Recent content by oldtimetider

Keep it up then.... sometimes you have to take one for the team.

We don't have the talent we've had some years.... but Lord we're too talented to be that bad on O

Prediction... we win tonight and get another W in round 2 in the Rose Bowl...

Liked that pride on those last plays.... What was it Bryant said about it being a sin to let em score? Butchered his quote.....but anyway RollTide!

37-20 Good Guys

Poor preparation doesn't cause poor effort... but it waters and fertilizes it, especially on the defensive side of the ball. When what you're keys aren't working... either because they're not repped enough or you're keying the wrong thing, it leads to hesitation... We looked like we didn't know...

Notre Dame 1973 Lot's of family gathered around black and white tv.... Nip and tuck all night... We had em backed up late... 3rd and long inside their own 10 and Clements found that back-up tight end who hadn't caught a pass all year for a first down. Dear Lord. You'd have thought we had a...

I don't think teaching the truth about our history and inspiring love and patriotism for country are mutually exclusive. The U.S. has been a force for great good in the world and much prosperity. Our founding documents have been a gift not only to us but to much of the world. We have also at...

81's response above is spot on.... at least in my experience. I'm biased, but I believe that there is no other profession that is more filled with good and decent and caring people. Lord knows they didn't enter it for the $. I also think precious few have an agenda except to serve their kids...

..agreed. Not looking for anything other than a reasonable interpretation of the laws and the Constitution. Whether or not those interpretations will be heeded is another question altogether.

I tend to think that those who make it to the top echelon of the American legal system are institutionalists at heart with a real reverence for the law and for the Constitution. I was particularly impressed with Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearing several years ago and recall...

... a tip of the hat to your grandparents from an alumni of Fairfax Mill a few miles up the road. I only did 3 summers there as a student but recall thinking, my Lord, these people have spent their lives working like this.... Sacrificial giving so their kids could have better.

Founders (who were as much students of human nature as they were of government) worried MUCH about the tendency of democracies to devolve into rule by the loudest and most confident... in essence the groups with the most passion... (and often the least information.) In Federalist 10, Madison...

Not gonna fix the public schools until we fix the public. Nearly all if not all of the responses I've read on this thread have some truth. I think the whole "no child left behind/every student college ready" was well intentioned and misguided. As a 40+ year educator, I've seen the trends come...