New Orleans Pelicans? Oh Yeah, They Are Bad Ass!

If you think the Hornet's proposed name change to "The Pelicans" is a pussy move, think again, bitches.

"If We Break Every Window In Benghazi.... They Can BILL US!"

God bless Bill Whittle.

If you wanted to dream about what a real and proper presidential response to that attack on Americans on the anniversary of 9/11 would have looked and sounded like... well, here it is.

Meanwhile our celebrity Teleprompter-King was more worried making the bad guys mad at us, then sent out a surrogate to lie through her teeth to the American public - just in case this little messy thing involving 4 brave Americans' deaths might impact his-re-election.

Watch this 1:45 interlude, then re-wind and watch it all. Then send it to anybody who might have an open mind.

Whittle first caught my eye back in 2004, when he wrote a number of essays on a blog called Eject!Eject!Eject!.com.

One them was masterful in pointing out how the modern smug liberal will almost always default to claiming a Republican - any one will do, the facts don't matter - is "duhhhrrrr STOOOPID!"

Like Bush 43.

Whittle launched a volley of heat-seeking logic rockets....

George W. Bush is not stupid. It's not possible to be a moron and fly a supersonic jet fighter, and everyone knows it.

What George W. Bush is, however, is inarticulate. English is his second language. From what I can see he does not have a first language. Abraham Lincoln spoke in simple frontier language in an age of rhetorical flourish. Like Bush, he was considered a bumpkin and an idiot, and like Bush, he realized that there were times when having people misunderestimate you repeatedly was a real advantage. That's goal-oriented. That's playing the deep game. That's cunning.

I personally have gotten to the point where Bush's malapropisms cause me to look at the floor and shake my head with an affectionate smile, in much the same way supporters of his predecessor used to do with every new revelation of coerced sex from former employees. He is what he is. But he is a damn sight more intelligent than the graphic designer in the Mini Cooper with the Village Idiotsticker.

Me, personally, I look at the man's entire catalog of flaws in the same way Lincoln looked at Grant and his drinking: I can't spare this man. He fights.

So to me, anyway, given the above information I feel that anyone calling President Bush a moron and an idiot comes off sounding like, well, a moron and an idiot.

The NFL Does Not Cancel Games

Like, ever. Basically.

By my count... the only cancelled NFL games in my lifetime have been after 9/11, that snowstorm game in Philly in 2010 that got played on Tuesday night, Hurricane Katrina and the wildfire game between the Chargers and Cardinals.

In the latter cases, they just moved the game instead of cancelling.

So when people this weekend were tweeting about how come the NFL hasn't CANCELLED the Chiefs-Panthers game, I just had to laugh. Not happening. And it won't bring anybody back to life, or prove how sensitive you are, to anything.

So here come the easy columns about the NFL selling/losing it's soul.

Whatever.

The NFL is a business that's only open for a few days a week, a few months a year. This was a close call. Had it been a coach or another player murdered, the "store" might have been closed.

I could have gone either way on this one. If the NFL is fine with games in London, games on 4 days rest, games with extra needless overtime, games that end in ties.... well, they could have just called this one a tie. Wouldn't have messed up anybody's playoff picture.

Just don't say "that's what (insert person) would have wanted" or "it will at least provide some welcome distraction."

Aside from the genuine tragedy of a football player murdering his girlfriend in cold blood, the second worst thing was watching media members on Twitter trying to outdo each other on the concern-o-meter.

Third worst was watching all the hushed tones by announcers asking questions to experts/analysts.

Fourth worst was watching TV types do the whole "I am fighting off choking up right now, I am so disturbed by this tragedy" thing.

Give it a rest.

I don't know the number of murder-suicides in American on an annual basis, but given the NFL's workforce of 1500+ players (and who knows how many coaches and front office personnel) it was bound to happen - eventually.

And I don't particularly care to know more about Javon Belcher.

He blasted his girlfriend and baby-momma to death in front of her mother.

I know enough.

Everything that happened after that, doesn't much register much with me one way or another.

"Oh, he killed himself too?" Fine.

I understand there is a possible - POSSIBLE - mental health issue here. Mental health issues quite often lead to tragic murders, followed by suicide. Either by grief, shock, or by plan.

But we don't know that right now, and we may never.

He might have just been a pissed off NFL player, sleep deprived, and shaking off a hangover.

I heard a few anecdotal tales of how much he had "loved" his 3 month old child prior to this episode. I mean, really. Really?

And did you see what was Belcher's major in college?

A: "Child Development and Family Relations."

I shit you not.