Author: Mike

Marvin Johnson saved the day for OU with a couple of big plays coming down the stretch as OU beat O-State in overtime by a score of 66-62.

Marvin can help the Sooners when he’s healthy. He’s got a great basketball body and can fill in the defensive void created by EJ’s season ending knee surgery. Marvin needs to be playingtwenty minutes a game from this point moving forward.

Marvin is one of those TSN type of players who can make some plays with his hustle and grit. I would compare his role on this OU team as to what Kenrich Williams does for the Thunder when he’s allowed to play in non-tanking situations.

OU came into this game with a net No. 47 ranking despite the tough stretch of late. This puts OU at 15-14 with a home game against West Virginia on tap on Tuesday. I would guess OU will be an ESPN 59-61% favorite win that game.

The loss which will hurt OU the most with the Committee will be the close home loss to TCU. That one hurt. That’s one which might haunt the Sooners when the Committee deliberates their fate.

But if OU could somehow steal a road game at K State to close out the regular Big 12 with a win over the tough Wildcats…that loss could be absolved by the Committee.

OU should have won this game by around six points in regulation, but once again fifth year senior point guard Jordan Goldwire struggled with some bad time and score offensive decisions coming down the stretch.

I thought O-State’s Avery Anderson had one his best games of the season and was the primary reason the Cowboys had a chance to win late in the game.

The Sousse kid is going to be a nice player for Mike Boynton as well once he develops a little eight-foot shot or so. He gave the Sooners fits in both Bedlam games this season with his shot blocking. Of all the excellent defensive players in the Big 12 I’ve seen…Sousse along with some guys at Texas Tech and Texas gave the Sooners fits this Big 12 season on the defensive end.

I love Mike Boynton, but he like Porter Moser needs to go get him a point guard next season for Avery Anderson to play off of on the offensive end of the floor.

I’m just happy these OU kids hung in there today and found a way to win a close game they absolutely had to have to stay alive in the NCAA Tournament discussion.

I still think OU gets in the Big Dance with 17 wins because of the schedule they’ve played.

The key for OU is Jordan Goldwire. Can he settle down and forty minutes where his decision making doesn’t implode for a five-minute stretch somewhere in the game.

Marvin Johnson gets my helmet sticker. It’s just nice to be able to play Boomer Sooner again.

BOOMER!

You have to admire the courage these Ukrainians have and their devotion to remain a free nation. You have to remember though, Ukraine has basically been a free nation since 1991 because of what Reagan and Bush did in the Cold War.

How sad it is we have these Trumplicans who equate freedom with minimal effective tax rates….and to varying degrees racism.

How sad.

Unless you’re a sociopath of some sort, it’s extremely painful watching the scenes coming out of Ukraine. My heart breaks for these people.

A tremendous about of stupidity being espoused by those in America who to my knowledge never served our country in war unless you count Lindsey Graham who was a military jag. This isn’t like Top Gun with Maverick and Mother Goose just flashing into Russian air space and putting this to an end. War is horrific and very non-glorious.

One of my uncles served in the European Theatre in WWII as an expert sniper. He lied about his age being he was too young to serve. He won two Purple Hearts and when he came back he literally didn’t speak to anyone for over a year. Sat on his sister’s porch and smoked a pipe in silence. He was probably never the same person.

To Nixon’s credit, after his disgraceful exit from power, he at least had the minimal sense God gave a dirt clod to keep his mouth shut for a period of time before he resurfaced to make an occasional comment here or there about American foreign policy.

But not the case with Donald Trump and his band of warrior bunions on the Fox propaganda network which btw nets Rupert Murdoch and one of his sons a cool net profit of $1 billion each last time I looked it up.

Since none of those people have ever done anything as far as serving our country…I would at the least do some research on what you hear on the Fox Propaganda Network.

Colin Powell passed just year from Covid and I’m sure to the very end he regrets the speech he made to the U.N. about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But whatever you believe in relation to that speech…one thing is clear the U.S. hasn’t done well in intervening in countries with the hope of nation building since the Marshall Plan.

Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria just to jog our collective recent memory didn’t end well.

Ukraine is the size of Texas with a population of 44 million people. Now…just for a second imagine you put 44 million Trump lunatics inside of Texas and then had the daunting task of financing and governing these idiots for a prolonged period of time.

See my point.

Nation building is tough.

So… I hope what we as a country do is take a deep breath and aid the Ukrainians in their fight for liberty with weapons and humanitarian aid, but with the thought this is their war for freedom.

In closing…remember how quickly the Afghan military folded after we departed this summer. Iraq never wanted us there. Syria was a disaster and the mistake of staying in Vietnam cost LBJ the legacy of being one of the five greatest presidents in American history.

We can’t keep fighting every single war which breaks out around the world.

Because in the end, if you break it, you own it.

Last night I tried watching the Thunder because Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was actually allowed to play against the terrific Phoenix Suns inside of an almost empty Pay. Com Arena. I may or may not write something down about the game later this week-end. I haven’t decided yet. The game itself as another scripted Thunder loss isn’t worthy of anything beyond two paragraphs.

You know, unlike others in this market …I actually take some journalistic pride in the content of my blog. I’ve always wanted the blog to read like something between the NY Times Magazine, ESPN, CNN, and a piano bar…..but coming from an Oklahoman’s perspective.

I’m not in this for numbers. I’m in this with my obscure underground blog because there’s such a paucity of honest objective writing in the Oklahoma markets on just about everything. Everything is just so over the top rogue red.

Alex Ovechkin is Russian and he’s in the twilight of his NFL career. In my mind…he will go down as a Top Ten player of all-time. I love watching Alex play.

Watching Alex on a power play is truly one the rare treats in watching an NHL game. I have him above Gretsky for two reasons…he can check and he can fiight.

The five shills of a hockey player are 1 skating, 2 passing, 3 shooting, 4 checking, 5 fighting. Gretsky was a three-skill hockey player. Pretty boy. Bobby Gordon Orr from Parry Sound, Ontario and Gordie Howe were not pretty boys. They were hockey players like Alex.

It did take Alex awhile though to focus on his checking and two-way commitment to the game. When he did…he finally won his Cup in 2018.

The fact is Alex’s Washington Capitals were in New York last night playing the NY Rangers. It was an awful game when I turned it off with the Caps trailing 3-0.

Alex didn’t seem like himself on the ice.

Anyway…this is Alex above giving his heart felt thoughts on the Russian-Ukranian War the world now finds itself enmeshed in just because of one man’s obsession of what the USSR was before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union.

Alex stops short of condemning Putin on this video given as they’ve been friends in the past. But he certainly doesn’t endorse the war in any way.

Because unlike the Idiots Twins…Trump and Tucker Carlson…I think Alex like all of us realizes what a horrific thing war actually is for those who don’t claim bunions and have to be participants in the human brutality of war.

Ben Sasse is a conservative United States senator from Nebraska. He was one of the six GOP senators who actually had enough political courage to vote to impeach Donald Trump after the January 6th Insurrection at our nation’s capital.

When I was young…I was probably quite a bit like Ben Sasse in my views of what America’s role should be in the world.

You get older and your views change or steer a bit as you go through the journey of life.

I was a registered Republican from 1976 -2000. I didn’t leave the Republican Party to join the Democratic Party. I left to become an Independent who’s still very much a fiscal conservative with a much more tolerant view of social issues than what the GOP has evolved into in the past twenty-two years.

If I were a young person looking across the horizon of where our country now stands…I would say in 2024 I’d probably look for a ticket of say Ben Sasse from Nebraska and possibly either Lisa Murkowski from Alaska or Tim Scott from South Carolina to fill out the ticket.

This in no way means I agree with these three people on everything, but what it means to me is I would hope this could be a ticket which could draw Americans back together and all of us could remember what it means to be an American…and why being an American should be aspirational and special.

I would even be willing to have a moderate Democrat on the ticket if both sides could agree on how that might come into being.

But I know this…the path America is currently on is not sustainable.

Gold bless the brave people in Ukraine who deserve an opportunity to be free. They seem to understand freedom much more than we do currently.

Even I have standards and that’s why I cannot as a responsible human ever put videos of either Sean Hannity or his partner in stupid white people dumb things said in public on my blog.

Even I… with my incredibly loose standards cannot cross that bridge of stupidity. That level of human stupidity should be anathema to all of us regardless of ideological beliefs.

But, hey, all of this in Ukraine is a result of Hunter Biden once being on the board of Burisma due to his father who currently has a 20% approval rating in blue states, and the fact Vladimir Putin is this wonderful warm man Tucker Carlson has irretrievably fallen in love with even more so than he did with Donald Trump.

Maybe these lovestruck humans bumped into each other on a beautiful spring day in a Moscow park and just fell in love at first sight.

The fact the U.S. cannot and will not enter Ukraine on the ground due to the fact Germany didn’t want Ukraine in NATO seems to have escaped Little Tucker Carlson’s tiny little brain which must be even smaller than Donald Trump’s gerbil-sized genitals.

C’mon, Trump white people…even you have to be better than this.

This is beyond the realm of self-abuse even for you people.

Try harder. The white capes and burning torches were a better look than this.

I’ll sing with you though.

Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama state legislatures in session…. circa 2022. Tell me I’m wrong.

I guess, in essence what we’re saying here is the GOP as far foreign policy is the party of Joseph Stalin to Dwight Eisenhower to Ronald Reagan to Vladimir Putin to Donald Trump.

In essence, that’s what Donald Trump and the GOP senators with a straight face are telling registered Republicans.

This is what Lindsey Graham would have you believe.

Donald Trump never served in anything or anybody. He had bunions, but they never apparently bothered him when he was chasing his next paid escort.

Ultimately…this is probably who the spoiled petulant grifter punk fanboy Trump wanted to become back in his earlier days in Queens as a child. But even I have to admit it is bit of a stretch to put The Donalt in the same hall of shame with Joseph Stalin.

But maybe I should keep the Stalin File in my folder if Marjorie Taylor-Greene ever decides to become a man.

I should probably watch one of those Thunder fixed games tonight to bring me back off the Trump ledge. I will admit Donald Trump does to me what Lincoln Riley does to Chris Jackson.

In all seriousness…I’m praying for these innocent people in Ukraine who did nothing wrong except aspire to be free and become a free market, free press country.

Oh, look, Donald Trump’s favorite tyrannical dictator just invaded Ukraine without any provocation.

Gosh, what Trump mindless clueless f–king simpleton living in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi in Oklahoma or Alabama couldn’t have seen this one coming?

Silver lining take from Oklahoma though is that we’re at least now in the SEC and with the people we should be standing with from a cultural standpoint of worldly culture and polish.

A Trump Rally in Baton Rouge is quickly moving up into my top five on my Bucket List.

Yeah, pretty much a day of infamy for the United States and the rest of the Democratic world…again.

But not nearly as black a day as January 6th circa 2020. That’s the day America as we thought we knew it somewhat died as a democratic Republic.

Everything beyond that day is like a piling on penalty in football when you hit the ballcarrier when he’s already laying on the ground from a targeting hit to the head.

Gosh…who would have thought Donald Trump and Nikki Haley would be on Fox the very night Putin and his thugs started the bombing in multiple Ukranian cities.

You would have had to be the Amazing f–king Carnac to call that on your very own little obscure blog in Deer Creek, Oklahoma.

If you’re reading this and you do indeed live in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama…that was sarcasm.

Are we headed for WW III?

Could be. Because there’s this thing called Article 5 or Section 5 from our NATO agreement or something like it which will require us to stand with Poland, Lativia, Lithuania, and Estonia if Putin… who is the man Donald Trump always wanted to grow up and be… invades one of these NATO member nations.

Right from the Hitler playbook at the beginning of WW II when Hitler started a world war in 1933 because he felt the penalties too harsh from the treaty which ended WW I.

Is it fair of me to compare Hannity and the Fox Zombies to Josef Goebbels?

It wouldn’t be fair if January 6th had never happened and these very ‘humans’ who gave cover to our own version of Little Donald Hitler hadn’t disgraced themselves to this degree.

Yeah…I think it’s time to call these people out even if they’re family members or are on the cusp of becoming ex-friends at this point.

You know why it would be okay?

Because Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Dwight D Eisenhower, LBJ, Ronald Reagan, and Bush 41 would all be in agreement for calling these people out for what they’ve become at this juncture in American history.

It would be the American thing to do.

Sean Hannity, Nikki Haley, and Cupcake Lindsey Graham….I’m calling you out. Either grow up or go home.

So …it appears Sean Hannity has finally reached a point where he’s embarrassed about America’s clear decline to the rest of the world as far as the U.S. being the shining beacon of democracy.

Color me doubled over laughing.

How long did it take Donald Trump’s primary pimp and Fox whore to come to this realization?

He must be exhausted from the arduous thought process it must have taken. Imagine the Fox misinformation slut Sean Hannity wearing himself out coming to this ‘flash of genius’ self-discovery moment.

It must have been a slow day for Sean Hannity at Fox. He must have been pre-occupied and worn out from having a threesome with Caligula and Lindsey Graham in a Moscow hotel room with Russian prostitutes urinating over all three of them as Putin invaded Ukraine.

Who amongst could have ever fathomed that when a departing country’s president attempts to hang his own vice-president in the waning days of a Banana Republic Experiment circa 2016-2020… the failed coup could embolden dubious dictators through-out the world?

Who could have seen this coming following January 6th and the subsequent alliance formed between Putin and China?

Did you really have to be Brent Scowcroft to think this was probably in the offing at some point?

This is what happens when a major political party and a rogue news outlet assault the press, the courts, the three branches of our federal government for six years with a make-believe celebrity pretending to be president who thinks he’s Frank Underwood in House of Cards.

When you have a sitting president tell his followers that he values Putin’s intel briefs more than those of the CIA….you have a problem.

And what we’re seeing now is that problem.

The problem being…Putin is challenging the U.S. position of being the protectors of democracy in Europe which has been in place since 1945 when Dwight Eisenhower and General George Marshall reshaped the world post WWII with the Marshall Plan.

Sean Hannity, dude…this is on you. Because without you acting as Donald Trump’s chief enabler… the United States would probably not be in the place they find themselves today.

In closing…you shouldn’t be surprised where America finds itself today. You in fact played a major role in all of this.

In the immortal words of General Colin Powell pertaining to Iraq…”If you break it, you’ll own it.”

The democratic world owes you so much it’s difficult to articulate at this juncture of world history.

I cannot think history will kind to you unless it was a life goal of yours to be the next Joseph Goebbels. Not to worry though…ninety per cent of Trump voters and Fox viewers don’t know of Josef Goebbels place in history.

Very cold in Deer Creek, Oklahoma today. Probably at or below zero wind chill with maybe an inch of sleet/snow already on the ground. Pauli set a time record this morning for getting her business done. Under forty seconds. The turkeys haven’t yet come up to feed near the back patio.

My plan is to not leave the house today. Kind of going through some stuff for this Marshall Tucker/Dave Mason concert at the Paramount Theatre in Denver on March 17th.

I’ve seen Dave Mason before as a backup to Kenny Loggins at the Zoo Ampitheatre in Oklahoma City. But both of us have aged a bit since then.

I’m going to write a scathing Op-Ed on the pathetic Sean Hannity later today.

What a piece of work that one is. He says we’re being perceived as weak in dealing with Putin. No shit, Sherlock. You ignorant misguided slut. Oh, yes… we look extremely weak and have looked extremely weak since Donald Trump started his Birther nonsense bullshit and his occupation of the Republican Party. Yeah…I agree…we look like a former world power teetering on Banana Republic status.

Sean Hannity and I agree…we look foolish right now as a world power being manipulated by a country with a GDP around 1/20th the size of the USA’s.

Sean Hannity and I just disagree on how we got here.

I’m going to enjoy this Dave Mason song, have a cup of coffee and then get back to the brilliant Sean Hannity later today.

Say what you want about Putin, but the truth of the matter is he knows how weak and feeble the United States has become in these last five to six years.

He witnessed firsthand the election of a poser reality television pretender to the American presidency. He… Putin was personally coddled by the orange buffoon in real time. He witnessed the orange buffoon coddle up to the dictator fanboy in North Korea. He saw the orange buffoon ovulate when near the strong man dictator in Turkey.

Putin is laughing at America right now as I write my Op-Ed on my modest little underground blog.

Putin…much more than the average GOP member of the House knows how weak and divided the Americans have become. He is counting on monetizing this cultural weakness into Russian assets.

In America’s last election he witnessed the outgoing president order a coup against this own country’s government. He witnessed a complete disaster of the American political transition of power.

Putin observed an American presidential inauguration in which D.C. was surrounded by barbed wire and troops.

Third world country, much?

Do you think Putin hasn’t been calculating this since January 6th?

Keep reading it gets better.

Putin then witnessed an impeachment trial where all of this was on film and yet the orange buffoon not only walked, but is currently the Vegas favorite to win back the White House in 2024.

So…in closing let me say this to the Trump Christian evangelical patriots the video above is for you. Because Putin and I have this one thought in common…. neither of us take you very seriously at this juncture in American history.

Do any of you really think the average American is going to take the high road of individual character with double digit inflation and doubled gas prices at the pump?

Do you really think the average American minus those still living from the WWII era understand the meaning of the words sacrifice, liberty, and freedom?

Other than the immediate first weeks following 9/11 when have these traits been exhibited by Americans other than those who serve bravely in our military.

This has become a country which can’t even persuade its own citizens to get a vaccination as if for nothing else a human courtesy to those who work in hospitals and other venues of health care.

Wish I was wrong.

Good luck with all of this Joe Biden.