Thursday, September 26, 2013

What is wrong with Barack Obama?


Tinker:

What is wrong with our president Barack Obama, don't he know that he is the president of the United States of America. And that he has the responsibility to carry the honor of the American people. That he is our ambassador to the world that we live in. Doesn't Obama understand the harm that he is causing our American children when he shows weakness to our friends, and enemies alike

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IRAN REFUSES TO MEET OBAMA...

Rouhani declines to meet Obama at United Nations General Assembly


  • Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani are pictured. | AP Photos
    U.S. and Iranian officials have been discussing the possibility of a meeting for days. | AP Photos
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 9/24/13 2:09 PM EDT Updated: 9/24/13 6:08 PM EDT
President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will not meet at the United Nations on Tuesday, senior administration officials said.

The White House had offered to have “an encounter” between the two leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, but Iranian officials ultimately declined.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/opinion/dowd-no-brief-encounter.html
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No Brief Encounter

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Published: September 24, 2013 
The man formerly hailed as a messiah was having a bad day.
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The Iranians snubbed him. The Brazilians upbraided him. Ted Cruz fauxlibustered him. And you just know that, behind the scenes, the Russians were messing with him.

At the end of a long, hard day at the United Nations, he escaped into the sweaty and freighted embrace of the Clintons, who had to explain and defend the president’s own health care plan for him at their global initiative conference/Hillary 2016 pep rally. The choreography of diplomacy danced around the tantalizing possibility of a historic handshake that could end three decades of poison. (Even though the last climactic clasp, between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat, disappointingly proved that sometimes a handshake is just a handshake.)

With the welcome exit of the provincial Iranian fruitbat, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, could the country W. declared part of the “axis of evil” reach out to the country smeared as the “Great Satan” by Ayatollah Khomeini? Obama administration officials at the U.N. on Tuesday explained to reporters that there would not be a bilateral between President Obama and President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, or any sort of “formal meeting.”

“We’re not prepared for heads of state to negotiate or presidents to negotiate on the nuclear issue,” an official said, speaking on background. An “encounter” would be permissible. Not a long one, but an “informal, brief encounter.”

“So,” a reporter asked, “like a handshake?”

“Yes, that type of thing,” the official replied. “Exactly. On the margins here.”

Except that, after the White House spent a week suggesting that there could be a press-the-flesh moment, Rouhani snubbed Obama. And not on the margins.

Maybe the tweet-happy Iranian president was too busy retweeting Christiane Amanpour to have time to pretend to bump into the American president in a U.N. hallway. “Ultimately it became clear that that was too complicated for them at this time,” the Obama official said just before 3 p.m., trying to put a good face on the scuttled face-to-face, adding that “the Iranians, number one, have an internal dynamic that they have to manage” and they “were not ready to have an encounter at the presidential level.”
Even a brief encounter wasn’t brief enough.

“The assumption that a meeting per se could be decisive or help solve problems is absolutely wrong,” said the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham. “We think that we should wait until a proper time for such a meeting comes.”

Poor President Obama, trying to figure out if the Russians and Iranians are offering trick or treat to America on W.M.D., as he lurches about with a foreign policy played out extemporaneously and ambivalently in “Obama’s brain and Ben Rhodes’s mouth,” as The New Republic’s Leon Wieseltier puts it. (An internal Israeli government document, The Washington Post reported, dismissed Rouhani’s charm offensive as “smile but enrich.”)

And poor Hillary Clinton, having to watch as the diplomatic breakthroughs, albeit haphazard and possibly illusory, happen on John Kerry’s watch, making her tenure look even more like that of a globe-trotting good-will ambassador. The president told the U.N. that his future diplomatic efforts would focus on Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hillary largely steered clear of that conflict, knowing the domestic risks for the restoration of Clinton Inc.

The Obama snub is a replay of then-President Clinton’s dashed attempt at a brief encounter in 2000 at the opening of the General Assembly with the Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, who also tried to warm up relations with the West but got hampered by hard-liners at home. As The Times’s Mark Landler wrote, Clinton aides did everything they could to arrange a “coincidental” brief encounter — including asking that Clinton’s speech be just before Khatami’s and that Clinton be seated within chair-bumping range of Khatami at the secretary general’s lunch.

Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S., told an audience at the Core Club in Midtown Sunday evening that President Obama raised expectations in the Arab world with his 2009 Cairo speech that were never met. But the president, stymied on Syria and dealing with an American public that never wants to hear the words “Sunni” or “Shiite” again, had a straight-up message for the Arab world.

“The United States is chastised for meddling in the region, accused of having a hand in all manner of conspiracy,” he said in his speech. “At the same time, the United States is blamed for failing to do enough to solve the region’s problems and for showing indifference toward suffering Muslim populations.”

He said that America’s ill-suited forays into occupying Muslim countries are over: “Iraq shows us that democracy cannot simply be imposed by force.”

A handshake can’t be forced on someone who is not quite ready to come to grips.
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Senator Cruz Continues the Filibuster on EIB

September 25, 2013
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RUSH: Senator Cruz, we welcome you to the EIB microphone and the program.  It's great to have you here, sir.

CRUZ:  Rush, it's fantastic to be with you.

RUSH:  I have to tell you, I've had so many people... I've been off the past couple of days, but while this has been going on, I've had so many people e-mail me so uplifted by what you did in the last 21 hours and what you did leading up to it. So many people are so happy that there finally is some leadership. They're so happy that, finally, somebody is doing in Washington what they were elected to do, what they said they were going to do.  And I just wanted to say, before we started: I'm sure you're hearing much same thing, but I wanted you to know that while you're getting all these arrows as pioneers do, there's a lot of appreciation and a lot of love for what you're doing out there.

CRUZ:  Well, Rush, thank you so much.  Thank you for that encouragement, and thank you for your leadership.  You know, I really hope that over the course of this week we'll see more and more Republicans step forward.  We had quite a few Republicans come down to the floor and support the effort, and I hope we'll see as many Republicans as possible, and even some Democrats, come together and listen to the American people.  As you know... Every week, you talk to 20 million Americans.  You know where the American people are on this, and it's not a close call.  Obamacare isn't working and millions of Americans are hurting, and if the Senate just listened to the American people, we'll do the right thing and we'll vote to defund it.

RUSH:  Well, in a political sense, it's been one of the things that surprised me, 'cause you're right. No matter what poll you look at, a vast majority of people oppose this, and I look at this... Politics isn't my business, getting votes isn't my business, but it seems to me that this is a ready-made opportunity.  Here's a chance for the Republican Party to connect to a majority of the American people on a fundamental issue.  If they're looking for something that could get 'em back, that could give them an identity, that could give them a little boost, this seems to me to be it. But they seem to want to have no desire to oppose this in any meaningfully way, and it's got me and a lot of people befuddled.

CRUZ:  Well, look, Rush, I understand that frustration.  It's why I think in many ways the central issue that we were trying to focus on in the filibuster was not the continuing resolution. It wasn't even Obamacare, as horrific as it is for the economy.  The central issue, I think, is the long-standing problem we have had with Washington not listening to the American people with Democrats and Republicans.  It's a lot of folks who've been in office way too long, who stopped listening to their constituents -- and as a result, we see lots of theater, lots of empty symbolic votes and very little willingness to actually stand up and fight on behalf of the American people.

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Census: State and Local Income, Sales, Motor Fuel, Motor Vehicle, and Alcoholic Beverage Taxes Hit All-Time Highs in 2nd Quarter

September 24, 2013 - 1:04 PM
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(CNSNews.com) - Revenues from state and local individual income taxes, general sales and gross receipt taxes, motor fuel taxes, motor vehicle taxes and taxes on alcoholic beverages each hit all-time highs in the second quarter of this year, according to data released today by the Census Bureau.

That means that in no quarter of any year since the Census Bureau first started tracking state and local tax revenues in 1962 have Americans paid more in each of these categories of state and local taxes then they did in the quarter that ran from April through June of 2013.
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The Mind-Blowing Fact About Immigration No One Mentions

Americans Mexico
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/101062461

The Fed's 'hidden agenda' behind money-printing

  
 Published: Wednesday, 25 Sep 2013
By: Peter J. Tanous

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The markets were surprised when the Federal Reserve did not announce a tapering of the quantitative easing bond buying program at its September meeting. Indeed, its signal to the market that it was keeping interest rates low was welcome, but there may be a hidden agenda.

Since it began in late 2008, QE has spurred a vigorous debate about its merits, both positive and negative.

On the positive side, the easy money and low interest rates resulting from quantitative easing have been a shot in the arm to the economy, fueling the stock market and helping the housing recovery. On the negative side, The Fed accomplished QE by "printing money" to buy Treasurys, and through the massive power of its purchases drove interest rates to record lows.

But in the process, the Fed accumulated an unprecedented balance sheet of more than $3.6 trillion which needs to go somewhere, someday.

But we know all this.

I believe that one of the most important reasons the Fed is determined to keep interest rates low is one that is rarely talked about, and which comprises a dark economic foreboding that should frighten us all.
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Armed Forces

Sources: US weapons stolen in Libya raids, fueling Special Forces pull-out

Adam Housley
By Adam Housley
Published September 11, 2013
FoxNews.com

Highly sensitive U.S. military equipment stored in Libya was stolen over the summer by groups likely aligned and working with terrorist organizations, State Department sources told Fox News -- in raids that contributed to the decision to pull Special Forces personnel from the country.

The stolen equipment had been used by U.S. Special Forces stationed in the country. Lost in the raids in late July and early August were dozens of M4 rifles, night-vision technology and lasers used as aiming devices that are mounted on guns and can only be seen with night-vision equipment.
"This stuff is how we win wars. The enemy doesn't have that," one source said.

The overnight raids happened at a military training camp run by American Special Forces on the outskirts of Tripoli, in the weeks before the team was pulled from the country in August.

That U.S. team was funded by the Department of Defense Section 1208, which provides support to assist and stand up foreign counterterrorism forces in other countries. And in the case of Libya, the trainers were also tasked with hunting down the Benghazi attack suspects that killed four Americans one year ago. As Fox News previously reported, members of that team are leaving Libya.

"The loss of this military equipment is what pulled the plug on the U.S. operation," one source with direct knowledge of the events told Fox News. "No one at the State Department wanted to deal with the situation if any more went wrong, so State pulled its support for the training program and then began to try and get the team moved out of the country."

The 12-member American team was not at the training camp when either raid occurred, as they regularly stayed at a nearby villa that served as a safehouse at night.

Located just outside of Tripoli, the camp was supposed to be secured each night by Libyan forces. But on two occasions, the camp was attacked and raided by either militia members or groups affiliated with terrorist organizations.

The training and the stolen equipment was provided by American forces and thus paid for by U.S. taxpayer dollars.

The raids and stolen equipment quickly caused a rift among U.S. Special Forces, Libyan military leaders and ultimately the U.S. State Department.

"They didn't want anything to go wrong and they didn't want to take the blame. Sensitive items were taken," one source said. "Bad guys can now shoot people at night with no signature."

Meanwhile, in response to an exclusive Fox News report last month about the trainers being pulled from Libya, multiple Pentagon officials claim that the 1208 trainers whose camp was raided were not there to track the Benghazi suspects.

That wasn't their mission, according to these officials. However, special operators in the region and State Department sources insist that the Pentagon is playing with words -- and while the Libya training mission was important, it was partly a cover for U.S. operations in Libya to hunt down those responsible for killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others.

Fox News reported earlier this year that U.S. forces had identified suspects by the end of November 2012, and reported on their whereabouts to the U.S. Libya Chief of Mission at the time William Roebuck last January -- and that same information was passed along to military leaders, yet no action was taken.

Operators in the region sat in de facto standby for months, despite eventual charges filed by the Justice Department.
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Obituaries

Paul Dietzel, Coach Who Led L.S.U. to Its First National Title, Dies at 89

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Published: September 24, 2013
Paul Dietzel, who in the first of three head coaching jobs in college football led Louisiana State to its first national championship, in 1958, using a platoon system famous for a scrappy defensive unit known as the Chinese Bandits, died on Tuesday at his home in Baton Rouge, La. He was 89.
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Paul Dietzel in 1962 after leading Louisiana State to a victory in the Orange Bowl. He had a 109-95-5 record as a head coach.

His family announced the death on its Web site.

“I once told Dietzel he was too soft to make a successful head coach,” the renowned coach Bear Bryant once said. Dietzel proved him wrong. He coached L.S.U. for seven years (1955-61), Army for four (1962-65) and South Carolina for nine (1966-74), compiling an overall head coaching record of 109-95-5.

He was 29 when Louisiana State hired him, but despite having the services of Jim Taylor, a running back who went on to star for the Green Bay Packers, the Tigers finished with a 3-5-2 record. They went 3-7 in 1956 and 5-5 the next year, despite a backfield with Taylor and a new star, Jimmy Cannon. Dietzel’s job seemed in danger.

Everything changed in 1958, however, when he found a way to deal with a new collegiate rule that allowed players to return to the field only once each quarter. He created three units. His 11 best players became the White team (their practice jerseys were white) and played both offense and defense. His next 11 best offensive players became the Gold (later shortened to Go) team and played only offense. His next 11 best defensive players became the Chinese Bandits and played only defense.

Dietzel gave them that name, at a time when ethnic caricatures were common in popular culture. “I was an avid reader of ‘Terry and the Pirates,’ the comic strip,” he said, “and it seemed to me the meanest, most vicious people in the world were the Chinese bandits in the funny papers.”

The Bandits were essentially a third-string unit, substitutes who played only 10 or 15 minutes a game. But playing with confidence, tenacity and abandon, they became cult heroes to L.S.U. fans. A song about them became a local hit in the Baton Rouge area, and Sports Illustrated published an article about them.

The attention seemed to have inflated their sense of importance, Dietzel acknowledged. “The Bandits were not a sensational team,” he said, “but they didn’t know it.”

The 1958 team went 10-0 in the regular season — the final game a 62-0 drubbing of Tulane — and was voted the unofficial national champion. Then it beat Clemson in the Sugar Bowl. At 34, Dietzel became the youngest national coach of the year, and Cannon won the Heisman Trophy.

When he left Louisiana for Army after the 1961 season, Dietzel became the first nongraduate of West Point to coach the team since 1911. He was soon popular on campus. Sports Illustrated described him in 1962 as “a witty speaker, a chart man, an organizer, an inveterate coiner and borrower of aphorisms” who was given to posting signs in the locker room carrying slogans, exhortations and epigrams with artwork that he did himself.

He also held weekly question-and-answer sessions open to Army fans and supporters, holding forth from a stage with charm and matinee-idol looks. The college football columnist and historian Fred Russell wrote, “Tall and trim, with blue-gray eyes, thick blond hair and boyish smile, he is an engaging conversationalist among men and has a courtly way with the ladies.”

Paul Franklin Dietzel was born on Sept. 5, 1924, in Fremont, Ohio, near Toledo. After his sophomore football season at Duke, he left to become an Army Air Forces bomber pilot during World War II and flew 12 combat missions over Japan. He married his high school sweetheart, Anne Wilson, in 1944.
After the war, he moved on to Miami University of Ohio, where he became a Little all-American center and earned a bachelor’s degree in education. From 1948 to 1954, he was an assistant at Army under Red Blaik, at Cincinnati under Sid Gillman and at Kentucky under Bryant.

After his coaching career ended, Dietzel was the commissioner of the Ohio Valley Conference in 1975, the athletic director at Indiana University from 1976 to 1978 and, returning to Baton Rouge, the athletic director at Louisiana State from 1978 to 1982.

The L.S.U. job ended after an audit found an athletic department deficit of more than $1.4 million. The auditors reported mismanagement and false expense reports but found no criminal wrongdoing.
Still, Dietzel was reassigned, named an assistant to the university president, though he kept his $66,000 salary. He resigned five months later and filed a $3.5 million suit against James Wharton, the university’s chancellor, saying Wharton had defamed him in public statements concerning the audit. The suit was later dropped, and Dietzel said, “All the allegations have been disproved.”

He came out of retirement in 1985 to establish an athletic department at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. He retired again two years later, at 62.

He was also the president of the American Football Coaches Association and of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Dietzel died the day before his 69th wedding anniversary. His wife survives him, along with a daughter, Kathie DuTremble; a son, Steve; and two grandchildren.

Dietzel was modest about his achievements. In 1998, at his championship team’s 50th-anniversary reunion, he gave all the credit to his players.

“Every time I had mediocre athletes, I was a mediocre coach,” he said. “Every time I had good athletes, I was a pretty good coach. And when I had great athletes, just overnight, I became a great coach.”
But he had also learned something from players who “were not big or fast” but who played with great heart, he said.

“Those Bandits taught me what Napoleon said a long time ago,” he told an interviewer in 2008. “It is morale over material, three to one. He was right.”

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Tinker:

The thrill of Billy Cannon running a punt return back against Hart And Simmons under the tiger stadium lights October 4,1958 for a quick TD became the electric feeling that made the down in the dumps LSU college football fans stand up and take notice. That LSU had a new man in tiger town running and coaching the LSU college football program.
Then in time the LSU fans became big time glamor pusses because Paul Dietzel brought high caliber football players to play football for Louisiana State University Baton Rouge La

Date Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 20, 1958 at Rice*
Rice StadiumHouston, TX
W 26–6   45,000
September 27, 1958 at Alabama #15 Ladd Memorial StadiumMobile, AL (Rivalry)
W 13–3   34,000
October 4, 1958 Hardin–Simmons* #13 Tiger StadiumBaton Rouge, LA
W 20–6   45,000
October 10, 1958 at Miami (FL)* #11 Orange BowlMiami, FL
W 41–0   40,614
October 18, 1958 Kentucky #9 Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, LA
W 32–7   65,000
October 25, 1958 Floridadagger #3 Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, LA
W 10–7   62,000
October 31, 1958 #6 Ole Miss #1 Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, LA (Magnolia Bowl)
W 14–0   68,000
November 8, 1958 Duke* #1 Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, LA
W 50–18   63,000
November 15, 1958 at #20 Mississippi State #1 Mississippi Veterans Memorial StadiumJackson, MS
W 7–6   N/A
November 22, 1958 at Tulane #1 Tulane StadiumNew Orleans, LA (Battle for the Rag)
W 62–0   83,221
January 1, 1959 vs. #12 Clemson* #1 Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, LA (Sugar Bowl) NBC W 7–0   80,331

You know the rest of the story, Paul Dietzel was invaluable to LSU college football program for many, many, years to come.
Paul Dietzel brought a little part of paradise to the LSU fighting tiger football fans and now I can only hope that god welcomes him into the real place we call heaven. That he is safe and sound, and in good company.
Thank you coach for every thing that you did for the LSU football program..
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Mettenberger 'expecting the worst' in Athens
 
9/24/2013 3:47:58 PM

By LUKE JOHNSON
Tiger Rag Assistant Editor


LSU fullback Connor Neighbors’ mission this week is to concoct an unholy brew of the most hateful, inappropriate and vile commentary he can before unleashing it on close friend Zach Mettenberger.
Really, he’s doing it out of the kindness of his heart.

"I’m going to heckle him throughout the whole week so when game day comes around he’s used to it,” Neighbors said. "I’m going to talk smack all week long so he can drown it out.”

A sardonic Mettenberger said he appreciated his friend’s actions, but in reality he could use the help. Consider it an addendum to the normal practice schedule.

Georgia fans are expected to have a special amount of hostility ready for Mettenberger this weekend as he returns to play between the hedges for the first time since the Bulldogs dismissed him from the program in 2010. The terms of his dismissal are expected to provide the fodder for fans’ animosity.

"Considering my background, they’re probably going to be a little rougher on me,” Mettenberger said. "I’m expecting the worst, but I’ve just got to go in there level-headed and play football.”

Mettenberger dreamed of playing for Georgia when growing up, at Neighbors’ estimation, five minutes from the Georgia campus. That dream vanished when he pled guilty to two counts of misdemeanor sexual battery.
It was the best of times, then the worst of times.

Now he’s coming back to Athens, albeit not wearing the uniform he thought he would. And he’s coming back in style, leading an unexpectedly potent offensive attack.
Back to the best of times again.

He’s ranked second in the league in touchdown passes (10) and third in passing yards (1,026) and is well on his way to surpassing his totals from his first year at the reigns of the LSU offense.

His success has done nothing but ramp up the hype machine that’s been waiting for this week to arrive. Mettenberger, for one, can’t wait for it to pass.

"I’m looking forward to Sunday morning tremendously,” Mettenberger said as he was surrounded by 15 reporters wielding cameras and digital recorders. He then paused a moment to gather his thoughts and find the right phrasing.

"There’s so much put into this game that has nothing to do with the game that actually goes between the snap and the whistle. The worst part is my mom has to deal with a lot of this stuff, too.”

At least his mother, an assistant in the Georgia football office, has been able to avoid harassing calls from media members while at work thanks to some help from Georgia coach Mark Richt. She received the last two weeks off, presumably to give her an escape from probing reporters.

Mettenberger isn’t afforded that respite.

He spent roughly 10 minutes with members of the print media before being herded to talk to members of the TV media to spend another 10 minutes answering all the same questions.
He answered many with his typical brand of sarcasm.

Reporter: How different are you from the guy who was competing for the Georgia starting quarterback job four years ago?

Mettenberger: "I didn’t have facial hair and I had a buzz cut.”
Reporter: Have your parents told you to ignore the crowd?
Mettenberger: "Neither of my parents played in an SEC stadium.”

But the sarcastic façade can’t veil the fact that Mettenberger has grown since he arrived on campus before the 2011 season. The young man that got in trouble in a Valdosta, Ga., bar is, by all accounts, far removed from the current LSU quarterback.

Whether it was the incident and subsequent dismissal being a fork-in-the-road event, or the maturity that naturally comes with age, Mettenberger now serves as an example for others to emulate according to his coach.
"He has earned so much with us,” said LSU coach Les Miles. "He’s so accountable, so committed, giving great effort and leadership. All he has to do is go and do the things that we’ve asked him to do and be proud of what all he’s accomplished, what all he’s about to accomplish.”

Maybe it’s a blessing that he did not have to face his former team until his final collegiate season when he’s better prepared for the media’s questions and the criticism from opposing fans.

"He’s matured a lot through the years,” Neighbors said. "Maybe two years ago, the young boy in him would’ve gotten pissed off at the world. But he’s mature. He’s a leader now.

"Sometimes you’ve got to take it on the chin and brush it off your shoulders.”

So Neighbors will get him ready, whether he likes it or not. Neighbors has actually accompanied Mettenberger back to his native land and met some of the people there.

They were nice people, he said. But those aren’t the type of people he expects to show on game day.

"You’d be surprised how many people embrace him with open arms,” Neighbors said. "He’s still a regular person. It’s not like people come out of nowhere and start heckling him.

"But fans are different. They want you to know what you’ve done wrong in the past.”

That doesn’t seem to concern Mettenberger, whose exterior looks about as unflappable as they come. That might be a product of his personality, and it might help him deal with his less-than-warm welcome home party.

"I think just being myself, kind of how I carry myself every day, makes it a lot easier this week,” Mettenberger said.
He continued by saying he didn’t put more importance on this week than any other week, sticking by the old "just another game” cliché.
That might encapsulate Mettenberger’s genuine feelings, but Neighbors isn’t buying it.
"It’s bittersweet, but it’s more sweet than bitter if you play it right,” Neighbors said.

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Chief Peace Pipe Picklehead
Treat your LSU offensive lineman to a steak dinner and sharpen up on throwing the football through a small windows in Athens. Brushing up on changing the play you run to your advantage also. Then do that over and over again until every one in Staford Stadium goes home a loser and you bring our LSU football team back to tiger town a big winner, so help you god!
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LSU Football - Geaux Tigers!!!
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Don't blink with LSU's Beckham, Landry

September, 25, 2013
By Chris Low | ESPN.com
Times are changing on the Bayou, and so is LSU’s offense.

It’s true that the Tigers can still bully you with their running game, especially now that Jeremy Hill is back in good graces.

Jarvis Landry, Odell Beckham
Crystal LoGiudice-USA TODAY SportsJarvis Landry (left) and Odell Beckham Jr. are responsible for all of LSU's receiving touchdowns this season.
But what makes this offense different is a passing game that can strike from anywhere on the field and two red-hot receivers who are making good on a promise they made to each other back in the offseason.

Odell Beckham, Jr. and Jarvis Landry have already combined for 44 catches and 11 total touchdowns in their first four games.

And remember all those explosive plays down the field the Tigers didn’t make last season?

Well, through four games, Beckham and Landry have combined for 26 plays of 15 yards or longer and nine touchdowns of 20 yards or longer, which includes Beckham’s 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown against UAB.

“We told each other that our motto this year was going to be, ‘Don’t blink,’” Beckham said. “That’s because if you’re at home watching on TV and step away for a second, you might miss an exciting play.”

There’s no downplaying first-year coordinator Cam Cameron’s influence on the Tigers’ offense. It has much more of an NFL feel to it than it ever did in the past under Les Miles.

But there’s also no downplaying the role Beckham and Landry have played in helping to open up the offense for everybody else. What’s more, they’re a perfect complement for each other.

Beckham is the speed guy who can stretch the field and demoralize defenses with big plays. He’s averaging 19.5 yards per catch, and 10 of his 20 catches have been for 20 yards or longer.

Landry is one of the best route-runners in the SEC and is absolutely fearless. He’s also terrific after the catch, and though he’s not a burner, you rarely see people catching him from behind. He’s caught touchdown passes in each of his last six games and eight of his last nine contests dating back to last season.

“The great thing for a quarterback is that one of them always seems to be open,” said LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger, who’s thrown 10 touchdown passes and only one interception this season. “If you try to take one of them away, the other one’s going to get you.”

They’re more than just receivers, too.

Beckham is a dangerous return specialist and leads the SEC in all-purpose yardage (197.5 yards per game). Landry first made his mark at LSU by blowing people up while covering kicks, and in high school, was his team’s starting middle linebacker.

“I take a lot of pride in that, being a football player. Both of us do,” Landry said. “Those types of players are a rarity now, guys who can do a little bit of everything. Just because I’m on offense and catching passes doesn’t mean I’m not going out there and looking to attack. I believe that’s the way you’ve got to play this game no matter what position you’re playing.”

It’s not a coincidence that Beckham and Landry play so well off of each other on the field. They’ve known each other since their high school days and are extremely close off the field.

In fact, they hit it off at a 7-on-7 camp in Tuscaloosa during the summer prior to their senior year of high school and sort of decided then that they wanted to play together in college.

“Because we’re so close, we have the ability to critique each other and push each other, whether it be in practice or wherever,” Landry said. “Odell's got great speed, vision with the ball and the yards after the catch, and my strength is catching the ball and being physical. I’m always taking something out of his book or helping him with something I do well to complement his game.”

Added Beckham, “He’s like the brother I never had, and whenever he makes a big play, I just tell him, ‘Now, it’s my turn.’ ”

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They take on a Georgia defense this weekend that currently ranks last in the SEC in pass efficiency defense. The Bulldogs are also extremely young in the secondary with a pair of true freshmen and a sophomore in the starting lineup.

A few weeks ago, South Carolina had success going after freshman cornerback Brendan Langley, who was beaten on a couple of longer touchdown passes.

With so much success already this season, you can bet the Tigers will also take their shots down the field and test that Georgia secondary.

“Whoever we go up against, this offense is designed to create mismatches and put guys in position to win one-on-one matches, and one-on-one matches with guys like Odell Beckham is a nightmare,” Landry said. “But the biggest part of this offense gets down to guys making plays, and right now, we have a lot of those guys all over the field.”


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 Thomas Williams · Top Commenter · Im not telling u
The Georgia Bulldogs are going to panic when Beckham and Landry keep catching forward passes all afternoon. Something like frequent flyers feel when the jet motor stops at 30,000 feet.

Geaux Tiger!!!

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