Saturday, December 14, 2013

Will you keep denying me even after my death?


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Matthew 26:34 "I tell you the truth, Peter this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny three times that you even know me."

So if the apostle Peter who Jesus chose and called on him to be the rock that Jesus would build the Christian Church on, fell from the grace of god. And who became a weak failure to Jesus Christ in the face of Roman reprisal. Why in the world should anyone be surprised that the TV sports network ESPN would be any better at showing respect for Jesus Christ and his Church.

If Sarah is disappointed at ESPN rejecting the Catholic Hospital Ad for mentioning Jesus, and God. I wonder just how hurt the religious American Christean people must feel to see ESPN leave out the words "Jesus" and "God" on their television broadcast.

It must be OK to hurt the feeling of Christean, but not the Atheist, or other different cults of people looking at ESPN TV broadcast.

Who make these choices of what is appropriate to write about on ESPN. Who is the censor to these ESPN television broadcast, Lucifer the archangel?

You don't suppose that ESPN is in the back pocket of the puppet masters running Washington DC do you?

I wonder if the US Senators and House of Representatives are close working friends with the people running ESPN. The Washington DC body politic couldn't be spread into the inner working of the ESPN TV network, right?

ESPN is not political are they? The people running a sports TV network is not involved with worrying about the political correct way of talking to the American people, right. Not like the corrupt politicians fixing the political games running the federal government in Washington DC, could they?

Gee if I thought that ESPN is being censored by Lucifer I'm going to start watching Fox Sports Live, I don't know those guys Lord, I never heard of ESPN!
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Palin: 'So Disappointing' ESPN Rejected Catholic Hospital Ad for Mentioning 'Jesus,' 'God'



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**Update** ESPN reversed course and has decided to run the original ad with "God" and "Jesus" mentions. 

**Update** Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told Breitbart Sports on Thursday:

"I used to be obsessed with ESPN. In how many interviews have I admitted that was my goal - my dream job - as I earned my Journalism degree and creds in the 80's? My repeated quote is: 'But I didn't want to move to Bristol, Connecticut (home of ESPN), so I named my first daughter Bristol, instead!'" 

On Thursday, former Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said it was "so disappointing" that ESPN would reject an ad from a Catholic hospital that mentioned "God" and "Jesus" because the network found those words to be problematic.

"ESPN, you've come a long way, baby... from your known wholesome, bold Americana 'persona' to now being afraid to support freedom and not being bold enough to allow acknowledgement of the 'Reason for the Season,'" Palin wrote on her Facebook page on Thursday. "So disappointing. Well, I hope you guys catch and enjoy the Christmas spirit anyway!"

ESPN reportedly rejected a Christmas commercial from a Catholic hospital in St. Louis (Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center) because the sports network found the words "God" and "Jesus" to be "problematic" in the ad.

Palin referenced the Breitbart Sports report that noted the rejected commercial mentions that thousands of people in the community send "messages of hope to sick and injured children who may not be able to come home for the holidays."
"At... Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center, we celebrate the birth of Jesus and the season of giving, bringing hope to the many children, parents, and families that we serve," an announcer says in the ad before mentioning that the hospital's patients are "filled with hope" because they receive daily messages from the "treasure chest" beneath its "tree of hope."
The ad concludes by asking viewers to "help us reveal God's healing presence this Christmas. Send your message of hope at Glennon.org." ESPN reportedly found "we celebrate the birth of Jesus" and "help us reveal God's healing presence this Christmas" to be "problematic."
Bill O'Reilly, the host of Fox News' O'Reilly Factor, first reported that ESPN had rejected the ad on his program on Wednesday.
Palin, a former sportscaster who had aspirations of being a pioneer in that field when ESPN over three decades ago, named her daughter "Bristol" in part because "Bristol" is where ESPN's headquarters are located in Connecticut. Like Palin, a majority of Americans, often celebrates the Christmas holiday with her family with ESPN on in the background. Doug Napier of the Alliance Defending Freedom wondered on Wednesday on Fox News why ESPN would want to "marginalize" Americans, especially sports fans like Palin who has always successfully used sports to cut through the culture, who watch ESPN. 
ESPN's rejection of Catholic hospital ad is yet another example of the "War on Christmas" that Palin, in her blockbuster best-seller, Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas, said was the "tip of the spear" in a larger battle to fundamentally transform America and erode the country of its exceptionalism.

Read more...http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2013/12/12/Sarah-Palin-ESPN-Rejection-of-Catholic-Hosptial-Ad-Disappointing
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Jewish World Review
 
Obama's tardy epiphany about government's flaws
 
By George Will
 






JewishWorldReview.com | The education of Barack Obama is a protracted process as he repeatedly alights upon the obvious with a sense of original discovery. In a recent MSNBC interview, he restocked his pantry of excuses for his disappointing results, announcing that “we have these big agencies, some of which are outdated, some of which are not designed properly”:

“We’ve got, for example, 16 different agencies that have some responsibility to help businesses, large and small, in all kinds of ways, whether it’s helping to finance them, helping them to export. . . . So, we’ve proposed, let’s consolidate a bunch of that stuff. The challenge we’ve got is that that requires a law to pass. And, frankly, there are a lot of members of Congress who are chairmen of a particular committee. And they don’t want necessarily consolidations where they would lose jurisdiction over certain aspects of certain policies.”

The dawn is coming up like thunder as Obama notices the sociology of government. He shows no sign, however, of drawing appropriate lessons from it.

Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

Obama, of whose vast erudition we have been assured, seems unfamiliar with Mancur Olson ’s seminal “The Rise and Decline of Nations” which explains how free societies become sclerotic. Their governments become encrusted with interest groups that preserve, like a fly in amber, an increasingly stultifying status quo. This impedes dynamism by protecting arrangements that have worked well for those powerful enough to put the arrangements in place. This blocks upward mobility for those less wired to power.
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For a century, the Statists have steadfastly constructed a federal Leviathan, distorting and evading our constitutional system in pursuit of an all-powerful, ubiquitous central government. The result is an ongoing and growing assault on individual liberty, state sovereignty, and the social compact. Levin argues that if we cherish our American heritage, it is time to embrace a constitutional revival.

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and the delegates to each state's ratification convention foresaw a time when—despite their best efforts to forestall it—the Federal government might breach the Constitution's limits and become oppressive. Agencies such as the IRS and EPA and programs such as Obamacare demonstrate that the Framers' fear was prescient.

Levin argues that the Framers provided a method in the Constitution for addressing our current circumstances - which, he insists, must be resuscitated - and lays forth specific prescriptions for restoring the American republic. The answers, Levin insists, are not found in Congress, the Supreme Court, or the presidency.

This is a historic and compelling book, like few before it. Levin turns to the Constitution to save the Constitution and the nation's future. Levin declares that we, the people, have the power to reestablish constitutional republicanism, protect individual and state sovereignty, and reverse the centralization and concentration of power in the hands of governing masterminds and a massive bureaucracy. Levin explains that our demise is not inevitable if we rally to reclaim our heritage and follow the Framers' guidance.

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AJ McCarron: Nick Saban staying

Updated: December 12, 2013, 2:49 PM ET
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Not only does Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron believe Nick Saban is not leaving, he said Thursday that the coach told him he's staying in Tuscaloosa.
McCarron I messed with Coach, [saying] he's getting too old to start up again somewhere else. He told me he's not leaving. And I know Miss Terry [Saban's wife] ... she runs that house. And she's not allowing Coach to leave either.
-- AJ McCarron, Alabama QB
"I messed with Coach, [saying] he's getting too old to start up again somewhere else," McCarron said on ESPN's "College Football Daily" from Walt Disney World. "He told me he's not leaving. And I know Miss Terry [Saban's wife] well enough; she runs that house. And she's not allowing Coach to leave either. I think he'll be at the University of Alabama for a little while."

Speculation has been rampant after multiple media outlets reported that Texas coach Mack Brown may soon step down. Since Texas reportedly had reached out to Saban's representatives in the past, he became the top candidate to take over in Austin.

ESPN reported Wednesday that Alabama had readied an "offer of commitment" to make Saban the highest-paid coach in college football.

He signed an extension in March that pays him $5.62 million a year and runs through 2020.

Alabama athletic director Bill Battle would not address Saban's contract situation when contacted by ESPN on Wednesday.

"Coach Saban is spending his time recruiting and getting ready for a bowl game," Battle said from the Intercollegiate Athletics Forum in New York. "It's business as usual, and that's what we're getting ready for. We have a great recruiting class lined up. We have 14 prospects coming in this weekend, and [we're] looking forward to having them and looking forward to playing Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl."

Battle was asked if he was concerned that Texas would target Saban.
"We're thinking about Oklahoma in our bowl game," Battle said, declining further comment.

Sources told ESPN.com's Chris Low that while Saban is recruiting he's not presently involved in the process of a contract extension -- adding that Saban is not worried about his deal.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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December 13, 2013

Aaron Suttles & Cecil Hurt
Rivals.com


Nick Saban Agrees to raise, extension.

Nick Saban is staying at the University of Alabama, just like he said all along.

Saban reached an agreement Friday that is expected to raise his salary to between $7 and $7.5 million per year from its current annual compensation of almost $5.4 million and extend his term as head football coach of the Crimson Tide, Tidesports.com has learned.

Nick Saban's new contract extension is expected to exceed $7 million annually.
"We are very pleased to have this agreement completed," Saban said in a statement released Friday night by UA. "(Wife) Terry and our family are very happy in Tuscaloosa. It has become home to us. This agreement allows us to continue to build on the tremendous success that we have enjoyed to this point - successes that have transcended the football field. We are excited about the future and the University of Alabama is where I plan to end my coaching career.

"We are committed to continuing the work that we have been doing in the community as well as at the university. We are also excited about the opportunity awaiting us on Jan. 2 in the Allstate Sugar Bowl against the University of Oklahoma and hope to send this year's tremendous senior class out in the proper way."

The agreement ends speculation that intensified in recent days that Saban might emerge as a candidate at Texas after reports that Mack Brown would step down after 16 years. Brown, incidentally, is still head coach at Texas and was at the team's banquet Friday night.

In truth, however, UA athletic director Bill Battle began the process to reach a new deal with Saban sometime before the Nov. 30 Iron Bowl, where then-No. 1 Alabama fell out of the national championship race with a loss to rival Auburn.

"Coach Saban is the best in the business and has led our program to the pinnacle of college football. This agreement is a strong indication of our mutual commitment to building on the foundation he has established," Battle said in a statement.

The idea that Texas would target Saban to replace Brown, should he retire, began to gain steam after reports surfaced in September that Texas regent Wallace Hall and former regent Tom Hicks had approached Saban's agent, Jimmy Sexton, in January after Saban won his third national championship at Alabama - and his fourth overall, counting one at LSU - to gauge the coach's interest in leaving UA for Texas. Saban, 62, responded by saying repeatedly that he remained committed to Alabama and said after the Crimson Tide's victory over Tennessee that he was "too damn old to go someplace else and start all over."

Since the Iron Bowl, Saban has been burning up the trail to try to enhance a class of committed prospects already ranked No. 1 nationally by Rivals.com. On Wednesday, Saban visited five-star cornerback Tony Brown from Beaumont, Texas, and UA commitment Zach Whitley, a Rivals 100 linebacker from just outside the Houston area. On Thurday, he visited New Orleans five-star prospect Leonard Fournette, the nation's No. 1 running back, and made a swing through Georgia to visit the nation's top linebacker prospect, Raekwon McMillan, a five-star prospect who is set to announce his college choice at 11:30 a.m. Monday. Saban also visited with West Palm Beach, Fla., four-star receiver Johnnie Dixon on Thursday.

The Alabama coaching staff has lined up around 10 four- and five-star prospects to make on-campus official visits this weekend, including Fournette and Hoover High five-star cornerback Marlon Humphrey. The new deal, which must be certified by UA's board of trustees, will put Saban in an elite group of football coaches making at least $7 million annually, with all of the others coaching in the National Football League. According to Forbes.com, Sean Payton (New Orleans Saints), Bill Belichick (New England Patriots), Jeff Fisher (St. Louis Rams), Andy Reid (Kansas City Chiefs) and Mike Shanahan (Washington Redskins) are the only football coaches making $7 million or more.

Saban was already the highest-paid coach in college football with a $5,395,852 salary and maximum bonuses of $700,000. Texas' Brown makes $5,392,500 per season, with possible bonuses of $850,000. Saban's current contract expires in 2019.

Saban's new contract marks the fourth time his original eight-year contract has been extended since he arrived at Alabama in January 2007.

He shocked the college football world when he left the Miami Dolphins of the NFL to sign a $4 million a year with UA, at the time the highest salary ever paid to a college head coach.

Just before the 2009 season, Saban signed a three-year extension to his original deal, locking him up through the 2017 season, bumping his salary to an average of about $4.75 million. The life of the deal, through 2017, was worth about $43.25 million.

After his first two years, Saban had gone 19-8 including a perfect 12-0 regular season in 2008. Saban won several national coach of the year awards for the 2008 season.

Saban next signed a two-year contract that extended his deal through the 2019 season. Not including bonuses, Saban's total compensation was set at more than $5.3 million for 2012, with the final year of the contract paying Saban more than $5.96 million in 2019. Incremental annual increases in Saban's pay average $5.62 million per year over the full term of the new contract.

The total value of Saban's contract over the next eight seasons was $44,983,333.36 before the current renegotiation.

UA President Judy Bonner and Robert Witt, chancellor of the UA system, also released statements. "The entire University of Alabama family is thrilled that Coach Nick Saban will continue to be the head coach of the Crimson Tide," Bonner said. "We appreciate the commitment that he and Terry have to our players and their success on the field, in the classroom and throughout their lives. Coach Saban's passion for excellence combined with his hard work and integrity are hallmarks of his teams, who are champions in every way."

Witt called Saban, "the finest football coach in our country" and echoed Saban's sentiment that the new deal will keep the coach at UA for the rest of his career.

Tommy Deas, Andrew Bone and D.C. Reeves contributed to this report.

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Nick Saban, Mack Brown

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Without landing Nick Saban, the Longhorns' best option is to keep Mack Brown. Mark Schlabach » Brown survives at UT, but for how long? »Low: Saban's legacy is -- and will be -- at Alabama »
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