(08-29-2013 09:35 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(08-29-2013 09:31 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  I'm with Smaug.

How in the h does the ESS SEE SEE get away with it. but I digress................

I have a dream that we all would like to leave the world a better place than what it was when we were born into it. That the world takes on the view of environmental stewards.

Why, by winning championship after championship of course. But it's only due to 4 teams.

The college football national championship game is the first Saturday in December. There is no need to have a BCS.

How about having some qualification(s) in order to be able to vote? Even something as benign as 2+2=4.

We've gone so PC we are having to chase our own tails to satisfy the herd.

A voter should have some degree of education and as such be able to make an intelligent vote.

The above could go a long way to solve our mutual problems.

(08-29-2013 09:35 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  Why, by winning championship after championship of course.

Oh, is that what you call them?

(08-29-2013 10:00 AM)Smaug Wrote:  

(08-29-2013 09:35 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  Why, by winning championship after championship of course.

Oh, is that what you call them?

Nobody had a problem with the BCS until the SEC started going back to back, then it was suddenly flawed.

(08-29-2013 09:38 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(08-29-2013 09:35 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(08-29-2013 09:31 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  I'm with Smaug.

How in the h does the ESS SEE SEE get away with it. but I digress................

I have a dream that we all would like to leave the world a better place than what it was when we were born into it. That the world takes on the view of environmental stewards.

Why, by winning championship after championship of course. But it's only due to 4 teams.

The college football national championship game is the first Saturday in December. There is no need to have a BCS.

Largely due in part to LSU, UF, and Alabama... Though Alabama had zero business sniffing it in the 2011 season...

This derail makes Lord Stanley want to hurt you all with my strong and lean hands.

(08-29-2013 10:23 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(08-29-2013 10:00 AM)Smaug Wrote:  

(08-29-2013 09:35 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  Why, by winning championship after championship of course.

Oh, is that what you call them?

Nobody had a problem with the BCS until the SEC started going back to back, then it was suddenly flawed.

No, it sucked then, too.

Ask Auburn if they like the BCS


or for that matter the Trojans of USC

Me thinks Southern Cal would have a couple of those Ess SEE SEE championships in their trophy case if we had a playoff

(08-29-2013 03:48 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Ask Auburn if they like the BCS


or for that matter the Trojans of USC

Auburn should have gone in 2004, no doubt about that, but what do you do? They would have beaten USC...

Any "championship" that eliminates half the field before Labor Day is crap.

College football's post-season couldn't wash March Madness' jock strap.

Beyonce.

(08-29-2013 03:50 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Me thinks Southern Cal would have a couple of those Ess SEE SEE championships in their trophy case if we had a playoff

All they had to do is make it there... Losing to OrSt and UCLA in 2006 doesn't help matters any... Nor does losing to 40 point underdog Stanford and Oregon in 2007... Nor OrSt in 2008, nor Stanford and ASU in 2011...

2008 was their best chance but they couldn't compete for the top three spots held by the other 1-loss teams, UF, OU, and Alabama...

(08-29-2013 03:57 PM)Smaug Wrote:  College football's post-season couldn't wash March Madness' jock strap.

Nor would it want to... MM has nothing on college football post season...

Back to the OP for a moment.

My dream would be that some sort of awakening would happen in this country so that personal responsibility would once again be cherished by most all, the entitlement mentality would die and that we started electing people who would lead us back towards a CONSTITUTIONAL based governance. Sweep out all statists from our federal government. Remind them that the STATES created the federal government as its servant, not the other way around.

Pare back regulations to only those deemed essential to protect safety. Cut corporate taxes and let companies repatriate profits earned abroad. Unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of America, the power of individuals to create value for others in products and services. Leash the overarching government instinct to quash rather than encourage innovation. Quit punishing success. Quit enabling sloth. Stop creating incentives that reward dependency. Preach self reliance and responsibility. Treat others as you wish to be treated. That each of us help those in need, as best we can.

IOW, turn around all the liberal/progressive initiatives that squelch economic growth and turn loose the engine of creativity and productivity that made America the envy of the world and why so many want(ed) to come here.

Yes, I have a dream.

That humans recognize evil in the world and would rather shun from it rather than embraces it.

(08-29-2013 09:15 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  That all internet and cell reception is lost and we have to live off the land. No more politics, twisted media outlets, or communication around the world, and for f*ck's sake, NO MORE FACEBOOK.

Just let us have newspapers and radio, and telephone landlines.

All internet is lost = no more fan forums.
Or would we communicate via the pony express or smoke signals?

I wish people would take advantage of what this country offers and that we go back to the days of individual accountability. Political correctness and the endless handouts need to die a very quick death. People need to accept that excuses for self failure are just that.

I've got multiple:
1) for the US to embrace Switzerland like neutrality
2) a balanced federal budget
3) return to limited government-fragment federal power and return it to the states
4) restore the constitution
5) return to rugged individualism among the populace
6) alternatively, dissolution of the federal government/secession

1) US would wipe the books clean of all laws except the Constitution and all its amendments.

2) US would adopt a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution

3) Social welfare would be something handled by charities and the private sector out of a since of Moral Obligation NOT a legal one.

4) The US budget would be established by a non-partisan Group with Congress and the POTUS only being able to approve in entirety. Any not constitutional expenditures would have to be established by congressional bill with POTUS approval and since they are not constitutionally required expenditures we can see which party breaks the spending rules most.