The call went out. The faithful returned to Ann Arbor. The Wolverine Nation poured through DTW. This is the year. Doctors, lawyers, engineers, execs, parents, children, grandparents, all answered the call. They came. They knew. They believe.
The team believes.
The cry, the chant, the call, two simple, but powerful words: BEAT OHIO.
Even the Columbus Dispatch knew. They dropped the clock.
The stadium was a sea of maize and blue – not the blurry scarlet and gray of 2 years ago. 114,132 in Michigan Stadium, the Big House. Less than 10,000 Buckeyes. BEAT OHIO.
The forecast was rain -52% chance of rain. And yet they came.
Michigan-Ohio State, Wolverines versus Buckeyes, the greatest rivalry in sports could not descend to the level of the Harlem Globetrotters and Washington Generals. Ohio State wanted to win, but the Wolverines had to win. 2926 days were 2926 days too many. Only one win in ten years.
The two schools hate each other, but they need each other. Hence, the mutual respect.
The sun broke through for a few minutes at kickoff and then hid behind the gray clouds. Were the football gods sending a message? But then the clouds broke and the blue shone for the 4th quarter. Go blue. Ohio State was doomed for this was the omen. The football gods had spoken: BEAT OHIO.
104,000 closest friends and neighbors in the Big House erupted into a continuous chant of The Victors, interrupted only by the PA system playing Sweet Caroline. The stands shook. The players knew. Michigan would beat both the Buckeyes and the officials. The scattered Buckeye fans could only woefully look on. Michigan, unlike Notre Dame, was not going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
The two worthy opponents marched up and down the field. No quarter was asked, and none given. The Buckeyes played their hearts out, but it was not to be. They were destined to lose this fall day. Michigan pasted 40 points on Brutus, the most since 1946.
The Best Damn Band in the Land played its loudest to cheer on the Buckeyes, but its sounds were muffled in the home of The Victors. BEAT OHIO, not Carmen Electra roared through the stadium.
Four Buckeye cheerleaders plaintively cried out "Go Bucks." The deafening chorus responded "Go Blue."
This was more than a game, more than the annual clash between two intense rivals. This game was not for the national championship; nor the Big Ten title. Not even a trophy. It was more than that. This game is the rebirth of Michigan football.
The nation’s winningest football program was in a malaise, just as in the 1960’s. An attempt to rebrand Michigan football failed, as miserably as had the New Coke.
The Wolverines had been declawed and defanged. Jim Tressel was doing to Michigan what Woody Hayes did 5 decades earlier. The hallowed grounds of Harmon, Carter, Howard, Woodson, and Brady were desecrated.
The sins of Appalachian State and Toledo had to be expiated.
Every major program has its lows. Texas is hurting now. Notre Dame has fired every coach since Lou Holtz retired in 1996. USC was suffering until Pete Carroll arrived. Nebraska had similarly tried to remake itself. Alabama, LSU, and Oklahoma went through football droughts.
But this is Michigan. Appalachian State was a debacle, and the spread without defense and blocking is a failure. The buzzards were circling. Michigan had to rid itself of the albatross.
The great university survived the collapse of Detroit and the Michigan economy, but the football program was in systemic decline. Michigan, Notre Dame, and USC are great academic institutions, but football is in their DNA. Michigan is not Michigan, Notre Dame not Notre Dame nor USC USC without football.
Time to return to the fundamentals – the team, defense, conditioning, the will, and a Michigan Man from Ohio. Bo in 1969 and Hoke in 2011. This is Michigan football.
BEAT OHIO
So what if Tressel is out for cheating and lying. Michigan won.
So what if Pryor turned pro. Michigan won.
So what is Ohio State’s QB was a raw freshman. Michigan won.
So what if the Ohio State team was banged up. They lost.
So what if the Ohio State players had more tattoos. The Wolverines had more points.
History records the final score with no asterisk.
Tens of thousands stormed the field as the final seconds ticked off. No one left the stadium. This was the second coming of November 22, 1969.
10-2 with victories over Notre Dame, Nebraska, and The Ohio State University. The new genesis of Michigan football has begun.
THE VICTORS beat Ohio.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Huggies Dump on Santa
How do you distinguish your disposable diapers from the competition? – Huggies, Luvs, Pampers and private labels up the kazoo.
Go designer diapers. Add cachet to the little pooper catchers and throw in a noble cause for good measure.
Tis The Season to be Jolly with Santa diapers and wipes.
As Huggies advertised “Dress’em like Claus for a cause.”
Catchy
Cute
Full of guilt
Tug on Santa’s white beard for a good cause (the donation of 17 million diapers to diaper banks).
Offset the guilt of filling our landfills with disposable, non-biodegradable diapers rather than reusing cloth diapers.
Rip’n Wrap is all so convenient.
Huggies does not actually say the diapers bear Santa’s image. Rather the ad shows a baby clad in red and white with a Santa cap and a matching red and white diaper. My initial impression though is of Santa diapers. It’s Santa’s diapers and wipes.
How jolly can Santa be when he must carry a load in his pants as well as on his back?
Think of the song: “Here comes Santa Claus; here comes Santa Claus, right down “Detritus Lane.”
Santa lands on the roof, climbs down the chimney, and expects a glass of milk and a plate of cookies. Instead, he gets a different gift from the little crapper. Mommy and Daddy deserve lumps of coal!
Santa distributes IPods, ITouches, Imacs, IPhones, and IPads, and gets “ICraps” in exchange.
Santa’s Little Helper has now become Santa’s Little Pooper. No more need for the Grinch to raise a stink in Santa’s Workshop. The Little Pooper serves the purpose.
Santa has to carry all those diaper gifts back to the elves for proper disposal.
Or Santa can scatter the scat over the Midwest to boost ethanol production without a permit from the EPA. The sprinkling of the fertilizer bomblets will throw off NORAD’s tracking system of Santa’s sleigh.
Parents at some stage in their children’s growth must face that painful, difficult talk. No, not the birds and bees. Your little one learnt that from the internet, but the painful conversation that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy do not exist.
Now you simply say that the reason you can pollute Santa’s diaper and wipe your bum with Santa’s baby wipes is that “Yes Virginia, there is no Santa.” Virginia already figured that one out.
How can any child believe in the existence of one they shat upon?
Go designer diapers. Add cachet to the little pooper catchers and throw in a noble cause for good measure.
Tis The Season to be Jolly with Santa diapers and wipes.
As Huggies advertised “Dress’em like Claus for a cause.”
Catchy
Cute
Full of guilt
Tug on Santa’s white beard for a good cause (the donation of 17 million diapers to diaper banks).
Offset the guilt of filling our landfills with disposable, non-biodegradable diapers rather than reusing cloth diapers.
Rip’n Wrap is all so convenient.
Huggies does not actually say the diapers bear Santa’s image. Rather the ad shows a baby clad in red and white with a Santa cap and a matching red and white diaper. My initial impression though is of Santa diapers. It’s Santa’s diapers and wipes.
How jolly can Santa be when he must carry a load in his pants as well as on his back?
Think of the song: “Here comes Santa Claus; here comes Santa Claus, right down “Detritus Lane.”
Santa lands on the roof, climbs down the chimney, and expects a glass of milk and a plate of cookies. Instead, he gets a different gift from the little crapper. Mommy and Daddy deserve lumps of coal!
Santa distributes IPods, ITouches, Imacs, IPhones, and IPads, and gets “ICraps” in exchange.
Santa’s Little Helper has now become Santa’s Little Pooper. No more need for the Grinch to raise a stink in Santa’s Workshop. The Little Pooper serves the purpose.
Santa has to carry all those diaper gifts back to the elves for proper disposal.
Or Santa can scatter the scat over the Midwest to boost ethanol production without a permit from the EPA. The sprinkling of the fertilizer bomblets will throw off NORAD’s tracking system of Santa’s sleigh.
Parents at some stage in their children’s growth must face that painful, difficult talk. No, not the birds and bees. Your little one learnt that from the internet, but the painful conversation that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy do not exist.
Now you simply say that the reason you can pollute Santa’s diaper and wipe your bum with Santa’s baby wipes is that “Yes Virginia, there is no Santa.” Virginia already figured that one out.
How can any child believe in the existence of one they shat upon?
Monday, November 7, 2011
Tomorrow is Election Day in Ohio
Ohio’s voters face a critical election tomorrow, a precursor in the battle ground state to next year’s Presidential election. President Obama cannot win reelection unless he carries both Michigan and Ohio. Conversely, Republicans do not win the White House unless they carry Ohio.
Tomorrow’s election though is not for an individual, such as Governor, Senator, Attorney General, Congressman, or to the state legislature. It may be viewed indirectly as a referendum on Republican Governor Kasich, but it may also be a referendum on the future of public employee unions in Ohio and he nation.
The 2010 midterm elections swept Republicans into office in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The newly elected Republicans stuck it to the public employee unions in the name of fiscal reform. The goal was also to cripple these unions and their financial lifelines for Democratic candidates.
Wisconsin’s anti-union efforts to cripple the public employee unions received the most national attention. The unions unsuccessfully poured millions of dollars in initially fighting the legislation, in a contested state Supreme Court election, and then in recall elections against Republican legislators. Their supporters also occupied the state capitol.
Amidst the Wisconsin furor, the Ohio Republicans quietly enacted S.B. 5, an even more restrictive limitation on public sector unions in the state than Wisconsin’s.
S.B. 5 requires public employees to pay 15% of their health insurance and 10% of their salaries to their pensions, hardly out of line with the private workplace.
The main feature bars binding mediation for health coverage, pensions, and staffing levels. The real kicker though is that in cases of bargaining impasses between unions and city councils and school boards, the cities and school boards can unilaterally impose their last offer on the employees.
The effect is to essentially repeal public sector collective bargaining in Ohio.
The unions have spent $30 million in the repeal campaign, established phone banks, and mounted a door to door get out the vote effort.
Polls show the recall effort succeeding. If so, it will be a major victory for the unions. If they fail though, they will witness an increase in anti-union legislation across the nation and a major hit on their financial base.
The unions are emphasizing the threat to public safety through S. B. 5. The Wisconsin legislation exempted first responders from its coverage, but S.B. 5 includes police and fire in its ambit.
Even if the unions win, their victory may be Pyrrhic. The resulting cost constraints on state and local government will result in increased layoffs in the public sector.
Tomorrow’s election though is not for an individual, such as Governor, Senator, Attorney General, Congressman, or to the state legislature. It may be viewed indirectly as a referendum on Republican Governor Kasich, but it may also be a referendum on the future of public employee unions in Ohio and he nation.
The 2010 midterm elections swept Republicans into office in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The newly elected Republicans stuck it to the public employee unions in the name of fiscal reform. The goal was also to cripple these unions and their financial lifelines for Democratic candidates.
Wisconsin’s anti-union efforts to cripple the public employee unions received the most national attention. The unions unsuccessfully poured millions of dollars in initially fighting the legislation, in a contested state Supreme Court election, and then in recall elections against Republican legislators. Their supporters also occupied the state capitol.
Amidst the Wisconsin furor, the Ohio Republicans quietly enacted S.B. 5, an even more restrictive limitation on public sector unions in the state than Wisconsin’s.
S.B. 5 requires public employees to pay 15% of their health insurance and 10% of their salaries to their pensions, hardly out of line with the private workplace.
The main feature bars binding mediation for health coverage, pensions, and staffing levels. The real kicker though is that in cases of bargaining impasses between unions and city councils and school boards, the cities and school boards can unilaterally impose their last offer on the employees.
The effect is to essentially repeal public sector collective bargaining in Ohio.
The unions have spent $30 million in the repeal campaign, established phone banks, and mounted a door to door get out the vote effort.
Polls show the recall effort succeeding. If so, it will be a major victory for the unions. If they fail though, they will witness an increase in anti-union legislation across the nation and a major hit on their financial base.
The unions are emphasizing the threat to public safety through S. B. 5. The Wisconsin legislation exempted first responders from its coverage, but S.B. 5 includes police and fire in its ambit.
Even if the unions win, their victory may be Pyrrhic. The resulting cost constraints on state and local government will result in increased layoffs in the public sector.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Occupy Oakland - Why?
Occupy Oakland?
Why?
What’s to Occupy?
Wall Street's 3,000 miles away, and Montgomery Street is across the Bay - a world apart.
There’s just Oakland.
Oakland is a blue collar, lunch bucket city with high unemployment.
Oakland is to San Francisco as Newark is to New York City.
It’s Oakland.
Not even Silicon Valley, down the road, is will to move into Oakland with cheap downtown rents.
Even the predecessor of Cal moved from Oakland to Berkeley.
Clorox and Safeway are in Oakland, but who wants to occupy a bleach manufacturer and a flailing supermarket chain? You might borrow some Clorox from Safeway to clean up though.
There are no one percenters in Oakland, with the exception of the fabled Charles Crocker, Dominic Ghirardelli, Henry J. Kaiser, and Warren Bechtel, but they reside in the crypts of Mountain View Cemetery up in the hills. You could occupy the crypts, but it’ll be tight. Sleeping on marble and concrete might be an improvement though.
You could occupy Frank Norris’ grave and learn how to write a book about the malefactors of great wealth – a book, the Octopus, that’s still in print a century later.
You could occupy the gravesite of Fred Korematsu as a tribute to the valiant Japanese American who fought interment in World War II. He did not want to occupy a concentration camp.
You could occupy the gravesite of Reverend Henry Durant, the first President of the University of California Berkeley, and perhaps learn how to build a great institution.
You could visit the sites of Julia Morgan and Bernard Maybeck, and learn about beauty as you walk through the grounds laid out by Frederick Law Olmstead.
Yes, you could do all this, but you are occupying Oakland.
Why?
My mother and grandma are interred in Mountain View Cemetery on the ridge above Millionaire Row looking down on the crypts, but with a splendid across the Bay to San Francisco. My mom, a Berkeley grad, would love it if you paid her a visit.
The living affluent, but hardly “One percenters,” live in the small enclave of Piedmont and in the Oakland Hills along Mountain Blvd., but their premises are secure.
You might try occupying Mills College. They could accommodate you. The coeds could use an education in squalor and filth.
Jerry Brown, in his 8 years as Mayor of Oakland, couldn’t make it work. Now he’s moved on to another basket case, the State of California.
Make it a meaningful protest in Oakland. Occupy the Oakland Army Base, the facility which ships munitions to the Pacific.
Occupy the Oakland Coliseum, the cement slab where the Raiders and A’s perform – the last dual municipal venue in the nation. The Grateful Dead used to perform in the Coliseum on New Year's, but Jerry Garcia is now a deadhead.
Occupy the adjoining Oakland Arena, and thus fill it with more than show up for Warriors games.
Emulate your Occupy Wall Street idols by occupying the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. If you are going to get arrested, tear gassed, and struck, then become a martyr for a memorable cause, but occupying Oakland in front of the Federal Building?
Gertrude Stein had this sage advice about Oakland, her childhood home: “There is no there there.”
Why?
What’s to Occupy?
Wall Street's 3,000 miles away, and Montgomery Street is across the Bay - a world apart.
There’s just Oakland.
Oakland is a blue collar, lunch bucket city with high unemployment.
Oakland is to San Francisco as Newark is to New York City.
It’s Oakland.
Not even Silicon Valley, down the road, is will to move into Oakland with cheap downtown rents.
Even the predecessor of Cal moved from Oakland to Berkeley.
Clorox and Safeway are in Oakland, but who wants to occupy a bleach manufacturer and a flailing supermarket chain? You might borrow some Clorox from Safeway to clean up though.
There are no one percenters in Oakland, with the exception of the fabled Charles Crocker, Dominic Ghirardelli, Henry J. Kaiser, and Warren Bechtel, but they reside in the crypts of Mountain View Cemetery up in the hills. You could occupy the crypts, but it’ll be tight. Sleeping on marble and concrete might be an improvement though.
You could occupy Frank Norris’ grave and learn how to write a book about the malefactors of great wealth – a book, the Octopus, that’s still in print a century later.
You could occupy the gravesite of Fred Korematsu as a tribute to the valiant Japanese American who fought interment in World War II. He did not want to occupy a concentration camp.
You could occupy the gravesite of Reverend Henry Durant, the first President of the University of California Berkeley, and perhaps learn how to build a great institution.
You could visit the sites of Julia Morgan and Bernard Maybeck, and learn about beauty as you walk through the grounds laid out by Frederick Law Olmstead.
Yes, you could do all this, but you are occupying Oakland.
Why?
My mother and grandma are interred in Mountain View Cemetery on the ridge above Millionaire Row looking down on the crypts, but with a splendid across the Bay to San Francisco. My mom, a Berkeley grad, would love it if you paid her a visit.
The living affluent, but hardly “One percenters,” live in the small enclave of Piedmont and in the Oakland Hills along Mountain Blvd., but their premises are secure.
You might try occupying Mills College. They could accommodate you. The coeds could use an education in squalor and filth.
Jerry Brown, in his 8 years as Mayor of Oakland, couldn’t make it work. Now he’s moved on to another basket case, the State of California.
Make it a meaningful protest in Oakland. Occupy the Oakland Army Base, the facility which ships munitions to the Pacific.
Occupy the Oakland Coliseum, the cement slab where the Raiders and A’s perform – the last dual municipal venue in the nation. The Grateful Dead used to perform in the Coliseum on New Year's, but Jerry Garcia is now a deadhead.
Occupy the adjoining Oakland Arena, and thus fill it with more than show up for Warriors games.
Emulate your Occupy Wall Street idols by occupying the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. If you are going to get arrested, tear gassed, and struck, then become a martyr for a memorable cause, but occupying Oakland in front of the Federal Building?
Gertrude Stein had this sage advice about Oakland, her childhood home: “There is no there there.”
Monday, October 17, 2011
Represenative Jesse jackson, Jr.'s Brilliant $40,000 Proposal for the Unemployed
Congressman Jesse Jackson proposed giving $40,000 to each of the 15 million unemployed persons in America for four years.
Utterly brilliant; even the Greeks haven’t thought of this one.
Just think about it a moment.
Which makes more sense? Congressman Jackson or President Obama’s "Enact it now" non-jobs jobs plan?
The cost will come to roughly $600 billion annually, or the equivalent of 1,200 Solyndras. It’s much cheaper than the President’s non-jobs jobs bill.
It would solve so many problems.
State unemployment funds are broke, and hence borrowing from the Feds. No more unemployment compensation. Indeed, we could do away with the state employment and unemployment offices at substantial savings to the states.
No more debates about the minimum wage, since the new minimum wage will de facto become $40,001 annually. Any one earning less than that will quit and file for the guaranteed federal $40,000.
Forget any “Stimulus Bill” with or without shovel ready jobs. These checks will go directly to the people.
No more hypocrisy about the jobs bills really being mostly payoffs to teachers unions. No payoff to public employee unions.
Thus, we could cut the $1.2 trillion deficit in half by eliminating the other programs.
No more fictitious government make-work jobs.
No more ambiguity about who’s on the public dole.
Some issues still have to be resolved. For example, would it apply only to those currently on the unemployment rosters, or could it extend all unemployed and unemployable persons?
The potential for fraud and corruption is great. The Skid Road liquor stores could register all the homeless bums, and then reap the ensuing booze sales. I saw a sign yesterday in a downtown. It said “No lies; It’s for beer.”
I forgot. Congressman Jackson is from Chicago so corruption is not an issue. He was interested in buying a Senate seat Governor Blago was interested in selling.
Will the $40,000 constitute taxable income? Will the government thereby give with one hand and take back with the other?
Will the $40,000 annually count towards federal pension plans?
How about the government’s medical plans?
Will the beneficiaries pay into social security?
Do prisoners qualify? They seem able to tap into many government funds.
Will defeated politicians qualify?
Will undocumented immigrants qualify and day laborers qualify?
What about college students?
Maybe they will occupy the federal building rather than Wall Street.
Of course, the plan makes no economic sense, but neither does President Obama’s three year economics plan.
Congressman Jackson’s suggestion rates right up there with Herbert Hoover’s 1928 “A chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage” and George McGovern’s $1,000 tax credit for every citizen.
Utterly brilliant; even the Greeks haven’t thought of this one.
Just think about it a moment.
Which makes more sense? Congressman Jackson or President Obama’s "Enact it now" non-jobs jobs plan?
The cost will come to roughly $600 billion annually, or the equivalent of 1,200 Solyndras. It’s much cheaper than the President’s non-jobs jobs bill.
It would solve so many problems.
State unemployment funds are broke, and hence borrowing from the Feds. No more unemployment compensation. Indeed, we could do away with the state employment and unemployment offices at substantial savings to the states.
No more debates about the minimum wage, since the new minimum wage will de facto become $40,001 annually. Any one earning less than that will quit and file for the guaranteed federal $40,000.
Forget any “Stimulus Bill” with or without shovel ready jobs. These checks will go directly to the people.
No more hypocrisy about the jobs bills really being mostly payoffs to teachers unions. No payoff to public employee unions.
Thus, we could cut the $1.2 trillion deficit in half by eliminating the other programs.
No more fictitious government make-work jobs.
No more ambiguity about who’s on the public dole.
Some issues still have to be resolved. For example, would it apply only to those currently on the unemployment rosters, or could it extend all unemployed and unemployable persons?
The potential for fraud and corruption is great. The Skid Road liquor stores could register all the homeless bums, and then reap the ensuing booze sales. I saw a sign yesterday in a downtown. It said “No lies; It’s for beer.”
I forgot. Congressman Jackson is from Chicago so corruption is not an issue. He was interested in buying a Senate seat Governor Blago was interested in selling.
Will the $40,000 constitute taxable income? Will the government thereby give with one hand and take back with the other?
Will the $40,000 annually count towards federal pension plans?
How about the government’s medical plans?
Will the beneficiaries pay into social security?
Do prisoners qualify? They seem able to tap into many government funds.
Will defeated politicians qualify?
Will undocumented immigrants qualify and day laborers qualify?
What about college students?
Maybe they will occupy the federal building rather than Wall Street.
Of course, the plan makes no economic sense, but neither does President Obama’s three year economics plan.
Congressman Jackson’s suggestion rates right up there with Herbert Hoover’s 1928 “A chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage” and George McGovern’s $1,000 tax credit for every citizen.
Friday, October 14, 2011
The Paul BunyanTrophy is at Stake
Tomorrow is the Big Game, the fight for the Paul Bunyan Trophy, a 4’ piece of wood,
which is not to be confused with the Paul Bunyan Axe. Michigan plays Michigan State to decide the best football team within a 63 mile diameter. It might actually be a good game.
Who will win?
Who will be exposed as a great pretender?
6-0 Michigan or 4-1 Michigan State?
Michigan State should be favored.
Michigan leads the series 67-35-1. ,
Little Brother has grown up, beating down Big Brother the last three games. Last year’s score was 34-17, but it wasn’t that close.
Michigan was 4-1 two years ago, when it lost to Michigan State. The Wolverines won only one more game that year.
Michigan was 5-0 last year, and then lost to State. The team only won 2 games over the rest of the season.
Michigan is now 6-0 and plays Michigan State. ?????
A void exists in Schembechler Hall, a vacuum where Paul Bunyan normally resides.
Michigan State has the better players, a great coach in Mark Dantonio, the best defense in the nation, the home field advantage (especially the clock), no major injuries, a bye week, and The Jinx.
No first year Michigan coach has beaten Michigan State since Bennie Oosterbaan in 1947.
Not Bo in 1969 (23-12 loss). Bo beat Woody, but the loss to Sparty haunted him.
Not Mo in 1990 – 27-28, close, but still a loss.
Not Lloyd in 1995 (25-28)
Not Rich Rod in 2007 (The Coach whose name shall no longer be used)
The Coach who shall not be named recruited in Florida, essentially ignoring Michigan and Ohio. Mark Dantonio, from Michigan and Ohio, has spent 4 years at Michigan State recruiting the best players out of the State of Michigan.
Both teams played Notre Dame earlier in the season. The Wolverines won as the Irish choked, but then The Fighting Irish destroyed the Spartans the following week.
Michigan State plays a traditional Big Ten, smash mouth football. Michigan did not for the past three years. Whether or not it can regain its old-time swagger in 7 games remains to be seen.
Michigan has great coaches,DRod, an improved defense, and youthful enthusiasm.
Michigan State dominated the series from 1950-1969, 14-4-2, winning or sharing the national title in 1965 and 1966. Then came Bo and the dominance of Michigan. Even Nick Saban in 5 years at Michigan State could not capture the magic he has since shown at LSU and Alabama.
Go Blue.
which is not to be confused with the Paul Bunyan Axe. Michigan plays Michigan State to decide the best football team within a 63 mile diameter. It might actually be a good game.
Who will win?
Who will be exposed as a great pretender?
6-0 Michigan or 4-1 Michigan State?
Michigan State should be favored.
Michigan leads the series 67-35-1. ,
Little Brother has grown up, beating down Big Brother the last three games. Last year’s score was 34-17, but it wasn’t that close.
Michigan was 4-1 two years ago, when it lost to Michigan State. The Wolverines won only one more game that year.
Michigan was 5-0 last year, and then lost to State. The team only won 2 games over the rest of the season.
Michigan is now 6-0 and plays Michigan State. ?????
A void exists in Schembechler Hall, a vacuum where Paul Bunyan normally resides.
Michigan State has the better players, a great coach in Mark Dantonio, the best defense in the nation, the home field advantage (especially the clock), no major injuries, a bye week, and The Jinx.
No first year Michigan coach has beaten Michigan State since Bennie Oosterbaan in 1947.
Not Bo in 1969 (23-12 loss). Bo beat Woody, but the loss to Sparty haunted him.
Not Mo in 1990 – 27-28, close, but still a loss.
Not Lloyd in 1995 (25-28)
Not Rich Rod in 2007 (The Coach whose name shall no longer be used)
The Coach who shall not be named recruited in Florida, essentially ignoring Michigan and Ohio. Mark Dantonio, from Michigan and Ohio, has spent 4 years at Michigan State recruiting the best players out of the State of Michigan.
Both teams played Notre Dame earlier in the season. The Wolverines won as the Irish choked, but then The Fighting Irish destroyed the Spartans the following week.
Michigan State plays a traditional Big Ten, smash mouth football. Michigan did not for the past three years. Whether or not it can regain its old-time swagger in 7 games remains to be seen.
Michigan has great coaches,DRod, an improved defense, and youthful enthusiasm.
Michigan State dominated the series from 1950-1969, 14-4-2, winning or sharing the national title in 1965 and 1966. Then came Bo and the dominance of Michigan. Even Nick Saban in 5 years at Michigan State could not capture the magic he has since shown at LSU and Alabama.
Go Blue.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street
By all means, occupy Wall Street
Fill the Park Hyatt Hotel at 75 Wall Street and the upstairs condos
Take 40 Wall Street, the Trump Building, off the Donald’s hands
Occupy Trinity Church at Broadway at Wall. Take a break on Alexander Hamilton’s grave
Occupy the apartments and fitness center at 37 Wall Street
Occupy the condos at 55 Wall Street
Clean up your act
Get dressed at the Wall Street Custom Clothiers of Mercer Island, Washington
Occupy the Esquires Barbers and the Wall Street Café at 14 Wall Street - the last capitalists on Wall Street
Grab a bite at Bobby Van’s Steakhouse, and then occupy it across from the Exchange
Occupy the Deutsche Bank Building at 60 Wall Street, but that’s German
Go around the corner to the American International Building at 70 Pine Street, but AIG is bankrupt.
Occupy the restrooms, instead of using a police cruiser for that purpose
Occupy the Wall Street Cleaners in Texas
Wall Street is not Wall Street anymore
Occupy the Wall Street Journal offices by hiking up to Midtown. Make sure not to leave any bed bugs behind
Occupy the Morgan Stanley offices on the same hike to Midtown
Occupy Goldman Sachs, yes Goldman Sachs, in Battery Park
You’re decades late
Wall Street is not Wall Street anymore.
Occupy the Wall Street Deli, a franchise chain out of Alabama
While you’re occupying Wall Street, read the Bawl Street Journal on-line with your white earpods attached to IPod, ITouch, IPhone, and I Pad, from the philanthropic billionaire Steve Jobs.
Really occupy Wall Street, not Zuccotti Park a few blocks away
Your ancestors at Berkeley knew who they were, where they were and what they were protesting. Peoples Park, Free Speech, Cambodia and Kent State were real; Occupy Wall Street is not.
By all means, occupy Wall Street
Fill the Park Hyatt Hotel at 75 Wall Street and the upstairs condos
Take 40 Wall Street, the Trump Building, off the Donald’s hands
Occupy Trinity Church at Broadway at Wall. Take a break on Alexander Hamilton’s grave
Occupy the apartments and fitness center at 37 Wall Street
Occupy the condos at 55 Wall Street
Clean up your act
Get dressed at the Wall Street Custom Clothiers of Mercer Island, Washington
Occupy the Esquires Barbers and the Wall Street Café at 14 Wall Street - the last capitalists on Wall Street
Grab a bite at Bobby Van’s Steakhouse, and then occupy it across from the Exchange
Occupy the Deutsche Bank Building at 60 Wall Street, but that’s German
Go around the corner to the American International Building at 70 Pine Street, but AIG is bankrupt.
Occupy the restrooms, instead of using a police cruiser for that purpose
Occupy the Wall Street Cleaners in Texas
Wall Street is not Wall Street anymore
Occupy the Wall Street Journal offices by hiking up to Midtown. Make sure not to leave any bed bugs behind
Occupy the Morgan Stanley offices on the same hike to Midtown
Occupy Goldman Sachs, yes Goldman Sachs, in Battery Park
You’re decades late
Wall Street is not Wall Street anymore.
Occupy the Wall Street Deli, a franchise chain out of Alabama
While you’re occupying Wall Street, read the Bawl Street Journal on-line with your white earpods attached to IPod, ITouch, IPhone, and I Pad, from the philanthropic billionaire Steve Jobs.
Really occupy Wall Street, not Zuccotti Park a few blocks away
Your ancestors at Berkeley knew who they were, where they were and what they were protesting. Peoples Park, Free Speech, Cambodia and Kent State were real; Occupy Wall Street is not.
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