Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Did the American people realize their government was corrupt:

Did the American people realize that their country was also under attack from within:

“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”: FDR's First Inaugural Address. Franklin D. Roosevelt had campaigned against Herbert Hoover in the 1932 .

Tinker:

Did the American people realize back then that the politicians that they trusted their vote to so the people could have a fair and just government was becoming double cross from within the heart of self same government. So choose carefully from now on fellow citizens.
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Article. I.
Section. 1.
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section. 2.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Section. 3.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies.
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Section. 4.
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
Section. 5.
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
Section. 6.
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Section. 7.
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States: If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Section. 9.
The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another; nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Section. 10.
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Article. II.
Section. 1.
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Section. 2.
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Section. 3.
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Section. 4.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Article III.
Section. 1.
The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
Section. 2.
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;-- between a State and Citizens of another State,--between Citizens of different States,--between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.
Section. 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Article. IV.
Section. 1.
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Section. 2.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
Section. 3.
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
Section. 4.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.
Article. V.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Article. VII.
The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.
The Word, "the," being interlined between the seventh and eighth Lines of the first Page, the Word "Thirty" being partly written on an Erazure in the fifteenth Line of the first Page, The Words "is tried" being interlined between the thirty second and thirty third Lines of the first Page and the Word "the" being interlined between the forty third and forty fourth Lines of the second Page.
Attest William Jackson Secretary
done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independance of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,
G°. Washington
Presidt and deputy from Virginia
Delaware
Geo: Read
Gunning Bedford jun
John Dickinson
Richard Bassett
Jaco: Broom
Maryland
James McHenry
Dan of St Thos. Jenifer
Danl. Carroll
Virginia
John Blair
James Madison Jr.
North Carolina
Wm. Blount
Richd. Dobbs Spaight
Hu Williamson
South Carolina
J. Rutledge
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pinckney
Pierce Butler
Georgia
William Few
Abr Baldwin
New Hampshire
John Langdon
Nicholas Gilman
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
Connecticut
Wm. Saml. Johnson
Roger Sherman
New York
Alexander Hamilton
New Jersey
Wil: Livingston
David Brearley
Wm. Paterson
Jona: Dayton
Pennsylvania
B Franklin
Thomas Mifflin
Robt. Morris
Geo. Clymer
Thos. FitzSimons
Jared Ingersoll
James Wilson
Gouv Morris
For biographies of the non-signing delegates to the Constitutional Convention,
see the Founding Fathers page.
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Tinker:

Maybe we should just quit our government like this young lady did to her job?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/29/quit-your-job-kayne-dance_n_4013902.html

Woman Quits Job While Dancing To Kanye On Office Desks At 4 A.M.

Marina Shifrin
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/government-shuts-down_n_4020219.html
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Oh yeah!
Tinker:

Just the way we wanted our government to protect us, right. Because we are the very frightened American citizens who is afraid of their own shadow. So snoop all you want NSA who cares!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html?_r=0

NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of Americans...
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/bob-woodward-blackmail-republicans-obama_n_4016358.html

Bob Woodward Rips GOP Over Shutdown

Bob Woodward
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 Tinker:

I disagree with Bob! Because its the government that is the democratic party niche in life, and the American people need to stop the government excess. The house can change the nation. The republicans should stay true to spending less money, and only give Obama enough money to make ends meet. Fight on until the democrats addicted voters start clamoring for their dope fix.

Obama is in danger, not the house. Krauthammer don't like fighting, but rather rational persuasion. The trouble is that the Obama presidency is corrupt and that the American people need to fight back any way they can.
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PALMER: Tiger Defense Defenseless

By HUNT PALMER
BBI Senior Writer

As the clock ticked toward zeros, both quarterbacks knelt to the Sanford Stadium turf.

Georgia’s Aaron Murray took a knee at his own 48 yard line, clinging to the football and the hope of playing for the BCS championship that just eluded him a year ago.

LSU’s Zach Mettenberger, helmet off, stared onto the field he'd dreamed of playing on his entire life. He’d played his final snap on that turf, a play that resulted in an off-balanced prayer that fell harmlessly to the ground.

The two men who shared an apartment four years ago shared the spotlight for four hours.
They made crucial throws, rolled up 670 passing yards and turned once proud defenses into punch lines.

And they made it all look easy.

For the fourth time in five weeks the SEC took center stage in the college football world, and for the fourth time in five weeks a track meet broke out in full pads.

It was Clemson and Georgia. It was South Carolina and Georgia. It was Alabama and Texas A&M. Then it was LSU and Georgia.

Asked if we had entered a new age of SEC football, Les Miles balked at the notion.

"I hope not,” he said, exhaling. "I think we can throw the football. I think there are quarterbacks in this league that can do so. Wide receiver corps that can run routes, catch balls. I think we can play defense better than we did tonight, just so you know. Both sides.”

Georgia’s defense had been maligned for a month after Tajh Boyd and the Clemson offense lit up the South Carolina sky on opening night. South Carolina’s duplication of that success sufficiently cemented the Georgia defense as a work in progress. That was accepted.

LSU, on the other hand, hadn’t been exposed to that level this year, but were the warning signs there? You bet.

LSU’s final four opponents in 2012 routinely found open receivers and gobbled up yards through the air. Losing two NFL players from that secondary doesn’t help matters.

Neither does exporting six cogs in the defensive line.

Two years removed from one of the best defenses in school history, the Tiger stop troops is littered with youth and lacking in the development department.

And Murray is great.

Every time the Tigers blew a coverage he made it hurt. The last one came on a 25-yard pitch and catch to Justin Scott-Wesley who was five yards free of the nearest defender. He walked into the endzone.

"We were in a good coverage, we just didn’t execute it very well,” said sophomore linebacker Kwon Alexander.

That happened all afternoon.

John Chavis didn’t forget how to coach defense. He just needs the horses to run the race.

Morris Claiborne and Tyrann Mathieu aren’t playing corner. Michael Brockers and Barkevious Mingo aren’t playing defensive line. Kevin Minter isn’t manning the middle.

The NFL players aren’t wearing that uniform on defense right now. And if someone is, it’s his first year starting.

After the game Miles insisted that his defense would improve, saying he "can’t imagine our defense won’t come back.”

Well it better, because it doesn’t get any easier in this league this year.

Bo Wallace and the Ole Miss spread attack lurk in three weeks, the only obstacles after that are a two-time national champions quarterback and the Heisman Trophy winner.
Sleep well, Chief.

The good news for LSU is that this offense is capable of bailing the defense out. The boat took on just a little bit too much water this week, but Mettenberger just about saved the defense.

He stared down his biggest mental hurdle and played the best game of his career.

Facing a 7-0 deficit, he stood in the pocket and fired a missile on the money to Kadron Boone for a score. His second touchdown came on a third and goal.

Speaking of third down, Mettenberger completed seven of 10 third down throws. All seven went for first downs, three of those went for touchdowns, and one of them came on a third and 22 that prolonged LSU’s final scoring drive.

Mettenberger’s 378 yards are the most a Tiger quarterback has thrown for since Rohan Davey carved Illinois up on a January night in the Superdome.

But it was all for naught as LSU’s defense allowed one too many plays.

Dating back to 2008 LSU had won 34 straight when scoring 30 points. That dates the entire Chavis tenure in Baton Rouge.

"(Chavis) is sick,” Miles said. "The calls that we made were the calls we felt (the players) understood best.”

Whether they understood them or not, something wasn’t right. After big plays, namely the final touchdown, Tiger defenders looked around for help. They held out their arms as if to say, "Where is everybody?”

"There were a lot of coverage busts,” Alexander said. "It’s a communication thing. Once we get the communication down, we’re going to be the best defense in the country.”
LSU doesn’t need to have the best defense in the country. A good one will do just fine.

Right now LSU doesn’t have a good defense, and that realization came in the form of a loss.

Losing to the eastern division stings a little bit less because the possibility still exists that the Tigers can reach Atlanta to play in what has become a national semifinal before the actual national semifinals begin next season.

It’s a daunting path, but one Mettenberger understands.

"It’s just tough that now we have a long road ahead of us to get back to the top where we want to be,” Mettenberger. "We gotta win out.”

However unlikely that may be, it’s possible. And if LSU does run the table Mettenberger will get another shot at his old club about 60 miles west of Round 1.
But he’ll need some help from his defense.

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9/29/2013 11:10:56 AM
This pretty much captures it .... other than to say that several of the younger players from last year ... that went into the draft and did not get selected until the third, fourth, and fifth rounds could have made a difference this year. They made their choices .... but LSU is hurting because of those decisions. If some of them (not the first and second rounders) had stayed ... this would be a different defensive unit. Plus they would have had the chance for more money going pro after another season.

Such is life. We make decisions.
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9/30/2013
It boiled down to this...

At the end of the game after we took the lead, our defense played 'not to lose'. When they took the lead and we got the ball back, their defense played to win.
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 ENGSTER: Statistically Speaking

Former LSU coach Mike Archer and the only four-time All-SEC first team quarterback Tom Hodson were recently reminiscing at the Andonie Museum about a classic contest at Georgia won by LSU in 1987. The 26-23 verdict of 26 years ago over Vince Dooley’s Bulldogs was the kind of shootout that participants recall with remarkable clarity for a generation or two.

The ‘87 contest between the hedges was possibly exceeded by the drama in Athens a few days ago. Zach Mettenberger produced his first 300-yard passing day as a Tiger and was answered in the air of Sanford Stadium by his former Georgia roommate Aaron Murray.

"That was the best two-quarterback performance I’ve ever seen,” Dooley gushed at the conclusion of an epic aerial duel by one half of the league’s M quarterbacking quartet— Murray, Mettenberger, Manziel and McCarron.

LSU lost a riveting 44-41 decision, and nipping the Tigers was sufficient evidence for some scribes in Saturday’s sea of red to acquire superlative fever in forecasting the rest of the season for the Bulldogs.
Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution put in this way: "The Georgia Bulldogs escaped September 3-1. They’ll exit November 11-1, and Dec. 7 they’ll play for the SEC title. Not since 2005 has the SEC champion failed to play for the BCS title.”

Jeff Schultz of the Journal-Constitution sized up the outcome with these words: "Georgia officially announced its candidacy for the national title Saturday.”

The defenses of Georgia and LSU are less than BCS caliber, but it is conceivable that these teams could meet in a rematch in Atlanta on Pearl Harbor Day.

As LSU learned in 2011, rematches of this kind often go to the loser of the first encounter. LSU remains in the current title picture just as Nick Saban’s LSU crew of 2003 overcame a 19-7 setback to Florida in game six to take the BCS title less than three months later.

Miles hoisted the crystal trophy of 2007 despite a pair of overtime losses to Kentucky and Arkansas in October and November. This year does not offer the luxury of two defeats. For LSU to collect a third title in eleven seasons next January, the Tigers must win every one of their next nine games.

1958 remains perfect standard for LSU football

Paul Dietzel’s death last week was followed four days later with a defeat that eliminated dreams of an unbeaten championship season in 2013 for the Tigers of Les Miles. Fifty-five years have elapsed since the magic of 1958, and no Bengal football unit has gone unscathed in a season since Dietzel and his galaxy of stars.

Perfection is rare in college football. In the SEC, there have only been eight NCAA championships since LSU in 1958 that have been without at least one loss or tie.

Perfect SEC national champions since 1958

School YearRecordCoach
LSU1958 11-0Paul Dietzel
Alabama196111-0Bear Bryant
Ole Miss1962 10-0Johnny Vaught
Alabama197912-0Bear Bryant
Georgia198012-0Vince Dooley
Alabama199213-0 Gene Stallings
Tennessee199813-0Phillip Fulmer
Alabama200914-0Nick Saban
Auburn201014-0 Gene Chizik

Dietzel is forever frozen in 1958 as the 34-year-old WWII bomber pilot turned LSU leader with matinee idol looks. The coach was saturated with charisma, but his first contract was for $13,000 annually. Political consultant and former LSU lineman Les Duhe’ calculates that Les Miles earns about the same amount in one day as Dietzel pocketed for a whole season.

The Dietzel love affair with LSU fans collapsed when he left behind a 10-1 record and No. 3 national ranking in 1961 and brought the Chinese Bandits to West Point. He returned to LSU as athletic director in 1978 and found a changed campus where current players were infants in the time he towered above his peers as what Sports Illustrated termed the "Mike Todd of college football….young, blond, tall, lithe and supercharged.”

Sportswriter Dave Kindred penned a marvelous piece about LSU football in 1980 for Inside Sports. Here was the first paragraph from Kindred’s feature titled "Twilight Zone in the Bayou.”

Once upon a time, LSU won a national championship with Paul Dietzel coaching and Billy Cannon running. Charlie McClendon took over and did okay for a while, but Cannon didn’t like him, he didn’t win a national title and he lost to Bear Bryant a lot. One day he turned around and saw somebody that transported him back to 1958. Dietzel had returned and a former star had Ol’Mac’s job.

Dietzel had the thankless job of pushing Charlie Mac out as head coach, then hired 34-year-old prospect Bo Rein, who vanished in the Atlantic Ocean in a plane crash six weeks after his arrival in Baton Rouge.
Jerry Stovall was the emergency replacement and was forced to direct a staff assembled by Rein. It was a disastrous way for Stovall to start, and his tenure began with a 16-0 loss to Florida State led by Bobby Bowden, the man Dietzel coveted and nearly landed as Mac’s successor.

Benjy Thibodeaux, a Tiger defensive lineman in Stovall’s first year of 1980, was less than effusive about the lasting appeal of the men of 1958.

"Your thesis is ’58. All you’ve heard is ’58, ’58, ’58. All they talk about are the ’58 national champions with Paul Dietzel coaching and Billy Cannon and the Chinese Bandits,” Thibodeaux told Kindred. "What does Paul Dietzel mean to me? Nothing….LSU needs to forget ’58. It haunts.”

Ten coaches have toiled in TigerTown since Dietzel left for Army on Jan. 5, 1962. Seven SEC titles and two BCS championships later it is a tribute to Tall Paul that a collection of characters from the Eisenhower Era has so profoundly endured in the imagination of the LSU faithful.

With the death of Dietzel at 89, the entire staff is buried, but Billy Cannon and Johnny Robinson are living in the soul of every Tiger who was around 55 years ago.

The day will come when an LSU football coach is measured by a season that occurred decades before his birth.

Of the last ten LSU coaches, only McClendon and Bill Arnsparger were adults when LSU captured the mythical ‘58 championship.

COACH AGE IN 1958LOCATION
Charles McClendon35 LSU Defensive Coordinator
Bo Rein13 7th Grade Niles, OH
Jerry Stovall17 12th Grade West Monroe, LA
Bill Arnsparger32 University of Kentucky Offensive Line Coach
Mike Archer5 State College, PA
Curley Hallman11 5th Grade Northport, AL
Gerry DiNardo6 Queens, NY
Hal HunterBorn in 1959 N/A
Les Miles5 Elyria, OH
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9/30/2013 9:29:44 AM
Well in the after glow of the poor LSU defensive reflection against the Georgia Bulldogs. I can't help but feel like even with the much improved QB play of Zach Mettenberger. Our 2013 LSU tiger football team is in danger of only being good enough to play in a after season minor Bowl game, instead of a SEC Championship.

LSU college football season success is going to depend on how and if these LSU defensive players can catch on to really playing defense aggressively. Making the plays on defense that stop the other guy football team. Until then this season is going to be like living on a wing and a prayer hoping that LSU wins the football game by out scoring the other football team anyway.
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Miles Recaps Georgia Game, Previews Trip to State
 by LSUsports.net (@LSUsports), LSU Sports Interactive

BATON ROUGE - LSU football head coach Les Miles addressed the media on Monday afternoon as his Tigers prepare for a second-straight Southeastern Conference road contest this weekend against Mississippi State.

LSU (4-1, 1-1 SEC) takes on the Bulldogs at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN. The pregame radio broadcast starts at 4 p.m. on affiliates of the LSU Sports Radio Network including flagship station Eagle 98.1 FM in Baton Rouge and in the Geaux Zone at www.LSUsports.net/live.
The transcript of coach Miles press conference along with his opening statement and full video of the Lunch with Les Show are available on this page.

Player Interviews
September 30, 2013

WIDE RECEIVER ODELL BECKHAM, JR.
On moving on after the loss to Georgia …
“It was a tough loss in down there Athens, but it’s SEC play. You have a 24-hour rule. You just have to move on and look forward to Mississippi State. Success builds character, and failure reveals it. Even when we fail, we’re a team of character, and nothing can ever really stop us and bring us down. It’s (head coach Les Miles’) motivation, will to win and his will to prepare. After a loss, you see things differently. You have to take your level of preparation to a whole new level. He’s done a great job with that. It’s the way he coaches. It’s in a loving way, and it’s in a way where he wants us to get better from it.”

On the ability to convert third downs …
“It’s a combination of everything. It’s the offense that we have and the confidence. Our offense as a whole just clicks. We’ve converted a lot of third downs mainly because of our confidence just to compete and convert those third downs.”

PLACEKICKER COLBY DELAHOUSSAYE
On kicking a career-best 49-yard field goal …
“I was ready for it. Mentally and physically, I knew it could do it. As soon as I hit it, I realized that was a solid hit. Seth (Fruge) didn’t even look at the ball, he just told me ‘Good job.’ That was pretty awesome, because Seth knew it was a good hit. Mentally, I went out there not even thinking about my surroundings or thinking about how long the kick was. I was almost emotionless. I just went out there with the mindset of ‘All right, let’s do this.’”

CORNERBACK JALEN MILLS
On defense progressing following a loss to Georgia …
“Don’t worry about the Georgia game at all. (Strength and Conditioning Coordinator Tommy) Moffitt even told us yesterday that if we’re going to this game, or even practice, worrying about last week’s Georgia game, it’s not going to look good. This is a game we have to learn from. We’re going to watch film, learn from it and just keep moving forward and preparing for Mississippi State.”
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