Monday Morning Ice Bowl II Week Dispatches

Say that you would have liked to have a chance to show that Brett Favre could win in Dallas, but be honest. You really don’t think we would have won there. Some places you should just stay out of. Like Milwaukee’s inner city, anything within the Chicago city limits outside of the Loop, near north side or the museums, Cairo (Egypt or Illinois) and Texas stadium.

If memory serves, the 1962 championship game against the Giants was at Yankee Stadium and it was around 0°. They are already backing off a forecast of a high of 7° on Sunday in Green Bay, it will probably be in the low teens at game time. Trust me, it will be a lot warmer wherever I watch it. Don’t tell me how great it would be to be there. Frostbite is a gift that keeps on giving.

• A Ft. Worth Star-Telegram columnist uses words like “gutless” and “stupid” to describe the Cowboys. Yipes. Tough crowd.
• Terrell Owens took a page out of the Clinton play book for his press conference and nearly broke down in tears talking about his teammate, Tony Romo. I wouldn’t cry for Tony Romo under any circumstances. He’s a young male millionaire dating Jessica Simpson. Jeebus, life is good for him.
• Maureen Dowd, the alter ego of Ann Coulter, but still a Hillary-hater had a good column in this morning’s Freeman about Mrs. Clinton’s good cry which I’d love to bring you, but I still can’t. A little later, I’ve got three, count ‘em three, new plans to correct this problem. None of the plans include gunpowder or ordering items from the Acme Company. Okay I added the link, but the fix was not one of the three I had planned. I have yet to try any of those but can’t until the articles again fail to come to me. Good thing I have plenty of time on my hands.
• Yesterday, the Journal’s travel section had an article on how Tunica, MS has blossomed due to its casinos.

Ann Papasan and her friend, Kathleen Gann, sat behind the counter at the Ann-Tiques shop on the two-block-long downtown district and recounted the blessings of “the Tunica miracle.”

“Look around this town,” Gann said. “There’s the new city hall, post office, wellness center, veterans memorial, arena, justice complex.”

“Put the aquatic center in there,” Papasan added. “We have no taxes if you live inside the city limits. The total bill for sewage, water and garbage pickup is $11 a month.”

• You don’t suppose Waukesha could … naaah.
• Laurel Walker profiles a bonehead who ought not to be elected by anybody to anything outside Madison. But because you’re too busy to vote, he’s all over the place. So that makes non-voters boneheads, too.
• I saw Hillary on Meet the Press yesterday and her plan for the increase in foreclosures is to freeze interest rates for five years. I’m no economist, but in a free market economy, a lender isn’t going to loan money to me for mortgage unless the lender is guaranteed to make money. That much I know. So see if my logic tracks:

1. Her overall economic plan includes increasing federal spending for just about everything.
2. This is inflationary.
3. This means interest rates need to be raised to reign in inflation.
4. Which means the lender can’t make money if they loan me money for a mortgage because the interest rate they charge me is frozen.
5. Which means they won’t loan me money.
6. Unless the government steps in and makes up the difference, so the lender makes money and thus, loans me money for a mortgage.
7. Go to #1.

• Today, I so grateful to be out of the welfare business.
• You all realize that a Super Bowl appearance virtually guarantees it will be Brett Favre’s last game, don’t you?