I am trying hard right now to resist the urge to move to South America.
I was camped out at the Phoenician at a business conference the past week and was able to watch John McCain's speech the other night. I groaned repeatedly. Afterward, I went online to "The Escape Artist" and began checking out the price of cribs south of the equator.
McCain is my choice this election but only because the other guy is so obviously bad, inexperienced and in over his head that it's laughable. And I'm not talking about Ron Paul. Obama is an excellent orator but aside from that, what's he done? What kind of decisions has he been FORCED to make? The man has spent more years running for POTUS than serving as a US Senator. What kind of representation have the people of Illinois had from Obama since electing him? Not very much, obviously.
McCain....he of the goofy grin, the comical stiff "thumbs up" stance he does when others are talking while he stands behind them and the TERRIBLE orating skills DOES have a great deal of experience and like the silver haired airline pilot, I want THAT guy in the cockpit. I WANT John McCain, old and slightly kooky, to have his finger on the button since all the other bad guys are over-the-top kooky.
Phoenix was great. Golf was great. Johnny Miller was our host for the event and as usual, he was an engaging speaker, he provided some excellent golf instruction, and he hung out with the fellas. He remains a cool cat, even for a BYU alum.
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Freaking refs...Washington's "excessive celebration?" Give me a break. BYU alums possibly? Can't believe it. I am upset about this...Call it both ways, brotha.
Alec
What I am about to write is something I never though I would say...Can we just move the clock back a year and start the whole primary process again? I do not believe for one second that John McCain is the best republican for the job. On the other had, I believe wholeheartedly that Obama is the best the democrats could come up with, both point say a lot about our current political landscape.
Dixon,
I always enjoy your comments. I agree with your recent posts including your comment here... our political landscape is a weed-infested swamp. Tough, tough, tough decisions need to be made, and soon. We absolutely have to resist adding MORE government to this mess.
It is IMPOSSIBLE for Obama to reduce taxes, give everyone a well-paying job (who gets to decide what that number is?) and make sure that every single American has health insurance.
Talk like that WILL get someone elected though especially a guy with a silver tongue like BO. Can you imagine what Obama's secret service nickname will be? Here goes my guesses: Playa, BoBama?
Full NFL slate tomorrow.... :-)
have i mentioned that i LOVE phoenix?
Keith,
me thinks you are softening in your old age. "Even for a BYU alum."? I thought we reserved 2 of those spots for people and that's it: 1. Andrew and Heidi (must be considered one since they are Mormon and married, it's in the scriptures, look it up); and 2. Mike and Angela....
Nice post though
BYU is the greatest thing on the planet. It is the envy/dismay of every rejected applicant (Steve and Dixon included). BYU will be turned into a campus full of temples during the second coming. Let's just come out and say it. At BYU, we enter to learn, and go forth to be better than all y'all. Peace out.
Oh, and I forgot to say that the Eagles truly did look great. Good thing they have a BYU guy at the helm.
BYU is training ground for robots and future minivan owners.
once and for all, i was accepted to byu i CHOSE NOT TO GO cause i am not a loser like the rest of those retards who go cause i'm smarter than all of those people and realized i don't want to end up like them
ROFL. Steve--show me the acceptance letter. I know you have it saved in your Book of Remembrance. Post it on your blog.
burned it. the last paragraph read,
"we hope you enjoy living the principles of satan, ooops, we mean 'honor code' in the slavery, oops, betterment of our lives."
/s/ Chinese Government
oops
BYU
further, i refuse to comment longer on this issue because i am better than you and more righteous so i will not play to your satanistic "temple" games
That is impossible, Steve. You didn't go to BYU. Ergo, by definition, you are not better than me or the other hundreds of thousands who have entered to learn and gone forth to be better than everybody else. It's true. Ask Mike.
Isn't ISU's motto: "Enter to learn, go forth to Inkom?"
i wasn't going to comment anymore, but now you have made it personal by questioning the elite status of ISU as a university. I know at least one person who didn't get into ISU so that makes it an elite school. "Harvard of Idaho, Harvard of the Big Sky" was actually the motto. It's true, look it up. If not, i just coined it and will be submitting it to the university committee for motto's this fall.
I am ROFLOL
Allow me to set a few things straight:
1. Idaho State IS the Harvard of the Big Sky - I looked it up.
2. BYU's honor code is flexible. If you can shoot three's, are over 6'6" tall and have tattoo's, you're IN.
3. Jim McMahon quaffed the golden nectar and BYU officials still let him play. Seems like an All American quarterback brings a significant amount of $$ and prestige to a school.
4. If BYU really had an honor code it wouldn't be flexible.
Steve--if you had any honor code at Harvard-Idaho, you would not have reneged on your promise to not comment on this any more. Karl G. Maeser, the founding faculty member at BYU, once said that if a circle was drawn around him and he committed to never leave, he would not--indeed, he could not--ever leave that circle.
Keith--of course there are exceptions to the honor code. But that does not change the fact that Steve has a copy of his "acceptance letter" saved in his Book of Remembrance. In fact, I think he still has on his night stand a blue and white basketball autographed by Jeff Chatman. Trust me on this one!
I would never draw a circle around me. That's what devil worshippers do. Duh.
And who is Jeff Chatman?
As for Chatman, ask Steve--that's his hero.
As for the circle, well, it's an honor code thang. You wouldn't understand.
circle? is this one of those things where byu people tell you they are smarter then you, give you an example that nobody understands (because it doesn't make any sense) to prove their point?
jeff chatman was "the next larry bird."
just another byu professional flop
Professional flop? Seriously, name one, ONE, professional flop by a BYU athlete. LOL. Just kidding.
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