Cam Newton holds Heisman

Last year Alabama Crimson Tide’s Mark Ingraham won the Heisman and this year, the trophy stayed in Alabama with Cam Newton from Auburn University taking it in a landslide!

NEW YORK — Cam Newton thanked his mother, then his father. And then he paused to compose himself.

Cecil Newton was back in Georgia, though his son put him squarely in the room where the Auburn quarterback accepted college football’s biggest award Saturday night — the Heisman Trophy.

“Thank you for all you did for me,” he told his parents, adding. “To my father, I love you so much.”

There was no doubt Newton would win the Heisman. Whether he gets to keep it is still uncertain.

Newton brushed off an investigation that determined his father violated NCAA rules as he did so many tacklers this season and captured the Heisman in a landslide vote.

Read more from Fox Sporets: Newton Wins Heisman in Landslide

Official Heisman Trophy Announcement Press Release

Now beating Oregon in the BCS Championship Bowl in Arizona on January 10, 2011 will top of a great year of Auburn University football!

Congrats again Cam!  WAR EAGLE!!!

We may never learn why she murdered her brother, but it appears her attempts at retribution for crimes committed against her met with terrorist threats in one incidence, and of course murder in the last.

See – Amy Bishop was denied tenure at the University of Alabama “last year”.   This year, during a staff meeting she pulled out a gun and coldly shot three people to death.

An Alabama professor accused of shooting six colleagues was vocal in her resentment over being denied tenure and the looming loss of her teaching post, though relatives and students said she had never suggested she might become violent.
(Ala. Prof’s Family, Friends: No Hint of Violence via ABC News)

Of course I laugh at the statement she never suggested she might become violent because events in her past are obviously being ignored by her family.  I mean – how do you ignore a dead brother ala Bishop’s own hands on a shot-gun and then her fleeing the house, going to a car dealership and trying to steal a car?  Not violent?  Has marijuana become legal in Alabama and I wasn’t told about it, because these people are on drugs.

Oh and then there is the attempted bombing incident.

Investigators also revealed that seven years later, Bishop was the prime suspect in a 1993 mail bombing attempt on a Harvard Medical School professor. “I just feel angry,” LaTasha Davis, step-daughter of shooting victim Maria Davis, told “Good Morning America” today. “How did she even get a job working at the school when she had that type of background?”
(Alabama Shooting Suspect’s Husband: ‘I’m No Psychologist’ via ABC News)

Hello?  Does anyone else see the tendencies for violence I see?

… and its very interesting that Congressman Delahunt from the great blue state of Massachusetts (yes he’s a democrat) was the DA at the time Bishop was arrested.

Oh and there is more!!!

It should be noted that Amy Bishop’s mother was involved in local politics and member of the police personnel board at the time of the incident.
(Democrat Congressman Delahunt helped release Alabama Shooter Amy Bishop from 1986 killing via Politisite)

Stinks to high heaven of cover up and a personality disorder related to rejection issues.

Today, liberal psychologists implore parents and school administrators not to allow winners and losers in sports and grades are not to be doled out in red ink for fear of causing low self-esteem issues with the child.  The child never learns to lose and never learns rejection of being picked last for the dodge ball team.

When children, an adults, never learn how to deal with rejection – what happens?   Well I’m not going to say they go out and murder – but Amy Bishop has some clear issues with just what is being taught to our children in this day and age: you never lose or are rejected.

Amy Bishop needs professional help and probably needs to be locked up in an institution for the rest of her natural life.  But that won’t bring back three people or her brother.  This women should never have been teaching at a University, or anywhere, with her background of violence.   We can only hope that the University of Alabama tightens up their requirements for teachers within the school system after this debacle.

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SEN. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., exacted a special price for his vote on the Senate health-care bill. Opening up the Medicaid program to 15 million more Americans over the next decade will cost the states billions of dollars — but not Ben Nelson’s state. For Nebraska, the cost, estimated at $100 million through 2016, will be paid by the federal government.

In English – the 49 other states in the country have to pony up the expense for Medicare/cade for not only their states, but now their share of what Nebraska would have paid.  Move to Nebraska and your taxes will not go to support Medicare/cade at all!  You will be living off taxes paid by say someone in Minnesota or Alabama!!

Well Alabama Governor Bob Riley, in conjunction with other governors, has asked his AG to look into the constitutionality of such prostituted payments.

MONTGOMERY- Governor Bob Riley today called on Attorney General Troy King to expand his investigation of the financial deals that led to the passage of the U.S. Senate’s health care reform bill and determine whether the Obama Administration has arranged any other dollars-for-votes schemes for certain states.

In a letter to Attorney General King, Governor Riley offered the assistance of Alabama’s Medicaid experts in the investigation of the Senate health care shenanigans, but asked that King go further to determine whether other deals have been arranged to alleviate federal funding mandates for certain states in order to win votes. It was recently revealed that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid worked out special deals that allow the federal government to pay for increased costs of expanded Medicaid programs in the states of Nebraska and Louisiana in exchange for key votes from their senators.

I wonder if Ben Nelson had to wear a mini-skirt and can call Harry Reid “Big Daddy” to finalize the deal?

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I trust he will be fair in his questions and guide his fellow Republicans to a vote for or against. 

When President Barack Obama sends Congress his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, the Republican leading the critique of his or her qualifications will be Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, one of the more conservative members on Capitol Hill.

After a few days of negotiations inside the GOP, Sessions’ fellow Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday endorsed naming him as the ranking minority member of the committee, and the full party caucus is scheduled to ratify the decision today.

With the appointment, Sessions shoots from the rank-and-file into a high-profile leadership role just in time for the heated national debate over who should be the next Supreme Court justice, replacing David Souter.  (Source)

We must also thank Sen. Arlen Specter for jumping ship to Sen. Sessions (a true conservative) can lead the way.  The minority party is actually in the power here, as at least one vote from the minority is required to approve a nominee. 

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U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions said Friday that he has a good chance to be named the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, a career milestone for the junior senator from Alabama. It’s also one that would put him in the forefront of the confirmation process for President Barack Obama’s first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.  (The Birmingham News via al.com)

Thanks to Arlen Specter finally throwing off the cloak of being a Republican and showing his true colors, liberal democrat, the position is open to a republican with back-bone, honor and the belief in the true American way set down by the founding fathers. 

The job came open when Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania on Tuesday announced his switch to the Democratic Party. Republicans ever since have been scrambling to figure out who would succeed him on the high-profile committee.

Good Luck Senator! You have my vote.

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If you have never heard Sen. Sessions when he’s not happy about something, you’re missing a well spoken man with a wicked sense of humor.

Here is a little part of his feelings on Tax Cheat Geithner:

You see, we now own about 80 percent of AIG. It is ours–yours and mine. Who then is to run AIG? Secretary Geithner? I like to call these high finance guys such as Mr. Geithner “masters of the universe.” He is now returning from Europe where he upbraided the Governments of France and Germany for not spending more money and for not invading deeper into the private sector and for not going into debt even more deeply to, as he would say, I guess, stimulate the economy. He thinks they ought to spend more and borrow more, and they are spending more and borrowing a lot. He thinks they should be spending more and borrowing more and they should be like us.

I suspect running AIG must be a bit distracting even for our fine master of the universe because he has taken on the duty of advising not only the President and our Congress on how to fix the economy, but he is now advising our big government friends in Europe who are concerned about taking on more debt. The world is his parish, it seems. All the while, the proud people of the United States, inheritors of a great tradition of free enterprise and limited Government, watched this spectacle unfold in total mortification.

Masters of the Universe.   You need to go read the whole thing (it is long but worth it).

Senator Sessions is a good man who loves his country and the people of Alabama.

Have a great day!

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Growing up in Southern Minnesota gave me an appreciation for snow — or should I say a hatred of it.

But living down south as long as I have, sometimes I miss it.  

Well today, snow arrived in Central Alabama.   I had to take pictures of course.

These  first two are from the back porch.

And the one below is also from the backyard, looking over the neighbor’s yard.

 
(Note the date is wrong because the batteries needed changing, I really did take them just this morning!)

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Roscoe hasn’t a clue what this stuff is!

Its really sticking now and was a bit too chilly for me to run around out there and take any more.  Weather Channel says 2″ accumulation.  No gym for me today and now a fire has been built in the fireplace!

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I did.

US Senator Jeff Sessions (R) in a speech on the Senate floor November 20th. Snippets below.

…on the question of the bailout, less than one-third of the American people in the Rasmussen Poll said they favored an automobile company bailout. This is contrary to our fundamental principles. We may have to, at certain times, do things that are a violation of principle. We ought to be very cautious about doing so. These are things that have served this country well for over 200 years. We need to be careful about it.

So I do not think the change people voted for was to authorize Congress to go on a wild spending spree, throwing money at every problem. We have already had, this year, a $150 billion stimulus that was supposed to ward off the recession–sending out checks to everybody, and this was going to fix it.

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A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs. It would permit the company to shed excess labor, pension, and real estate costs. The Federal Government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing and assure car buyers that their warranties are not at risk.

Now, those are the kinds of suggestions that come close to making sense to me.

He talked about his father, George Romney, the Governor of Michigan, who also ran for President at one point. This is what he said his father did when he saved American Motors at the time:

My dad cut his pay and that of his executive team, he bought stock at his company– To show faith in it– and he went out to the factories to talk to workers directly. Get rid of the planes, the executive dining rooms–all the symbols that breed resentment among the hundreds of thousands who will also be sacrificing to keep the companies afloat.

Congressmen Mike Rogers (R) in his Report from Washington November 20th. Snippets below.

While no one wants to see any company fail, I cannot support a proposal that uses taxpayer funds to bail out a handful of individual companies facing crisis due to their own mistakes and questionable management decisions, while ignoring others also struggling to make ends meet.
Here in East Alabama, we’re home to both Hyundai in Montgomery and Honda in Lincoln, not to mention the new Kia plant right over the Georgia line in West Point.

In the bailout’s current form none of Alabama’s automakers would benefit directly – much less the hundreds of small and medium sized businesses across East Alabama who wouldn’t be eligible for such assistance but who are also struggling.

These businesses employ hard working Americans too that are facing tough times. Why would Congress ignore their needs?

What side are your senators and representatives on in regard to the Big 3 Bail Out?

Do you know?

Go find out!

Here are their takes on the Bail Out (or Socialism 101 I heard someone say).

Senator Jeff Sessions:

I think in a fundamental sense, the goals I believe we should have would be first to protect the interests of the taxpayers before we spend in a manner of days an amount of money equal to and in excess of the war in Iraq–almost one-third of our annual expenditures. Let’s protect the taxpayers. How do we do that? We need to find out more about the problems. We are told there are grave problems, problems, problems, and we have to act, act, act. Exactly what are those problems that require us to act so fast?

Senator Richard Shelby:

“Once again, what troubles me most is that we have been given no credible assurances that this plan will work.  We could very well spend $700 billion and not resolve the crisis.  Before I sign off on something of this magnitude, I want to know that we have exhausted all reasonable alternatives.  I don’t believe that can be done in a weekend.  Unfortunately, the incredibly accelerated process for considering this bill means that Congress does not have time to determine if there are better alternatives to Treasury’s plan.  I am very concerned that the expressed need to pass something now may prevent us from devising a plan that actually works.  Without question, our markets and financial institutions need serious attention.  I do not believe, however, that we can solve this crisis by spending a massive amount of money on bad securities.  It is time that the Administration and Congress do the hard work of devising, as quickly as possible, a comprehensive and workable plan for resolving this crisis, before we waste $700 billion of taxpayer money.”

No.Bail.Out.

Money!, Originally uploaded to Flickr by Tracy O