Southern Pigksin

I think UK is the best team in college hoops…

2012-02-05T20:54:19-05:00

Just thought Id share…

What the HECK was that at halftime?

2012-02-05T21:09:41-05:00

Maybe I’m old but I literally did not even understand what I was watching. Who were those ppl and what were they doing? Madonna used to be creative and sexy that was just odd lol to me out there. The cheerleader routine was very weird.

Paula Dean is full of…....

2012-01-24T06:50:32-05:00

Chef and television personality Paula Deen was blindsided by the public backlash following the announcement that she has type 2 diabetes. But what has the butter-loving star shocked more than anything? None of her famous foodie friends have shown her one ounce of support.

Yet some believe that other chefs have remained silent because Deen kept quiet about her illness for years.

“The amount of chefs that would have come forward with public statements of support and sympathy would have been overwhelming if it wasn’t for the fact that Paula hid her diagnosis for three years,” a top food publicist tells me. “To only tell the truth when you have locked in a paid spokesperson deal for a non-insulin medication is just too toxic for anyone to want to be involved with.”

The news not only surprised Deen’s fans and colleagues, it also surprised her own network, which had no knowledge of her disease prior to the public announcement.

“You have heard correctly, Food Network learned last week about Paula’s diagnosis,” the network’s Vice President of Communications, Irika Slavin, tells me in an email. She also adds that it was surprising that none of the network’s stars had commented: “Each has their own team’s reps, who I imagine would be advising their clients.”

After reaching out to PR agencies that represent Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray and Bobby Flay, asking why their clients were so silent, only one responded off the record telling me, “So here’s the deal, none of our chefs want to go on the record saying anything about her. However, I heard someone say it would be news if she didn’t get diabetes. So I guess friend, butter is bad for you. Who knew?”

This woman has gone on TV for years and added sugar and butter to everything from water to celery and promoted it while SHE had diabetes. I don’t feel sorry for her at all. Not the diabetes part, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. She should have done a cooking show on how to cook and eat well with diabetes.

She’ll figure it out. She’s made her money now. Look for a Paula Dean diabetes cooking show coming. I’d bet the house.

Pondering a 3D TV…..

2012-01-16T20:21:54-05:00

Does anyone here have one? I researched the 3D with no glasses, and it’s extremely expensive, and not coming to my price ranch any time soon. I think I’ve decided to go with the Passive 3D which doesn’t require glasses with batteries. The glasses are like the one’s at the movie theater.
Anyway, does anyone here have a “Passive” 3D TV with the plain glasses? My question is do you have to have the room pitch black for the best effect?
Thanks for any advice/replies.

UNC destroying GT right now…. basketball.

2012-01-29T20:11:08-05:00

Three days after beating NC State like a rented mule.. UNC is having it’s way with GT. I can’t say either of these games are surprises, but sometimes stating the obvious makes you feel good.

I hope everyone has had a great weekend, and remember… Spring is just around the corner. I’ve already bought some baseball tickets as a matter of fact.

spring break/summer vacation

2012-01-31T10:35:01-05:00

I am considering taking my two girls to see the Lost Colony outdoor play on the Outer Banks of NC this summer. I’m thinking I may also take them to visit Biltmore Estate. I think it better to take “mini” trips throughout the summer than to take one week or 2 week vacation.
What about you guys? Any cool vacation plans?

FSU destroying UNC right now - Basketball

2012-01-14T16:32:03-05:00

I love seeing it. And I HATE listening to Dick Vitale. FSU is just TRUCKING UNC right now.

2012 Electoral “Pick-em” Map…...

2012-01-25T13:48:02-05:00

This ought to be fun…..

http://electoralmap.net/2012/myPrediction.php

Here is My Prediction:

http://ElectoralMap.net/2012/myPrediction.php?d=qo0wrwrznoxnqwnxz

If Romney win the GOP and he picks Chris Christie….add 25 electoral Votes from Mass and NJ

So after last nights real debate..

2012-01-24T07:12:26-05:00

Now that we are back to at least some reality…. after watching the debate last night in Tampa, minus the morons screaming about stuff, I can’t wait for the next one in Jacksonville.

Now, take out the screaming zealots, and look at Mitt and Newt and listen to them. In November the debates, 3 of them only by the presidential commission not 7 like dumb a#$ Newt is mentioning, there is no way in a real debate structure, based on real facts, including both of Newt’s and Mitt’s issues, I’ll say it again.

NO CHANCE EITHER ONE OF THEM HAVE ANY CHANCE AGAINST PRESIDENT OBAMA IN A DEBATE OR IN THE ELECTION.

The only person on a national stage that has any chance of beating President Obama is Paul. And really, do you think Ron Paul will be our next President? lol Mitt shut down Newt. The marshmellow ladies man what completely shut down by Mitt. And Mitt is not President Obama. And Mitt….. lol.

As I said 5 years ago. The republicans don’t have a party anymore. Remember me saying that? LOL I do. Until they clean out the zealots including this group in the house with their 13 percent approval rating, the republicans will never be back. I’m not sure that will ever happen. I feel and smell 3rd party. And a fractured republican party, with our countries demographics of minorities population on the incline big time, we might not see a republican president for the next 16 to 20 years.

What does Newt’s win mean?

2012-01-22T17:23:10-05:00

No candidate has won the GOP nomination for President without winning South Carolina since Ronald Reagan in 1980. But every one of those candidates who won had also won either Iowa or New Hampshire.

We’re now confronted with a designated front runner, Mitt Romney, who got less votes in Iowa in 2012 than he got in 2008 and who lost South Carolina. His reason for being somehow remains that he is “electable.”

If you read a lot of the Republican commentary coming out of Washington even before the polls closed, suddenly South Carolina is irrelevant and the hick rubes of the Palmetto state are just petulant children.

Actually, like with Iowa, it is a rather desperate scream to get another player on the field. It is a red flag. It is the giant “Danger” sign ahead for the general election.

Newt Gingrich’s rise has a lot to do with Newt Gingrich’s debate performance. But it has just as much to do with a party base in revolt against its thought and party leaders in Washington, DC. The base is revolting because they swept the GOP back into relevance in Washington just under two years ago and they have been thanked with contempt ever since.

Adding insult to injury, the party and thought leaders now try to foist on the base a milquetoast moderate from Massachusetts. Newt Gingrich can thank Mitt Romney and more for the second look he is getting. Base hostility will now be exacerbated by Mitt Romney’s backers now undoubtedly making a conscious effort to prop up Rick Santorum to shut down Newt Gingrich.

Consider, before going below the fold, that this is the first time non-Romney ads against Romney have been at parity with Mitt Romney. And that parity caused a rapid erosion of support for Mitt Romney. Parity in advertising, not superiority to Romney, was all it took to begin the end of his South Carolina dominance.

People are mad as hell they are about to be stuck with another boring, moderate, uninspiring choice that has at best a 50/50 shot at losing to the worst president since Carter. They are flocking to Newt not because they think he’s a great guy, but because right now, he’s the only one fighting for conservatism and GOP voters are looking for a vessel to channel their anger with Obama and their complete disappointment with the GOP establishment which is now embodied perfectly by Romney. They want a conservative fighter because most conservatives look back at Ford, Reagan, Bush, Dole, Bush, and McCain and see only the ones taking a conservative path against the Democrats actually winning.

Trump was a flash in the pan last year, but it was because he took the fight to Obama. And all of the others (Bachmann, Perry, Cain, etc) got their rise because at the time voters sensed they would fight back with them. If nothing else, in the last year, Newt has proven he won’t wilt like Mitt did yesterday under pretty basic questioning from Laura Ingraham or a month ago under routine questioning from Brett Baier.

Newt has taken the worst the media, Romney and the left can dish out, and he’s still standing and fighting with passion and eloquence. Sure, he’d probably be an erratic President, but right now Republican voters don’t care about his Presidency. They care about the fight with the left both Mitt Romney, and the Washington Republican leaders like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell don’t seem inclined to engage in.

In every way in the last two weeks, Romney has signaled he won’t fight for the base. He looks like a lost child when trying to answer the taxes issue. He couldn’t stand up to Santorum in the debate. He sounds every bit like Gordon Gekko, not Milton Friedman, when he talks Bain and free markets.

Basically, today’s vote is about Republican grassroots giving the Washington Republican establishment the finger. The base is angry, and right now, only Newt is left to fight for them, as imperfect as he is. We may still end up with Romney, but voters aren’t going to let him have it easily.

Party leaders who have invested so much in Mitt Romney might want now to ride on to a brokered convention and find someone acceptable to everyone. Because this most divisive and bitter primary in years is going to wipe out the GOP’s chances to win in November. And while few of the Romney advocates of the past four years will admit it, it is because they have tried to foist onto the base a milquetoast moderate from Massachusetts as energizing to conservatives as a dead battery.

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/21/newt-gingrich-wins-what-it-means/