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Can we become a smarter collection of humanity than what we have had before tormented by ignorance, waste, riff raff, and crime. Building real schools so we can feel confident that the children are getting a good chance to learn about reading, writing, and arithmetic. Can more people simply try and study more about our history and real life, with a more open mind. Willing to read more than a immature boundary of not more than a paragraph.
The people that are willing to live only
off of entertainment morning, noon, and night, is drifting our ship of
state into the water eddies alongside the great river flow. Leaving us
stuck there like a society of people going round and round in a wasteful
circle, as the riverboat travails with the rest of the world's
population on up to the mighty river to the real circus.
At what point does a country of people living like that
stay to long at the sideshow. At what moment does the U.S. population
keep playing around in Hell before they simply missed the boat going
into Heaven.
If the citizens of the United States don't wise up soon
then they will become the people who were left alone in the whirlpools
for fools, without a boat of their own, or any place to go. All because
they lost the ability to control their feeling, and keep learning.
Big Government corruption weakened the Roman Republic long before the barbarians laid that empire to waste. The Roman population was so soft after a while that they wouldn't even sit up to eat. How many pictures have you seen where a Roman was lying on his side eating.
Big Government corruption weakened the Roman Republic long before the barbarians laid that empire to waste. The Roman population was so soft after a while that they wouldn't even sit up to eat. How many pictures have you seen where a Roman was lying on his side eating.
Now the American people are smoking pot, and texting bull
talk, spending a lot of time looking at the latest entertaining
celebrity news and becoming addicted to all that they see, and feel. Big
U.S. Government corruption has quickly expanded all through the America
people free enterprise economy from border to border. The American
peoples daily life has become a rip off baby. And no one seems to care
at all?
I am afraid that the American people are going to need some more divine intervention somewhere along the way again Lord.
Wow! The spirit of God can touch you at any given moment, because you can really see the people that God's spirit is within their person. The spirit of God is one of this worlds greatest mystery, I don't know why, but I do see Gods spirit on some very lucky people everyday.
I often ask myself why the mystery, and I have no answer. But I keep hoping that I am touch with God divine spirit much more than I am now.
Many more people have been touched with God's spirit and I have learned to recognize that it is a very beautiful moment.
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I am afraid that the American people are going to need some more divine intervention somewhere along the way again Lord.
Wow! The spirit of God can touch you at any given moment, because you can really see the people that God's spirit is within their person. The spirit of God is one of this worlds greatest mystery, I don't know why, but I do see Gods spirit on some very lucky people everyday.
I often ask myself why the mystery, and I have no answer. But I keep hoping that I am touch with God divine spirit much more than I am now.
Many more people have been touched with God's spirit and I have learned to recognize that it is a very beautiful moment.
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| AUTHOR: | Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) | ||
| QUOTATION: | “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.” | ||
| ATTRIBUTION: | The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN—at
the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he
left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation—in the notes of
Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention. McHenry’s notes were first published in The American Historical Review, vol. 11, 1906, and the anecdote on p. 618 reads: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy. A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it.” When McHenry’s notes were included in The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand, vol. 3, appendix A, p. 85 (1911, reprinted 1934), a footnote stated that the date this anecdote was written is uncertain. | ||
| SUBJECTS Republic | |||
| WORKS: | Benjamin Franklin Collection |
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— U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has told a conservative conference that President
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state.
The conservative Republican laid out his reasoning for why he thinks the president is “dangerous and terrifying.”
According to the Statesman, Cruz also slammed the POTUS for what he referred to as a pattern of “lawlessness on a breathtaking scale.”
“We are a nation of laws and not men,” Cruz was additionally quoted as saying by the website. “If we had a system where a president can pick and choose what laws to follow at utter whim … that is seriously dangerous.”
The public policy conference at which he spoke was sponsored by the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation. Minutes before his address, the organization posted a photograph of Cruz on their official Facebook page.
His address comes just one day after he released a statement on his official website that took aim at Obama’s “promise zone.”
“It’s altogether fitting that President Obama is … talking about income inequality because income inequality has increased dramatically as a direct result of his economic policies,” the statement reads.
“Unfortunately, rather than stop Washington’s job-killing policies, President Obama proposes yet more government spending and debt.”
It concludes, “All of America needs to be a real ‘Promise Zone’ – with reduced barriers to small businesses creating private-sector jobs – and we should start by repealing every word of Obamacare, building the Keystone pipeline, abolishing the IRS, and rolling back abusive regulations.”
Cruz has garnered national attention by frequently condemning the Obama administration and the federal health care overhaul. In addition to calling for a complete repeal of the Affordable Care Act, he said he would replace it with a conservative alternative that would expand health care coverage.
Cruz also criticized Obama for not enforcing drug laws in states that have legalized use of marijuana.
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How to fight academic bigotry
By Charles Krauthammer, Published: January 9 E-mail the writer
For decades, the American Studies Association labored in well-deserved obscurity. No longer. It has now made a name for itself by voting to boycott Israeli universities, accusing them of denying academic and human rights to Palestinians.
Given that Israel has a profoundly democratic political system, the freest press in the Middle East, a fiercely independent judiciary and astonishing religious and racial diversity within its universities, including affirmative action for Arab students, the charge is rather strange.
Made more so when you consider the state of human rights in Israel’s neighborhood. As we speak, Syria’s government is dropping “barrel bombs” filled with nails, shrapnel and other instruments of terror on its own cities. Where is the ASA boycott of Syria?
And of Iran, which hangs political, religious and even sexual dissidents and has no academic freedom at all? Or Egypt, where Christians are being openly persecuted? Or Turkey, Saudi Arabia or, for that matter, massively repressive China and Russia?
Which makes obvious that the ASA boycott has nothing to do with human rights. It’s an exercise in radical chic, giving marginalized academics a frisson of pretend anti-colonialism, seasoned with a dose of edgy anti-Semitism.
And don’t tell me this is merely about Zionism. The ruse is transparent. Israel is the world’s only Jewish state. To apply to the state of the Jews a double standard that you apply to none other, to judge one people in a way you judge no other, to single out that one people for condemnation and isolation — is to engage in a gross act of discrimination.
And discrimination against Jews has a name. It’s called anti-Semitism.
Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the ASA actions “anti-Semitic in their effect if not necessarily in their intent.” I choose to be less polite. The intent is clear: to incite hatred for the largest — and only sovereign — Jewish community on Earth.
What to do? Facing a similar (British) academic boycott of Israelis seven years ago, Alan Dershowitz and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg wrote an open letter declaring that, for the purposes of any anti-Israel boycott, they are to be considered Israelis.
Meaning: You discriminate against Israelis? Fine. Include us out. We will have nothing to do with you.
Thousands of other academics added their signatures to the Dershowitz/Weinberg letter. It was the perfect in-kind response. Boycott the boycotters, with contempt.
But academia isn’t the only home for such prejudice. Throughout the cultural world, the Israel boycott movement is growing. It’s become fashionable for musicians, actors, writers and performers of all kinds to ostentatiously cleanse themselves of Israel and Israelis.
The example of the tuxedoed set has spread to the more coarse and unkempt anti-Semites, such as the thugs who a few years ago disrupted London performances of the Jerusalem Quartet and the Israeli Philharmonic.
Five years ago in Sweden, Israel’s Davis Cup team had to play its matches in an empty tennis stadium because the authorities could not guarantee the Israelis’ safety from the mob. The most brazen display of rising anti-Semitism today is the spread of the “quenelle,” a reverse Nazi salute, popularized by the openly anti-Semitic French entertainer, Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala.
In this sea of easy and open bigotry, an unusual man has made an unusual statement. Russian by birth, European by residence, Evgeny Kissin is arguably the world’s greatest piano virtuoso. He is also a Jew of conviction. Deeply distressed by Israel’s treatment in the cultural world around him, Kissin went beyond the Dershowitz/Weinberg stance of asking to be considered an Israeli. On Dec. 7, he became one, defiantly.
Upon taking the oath of citizenship in Jerusalem, he declared: “I am a Jew, Israel is a Jewish state. . . .
Israel’s case is my case, Israel’s enemies are my enemies, and I do not want to be spared the troubles which Israeli musicians encounter when they represent the Jewish state beyond its borders.”
Full disclosure: I have a personal connection with Kissin. For the past two years I’ve worked to bring him to Washington to perform for Pro Musica Hebraica, a nonprofit organization (founded by my wife and me) dedicated to reviving lost and forgotten Jewish classical music. We succeeded. On Feb.
24, Kissin will perform at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall masterpieces of Eastern European Jewish music, his first U.S. appearance as an Israeli.
The persistence of anti-Semitism, that most ancient of poisons, is one of history’s great mysteries. Even the shame of the Holocaust proved no antidote. It provided but a temporary respite.
Anti-Semitism is back. Alas, a new generation must learn to confront it.
How? How to answer the thugs, physical and intellectual, who single out Jews for attack? The best way, the most dignified way, is to do like Dershowitz, Weinberg or Kissin.
Express your solidarity. Sign the open letter or write your own. Don the yellow star and wear it proudly.
Read more from Charles Krauthammer’s archive, follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his updates on Facebook.
---------------Given that Israel has a profoundly democratic political system, the freest press in the Middle East, a fiercely independent judiciary and astonishing religious and racial diversity within its universities, including affirmative action for Arab students, the charge is rather strange.
Made more so when you consider the state of human rights in Israel’s neighborhood. As we speak, Syria’s government is dropping “barrel bombs” filled with nails, shrapnel and other instruments of terror on its own cities. Where is the ASA boycott of Syria?
And of Iran, which hangs political, religious and even sexual dissidents and has no academic freedom at all? Or Egypt, where Christians are being openly persecuted? Or Turkey, Saudi Arabia or, for that matter, massively repressive China and Russia?
Which makes obvious that the ASA boycott has nothing to do with human rights. It’s an exercise in radical chic, giving marginalized academics a frisson of pretend anti-colonialism, seasoned with a dose of edgy anti-Semitism.
And don’t tell me this is merely about Zionism. The ruse is transparent. Israel is the world’s only Jewish state. To apply to the state of the Jews a double standard that you apply to none other, to judge one people in a way you judge no other, to single out that one people for condemnation and isolation — is to engage in a gross act of discrimination.
And discrimination against Jews has a name. It’s called anti-Semitism.
Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the ASA actions “anti-Semitic in their effect if not necessarily in their intent.” I choose to be less polite. The intent is clear: to incite hatred for the largest — and only sovereign — Jewish community on Earth.
What to do? Facing a similar (British) academic boycott of Israelis seven years ago, Alan Dershowitz and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg wrote an open letter declaring that, for the purposes of any anti-Israel boycott, they are to be considered Israelis.
Meaning: You discriminate against Israelis? Fine. Include us out. We will have nothing to do with you.
Thousands of other academics added their signatures to the Dershowitz/Weinberg letter. It was the perfect in-kind response. Boycott the boycotters, with contempt.
But academia isn’t the only home for such prejudice. Throughout the cultural world, the Israel boycott movement is growing. It’s become fashionable for musicians, actors, writers and performers of all kinds to ostentatiously cleanse themselves of Israel and Israelis.
The example of the tuxedoed set has spread to the more coarse and unkempt anti-Semites, such as the thugs who a few years ago disrupted London performances of the Jerusalem Quartet and the Israeli Philharmonic.
Five years ago in Sweden, Israel’s Davis Cup team had to play its matches in an empty tennis stadium because the authorities could not guarantee the Israelis’ safety from the mob. The most brazen display of rising anti-Semitism today is the spread of the “quenelle,” a reverse Nazi salute, popularized by the openly anti-Semitic French entertainer, Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala.
In this sea of easy and open bigotry, an unusual man has made an unusual statement. Russian by birth, European by residence, Evgeny Kissin is arguably the world’s greatest piano virtuoso. He is also a Jew of conviction. Deeply distressed by Israel’s treatment in the cultural world around him, Kissin went beyond the Dershowitz/Weinberg stance of asking to be considered an Israeli. On Dec. 7, he became one, defiantly.
Upon taking the oath of citizenship in Jerusalem, he declared: “I am a Jew, Israel is a Jewish state. . . .
Israel’s case is my case, Israel’s enemies are my enemies, and I do not want to be spared the troubles which Israeli musicians encounter when they represent the Jewish state beyond its borders.”
Full disclosure: I have a personal connection with Kissin. For the past two years I’ve worked to bring him to Washington to perform for Pro Musica Hebraica, a nonprofit organization (founded by my wife and me) dedicated to reviving lost and forgotten Jewish classical music. We succeeded. On Feb.
24, Kissin will perform at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall masterpieces of Eastern European Jewish music, his first U.S. appearance as an Israeli.
The persistence of anti-Semitism, that most ancient of poisons, is one of history’s great mysteries. Even the shame of the Holocaust proved no antidote. It provided but a temporary respite.
Anti-Semitism is back. Alas, a new generation must learn to confront it.
How? How to answer the thugs, physical and intellectual, who single out Jews for attack? The best way, the most dignified way, is to do like Dershowitz, Weinberg or Kissin.
Express your solidarity. Sign the open letter or write your own. Don the yellow star and wear it proudly.
Read more from Charles Krauthammer’s archive, follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his updates on Facebook.
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state.The conservative Republican laid out his reasoning for why he thinks the president is “dangerous and terrifying.”
According to the Statesman, Cruz also slammed the POTUS for what he referred to as a pattern of “lawlessness on a breathtaking scale.”
“We are a nation of laws and not men,” Cruz was additionally quoted as saying by the website. “If we had a system where a president can pick and choose what laws to follow at utter whim … that is seriously dangerous.”
The public policy conference at which he spoke was sponsored by the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation. Minutes before his address, the organization posted a photograph of Cruz on their official Facebook page.
His address comes just one day after he released a statement on his official website that took aim at Obama’s “promise zone.”
“It’s altogether fitting that President Obama is … talking about income inequality because income inequality has increased dramatically as a direct result of his economic policies,” the statement reads.
“Unfortunately, rather than stop Washington’s job-killing policies, President Obama proposes yet more government spending and debt.”
It concludes, “All of America needs to be a real ‘Promise Zone’ – with reduced barriers to small businesses creating private-sector jobs – and we should start by repealing every word of Obamacare, building the Keystone pipeline, abolishing the IRS, and rolling back abusive regulations.”
Cruz has garnered national attention by frequently condemning the Obama administration and the federal health care overhaul. In addition to calling for a complete repeal of the Affordable Care Act, he said he would replace it with a conservative alternative that would expand health care coverage.
Cruz also criticized Obama for not enforcing drug laws in states that have legalized use of marijuana.
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Any way I look at 23 - 15 it just keeps breaking my heart:
Not many NFL pro football fans, or pundits, gave the Saints much chance, and they were right.
The
NFC playoff game started badly for the Saints, Mark Ingram dropping a sure
fire screen pass with nothing but green in front of the Heisman trophy
winner. Alas! he simply drop the short pass, 3 and out. Then the saint
punter allowed the snap from center to go right through his hands, then
even worse - punts the football only 20 or so yards. Leaving the Sea
Hawks to kick a 3 point field goal.
The Sea Hawks brought the football into the Saints end of the football field on a short drive kicking another field goal Sea Hawks 6 Saints 0.
Saints Mark Ingram fumble a simple hand off when the sea hawks
tackled him - fumble. Sea Hawks taking over the football on the Saints
shore end of the field, a few plays later the Sea Hawks scored a
touchdown Sea Hawks 13 Saints 0.
Then 3 and out again for the Saints. The Sea Hawks wet
screaming football fans were rocking the stadium at this point in the
all important playoff game.
The rest of the playoff
football game kept doing just about the same frustrating way for the
Saints offense the rest of the way. And I am now convinced that the New
Orleans Saints did that to me on purpose.
the Saints defense won my heart with their brave effort as the
Saints offense broke my heart with their poor performance. Now I am left to
brood about the New Orleans Saints losing for the rest of the year until
next football season. Wow! It's a great life.
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SEATTLE — The Seattle Seahawks are one win away from their second Super Bowl appearance.
On a day when rain and high winds challenged both offenses, the Seahawks defense led the way to a 23-15 victory over the New Orleans Saints, who couldn't convert a recovered onside kick into a tying score in the final seconds of Saturday's NFC divisional playoff at CenturyLink Field.
The top-seeded Seahawks will host next weekend's NFC Championship Game against the winner of Sunday's game between the San Francisco 49ers and Carolina Panthers.
BOX SCORE: Seahawks 23, Saints 15
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Seattle appeared to have Saturday's decision sealed before Drew Brees threw a 9-yard touchdown with 26 seconds left to Marques Colston, who then recovered the onside kick after Golden Tate let it bounce off his hands.
But on the ensuing drive, Colston tried to throw the ball across the field instead of stepping out of bounds after a catch with time remaining for one heave to the end zone. It ended up being a forward pass that hit the ground, leading to a penalty and 10-second run-off to end the game.
Blown out 34-7 here last month, the Saints made things interesting in the fourth quarter, cutting the deficit to 16-8 with 13:11 remaining on a 1-yard touchdown run by Khiry Robinson and two-point conversion by Mark Ingram.
New Orleans drove again minutes later, with a Brees heave into double coverage bouncing off the hands of Seahawks Pro Bowl safety Earl Thomas and into Robert Meachem's lap for a 52-yard gain. But the Saints stalled from there, and Shayne Graham's 48-yard field goal attempt sailed wide left – his second miss of the game.
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson hit Doug Baldwin on a fade for 24 yards to convert third-and-3 on Seattle's next drive, the Saints burned their last timeout on a failed challenge and Marshawn Lynch stiff-armed Corey White on a 31-yard run for his second touchdown with 2:40 to go.
Then the Saints made their last-gasp charge that came up short, missing out on a chance to win on the road for a second consecutive week.
The big throw to Baldwin was a positive end for a rocky day for Wilson, who missed several third-down throws earlier and finished 9-of-18 passing for 103 yards. But Brees (24-of-43, 309 yards, one TD) wasn't much better until the Saints were forced into catch-up mode.
They came out in heavy sets, determined to run the football as sheets of rain fell and winds seemingly threatened to rip the 12th Man flagpole out of the ground. But they generated just 113 net yards of offense in the first half and committed the lone turnover.
Seattle had been held to a pair of field goals before Michael Bennett stripped Saints running back Ingram on the first play of the second quarter and recovered the fumble. Two plays later, Lynch battered his way into the end zone for a 15-yard touchdown.
The Seahawks added another field goal to make it 16-0 at halftime, thanks to a 16-yard catch by Percy Harvin on a jump ball over White to convert third-and-8.
That's the way the score remained until the Saints' nine-play, 74-yard drive cut Seattle's lead to eight.
They were a couple ankle tackles away from scoring a TD on their next drive, too. But a holding penalty by Zach Strief wiped out a long completion to Kenny Stills and led to a punt.
The NFC's No. 1 seed is now 20-4 in divisional playoff games since the league went to a 12-team format in 1990.
Harvin, in just his second game all season following hip surgery and multiple setbacks, left later in that drive for the second time to be evaluated for a concussion and was ruled out.
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BATON ROUGE – So far, 2014 has been a good year for the LSU football program.
It started with a defense finally reminiscent of 2011 stuffing Iowa in a 21-14 victory at the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla. on Jan. 1. Without a poor pass by true freshman quarterback Anthony Jennings and a lapse on the kickoff coverage team, LSU may have won 21-0.
Quarterback will likely take a significant dip from Zach Mettenberger to Jennings or Bossier City’s Brandon Harris next season, but that issue was partly remedied a day later.
On Jan. 2, the Tigers did not get the 5-for-5 or even the 4-for-5 that some of the recruiting experts – LSU recruiting experts that is – forecasted for the Under Armour All-America commitment bonanza just across Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg. But the Tigers did go 2-for-5 with commitments from No. 3 safety Jamal Adams of Carrollton, Texas, and from No. 1 tailback Leonard Fournette of St. Augustine High in New Orleans.
Fournette is the most sought after running back from Louisiana since Carencro’s Kevin Faulk signed with LSU in 1995 and went on to gain 4,557 yards to become the career rushing leader for LSU. The Tigers should return another solid offensive line, and with Fournette, they should have a decent offense even if Jennings and/or Harris do not become passing threats in their first season.
Getting Fournette’s commitment on signing day was like sweeping a doubleheader for the Tigers – because the school he didn’t go to was Alabama.
For LSU to be better than 8-4 next season, the defense will have to be much better overall than it was late in the 2012 season and in too many spots in 2013. It also desperately needs to learn how to close out games as it lost in the final moments four times in the last two seasons – Alabama and Clemson in 2012 and Georgia and Ole Miss in 2013.
LSU’s roster will suffer many key losses as several juniors will enter the NFL Draft a year early once again. Defensive tackle is looking at a major overhaul with juniors Ego Ferguson and Anthony Johnson already announcing their entry into the NFL Draft. LSU has recruited well on the defensive line, but there will likely be a drop-off. The Tigers are still young and talented at linebacker and in the secondary, though.
A banner recruiting class, which rose to No. 6 from No. 11 because of Fournette and Adams alone, should help matters immediately next season. Defensive coordinator John Chavis is also too good to continue to have major lapses here and there.
There will be many more losses on offense – wide receivers Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham Jr., tailback Jeremy Hill and maybe guard Trai Turner and tackle La’el Collins. So we hope you enjoyed a rare and great LSU offense in 2013. It may be some time before you see one like that again.
For the first time in LSU history, it had a 3,000-yard passer (Mettenberger), two 1,000-yard receivers (Landry and Beckham) and a 1,000-yard rusher (Hill).
LSU was supposed to bounce back with a flourish at the Under Armour game as it expected to get commitments from No. 5 defensive end Gerald Willis III of Karr High in New Orleans and No. 3 cornerback Tony Brown of Beaumont, Texas, and had a good chance of getting No. 4 wide receiver Speedy Noil of Karr High in New Orleans. But it lost those three – Willis to Florida, Brown to Alabama and Noil to Texas A&M.
But LSU’s 2-for-5 was still better than Alabama’s 1-for-4 on the day as it lost Fournette in addition to No. 5 wide receiver Travis Rudolph of West Palm Beach, Fla., to Florida State and No. 4 cornerback Jalen Tabor to Arizona. Arizona beating Alabama for a player?
Then later that same day, the Crimson Tide fell to 14-point underdog Oklahoma, 45-31, in the Sugar Bowl, dropping the Tide to 1-for-5 on the day and 0-for-2 in New Orleans, counting Fournette.
That loss with the one to Auburn meant Alabama and coach Nick Saban, meanwhile, lost two back-to-back games for the first time since 2008 when it lost the SEC Championship Game to Florida and the Sugar Bowl to Utah.
Could the Tide be turning downward? Just the thought of it is enough music to the LSU ear to ring in the new year.
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The New Orleans Saints deliberately tried to upset me the hold football game long. Finally losing this cruel NFC Divisional playoff football game in the very wet rain swept weather to the Seattle Sea Hawks in Seattle Washington.
Through the rain wind and noise the New Orleans Saints professional football team played a very correctional football game in Seattle Washington from the first time that they played them before.
Only to again lose 23 - 15 to the strong talented Sea Hawks who simply out played the Saints, especially on offense. The 34 year old Drew Brees was a dollar short a day late all day long. Drew Brees just might be on the decline into the near future.
The New Orleans Saints deliberately tried to upset me the hold football game long. Finally losing this cruel NFC Divisional playoff football game in the very wet rain swept weather to the Seattle Sea Hawks in Seattle Washington.
Through the rain wind and noise the New Orleans Saints professional football team played a very correctional football game in Seattle Washington from the first time that they played them before.
Only to again lose 23 - 15 to the strong talented Sea Hawks who simply out played the Saints, especially on offense. The 34 year old Drew Brees was a dollar short a day late all day long. Drew Brees just might be on the decline into the near future.
The New Orleans Defense on the other hand played their
hearts out giving the Saints a chance to win the football game over and over
again. But frankly the Saints this year on offense are just not good
enough to win the football game, and they never did. Upsetting me no
end.
Not many NFL pro football fans, or pundits, gave the Saints much chance, and they were right.
The Sea Hawks brought the football into the Saints end of the football field on a short drive kicking another field goal Sea Hawks 6 Saints 0.
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Passing: D. Brees (NO) - 309 YDS, 1 TD
Rushing: M. Lynch (SEA) - 28 CAR, 140 YDS, 2 TD
Receiving: M. Colston (NO) - 11 REC, 144 YDS, 1 TD
Marshawn Lynch, Seahawks top Saints to reach NFC title game
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Seahawks, Marshawn Lynch fend off Saints 23-15
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On a day when rain and high winds challenged both offenses, the Seahawks defense led the way to a 23-15 victory over the New Orleans Saints, who couldn't convert a recovered onside kick into a tying score in the final seconds of Saturday's NFC divisional playoff at CenturyLink Field.
The top-seeded Seahawks will host next weekend's NFC Championship Game against the winner of Sunday's game between the San Francisco 49ers and Carolina Panthers.
BOX SCORE: Seahawks 23, Saints 15
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Seattle appeared to have Saturday's decision sealed before Drew Brees threw a 9-yard touchdown with 26 seconds left to Marques Colston, who then recovered the onside kick after Golden Tate let it bounce off his hands.
But on the ensuing drive, Colston tried to throw the ball across the field instead of stepping out of bounds after a catch with time remaining for one heave to the end zone. It ended up being a forward pass that hit the ground, leading to a penalty and 10-second run-off to end the game.
Blown out 34-7 here last month, the Saints made things interesting in the fourth quarter, cutting the deficit to 16-8 with 13:11 remaining on a 1-yard touchdown run by Khiry Robinson and two-point conversion by Mark Ingram.
New Orleans drove again minutes later, with a Brees heave into double coverage bouncing off the hands of Seahawks Pro Bowl safety Earl Thomas and into Robert Meachem's lap for a 52-yard gain. But the Saints stalled from there, and Shayne Graham's 48-yard field goal attempt sailed wide left – his second miss of the game.
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson hit Doug Baldwin on a fade for 24 yards to convert third-and-3 on Seattle's next drive, the Saints burned their last timeout on a failed challenge and Marshawn Lynch stiff-armed Corey White on a 31-yard run for his second touchdown with 2:40 to go.
Then the Saints made their last-gasp charge that came up short, missing out on a chance to win on the road for a second consecutive week.
The big throw to Baldwin was a positive end for a rocky day for Wilson, who missed several third-down throws earlier and finished 9-of-18 passing for 103 yards. But Brees (24-of-43, 309 yards, one TD) wasn't much better until the Saints were forced into catch-up mode.
They came out in heavy sets, determined to run the football as sheets of rain fell and winds seemingly threatened to rip the 12th Man flagpole out of the ground. But they generated just 113 net yards of offense in the first half and committed the lone turnover.
Seattle had been held to a pair of field goals before Michael Bennett stripped Saints running back Ingram on the first play of the second quarter and recovered the fumble. Two plays later, Lynch battered his way into the end zone for a 15-yard touchdown.
The Seahawks added another field goal to make it 16-0 at halftime, thanks to a 16-yard catch by Percy Harvin on a jump ball over White to convert third-and-8.
That's the way the score remained until the Saints' nine-play, 74-yard drive cut Seattle's lead to eight.
They were a couple ankle tackles away from scoring a TD on their next drive, too. But a holding penalty by Zach Strief wiped out a long completion to Kenny Stills and led to a punt.
The NFC's No. 1 seed is now 20-4 in divisional playoff games since the league went to a 12-team format in 1990.
Harvin, in just his second game all season following hip surgery and multiple setbacks, left later in that drive for the second time to be evaluated for a concussion and was ruled out.
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GUILBEAU: At LSU, New Year looking better than last
1/10/2014
By GLENN GUILBEAU
Tiger Rag Featured Columnist
BATON ROUGE – So far, 2014 has been a good year for the LSU football program.
It started with a defense finally reminiscent of 2011 stuffing Iowa in a 21-14 victory at the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla. on Jan. 1. Without a poor pass by true freshman quarterback Anthony Jennings and a lapse on the kickoff coverage team, LSU may have won 21-0.
Quarterback will likely take a significant dip from Zach Mettenberger to Jennings or Bossier City’s Brandon Harris next season, but that issue was partly remedied a day later.
On Jan. 2, the Tigers did not get the 5-for-5 or even the 4-for-5 that some of the recruiting experts – LSU recruiting experts that is – forecasted for the Under Armour All-America commitment bonanza just across Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg. But the Tigers did go 2-for-5 with commitments from No. 3 safety Jamal Adams of Carrollton, Texas, and from No. 1 tailback Leonard Fournette of St. Augustine High in New Orleans.
Fournette is the most sought after running back from Louisiana since Carencro’s Kevin Faulk signed with LSU in 1995 and went on to gain 4,557 yards to become the career rushing leader for LSU. The Tigers should return another solid offensive line, and with Fournette, they should have a decent offense even if Jennings and/or Harris do not become passing threats in their first season.
Getting Fournette’s commitment on signing day was like sweeping a doubleheader for the Tigers – because the school he didn’t go to was Alabama.
For LSU to be better than 8-4 next season, the defense will have to be much better overall than it was late in the 2012 season and in too many spots in 2013. It also desperately needs to learn how to close out games as it lost in the final moments four times in the last two seasons – Alabama and Clemson in 2012 and Georgia and Ole Miss in 2013.
LSU’s roster will suffer many key losses as several juniors will enter the NFL Draft a year early once again. Defensive tackle is looking at a major overhaul with juniors Ego Ferguson and Anthony Johnson already announcing their entry into the NFL Draft. LSU has recruited well on the defensive line, but there will likely be a drop-off. The Tigers are still young and talented at linebacker and in the secondary, though.
A banner recruiting class, which rose to No. 6 from No. 11 because of Fournette and Adams alone, should help matters immediately next season. Defensive coordinator John Chavis is also too good to continue to have major lapses here and there.
There will be many more losses on offense – wide receivers Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham Jr., tailback Jeremy Hill and maybe guard Trai Turner and tackle La’el Collins. So we hope you enjoyed a rare and great LSU offense in 2013. It may be some time before you see one like that again.
For the first time in LSU history, it had a 3,000-yard passer (Mettenberger), two 1,000-yard receivers (Landry and Beckham) and a 1,000-yard rusher (Hill).
LSU was supposed to bounce back with a flourish at the Under Armour game as it expected to get commitments from No. 5 defensive end Gerald Willis III of Karr High in New Orleans and No. 3 cornerback Tony Brown of Beaumont, Texas, and had a good chance of getting No. 4 wide receiver Speedy Noil of Karr High in New Orleans. But it lost those three – Willis to Florida, Brown to Alabama and Noil to Texas A&M.
But LSU’s 2-for-5 was still better than Alabama’s 1-for-4 on the day as it lost Fournette in addition to No. 5 wide receiver Travis Rudolph of West Palm Beach, Fla., to Florida State and No. 4 cornerback Jalen Tabor to Arizona. Arizona beating Alabama for a player?
Then later that same day, the Crimson Tide fell to 14-point underdog Oklahoma, 45-31, in the Sugar Bowl, dropping the Tide to 1-for-5 on the day and 0-for-2 in New Orleans, counting Fournette.
That loss with the one to Auburn meant Alabama and coach Nick Saban, meanwhile, lost two back-to-back games for the first time since 2008 when it lost the SEC Championship Game to Florida and the Sugar Bowl to Utah.
Could the Tide be turning downward? Just the thought of it is enough music to the LSU ear to ring in the new year.
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Thomas Williams: Top Comment-
What make a winning college football team? The choice of men that
are determined not to lose. Working hard together to gain the grown in
front of them, and to fiercely keep fighting for their collective goal..
Victory not at all cost - because college football is only a game and
not war. But at a reasonable coast of time, and struggle.
Trai Turner, La’el Collins, Jeremy Hill, would make the 2014 LSU tiger football team spirit much stronger. If they decide to play one more year in tiger Stadium before their friends, relatives, and tiger fans.
Tiger stadium will rock and roll once more in a very spectacular way.Trai Turner, La’el Collins, Jeremy Hill, would make the 2014 LSU tiger football team spirit much stronger. If they decide to play one more year in tiger Stadium before their friends, relatives, and tiger fans.
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Alabama has hired Lane Kiffin as the Tide's new offensive coordinator, sources told ESPN.com.
The two sides have agreed to a deal and a contract is in the process of being completed, sources said.
Kiffin was fired as USC's head coach in late September after a 62-41 loss at Arizona State. He registered a 28-15 record with the Trojans following a one-year stint at Tennessee, where he was 7-6.
The 38-year-old Kiffin visited with Alabama coach Nick Saban before the Allstate Sugar Bowl "to share ideas and exchange ideas ... [for] professional development," Saban said at the time.
"Lane is a really good offensive coach, and I've always had a tremendous amount of respect for him," Saban said then. "Just to come in and brainstorm a little bit to get some professional ideas with our guys is a really positive thing."
Doug Nussmeier left Alabama on Thursday to become offensive coordinator on Brady Hoke's staff at Michigan.
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3-point stance: Second chance points
January, 9, 2014
By
Ivan Maisel | ESPN.com1. I am willing to give Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich a pass
on Bobby Petrino. Jurich hired Petrino at Louisville 11 years ago, the
first head coaching position Petrino had at any level. Jurich knows the
man and Jurich knows what he is getting into. I don’t think it’s a
gamble at all. But here’s the unusual part of the story: how many bosses
give a guy his first chance at the big time and, no disrespect to
Western Kentucky, his second chance at the big time?
2. Michigan hired away Alabama offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier, and here’s betting both Nussmeier and Tide head coach Nick Saban were ready to move on. There was talk in Newport Beach over the weekend that former USC coach Lane Kiffin may end up running the Crimson Tide offense. It may be an ideal job for Kiffin -- Saban doesn’t allow his assistants to speak to the media. Whoever it is better know how to convert a fourth down in the red zone. Alabama’s last two losses in the SEC (Texas A&M in ’12, Auburn in ’13) hinged on the failure to do so.
3. Niners offensive coordinator Greg Roman and Penn State must be interested in each other. The university interviewed him Monday even as San Francisco began its preparation for the NFC semifinal Sunday at Carolina. Roman has no connection to Penn State, other than being a Jersey guy, which means he may be able to recruit the neighborhood. Bill O’Brien didn’t have a connection, either, and that worked out well.
2. Michigan hired away Alabama offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier, and here’s betting both Nussmeier and Tide head coach Nick Saban were ready to move on. There was talk in Newport Beach over the weekend that former USC coach Lane Kiffin may end up running the Crimson Tide offense. It may be an ideal job for Kiffin -- Saban doesn’t allow his assistants to speak to the media. Whoever it is better know how to convert a fourth down in the red zone. Alabama’s last two losses in the SEC (Texas A&M in ’12, Auburn in ’13) hinged on the failure to do so.
3. Niners offensive coordinator Greg Roman and Penn State must be interested in each other. The university interviewed him Monday even as San Francisco began its preparation for the NFC semifinal Sunday at Carolina. Roman has no connection to Penn State, other than being a Jersey guy, which means he may be able to recruit the neighborhood. Bill O’Brien didn’t have a connection, either, and that worked out well.
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Thomas Williams · Top Commenter · Im not telling u
Thomas Williams · Top Commenter · Im not telling u
Second
chance points: " how many bosses give a guy his first and second chance
at the big time"? Answer; Housewife's all over the world do the same
thing each and every day.
- Robert St Thomas @ Thomas Williams,
Great retort. But there is a better answer: Jesus gives us all chances that we don't deserve. That includes the understanding housewife.· Like 
Thomas Williams Robert St Thomas: Amen brother because Jesus brought Gods spirit into human flesh and blood, so we could believe that God was just as real as you and I. To save us all.
I once love Jesus Christ with a strong spirit that help me get by when the going got rough, and sure enough his divine attitude saved my person.
Lately I have been feeling unworthy of his sacrifice for us, but I still hope to love him that strongly again someday. Thanks for reminding me...· Like
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Sources: Alabama hires Lane Kiffin
Updated: January 10, 2014, 5:15 PM ET
By
Alex Scarborough | ESPN.com
Source: Nussmeier Headed To Michigan
Adam Rittenberg discusses how OC Doug Nussmeier could help improve Michigan's offense.Tags: Alabama Crimson Tide, Michigan Wolverines, Doug Nussmeier, Al Borges, Adam RittenbAlabama has hired Lane Kiffin as the Tide's new offensive coordinator, sources told ESPN.com.
The two sides have agreed to a deal and a contract is in the process of being completed, sources said.
Kiffin was fired as USC's head coach in late September after a 62-41 loss at Arizona State. He registered a 28-15 record with the Trojans following a one-year stint at Tennessee, where he was 7-6.
The 38-year-old Kiffin visited with Alabama coach Nick Saban before the Allstate Sugar Bowl "to share ideas and exchange ideas ... [for] professional development," Saban said at the time.
"Lane is a really good offensive coach, and I've always had a tremendous amount of respect for him," Saban said then. "Just to come in and brainstorm a little bit to get some professional ideas with our guys is a really positive thing."
Doug Nussmeier left Alabama on Thursday to become offensive coordinator on Brady Hoke's staff at Michigan.
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- Thomas Williams · Top Commenter · Im not telling u
Oct. 25 ALABAMA *at Tennessee........Knoxville, Tennessee - ARE YOU KIDDING ME... 
Thomas Williams · Top Commenter · Im not telling u
Lane Kiffin is just another louse in my book and I really don't see why Nick Saban is hiring the guy as the Alabama offensive coordinator. This country is so morally fragmented now that anything goes.
Robert Higgins Jr. · Customer Service at Avis Budget Group Tulsa Customer Care Center
Couldn't be happier!
Sincerely, every other fan base in the sec.
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