The San Francisco ‘49ers
came from behind to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta and win the NFC
championship. The final score was 28 to
14. The Falcons definitely had snappier
uniforms but that didn’t matter. This is
the first time the Atlanta Falcons had hosted an NFC championship since the
team has been around since 1966. I guess
that’s the same year Foulton County Stadium was built and the Braves moved to
Atlanta. The score was 24 to 14 or
something at the half. The Falcons still
led by ten. They had a seventeen point
lead into the second quarter. And it
looked like the death knell for San Francisco when they failed to score a
touchdown falling just short of the goal, and Atlanta recovered the ball. But in the end that didn’t matter. I'll be routing for the Baltimore Ravens in tonight's game but I don't hold out very much hope for them against New England. From a Cosmic point of view alone, the Ravens are way out-gunned- - because they are sponsored by an outfit, the Pikes, who have not just ONE but TWO winning football teams out there, and you know they all be in mass tonight on their home turf.
In other news, January 19th is “Gun
Appreciation Day”. I guess we are going
to continue to get these Orwellian holidays as our society celebrates what is
worst about it. The President declared
yesterday to be “Service Day”. The
President’s popularity is at 52% whereas John Boehner has an approval rating of
only about fourteen percent, and congress as a whole is below that. As we go into the new Administration term,
43% of the people are basically optimistic and 35% of the people are
pessimistic, and the rest aren’t sure.
All in all you would think the polls favored the President’s
agenda. But as I said yesterday, a
really big thing is that the Republicans agreed not to have this knock drag out
fight over the Debt Ceiling. According
to a republican this morning- - the republicans in 2010 sponsored a bill for
the United States never to default on their debts, but that Harry Reid defeated
the bill. If this is true that changes
the whole picture as to which party is credible. All I can say is that we should all get down
on our knees and thank God that we will never again have to face the year 2012. Bill Clinton had fourteen official Inogural balls at the start of his second term wheras Presidentr Obama only has two sponsored Inogural balls this year. The President sponsored ten official events at the start of his first term. One would hope that after all the pomp and ceremony that come Tuesday congress could finally come back from their six or seven month vacation or whatever and finally get a little work done. Because it seems trying to find a day when congress has been in session- - such days are as rare as hen's teeth, wherever that expression comes from. I don't think the American People are prepared to take any more crap from the tea party at this point in time, and that's a good thing.
This is play-offs
Sunday and it’s ten to twelve and the game hasn’t started yet. I got done with lunch early by today’s
standards at twenty to twelve. It’s warm
and sunny here and in Washington at the Capitol the sun was shining brightly
just before noon. They said the weather
might not be as nice tomorrow for the actual event. They had the “official” swearing in today in
the White House live on NBC news. Then
they had some thing on violence and guns video games in our schools. Tell Word I meant to say “some thing”. Chuck Shumer and this Cruise guy from Texas
were on Meet the Press debating stuff.
Cruise you will remember was the guy who was so right wing that Gov Rick
Perry wouldn’t even endorse him in the primary.
Drawing on prior experience I left at the 8:25 break to smoke a
cigarette and they were still showing commercials when I got back. They had a long round and a short round of
the usual talking heads discussion.
Actually I got out of breakfast early by today’s standards, too. And I was able to catch the last few minutes
of the KNBC local news. They had a thing
on this family who sent a video of themselves and the Dad told the kids if they
got a million “likes” then he would buy them a puppy. They received a million likes within a day
and the dad made good on his word. Vince
would talk about putting out some two-bit video we could do and get a hundred
thousand hits. I would love that kind of
popularity for my blog postings. But
apparently serious commentary is not nearly as highly valued by society as the
frivolous stuff.
Last night I did eight
photos in Flicker and the last two were more naturalistic scenes, which had
been lacking. I went out for a smoke and
turned the station at 8:40 from “Cops” to NCIS and then it was Hawaii 5-0 at
nine on two. I retired just a little
after nine thirty. I got up and it was
6:14 on the digital clock. I turned on
the Today show. We had corn flakes for
breakfast and then it was a fried egg and toast with nothing on it, because the
condements were late in coming around. I
watched Breakfast with the Beatles later but first it was some Live John Lennon
concert on KOLA. It was “Instant Karma”
and “Imagine” and what I think was the tail end of “Well, Well, Well”. Then it was a six pack of Beatle songs on
KLOS. It was side two of “Meet the
Beatles”. There. I just took a respectful hiatus while they
sang the Star Spangled Banana. I’ll
leave off all the Romulan and Sirius A bits I was going to do. I went for a smoke at ten to ten and then
went down to the courtyard where the bird cage was pulled out into the sunshine
but the cover was on but I heard a bird or two chirping to be let out.
I
watched most of Chris Matthews. Passed
over the Notre Dame guy but I listened to the Lance Armstrong stuff because
they sliced and diced his credibility pretty good – in an in depth but conceise
manner. They compared and contrasted
official White House photos of Ronald Reagan and Barock Obama, and in both
cases the second term picture was a wider shot.
Then it was a little of Rachael Maddau.
The thing here is that the news media missed the most glairing story on
Friday. Then neglected to tell us that
the whole debt ceiling crisis was officially called off by Paul Ryan and the
Republicans. This is enormous good news
for the democrats and also put the VIX or fear level of the stock market at an
all time low. The high points were Sept
of 2008 and May of 2010 with the European thing and the debt crisis of mid
summer 2011. Paul Ryan and the bunch
must have had a lucid moment where they realized that in challenging the President
on this matter they would only be making themselves look bad in the eyes of
their countrymen. Then it was “Why Can’t
We Be Friends” and “Staying Alive” on KOLA radio and then seeing nothing on TV
I played the first seven tracks of “After Bathing at Baxters” only it’s only
considered three divisions of that album.
That was a truly “underground album” for its time. I made it down to dinner in time for Sarah
pouring the drinks. We had a chicken and
macaroni casserole – and mixed vegetables.
We got vanilla ice cream for dessert.
Laura made it all the way around the room with seconds – and vegetables
too. [material left out here] I indeed did catch the
John Mc Cain segment on “Face the Nation” and after this by way of response was
a West Virginia democrat. Then it was
ABC network news. Donnie had peanut
butter sandwiches for us. The Mc
Laughlin had the black guy and Eleanor Clift for liberals but the questions and
Mc Laughlin’s remarks in particular were heavily skewed to the right. Then it was a thing on home offices on 7.2
and after 7:17 it was some Jeopardy, and then it was the last five or six
minutes of “Men, Men, Men”. Then it was
“Wheel of Fortune”. “Cops” just came
on. It’s still half way warm out. We managed to get through a lavender file
without some jinx descending on us. That
has been a challenge in the past.
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