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A Mandate.

I believe after fixing the Economic Meltdown, catching that terrorist mastermind and ending the fiasco in Iraq… the college football post season is the next pressing matter facing our nation.

There is a precedent for Presidents weighing in on College Football; some successful and disastrous.

  1. 1905:  Teddy Roosevelt calls Harvard, Yale and Princeton to a White House summit to address the violence in the early game.
  2. 1969:  Richard Nixon attended to the Texas – Arkansas game and declared the winner the National Champion after the game before the polls were released the next week.

*** Penn State was 22-0 at the time and had just won the Orange Bowl so for the President to ‘declare’ a national champion by presenting a plaque to the Texas team after the game didn’t sit too well with Joe Paterno:

“I don’t understand how Richard Nixon could know so much about college football in 1969 and so little about Watergate in 1973.” Paterno, said in June of 1973.

Here’s to hoping for a playoff, I’m in the plus one category myself.

For Bedford… Moving forward.

It’s been a long and dark 8 years.  Now we move on.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

I would have to say 4 years ago this would seem as the most unlikely possibility.  A far cry from this.  But yet, here we are.

Way to come clean General Butt Naked.

Joshua Milton Blahyi, a former Liberian factional fighter known as ‘General Butt Naked’.

Joshua Milton Blahyi otherwise known as General Butt Naked testified in front of Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission regarding his activities during Liberia’s Civil War.  Gen. Naked said he is responsible for 20,000 deaths and urged other former Warlords to come forward:

“I could be electrocuted. I could be hanged. I could be given any other punishment,” the 37-year-old Blahyi said in a weekend interview following his truth commission appearance last week. “But I think forgiveness and reconciliation is the right way to go.

“I have been looking for an opportunity to tell the true story about my life — and every time I tell people my story, I feel relieved.”

Gen. Naked got his name by charging into battle wearing nothing but  a pair of boots.