I watched Michael this morning and he had Cari Lake on his show. I’m in a hurry right now and need to get down to Norman to watch two basketball games and eat at the best Mexiacan restaurant in Oklahoma between games.
Plus…I plan on playing country music all the way taking my back route to the arena.
So…I don’t want to ruin my Saturday. But I’ll get back on here tomorrow and do a Sunday Smerconish before the AFC and NFC Championship games.
Damn….I can’t get Parker’s voice out of my head right now.
I need to get on a country road and clear my head.
Big three day week-end for me. I do my monthly thing with Dr. Showalter at the Integris Cancer Center today. Did my blood labs on Wednesday. I have a talk about those results today and then get two shots in my stomach in the Infusion Room afterwards.
It’s always an eye opener sitting in the spacious lounge by the Infusion Center. The cancer dog is there sometimes. The coffee is good. And I always meet someone new who inspires me with there individual story. The truth is, I’ve sat there several times even when I didn’t have an appointment just to refocus myself and remind myself how blessed I’ve truly been through all of this.
I don’t see Trump or Joe Biden people there….I just see good humans there just like me who are doing the best they can given the situation and trying to make sure we’re all getting to the right place spiritually.
Saturday…I’m going to see the OU men play Texas Tech. Then go eat at at the Mexican cafe on Porter Blvd…then get back to the arena for the women’s game versus Kansas. Shout out to the women for their great win over Texas.
The OU men really struggled the second half versus Texas. I thought it was their worst half of basketball this season. The crowd was great. I was proud of the fans.
You can’t take anything for granted in the rugged Big 12 and not be locked in mentally. This is a huge game for OU Saturday. They can’t allow that second half to define them in any way. This clearly needs to be a bounce back game for Porter and his guys.
I need a song today to get Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Lindsey Graham, and Tim Scott off my mind when I’m riding that bike today to start my workout.
From Lincoln to the Pussy Grabber. Tell me what I do not understand. What it tells me is we’ve in fact reverted to something worse than we were in 1864 when Lincoln thought he was going to get trounced in his bid for a second term.
This is a part of American history of which I’m certain almost 99% of registered Republicans in Oklahoma haven’t the faintest clue about.
It’s really a very revealing part of Lincoln’s legacy and why many like myself consider him our greatest president.
Donald Trump rating Joe Biden as one of our worst presidents is hilarious.
Donald Trump left office with barbed wire barriers standing all around D.C. after his two month long premeditated effort to circumvent his 8 million vote defeat…. and his embarrassing defeat in the Electoral College turned into the darkest day in American history. Much more worse than Pearl Harbor or 9/11. Not even close.
This video pertains to a blind and sealed note Lincoln gave to his Cabinet in August of 1864 thinking he would lose the election.
It’s called the Lincoln Secret Memorandum of August, 1864.
I’m not even sure Trump or two-thirds of his followers know who Abraham Lincoln was and… if someone like me taught this in a Oklahoma high school history class…they’d probably have me in jail awaiting sentencing with Rex Walter trying to get the death penalty for a dangerous cat like me.
You know…this would rank right there with other Antifa lit-woke Deep State doctrines like evolution and gravity as far as the Christian faith based groups in Oklahoma seem to flow with in the Evangelical Age of Trump.
But you know…as I’ve been on my cancer journey here in Oklahoma…I’ve observed alot of these Trump people do have goodness in them. Like Dave Chappelle…I’ve observed most of these people seem like good folks who for some mystical reason are stupid enough to believe this bullshit Donald Trump keeps selling to them.
It is one of the most remarkable things I’ve ever witnessed in my life.
But I’m a better person than I was ten months ago. It’s humbling to go through what I’ve just gone through. There’s a deeper spiritual maturity now which would never allow me to write the things which got me banned that day on the Daily Thunder message board. Word.
It’s this feeling of spiritual depth which has allowed me to take a step or two back and look for the eternal goodness in all the Trump rabble here in Oklahoma on a day to day basis.
Dave Chappelle is right, man. At the end of the day we’re all the same and we’re just seeking our own dignity and grace the best we can every day.
So my mantra moving forward out of New Hampshire is to block out the negativity and look for the best in the Trump people.
It won’t be easy for me.
It will require patience and loving kindness, but I think I can do it.
This is even more cringeworthy than Mike Pence saying he would still vote for Donald Trump after Potus 45 tried to have him lynched on January 6th. Even worse than Lindsey Graham getting on his knees telling POTUS 45 that if certain carnal desires need to be fulfilled… LG is still his guy. South Carolina must have a lot of really, really weak men is all I can figure at this point.
I mean. Whoa.
But… you know, we have to put all of this in perspective as POTUS 45 with 91 federal criminal indictments is probably already the defacto DTIYD candidate (Donald Trump Is Your Daddy).
This isn’t the GOP I joined back in ’75 as a bright-eyed, naive youngster who believed in things like the American Dream and the concept of anything is possible in America if you work hard and dream big. This is more like binge watching Breaking Bad on LSD or something of the like.
I still believe in the American Dream and my life turned out very nicely even with the Stage 4 bump in the road. But this isn’t the party of Lincoln. It’s maybe more something close to the party of Bernie Maddow, Mr. Pillow, and Jeffery Epstein.
But, hey…they have the constitutional right to wear those MAGA ballcaps if they so choose.
Tim Scott…you tell Donald you love him every day and maybe you can become his vice-president or his Secretary of State, or maybe the next Director of HUD like Ben Carson. Just hope for your own political sake this wasn’t your Hershel Walker ‘One Shining Moment’ as a U.S. Senator.
I liked the Tim Scott on the video below. What the f–k happened to that guy?
I am not black, but I am a brown person…and I almost puked when I saw Tim Scott basically do what he just did. I mean….couldn’t this have waited a couple of weeks since the South Carolina primary is still a month away. Such POTUS 45 drama. Dude…you’re the nominee of this amalgam of racists, dimwits, extremely wealthy Tea Partiers, Birthers, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Neo-Nazis, etc. This is YOUR PARTY. You didn’t need Tim Scott to human traffic himself in this manner.
I’m not going to call Tim Scott an Uncle Tom on my blog. Not a chance, because I feel sorry for Tim Scott right now. I genuinely feel sorry for this man and what he just did with his soul. I’ll pray for him though.
But I did go do this though. I took the time to watch Charles Barkley and Gayle King on their weekly ‘Deep State fake news CNN show’ give their views on what Tim Scott just did…and thankfully they feel the same way as I do on this matter.
So…it’s on to South Carolina where the only drama to be played out is who is Donald Trump’s female nominee to be his VP….Cari Lake, Tim Scott, Mike Pence in drag or Lindsey Graham?
Have a nice day….Oklahoma. Keep your dignity.
I hope I haven’t out done myself on this one.
My current Straw GOP Poll if there was still a thing called the party of Lincoln… as if it matters in the state of Oklahoma.
I need to get my butt in gear and get down to Llyod Noble for tonight’s 6:00pm tip between No. 13 Oklahoma vs. usually elite Texas.
This is a big one for the 15-3 Sooners who are coming off a great week in which they notched two crucial Big 12 wins versus West Virginia and Cincy.
I have a great seat tonight in 118, but it’s not on the floor which distresses me a bit. I want to get there a little early and see if the student section will allow a Hall of Famer OU hoops fan to squeeze in with them on the floor and continue this season’s journey.
I’ve got the OU official crimson hoops bottoms on with the official fake ESPN pullover on plus my special Beat Texas ballcap on.
If the arena isn’t sold out tonight….I’ll be roasting OU fans on here tomorrow.
Be kind to the Trump people. They need unconditional kindness to address all their grievances. Dow crested over 38,000 today…I’m sure they’ll be upset about that as well.
I used to actually be a Republican from 1976-2000. But I have no idea what the GOP has become. It’s certainly not the Grand Old Party of Lincoln. It’s not the party of Teddy Roosevelt as well. Eisenhower, Ford, Reagan, and Bush 41 or 43 wouldn’t get up on a stage with this rogue grifter.
Let me intercede at this point explaining the acronymn above….DTIYD. It’s my way of phrasing what the Republican Party has become.
Donald Trump Is Your Daddy = this version of the GOP.
And there is some ironic humor in this thinking….dating back to the 2016 campaign when Trump trolled the collection of then GOP weak asses by the names of Little Marco Rubio, Lyin Dead Cruz, Sissy Lindsey Graham, and whatever he called Jeb Bush or the others.
What a joke then. And what a joke now as only Nikki Haley has shown the gumption to even hang with Trump beyond Iowa.
Donald Trump has this much right about the GOP….it is mostly a collection of white pussies who as a group have displayed historical cowardice in 2016, in 2021 after the Insurrection, and now. It is a party of cowards which still allow themselves to be defined and bullied by a has been reality television star.
What the party has become is a party for white people who want to go back to the days of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. A day when America was whiter and less confusing. Less woke. Less lit. Less diverse.
A group of people who this day still believe it was a Deep State conspiracy by Antifa which caused the death of five human beings and the almost insurrection of the greatest democracy in history because the petulant brat Donald Trump couldn’t live with the fact he lost to Joe Biden.
Is Joe Biden too old?
Of course he is. But I’d vote for a dead body or my neighbor’s German Shepard ‘Harley’ before I’d vote for Donald Trump.
So on this very high bar which Michelle Obama challenged me to observe…maybe Nikki Haley will pull off a miracle tomorrow night and give me some hope for our democracy moving forward.
Interesting Saturday of sport for me. Porter Moser’s Sooners ground out a tough gritty road win over the Cincy Bearcats. My Packers should have beaten the vastly overhyped 49’ers, but beat themselves on four plays which allowed the Niners to escape to the NFC Champipnship Game. Word of advice to the Packer GM….get an NFL level placekicker.
I watched bits and pieces of the Thunder’s exciting road win at Minnesota which basically came down to Anthony Edwards choking on all three free throw attempts with :03.4 left which should have put this game into overtime.
Your alpha simply cannot do that at home in that situation. I would think this loss will sting because the TWolves blew a ten point lead in the fourth quarter. But it is what it is and the Thunder are now one game behind the TWolves for a first place tie in the Western Conference standings.
With each passing Thunder game this season…I would think every passionate NBA fan is coming to the realiztion that the Thunder’s Triplets are special and fit together in a unique manner in which Durant, Westbrook, and Harden never really fit.
Shai, JDub, and Chet meld perfectly. Their games flow and expand each time we see them play together. I still do not understand where Josh Giddey fits in this mix unless he accepts a Sixth Man role. I just don’t see why his minutes aren’t Aaron Wiggins’ minutes given how well all three Triplets pass the ball.
The Triplets don’t really need Giddey. They need Dort for his toughness. I really don’t see the need for Giddey.
Anyway…I’m getting ready to settle in out here in our warm house on the frozen tundra at the Deer Creek ranch and watch what should be two great NFL Divisional Playoff games.
This is the time of the year I pare down my NBA viewing to about three or four games a week as we see the trade deadline on the horizon. This week I read quite a bit and just finished Liz Cheney’s book on January 6th, while at the same time I binge watched True Detective Seasons I & 2. Plus, of course, I’ve attended every OU home game this season. So, yeah, it’s been a busy week for me.
But last night I did take the time to watch this Denver vs. Boston game as if it were in fact a preview of the NBA Finals. And the game led up to its hype.
This was a great game in which Denver made the winning plays down the last four minutes on the road and nudged the Celtics by two points in a regular season thriller.
These are the two teams I circled back just before the season began, and I’m still there at the midway point of the 82 game NBA reagualr season marathon.
Denver to me has the best starting five, the best coach, and the best one-two combo in the league in Jokic and Jamal. Nothing has changed since October which has changed my mind a bit on any of those thoughts.
The Nuggets are tied with the OKC Thunder for second place in the suddenly rugged Northwest Divsion with both teams behind the Minnesota Timberwolves by two games.
For me as a hoops fan this is awesome. OU plays in the Big 12 which is the best hoops league in the country and the Thunder and Nuggets play in what has evolved into the best division in the NBA. This is awesome…my NBA cup runneth over.
But I don’t waste my time watching shitty matchups this far into the NBA season. When the Thunder play a bad team…I quite frankly don’t even watch those games as they to me hold no value whatsoever in judging the young Thunder moving forward.
Coach Michael Malone is the perfect coach for the defending champ Nuggets from my perspective. He’s hungry. He’s still coaching with an edge and something to prove…while quite honestly– it appears both Steve Kerr and Pop should have retired this summer and recharged on a beach somewhere.
As I view the Nuggets…what I’m looking for is their bench. Can Reggie Jackson, Christian Braun, Peyton Watson, and perhaps even Deandre Jordan give Michael Malone and his starters a bench like the one they had last season with Bruce Brown.
Biggest NFL week-end of the season is about to begin with the Divisional Round. 28.3 million viewers watched Baker Mayfield and the Bucs eliminate the Eagles on Monday Night Football. My Packers play later today after we get the Ravens and the Texans in Game 1.
I think maybe I’ll grill a small steak, have some veggies, and down this very healthy meal with a Taiwanese beer my son has me drinking in moderation. Nothing like a Taiwanese beer or a Lone Star in a bottle when you’re watching NFL Divisional Round football.
The Thunder have lost two straight in LA on a back to back, but that’s no crime considering this team was tanking like a dog the previous three seasons.
I think the Thunder are now 27-13 just below the halfway mark of the season and I have them at No. 4 in my Western Conference Poll and No. 8 in my overall NBA Power Poll.
They’ve got three dudes, man. And each one of these three dudes in their own right could be the best player on a contending NBA team moving down the road. Hopefully…since the Thunder ownership duped the voters in Oklahoma to basically almost 100% OPM (Other People’s Money) fund the new arena…I would hope the Thunder with their 3.2 billion dollar equity net worth don’t go cheap like they did with James Harden as the third star back in 2013.
C’mon, Sam Presti…’Scared money don’t make money.’ Your words, not mine.
‘Scared money don’t make money.’ That would be a great song title for the Steve Miller Band.
Or maybe the Thunder ownership will have swarmy OKC mayor David Holt claim J-Dub’s new contract should be a part of MAPS Nine Special Assessment. Why not?
Anyway…..it don’t matter if half the kids in OKC can’t read…you guys gotta keep J Dub because HE IS A DUDE and maybe the best player on the Thunder roster….and that’s saying something.
I’m heading out here in a bit to Norman to hopefully see the Sooners beat West Virginia and get back on track after two tough road losses in the brutal Big 12 basketball conference which in fact might be a tougher basketball conference than the SEC is in football.
I’ve got the ESPN fake pullover laundered and look forward to winking at Joe C as I come out of the tunnel and take my mid-court floor seat.
Living in Oklahoma…it in no way surprised me that Donald Trump rolled to a record win of plurality in the Iowa Caucus. Nope. No surprise at all given what the GOP has turned into these past eight years.
It is genuinely sad that a major political party could still be endorsing a person like Donoald Trump to be the standard bearer of Amercian leadership…but it is what it is.
It sickens me. It depresses me…and as a person with a history degree who could actually be teaching history in these golden years of my life if I so chose…it vexes me beyond any level of pragmatic thinking on any realm.
How any real American could make the defense for Donoald Trump holding any office, let alone the presidency is beyond me.
And for the self purported Trump Christians in the Trump caravan it shows you people put little if any at all relevance in anything written in the New Testament…..AS IN NOTHING.
But I’m in a different place now in my own litle cancer journey…I’m not in any way going to allow you people to bring me down. Instead, I’m going to pray for you and our country. I’m going to pray that enough people have the courage to do the right thing and make sure Donald Trump doesn’t serve a second term.
I’m speechless we as a country are still debating Donald Trump this long after the January 6th tragedy.
We apparently have learned nothing as a collective whole..