Republicans are jumping on the news that participation in the food stamps program hit a new record of 46.7 million individuals in June (about one in seven Americans). In a sluggish economy, an increase in food stamps participation is to be expected. Thus, it’s fair to hold up the increase in food stamps usage as being emblematic of the Obama administration’s failed economic policies. In addition, the president’s 2009 “stimulus” bill increased benefits and eligibility.
What Republicans don’t want to acknowledge is the role they played in expanding the food stamps program before President Obama ever took office. The 2002 farm bill—passed by a Republican-controlled House and signed by Republican President George W. Bush—expanded the food stamps program. As the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page correctly noted yesterday, “The food-stamp boom began with the George W. Bush Republicans, who expanded benefits in the appalling 2002 farm bill.”
The 2008 farm bill further expanded the program. However, on this the Journal lets the GOP off the hook when it says “But the supercharger was a 2008 bill out of the Pelosi Congress that goosed eligibility and rebranded the program as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, to reduce the stigma of being on the dole.” Although Bush vetoed that farm bill (he didn’t cite the increase for food stamps in his veto message), congressional Republicans were instrumental in enabling the “Pelosi Congress” to override it. In the House, 99 (out of 195) Republicans joined most Democrats in voting to override the veto. In the Senate, only 12 Republicans voted to sustain Bush’s veto.
One of those Republicans who voted to override Bush’s veto—and who also voted for the 2002 farm bill—is Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama. Sessions, who is the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, has been a chief critic of the growth in food stamps under President Obama. Sessions has been particularly critical of the administration’s efforts to “recruit” new food stamps recipients. For example, a “Community Outreach Partner Toolkit” produced by the USDA in 2011 that suggests throwing a “great party”:
Host social events where people mix and mingle. Make it fun by having activities, games, food, and entertainment, and provide information about SNAP. Putting SNAP information in a game format like BINGO, crossword puzzles, or even a “true/false” quiz is fun and helps get your message across in a memorable way.
It’s probable, however, that the food stamps outreach is being driven by the bureaucrats at the USDA. To Sessions’s credit, he acknowledges as much in a press release on the USDA’s recent cessation of radio ads designed to attract Spanish-speaking individuals to the program. It’s important to note that these “radio novellas” were produced during the Bush administration. Similarly, a partnership with the Mexican government to make Mexican nationals more aware of U.S. welfare programs—including food stamps—was signed by Bush’s agriculture secretary Ann Veneman in 2004.
The Obama administration certainly deserves to be heavily criticized for the growth in government dependency. But attacks from Republicans (e.g., Newt Gingrich calling President Obama the “food stamps president”) have been too disingenuous. Yes, Republicans are now calling for the food stamps program to be cut, but given their culpability in its growth—and the fact that it’s an election year—it’s hard to view their sudden discovery of religion as anything more than standard politics.
Addendum: Here’s Chris Edwards’ recent chart showing the growth in food stamps spending under presidents Bush and Obama:
Tennessee lineman Steven Fowlkes stops Georgia State quarterback Ben McLane as he drops back to pass at Neyland Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AMY SMOTHERMAN BURGESS/NEWS SENTINEL)
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I am still sad about losing ESPN Game Day to rival Tennessee Vols because we can’t finish against ULM. With less than 4 minutes left ULM shanks a punt 9 yards and we take over at the ULM 44 yard line and all we have to do is get the ball a few yards down the field and kick a fieldgoal to go up by 10 but instead we give the ball back to them and they end up winning.
It is quite strange to only have 2 SEC conference games the 3rd week of the football season. Last weekend we had several games and the rest of the season will be flooded with games. However, this weekend we only have two. Bama travels to Fayetteville to take on my Hogs and Florida travels to Knoxville, Tennessee to take on the Vols.
I am going with Tennessee to win by 1 with a last second fieldgoal in this game and I think the Hogs will play their best game of the year and the game will be decided on the final possession. This is assuming that Tyler Wilson will be back like I am hearing that he will be. He did practice on Wednesday but has not been cleared to play yet.
One thing is common on both of these series. The home team has gone a long time without winning. The hometown Hogs have not beaten Alabama in several years and the hometown Vols have not beaten Florida since 2004.
Georgia State quarterback Ben McLane runs 12 yards for a touchdown with just under one minute left in the game against Tennessee at Neyland Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. UT won the home opener 51-13.(AMY SMOTHERMAN BURGESS/NEWS SENTINEL)
Here is an article by John Adams on the Tennessee Florida series:
As soon as Tennessee’s game with Georgia State game ended, The Streak came to mind.
Why wouldn’t it?
The Tennessee-Florida rivalry, which will resume Saturday atNeyland Stadium, has become more of a streak than a series — a seven-game succession of Florida chomps and UT blunders.
Florida was streaking in the 1990s, too, when it beat the Vols five consecutive times (1993-97). But the Gators were dominating the SEC in those days. They’re an also-ran in the East now.
Florida has lost 11 games the previous two seasons. It has lost to Alabama, LSU, Auburn and Georgia in succession. It has lost back-to-back games to South Carolina. It has lost to Mississippi State. It has almost lost to Vanderbilt.
It still hasn’t lost to the Vols since 2004.
Depending on your side of The Streak, different names come to mind. Florida fans remember Tim Tebow converting on fourth-and-short or Brandon James going long. They remember Dustin Doe scooping up a fumble and running for a touchdown or Tony Joiner breaking up an ill-advised fourth-down pass from a freshman punter. They remember Janoris Jenkins intercepting in a crowd and Chris Rainey running free in the secondary.
Florida fans remember who scored. UT fans remember who fumbled.
Doe couldn’t have altered the course of Florida’s 59-20 victory in 2007 if UT running back Arian Foster hadn’t fumbled the ball his way when the Vols were only eight points down in the third quarter.
Britton Colquitt had to choose a pass over a punt before Joiner could become a fourth-down hero in 2005. And some coach had to sign off on kicking or punting the ball in James’ direction (pick any season between 2006 and 2009).
Obscured in those highlights and low-lights is my signature play of The Streak. It occurred in the last minute of the first half in 2008.
The Gators already had a 20-0 lead as UT lined up a yard away from their goal line. A third-down pass was incomplete. A fourth-down pass was intercepted by Jenkins.
Did I mention that the Vols had two downs to make 1 yard? You think someone with play-calling clout might have lobbied for at least one run?
Then again, maybe not. Two things the Vols haven’t done in The Streak: run the ball, or hold onto it as well as the Gators.
The rushing statistics are staggering in The Streak. The Gators rushed for 255 yards in the 2007 game. That’s only 80 yards fewer than the Vols have totaled rushing in the seven lost games. UT had -9 yards rushing against the Gators last season. They had -11 yards in 2006. Only once during what qualifies as the Dark Ages of the series have they rushed for more than 100 yards (117 in 2009).
Nor have the Gators had more turnovers than the Vols in any of the seven games. Florida has thrown just three interceptions in The Streak. UT might have thrown five last season if the Gators hadn’t dropped a handful of opportunities.
The Streak began with a drop.
The Vols were going for a third consecutive victory in the series in 2005 and looked capable of pulling it off at halftime. Then, early in the third quarter of a 7-7 game, Eric Wilbur punted the ball to UT’s Jonathan Hefney. He fumbled the ball back to the Gators, who took the lead on a field goal moments later en route to a 16-7 victory.
The topic of this weekend’s weekly presidential radio address was education. The message? You guessed it: The federal government needs to “invest” more in education — as do other levels of government — but instead they are making cuts.
The evidence, frankly, is overwhelming that federal education “investment” is really just flushing precious money down the toilet. Which makes me think that maybe President Obama doesn’t read our stuff. Or maybe he just doesn’t care.
adam brimer/News Sentinel Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin reacts to a call during the Vols’ 31-16 win over Vanderbilt in 2009.
I said in an earlier post that Lane Kiffin was silly recently when he talked about how they had overcome so much to earn the #1 ranking in the preseason poll. Sure enough he lost that ranking to Alabama a few days later and I pointed out that Kiffin was successful at only putting off the stiff NCAA recruiting sactions for 2 years and now he will have to reap the consequences in 2014-2015 when his junior and senior classes will be subpar for sure. Of course, these future penalties have not stopped Kiffin for bragging. The only thing I can think of that will do that will be Oregon or possibly a SEC team beat down in the national championship game.
John Robinson sounded pretty confident about USC when he spoke at the Little Rock Touchdown Club earlier this year. I do admit that the SEC can not continue to win the national championship every year. You would think that another team would come along and win it sooner or later.
Now a book has come along and claimed that Kiffin will be a great coach in the future, but he did stretch the rules while at Tennesseee.
A book devoted to recent SEC national champions still had room for Tennessee football. Fans can thankLane Kiffin for that.
“How the SEC Became Goliath,” is the title of the book, which chronicles the conference’s ascent to preeminence in collegefootball. Former Knoxville sportswriter Ray Glier, who now works as a freelance journalist, features each of the conference’s six consecutive national champions (2006-11).
But he also includes an entire chapter on former UT coach Lane Kiffin’s brief, but determined, attempt to put the Vols back among the league’s elite programs.
“The real hook for me (on Tennessee) was that it’s an incredibly competitive conference, and people will stretch rules to win games,” said Glier, a former executive sports editor of the Knoxville Journal. “I think he’s a great coach. He’s a great play caller. What was going on in the SEC (in 2009) with three consecutive titles made him more ambitious.”
A series of emails from an anonymous UT employee to former athletic directorMike Hamilton reflected how ambitious, Glier said. One of the emails, which Glier obtained, questioned the videotaping of voluntary workouts in the early months of Kiffin’s tenure at UT.
According to the book, the email to Hamilton read: “When the team is working on the defensive end of Haslam Field, someone is set up in the stairwell in Stokely (Ath
letic Center) with a camera. They film from inside the stairwell through a glass window across the street. It just raises the question, ‘If filming these workouts is permissible, why not use some of the towers (on the practice field)? Why hide it?’ ”
Hamilton didn’t respond with an email, Glier said.
Glier quoted another email from an anonymous UT employee to Hamilton: “I hope you budgeted extra money for defending (NCAA) violations.”
The name of whoever sent the emails to Hamilton was redacted, according to Glier.
An NCAA investigation of UT’s football program turned up no major violations — just a number of secondary violations under Kiffin, who took the head-coaching job at Southern California after one year at Tennessee.
“I wanted to show the passion (of SEC football) and what teams go through to win a title,” Glier said. “Also, I think (Kiffin is) a great coach. He was on his way (at Tennessee) but he was taking some short cuts.”
Glier closed his chapter on UT and Kiffin with this: “If not this season, then one season soon, Kiffin will get a chance to show the SEC, after all the rigmarole, that he was not just talk, that he may be the next great coach in college football.”
Glier’s book will go on sale in the next two weeks.
Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley, right, shakes hands with Georgia State head coach Bill Curry, left, after the Vols defeated the Panthers 51-13 at Neyland Stadium Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (ADAM BRIMER/NEWS SENTINEL)
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It could be argued that Tennessee is going to have a good year with an improved defense and a healthy quarterback to lead them this year. Actually Mark May picked the Vols to surpise a lot of people because of these two reasons when he spoke at the Little Rock Touchdown Club a few weeks ago.
Here is what a few local journalists had to say on the matter on Arkansas Sports360:
COOLING SEATS Harris: Derek Dooley (Tennessee) and Will Muschamp (Florida) square off this weekend? Who needs it the most? Is the loser squarely back on the hot seat?
Schroeder: Dooley needs it more. Somewhat lost in the hoopla over Texas A&M’s entrance into the SEC was that it was a pretty big game for Muschamp, too. He’s only in his second season, but the Gators haven’t been very good, and haven’t looked very good, and that fan base is not a patient bunch. The Aggies aren’t good, either — but that was an important road win for Muschamp. Yeah, he needs to win at Tennessee — but Dooley’s seat is much, much hotter.
Acri: I think they have led their teams to nice wins early and I think neither guy has to win this game. Sorry, I am not normally one who falls in line with the overhyping of Week 3 games, but they are both in good shape today, I think. I do like Tennessee, not that you asked.
Doc: I say Dooley, just because he’s in his third year and Muschamp is just in his second. I think Dooley’s hot seat would be much warmer than Muschamp’s just because of the extra year Dooley’s had to turn things around in Knoxville.
Schroeder: The win over NC State helped Dooley. But he has to win SEC games, especially at home, or he’ll be coaching elsewhere in 2013. (Aside: Wonder if the Vols could find a way to hire Bobby? Nah, couldn’t happen, right?)
Also, and this is completely unsolicited: Please, Derek, drop the orange pants (no, wait, that came out wrong). Try some khakis, man.
Hitler’s last few moments of life were filled with anxiety as they should have been. He went on to face his maker and pay dearly for his many sins. When I look at the never before released pictures of Hitler’s bunker, it makes me wonder how anyone can claim that this life doesn’t count for all eternity and people like Hitler are home free like Woody Allen’s movie “Crimes and Misdemeanors” suggests.
I am not going to give all the blog posts but there were many. Here is another one.
No Everette, god does not establish moral codes. We do. We can attribute them to any deity of your choosing but make no mistake we, society, set moral codes. I suppose you were at prayer meeting on the occasions we discussed civil and moral codes and origins. They existed long before the Hebrewic god came along.
Warning to fundamentalists: Don’t let go of your imaginary place called “Hell.” It could cost you a job, family and friends. So, since security is our most important possession hang on to Hell.
Elwood, answer this one question. HOW COULD JUDAH HAVE REMOVED HIS TROUBLESOME MISTRESS FROM HIS LIFE WITHOUT KILLING HER? Woody Allen knew what he was doing in this film and he was showing that without God and an afterlife then there is no reason not to murder!!!!
Woody Allen’s 1989 movie, CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS , is concerning the need of God while making decisions in the area of personal morality. In this film, Allen attacks his own atheistic view of morality. Martin Landau plays a Jewish eye doctor named Judah Rosenthal raised by a religious father who always told him, “The eyes of God are always upon you.” However, Judah later concludes that God doesn’t exist. He has his mistress (played in the film by Anjelica Huston) murdered because she continually threatened to blow the whistle on his past questionable, probably illegal, business activities. She also attempted to break up Judah ‘s respectable marriage by going public with their two-year affair. Judah struggles with his conscience throughout the remainder of the movie. He continues to be haunted by his father’s words: “The eyes of God are always upon you.” This is a very scary phrase to a young boy, Judah observes. He often wondered how penetrating God’s eyes are.
Later in the film, Judah reflects on the conversation his religious father had with Judah ‘s unbelieving Aunt May at the dinner table many years ago:
“Come on Sol, open your eyes. Six million Jews burned to death by the Nazis, and they got away with it because might makes right,” says aunt May
Sol replies, “May, how did they get away with it?”
Judah asks, “If a man kills, then what?”
Sol responds to his son, “Then in one way or another he will be punished.”
Aunt May comments, “I say if he can do it and get away with it and he chooses not to be bothered by the ethics, then he is home free.”
Judah ‘s final conclusion was that might did make right. He observed that one day, because of this conclusion, he woke up and the cloud of guilt was gone. He was, as his aunt said, “home free.”
Woody Allen has exposed a weakness in his own humanistic view that God is not necessary as a basis for good ethics. There must be an enforcement factor in order to convince Judah not to resort to murder. Otherwise, it is fully to Judah ‘s advantage to remove this troublesome woman from his life.
…Elwood, are you missing in action? Earlier you asserted, “No everette, God does not establish moral codes. We do.” However, you will not elaborate on what the atheist Judah should have done to silence his mistress and save his marriage. Should he have confessed it all (including his past illegal activities) and faced the penalties or pay his hitman brother to have her done away with quietly like he did?
When it comes to morals you like to make big statements but you can not back it up by answering this simple question. I would love to hear from other atheists on this too. Maybe they will run and hide.
I don’t think eLwood is going to drop by, so I’ll take my shot at this.
You are correct that Woody Allen has pointed up a feature of the world as it exists, a feature that I don’t happen to like: People sometimes get away with murder.
What you don’t get, though, is what I just said: It is a feature of the world as it exists that justice is not inherent. Whether you or I like that or not, it’s how it is. In a world without any god, justice and meaning and all good and moral things have to be determined and imposed by people.
With god, one could, in theory, just shrug one’s shoulders at Hitler and say, “You’ll get yours, someday.” With the Christian god as accepted by many fundamentalists, Hitler could make a deathbed conversion and go straight to heaven, do not pass hell, do not collect eternal damnation.
Another great artist, Randy Newman, speaking as the Devil makes this point to an angel, “a good girl, cut down in your prime”, recently arrived in heaven:
“The man who shot you in the head In that ‘Burger King in Tucson Well, he never will be punished you know He will move to Big Pine, California Become the richest man in Inyo County While that may not be much, it’s enough When he dies Sixty-five years from today With his loved ones all around him He’ll be whisked right up to heaven He won’t pass go or have to wait He’ll just march right through the Goddamned gate And why, you may ask yourself why For thousands and thousands of years I have asked myself why”
To which James Taylor, playing God, answers:
“Faith. Contrition. Sincere contrition. Confession. Sincere confession Redemption. Absolution Those who seek Me shall find Me In the case of this man, Predestination
My ways are mysterious Sometimes even to myself My ways are mysterious”
Now, that’s not terribly satisfying from a moral point of view either. The “death and glory” version of Universalism, where all souls go to heaven as soon as they leave the body makes much more sense from an ethical point of view, especially if you accept the late Bill Hicks’ description of life:
“It’s just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.”
Of course, Hicks, like myself, was somewhere between an agnostic and an atheist. Like Hicks, I don’t expect any life after death or eternal reward. Justice has to be provided here on earth.
So when a Hitler or a Nixon dies, not unpunished–both those men suffered, though not in proportion to their evil–or scot free, but still without having truly experienced justice for their sins, it’s the fault of those women and men who didn’t work hard enough to impose justice upon them.
That’s the ethical duty we face in the absence of god: Justice here and now, determined by human reason and imposed by human action.
Martin King’s riff on Theodore Parker’s claim, that the arc of the universe is long but that it bends toward justice, is true in a world populated by humans, who aren’t bad and who take that arc in their hands and bend it for all they’re worth. Atheists and thoughtful theists alike don’t depend on god to git-r-done (for values of ‘r’ which include ‘justice’).
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Let me start responding by first quoting two points that you make:
You are correct that Woody Allen has pointed up a feature of the world as it exists, a feature that I don’t happen to like: People sometimes get away with murder.
What you don’t get, though, is what I just said: It is a feature of the world as it exists that justice is not inherent. Whether you or I like that or not, it’s how it is. In a world without any god, justice and meaning and all good and moral things have to be determined and imposed by people.
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Let us take a close look at how you are going to come up with morality as an atheist. When you think about it there is no way around the final conclusion that it is just your opinion against mine concerning morality. There is no final answers. However, if God does exist and he has imparted final answers to us then everything changes.
What doesn’t make sense is to look at the existence of evil and question the existence of God. The reason is that atheism turns out being a self-defeating philosophic solution to this problem of evil. Think of what evil is for a minute when we make this kind of objection. Evil is a value judgment that must be measured against a morally perfect standard in order to be meaningful. In other words, something is evil in that it departs from a perfect standard of good. C.S. Lewis made the point, “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call something crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.”[ 1 ] He also goes on to point out that a portrait is a good or a bad likeness depending on how it compares with the “perfect” original. So to talk about evil, which is a departure from good, actually presumes something that exists that is absolutely good. If there is no God there’s no perfect standard, no absolute right or wrong, and therefore no departure from that standard. So if there is no God, there can’t be any evil, only personal likes and dislikes–what I prefer morally and what I don’t prefer morally.
This is the big problem with moral relativism as a moral point of view when talking about the problem of evil. If morality is ultimately a matter of personal taste–that’s what most people hold nowadays–then it’s just your opinion what’s good or bad, but it might not be my opinion. Everybody has their own view of morality and if it’s just a matter of personal taste–like preferring steak over broccoli or Brussels sprouts–the objection against the existence of God based on evil actually vanishes because the objection depends on the fact that some things are intrinsically evil–that evil isn’t just a matter of my personal taste, my personal definition. But that evil has absolute existence and the problem for most people today is that there is no thing that is absolutely wrong. Premarital sex? If it’s right for you. Abortion? It’s an individual choice. Killing? It depends on the circumstances. Stealing? Not if it’s from a corporation.
The fact is that most people are drowning in a sea of moral relativism. If everything is allowed then nothing is disallowed. Then nothing is wrong. Then nothing is ultimately evil. What I’m saying is that if moral relativism is true, which it seems like most people seem to believe–even those that object against evil in the world, then the talk of objective evil as a philosophical problem is nonsense. To put it another way, if there is no God, then morals are all relative. And if moral relativism is true, then something like true moral evil can’t exist because evil becomes a relative thing.
An excellent illustration of this point comes from the movie The Quarrel . In this movie, a rabbi and a Jewish secularist meet again after the Second World War after they had been separated. They had gotten into a quarrel as young men, separated on bad terms, and then had their village and their family and everything destroyed through the Second World War, both thinking the other was dead. They meet serendipitously in Toronto, Canada in a park and renew their friendship and renew their old quarrel.
To paraphrase the late Dr. Francis Schaeffer, the person who argues against the existence of God based on the existence of evil in the world has both feet firmly planted in mid-air.
Rabbi Hersch says to the secularist Jew Chiam, “If a person does not have the Almighty to turn to, if there’s nothing in the universe that’s higher than human beings, then what’s morality? Well, it’s a matter of opinion. I like milk; you like meat. Hitler likes to kill people; I like to save them. Who’s to say which is better? Do you begin to see the horror of this? If there is no Master of the universe then who’s to say that Hitler did anything wrong? If there is no God then the people that murdered your wife and kids did nothing wrong.”
That is a very, very compelling point coming from the rabbi. In other words, to argue against the existence of God based on the existence of evil forces us into saying something like this: Evil exists, therefore there is no God. If there is no God then good and evil are relative and not absolute, so true evil doesn’t exist, contradicting the first point. Simply put, there cannot be a world in which it makes any sense to say that evil is real and at the same time say that God doesn’t exist. If there is no God then nothing is ultimately bad, deplorable, tragic or worthy of blame. The converse, by the way, is also true. This is the other hard part about this, it cuts both ways. Nothing is ultimately good, honorable, noble or worthy of praise. Everything is ultimately lost in a twilight zone of moral nothingness. To paraphrase the late Dr. Francis Schaeffer, the person who argues against the existence of God based on the existence of evil in the world has both feet firmly planted in mid-air.
Francis Schaeffer pictured above.
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By your own admission man imposes his own morality and that is why I want to challenge atheist like “John Arkansawyer” to show what basis he has for saying Hitler was wrong!!!
Early in his career Hitler was popular and many of the German people bought into his anti-semetic views. Does the atheist have an intellectual basis to condemn Hitler’s actions?
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I personally met someone who was part of the Hitler youth movement in Germany in the 1930’s and until his dying day he believed that Hitler was right. I had a basis for knowing that Hitler was wrong and here it is below.
It is my view that according the Bible all men are created by God and are valuable. However, the atheist has no basis for coming to this same conclusion. Francis Schaeffer put it this way:
We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin—who they are. God tells man who he is. God tells us that He created man in His image. So man is some- thing wonderful.
Francis Schaeffer died in 1984, but there is a website dedicated to his works. In 1972 he wrote the book “He is There and He is Not Silent.” Here is the statement that sums up that book:
One of philosophy’s biggest problems is that anything exists at all and has the form that it does. Another is that man exists as a personal being and makes true choices and has moral responsibility. The Bible gives sufficient answers to these problems. In fact, the only sufficient answer is that the infinite-personal triune God is there and He is not silent. He has spoken to man in the Bible.
The basic question Woody Allen is presenting to his own agnostic humanistic worldview is: If you really believe there is no God there to punish you in an afterlife, then why not murder if you can get away with it? The secular humanist worldview that modern man has adopted does not work in the real world that God has created. God “has planted eternity in the human heart…” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). This is a direct result of our God-given conscience. The apostle Paul said it best in Romans 1:19, “For that which is known about God is evident to them and made plain in their inner consciousness, because God has shown it to them” (Amplified Version).
It’s no wonder, then, that one of Allen’s fellow humanists would comment, “Certain moral truths — such as do not kill, do not steal, and do not lie — do have a special status of being not just ‘mere opinion’ but bulwarks of humanitarian action. I have no intention of saying, ‘I think Hitler was wrong.’ Hitler WAS wrong.” (Gloria Leitner, “A Perspective on Belief,” The Humanist, May/June 1997, pp.38-39). Here Leitner is reasoning from her God-given conscience and not from humanist philosophy. It wasn’t long before she received criticism.
Humanist Abigail Ann Martin responded, “Neither am I an advocate of Hitler; however, by whose criteria is he evil?” (The Humanist, September/October 1997, p. 2.). Humanists don’t really have an intellectual basis for saying that Hitler was wrong, but their God-given conscience tells them that they are wrong on this issue.
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen – 1989) – Final scenes
I don’t have anything good to say about the Hogs’ performance last Saturday but some other SEC teams did pretty well. I am looking forward to the Tennessee Florida game since both teams looked very good last week. QB TYLER BRAY (Tennessee) — Completed 18-of-20 passes for 310 yards and four touchdowns in Tennessee’s 51-13 win against Georgia State. DL COREY MILLER (Tennessee) — Had six tackles with 1.5 for losses, including a sack, in Tennessee’s 51-13 win against Georgia State.
SEC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
TYLER RUSSELL (Watch Mississippi State Highlights)
Quarterback
MISSISSIPPI STATE
6-4 • 220 • Jr. • Meridian, Miss.
• Russell led Mississippi State to a 28-10 victory over Auburn in the SEC opener for both teams, State’s first win in an SEC opener since 1999.
• He completed 20-of-29 passes for 222 yards and three touchdowns without an interception.
• Russell led the Bulldogs on three touchdown drives in its first four second half possessions as State scored 21 unanswered points to seal the game.
• He completed passes to nine different receivers.
SEC DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
JARVIS JONES (Watch Georgia Highlights)
Outside Linebacker
GEORGIA
6-3 • 241 • Jr. • Columbus, Ga.
• Jones had the second-most tackles for the Bulldogs (9), two sacks/TFLs, an interception, two forced fumbles and five quarterback pressures during Georgia’s 41-20 victory over Missouri.
• Jones now has 16.5 sacks over his last 16 games and 24 tackles for loss in that span and is leading the SEC in TFLs this season.
• Jones’ first career INT came midway through the final quarter with the Bulldogs up 27-20 as he managed to grab the pick and return it 21 yards to the Tiger 1-yard line.
• On Missouri’s next possession, Jones sacked James Franklin for a loss of 11 yards and forced a fumble that the Bulldogs recovered deep in Tiger territory.
SEC SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
CALEB STURGIS (Watch Florida Highlights)
Placekicker
FLORIDA
5-9 • 185 • So. • DeSoto, Texas
• Sturgis connected on both of his field goal attempts and accounted for eight points in Florida’s 20-17 win at Texas A&M.
• He connected on a 51-yard field goal in the second quarter, which closed the Aggie lead to 17-10 going into halftime.
• Sturgis extended his school record of 50-plus yard kicks to seven, which is also tops among all active kickers nationally.
• He now has 100 career PATs made and his 76.9 career field goal percentage is currently 10th in SEC history.
SEC Co-OFFENSIVE LINEMAN PLAYER OF THE WEEK
LARRY WARFORD (Watch Kentucky Highlights)
Guard
KENTUCKY
6-3 • 343 • Sr. • Richmond, Ky.
• Warford graded out at 91.7 percent with eight knockdown blocks, no penalties and allowed no sacks in Kentucky’s 47-14 win againt Kent State. UK’s 47 points and 539 yards total offense were the most since 2010
• Hawkins helped the Ole Miss offense rack up 538 total yards, including 332 on the ground, in a 28-10 win over UTEP. He made his 18th career start and second at right guard after playing center and left guard his first three seasons.
SEC Co-DEFENSIVE LINEMAN OF THE WEEK
SAM MONTGOMERY (Watch LSU Highlights)
Defensive End
LSU
6-5 • 260 • Jr. • Greenwood, S.C.
• Montgomery registered 4 tackles, 1 sack (3-yard loss) and 1.5 TFL (4-yard loss) in LSU’s 41-3 win over Washington. He also added 3 QB hurries as the Tigers held Washington to only 12 first downs and 183 yards of total offense.
• Moore registered 10 total tackles, seven solos, and had three QB sacks (-21 yards) in Texas A&M’s 20-17 loss to Florida. Moore now leads the nation in sacks per game (3.00) and is fifth in tackles for loss per game (3.00).
SEC FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK
JALEN MILLS (Watch LSU Highlights)
Cornerback
LSU
6-0 • 185 • DeSoto, Texas
• Mills, a true freshman, made his second straight start at cornerback for the Tigers and was second on team with 7 tackles to go with first interception of career in 41-3 win over Washington.
• He added one pass breakup as the Tiger defense dominated the Huskies, holding Washington to just 183 yards of total offense (26 rushing, 157 passing).
• Washington’s longest drive was just 45 yards and outside of LSU fumbling the opening kickoff at its own 16-yardline, the Huskies never got inside the LSU 30-yard line the entire game.
OTHER OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES FROM WEEK 2
LB C.J. MOSLEY (Alabama) — Recorded game-high 11 tackles with a sack and pass deflection in Alabama’s 35-0 win against Western Kentucky.
WR KEVIN NORWOOD (Alabama) — Caught three passes for a game-high 92 yards and two touchdowns in Alabama’s 35-0 win against Western Kentucky.
TE CHRIS GRAGG (Arkansas) — Caught team-high seven passes for 83 yards in Arkansas’ 34-31 loss to Louisiana-Monroe.
RB/RS ONTERIO McCALEBB (Auburn) — Returned kick 100 yards for a touchdown and accounted for 149 all-purpose yards in Auburn’s 28-10 loss at Mississippi State.
RB MIKE GILLISLEE (Florida) — Rushed for 83 yards and two touchdowns in Florida’s 20-17 win at Texas A&M.
SE MARLON BROWN (Georgia) — Hauled in a career-high eight catches for 106 yards and two touchdowns in Georgia’s 41-20 win at Missouri.
QB MAXWELL SMITH (Kentucky) — Completed 30-of-39 passes for 354 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions in Kentucky’s 47-14 win against Kent State.
QB BO WALLACE (Ole Miss) — Completed 15-of-22 passes for 174 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for 53 yards and a TD in Ole Miss’ 28-10 win against UTEP.
DB JOHNTHAN BANKS (Mississippi State) — Registered six total tackles and two interceptions in the Bulldogs’ 28-10 win against Auburn.
QB JAMES FRANKLIN (Missouri) — Completed 25-of-41 passes for 269 yards with two TDs and an interception in Missouri’s 41-20 loss to Georgia.
QB DYLAN THOMPSON (South Carolina) — In his first career start, completed 21-of-37 passes for 330 yards and three touchdowns in South Carolina’s 48-10 win over East Carolina.
CB JIMMY LEGREE (South Carolina) — Tied for team-high five total tackles and returned an interception for a touchdown in South Carolina’s 48-10 win over East Carolina.
QB TYLER BRAY (Tennessee) — Completed 18-of-20 passes for 310 yards and four touchdowns in Tennessee’s 51-13 win against Georgia State.
DL COREY MILLER (Tennessee) — Had six tackles with 1.5 for losses, including a sack, in Tennessee’s 51-13 win against Georgia State.
OLB KARL BUTLER (Vanderbilt) — Tallied five total tackles (four solos) with 2.5 for losses (-7 yards) in Vanderbilt’s 23-13 loss at Northwestern.
When I was 16 I met a young man and fell in love. As I have said on many occasions, Tom was my high school sweetheart. Our relationship blossomed through high school and college.
Tom and I married soon after I graduated from college, just knowing that we would live happily ever after. Tom progressed in the Navy as a Top Gun fighter pilot flying F14’s and I advanced in my own career. We were blessed with two wonderful children and it just got better and better.
Tom and I were Bible study leaders. Our family had much joy, peace and contentment and it flowed into all parts of our lives. Everything was fine. I was a normal woman living a very happy life. I never pictured that our dream would suddenly become a nightmare. I never imagined that our peaceful life would be completely shattered.
On September 11th, Tom gave me a kiss goodbye and left for work. Little did I know that I would never see him again. He was to pilot American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles that day.
As the horror of that day unfolded, I quickly realized that I needed God more than ever before. I was devastated – searching for answers that didn’t exist – terrified at the prospect that Tom would not be coming home.
As I have spoken with people around the country I have come to realize that while my tragedy was in many ways unique to me, many of the feelings – the hurt, the loss, the anger, concern for my family – are shared by so many others. In fact, I dare say that all of us will, unfortunately, at some time in our lives experience what I call time in the pit – that time when you feel absolutely lost, alone, afraid and devastated. It may result from the loss of a loved one, divorce, issues with children, career problems or any of the hundreds of other life issues that we all deal with.
What do we do with the pain that results from tragedies in our lives? How do we move beyond them? I have learned how to hope again. Drawing daily from the foundation of faith that Tom and I held together, I have found my footing; He has rebuilt my life.
We have all been impacted by September 11th. Security, peace, safety – things we all took for granted – become casualties of that infamous day. Every life endures saddness and loss. But my story is that no matter what you have experienced or what pain you have suffered, God can bring you through the ashes of destruction to the beauty of life.
On September 11, 2001 the junior trip for the Arkansas Baptist High School of Little Rock was at the White House on the front lawn ready to enter the White House at 9:37 am EST when the plane struck the Pentagon just a few miles away. Secret Service ran out of the White House […]
I heard the amazing testimony of Brian Birdwell on Friday this week and I thought I would share it with you. I am Second – Brian Birdwell Strength Forged from Fire and Faith Face the Fire, the ministry started by severely burned 9/11 Pentagon survivor Lt. Col. (Ret.) Brian Birdwell and wife Mel, gives hope […]
The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported on Sept 10: When Deena Burnett Bailey spoke of the last time she heard her late husband’s voice, the rattle of silverware against china, the whispers and the general noise of a luncheon ceased. Bailey is the widow of Tom E. Burnett, who led resistance efforts on United Flight […]
‘Andy Murray can be a legend like Fred Perry’ says Tim Henman
The waiting is over and Britain has a male Grand Slam singles champion for the first time in 76-years following Andy Murray’s stunning US Open victory over Novak Djokovic.
Murray’s victory has provoked praise from celebrity fans to politicians.
Prime Minister David Cameron has had his say while proud Scots Sir Sean Connery and Sir Alex Ferguson have also been quick to chip in.
Here, BBC Sport looks at the reaction to 25-year-old Murray’s success, from his past and present coach to his home town of Dunblane.
THE COACH
Ivan Lendl: “Hopefully, we’re not anywhere near where Andy can get. I didn’t come here to have a good time – I came here to help Andy win. He did, so it’s job done.
“Andy has been maturing very nicely as a player, as a competitor, as a person. As you mature you become more comfortable in these situations.
“Of course, it’s very important to be in more of these situations and the more of them you are in the more comfortable you feel.”
THE FORMER COACH
Miles Maclagan, who worked with Murray between 2007-2010: ” [Murray is] in uncharted territory and he could go one of two ways. Either he’ll absolutely fly for a while and win everything in sight, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see a bit of a lull.
“You reach a lifetime goal, something you’ve strived for your whole life and you’ve now got it and you have to take a bit of time to think I’ve got to set some new goals, readjust myself and build up some determination for that.”
THE CELEBRITY FANS
Scottish actor Sir Sean Connery, who was at the Arthur Ashe Stadium tells BBC Sport: “I always felt he had everything and now it’s really come to fruition. I met him for the first time a couple of days ago, and it’s great for Scotland.
“We’ve had a really great landslide victory, and stop saying he’s British – he’s Scottish for Christ’s sake. I have to go now because the champion is waiting.”
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who was at the Arthur Ashe Stadium tells BBC Sport: “I’m really proud for the boy. When he really needed to he showed it. That was a real test of a champion for me.
“It was a privilege [to be at the match]. I love tennis, I love watching tennis and to be involved was a really special moment. It was more nerve racking than a Premier League match. I’m usually in control of my own situation, but I wasn’t in control tonight.”
American actor and director Kevin Spacey, who was at the Arthur Ashe Stradium tells BBC Sport: “I don’t think I have ever wanted something more for someone. For all of us who either live in Britain, like I do, or from Britain, the place must be going nuts.
“It is so well deserved. I met him for the first time last week and tonight is one of the matches I will never forget. There’s a time for sporting greats – and this is Andy’s time.”
THE FORMER PLAYERS
Former British number one Tim Henman: “Can he go on and be a legend like Fred Perry? Yes, I think so. I definitely see him going on to win more. How many he can win only time will tell. The confidence of the Olympics and this will give him so much confidence.
“I said the first one [Grand Slam] would be the hardest but I think it will be the first of many, I really do.”
Former British number one Andrew Castle: “What we are finally seeing is a man rather than a boy. So many have come and gone over the years, so many of us have had a crack at it and have done our best.
“But this scrawny boy who came along in 2004-05 was always talented. For me it was at Wimbledon when he grabbed the microphone off Sue Barker – I don’t think Sue liked that much – and said after a wonderful loss ‘This is going to be difficult, but I’m going to say a few words’.
“I thought that was to his credit. People have questioned him and to see him come through, it was exhilarating to watch.”
Andy Murray “When I realised I had won I was obviously a bit shocked”
Prime Minister David Cameron on Twitter: “Delighted Andy Murray is continuing a golden summer of sport by winning the US Open. A truly great victory.”
First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond: “Congratulations to Andy Murray on what was a fantastic performance. This is another brilliant win over Novak Djokovic and continues an amazing year for Andy.
“Now Olympic and US Open champion, Andy truly is a Scottish sporting legend and I’m certain that more Grand Slam titles will follow.”
Dunblane Conservative councillor Callum Campbell: “The word proud just doesn’t do it any justice. The people of Dunblane have been supporting Andy and his brother Jamie since they were young boys and Andy has repaid their loyalty ten times over.
“A lot of young people who live in Dunblane look up to Andy. He’s a local hero.”
THE FORMER SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST
Andy Murray in numbers
294 – the number of minutes it took him to win the US Open final
24 – singles career titles
5 – Grand Slam finals he has reached
3 – the age he took up tennis
22 – the number of Grand Slam matches he has won in 2012
Roberto Forzoni, who has worked with Andy Murray: “Ivan [Lendl] has been terrific. That calming influence, and just his [Murray’s] work rate, determination, his grit to go again and again after each disappointment.
“If you look at his record over the last four or five years it has got better and better. Andy’s been in more finals and semi-finals, and it was only a matter of time.”
THE COMMENTATOR
BBC Sport’s Jonathan Overend on teetotal Murray: “He might even go out for a drink tonight, the night is still young. Murray was in a state of confusion [after winning].
“Obviously he was delighted but there were just so many things going round in his mind on how to react, how he is feeling, hopes for the future. We thought it would never happen, we feared it would never happen because of the quality of opposition he continues to face.”
I got to see Matt Jones speak on 9-10-12 at the Little Rock Touchdown Club and I was proud of him for opening up concerning what brought his career to an end. Drugs can derail a great career. Take a look at what happened to Matt Jones:
Taken in the first round by the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2005, Jones was converted to wide receiver where he caught 166 passes for 2,153 yards and 15 touchdowns in four seasons, including 65 catches in 2008, his final season. He was released by the Jaguars in March 2009 after he was ordered to spend a week in jail for breaking drug court rules following a July 2008 arrest for cocaine possession.
Jones tried to make a comeback in 2010 with the Cincinnati Bengals, but he did not make the team.
“My parents raised me to be a lot better than that,” Jones said. “That was a situation where I was with buddies and made a mistake. The main thing is to learn from that and try and help others so they don’t make the same mistake I did.”
Now Jones seems to be on the right track. He is married to a wonderful lady who is a teacher at Little Rock Christian and her father is a pastor at Calvary Baptist in Camden and Matt and his wife have been attending Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock.
Former Arkansas Razorbacks quarterback Matt Jones (center) said Monday the Razorbacks need to stick together following their 34-31 loss to Louisiana-Monroe.
LITTLE ROCK — With Arkansas suffering a 34-31 overtime defeat to Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday, it’s easy for fans to write off the season and fear the worst with No. 1-ranked Alabama coming into town this week and quarterback Tyler Wilson’s status questionable.
However, former Razorbacks quarterback Matt Jones, who was the guest speaker Monday at the Little Rock Touchdown Club’s weekly luncheon at the Embassy Suites hotel in Little Rock, urged the Razorbacks and fans not to give up.
“It was a tough loss, but the most important thing is for the players to stick together and take an us-against-the world attitude,” Jones said. “You can’t be pointing fingers or blaming others.”
When asked if he faced a similar situation when he was the quarterback of the Razorbacks from 2001-2004, Jones said Arkansas never started a season in his tenure ranked high with huge expectations. He said in 2003, after climbing to No. 7 with victories over No. 5 Texas and Alabama, Arkansas dropped consecutive games to Auburn, Florida and Ole Miss.
In a 10-3 loss to Auburn, Jones had a 78-yard touchdown run nullified by what Jones called a “phantom” holding call on wide receiver George Wilson.
A week later in a 33-28 loss to Florida, the Razorbacks rallied from 33-7 deficit with 8:46 left and appeared to be in position to win when safety Tony Bua was called for roughing Florida quarterback Chris Leak with 1:32 left, nullifying an interception by Sam Olajubutu. As a result, the Gators picked up a first down and ran out the clock.
A week later, Arkansas, without running backs Cedric Cobbs and De’Arrius Howard, fell 19-7 at Ole Miss to fall out of the rankings. Arkansas finished the season 9-4, defeating Missouri 27-14 in the Independence Bowl.
Taken in the first round by the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2005, Jones was converted to wide receiver where he caught 166 passes for 2,153 yards and 15 touchdowns in four seasons, including 65 catches in 2008, his final season. He was released by the Jaguars in March 2009 after he was ordered to spend a week in jail for breaking drug court rules following a July 2008 arrest for cocaine possession.
Jones tried to make a comeback in 2010 with the Cincinnati Bengals, but he did not make the team.
“My parents raised me to be a lot better than that,” Jones said. “That was a situation where I was with buddies and made a mistake. The main thing is to learn from that and try and help others so they don’t make the same mistake I did.”
He recently moved to Little Rock with his wife Caroline and is doing TV and radio appearances for KARZ, Channel 42, and KABZ-FM, 103.7.
Assessing Saturday night’s loss, Jones said Arkansas needs to recruit better players on the defensive line after giving up 550 yards (138 rushing and 412 passing) and allowing Louisiana-Monroe to hold the ball for 39:19. Louisiana-Monroe quarterback Kolton Browning completed 42 of 67 passes for 412 yards and 3 touchdowns and rushed for 69 yards on 16 carries and a touchdown.
“Here’s where it all starts, it’s on the defensive line and it’s amazing what can happen when you get two defensive linemen who are awesome,” Jones said. “Do you know how much that helps?”
He said the defense needs to be a lot more aggressive and not be in a position where it’s forced to think. He also didn’t like the fact that Arkansas didn’t run the ball effectively, with Knile Davis gaining 62 yards on 16 carries.
Jones said it’s important to not play scared against Alabama.
“We need to throw it all out there in order to compete with them,” Jones said. “If we go out there and play straight up, we’re not going to have a chance.”
I got to hear Howard Schnellenberger speak on Sept 4, 2012 at the Little Rock Touchdown Club. I did not know that he played football for the University of Kentucky. In fact, just last year Kentucky ended a long losing streak to Tennessee by winning in Lexington. Schnellenberger was responsible for catching the winning touchdown […]
I got to hear Howard Schnellenberger speak at the Little Rock Touchdown Club on Tuesday Sept 4, 2012. Schnellenberger was good at building programs. Ex-coach enjoyed building programs By Jeff Halpern Posted: September 5, 2012 at 5:10 a.m. Staton Breidenthal Howard Schnellenberger speaks Tuesday at the Little Rock Touchdown Club. LITTLE ROCK — Howard Schnellenberger […]
I got to hear Howard Schnellenberger talk on Sept 4, 2012 at the Little Rock Touchdown Club. Schnellenberger said that Bear Bryant had the greatest ability to both instruct a player with criticism but then build him up also. He made a point of making sure he did both during a practice. Under Schnellenburger direction […]
I got to hear Howard Schnellenberger speak on 9-4-12 at the Little Rock Touchdown Club. I enjoyed hearing his stories about Bear Bryant and what he learned from the Bear. Here is a story by Jim Harris that discusses these too things. Jim Harris: Spirit Of Arkansan Bear Bryant Runs Through Schnellenberger’s Veins <!– 23 […]
Photo by Amy Smotherman Burgess Tennessee wide receiver Justin Hunter (11) reaches for a catch under pressure from North Carolina State defensive back Juston Burris (11) during the Chick-Fil-A Kick Off Game at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta on Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. Tennessee won the game 35-21. (AMY SMOTHERMAN BURGESS/NEWS SENTINEL STAFF) ____________ Tennessee […]
1972 USC Football Highlights vs. Notre Dame Uploaded by 63utuber on Jun 14, 2011 No description available. I got to hear Coach Robinson speak in Little Rock on August 27, 2012. Little Rock Touchdown Club Week 2: Hall Of Fame Coach John Robinson by Zack Veddern on Aug 28, 2012 9:07 AM CDT robinson […]
1972 USC Football Highlights vs. Notre Dame Uploaded by 63utuber on Jun 14, 2011 No description available. ________- Hearing John Robinson at the Little Rock Touchdown Club was very enjoyable. Earlier I posted about asking him the question: “Do you remember John McKay’s halftime speech at the 1974 Notre Dame at USC game?” Did you know that […]
John Robinson of USC should have an opinion, but no one asked him on August 27, 2012 when he spoke to the Little Rock Touchdown Club. Wikipedia reports USC’s results that year: The 1978 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California in the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season. Following the season, the […]
USC vs. Tennessee 1980 Uploaded by yankeefanintenn on Jan 5, 2011 Hate that we lost, but I love watching games from this era. Fans were really into the games and it was a great game. All video footage is copyright of the University of Tennessee, but legally reproduced here in conjunction with Fair Use laws. […]
2005 USC Trojans vs Arkansas Part 1 (Rewind) Uploaded by NHBI007 on Oct 13, 2008 2005 USC Trojans vs Arkansas __________ I really enjoyed Robinson talk on 8-27-12. Robinson talks past UA, USC matchups JEFF HALPERN Former football coach John Robinson was 3-2 in his career at Southern California and UNLV against the Arkansas Razorbacks. […]
On August 27, 2012 I got to hear John Robinson speak at the the Little Rock Touchdown Club and he was a great speaker. Jim Harris: Former Southern Cal Coach John Robinson Wins In Little Rock <!– 23 –> by Jim Harris 8/27/2012 at 1:59pm College Football Hall of Fame coach John Robinson recalled some […]
2006 USC Trojans vs Arkansas Part 1 Uploaded by NHBI007 on Mar 29, 2009 2006 USC Trojans vs Arkansas Today John Robinson told some funny stories at the Little Rock Touchdown Club and some interesting trivia facts. Did you know that USC won several national titles under John McKay with Frank Broyles defensive […]
USC-ND ’74 – The Anthony Davis Game Uploaded by sckego on Aug 6, 2006 Notre Dame was killing USC 24-0 with a minute left in first half of the 1974 game in Los Angeles. Anthony Davis caught a TD pass to close out the half, then returned the 2nd half kickoff for a touchdown, and […]
I always enjoy the Little Rock Touchdown Club meeting and August 20th was better than I expected. Mark May did a great job. I thought his answer concerning Tennessee being a sleeper team was an excellent description of them. I have not heard many commentators talking about the Vols challenging for the SEC East conference […]
Too bad for Ohio State they had to forfeit the Sugar Bowl victory in 2011. I got to hear Mark May speak at the Little Rock Touchdown Club on August 20, 2012 and he did a great job. May sees hurdles for Hogs in SEC By Jeremy Muck Tuesday, August 21, 2012 LITTLE ROCK — […]
In the last 5 minutes of this video you can see some key plays from the 1971 Liberty Bowl and it shows Tom Reed recovering the ball for the hogs. There are lots of questionable calls in the past and at the bottom of this post you will find a fine article from Arkansas Sports […]
I went to hear Mark May speak at the Little Rock Touchdown Club on August 20, 2012 and he did a great job of giving some insights into the Penn St case and he also looked into the SEC race this year. I do think that May has some good insights and I think his […]
Wally Hall wrote a fine article on the Little Rock Touchdown Club meeting yesterday that I got to attend. It was moving when Mark May got choked up responding to a question about the Penn St scandal. Wally refers to that. LIKE IT IS: ESPN analyst starts LRTC talks with bang Tuesday, August 21, 2012 […]
Reggie Herring is featured in this video above about the 1980 Florida St victory over Pitt. Mark May did a great job at the first Little Rock Touchdown Club meeting of the year. Jim Harris of Arkansas Sports 360 did a good article on it and I agree with what Wally Hall wrote on his […]
Tom and I married soon after I graduated from college, just knowing that we would live happily ever after. Tom progressed in the Navy as a Top Gun fighter pilot flying F14’s and I advanced in my own career. We were blessed with two wonderful children and it just got better and better.
What do we do with the pain that results from tragedies in our lives? How do we move beyond them? I have learned how to hope again. Drawing daily from the foundation of faith that Tom and I held together, I have found my footing; He has rebuilt my life.
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