Brent Favre - We Won't Forget You

"'I hope the people who booed at least watched the way I played today -- with passion, like I always do -- and say, 'That's why we loved him. He lays it out there on every play.'"
Brett Favre elated he came back and that Vikings are winning - Peter King - SI.com

Sorry "Brent" (pun used often during the week and at the game), we're Packer fans, not player fans. Most of us have sat through many, many, many, games with lots of players who played with passion. You definitely are a throwback and we appreciate that, but you're not above the game, the team or the memories of other passionate players and fans. What makes you great is that you play for the love of the GAME. We support and cheer for OUR TEAM because we love the GAME. Playing for the Vikings - you are dead to us.

Best sign of the day at the game - held by 12+ robed "apostles": JUDAS ONLY BETRAYED JESUS / YOU BETRAYED US ALL

Violence in the Newest Olympic City Rattles Brazil - NYTimes.com

Rumor has it, here in Chicago, that Mayor Daley sent down some of his boys to show the IOC what a poor choice they made. Don't mess with Chicago!

"Then over the weekend, in a chilling outburst of violence, drug traffickers wielding what the police say they believe was a large-caliber weapon shot down a police helicopter just one mile from Maracana stadium, where the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics will be held and the World Cup final will be played two years before the Olympics."

Violence in the Newest Olympic City Rattles Brazil - NYTimes.com

Bands want to know if their music was used on Gitmo detainees - CNN.com

"'We do know that songs and bands' work has been used to abuse detainees, we know that,' she said. She added that any information that the National Security Archive obtains 'will add to the profile of this case.'"

We also know that songs and bands' work has been used to abuse parents of teens trying to assert their maturation and independence. Where's the group protecting us parents?

"It's very scary to think that you might go crazy because of the music, because of the loud noise," said Ruhal Ahmed, one of the former detainees who has filed a lawsuit. He said he had to listen to hours of headbanging music while held prisoner at Guantanamo in 2003.

I hear ya Ruhal, barely, but I hear ya.....

Bands want to know if their music was used on Gitmo detainees - CNN.com

Time flies and dogs grow...

Just 6 months old and already big enough to share ice cream off the counter with the brother!

Autumn Color - In our backyard

Max Day 1 - August 2008

What a face. Exhausted only half-way through his first day.

Life in Illinois!

One advantage of moving to the Land of Lincoln: the theater -

"Since his arrest last year, Blagojevich has made the rounds of New York television chat and news shows to maintain his innocence and he hosts a Chicago radio show, where he insists he is the "anti-Nixon" anxious to have the truth come out."

Judge worried about Blago saying too much! Really?!

More people should follow this advice...

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

"I don't text"

One of 8 Quick Texts I have loaded on my phone - since I really don't text. My kids (daughters) and wife do, but I think it is way too much work.

Other Quick Texts: "Time to come home"; "I'm outside"; "On my way"; and "Where r u?"