When Saturday Mattered Most

Army no longer plays Navy the Saturday after Thanksgiving but with the holiday looming it remains a good time to praise Mark Beech’s book When Saturday Mattered Most: The Last Golden Season Of Army Football. The book involves Army’s 1958 football season when the team dominated the nation’s sports pages and was the last time it reached a number one ranking. It ended the season ranked third with the only blemish on its record a 14-14 tie against Pitt.

Springfield’s Bill Carpenter, the famous Lonesome (or Lonely as he preferred) End is prominently featured in it.
The book is well-written with many historical tidbits and will easily capture and hold the interest of those  who care little about sports.
I fully expect a movie or mini-series based on it.
When Saturday Mattered Most
When Saturday Mattered Most

PennDOT’s Yellow Dot

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has launched two new voluntary programs aimed at saving the lives of Pennsylvanians in emergency situations, says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). Participation in the Yellow Dot program and the Emergency Contact Information program is free. 

Participants in Yellow Dot fill out the program form with an emergency contact, medical contact and medical information; insert it in the program’s folder; and then place it in their vehicle’s glove compartment. A yellow dot sticker affixed to the rear window alerts emergency responders to the availability of information to help them provide better care to crash victims. 

The Emergency Contact Information program offers Pennsylvania driver’s license and PennDOT-issued ID holders the opportunity to log into a secure database and list two emergency contacts. Participants can update the information as needed, but only law enforcement officials can view the information in the system. In the event of an emergency, law enforcement can use a participant’s ID to find his or her emergency contact information. 

The Yellow Dot program is used only in vehicle crashes, but the Emergency Contact Information program can be used in other emergencies as well as crashes. 

For information on the programs, visit Cox’s website and look under the “State Programs and Services” link on the left-hand side. 

Cryptowit

By William W. Lawrence Sr

Rolk oy g rutm rkyyut ot nasoroze.

Pgsky S. Hgxxok
Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elmo Not Penn State, Um, Really

Penn State has removed from its Flickr feed the below photo of Elmo receiving a PSU t-shirt last march.

Kevin Clash, the actor who portrayed Elmo on Sesame Street, resigned from the role today, Nov. 20, amid allegations he molested underage boys.
Elmo Not Penn State
Sesame Workshop said “the controversy surrounding Kevin’s personal life has become a distraction that none of us want.” It’s a statement worthy of a PSU athletic director. Or president even.


Is Obama Going Take Private Retirement Savings?

Old friend Tom Flocco sent this link alleging that Barack Obama has a plan to confiscate private retirement savings. Guess we will have wait to see if this bubbles up.

Tidbit Of The Day

Stuart Hamblen’s  song “This Ole House” was inspired by a lonely shack he found while hunting in the mountains. Inside was the corpse of an elderly man guarded by a starving dog.

Hunting with Hamblen was his friend John Wayne.

Obama Burma Visit 2012

Obama Burma Visit 2012 — Here is how the people of Burma welcomed Obama on his visit. They seem to have a better fix on him than half of America. For a report on the not-so-success of his endeavor visit here.

Those Crazy Japanese

Those Crazy Japanese — Issei Sagawa was a student in avant garde literature at the Sorbonne Academy in 1981 when he invited classmate Renee Hartevelt to dinner at his apartment.

Little did Miss Hartevelt know that she was going to be the meal. Sagawa shot her and proceeded to eat her over the next several days.

Sagawa’s deed was discovered when he tried to dispose of what he couldn’t finish in a lake.

Well, he was arrested, found insane and placed in an asylum. His wealthy father inveigled him to be transferred to a Japanese institution and then released into society. He served a total of 15 months.

Sagawa is now a minor celebrity in Japan where he gives lectures on cannibalism, writes restaurant reviews, and says that he would like to eat another girl.

Seriously.

Those Crazy Japanese
Those Crazy Japanese

Thoughts On Secession II

It is true that if Pennsylvania should reject the existing paradigm of federal supremacy it would not have to share its natural gas revenue with places that allow world travel on welfare. 
 

 

But it gets even better.
It’s not called the Keystone State without a reason. New Englanders and New Yorkers have to transverse it to reach points west and south.
Without federal interference, Pennsylvania could impose a heavy toll for using I-80 while removing the toll booths on I-76. This would give the port of Philadelphia a huge competitive advantage while righteously reaping revenue from our fat-cat oppressors in New York City.
Yes, with the state on its own the typical Pennsylvanian could live a life of indulgent leisure akin to the citizens of Bahrain or Qatar.
But wouldn’t the people who live in those precincts that went 100 percent for Obama oppose such a plan? Did you miss the part about living a life of indulgent leisure?
Those former Obama-supporting Philadelphians would be able to buy Bruce Springsteen’s horse farm and hire his daughter to clean the stables leaving The Boss to wander the ruins of New Jersey mumbling pathos-invoking songs about his circumstance.
Of course they would go for it.

Cryptowit

By William W. Lawrence Sr

Li srpc ievrw lmw jviihsq erh ibmwxirgi als hempc gsruyivw xliq eria.

Nslerr Aspjkerk zsr Ksixli 
Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein