THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS

I am declaring today “Nothing Thursday.”

There is nothing of importance going on right now, and therefore I refuse to report about it.

The Tygrrrr Express is leaving New York today, and will be Atlanta bound this evening. 24 hours after that, I leave for South Florida, followed by going back to LA, back to NY again, and back to LA again hopefully for awhile.

The action tonight is in St. Louis Missouri. Joe Biden will be debating Sarah Palin. I will be in the air, but will catch the rerun later tonight. I could blog about strategy, but that is such a colossal bore. The column will be obsolete once the debate ends. Whatever will happen will happen, and nothing I write will change that.

I believe in Sarah Palin, and think she will do fine. I doubt Joe Biden will suffer any damage no matter how many cheap shots he takes at Sarah Palin. This is not like Hillary Clinton and Rick Lazio. Sarah Palin is the republican, and therefore not to be treated as human by the elites.

I could write about how Gwen Ifill is a liberal shill designed to ensure a Biden win, but that does no good. For some bizarre reason John McCain agreed to have this wretchedly biased woman do the debate. Republicans have only themselves to blame by thanking people who kick them in the teeth. President Bush Senior thanked Carole Simpson in 1992 after she mockingly went after his educational and environmental credentials. Gwen Ifill is biased. She works for PBS. She will not be fair. We will never learn. That is all that needs to be said on the subject.

I do hope conservatives stop wringing their hands about Palin. Katie Couric despises conservatives, and for anyone to think that Katie Couric matters is a mistake. She is irrelevant. One strong debate performance can make up for any interviews conducted by partisan hacks.

The real issues that matter are taxes and terror. Barack Obama will raise the former and be weak on the latter. That is all there is.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10022008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/democrats__taxes_and_phony_facts_131758.htm

I could discuss the bailout package, but reporting on things that may happen is useless. A package has not been signed into law. Never underestimate Congress in their ability to fail to actually do something. More importantly, I still think this is one time that they should do nothing. Let the stock market drop until bargain hunters start buying again.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/kill_the_bailout.html

http://unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Another+bucket%3a+The+bailout%2c+round+2&articleId=b3c960d3-38b2-4ae6-b64a-e21821aad581

The Founding Fathers created a system that moves slowly if at all, and the system works. So as much as I could cover every speech by every gasbag on C-Span, I will do what everybody else does, and watch what happens while pretending to have been right all along.

I could ramble about how much I detest Manhattan, and how I want to leave. I love Brooklyn, and find Manhattan the most overrated city on Earth. Yet in a few hours I get my wish, and the people of Manhattan will be glad to get rid of me. None of you care to hear how I visited 4 of the 5 boroughs yesterday because my GPS tracker broke and I got lost. At least I skipped the Bronx. Except for excellent pizza and hot dogs, and the red clam chowder, which is much better than the white New England version, I see no reason to ever live here.

So in essence, there really is only one news story today, and that is that the Oakland Raiders finally fired Lame Kiffin. It was done over Rosh Hashanah. Even though owner Al Davis is Jewish, his working on the holiday is not my business.

http://cdn.sfgate.com/chronicle/acrobat/2008/10/01/raiders_firing.pdf

The firing was the right thing to do. The team was headed in the wrong direction. As for new coach Tom Cable, I know very little about him. What I have read is positive, but I really hope he is only an interim coach. I still believe that a veteran such as Dennis Green, Jim Fassell, or Mike Martz is needed. They can tutor JaMarcus Russell, and let Rob Ryan run the defense.

http://cbs5.com/sports/lane.kiffin.fired.2.829208.html

Do not be confused about the back to back fourth quarter collapses. The defense was exhausted from an offense that malfunctioned repeatedly. In some cases, the offense gave up points. Russell throws a gorgeous long ball, and the running game is strong. The problems are occurring in the red zone, where the offense keeps breaking down. Too many field goals are being kicked. As for Sebastian Janikowski being allowed to attempt 76 yard field goals, I am in favor of it. As long as it is at the end of the half, why not? If he makes history, it can inspire the team.

Other than that, my main concern is remembering to set the d@mn Tivo when I leave town. I forgot to tape the season premier of “Desperate Housewives,” although missing “Law and Order” is less critical. I am sure Sam Waterston made a bombastic, self righteous speech, and conservatives rolled their eyeballs. No wait, that was Joe Biden. It really does tie in together.

I could do my impersonation of Joe Biden and continue to babble about nothing, but it is better to stay silent and be seen as a fool than speak up and remove all doubt.

There are plenty of things that may be lead to something that is actually worthy of being considered hard news.

Until then, I am sure Greta Van Substanceless can blather about Natalee Holloway or somebody named Peterson just so I can include their names for no reason and get more hits on my blog from imbeciles that read nonsense. Perhaps MSNBC will discover that they were responsible for 9/11. After all, most of their staff hates President George W. Bush as much as Al Queda.

Remember Al Queda? Those are people that want to kill us. While the world goes to sleep, they are still plotting. I could write about that every day. I hope and pray I never have to write about any of their successes ever again.

So Happy It’s Thursday.

eric

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