Bag of Randomness

  • Other than a pink ribbon on their helmets and pink towels on the sidelines, the Cowboys didn’t wear/use any pink, and the football gods rewarded them with a win despite poor play.
  • I was surprised that the Ken Starr Baylor Bears wasn’t wearing any pink on their uniforms like some of the other Big 12 teams this weekend.  But then again, perhaps wearing pink to support the fight against breast cancer may lead to impurities of the mind and heart.
  • Don’t take that last bullet seriously, I’m just kidding and teasing around.
  • I don’t mind bringing awareness to breast cancer, but I just don’t like the marketing domination and I’m worried other cancer awareness messages won’t be taken as seriously.  I would prefer if football teams, especially the NFL, would just wear pink once a week during the season instead of a quarter of the season.
  • I never thought Gov Romney looked very presidential until his first presidential debate, and I have a feeling a lot of Americans felt the same way.  Since that first debate, I’ve viewed him in a different and more favorable light, and so have many others, thus his rise in the polls.  I think he’ll end up winning the popular vote, but I’m not quite sure if he has the electoral votes.
  • I still think the Electoral College is outdated and a silly way to decide who leads this country.  But I wonder if their will be a call to change or do away with the system if Romney wins the popular vote and Obama wins the electorate . . . that would mean in a span of 12 years both parties would have not benefited from majority rule.
  • My thoughts on Gov Romney remains the same, he’s a good moral man of high character (well, for a politician, all are shady) that portrays himself as a strong conservative and strong moderate.  I just don’t know who the real Romney is, a strong conservative or strong moderate.
  • I wonder how polls are taken nowadays by all the respected organizations.  Do they all just rely on people who answer land-line phones?  With the number of land-line phones dropping at drastic rates, and those that hold on to them tend to be older folks, then polls this election cycle might just be focusing on a particular demographic.
  • Romney at a flag football game at the beach
  • For the last three months we’ve had a Mormon missionary ring the doorbell.  Before this election, we’ve only had them ring the doorbell once since we moved in back in 2005.
  • Billy Graham is now buying full page ads in newspapers to urge voters to vote for biblical values.  That just doesn’t sound like the Billy Graham I remember, as he’s said “The clergy out to stay out of politics and let the laymen handle it.”  Sure, he may have had a change of heart, but and I still think it’s all the work of his son Franklin who is now running his father’s ministry and using his father as a prop.
  • The Texas Rangers finally refunded my credit card for the playoff tickets I bought late last week.  To their credit (no pun intended) they even refunded the $3.50 processing fee.
  • Notre Dame at Oklahoma will be a good game to watch next week, and I think at the end of the season, we’ll see Oklahoma in the BCS National Championship Game.
  • Notre Dame, the university with a French sounding name yet have an Irish mascot.
  • Iraq records huge rise in birth defects – New study links increase with military action by Western forces
  • Julie Bowen is the voice behind the new Olive Garden commercials.
  • Apparently the Patriots like to wear footie pajamas.
  • George McGovern died over the weekend, but the author of the New York Times obituary for George McGovern died six years ago.
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