Jasper Journal

Well it’s back, and I don’t mean the new school season. College football is back again after seven long months. Those of us who enjoy college over the pros can again salivate over the prospect of our school or adopted school reaching a championship game or at least a bowl game, or at least a win over a despised rival.

There’s something for everybody:  For Catholic subway alumni, there is Notre Dame; for Mormons , there is BYU; for any serviceman, there is the respective service academy. Each state has at least one  or more major football playing schools; Each region has major powerhouses; There are traditionally black football powerhouses; traditionally east coast elite football powerhouses; traditionally west coast run and gun powerhouses; mid west powerhouses, southwest powerhouses…. the list goes on endlessly.

So for four and a half months a year the nation’s eyes will turn to the college gridiron and watch in awe as underdogs upset favorites, as new names enter the lore of college athletics, as dominating schools falter and new schools enter the top levels.  It is a great time to be an American.

My college didn’t have division one football, or division two or  but we enjoyed our club level games anyway.  After living in Nebraska for five years I became a supporter  of Big Red and its legion of die-hard fans.  I admired Tom Osborne and still look kindly on the Huskers … except when they play Colorado.

Living here since 2002 and sending two offspring to the University of Colorado at Boulder, CU,  I became committed to the rebirth of Colorado football. While they have not done well at all in the last four years, hope springs eternal, and we look to 2010 as the year of the turnaround.   The big test for many schools comes later in the season when they play their arch rivals. For CU, they play their arch rival Colorado State University this Saturday at Invesco field. It begins again.

So on Saturday afternoons when the world is still in turmoil and we still have Obama as president, we can for a few hours escape the doldrums and become consumed with sport, rivalry,  pageantry, and competition. God Bless America, and Go Buffs! Enjoy your weekend.

So it turned out  the crazed gunman who took over the Discovery channel building and held hostages for hours,  was awakened and inspired by Al Gore’s epic piece of chicanery, “An inconvenient Truth.” I cant wait to hear how the media spin this one.  Remember when Timothy Mcvey attacked the federal building in Oklahoma City and Bill Clinton blamed these acts of terror on right wing radio personalities like Rush Limbaugh?  Or today in pathetic attempts to pose a moral equivalence between the acts of terror by Muslim fanatics, some mainstream news personalities have started to refer to Mcvey as a Christian terrorist. Can you believe that?

Well it seems to me that Mr Gore is doing nothing less than inciting eco-nut jobs in the country to commit acts of violence. His shrill calls about impending doom, catastrophe, the last days of the planet unless immediate action is taken sure seem to me to be clarion calls to violence. I think our attorney general should open an investigation into links between Messr Gore and ecoterrorism. Perhaps Hillary Clinton should put this in her state department report  to the UN on US human rights abuses alongside her pathetic condemnation of the state of Arizona? 

I know I am dreaming, but just once it would be nice to see the media show one of their sacred cows the same treatment they reserve for conservatives.  I really would like to see Al gore squeal like a pig… or did he already do that with his mistresses?

Help! We need Austin Powers immediately. The president has lost his Mojo! Perhaps Glen Beck took it or maybe it was Sarah Palin , but it sure isn’t there now.  Tonight’s speech from the oval office , if you happened to watch it was pathetic. This was his second pathetic speech from the oval office, his first egg was his health care tutorial. He has failed now twice and boy is he depressing.  I haven’t seen him excited since the Ramadan dinner where he came out for the NY mosque, before he was against it, after he was for it.

Remember the youthful enthusiastic guy who was going to bring us hope and change and candy canes and happiness? Seems like the life is sucked out of him. So we need Austin Powers to find out where it went, and fast.  If anyone sees Obama’s Mojo, please inform this writer and we will ensure it makes it back to its rightful owner.

In  happier news, Lisa Murkowski just conceded the Alaska primary race to Joe Miller, a relative unknown backed by Sarah Palin . Murkowski, while a republican, was part of the problem and not the solution. Miller is a West Point grad and a decorated combat vet from the first Gulf War. He appears to be an honorable guy.  Washington is broken and that message is clear throughout the country.  Can’t wait till November!