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Post by Harrybutt on Nov 8, 2008 21:32:03 GMT -6
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Post by USW Local 1010 on Nov 10, 2008 18:29:59 GMT -6
There is always more when it comes to a SEC championship.
(AP) Authorities say an argument over Saturday's Alabama-LSU football game led to the shooting deaths of a couple at a home in south Alabama.
Prosecutors identified the victims as Dennis and Donna Smith of Brewton. The shooting happened about 7 p.m. Saturday at the home of Michael Williams in the rural community of Owassa.
Williams was arrested and charged with two counts of murder. He was being held Monday without bond. A sheriff's investigator did not know if he had an attorney.
Investigators told the Press-Register newspaper in Mobile that Dennis Smith, an LSU fan, called Williams, an Alabama fan, after Alabama's 27-21 overtime win and an argument ensued.
The Smiths went to Williams' home. Investigators said 41-year-old Dennis Smith had a pistol and the 28-year-old Williams had a shotgun and fired. 39-year-old Donna Smith was a relative of Williams' girlfriend.
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Post by DT on Dec 7, 2008 7:50:14 GMT -6
Well HB, it was another great SEC Championship game (Florida and Alabama) Florida got the best of them in the fourth quarter. I'm not a big college football fan, but, did watch the game and was rooting for Alabama. Anyhoo, Donald Kaul, a columnist I like had an interesting view that made me think of this thread. Me thinks you may like it.
"You’ve probably seen that tragic, hilarious football story out of Alabama. It tells us a lot about the recent presidential election we all miss so much.
After the University of Alabama recently beat LSU at football, a LSU fan named Smith called his pal Williams, an Alabama fan, to vent.
An argument ensured. Heated words were exchanged. An agitated Smith decided to go to Williams’ house and settle the argument in person. He took his wife with him. Also a gun.
Williams was waiting for him. With a shotgun. (I have no idea whether these yokels were members of the NRA, but I wouldn’t be surprised)
Before you knew it, Williams had shot Smith dead. Also Smith’s wife.
The lesson being that Southerners take their football very seriously.
But football isn’t the only thing southerners take seriously. There’s also nutball Republican politics. John McCain didn’t carry many states, but the majority were in the South. Basically, he was elected president of the Confederacy,
The Republican Party has become the party of dumb. Oh, you can deny it, you Republicans out there, but for years now, your candidates have played the dumb card. No matter what the question – George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, global warming, stem cell research, evolution, Dan Quayle – you’ve always come down on the dumb side of the answer.
There’s been a gradual dumbing down of the party until the only places that really brought what McCain was selling were placeswhere people kill people over football games.
You’ve heard of liberal bias? (If you watched Fox News, you heard of little else) Conservatives argue that the public was bamboozled into voting for Obama by a biased, liberal media.
Do you really think America is sitting on the edge of its chair, waiting to get its orders from Tom Brokaw?
Journalists may have a barely discernible liberal outlook, but their real bias is toward smart. They almost always favor the candidate they perceive to be smarter than the other guy. And it’s seldom the Republican.
On the other hand, there are media outlets whose bias is toward dumb. Fox News leaps to mind, of course, but there is also the New York Post, The Washington Times and William Kristol of the New York Times, of all places. Republican supporters all.
Any of these entities, given the choice, will take dumb over smart every time.
Indeed, Rush Limbaugh (a famous football fan, by the way) defended his title as the Prince of Dumb the other day by claiming Barack Obama had caused the current economic mess.
I suppose the GOP could start lurching back to smart in an effort to win back voters, but it seems to be going the other way. They’re already talking up Sarah for president in 2012. Many smart conservatives are jumping ship.
I think, maybe, Republicans will have to be content to win football games rather than elections from now on. And not shoot each other. They can’t afford to lose any more true believers."
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Post by Harrybutt on Dec 10, 2008 22:37:46 GMT -6
Yeah, I read about that. I think there ended up being more to the story than mere football squabble.
I was disappointed in the 4th quarter of the game. i don't like Tebow, but must admit, the dude is a true hoss. Shows what a couple of mistakes can do in a big time game....kill ya.
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