One reason for my Saints’ preference is Marquess Colston who I got to see at Delaware Stadium while he was playing for Hofstra.  I also have some loyalty to Bryan Westbrook and the Eagles for the Same reason. 

My second reason is Darren Sharper, another Saints player who also visited Newark. 

Just to demonstrate some consistency, I liked earlier the Arizona Cardinals who had UD player Ben Patrick and UR Grad Tim Hightower.  In addition to the Eagles having Westbrook they also have Delaware State Grad Jamaal Jackson.  Quite frankly losing Jackson to an ACL knee injury really hurt the Eagles in the playoffs.  The substitute for Jackson was not near his quality as a center and it hurt the Eagles. 

My sympathies for this and any other game had no political concern despite the fact that I am interested in politics. 

Imagine my surprise, when I told a friend that I was ever so slightly leaning to the Saints, that the Liberals had determined that Republicans preferred the Colts and Liberals/Democrats preferred the Saints. 

Now as a Conservative, I don’t make daily decisions about my life based on ideology.  If I like a particular sports team, I don’t really care if Liberals or Conservatives agree with me.  I like who I like for my own reasons.  My friend directed me to the local Liberal Web site and sure enough they had the politically correct football team to root for in this game. 

It seems they have a poll where more Republicans prefer the Colts and more Democrats prefer the Saints.  Why anyone should decide to make a choice about the preference for a particular football team based on what other Republicans or Democrats think is beyond me.  If 100% of Republicans wanted Villanova to win a UD / Nova game, I would not even go there. 

The post which was forwarded to me by email, brought up the move of the Baltimore Colts to Indianopolis in the 1980’s.  As a former Baltimore Colts fan this was a particularly nasty aspect of pro sports.  Moving Sports franchises is a sore point with me.  Jim Irsay, was the owner who made this move.  He is gone.  I attended the first INDY Colts game in Philly and let my feelings known.  Irsay said he left Baltimore for lack of fan support.  I question this but if my liberal friends want to punish Indy forever than I would suggest some other miscreants who should never get the liberal go ahead.

Oakland Raiders: Al Davis moved this team from Oakland to Los Angeles.  It was only after the Oakland authorities sweetened the deal (at taxpayer expense) that Davis moved the team back to Oakland.  Since Oakland has been the home of radical leftists for years I don’t see Liberals holding to their standard that this team should be punised forever. 

Chicago; St. Louis; Arizona Cardinals:  These guys invented the NFL traveling circus.  If you Don’t make enough money at home?  Move

Los Angeles; San Diego Chargers:  Yeah these guys moved and there are deals trying to get them to move back to LA.  If this happens Liberals will love it as San Diego is  more Conservative friendly.  LA is home to liberal fruit cakes.  There will be no liberal peanalty for this type of move. 

Boston; New England; almost Connecticut Patriots:  These guys are champs at holding up local taxpayers for new stadiums and facilities.  The Pats moved out of Boston to Foxboro (at taxpayer expense)  and then held up the state of Massachusetts for a another  sweetheart deal when  Connecticut came courting  (this is the stadium where the University of Connecticut currently plays their home games) .  The Pats are now playing in a new taxpayer paid for stadium in Mass. that was the result of their Connecticut blackmail scheme.  Folks in Baltimore should have learned sooner. 

Houston Oilers/ Tennessee Titans:  The voters of Houston voted down a referendum to finance a new stadium for the Oilers.  The Oilers  moved they are now the Titans. 

Los Angeles Rams/ St. Louis Rams: How one can make money in St. Louis and not LA just shows me that West Coast Liberals don’t really care about their football teams. 

Cleveland Browns/ Baltimore Ravens:  Yes the town that the Liberals cite as the original victim, 15 years ago,  stole a perfectly fine, competitive, and locally supported  team from another blue collar town.  If we should diss INDY then any consistent person  should also diss the Ravens. 

I won’t.  I don’t pick my teams based on politics.  I am not a liberal and so I don’t make those types of personal decisions based on politics. 

At any rate I lean slightly to the Saints.  They have players I have seen in College and they have never won before. Indy won a couple of years back.  I still have hope for the Eagles.  Every dog deserves his day.

So with all of the drawbacks of being snowed in I have found the experience to be very inspiring and have enjoyed it.  I have reconnected with some of the people that live closest to me, and in spite of the sore muscles the next day, I wouldn’t trade that for a day of work or school in a million years.

So while we are all snowed in I encourage you to take advantage of the situation.  Go help shovel a neighbor’s driveway, or if they are shoveling yours offer them some hot chocolate.  Talk to them and get a little closer to your family and friends.  It is well worth the time and effort, and it can liberate your humanity like few other things will.

We saw the murder of Terri Schiavo play out on national television.  Many closed their minds to the facts because it was uncomfortable to deal with these issues.  Yet, Terri showed more signs than the people in the study.  Now we are faced with a rationing of health care which could even place barriers for privately raised resources to help the forgotten and isolated.

Nothing is more important in this earth than human well being so humans devoting 1/6 of the economy to bettering it is reasonable.  Technology advanced to the point to rescue those people would pay dividends through out the economy.  It would advance what could be done in computer technology.  It could help with understanding other brain disorders.  It could help us to address paralysis.  Even more intriguing is that it could change the way we can connect to technology.  We could connect to our machines by thought.

The only question is whether or not we will abandon the future in order to fulfill a long term scheme to seize a successful portion of the economy.

President Obama seems to a Fabian in a hurry. He has taken over most of the American Auto industry, is micromanaging banks to the point of restricting the number of times that we can transfer money from savings to checking, is attempting to dominate the health insurance industry, micromanage healthcare, and is attempting to run every aspect of the energy industry. He is attempting a national healthcare system. He is picking the companies of to be favored in the new green industry. Some first year it was. Next on the agenda are redistributionist tax policies which will take from the rich and give to the “poor”. He wants to bring back the estate tax and more than double the tax on dividends. He wants to control lending for college and small businesses. He wants to allow the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide which would put it into every area of life. He is continuing the nationalization of education. He is attempting to expand the power of labor unions. He is open to a global currency. Compare this agenda to the Fabian Society (a British socialist think tank) agenda.

One would have to blind or ignorant to deny that President Obama’s regime is one that is socialistic in its bent. If one needs further proof, we have one admitted socialist in the U. S. Senate, Bernie Sanders I-VT. He is a faithful ally.

We are in a struggle between the taxpayers and taxeaters. President Obama’s new budget sides mostly with the taxeaters. Those who believe in the free market can not let this cross dressing regime, which purports moderation during the day but is the most extreme challenge to Americanism in 70 years, to succeed in implementing its agenda.

I look forward to those who “embrace science over ideology” joining us in the movement to give our children a strategy to take control of their future.

The study released Monday involved 662 African American students from four public middle schools in a city in the Northeastern United States. It was conducted between 2001 and 2004.

Students were randomly assigned to go through one of the following: an eight-hour curriculum that encouraged them to delay having sex; an eight-hour program focused on teaching safe sex; an eight- or 12-hour program that did both; or an eight-hour program focused on teaching them other ways to be healthy, such as eating well and exercising. The abstinence-only portion involved a series of sessions in which instructors talked to students in small groups about their views about abstinence and their knowledge of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. They also conducted role-playing exercises and brainstorming sessions designed to correct misconceptions about sex and sexually transmitted diseases, encourage abstinence and offer ways to resist pressure to have sex.

Over the next two years, about 33 percent of the students who went through the abstinence program started having sex, compared with about 52 percent who were taught only safe sex. About 42 percent of the students who went through the comprehensive program started having sex, and about 47 percent of those who learned about other ways to be healthy did.

The abstinence program had no negative effects on condom use, which has been a major criticism of the abstinence approach.