccentric* performances by Argento’s thin 18-year-old daughter <b>Asia</b>) runs away from her treatment clinic and half-heartedly tries to jump off a bridge (why is she suicidal? Who knows? Maybe because food is depressing?) before being talked down by a passing motorist who just happens to be a TV reporter who is investigating the Headhunter, a by-the-numbers Argento maniac who decapitates *his* victims with an *As Seen On TV*-looking motorized slicing thingy. . .next, the reporter returns Aura to her parents' house on the very night Aura’s by-the-numbers Argento weirdo spiritualist mother (played by the ever-grand <b>Piper Laurie</b>) performs a seance (!?!? Because? Argento!) which ends with her and her effeminate husband being decapitated by the Headhunter and Aura being sent back to the anorexia clinic by the cynical hard-ass police detective played by James Russo, but, of course, the Headhunter's next victims just so happen to work at that same clinic, so while a couple nurses are being decapitated, Aura escapes with the help of the reporter who was coming to the clinic to break her out because, well, just because maybe Aura is a little bit jail-baity, because soon Aura and the reporter are having some statutory rape-type sex in between Aura’s bouts of not eating, or eating and then vomiting, in between trying to figure out who the Headhunter is, all before Aura becomes so depressed she wanders off giving the reporter, <i>for some reason</i>, the impression Aura has drowned herself which causes the statutory rapist reporter to become even more depressed than Aura was, so he immediately becomes a drug addict bum stumbling around for days or weeks or who knows how long before he sees a still-alive Aura and follows her to a house where all the insane secrets of the Headhunter are revealed:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: red; font-family: verdana;"><b>[SPOILER ALERT!]</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">20 years or so prior, while giving birth to her first, pre-Aura child, Piper Laurie's baby is accidentally decapitated (!?!?), and the bumbling hospital staff responsible for the atrocity decide to give Piper Laurie a massive jolt of electroshock therapy so she will forget their little blunder. . .then, <i>for some reason</i>, the soul of the dead baby waits about 20 years to contact its spiritualist mother and tell her about the maternity ward massacre, urging her to seek revenge on the incompetent medical staff, some of whom, of course, ended up working at her anorexic daughter’s clinic, and so, yeah, Piper Laurie is the Headhunter, and had, of course, merely staged her earlier presumed decapitation, apparently James Russo and his crack police staff didn’t bother doing any DNA or any of that kind of detective shit on the headless corpse which they thought was Aura’s mother, but, that's just a typical by-the-numbers little Argento detail not to be bothered with. . .anyway, Aura and mom are now living in this random house, and when the reporter follows Aura there and discovers her and her mother are still alive, mom, of course, is going to have to decapitate him, and is just about to when she herself is decapitated, for real this time, by the nosy next door neighbor butterfly collecting kid who has been mad at Piper Laurie ever since he saw her pet lizard eat a butterfly. <b>The End</b>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBlculkJuHQ1ltz7LgLjpocEDWgIhPUnoxRnNLbhB9Gyx6oJM3Yq11GYJzRxZN7AgqutBgIP-avnfSNKMiMV-BEXfGaKxgQWyC_twWl5mayRbVdkUPVzrZa2zmOpL8lM9cMvuPxp-k5Oyi1ulMBznSuu4OZTPayxXniIuUpbGHNV-2Fe9QE0H5Nh4fA/s800/IMG_3177%20(1).jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="800" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBlculkJuHQ1ltz7LgLjpocEDWgIhPUnoxRnNLbhB9Gyx6oJM3Yq11GYJzRxZN7AgqutBgIP-avnfSNKMiMV-BEXfGaKxgQWyC_twWl5mayRbVdkUPVzrZa2zmOpL8lM9cMvuPxp-k5Oyi1ulMBznSuu4OZTPayxXniIuUpbGHNV-2Fe9QE0H5Nh4fA/w298-h171/IMG_3177%20(1).jpg" width="298" /></a></div>This is one of Argento’s weaker efforts, for sure, with little of his renowned clever camera shots, and only the child birth/decapitation scene living up to the maestro's master <i>giallo</i> arch-gore-stylist/oddball Freudian psycho-babble reputation. It’s also Argento’s first movie filmed in America, in Minneapolis, of all places, although it seems more like Turin than Minnesota, perhaps due to Asia’s exotic accent and the cast’s weird wardrobe, they look like they are wearing leftovers shipped from the set of <i>Deep Red</i> rather than crap from Gadzooks, American Eagle, or even Mervyn’s. Beyond whether Aura will be able to choke down a grilled cheese sandwich without puking, there is almost no tension in the film. The music score is also sub-standard for an Argento film, and the nudity is kept to a *bare* minimum as well, perhaps due to some hesitation on Dario’s part for exploiting his own daughter, though he can’t resist shooting one brief scene with a topless Asia:</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHcKW9IjKnrqN8bOgvl-zi6iLGg-oVB1Pd1e5pCsKbFWXhg8IMF6wINCA7Km8F7os23OKidUOJ1ajDzE4uoayfuUUxAHniM4cm1-nwPttE3kRUVJZtlIoF-8Z8qn_tbF4e5c7iNF8lk2DQUu7Ejutd7Gh1kA0yC4iGpJTXe3uY9auNqh82Qo9WgVvPwg/s624/IMG_3175%20(1).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="624" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHcKW9IjKnrqN8bOgvl-zi6iLGg-oVB1Pd1e5pCsKbFWXhg8IMF6wINCA7Km8F7os23OKidUOJ1ajDzE4uoayfuUUxAHniM4cm1-nwPttE3kRUVJZtlIoF-8Z8qn_tbF4e5c7iNF8lk2DQUu7Ejutd7Gh1kA0yC4iGpJTXe3uY9auNqh82Qo9WgVvPwg/s320/IMG_3175%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is probably not even a mediocre movie, with the ludicrous script keeping you distracted from how boring it really is. I mean, you barely even notice that the doctor at the anorexia clinic is </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Frederic Forrest</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">, in one of his late oddball roles, or that one of the physicians who screwed up the childbirth is </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Brad Dourif</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">, and he doesn't seem odd enough to even be a Brad Dourif character. Not much of a movie, but then again, I saw it on </span><i style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: red;">Shudder</span></i><span style="font-family: verdana;">, so what can we expect?</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-22655119562755006332022-03-04T14:31:00.002-05:002022-03-04T14:45:09.220-05:00Ukraine Explained, II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9Qt3-PDf4cXIsOY6ojQE6IgLO7lK3prnFu-_8HSAJI8aCyGNPMFc-74AnH9FVPFVvyuKMx8Yv_9CH6VFi3BRXr9EvisSXQGk9iU8bKNmhDGfWwLKzteAUlaeICGggBHJdi6HCtSpFKJEhckD4eu_B8Dai9hUGCRbLRe9jECPXbFE4sv6FcIXdmbkIUg=s694" style="background-color: red; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="129" data-original-width="694" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9Qt3-PDf4cXIsOY6ojQE6IgLO7lK3prnFu-_8HSAJI8aCyGNPMFc-74AnH9FVPFVvyuKMx8Yv_9CH6VFi3BRXr9EvisSXQGk9iU8bKNmhDGfWwLKzteAUlaeICGggBHJdi6HCtSpFKJEhckD4eu_B8Dai9hUGCRbLRe9jECPXbFE4sv6FcIXdmbkIUg=w400-h74" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">So says the Hero of the Hour, Zelenskyy. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">He says it's impossible to just say, OK, Ukraine is now part of Russia. Well, no, it's not impossible. It's very easy, in fact, and it would save many lives. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Zelenskyy says *Ukraine* is worth x number of human lives. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">When these x number of people die, they will discover there is no *Ukraine*. . .</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-80778476404926809602022-03-01T12:27:00.004-05:002022-03-01T15:40:02.974-05:00Ukraine Explained<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBwgDU2oI0wqIir-bkTpraJPChvCepyVOdJK9SeaQ5YfZ2EsebRr39i-OY3A5NjubsBctUw4RZHD4O7pZmkY9xXKYrwInQki23j7QafzMJ97fituyqPNk4UGdHzIZI0DlJ9xKwUmLUnG5bGROCRz-5FPpzLda4U8MPhwCGU0cGTchH9CinZQ-twzRJ9g=s597" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="597" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBwgDU2oI0wqIir-bkTpraJPChvCepyVOdJK9SeaQ5YfZ2EsebRr39i-OY3A5NjubsBctUw4RZHD4O7pZmkY9xXKYrwInQki23j7QafzMJ97fituyqPNk4UGdHzIZI0DlJ9xKwUmLUnG5bGROCRz-5FPpzLda4U8MPhwCGU0cGTchH9CinZQ-twzRJ9g=s320" width="320" /></a></div></span><i style="font-family: verdana;">1 March 2022: Residential areas in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, were being pounded by Russian shells while a massive 40-mile convoy of Russian tanks and vehicles rolled toward the capital of Kyiv on Tuesday as the war entered its sixth day.</i></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br />At least 11 people were killed and 35 wounded in the rocket strikes on Kharkiv, Interior Ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said. He said the rubble was still being cleared and the death toll was expected to rise.<br /><br />Closed-circuit television footage showed a fireball engulfing a street in front of one building, and a few cars rolled out of the billowing smoke.<br /><br />Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the attack on the city's main square “frank, undisguised terror. Nobody will forgive. Nobody will forget. This attack on Kharkiv is a war crime.”</i></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">At this point, blame for the deaths can no longer be solely placed on Putin. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">It should be clear, even to the dumbest people, that lives would be saved if *Ukraine* surrendered. . .</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Instead, Zelenskyy himself becomes a *war criminal* when he feeds the destabilized, psychologically fragile *Ukraine* people the following toxic spells:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy received a lengthy standing ovation before and after delivering an <span style="color: red;"><b>impassioned</b></span> speech to the European Parliament. "At least two cruise missiles have hit the main square of that city. That is the <b><span style="color: red;">price of freedom</span></b>," he said. "We're fighting just for our land and for our freedom." Zelenskyy added: "Every square in our country will be called Freedom Square. Nobody will break us, we are strong, we are Ukrainians."</i></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOL Tragic!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Let's make this as simple as possible:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Imagine a *Ukraine* waitress struggling to pay bills and feed her kid. How is her life worse if Putin's puppet government administers affairs where she lives? Is she no longer a waitress with an unremarkably dreary life? Conversely, what if *Ukraine* *wins?* What will this *great victory* have added to her life? Other than a few funerals to attend and streets riddled with potholes to maneuver?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">At this point, how many dead *Ukraines* and dead *Russians* would still be breathing if Zelenskyy had done the sensible thing and *surrendered?* He should have dissolved his meaningless government and welcomed in Putin's stooges, and he would have saved hundreds, thousands of lives. <b>This cannot be argued against.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">We feel sorry for the *Ukraine* people, and wish they could look deep inside themselves, instead of looking outside themselves at the fever hallucination *Ukraine.* This Zelenskyy poison, this war enchantment, is for the benefit of a phantasm, an unreality. There is no *Ukraine.* The *Ukraine* people need to look deep within themselves, to the cellular level, for that is where they exist. That is what needs fighting for, and they can save their own cells simply by surrendering.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The longer Zelenskyy peddles these *Ukraine* fever dreams, the more responsibility he must assume for this:<br /><br /><i>"Yesterday, 16 children were killed," Zelenskyy said. "Again and again, President Putin is going to say that is some kind of operation." </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Those 16 children would be alive had Zelenskyy dissolved his government. He says Putin will call it an *operation,* but is that anymore dishonest than Zelenskyy's *patriotic* propaganda? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">There is no *Ukraine.* There is no *Russia.*</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Zelenskyy says he is fighting for *freedom!* LOL! The vast, vast majority of *Ukraines* wouldn't be any more or any less *free* no matter who runs their local government. The *Ukraines* had a pro-Russian government less than ten years ago. . .I'm sure they can recall their lives were hardly different.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">And so now they die of war madness. . .all the pointless *Ukraine* resistance glorified by the world's Media. . .when the *fog of war* lifts, and all parties look around at what's left, will they acknowledge they've been duped into a Satanic violence that accomplished absolutely nothing, other than lives extinguished so Zelenskyy could possibly keep his fancy job? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">[The Truth is: <b><span style="color: red;">there is only the Kingdom of God</span></b>. . .which most people couldn't give two shits about. So, an argument could be made about this *Ukraine* situation along the lines of: <i>Let them alone. They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.</i>]</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-20138586637309773842021-10-20T12:59:00.008-04:002021-10-24T15:45:39.374-04:002021 College Football Week 8, NFL Week 7<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi32PSnrrOFHrdw5NH5HTHF-ZJTRAX0JaeDWcLm2NKXSIv5PBi0duSJncK_n_Hzheq3v5OSHzpzXEGyDn6iNt-vC2fnOeshmwu86t2rzuU9fAfS2ExFQvXQcIdD0TN__C5acL9FXEusEAgr/s584/meyer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="584" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi32PSnrrOFHrdw5NH5HTHF-ZJTRAX0JaeDWcLm2NKXSIv5PBi0duSJncK_n_Hzheq3v5OSHzpzXEGyDn6iNt-vC2fnOeshmwu86t2rzuU9fAfS2ExFQvXQcIdD0TN__C5acL9FXEusEAgr/s320/meyer.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b style="font-family: verdana;">Week 7 College Recap</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Verified: <b>Dan Mullen</b>, shit-ass coach and most over-rated coach in college football. <b>Ed Orgeron</b> seems almost happy he’s shit-canned. Maybe he just wants to fornicate full-time with any wet-hole who will have him. Football was getting in the way of his second childhood. <b>Cutty Sark</b> and the <b>Longhorns</b> fell off the wagon, again. How much are they paying this guy to have a fourth or fifth place team in a shit-ass league? I bet Cutty never coaches Texas in an SEC game. <b>Ole Miss-Tennessee</b>: LOL! Karma for Volunteer fans: <b>Sleepy Joe Milton</b>.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">College Picks Week 8</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"> (</span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: red;"><span>28</span><span>-22-1</span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"> vs the spread for the season):</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /><b>Washington -18 @ Arizona</b>: No team coached by Jimmy Lake is ever a legit 18 point favorite. <span style="color: red;"><b>Arizona</b></span>. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>Oklahoma -38.5 @ Kansas</b>: Fuck Lincoln Riley and his pussy-ass Oklahoma team. Notre Dame is more real than these non-binaries. <b><span style="color: red;">Kansas</span></b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>Northwestern +23.5 @ Michigan</b>: Seems a little lite, to me. Northwestern has been shit-ass most of the year, and are the only team in existence that can't keep Nebraska to a one-score game, as somehow they managed to lose to the Cornholers by 49!! <span style="color: red;"><b>Michigan</b></span>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>Illinois +23.5 @ Penn State</b>: I'm basing this on the assumption that even if Sean Clifford can play, James Franklin isn't dumb enough to risk getting him so badly hurt he can't play in the real game next week against Ohio State. He can beat Illinois by 17 just running the ball 55 times</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">. <b><span style="color: red;">Illinois</span></b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>Oregon +2 @ UCLA</b>: Both teams have poor QBs, and I believe Mario Crystalball is an over-rated coach who knows how to assemble a top flight recruiting staff, and Chip Kelly is a poor recruiter and an eccentric coach. I'm surprised Oregon is getting points, considering how badly UCLA shit itself in its only other big conference game this year, getting smoked by Herm Edwards and Arizona State. No outcome in this oddball game in a shit-ass conference would really surprise me, though. I'll pick the Ducks just because they are getting a couple points. <b><span style="color: red;">Oregon</span></b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>Clemson +3 @ Pittsburgh</b>: Who would have thought before the year started Pitt would be the favorite in this game? Yeah, they've won some games and scored a ton of points. . .but remember, they lost to Western Michigan. I can't believe they are actually capable of beating Clemson. Yeah, I know, Clemson barely beat Syracuse. They still got 25 players better than Pitt's best player. <b><span style="color: red;">Clemson</span></b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijSwriwFm-vz7pRpSXl8tJllrGbKa9nJh4xOKFrwoHuZvEHslKiFEEyMgW-dtIBDV323lbBrdfRP8sCW8RfhIOsssV3kvTgEercHQwQxSztM6g2BCtiIgqGdrkE6xAB5gjd3uwc5PVwF0e/s269/org.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="152" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijSwriwFm-vz7pRpSXl8tJllrGbKa9nJh4xOKFrwoHuZvEHslKiFEEyMgW-dtIBDV323lbBrdfRP8sCW8RfhIOsssV3kvTgEercHQwQxSztM6g2BCtiIgqGdrkE6xAB5gjd3uwc5PVwF0e/s0/org.jpg" width="152" /></a></div>LSU +9 @ Mississippi</b>: Ed Orgeron will probably spend most of the game by the stands yelling <i>who's going home with me tonight</i>? This is way too many points to give LSU. <b><span style="color: red;">LSU</span></b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>Tennessee +25.5 @ Menstrual Tide</b>: If Joe Milton has to start for Tennessee, Alabama will cover by half-time. <span style="color: red;"><b>Menstrual Tide</b></span>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>Ohio State -20 @ Indiana</b>: LOL! OSU will be up 21 by the end of the first quarter. Bet the house on this one. <span style="color: red;"><b>Ohio State</b></span>.<br /><br /><br /></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">Week 6 NFL Recap</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">:</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Cleveland Browns</b>, WTF!?!? Get yer shit together! Good for <b>Urban Meyer</b>. <b>Brian Flores</b>: LOL! All these shit-ass Belichick assistants try to look hard on the sideline, and yet their teams play like candy-asses. Flores and <b>Joe Judge</b> are the worst. They should be forced to make a snuff film with <b>Matt Patricia</b>. <b>Titans</b> are the worst 4-2 team. Please, Derrick Henry, don’t drag that shit-ass defense into the playoffs, again.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">NFL Picks Week 7</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"> (</span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: red;">23<span>-30-1</span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"> vs the spread for the season):</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /><b>Denver +2.5 @ Cleveland</b>: Both these teams are on life support. The fucking Browns look like a team with no heart. Broncos are the victims of probably the League's worst coaching staff, a bunch of Dick Vermeil-era retreads who think analytics are a category in the old video store behind the curtain gay section. Case Keenum probably starts for the Browns. Might be a good thing. Maybe they will just run the fuck out of Nick Chubb, which should be enough to beat the Broncos. <span style="color: red;"><b>Cleveland</b></span>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>Cincinnati +6 @ Baltimore</b>: Ja'Marr Chase is clearly the Rookie of the Year, so far, and John Harbaugh is Coach of the Year, so far. <b><span style="color: red;">Cincinnati</span></b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4FAVFTBIStU0nY8G8UvK7qrfruhs-RLJklsxQw3FupwOHK_LAXCxamCptvyh_5VeiYzxSPdxNLdFBvYasRuLwViyx6Sq8I3-B6sZrGLlgnEhyQLr7Dm58jDmuG5SM_g7CQtMwCnuPbti/s600/goof.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="600" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4FAVFTBIStU0nY8G8UvK7qrfruhs-RLJklsxQw3FupwOHK_LAXCxamCptvyh_5VeiYzxSPdxNLdFBvYasRuLwViyx6Sq8I3-B6sZrGLlgnEhyQLr7Dm58jDmuG5SM_g7CQtMwCnuPbti/s320/goof.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Detroit <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">+16.5!</span> @ Los Angeles Rams</b>: Here it is, the Nightmare for Lions fans. Princess Kelly Stafford and boyfriend Sean McVay vs pumpkin Jared gOOf and the only win-less team in the League, Your Detroit Lions. 3 fucking hours of the broadcasters (please, no Gus Johnson!) praising Princess Kelly and McVay while lamenting the 12 awful years Princess Kelly was locked in the Detroit dungeon. If there is a Just Football God who pities the downtrodden, Michael Brockers will sack Princess Kelly and break her collarbone, and Jared gOOf will recover his own fumble in the endzone for the game-winning Lions TD. <span style="color: red;"><b>Detroit</b></span>. </span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Houston <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">+20!!</span> @ Arizona</b>: The Texans have been slaughtered the last two times they played on the road, getting out-scored 71-3. Now they face the only undefeated team? This is still the NFL, though. The Jets were a 17 point underdog at the Rams last year, and won. . .oh, yeah. . .Jared gOOf was the Rams QB, then. OK. But still. . . <b><span style="color: red;">Houston</span></b>.</span><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-10547400819327442122021-10-13T17:10:00.003-04:002021-10-19T18:09:45.500-04:002021 College Football Week 7, NFL Week 6<p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Week 6 College Recap</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">:</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Some outstanding games last week. Did not see <b>A&M's</b> win over the <b>Menstrual Tide</b> coming. A&M had not done a thing all year. Alabama still has a roster of 4 and 5 star recruits, top roster in the game. . .but. . .this season's 5 stars are not the same as previous. There is no Jeudy, Waddle, Ruggs, Smith. . .not even a Najee Harris. This Alabama team cannot score at will, and thus are made vulnerable by their declined defense. Alabama used to play defense like <b>Georgia</b> plays defense. Now they are a <b>Penn State</b> or <b>Iowa</b> level defense. A good defense, but not one that can shut down even an above average offense for 60 minutes. <b>Oklahoma</b> and <b>Texas</b> played an entertaining game of flag football, and <b>Lincoln Riley</b>, the most over-rated coach, must be saluted for benching <span style="color: #fcff01;"><b style="background-color: black;">Spencer Rattler</b></span>. Not many coaches would sit a prima donna QB that quick. Unfortunately for the rest of us, Oklahoma will now once again get into the Playoff and promptly give up 45+ points. <b>Scott Frost </b>had to fight back the tears after <b>Nebrasska</b> once again fumbled away an opportunity for the so-called *signature* win. After the game he blamed the zebras and talked about his 3-4 team as if they had just won a championship. <b>Penn State's</b> back-up QB was given the game ball by <b>Iowa</b>. . .ba-dum-tish! For real, though, rough game for the kid. You don't want to be a black QB and play bad for that part of Pennsylvania. <b>Kentucky</b> probably made <b>Ed Orgeron</b> a Dead Man Walking. </span></p><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>College Picks Week 7</b> (<b><span style="color: red;"><span>25</span><span>-21-1</span></span></b> vs the spread for the season):</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Oklahoma State +5.5 @ Texas</b>: Cutty Sark's Longhorns got the DTs against Oklahoma, their defense too busy clawing at the imaginary insects on their arms to tackle the ball carrier on the last play. That was a drunk's loss, all the way. Self-inflicted. They are going for their 1 week chip against OK St, but I bet they fall off the wagon, again. <b><span style="color: red;">Oklahoma State</span></b>. </span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Florida -10 @ LSU</b>: LOL! The Two Shitty Coaches Bowl! I mean, LSU is begging Florida to kick its ass, but Dan Mullen will fuck it up, like he always does. This is probably the only good team (on paper) Orgeron can still beat. <b><span style="color: red;">LSU</span></b>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Kentucky +23.5 @ Georgia</b>: I know Georgia is a monster this year. . .but this seems like a lot of points. . .Georgia only beat them by 11 last year. <b><span style="color: red;">Kentucky</span></b>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Alabama -17 @ Mississippi State</b>: Too many points for a non-vintage Menstrual Tide team against a Mike Leach team. <b><span style="color: red;">Mississippi State</span></b>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: white;">Week 5 NFL Recap</b><span style="background-color: white;">:</span><span><span style="background-color: white;"> LOL! Once again, more news was made off the field. Last week it was Urban Meyer's finger in Cayman Nebraska's anus, this week it's <b>Jon Gruden's</b> eleven years old </span><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">n gger lips</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"> email! The League is littered with thugs and rapists of all colors and preferences, yet Gruden isn't welcome because of some crude personal emails?? I mean, Lions fans had to endure 3 dark years of <b>Matt Patricia</b> football even though he raped a girl in college! There was barely a peep made about that, but Gruden is out for email?? </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">An absurd *policy.* Anyways. . .on the field the <b><span style="color: #7f6000;">Browns</span></b> once again closed small, showing they are still not quite ready to take the final step to team greatness. . .they got 12 more games to get this shit right and make the Super Bowl, otherwise they just wasted the best roster in football. The <b>Seahawks</b> look dead in the water at 2-3 and <b>Russell Wilson</b> out for at least 4 games. <b>Dan Campbell</b> cried after the <b>Lions</b> latest WTF?!?! loss. <b>Hayley Mills</b> probably had the best game of any rookie QB this year. . .but the <b>Texans</b> faded badly and blew a winnable game against <b>New England</b>. . .man, we almost had <b>Dana Scully</b> beating <b>Belichick</b>! As it is, it took a ridiculous 3rd and 18 roughing the passer call to save the Pats. They are a horseshit team still getting treated by the zebras like they are a Glamour Team. I gotta admit, crybaby <b>Dak Prescott</b> and the <b>Cowboys</b> offense looks pretty damn good. <b>Kellen Moore</b> will be a HC next year, probably have his pick of jobs. <b>Lamar Jackson</b> passed the <b>Ravens</b> to a huge comeback win?? Never thought I would see that. Good for him and his ugly mug.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><div style="font-family: Tinos;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>NFL Picks Week 6</b> (<b><span style="color: red;">21<span>-26-1</span></span></b> vs the spread for the season):</span></div><div style="font-family: Tinos;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiddd7nZmPY2A2Jxw1rsE1MIVW39n3BaeqFDZ9QWHqwwBMH6v46qRM1xPlh2FasfQIb_1qHpK8HCw-cv6Ql9ZnVrxyzoQG9SbjKGvbT4o1sS0QRik-mGmDQ-UiT8jK85xLwJAE0-DIgULCn/s494/tart.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="429" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiddd7nZmPY2A2Jxw1rsE1MIVW39n3BaeqFDZ9QWHqwwBMH6v46qRM1xPlh2FasfQIb_1qHpK8HCw-cv6Ql9ZnVrxyzoQG9SbjKGvbT4o1sS0QRik-mGmDQ-UiT8jK85xLwJAE0-DIgULCn/w174-h200/tart.jpg" width="174" /></a></div><br />Miami -3.5 vs Jacksonville</b>: What a dog of a game for London. The only action will be off the field, with Shelley Meyer hitting the East End looking for a tart to bring back to her hotel room for her and Urban to play with. I actually believe Jacksonville is the better team. They can run the ball, and Girl Hair Lawrence is cutting down on his INTs. <b><span style="color: red;">Jacksonville</span></b>.</span></div><div style="font-family: Tinos;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Tinos;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Green Bay -4.5 @ Chicago</b>: The Bears defense played a helluva game against the Raiders. The Packers are once again a mediocre team with a great QB and a fake SB contender won-loss record. Packers win because of MeMe Rodgers. <span style="color: red;"><b>Green Bay</b></span>. </span></div><div style="font-family: Tinos;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Tinos;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Cincinnati -3.5 @ Detroit</b>: Based on nothing other than cosmic sentimentality, I predict the Lions are fated to win this Sunday in order to restore serenity to Dan Campbell's tortured soul. <b><span style="color: red;">Detroit</span></b>. </span></div><div style="font-family: Tinos;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Tinos;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">Los Angeles Chargers +3 @ Baltimore</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: The Chargers have surprised me the most of any team. The Ravens are 4-1 not on talent, but on character. Interesting game. <b><span style="color: red;">Los Angeles Chargers</span></b>.</span></div><div style="font-family: Tinos;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Tinos;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">Arizona +3 @ Cleveland</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Time for the Arizona bubble to burst. <b><span style="color: red;">Cleveland</span></b>.</span></div><div style="font-family: Tinos;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Tinos;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">Las Vegas +3.5 @ Denver</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Both teams started 3-0 and are now on 2 game losing streaks. The supposedly tough Denver defense flopped against a shit-ass Steeler offense. The Raiders have the perfect excuse to lay down and die. <b><span style="color: red;">Denver</span></b>. </span></div></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-35929603081916086932021-10-06T13:22:00.006-04:002021-10-07T09:13:22.493-04:002021 College Football Week 6, NFL Week 5<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsyMcqOveIDw5B-QNW6ADbVcINe3mZDuzBjQDZfbXgveqhIaUbBZ3zLZdMlXFaWMZasur5lFN7-5e55IKHIB8RfZXL9VgMLVsWEjMgujvdyGrd9-FkoAr7d9eXtiu5VnXWotRRR80PsBdE/s653/erbbb.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="653" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsyMcqOveIDw5B-QNW6ADbVcINe3mZDuzBjQDZfbXgveqhIaUbBZ3zLZdMlXFaWMZasur5lFN7-5e55IKHIB8RfZXL9VgMLVsWEjMgujvdyGrd9-FkoAr7d9eXtiu5VnXWotRRR80PsBdE/w400-h233/erbbb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Week 5 College Recap</b>: <b>Lane Kiffen</b> laid a pretty big egg, after acting like a douche bag in the pregame interview with the CBS sideline sex robot. Now that <b>Jim Harbaugh</b> had to take a 50% pay cut, it's pretty clear <b>Jimbo Fisher</b> is the most over-paid coach in college football. <b>Mike Leach</b> beat him on his home field with a shit-ass team. <b>Mike Gundy</b> is quietly doing a good job this year. He'd been kinda laughed at the last couple years, but the guy wins games in a state where he will always be second fiddle. He's a gOOfball who often puts his foot in his mouth, a Jesus-less <b>Dabo Swinney</b>, but I think an under-rated coach. Everything was set for <b>Chip Kelly</b> to win big this year in the Pac-12, it's a shit-ass conference with no good teams, and he had a veteran roster, but he's only 3-2. Unless he finds a hidden gem QB under a rock somewhere, he'll never duplicate the success he had at Oregon. He's a has-been. And so is <b>Ed Orgeron</b>. C'mon, that roster is loaded with more players than anybody except <b>Alabama</b> and <b>Ohio State</b>, and they been mediocre ever since his title team coordinators left. The worst Power 5 head coach might be the <b>Jimmy Lake</b> clown at <b>Washington</b>. Weird guy. He smirks on the sideline while his team is getting its ass handed to it. They were Top 15 preseason and supposed to be there with <b>Oregon</b> in the Pac-12, but they are playing shit-ass ball, wasting a defense loaded with NFL prospects. The Playoff is just about set. Alabama, Georgia and <b>Cincinnati</b> are in. The last spot is <b>Oklahoma's</b> if they run the table. However, if they lose one game, and I think they will, I think <b>Texas</b> knocks them off, then there are several teams still alive, but I would bet my money right now on Ohio State, with <b>Penn State</b> a close second (if they beat <b>Iowa</b>). Iowa, even if they beat Penn State, I just don't think they have the offense to run the table, as great as their defense is, somebody is gonna score at least 21 on them, and their offense will shit the bed. The only way an ACC or Pac-12 team make the playoff is if the B1G West champ pulls a massive upset over Ohio State or Penn State.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>College Picks Week 6</b> (<b><span style="color: red;"><span>22</span><span>-19-1</span></span></b> vs the spread for the season):</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Texas +3.5 vs Oklahoma</b>: A Texas win opens up the last spot in the Playoff. I should probably pick Oklahoma, this looks like the week Cutty Sark's idiotic decision to dump Hudson Card after 1 1/2 games for the less talented Casey Thompson will come back to bite him in the ass. . .but. . .Lincoln Riley is a lousy coach, and Cutty will coach rings around him and find some way to beat Alex Grinch's defense. I'll bet against them next week against Oklahoma State. <b><span style="color: red;">Texas</span></b>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Arkansas +6 @ Mississippi</b><span>: The Hangover Bowl. Both teams got hammered by the Big Boys (the Menstrual Tide and Georgia) last week. Lane Kiffen seems more like the type to pout all week than Sam Pittman, so I'll take: <b><span style="color: red;">Arkansas</span></b>.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Georgia -14.5 @ Auburn</b><span>: It's hard to get a good read on Auburn. They've played a weird mix of teams, Penn State, LSU, Georgia State, with varying results. If Georgia has to play the comical Stetson Bennett at QB, I suppose Auburn's defense could hold up enough to gain a 14 point loss, after all their defense is probably not much less talented than Clemson's, and Clemson managed to hang in all game. Georgia's looked like a beast so far, though. Their defense gives up nothing. I just can't see Auburn losing by less than 20. <b><span style="color: red;">Georgia</span></b>.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Penn State +2 @ Iowa</b><span>: I really don't think either of these teams is Top 4 material, although it does seem this year that there are only really 2 elite teams, Georgia and Alabama, so maybe this really is a big game. Both QBs run hot and cold, in particular the Iowa QB. The PSU QB can be a factor running, he runs like a fullback. Iowa's defense has been under-appreciated for years. They rarely make a mistake and allow EZ yards. Points will be at a premium in this game, so I'll take the the team getting the points, especially since they will have the best player on the field, Jahan Dotson, one big play from him, maybe on a punt return, could make the difference. <b><span style="color: red;">Penn State</span></b>.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Michigan -3.5 @ Nebrasska</b><span>: The Hot Seat Coaches Bowl. Probably the biggest game of their careers at their current schools for Scott Frost and Jim Harbaugh. Both are former glamour boy QBs come back to restore glory to the old alma mater. . .but the results have been disappointing, to say the least. Michigan is 5-0 and looking much better than the abysmal 2020 team, which played so soft and so uninspired, it cost Jim Harbaugh a $4 million pay cut to keep his job. If Harbaugh can win this and the Michigan State game, he will have probably done enough to buy a free pass for the Penn State and Ohio State games, especially as he seems to have a plan to groom JJ McCarthy for a big 2022 season, in which Michigan has an easier schedule than this year. Scott Frost has done even less, stringing together 3 straight losing seasons of shit-ass football. Nebrasska's 3-3, but should be 5-1, they kicked away games against Illinois and Michigan State, which makes this one so important. He needs to win a game against a team that at least looks good on paper, and he would get to 4-3 with two easy games coming up, before a brutal end to the season with Ohio State, Wisconsin and Iowa. If he loses to Michigan, a fourth straight losing season looms. I doubt he would be fired, but there would be little momentum heading into his crucial 5th year, a year in which he will have a much younger team and have to break in a new QB. He needs this winning season to buy off a rough 2022 and keep himself from lame duck status. The key to the game, as most Nebrasska games, is will Adrian Martinez and the special teams avoid the stupid mistakes which have cost them so many games. They are coming off their most complete performance of the Frost era, granted it was against shit-ass Northwestern. . .but is it really asking too much of Nebrasska to play two clean games in a row? Plus, I just don't think it is in the cards for Jim Harbaugh at Michigan, I haven't ever since that 4th down OT spot in the 2016 Ohio State game. I think his reluctance to put too much on McCarthy this year hurts him big time in this game, as Cade McNamara will toss a couple horrible INTs. <b><span style="color: red;">Nebrasska</span></b>.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Week 4 NFL Recap</b><span>:</span><span> <b>Urban Meyer</b> *sickened* by loss to Cincinnati, doesn't fly home with team. Video surfaces of Meyer on a bar stool with a young blonde named <b><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Cayman Nebraska</span></i></b> twerking her ass against his cock (we don't know if his cock was erect or flaccid). Second video surfaces, this one showing Meyer fingering blonde's anus/cunt, thus leading one to believe Meyer's cock was probably erect in video #1. Meyer apologizes to players and owner for being a distraction, to wife for being a man. Paki Jaguars owner scolds Meyer in public statement. Meyer reportedly a laughingstock to his players. <b>Trevor Lawrence</b> thinking, man, college ball did nothing to prepare me for this shit. All this scandal is due to the modern stocks of Social Media. In the electronic age of the All-Seeing iPhone Camera, everyone will be shamed for 15 minutes. What amusement Meyer has provided Social Media! The NFL continues to make more news off the field. The Meyer *scandal* dwarfs <b>Brady's Homecoming</b>. Anyway, it seems most *experts* believe Meyer will fail in the NFL. I still believe he can win, but only if he is truly still coaching. There is some evidence now to suspect he is just mailing it in just to cash a big paycheck from his Paki owner. The Paki owner may have suspected he had been fleeced, prompting him to issue the scolding public statement over a trivial incident as the first step to getting out of a ridiculous contract for a coach who no longer lives and dies with the game. We'll see. MVP <b>Kelly Stafford</b> and boyfriend Genius Coach <b>Sean McVay</b> lost a game??? Sports Media told us this was practically impossible! What happened?? Did Kelly sneak back to Detroit and roll around in a stinking pile of Lion shit?? <b>Jimmy Crappolo</b> injured again. Although it probably isn't really an injury, just Jimmy's low threshold for discomfort. His softness cost his team the game. Lost in all the Tom Brady You Can't Go Home Again hype is the fact <b>Bill Belichick</b> is now 1-3, after a losing season last year. So, when does he stop being considered a great coach, and not just a bum who lucked into Tom Brady? His chickenshit decision not to go for it on 4th down late in the first half cost his team 3 points. He gave the ball back to Tom Brady, who easily marched the Bucs into field goal range. And what if he loses to <b>Dana Scully</b> and <b>Hayley Mills</b> this week? If there is such a thing as football karma, it will happen. Nobody is due for more football shit-storms than that (meritless) arrogant prick</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>NFL Picks Week 5</b> (<b><span style="color: red;">20<span>-21-1</span></span></b> vs the spread for the season):</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Los Angeles Rams -2.5 @ Seattle</b>: The Seahawks are a shaky 2-2, lucky Jimmy Crappolo begged out of the last game, or they'd be 1-3. Man-for-man the Rams are the better roster, but Seattle has the better QB and is getting points. If the Rams lose this one, the collar will start to tighten on MVP Kelly Stafford. <b><span style="color: red;">Seattle</span></b>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>New York Jets +3 vs Atlanta</b>: Zach Wilson had his best game, making some great throws to help the Jets get their first win. The kid does not panic or get down on himself. Unlike some QBs, such as Jared gOOf, when a play starts to go bad, such as a mishandled snap, Wilson doesn't freeze. Against the Titans he simply scooped up a bobbled snap, dropped back a couple steps and calmly delivered a perfect deep pass to set-up a game-tying TD. Wilson will probably end up the best of this year's rookie QB crop. This is the Falcons fourth tomato can shit-ass team in five games, yet if they drop this one, they'd be a shameful 1-4. I'll take Xerxes over Little Lord Fauntleroy, who I hear has spent most of the week lining up sightseeing events for his players, he wants to make sure they don't miss out on the cultural gems of London, even has an afternoon tea booked for the entire team at Petersham Nurseries! <span style="color: red;"><b>New York Jets</b></span>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqBMY4Wjzg8JJ0YYAi93UOdpGvsIoL40AGF8ywt2BCMaeBCQ98n64Dgyg7ZqAHPcc_tUAfiDo95eXf3PLulIFdcvqCg2rkvOHHlrsKCJd49B9vd7LO2pHLlZWgvNr66o-uP6sUxwtPAux7/s324/urban1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="240" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqBMY4Wjzg8JJ0YYAi93UOdpGvsIoL40AGF8ywt2BCMaeBCQ98n64Dgyg7ZqAHPcc_tUAfiDo95eXf3PLulIFdcvqCg2rkvOHHlrsKCJd49B9vd7LO2pHLlZWgvNr66o-uP6sUxwtPAux7/w148-h200/urban1.jpg" width="148" /></a></div>Detroit +7.5 @ Minnesota</b>: This one will be ugly. The Lions secondary has more holes than the crotch in Cayman Nebraska's jeans after a night out with Urban Meyer. And the offensive line is in a shambles. Minnesota can name their score in this one. <b><span style="color: red;">Minnesota</span></b>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Tennessee -4 @ Jacksonville</b>: If Jacksonville gets blown out, Urban Meyer might resign. He tends to quit when the road gets a little bumpy, and a blow out loss to a mediocre team would probably indicate his players have bagged it. Do the Jags really want to try to get in Derrick Henry's way for their coach? Henry would set a single-game rushing record in this one, if it wasn't already over by half-time. <span style="color: red;"><b>Tennessee</b></span>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Chicago +5.5 @ Las Vegas</b>: Must win for Raiders. Can't lose to a shit-ass team at home, can't follow a nice 3-0 start with 2 losses. Derek Carr needs a big game after being called out as psychologically fragile by Joey Bosa. The Bears defense still has a few teeth left, but their offense lost their best player, RB David Montgomery. Still, could be a better game than most expect. <span style="color: red;"><b>Las Vegas</b></span>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Cleveland +1.5 @ Los Angeles Chargers</b>: After shitting away their first game to KC, the Browns are slowly rounding into SB form. I expect the Browns to win the AFC, their defense particularly is getting it into gear. Will be a long afternoon for Justin Herbert. Browns getting points? Lock of the season, so far. <b><span style="color: red;">Cleveland</span></b>.</span></div><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-5353058419920985482021-09-29T18:22:00.003-04:002021-09-30T21:19:38.336-04:002021 College Football Week 5, NFL Week 4<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiks2rv6fkn_IvOmYXVagI2wDc2KVeVby0oUlKjoUFPQgh6wJ5kR1Ps_f0H7gIKr3aNv5S99VSLXeaUk5buFzq37ciVWFFqG4uLAkHBcEKRiz0KYMCWwOGZZ5LlsUksDVOP-Q3NdJq4I7V5/s700/mattc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="700" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiks2rv6fkn_IvOmYXVagI2wDc2KVeVby0oUlKjoUFPQgh6wJ5kR1Ps_f0H7gIKr3aNv5S99VSLXeaUk5buFzq37ciVWFFqG4uLAkHBcEKRiz0KYMCWwOGZZ5LlsUksDVOP-Q3NdJq4I7V5/s320/mattc.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b style="font-family: verdana;">Week 4 College Recap</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">:</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b>Clemson</b> has now reached late-stage Mack Brown Texas, Lloyd Carr Michigan status under Dabo Swinney: Country Club Program that plays soft football, physically and mentally. This shit happens. You earn a reputation, then you relax and try to win off the reputation. It works for a season, and then conference teams begin to realize you are soft. Dabo had a great run, brought them to <b>Menstrual Tide</b> level for four or five years. . .now, just a good but not great team. I guess that's what make Saban's record so impressive. . .he sustains. The defense is a little softer than it used to be, for sure, but his team still plays like they are going for their first Natty, not their seventh. Now <b>Georgia</b> seems to have climbed into the ring with Alabama, taking Clemson's or Ohio State's place. It seems clear after just 4 weeks that both Alabama and Georgia will be in the Playoff, with a third spot going to a middleweight, the winner of this weeks ND-Cincy game, and the fourth spot going to a lightweight, most likely Oklahoma. Oregon will lose at least one conference game. Their QB isn't good enough to run the table. Ohio State could sneak back in if they run the table, but I don't see them doing that. There seems to be something going on down in Columbus, it don't really smell right. The arrogant coach doesn't seem to know how to control all his 4 and 5 star prima donnas. That kind of shit with the OSU player throwing a tantrum and quitting mid-game wouldn't happen at Alabama. The comic relief of the week comes from, no surprise, <b><span style="color: red;">Scott Frost</span></b>, who cried and whined after his team choked away another game. He said <i>we didn't have any business losing that game.</i> Truer words never spoken, but Frost didn't seem to realize he was indicting himself. What a fucking loser. They have a pretty decent defense this year, and as soft as the B1G West is, they should have made some noise, but they are already out of it after 2 conference games. Their season now hinges on the Michigan game. They'll need to win that to get 6 wins for bowl eligibility. Lose it, and perhaps Frost is on the hot seat in what would be 4 consecutive losing seasons. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>College Picks Week 5</b> (<b><span style="color: red;">20</span><span style="color: red;">-13-1</span></b> vs the spread for the season):</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Virginia +4 @ Miami</b>: LOL! Miami is a joke! Manny Diaz should be cutting grass and pruning hedges, not coaching Big Time Football. <b><span style="color: red;">Virginia</span></b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Arkansas +18.5 @ Georgia</b>: Sam Pittman has done a tremendous job turning Arkansas into a real team, just 4 games into his second season. But I am afraid the bubble will burst this week, they just don't have the passing attack necessary to threaten Georgia, and hence the Dawgs will be able to load up on the run. Can Arkansas' defense hold up enough for 60 minutes to enable the Hogs to cover? This looks like a 34-10 game, to me. <span style="color: red;"><b>Georgia</b></span>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Michigan +.5 @ Wisconsin</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Michigan will not be able to run on Wisconsin, and Wolverine fans will have the pain of watching Cade McNamara shit his pants while throwing uglier passes than Graham Mertz while JJ McCarthy collects dust on the bench. This will be the beginning of the end for Jim Harbaugh. <span style="color: red;"><b>Wisconsin</b></span>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Louisville +6.5 @ Wake Forest</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: With Clemson now just another team, this is actually a big game in the ACC Atlantic Division. If you go by how each team played the SemenHoles, Wake Forest should win this one. <b><span style="color: red;">Wake Forest</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Cincinnati -2 @ Notre Dame</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Who could have imagined, if you've been watching college football for more than a year or two, that Notre Dame would ever be a home underdog to Cincinnati? But this is a big fucking game, with the winner in line for a Playoff spot. Man for man, ND has the better team, but Cincy probably has the better QB. And if ND has to play that midget Pyne. . .man, there is a *dream season* within the Bearcats grasp if they can win this game. Something tells me the zebras won't let it happen. No way TV wants Cincy instead of ND in the Playoff. <b><span style="color: red;">Notre Dame</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Mississippi +14.5 @ Alabama</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Alabama's defense is not good enough to cover 14.5. Ole Miss will score. Alabama will win, but only by 6 - 10 points. <span style="color: red;"><b>Mississippi</b></span>. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Ohio State -15.5 @ Rutgers</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: I think the Buckeyes will turn the ball over just enough to allow Rutgers to cover. Rutgers will play for 60 minutes, while the Buckeyes will relax for a series here and there. Although if Ryan Day gave the ball to Freshman RB TreVeyon Henderson 30 times, OSU would win by 20+, EZ. This kid is one of the best RBs in the last 20 years. He looks like a mini Herschel Walker. <b><span style="color: red;">Rutgers</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Arizona State +3 @ UCLA</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: This is what passes for a *Big* game in the Pac-12. A team that lost to BYU and a team that lost to Fresno State. ASU has the better QB, but they don't have much else, and I don't think they can stop the UCLA run game. <span style="color: red;"><b>UCLA</b></span>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Week 3 NFL Recap</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">:</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b>Detroit Lions:</b> not again! Fuck me! For once I would love to see the Lions come out after one of these zebra-aided disasters and just kick the living shit out of the other team. Make somebody else pay, for once! I mean, Justin Fields and the Bears gained 45 yards total against the Browns. And yet I believe the Bears will probably come out on their first drive and march right down the field, with the cocksucking Bears fans thinking Fields is the Savior. I hope Dan Campbell proves me wrong, the guy is the most likable coach the Lions have had in my tortured Lions lifetime. You know if Fields lights up the Lions, Detroit Media will be all over the *they could have drafted Fields and been set to rule the division blah blah blah.* I can hear it already. <sigh.> I was right about the <b>Steelers</b>: so fucking dumb to try to milk one last run out of Big Ben. C'mon! How fucking delusional! And now they have to take a QB from next year's class! LOL! <b>Spencer Rattler</b>? He looks <b><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">emotionally fragile</span></i></b>. The only one who might be a winner is <b>Sam Howell</b>, if he survives this year in North Carolina. Maybe <b>Matt Corral</b>, who has a chance Saturday against the Menstrual Tide to be remembered for something other than beating up Wayne Gretzky's kid at a posh school and then having to transfer out. <b>Trevor Lawrence</b> threw a horrendous pick 6 that just took the life out of the Jags and sent them to another loss. He's been sloppy as fuck so far, a real disappointment. <b>Mac Jones</b> got his ass kicked by the Saints, and his physical limitations were evident: not much mobility, the lack of the elite arm, but he still looks like he can top out as a Teddy Bridgewater-type QB, a guy you can win with if you have a good defense. <b>Zach Wilson</b> is on a tough fucking road. Listen, Robert *Xerxes* Saleh hasn't really moved the needle much there. <b>Sam Darnold</b> is looking like Kelly Stafford-Lite (<i>the problem wasn't me, it was the shit I was stuck in!</i>). And I was also right when I said Patty Mahomes wasn't all that. Like I said, he's basically Brett Favre. That's not bad, don't get me wrong. But he ain't one of the All-Time Greats! C'mon! He's not that accurate, and he makes the Favre-like dumb plays from time-to-time. (Ha! You know there is trouble in KC when they have to get the great Patty Mahomes help, and the help is <b>Josh Gordon</b>!). Everything is so NOW NOW NOW, flavor of the week. Now we are back to Kyler Murray is the greatest thing! OK. I hope so. I hope he fucking beats Kelly Stafford twice. I really do.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>NFL Picks Week 4</b> (<b><span style="color: red;">17-17-1</span></b> vs the spread for the season):</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Jacksonville +7.5 @ Cincinnati</b>: Man, that was a horrible, horrible pick 6 Lawrence threw. Lazy-ass carelessness. And made no effort to tackle the guy before the end zone. He made the *appearance* of effort, he ran, slowly, toward the guy, but through the end zone, so he would get there after the fact. The first TD pass he threw was a thing of beauty, he has all the physical skill to be an All-Timer. . .but he looks, ever since his Freshman year at Clemson, like a guy who is content with his scrapbook just the way it is. He's already been a Hero. He beat Alabama as a true freshman. He plays now like he thinks he's still on the mountain top, instead of down in the valley of Duuuval. The Bengals were right to draft Ja'Marr Chase over Pennei Sewell. Sewell ain't bad, no knock on him. But Chase puts points on the board. If Sewell goes down, some other fat slob takes his place, and OK, you give up 1 sack more a game, maybe have 15 less rushing yards. Chase has 4 tds in 3 games. You do the math. Anyways, this game will be a real showcase of what kind of coach Urban Meyer can be in the NFL. They had Arizona on the ropes, their defense played OK, and then Lawrence tossed it away. The defense sagged. Now a short week. What kind of teams shows up Thursday? A *we know the season is over already, let's not get hurt* team? Or one that regroups and gives it another shot? You know Joe Burrow wants to stick it to the coach who thought he wasn't good enough. But he won't. <span style="color: red;"><b>Jacksonville</b></span>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Detroit +3 @ Chicago</b>: Until Dan Campbell shows me this team is different, I have to follow Lions history, which says they will lay down and die after last week's ridiculous loss. Against a team coming off one of the worst offensive performances in the last 50 years!!</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> But the Bears defense will probably bag 3 turnovers, and Justin Fields will toss a couple long TD passes over the depleted Detroit secondary. <b><span style="color: red;">Chicago</span></b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Cleveland -2 @ Minnesota</b>: Two teams with Super Bowl rosters, but their combined record is 3-3, because they have given away 3 games. Zimmer dearly wants to show up his former errand boy Stefanski, to shut up all the Vikings fans who wish he was the coach. <b><span style="color: red;">Minnesota</span></b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Arizona +5.5 @ Los Angeles Rams</b>: Kelly Stafford to Mrs. Ford: <i>I don't wike it here anymoaw. Iss too hard in Detwoit. Can you twade me to a good team!</i> Mrs. Ford to Kelly Stafford: <i>OK, Kelly, I understand, thank you for your service.</i> One week later, Mrs. Ford to Kelly Stafford: <i>We have reached an agreement with Carolina on trade.</i> Kelly Stafford to Mrs. Ford: <i>Waa Waa! No!</i> <stamps his feet> <i>I won't go, I won't go! I'll onwy go to Wos Angewes with my new best fwend, Sean!</i> I totally get Kelly was sick of the Lions. But you're a fucking Lion, pal. You're part of the disease. If you're sick to death, you do what the great Barry Sanders did: you just fucking quit. You don't beg for a fucking handout. You don't beg for a fucking handout and leave your teammates behind to watch you flit around in different colors. You're either a Lion, or you're fucking nothing. Sanders did it the right way. Kelly Stafford is a pussy-ass cocksucker. So is that fucking rapist Deshaun Watson and any other mentally weak punk who *demands* a trade. You're playing a fucking kid's game, for crying out loud! Fucking playground martyrs! And this is a horrible fucking game, the two biggest pantywaist coaches in the League going at it. We need an earthquake to drag both these sissy teams down into the pit. <b><span style="color: red;">Arizona</span></b>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Seattle +2.5 @ San Francisco</b>: Seattle about to fall off the cliff. <span style="color: red;"><b>San Francisco</b></span>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Baltimore +1 @ Denver</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Baltimore could very easily be 0-3. But they're not. That's not luck. Their coach holds the line. He coaches as if they will win, whereas most coaches manage a game from a fear of losing. The Broncos have played the Giants, Jaguars and Jets!! C'mon! The Lions had the 49ers, Packers and Ravens?? Fuck the NFL! So anyway, it's hard to know if the Broncos defense is really as good as it has looked, but I'm gonna drink the Kool-Aid and say they shutdown Lamar Jackson. <b><span style="color: red;">Denver</span></b>. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Las Vegas +3.5 @ Los Angeles Chargers</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Josh Jacobs may be back just in time to face a lousy Chargers run defense. Raiders are simply the better team. The Chargers win over KC has Media all aflutter, but 1): KC isn't all that, anymore, and 2): LA didn't really beat KC, KC gave the game away with 4 turnovers. <b><span style="color: red;">Las Vegas</span></b>.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-77821160835073837162021-09-23T15:12:00.002-04:002021-09-25T17:32:06.793-04:002021 College Football Week 4, NFL Week 3<p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Week 3 College Recap</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">:</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b>Florida</b> had the physical skill to beat <b>Alabama</b>, but not the mental acuity, and thus they lost a game in which they soundly out-played the Menstrual Tide for the last 3 quarters. They out-rushed Alabama 245 - 91. . .but lost. Too many mental errors, the same problem that always seem to plague <b>Dan Mullen</b> teams (remember the shoe toss incident last year?). This is why I don't consider Mullen an elite coach. He reminds me of <b>Jim Schwartz</b>, in that his personal immaturity seems to bleed over onto his players. Too bad. As for the <span style="color: red;"><b>Menstrual Tide</b></span>, nobody should be afraid to play them this year. They're still good, but they frighten nobody on offense or defense. In Civil War Football, the North was 2-0 as <b>Auburn</b> lost up north to <b>Penn State</b>, <b>Michigan State</b> went down south and bullied pantywaist <b>Miami (of Florida)</b>. Let's face facts, Miami has been a shit-ass team for way longer than <b>Florida State,</b> but for some reason, they never seem to take the same type Media heat. <b>Manny Diaz</b> is the latest in a long line of shit-ass coaches *The U* has hired. SissyBlue <b>UCLA</b> could not sustain. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>College Picks Week 4</b> (<b><span style="color: red;">16-11-1</span></b> vs the spread for the season): Another week of mostly shitty games.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Notre Dame +5.5 @ Wisconsin</b>: Jack Coan going against his old team, he'd love to show up Big Time Recruit/Mediocre QB Graham Mertz. . .but he wont. Wisconsin's defense is too tough, and the ND defense is too soft to handle the Badger running game. I expect Wisconsin to give the Irish a savage beating. <b><span style="color: red;">Wisconsin</span></b>. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Texas Tech +8.5 @ Texas</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Cutty Sark believes his unbelievably quick QB switch worked because the Longhorns trounced Rice. . .man, c'mon! You don't make any judgments about your team after playing Rice! Texas is as dysfunctional as ever. I don't even know a thing about Texas Tech. Don't know who their coach is, or who their QB is. But I do know Texas. That's enough for me take the Red Raiders and the points. <b><span style="color: red;">Texas Tech</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Texas A&M -5.5 @ Arkansas</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: When the Hogs hired Sam Pittman, an old fat OL coach, I just shrugged and said at least he fits the Arkansas nickname. But the guy has made Arkansas better, there is no doubt. They play a nice physical brand of football, and I like them to wallow around in the mire and muck it up against Jimbo Fisher, who is more PR shill than coach. A&M isn't nearly as good as everyone thinks. <b><span style="color: red;">Arkansas</span></b>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Iowas State -6.5 @ Baylor</b>: Iowa State was the Media darling pick before the season started. The Little Engine That Could. LOL! They've sputtered all year, barely beating shit-ass tomato can teams and getting spanked by mediocre Iowa. Baylor should run by them. And then we can forget about the Cyclones for the rest of the year. <b><span style="color: red;">Baylor</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Clemson -10 @ North Carolina State</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Clemson has gotten soft. They got their fancy football building with all the amusements, they got all the white girls showing leg while they help the black players do their book learning, they got a coach who went from having a chip on his shoulder to being an entitled church snob. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I don't even know a thing about North Carolina State. Don't know who their coach is, or who their QB is. . .you know the drill.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b><span style="color: red;">North Carolina State</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Nebrasska +5 @ Michigan State</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Scott Frost got the biggest win of his career last week, a 16-23 dignity defeat to Oklahoma. He gave the usual evaluation of any shit-ass coach of any shit-ass team that simply loses a game against a good team, instead of getting humiliated: w<i>e showed the progress we are making, we can line-up against any team in the country and compete, we just have to take the next small step blah, blah, blah</i>. Let's see if they can now actually win a game against a more-or-less equal opponent, or if the Oklahoma *win* was more a sign that Oklahoma ain't really a Top Tier team. <span style="color: red;"><b>Nebrasska</b></span>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Week 2 NFL Recap</b>: A couple of big reversals from Week 1: <b>Tennessee</b>, which was embarrassed at home by Arizona, went on the road and upset <b>Seattle</b>. <b>New Orleans</b>, which over-powered Lavender Bay, was beaten up by <b>Carolina</b>, who held the Saints to a hard-to-believe 128 yards. Another rough week for <b>Zach Wilson</b> and <b>Trevor Lawrence</b>, as it is now crystal clear <b>Mac Jones</b> was the most pro-ready QB in the draft. <b>Urban Meyer</b> and <b>Robert Saleh</b>, the big name new coach hires, are 0-4 and seem a long, long way from being competitive, while the two guys I thought were the biggest joke hires, <b>Dana Scully</b> in Houston and <b>Nick SomethingOrOther</b> in Philadelphia, have their teams playing solid football. In fact, had Nimrod Taylor not got injured, the Texans might have actually beat the Browns and gotten to 2-0. On the other hand, there's FedEx heiress <span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b>Arthur Smith</b></span>, who is just as lousy of a head coach as I thought he would be. <b>Derek Carr</b> has been the best QB the first two weeks of the season. The <b>Minnesota Vikings</b> just refuse to win, bungling a second straight game. <b>Dalvin Cook</b> was a runaway train in the first half against <b>Arizona</b>, and yet the Vikings still trailed. <b>Mike Zimmer</b> just can't meet expectations. I don't know what his problem is, but he can almost-beat any team in the League. The Vikings are the greatest 0-2 team I've ever seen. A lot of frail QBs limped off the field: <b>Arson Wentz</b>, <b>Tuna Gagvoila!</b>, <b>Nimrod Taylor</b>, <b>Andy Dalton</b>. <b>TWatt </b>from Pittsburgh joined them, he's probably the League's highest paid malingerer now. <b>John Harbaugh</b> made the good tough call to go for it on fourth down at the end of the <b>Chiefs</b> game. Whereas <b>Mike Tomlin</b> made the chickenshit call to punt down 9 points with 8 minutes left in the <b>Raiders</b> game. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">NFL Picks Week 3</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (</span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: red;">17-11-2</span></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> vs the spread for the season).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Chicago +7 @ Cleveland</b>: I had the Browns pegged as a real Super Bowl threat before the season, but they've been underwhelming the first two weeks. Now they get Justin Fields in his first start. This should be an easy win, but I have a nagging feeling Cleveland's defense will make Fields look like RGIII in his rookie year. The Bears defense looked rejuvenated last week, rattling Joe Burrow into 3 consecutive INTs. <b><span style="color: red;">Chicago</span></b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Baltimore -8 @ Detroit</b>: The Lions secondary is so crappy, Lamar Jackson will actually look like a competent passer in this game. And the Lions linebackers are so slow, he could be the first QB to get a 200 yard rushing game, but my guess is, the game will be over by half-time, so he won't need to run much. Tyler Huntley should get some playing time in this one. The Lions offense wouldn't be half-bad, if Jared g<b><span style="color: red;">OO</span></b>f didn't give the ball away multiple times a game. . .and it's not because the other team forces the turnovers, its g<span style="color: red;"><b>OO</b></span>f forcing the other team to take the ball with his bizarre drops, slips, throws. <b><span style="color: red;">Baltimore</span></b>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>New Orleans +3 @ New England</b>: The rapist Jameis Winston and the rest of the Saints offense were atrocious last week against Carolina, 80 yds passing, 48 yds rushing. . .in this Day & Age of EZ Offense in the NFL? How can a team be that bad? They were so bad, they are now a 3 point underdog to a rookie QB. The Patriots are an average team, offensively and defensively. If the Saints can't win this game, what an amazing swing in just two weeks. They looked like world-beaters in Week 1 against Lavender Bay. Sean Payton may have to move to Taysom Hill much earlier than I anticipated if the Saints continue to sputter early against the Pats. I'm taking the Saints only because they have the big edge in coaching. <span style="color: red;"><b>New Orleans</b></span>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Tampa Bay -1.5 @ Los Angeles</b>: Kelly Stafford's first big game with the Rams. Can you imagine the hype if Kelly actually gets the better of Tom Brady? The MVP talk will start. The *Detroit Is So Gawdawful Even The Magnificent Stafford Couldn't Win There* fable will become gospel truth. I'll projectile vomit onto the TV screen if the Rams win. <span style="color: red;"><b>Tampa Bay</b></span>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Miami +4 @ Las Vegas</b>: The Dolphins starting QB is out, and Miami is still only getting 4 points on the road against a 2-0 team. That tells you exactly what the experts think about Tuna Gagvoila! It makes no difference whether he is in there or not. I actually think his absence makes the game a little tougher for the Raiders. Jacoby Passover Brisket is a better QB. But Derek Carr is playing outstanding, MVP caliber QB, and I expect the Raiders to easily cover. <b><span style="color: red;">Las Vegas</span></b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Seattle -1.5 @ Minnesota</b>: Expect both teams to score a ton of points, neither has the defense they used to. I actually think the Vikings are the better team, but they insist on losing. Well, the Vikings aren't actually a *team,* that's their problem. They are a bunch of players and coaches whose primary interest seems to be in covering their own asses. <b><span style="color: red;">Seattle</span></b>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Green Bay +3 @ San Francisco</b>: Green Bay's defense is truly awful. Only Jared g<b><span style="color: red;">OO</span></b>f's absurd turnovers saved them last week. I expect the 49ers to win this game fairly easily. They are much better on both sides of the ball. <b><span style="color: red;">San Francisco</span></b>. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-74445927828041526902021-09-15T18:07:00.003-04:002021-09-16T22:11:40.908-04:002021 College Football Week 3, NFL Week 2<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Week 2 College Recap</b>: <b>Cutty Sark</b> already relapsing on his QB pick of Hudson Card! After 1 1/2 games! Cutty shows he can't handle the pressure! Lock the liquor cabinets in Austin! If I was Card, I'd already be in the transfer portal, because if your coach is this weak and double-minded, why bother sticking around and letting him ruin your career? <b>Clay Helton</b> fired after USC's dismal loss to Stanford. Poor timing. USC is setting up the interim coach to look good, and then there will be the inevitable pressure to give him the job when the players and a certain demographic of the fan base say he is the perfect choice, and thus UCS gets an almost Ed Orgeron/for real Clay Helton 2.0. Dumb. <b>Florida State</b>: <span style="color: red;"><b>LOL</b></span>! Teams like FSU should remind Michigan fans: you <b>CAN</b> do worse than Harbaugh.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>College Picks Week 3</b> (<b><span style="color: red;">11-10-1</span></b> vs the spread for the season): Another week of mostly shitty games.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Nebrasska +22 @ Oklahoma</b>: What will Scott Frost's excuse be this week? <i>Oklahoma's cheerleaders didn't douche, and their vaginas smelled so bad it gave all our players migraines.</i> Anyway, of course Nebrasska will lose, but I am picking them to cover because their defense is average and Oklahoma is one of the softest teams in America and their coach isn't much better than Frost. <b><span style="color: red;">Nebrasska</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Cincinnati -3.5 @ Indiana</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: This game will tell us how much Indiana is back to being Indiana, rather than if Cincy is legit. <span style="color: red;"><b>Cincinnati</b></span>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Purdue +7 @ Notre Dame</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Notre Dame barely managed to beat Florida State and Toledo, and while Purdue is also a cream puff, they are a heavier cream than the SemenHoles and Rockets. <span style="color: red;"><b>Purdue</b></span>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Alabama -15.5 @ Florida</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: The Gators have rushed for 763 yards in their first two games, averaging over 8 yards per carry. . .true, both games were against tomato cans, but even against sissy teams, that's still hard to do. If they can rush for over 200 yards against the Menstrual Tide, they'll beat the spread. <b><span style="color: red;">Florida</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Kent State +22.5 @ Iowa</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><b>UPSET SPECIAL</b></span></span>. Iowa has no offense, and the <b><i><span style="color: #f1c232;">Golden Flashes</span></i></b> will able to score enough to cover. <b><span style="color: red;">Kent State</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Auburn +6 @ Penn State</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Penn State's defense is just too good for Never-Lived-Up-To-The-Hype Bo Nix, plus it's a <span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>White Out</b></span>. Auburn is gonna get a rough dose of Northern Football. <span style="color: red;"><b>Penn State</b></span>. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p><span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Week 1 NFL Recap</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: There were some truly dreadful performances. . .the </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Titans</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Mike Vrabel punked by punk Kliff Kingsbury, which means it may be all over for the one-time seeming promising head coach. He has a tough guy persona, but his defense plays about as muscular as a </span><b><i><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Nunito;">Thai ladyboy</span></i></b><span style="font-family: verdana;">. The </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Lions:</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> for 55 minutes they were the 49ers punching bag, then they staged a mini-comeback from 38-10 that actually saw them with the ball on the 49er 25 yd line with 30 seconds to go, one score from tying the game. It's probably more that the 49ers lost interest, they were laughing at the pathetic Lions for most of the game, but at least the Leos kept trying, which is more than they did under Matt Patricia. The offense looked fairly promising, but the defense still looks absolutely horrendous. The </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Packers</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: LOL! A Super Bowl darling pick, they were plastered by a homeless Saints team. Aaron Rodgers looked like a long-haired skid row bum, and played like one. A one game aberration, or, as we thought could be possible, a team that could crack because of MeMe Rodgers off-season drama queen antics? </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Trevor Lawrence</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: He sucked. Tossed three inexcusable INTs. I've said it a few times, but the kid has not improved since his Freshman year at Clemson. Still plays the same way, showing little interest in the mechanical and mental aspects of the QB position. The guy has all the physical tools to be an All-Timer, but you wonder sometimes about these self-proclaimed Christian college heroes, guys like him and Tebow, if they think God will magically bestow success upon them. They may mistake a physical talent as a gift from God, and then they end up at a powerhouse college team, where their mistakes are swallowed up by their teams overwhelming talent edge, but they assume it's God blessing them, and that God will always order their steps to sports success. But God don't give a shit about football, and probably would rather Tebow and Lawrence worked in a soup kitchen or a mission field. At this point, Lawrence is far behind Mac Jones as a professional-ready QB, and even lags behind Zach Wilson. After one week, I rate the rookie QBs: 1. Zach Wilson 2. Mac Jones 3. Trevor Lawrence. The </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Giants</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Steam-rolled by the Broncos, played about as inspired of football as you would expect from a team coached by a Bill Belichick clone. But the worst of all had to be the </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Atlanta Falcons</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: clobbered by a shit-ass Eagles team that tore through them with Jalen Hurts at QB. I had a feeling the FedEx heiress Arthur Smith wouldn't be able to relate to most NFL players, and it sure looked that way Sunday. The Falcons went down without a fight. </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Coach of the Week</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Dana Scully of the Houston Texans. LOL! He (and his retread DC Lovie Smith) whipped Urban Meyer, and showed the college boy what the pro game is all about. I've never seen a Meyer team look so amateurish. I thought he would have the Jags ready. I was 100% wrong. Maybe Meyer's just mailing it in at this stage, content to cash the giant paychecks his Paki owner gives him. Whatever the reason, it was not a promising start. In fact, it was a start that looked like Meyer is isolated from his own team. But, hey, this is about Dana Scully, a laughable hire expected to put the League's worst team on the field, but the Texans looked better than most of the teams with rookie coaches. And Hell, the Texans are in the worst division, by far, in the League, so he may even win 4 or 5 more games. 6-11 could win that shit-ass division. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>NFL Picks Week 2</b> (<b><span style="color: red;">5-6</span></b> vs spread for the season):</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>NY Giants +4 @ Washington</b>: Ryan Fitzpatrick lasted about 5 minutes, then fell down and broke a hip like an old lady. LOL! The Giants sucked against Denver. The loser of this game immediately becomes the NFC's worst team. I guess I'll take the shit-ass team getting the points. <b><span style="color: red;">New York</span></b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Buffalo -3 @ Miami</b>: Miami got a bit lucky in their win over NE, the Patriots literally fumbled the game away, and Buffalo got pushed around by the Steelers. Josh Allen looked feeble. He needs to step up this week, or Buffalo's season will already be on life support. <b><span style="color: red;">Buffalo</span></b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>New England -5.5 @ New York Jets</b>: Zach Wilson got his ass sacked a ton, and really struggled early, but he hung in there, showed toughness, and started to sling the football pretty good in the second half, keeping the Jets in the game. Outside of his first pass, when he intentionally grounded a lateral(!), Mac Jones looked like a veteran QB. The kid throws a nice ball, and while he doesn't have a rocket arm, he showed he could make enough throws to win a lot of games in the League. The Patriots got a bargain getting him at #15. At worst, he will be the third best QB from this draft, and depending on how Lawrence progresses, or if Wilson gets crippled, he could end up first or second. The teams that passed on him for Lance and Fields made big mistakes. <span style="color: red;"><b>New England</b></span>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Las Vegas +5.5 @ Pittsburgh</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: The Raiders won a game even though they Raidered! Overcoming their horrible goal line gOOfs and beating the Ravens may signal they finally have a little bit of mental toughness under Jon Gruden. The Steelers defense was outstanding against the Bills. . .but their offense sucked, and Najee Harris looked like a plowhorse, like I thought he was. The Raiders have far more weapons on offense than the Bills. <span style="color: red;"><b>Las Vegas</b></span>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Cincinnati +3 @ Chicago</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Joe Burrow getting 3 against Dalton-Fields?? LOL! EZ Money! <b><span style="color: red;">Cincinnati</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Minnesota +4.5 @ Arizona</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: If the Vikings lose this one, the Mike Zimmer death watch begins. Arizona really surprised me with that epic beat-down of the Titans. But I have to believe it was more due to the internal problems on Tennessee being even worse than I thought. Minnesota has a better roster than Arizona. No excuses for the great excuse maker Zimmer. Got to win this one. <b><span style="color: red;">Minnesota</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Kansas City -3.5 @ Baltimore</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: A brutal opening two games for the IR Ravens. (But they get the Lions in Week 3). The Raiders, after the first quarter, were clearly the better team, and they exposed the Ravens deficiencies in pass offense and pass defense. KC was gifted a win by the Browns, who once again shrank in the Big Moments. I'm not convinced the Chiefs are a powerhouse, and perhaps the Ravens could steal a win with a dominating run game. . .but I doubt it. <b><span style="color: red;">Kansas City</span></b>. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Detroit +10.5 @ Green Bay</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: MeMe Rodgers didn't look ready for the season to begin in Week 1. But after hearing a little Media criticism, I imagine she'll be dialed in for a Monday Night Show, plus the Lions defense is abysmal. Jordan Love could probably beat them. The Lions offense flashed some potential against the 49ers, but their only hope is Jared gOOf playing mistake-free football and the sorry-ass defense snagging a couple Packer turnovers, otherwise, this game will look pretty much like the first 55 minutes of the 49ers game. <span style="color: red;"><b>Green Bay</b></span>.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493589959521419662.post-33143899721870501082021-09-08T13:49:00.003-04:002021-09-13T14:59:19.350-04:002021 College Football Week 2, NFL Week 1<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A terrible slate of games in Week 2 of college ball. Mercer is playing Alabama, for crying out loud. How is that even allowed? All this shit about re-alignment, expansion, super conferences, you got to do something so that real games are played every week. <b><span style="color: red;">8-6-1</span></b> vs spread last week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Oregon +14 @ Ohio State</b>: Oregon got out-gained by Fresno State, and struggled hard to win. They're gonna all of a sudden have a defense to stop the Buckeyes? No. They are gonna get BLOWN OUT. <span style="color: red;"><b>Ohio State</b></span>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Toledo +17 @ Notre Dame</b>: The Irish have a new DC, and the results were piss-fucking-poor in Week 1 against the SemenHoles. Toledo's probably a better team than FSU. <span style="color: red;"><b>Toledo</b></span>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Ball State +22.5 @ Penn State</b>: The Shittany Lions have a roster full of 4 & 5 star recruits, but year-after-year they play sod-buster football. They should mop the floor with Ball State, but will struggle and won't put them away until late in the game. <span style="color: red;"><b>Ball State</b></span>.<br /><br /><b>Buffalo +13.5 @ Nebrasska</b>: A B1G team at home not even a two touchdown favorite over a MAC team? This is the fourth year of Scott Frost, you think the slappies in Lincoln figured they'd ever be fretting if their Golden Boy could handle a MAC team? I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Buffalo wins, outright. <span style="color: red;"><b>Buffalo</b></span>.<br /><br /><b>Iowa +4.5 @ Iowa State</b>: Iowa State is only a Top 10 team because they play in a shit-ass conference. It's absurd that Iowa is getting points. Iowa will kick their ass, and then the Cyclones will win a bunch of games against candy-ass teams and Media will fawn all over snaggle-toothed Matt Campbell because they only lose by 10 to shit-ass Oklahoma in the Sissy Conference Title Game. It's such a limp-wristed conference, Oklahoma and Texas can't wait to get out of it. <b><span style="color: red;">Iowa</span></b>. <br /><br /><b>Eastern Michigan +25.5 @ Wisconsin</b>: I don't even know if Wisconsin can score 26 points. Graham Mertz was a Big Time QB recruit, but he has played like a bum, he single-hand</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">edly lost the PSU game for the Badgers. Eastern hangs tough against B1G teams on the road, and even managed to knock off a couple of the lightweights, Purdue and Illinois, in recent years. They should be able to lose by only 21 or so. </span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: red;">Eastern Michigan</span></b><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Idaho @ Indiana</b>: No line as of Tuesday. If they set one, take <b><span style="color: red;">Idaho</span></b>, whatever it is. Indiana football is BACK. Back to being lousy. They won a few games in the covid season and the Media made Tom Allen into Vince Lombardi, but last week showed he's still Tom Allen, a gOOfball high school coach who lucked into a B1G job.<br /><br /><b>Washington +6 @ Michigan</b>: Washington lost at home to <b>Montana</b>, and now they go on the road and are only a 6 point underdog, that tells you all you need to know about Jim Harbaugh's tattered reputation. <b><span style="color: red;">Michigan</span></b>.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">NFL Week One</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYOdueOSVR5M0_L8QCwly5kO0SILbb7Ag0ewuoSwaNWAV7UOmeT9_b0McV24uXKZge_RenylexhyXncMPvqo__NLRQVw0FHEwtuTYmIbGLAe8FUySClJEItLCMmz4b3j2LJBw178s8Zxbb/s429/cwy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="429" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYOdueOSVR5M0_L8QCwly5kO0SILbb7Ag0ewuoSwaNWAV7UOmeT9_b0McV24uXKZge_RenylexhyXncMPvqo__NLRQVw0FHEwtuTYmIbGLAe8FUySClJEItLCMmz4b3j2LJBw178s8Zxbb/s320/cwy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b style="font-family: verdana;">Dallas +7.5 @ Tampa Bay</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: I got a feeling Dak Prescott will be crying and in street clothes by half-time. <b><span style="color: red;">Tampa Bay</span></b>.</span><p></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Philadelphia +3.5 @ Atlanta</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Arthur *Silver Spoon* Smith, the FedEx heiress, gets as EZ an opener as possible, going against Jalen Hurts and a Jim Schwartz-less Eagle defense. If he can't win this game, it means the players have already tuned out Little Lord Fauntleroy. <b><span style="color: red;">Atlanta</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Pittsburgh +6.5 @ Buffalo</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Too many points. Bills win, but don't cover. <b><span style="color: red;">Pittsburgh</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Minnesota -3 @ Cincinnati</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: This could be the wildest game of the day, I expect both teams to score a lot of points this season (for the Vikings, until Kirk Cousins gets covid). They are already worried about Ja'Marr Chase being a flop in Cincy. That means he'll probably rack up 150 yds and 2 tds in this one. <b><span style="color: red;">Minnesota</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">San Francisco -7.5 @ Detroit</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: I expect the 49ers to win, but will not cover because genius Kyle Shanahan's dumb two QB system will consistently interrupt the 49ers offensive momentum, and a Trey Lance turnover will help keep the Lions close all the way to the end. <span style="color: red;"><b>Detroit</b></span>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Los Angeles Chargers -1 @ Washington</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: I expect to see a significant decline in Justin Herbert this year, look for him to turn the ball over a lot more without Anthony Lynn to chaperone him. This game won't be close. To me, it's a joke the Chargers are favored. <b><span style="color: red;">Washington</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">New York Jets +5 @ Carolina</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Zach Wilson +5 against Sam Darnold? C'mon! <b><span style="color: red;">New York</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Jacksonville -3 @ Houston</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: Can you imagine if Trevor Lawrence and Urban Meyer lose to Nimrod Taylor and. . .what's his name?. . .Dana Scully? LOL! <b><span style="color: red;">Houston</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Cleveland +6 @ Kansas City</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: The Browns are the better team, plain and simple. <b><span style="color: red;">Cleveland</span></b>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Chicago +7.5 @ Los Angeles Rams</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: The debut of genius Sean McVay and his new girlfriend QB Kelly Stafford. Can't wait to see the look on McVay's stupid face the moment Kelly tosses a dumbass pick 6. It will happen. Stafford is still Stafford. That said, I doubt the Bears will win, because they have a thin line-up on offense, and their defense is aging, but Kelly will manage to keep the Rams from covering. <span style="color: red;"><b>Chicago</b></span>.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Baltimore -5 @ Las Vegas</b><span style="font-family: verdana;">: It's time for Jon Gruden to shit or get off the pot. He hired Gus Bradley and Rod Moronelli to fix the defense, all they gotta do is stop the run in Week 1. If they get run over by the Ravens, the season is already lost, because it means the defense is still feeble. I like Derek Carr (Carr is a true version of the Media version of Kelly Stafford) and the Raider offense. Let's hope they aren't wasted another season by poor coaching and tissue paper defense. <b><span style="color: red;">Las Vegas</span></b>.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0