The cliff and college football

Does anyone seriously suppose that even if the ruling class takes a break from lining their pockets with taxpayer dough to avert the fiscal cliff that the “fix” will truly be a fix? What evidence do we have that there is a majority of life-time Washington DC corruptocrats interested in doing what is right for the country? What evidence do we have that there is even anyone smart enough to figure a way out of this mess? We had a guy that had some hope, but we rejected him because he might make us pay for our own cell phones and birth control.


This mess reminds me of the greatest line ever at a Marine Corps (or for Little Barry corpse) briefing. When asked by a real general officer how a certain problem would be overcome, the Col giving the brief looked the general in the eye and said this:

General, there are two ways we solve this problem - the realistic way and the miraculous way. First, Jesus Christ Himself comes with a team of angles and arc angles and solves it for us. That’s the realistic way. Second, we manage to solve it by ourselves. That would be the miraculous way.

After the laughter subsided, someone offered, “I believe in miracles.”

Lex Prediction: Whatever comes of the fiscal cliff negotiations, it will only back the car up a few hundred feet. Then, after patting themselves on the back and telling everyone how great they are, the ruling class will all pile back into the car and continue to drive toward the cliff, maybe, because they think they’ve averted disaster, at an accelerated speed.

How many times have the Greek’s gotten a bailout to “avert disaster” only to find themselves looking for another handout to avert a new but actually the same disaster?  What are we on 10th or 11th bailout?

Now for a real issue.

College football
Officially, the college football season ended at about 3:30 pm last Saturday when the clock at Ohio Stadium reached 00:00 after the Buckeyes' win over some team from up north - finishing their season 12-0 and crowned the unanimous and undisputed National Champions of college football for 2012.

Yet inferior schools will soldier on. They will play a series of meaningless games over the next several weeks in some vain hope of achieving also ran status against the The Ohio State Buckeye’s unblemished record.

Chief among these will be the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Tide is a team built on weak lines and slow backfields on both sides of the ball. After cruising through a pathetic SEC schedule and non-conference push-overs - Birmingham school for the blind and Little Sisters of the Poor all girls Catholic grade school - the Tide stubbed their toe against a freshman rock named Johnny football Manziel. Johnny football exposed nick Saben’s defense for the slow-witted, stone-handed, slow a-foot blocks of lead that they are.

Saben will take his undermanned Tide into the SEC championship game this Saturday against what appears to be an even weaker – if that’s possible – GA bulldog team.

GA head coach Mark Richt says he will get inside the AL players’ heads, and we all know there’s a lot of room in there, by putting MANZIEL on the back of every GA jersey. Richt said, “Yeah, well, AL probably thought there were 4 or 5 Manziels on the field in Tuscaloosa. So I thought we’d remind them of their total vulnerability.”

The game seems to have all the appeal of watching the “ladies” of The View, sans Elizabeth Hasselbeck, strip naked, gyrating wildly while a fully clothed (there is a God) Shrilldabeast Clinton sings Winchester Cathedral and plays the ukulele. America will look briefly, then while throwing up in their mouths, look away disgusted.

One American will be tuned into every second of the game. Cutting her usual week long birthday celebration (which begins today) short, she’ll just be getting in from a 3 day Neil Diamond palooza about kickoff time. All of the phones will be disconnected. The doorbell will be taped over and a sign affixed to the door: “Quarantined!!!! Alabama football game in progress. Substantial risk of SLOW - PAINFUL - DEATH if disturbed.”

No presents necessary this year.  She got two early presents when BCS #1 Kansas St and BCS #2 Oregon both lost - catapulting BCS #4 AL to BCS #2 and a shot at BCS #1, which would still be #2 to the #1 Ohio State University.

Happy B-day sis! Roll Tide!