Roughriders took it on the chin last night against the D2 Pioneers, but it was a good test.

Polar Bears tee it up against the Washington (STL, MO) Bears this afternoon.

Buckeyes are -11 vs the Castrated Turkeys.   Should be -18

Saints open with the dirty birds.  Shoud be close but the Saints get the win.

FWIW, my top four in the college ranks:  Alabama, Oregon (Go Sparty!), FSU (sorry Sooners, Baylor awaits), and winner of the 11/8 OSU/MSU game.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, THE WHITE HOUSE WOULD BE A CESSPIT OF OLD-STYLE SEXISM. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! No Men Need Apply: Michelle Obama’s Staff 100% Female.

MORE WOMEN COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois Pays Women Staffers Less Than Men.

Cee Lo Green: It's Only Rape if the Victim is Conscious

WHEN WAR-ON-WOMEN OVERREACH BITES BACK: DNC chief walks back Scott Walker ‘words.’

Related: The violent imagery deployed against Scott Walker by Debbie Wasserman Shultz is gendered — it’s domestic violence. But, used to getting away with murder, she didn’t realize she was overplaying her hand.

No.  Really.  This incantation might save your life.  This is NOT Harry Potter.  According to the National Post of Canada.

Here’s an excerpt (emphasis added):

[T]he shahadah, a testimony to the identity of Allah as the one true God, and Muhammad as his prophet … saved a number of lives during the 2013 al-Qaeda-linked attack at Kenya’s Westgate Mall. To weed the Muslims out from the infidels, terrorists asked people to recite the shahadah to prove their faith. They asked other things too, like certain key passages of the Koran, the name of Mohammad’s mother, that sort of thing — it was al-Qaeda Question Hour. The wrong answer meant death.

After that, many, myself included, wondered: Should we — Muslim or not — learn the basics of Islam and have a read through the Koran? If one of us ever finds herself in a situation similar to that of Westgate Mall victims, could even a rudimentary knowledge of Islam save us?

That’s apparently news you can use, for our modern world.

I should say that I don’t fault people for wanting to save their lives, even if that means buttering up their would-be murderers with a fake claim of religion. But it surprised me that this would actually be discussed as possible advice in a major national newspaper.

RON RADOSH: The Left’s Attempt to Institutionalize the Rewriting of US History: A New Step Forward Through their “Long March Through the Existing Institutions.”

Study: Cost of Migrant Children In Public Schools Could Top $761 Million

Pioneer Institute: Common Core Will Damage U.S. History Instruction by Combining it with Language Arts

I'll be on the road the next two days but here's a little something to tie you over:

How not to do a solar power project – great moments in solar engineering

Arctic Ice Cap Expands by 41 Percent in Two Years; Al Gore Thought It Might Be Gone by Now

From 2009: Great moments in climate prediction: ‘World will warm faster than predicted in next five years, study warns’

and in case you aren't following this one yet, in the "I'll believe it's an emergency when the people telling me it's an emergency start acting like it's an emergency": Monday Mirthiness – ‘Adrift – living on an iceberg for a year’ guy Alex Bellini drives an SUV to highlight his ‘concern about climate change’

GANGSTER GOVERNMENT IN ILLINOIS: The skulduggery of ousting Illinois candidates.  For more on this do a little research to see how BHO won his first two elections.

SORTA LIKE WARREN BUFFETT AND BURGER KING: ObamaCare contract muddles Dem message on tax dodgers.

The Obama administration is employing an ObamaCare contractor that was once based in the tax haven of Bermuda, even as it assails corporations for lacking the “economic patriotism” to pay taxes.

Accenture was awarded a contract in January that’s now grown to well over $100 million to make improvements to HealthCare.gov, the federal enrollment portal that has caused a slew of headaches for President Obama.

The company is currently incorporated in Ireland, where it moved in 2009. Before that, Accenture had set up shop in both Switzerland and Bermuda, a noted tax haven, and has been called a tax dodger by a variety of mostly Democratic lawmakers for more than a decade.

Yeah, but now they’re Obama-approved so it’s all fine.

ISN’T THIS SOME SORT OF A HUMAN-RIGHTS VIOLATION? U.S. Hikes Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422%.

THE AMOUNT OF TREASURY-LOOTING THAT’S BEEN GOING ON IS STAGGERING: Five-year review of Recovery Act finds $5 billion misspent.

Gwen Ifill sees a VERY different country than I do.

Last week on Washington Week she made the following statement in discussing Ferguson.

They're not saying we're going to wait for a single, singular leader to tell us which way to go. They're saying we're going to lead ourselves. And there's something which we can't miss in what feels different to me than Trayvon Martin, it feels different to me than Rodney King, these are all situations in which justice was questioned. But it feels to me like Americans, not just African-Americans, are picking themselves up and saying, the first pictures we saw out of Ferguson, the common response was, is that America? 

Rush Limbaugh shot back:

Gwen, let me tell you something -- when I discovered that Obama wants to grant amnesty to 12 million (illegal) Americans, that's when I asked myself, is that America?

When I saw the IRS specifically targeting conservative groups and denying them tax-exempt status, when I saw the federal government being used as a weapon against a particular belief system, I said, it that America? That's when I asked, is that America?

When I learned the full breadth and scope of Barack Obama's desire to totally change the American health care system, which is the finest in the world, and when I watched a woman on ABC prime-time TV ask the president if he would permit her mother to get life-saving surgery when she was 99 years old, that's when I said to myself, is that America? I can't believe this! A citizen is actually asking the president if her mother will be allowed to get live-saving surgery under his health care plan and then he says, no, give her a pain pill! That's when I started asking myself, Gwen, and a lot of other people did too, is this America?

When our ambassador in Benghazi and three others were murdered in an attack on our consulate and I heard the president and the secretary of state blame it on a YouTube video that nobody had ever seen, that's when I said, is this America?

When I saw the president propose his stimulus package of nearly a trillion dollars for shovel-ready jobs that was going to get the economy going and start hiring people, wait a minute, you can't, is this America?

And when I saw these jobs summits at the White House with columnists and reporters from the New York Times as lecturers, at a White House summit on jobs, is this America?

Gwen Ifill, my point is, a lot of people have been asking, is this America? Is that America?, long before Ferguson, Mo., happened.

 

Need advice on a strategy?

Can you IMAGINE if a white politician had used this construction?  Eric Holder: 'I Am the Attorney General... but I'm Also a Black Man'

More historical ignorance: Nancy Pelosi Says American Women Always Victims: 'Starved,' 'Force-Fed'

President It'sNotMyFault: Obama: 'We're Just Noticing' World Is 'Messy... Because of Social Media'

Liberals occasionally have troulbe when their proposals hit reality.  Here are a few recent examples:

 Congressional Black Caucus: Too Many Black Judges?  According to 2010 population statistics, blacks make up 12.6% of the U.S. population. The Congressional Black Caucus’s numbers show that blacks hold 12.1% of federal judgeships. That would suggest a trivial disparity (again, even using a very favorable benchmark). Indeed, if the number of black judges grows by a mere four or five, blacks would be “overrepresented” on the federal judiciary.

The Nazis killed dozens of Jews.  Something like 500,000 dozens.  AP Headline Describes 160 Syrian Soldiers Massacred by ISIS as 'Dozens'

An oldie but a goodie: A psychologist’s scathing review of John Cook’s ‘97% consensus’ nonsensus paper