The University of Nebraska football team is 8 and 4.  The Huskers (i.e., cornhuskers of Nebraska) beat Colorado yesterday.  They take the game very seriously out here.  The RV campground filled up on Friday with $200,000 motorhomes with “Go Huskers” tags everywhere.

This is our second Sunday in Nebraska.  The church is very nice (a lot of seminarians for a change), and it just started snowing.  Today I will cook the postponed Thanksgiving dinner, having spent a couple of days moving in again after the trip.

“(CBS/AP) The Iraqi parliament approved Thursday a security pact with the United States that allows American troops to stay in the country for three more years.   The Iraqi government’s Shiite bloc reached an agreement earlier in the day with a group of mostly Sunni lawmakers to secure the measure’s passage. In exchange for their vote, the Sunnis won a major concession from the pact’s staunch supporters; a national referendum will be held on the agreement. “

Like, we wanna be there three more years?!

Let’s be clear:  Did we tell them where to mail the check?!

So, it appears that one of our contemporaries is emphasizing the bacon just a little too much. Witness what Liberals do with it:

(CNN) – Paul Volcker, former chairman of Federal Reserve and an economic adviser to President-elect Barack Obama, knows a thing or two about turning out a tasty Thanksgiving turkey.

Volcker shared his tips with CNN on Thursday and said his secrets include port wine and strips of bacon.

Obama mentioned Volcker’s turkey prowess at a news conference Wednesday when the President-elect told reporters that Volcker and fellow Obama economic aide Austan Goolsbee both have “special turkey cooking recipes if anyone needs some advice on how to make the ideal turkey.”

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So, to make conservative amends, now Mr. Stew Magoo will be visited by the Ghost of Christmas Emaciated:

And the Ghost of Christmas Perpetually Expanding:

I think I’ve reached the end of the internet.

At least, I hope so.

The family of a college student who killed himself live on the Internet says they are horrified his life ended before a virtual audience, and infuriated that viewers of the live webcam or operators of the Web site that hosted it didn’t act sooner to save him.
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Police arrived to find Abraham Biggs dead in his father’s bed 12 hours after the 19-year-old Broward College student first declared on a Web site that he hated himself and planned to die.

“It didn’t have to be,” said the victim’s sister, Rosalind Bigg. “They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours.”

Please notice:

It is ALWAYS someone else’s fault. It is ALWAYS EVERYone else’s fault.

Watch for this pattern, and you will see it.

Christmas Lights – TSO – Christmas Eve 2007

Yesterday, I got the latest thing to fight a blocked artery:  a stent.

It’s now 1:20 Wednesday. The ”procedure” went very well Tuesday afternoon – I was awake, watching the stent go in on the TV monitors. They inserted a tube (catheter) into the artery in my right wrist, and up into the blocked artery on the heart.  While I was awake, I was sedated so I didn’t feel it.  At the blockage, they inflated a small balloon to push the plaque out of the way, and a stent – a hollow metal tube with open sides – into the blocked area.  They expanded the stent, and left it there.

Now, fresh oxygenated blood is flowing where it hasn’t for years.  They said I can expect to feel much better in the coming weeks and months.

They kept me overnight in the hospital, and I checked out at 9:15 this morning.

Then I picked up Lacy at her sleep-over at the boarding kennel after her outdoor playtime with the other dogs, and her bath, and we are now finishing off a Domino’s pizza.

Beats the dickens out of a bypass!

P.S. If you think Heaven has been slow lately answering your prayers, please try again. I’ve had the circuits tied up for a couple of days!

Several thousand gay rights protesters took to the streets in marches to object to the California election result, over turning gay marriage and defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

“March” may not be the right term. More of a… well, you know.

A crowd estimated at 5,000 stretched for blocks in the Silver Lake district, east of Hollywood, carrying signs and chanting against Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that prevents the state from recognizing same-sex marriages.

Voters in Florida and Arizona joined California on Tuesday in banning same-sex marriages. Dozens of states have similar laws. Only two U.S. states, Massachusetts and Connecticut, allow same-sex marriage.

In California, at least five or six of the marchers claimed to have actually voted on Tuesday.

So there.

Let’s re-think the Republican debacle of ‘08.

The party leaders are not all dolts. There are clever, smart guys in the Republican hierarchy. Not necessarily the ones they allow to go on TV, or to run as candidates.

Given the disaster of Bush II, and knowing that history is against your running anyone as a Republican who could possibly overcome that record of failure, how can you best stay involved without committing the entire future talent pool, intellectual capital and the complete war chest in a losing campaign?

You would do what successful high school football coaches do two games before homecoming, with a bad record:

Yes. Send in the second team.

Looks like that’s what they did. Second stringers. Including the aides.

So we shouldn’t be too hard on McPalin. They did their job.

But… Maybe it’s time to fire the coach. And why did they let George get so, so far out of line? There is a subject for a couple of books.

Election Triggers Surge in Gun Sales By DENA POTTER, AP

MIDLOTHIAN, Va. (Nov. 7) – When 10-year-old Austin Smith heard Barack Obama had been elected president, he had one question: Does this mean I won’t get a new gun for Christmas?

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So the hick billies are stocking up on guns! A “well-regulated militia”, indeed!