Stories have showed up on both The Drudge Report and World Net Daily reporting that Fargo’s own Ed Schultz (if we really want to claim him) is set for national radio syndication in an effort to put a liberal voice up against the likes of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, not to mention the dozens of other conservative talk show hosts not quite as popular (Sorry Laura Ingraham). (Story at the Devil’s Lake Journal.) I say this: good for him. It’s keeping him from running for Governor of North Dakota next fall (now we just have to worry about Hoven running for reelection). This way, we won’t have to listen to his annoying voice piercing the television in campaign ads touting all the great work he’s done for ranchers in western North Dakota. And maybe, just maybe, when he fails miserably, like most liberal talk show hosts do, he’ll completely disappear from the airwaves. We can only hope.
Ed Schultz is one of the worst commentators I’ve ever heard in my life. I listened to part of his program once during a debate on whether or not to have a lottery in North Dakota. One person opposed to the lottery called up (Schultz was in favor) and started arguing with Schultz. For one, the guy that called up didn’t have very good arguments to begin with (namely, “It failed before. It’ll fail again.”), but what Schultz did was inexcusable. Rather than trying to get the caller to further explain his opposition to the lottery, Schultz simply called him “an ass” on the radio. It was at this point I turned off the liberal fruitcake’s program.
Are the liberals this desperate for voices on the radio that they would syndicate Ed Schultz? If you think the nine Democratic candidates for President don’t have ideas, wait until you have to listen to this dope. It seems as though by putting Schultz into the national spotlight, liberals are trying to get the most worthless hosts they can so they can keep complaining about conservative talk radio. Think about it, popular conservative talk radio hosts and unpopular liberal talk show hosts allows liberals to complain about how they have no voice on talk radio. (Forget the fact that they have the only voice on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and most other major newspapers in the country.) Now, when Ed Schultz’s ratings are incredibly low and he ultimately fails in the national arena, the liberals can speak even more of their “conservative media bias” (of which, almost no Americans believe).
A little friendly advice to you, Ed. Don’t even try this. You will fail. You will fail miserably. And this failure won’t be one where you are humiliated just in North Dakota and Northwest Minnesota; you will be made a fool of in the national arena. You cannot compete against the likes of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. Quit now before you make a fool out of yourself and all of North Dakota.
Last Saturday saw what could be the last meeting in what is the longest running rivalry in all of Division II college football, Bison/Sioux. Why might this rivalry end? Because UND refuses to play a decent team in non-conference play. But that’s another issue. My beef is with the NCAA Division II Playoff system. For those of you unaware, the NCAA divides D-II Football into four divisions (Midwest, Northeast, South, and West). From each of these four divisions, the top four teams go to the playoffs. (Current Regional Rankings at D2Football.com) The problem I have with the current rankings is this, UND is number 1 in the Midwest region. UND does not deserve to be number 1 in the Midwest region. They’ve barely escaped against St. Cloud State, South Dakota State, North Dakota State, and they lost to a worthless Mesa State team in non-conference play. Should UND be in the top four right now? Yes, but maybe at 3 or 4. If the NCAA really takes into account all of the games played by each team, the next UND loss (and there will be another UND loss) should knock them out of the playoff picture altogether. When a team like UND plays three simply bad teams (Minnesota-Crookston (W), Mesa State (L), and Newberry College (W)) in non-conference play and goes 2-1, and a team like NDSU plays two D-IAA teams (then #3 ranked Montana (W) and UC-Davis (L)) and a top 25 D-II team (Tusculum (W), currently ranked #11) to start the season and also goes 2-1, the team with the weaker record doesn’t deserve to have a playoff spot over a team with the same record and a much more difficult non-conference record. In addition, NDSU has also scheduled a fourth non-conference game against Concordia-St. Paul, currently ranked 8th in the Midwest region. If, and only if, UND manages to win out, then do they deserve to be in the playoffs, but they do not deserve to be ranked number 1 in the region. But when UND looses at least one game (most likely against Nebraska-Omaha) they should be dropped to 5th or 6th in the region and not get into the playoffs.
Am I the only one that thinks Pedro Martinez did the right thing, and only thing he could do last Saturday to Don Zimmer? Don Zimmer went after Pedro Martinez with a full head of old man steam. Pedro could’ve clocked him easily, but he didn’t. He did the only thing he could, he put his hands out to block a giant head from plowing into him and Zimmer fell down. If you noticed the video, Zimmer actually was throwing a punch when Pedro pushed him aside. Try this experiment on your own, get a friend to play along with you, and go through the motions of what happened between Martinez and Zimmer. Charge after your friend with your head down and your left hand outstretched ready to hit your friend. Then have your friend carefully grab your head and push you aside. Your natural momentum will carry you to your left and to the ground. Stop demonizing Pedro Martinez. He was just defending himself. If someone is charging after me with a look of vengeance in their eyes, I’m going to defend myself. I don’t care if that person is 25 or 85. Maybe Don Zimmer, the bench coach, should stay on the bench.
Now for the Cubbies. How can you not think they’re cursed? Up 3 games to 1 in the series against the Marlins, and they loose three straight, not to mention two at Wrigley Field. I’m not one to believe in superstition, but after the events of the eighth inning on Tuesday, I’m starting to believe in that blasted goat curse. Is that fan that prevented Moises Alou from catching the foul ball to blame? No, the Cubs had numerous chances after that to get the final five outs. And any of us would’ve done the same thing. He didn’t know that Alou was coming toward the stands. No one in that area did, check the replay and look at who was reaching for the ball. But that play, in combination with the error by Shortstop Alex Gonzalez on a routine ground ball, leads us to believe that the karma isn’t quite right in Wrigleyville. I hate to say it, but there’s always next year.
Is there something about being five outs away from the World Series that the Red Sox and the Cubs can’t get over? On Tuesday, the Cubs gave up eight runs after being just five outs away from their first World Series since 1945. Of course you know that the Cubs lost to the Marlins in game seven last night. Tonight, the Red Sox were just five outs away from defeating the Yankees and returning to the World Series. They were up by three runs (the same that the Cubs were up by on Tuesday) before allowing the Yankees to tie it up in, yep, you guessed it, the eighth inning. The two teams that everyone was pulling for both blew their chances with five outs remaining to a World Series birth.
Now, with the Red Sox loss tonight, we went from potentially having the highest rated World Series in the history of television with the Cubs and Red Sox, to what will most likely be the lowest rated with the Marlins and the Yankees. No one cares about the Marlins except for those 16,000 people that went to the games during the regular season. A few people care about the Yankees. But most of them are morons that are either just fair weather fans or bandwagon fans that latched on to the overpaid behemoths simply because they’re in the playoffs every year.
Imagine what could’ve been. Chicago Cubs against the Boston Red Sox traveling between Wrigley Field and Fenway Park. We would be guaranteed to see a team winthe World Championship that is supposedly cursed. We would see a team win that hasn’t won since 1908 or 1918. No matter who won the series, I don’t think anyone could be too disappointed. Just imagine what could’ve been. There’s Always Next Year
Yes, this will be another rant about the “crackdown” on the consumption of alcohol in Fargo. But this rant is more about the incompetence of Fargo’s Police Chief, Chris Magnus. Undoubtedly, this weekend will see the Party Patrol once again roaming the streets around NDSU looking for underage kids consuming alcoholic beverages. The idea of the Party Patrol isn’t a problem for me since most of those officers that are doing this are off duty and the cost of the program doesn’t come out of the Fargo Police budget. Meanwhile, in a south Fargo neighborhood, families are being terrorized and threatened by two families that are at war. According to local media, this has been going on for some time. Last night the police finally did something about it; they organized a meeting to allow residents to voice their concerns. That was it. Now this is just a crazy idea, but the police should take some of those officers that are out looking for underage drinking and divert them to a neighborhood in which families fear for their lives because they are caught between two warring families. I would think that the lives of children would be more important to Chief Magnus than a drunken 19 year old college student passed out on the sidewalk. In response to one woman’s query as to why the police didn’t respond one time when she called, Magnus said “we just dropped the ball on that one.” (WDAY News at 10pm on October 2, 2003)
At the meeting, many concerns were raised. Residents spoke of incidents of “speeding, drag racing, kids terrorizing kids in playgrounds, death threats, littering and vandalism” (Article at In-Forum.com (Free Registration May Be Required)). One woman even said that her daughter has been choked on the playground as well as has had her clothes ripped. And Magnus responds to all of this by holding a meeting and telling people to try and get along.
Chris Magnus has got to go. When he selectively enforces city ordinances (public drinking, etc.) and allows an entire neighborhood to be terrorized while focusing police resources on minor offences (speeding, running red lights and stop signs, and public drinking while tailgating at the Fargodome), his time as Fargo Police Chief has come to an end. Two of the four city commission spots will be up for reelection next spring. Send a message with your vote. Get at least one new commissioner into office that will work for the people of Fargo, rather than enabling a Police Chief with an agenda that, in all outward appearances, is working against the entire city.
Rush Limbaugh is in hot water, but that’s nothing new. The popular conservative radio talk show host has said many things in his long career, but he said something yesterday that the media picked up on and is spinning way out of control. His comment was more about how the media over hypes some players in professional sports because they are a minority, not specifically Donovan McNabb himself. But what bothers me more than anything in this situation is that tonight I saw on two different shows, ABC World News Tonight, and Paula Zahn Live on CNN, Al Franken being consulted on the Rush Limbaugh situation. Why is Al Franken such an expert on Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio? Is it because he wrote a book and put Rush Limbaugh’s name in the title? ( Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot: And Other Observations) Al Franken is now, and always has been a comedian, not a keen political observer. He is a typical liberal. He has no ideas of his own, he can only tear down the ideas that conservatives come up with. He has no actual arguments against conservatives; he only calls them names (case in point, the title of his aforementioned book). Yet both ABC News and CNN spoke with him today as though he were an expert on Rush Limbaugh. If I were to write a book and title it Al Franken Is A Stupid Moron That I Want To Punch In The Throat: And Other Lehmannisms, would I be brought on CBS or NBC as an expert the next time Al Franken does something the media wants to spin out of control? I think not.
If you needed any more proof of a liberal bias in the media, this has got to be it. In the story on ABC World News Tonight they spoke with Al Franken, yet they spoke with no one defending the position of Mr. Limbaugh. Prior to running the story, Peter Jennings mocked the idea of a liberal media, calling it “his [Limbaugh’s] liberal media.” Most people in this country understand that there is a liberal media bias, which is why they’ve turned to conservative talk radio and to Fox News, the only news network that actually shows both the conservative and liberal points of view. The reason the networks have latched on to this Rush Limbaugh statement is in an effort to discredit him. The networks know the reason they are loosing more and more viewers is because they are listening to people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and beginning to think for themselves. I’m going to say it now and you need to look for this in the future, the networks will continue to try everything they can think of to attract viewers back to their programs so they can continue to force feed their left leaning version of the news down our throats. They will call Rush Limbaugh a racist and Sean Hannity a harbinger of evil. The networks will do anything they can to get people to stop thinking for themselves, and start swallowing everything that the networks can shove down their throats. You’ve been warned, the attacks on clear thinking conservatives will only get worse in the future.
The persecution of the Bison Turf continues. In a break from what is practiced at all other restaurant bars in the city of Fargo, the Fargo Police have now told the Bison Turf that no minors are allowed in the building at any time. Even though the Turf is considered a restaurant and a bar and minors have been allowed in until 11 pm for the longest time, the police are changing the rules as they go and informed the Turf that they may no longer host minors, even during the hours they are supposed to be legal.
A crackdown on underage drinking wouldn’t bother me in this town if it were done fairly and uniformly. The problem is that the only bar being targeted is the most popular college bar in town, the Bison Turf. And, as I stated in an earlier rant, the only evidence that has been presented in this case is the same evidence that wasn’t enough to convict Turf owner Pete Sabo in a criminal trial.
To me, what the city commission and the Fargo Police and their Chief, Chris Magus, have been doing to the Turf is wrong. If more evidence were presented or if this “crackdown” were inclusive of all bars in Fargo, I may change my mind. But to this point, the main players that are against the Turf have shown me, the student body at NDSU, and the entire city of Fargo that they intend not to play fair.
The links below contain information on the players in this case. Contact them if you wish, but don’t make things worse for the Turf by being threatening. If you should contact the City Commissioners, be as concise and polite as you can be.
Fargo City Commission
Fargo City Commissioners
Ask Chief Magus a Question
Fargo Police Home Page
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