Mcyrulik's Blog

Senator John McCain has pulled off quite honestly the biggest coup in political history. While the Democrats are sitting around trying to mend their ways with women over the defeat of Hillary, the annointed one, Senator McCain was scouring the top of the Republican ranks and found a diamond in the rough; Mrs. Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska. I love this pick from many angles, but in particular, I like that she is genuine, true, and not afraid to mix it up with the 'old-boy' network. You know this pick is good when the 'mainstream media', bloggers, and pundints start going crazy over it. Let the media say what they will, she is a leader, she has governed an entire state, what has Obama governed? Oh yeah, a meer 143 working days in the Senate...........whoopee!! I cannot wait til debate times..........she is going to kick Bidens rear end all over the stage. Good Luck Sarah, you got my vote.

Dear Mr. Obama:

  I would like to start off by stating upfront that there is absolutely no way on God's green earth I am voting for you this November. Ok, now that we have that out the way, I would like to commend you on your proposed, 'Tax Rebate Stimulous'. I should actually say the 'Let's Rape and Pillage the Oil Companies Profits Rebate' What a tremendous idea you have come up with. I cannot think of anything more hopeful and worthy of real change than to destroy an American company. I must hand it to you Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, you have outdone yourself here, at no time in recent history can I think of a politician wanting to take legitimate profits from legitimate companies...................wait, strike that, I must be thinking poorly here, I almost forgot what we did to the tobacco companies. By the way, where did all that money go anyhow? Do we still not have, what is it, 40 million Americans without health coverage? If I am not mistaken, I believe this same 'tactic' was used on pharmacuetical companies too? But I digress; I have thought this idea of yours out long and hard and I am going to make a proposal to like-minded educated Americans who can see the big picture. When and if Mr. Barack Hussein Obama is elected, and this proposal comes up for a vote, which by the way it will because Nancy Pelosi is of the same mindset as Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, and we poor, underprivilaged, deprived, Americans should get together with members of our immediate families, and reinvest that amount of money back into the oil companies stock. So, for instance, my wife and I, my sisters and their husbands, and my mother, pool together our $3000 and buy as much oil company stock as we can. Why you ask would we do that with the money? Good question, and I have the exact answer for you. Because one day, the people of this country will vote politicians into office who will see through these travesties and award the oil companies huge tax breaks, drilling contracts, and watch the profits soar then. You think 40 billion in profits is large, wait until we pull our heads out of our back-sides and see what we have done is unfair and frankly, unjust to private, legit companies, who by the way, are already paying outrageous amounts in taxes. So, again, thanks again Mr. barack Hussein Obama or can I call you Mr. Barack Hussein Obama Hood? 'He steals from the rich and gives to the poor' So, to conclude, good Luck in November, I am certain you will give Mr. John McCain a good run, but with such fresh, innovative ideas spewing from your campaign, I can't undertand why anyone wouldn't vote for you...............time will tell I guess.

Matt C.

Crivitz, Wisconsin

  

 

This is my take on Packer fans: are we the biggest bunch of whiners in the NFL? Come on now, seriously folks, do we need to produce more cheese for all of our whine? This entire Brett Favre saga has had me really thinking, and if I were an outsider looking in, I would have to concure with my own evaluation so far. Dump Ted, bring Favre back, the fans own the team...blah blah blah!! First of all, the fans, the city, the shareholders, none of them own the team, PERIOD. Yes, the Packers may be a team that has now owner, but if you think for two seconds that as a fan or resident of the city of GB you have even a small say in what happens with the Packers regarding football operations........think again!! Even someone who has multiple shares of this team has no say, sure they can go to sharholder meetings and feel important, but next time your at a shareholders meeting, try telling the organization to make a trade for another player you like better. If they dont laugh at you then, they sure as hell wil be once they are alone. Does anyone who is NOT wearing the rose-colored Brett FAvre glasses remember March 3, 2008? Anyone? Wait a second, that was the day Brett Favre retired, my bad. How about te reports that he wanted to come back a few weeks later and at the 11th hour re-retired. What on earth does this oraganization owe him now? Is he not a millionaire and a stud superstar because of the GB Packers? Is his family not completely taken care of for generations to come? What do we owe him? I say Nothing!!! Sure I bleed green and gold and loved Brett Favre, but I am also an educated man with my head on straight. he retired, not once, but twice. Has he filed his paperwork yet to return? Whoops, sorry, no again. Why not? He says he is 100% committed, so why not just file the papers and say look, Im in it to win it, lets play some football Ted and Mike!! You want to know how fast he would be back in GB if that were the case? Tomorrow!! I think we all need to take a step back and think.......15 years ago had this been a GM by an other name, we would have named a street after him after last season, along with talent he has assembled on the field, today, we want to hang with with a short rope on a tall tree. Are you kidding me? Yes, Favre had a fantastic year last year, but is that a guarantee he will have an equally impressive season this year? I just think we are showing the world that we are nothing but idiots and come football season, this will remain a huge distraction, but not to the team or the players on the team, but to the fans, the ones who will find fault in every teensie-weensie little mistake this year that Rodgers makes, and again we will be laughing stocks to the world when you idiots start chanting.......bring Brett Back, Bring Brett Back, Bring Brett Back.

Isn't it time for a change? After hearing about the story yesterday about yet another teenager getting a hold of a gun and feeling the need to, as his suicide note said, "go out with a bang", isn't it time that the adults in this country wake up and smell the coffee, or the roses, or whatever it is we need to smell! I just chaps my rear-end to continue hearing about stories like this. So, what do we change? First of all, there are two things that I feel could have averted this tragedy. Number one, if that young man had any idea that if he would have walked into that mall and just one person could have also have been carrying a gun on them and stopped him WITHOUT him having a chance to take the cowardly way out and committing suicide, do we think he might have thought twice about it? Maybe or maybe not, but just imagine for a moment if there was that chance; how many lives might have been saved if just one responsible, licensed gun owner would have been nearby. Not only that, but had that responsible, licensed gun owner been able to stop this young man without taking his life, the families who will now NEVER get any kind of justice for this tragedy might feel knowing this boy would be punished. It's time that folks wake up and see whats going on here. Troubled young people. Copy-catting crimes. Why did this boy feel the need to take others out with him? We will never know the answer, but if we examine the situation more closely, we might find a few common traits between him and others would did the same thing, which leads me to my second point, the public education system. Seems to me that ever since we have taken discipline, accountability, and responsibilty, not to mention God, out of the public schools and put it in the hands of worthless politicians, the young people in this country have had little to no direction. They are pushed through the system like cattle hearded to market, whether or not they have any idea what they just learned or didn't learn. In fact, I was shocked and amazed that my local public high school, seniors who are short a few credits can simply "buy" their way out of school. Buy their way out of high school? What kind of beaurocratic nonsense is that? It makes absolutely no sense to me why we should be sending our kids out into the world with the idea that if they get into trouble or can't handle something, they can just buy their way out of it. I'm sorry, but life does not work that way, unless I have lived an even more sheltered life than I could have even imagined. The only way that this current mentality in our society is going to change is if we, the ADULTS, do something to change it. We need to tell our elected officials to get more hands off regarding education and empower parents far more. The teachers unions must be put in their place as well. While they may do some good for some teachers, I feel that as a whole, the teachers union, (who by the way for those of you who don't realize it are in bed with the politicians), do far more harm than they do good. get the lousy teachers out and put in smart, common-sensical people who have the best interest of the children at hand, not the bottom line of their own pocket books. Bring back dress codes, discipline, responsibility, and accountability. Perhaps even a little education about God, or at minimum, a higher being. I am so glad that I have no other children waiting in the wings to attend school. As long a people turn a blind eye to kids and feel that the government can do a better job raising our kids, things will get far worse before thy ever get better. WAKE UP PEOPLE!! How much more of this needs to happen before adults take back this country and ensure that politicians don't have the final say about your childs future?

Is anyone else out there as disappointed in the hire of Murphy as Packers new CEO as I am? I realize what they were looking for, but I always felt that the team would hire from within and not go to an outside source, especially hire a person who has zero ties to the Packers organization. I will give him the benefit of the doubt for now, but I am a little disappointed in this decision at this point. 

I found a great column written by Micheal Silver for Yahoo! Sports. Here is the link to the colum...I could not agree more with his assessment.                   http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ms-thegameface11
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This was absolutely a statement game! Not doubt about it. However, who made the statement? I can tell you without hesitation, the Green Bay Packers made a much bigger statement than the Dallas Cowboys. I'm sure some of you are saying, this guy is an idiot, the Cowboys beat the Packers. Yes, they did beat them, HOWEVER,  with Woodson and KGB out of the game, and Favre knocked out, the Packers showed heart and resiliance and did not allow the Cowboys to put them away. I was shocked and amazed at Rodgers performance, it gave me great pleasure to see him play that well. But in the grand scheme of things, if the Packers need to go back to Dallas and play a playoff game there, I think the game will be completely different. Plain and simple, the difference in the game? Turnovers. Two huge turnovers by the Packers cost them the game in the end. Eliminating even one of the two would have made that game closer than it even ended up being. I just feel that the Packers didn't play their game. And yet another point to be made, the season is not over yet, if Dallas doesn't find a killer instinct soon, they may very well lose another game (or two) and the Packers could still find themselves with home-field advantage. So, to all of you who are loving life right now and feel that the Packers just proved they aren't as good as Dallas, think again, I think the Packers showed they are actually better than Dallas.

Ok now, isn't it time the media finally break down and face the facts: the New York Giants, the Arizona Cardinals, and Denver Broncos are total pretenders. All three lost games to teams they should have beaten easily, at least if they were legit playoff contenders. I am tired of the media pumping up teams who can't beat the teams they should beat, but then in the same breathe, telling me that the Packers have not beaten anyone yet and are still perhaps a notch below the Cowboys. Seems to me the PAckers have beaten everyone the schedule has thrown at them, including teams that the media hyped as playoff contenders.......Denver, Chicago, San Diego, Philadelphia, New York, and Washington. Not to mention a few teams that were riding high...Detroit anyone? And Kansas City who at the time they played Green Bay had won 4 of 5. Don't tell me I say, show me, and right now, the Packers are showing everyone.

Up until the Thanksgiving Day game, I was not a true believer in the Packers as a dominating, conference leader. Something changed that day however that has made me think differently.

In years past, even during the start of the Sherman years, when the Packers faced a game that would be considered a 'must-win' they would flop. Not that the game against Detroit was a must win game, but in the grand scheme of this season, if the Packers wanted to be considered elite, or competitors in the NFC, winning in Detroit would be a must!

Heck, had they lost, who could have blamed them right? I mean, short week, on the road, already have exceeded nearly everyones expectations already this season, they really had nothing to play for and could have easily overlooked Detroit in anticipation of Dallas week.

But they didn't. Not only did they not overlook Detroit, they manhandled them. They showed the entire country that day, the same entire country that looked at Detroit as the NFC love-child, the sleeper team, loaded with talent, young, confident, and after losing to the Giants would have something to play for at home on the teams biggest stage every year. This was a trap game for the Packers.

But what ended up happening was perhaps even more shocking than the Packers being 9-1 going into the game; they truly dominated the game! Ok, so the first quarter wasn't exactly dominant, but then again, Detroit had controlled time of possession, started in Packers territory, and were basically running up and down the field, but at the end of the first quarter, the score was 6-0 Detroit. 6-0? After all that, the Lions could only score 6 points. And only a few minutes into the second quarter, the Packers came alive and never looked back. 

Now I dont know about any of you, but thats a different team I see out on that field than in years past. Even the imfamous #4 seems like a different player out there. Who in the NFL has MVP-like seasons at 38? No one I tell you. Moreover, who at 38 in this league is willing to subjugate to a guy who has never had headcoaching experience before? I know that list is very short, and may only have one name on it.

I am now a believer in this team. They showed me that they have heart, determination, confidence, and something no one thought they had at the start of the year; talent! This team has accomplished something that most experts will tell you is nearly and impossibility in the NFL, they have so far gone undefeated on the road. Not only that, but they have won in stadiums that are hard to win in; Kansas City, Detroit, Minnesota, New York, and Denver! 

Now Im not sure how Thusrdays game against Dallas will go, for sure the Packers toughest challenge of the year, but I can say this, it will be close, the Packers will never show signs of giving up, and #4 will have a huge game. If they can get healthy quick, limit the turnovers, and play good defense, we will be talking about the Packers being  11-1 and have the inside track on homefield advantage.