Kick back, relax with a fine adult libation, and enjoy our fourth podcast… After Dark.

Podcast #2 is now up and ready for your listening pleasure. In this episode Meimi, Scott and I discuss UGA’s win over CMU and other week 2 games. Plus, we now have sponsorship!

OMG the College Football season starts in earnest in less than 48 hours. I for one can. not. wait. Tent City has all her preparations all lined up for another stellar tailgating season and we might be on the verge of witnessing a very special season for the Dawgs. Seriously, I can’t wait.

Anyway, here’s some tidbits from the (ha! Get it?) Dawgosphere:

• Mackalicious at Blogging Pantsless has kick-started a new video series, Great Moments In Georgia History. The first episode looks back at Jim Donnan’s first victory as Georgia’s head coach, the 15-12 win over Texas Tech. Get over there and check it out.
• PWD caught up with radio announcer Scott Howard to talk about Munson and the upcoming season.
• Doug needs tickets to the Georgia Southern game. Help a brother out.
• Ludakit at the (Original) Dawg-Gone Blog drops this week’s List: Five Things I Expect to See (and Five Things I Expect Not to See) Out of This Year’s Team. I’m big on #6 and #2.
• Lastly, UGAMummra is to UGA Youtube video compilations what LSUFreek is to animated Photoshopped goodness. His latest vid is Mission: Possible. Watch. Tackle coworker. Rinse. Repeat.

48 freakin’ hours. Woooooooooooooooo!

However, I would be remiss to note a few things here that were left out or just plain wrong so here’s Podcast #1’s Comments and Corrections…

SEC Starting QB’s:

1. Georgia: Matt Stafford
2. Florida: Tim Tebow
3. Tennessee: Jonathan “Straightoutta” Crompton
4. South Carolina: Tommy Beecher (although Smelley is still there and is currently #2 on the depth chart)
5. Kentucky: It was supposed to be Curtis Pulley. Instead it’s Mike Hartline.
6. Vanderbilt: Likely to be Chris Nickson, although there’s 3 other guys who might see time.
7. LSU: Andrew Hatch
8. Alabama: JP Wilson
9. Auburn: Kodi Burns and Chris Todd (Chris Todd. No wonder I couldn’t remember his name)
10. Ole Miss: Jevan Snead (Lightbulb! He was the guy who transferred from Texas)
11. Arkansas: Casey Dick
12. Miss State: Sean Glennon Wesley Carroll

Corrections

• Brent Schaeffer is not, in fact, still at Ole Miss
• Auburn’s new offensive coordinator is Tony Franklin, not ESPN broadcaster Ron Franklin

And finally, kudos to Scott for knowing that N.C. State’s current head coach is in fact Tom O’Brien.

Stay tuned for more hard-hitting partially incorrect analysis as the season moves forward!

In honor of these two fine and distinguished Dawgs, I present Munson. Wordled. I think I’m going to frame these. Seriously.

There’s just something so visually cool about these… I think because they remind me of all the awesome stuff Saul Bass did, for example:

So, so cool, man.

Later.

• Awesome: Krista’s blog, Margaritas On Friday. If you know Krista, it’s exactly what you’d expect. I highly recommend reading the first post.
• Not-So-Much: Dawgs collapse, finish great season one win short.
• Awesome: I finally got a new phone: The Nokia 5310 (in Bulldog Black and Red, natch). No longer do I have to worry about my camera taking pictures of the insides of my pants! Huzzah!
• Not-So-Much: Scratching your head all the way down to your brain.
• Awesome: If the weather holds, looks like two rounds of golf this weekend. Double-huzzah!
• Not-So-Much: The aftertaste that comes from drinking ginger ale after brushing your teeth.
• Awesome: Bloons, and all of its offspring.
• Awesome and/or Not-So-Much: I just realized that as of one month ago, I’m officially closer to retirement age than my birth.

Update: I just couldn’t let the weekend arrive without dropping one more bit of Awesome.

One thing I’ve always believed to a degree; that war is an effective means of rousing national patriotism, which rarely is accompanied by rational, intelligent, consideration…

One reason war is always associated with especially rapid growth of the government’s size, scope, and power is that it focuses people’s attention on what is seen as the most pressing item on the agenda, so they simply don’t notice what the government is doing in other regards. Another reason is that during wartime many people increase their broad support for the government, and hence they are less inclined to challenge its actions even when those actions have little or nothing to do with the war.

Hardly anyone was surprised that real defense spending (as measured in accordance with the government’s own narrow concept) increased by almost 60 percent between 2000 and 2007, while real GDP rose by only 18 percent. Note, however, that the government’s real nondefense outlays increased concurrently by more than 24 percent?an increase one-third greater than that of GDP. When people let down their guard because they “support the troops,” they permit the government to make greater headway in its ceaseless quest to enlarge its spending in a wide range of areas, many of them strictly civilian in nature. (at The Beacon Blog – Independent.org)

Corporation dominance? Military-industrial complex? Thank the liberal cripple whose head is on Mt. Rushmore (Oops. Thanks, Chip.)…

Indeed, the New Deal did not even work in rescuing capitalism, which was Roosevelt’s stated goal; it took the total militarization of the U.S. economy to accomplish that. However, even before entering the war, nearly every New Deal economic recovery and development program enriched already existing corporations, such as Bechtel and Brown and Root, as well as creating new ones. The ground was set for rapid militarization through contracts with these new corporate giants and massive employment through the military draft and wartime production. The military-industrial complex is the essential result of New Deal policies. (at Counterpunch.org)

Barack Obama clearly underlines the impact of his father in his book, Dreams For My Father, and more importantly, the impact of his dad’s socio-political ideals. But what were the ideals the Presidential candidate looked up to?

If there is a mystery at the heart of Barack Obama’s Dreams For My Father, one thing is not left a mystery, the fact that Barack Obama organized his life on the ideals given to him by his Kenyan father. Obama tells us, “All of my life, I carried a single image of my father, one that I .. tried to take as my own.” (p. 220) And what was that image? It was “the father of my dreams, the man in my mother’s stories, full of high-blown ideals ..” (p. 278) What is more, Obama tells us that, “It was into my father’s image .. that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself.” And also that, “I did feel that there was something to prove .. to my father” in his efforts at political organizing. (p. 230)

So we know that his father’s ideals were a driving force in his life, but the one thing that Obama does not give us are the contents of those ideals…*snip*

A bit of research at the library reveals the answers about Barack Obama’s father and his father’s convictions which Obama withholds from his readers. *snip*

1. Obama (here and below, the elder – DA) advocated the communal ownership of land and the forced confiscation of privately controlled land, as part of a forced “development plan”, an important element of his attack on the government’s advocacy of private ownership, land titles, and property registration. (p. 29)

2. Obama advocated the nationalization of “European” and “Asian” owned enterprises, including hotels, with the control of these operations handed over to the “indigenous” black population. (pp. 32 -33)

3. Obama advocated dramatically increasing taxation on “the rich” even up to the 100% level, arguing that, “there is no limit to taxation if the benefits derived from public services by society measure up to the cost in taxation which they have to pay” (p. 30) and that, “Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.” (p. 31)

4. Obama contrasts the ill-defined and weak-tea notion of “African Socialism” negatively with the well-defined ideology of “scientific socialism”, i.e. communism. Obama views “African Socialism” pioneers like Nkrumah, Nyerere, and Toure as having diverted only “a little” from the capitalist system. (p. 26)

5. Obama advocates an “active” rather than a “passive” program to achieve a classless society through the removal of economic disparities between black Africans and Asian and Europeans. (p. 28) “While we welcome the idea of a prevention [of class problems], we should try to cure what has slipped in .. we .. need to eliminate power structures that have been built through excessive accumulation so that not only a few individuals shall control a vast magnitude of resources as is the case now .. so long as we maintain free enterprise one cannot deny that some will accumulate more than others .. ” (pp. 29-30)

6. Obama advocates price controls on hotels and the tourist industry, so that the middle class and not only the rich can afford to come to Kenya as tourists. (p. 33)

7. Obama advocates government owned and operated “model farms” as a means of teaching modern farming techniques to farmers. (p. 33)

8. Obama strongly supports the governments assertion of a “non-aligned” status in the contest between Western nations and communist nations aligned with the Soviet Union and China. (p. 26) (at Mises Economics Blog)

Includes the 23 (!) ways to get a man (any man) to first base which includes:

… if there is a runner on first base when the game is suspended. If this runner then gets traded prior to the makeup a new player is allowed to take his place without the roster implications of using a pinch runner, thereby reaching base.

Anyone care to explain to me the difference between #8 and #9 on that list?