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How The Patriots Won The Game of the Century

06 Monday Feb 2017

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Atlanta, football, New England, Patriots, Super Bowl, Tom Brady

Steel. That emotional control I wrote about earlier. A steely resolve to do the impossible.

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The Patriots

From the Boston Herald:

Tom Brady and the Patriots rewrote the history books and the storylines last night with their epic, 34-28 victory against the Falcons in Super Bowl LI. They trailed 28-3 midway through the third quarter before ripping off the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history. Prior to this, the Pats’ 10-point comeback two years ago against the Seahawks had set the bar.

Tom Brady completed 43 of 62 passes for 466 yards, two touchdowns and an interception, and he was 12 of 16 for 150 yards on the tying and winning drives in the fourth quarter and overtime. The five-time champion led his 51st game-winning drive in the 51st Super Bowl.

I read in the Boston or sporting press somewhere the “grading” of the team. “A” for Brady. “B” for coaching. “Cs” for the defense. I guess “B” stands for “bravo” and “Cs” stands for “Champions”.

First come-from-behind from more than 10 points win in Super Bowl history.

First Super Bowl in overtime.

Record Ninth Super Bowl appearance (seven with Brady and Coach B.).

Fifth win (all behind Brady) (NE looks to tie the Steelers record 6 next year).

Brady’s 466 passing yards – SB record.

Brady is undeniably the best quarterback in history.

First SB of the MAGA era.

Probably a bunch of other records.

The greatest performance in the greatest SB (according to someone at ESPN). I agree.

And the Pats did all of this on the heels of a year when they alone had to play one extra game, a game that lasted the whole season. They played a year-long game against the NFL itself and most of the rest of the world. And they won. The NFL, Roger Goodell, and all the rest are losers.

Goodell should resign. Today.

Brady, Coach B., and Co. showed what you do when the world is against you: turn all the hatred into resolve and beat the world down.

And they’re not done yet…

The Falcons

The Falcons aren’t done either. They had an outstanding season and played an incredible game. They dominated 3/4ths of it – they dominated the best team in history. Maybe no-one else could have done that. In the end it was not enough, though it was impressive.

I’ve read many rants about the 4th quarter disintegration. That was destiny. Sorry. But nobody is harder on themselves than Atlanta fans.

Some in Atlanta are already talking about “next year” – a familiar UGA phrase. That is the spirit. But put it off for another year. They’re saying the same thing in Boston and, there, they mean it.

Atlanta

The “meaning it” is critical. Four things are required to win football championships: a great coach, a great quarterback, a demanding, loyal owner, and an expectant, demanding fan base. Boston is a sports crazed town, best of all American cities; they have all elements across all their teams – especially in the Patriots. Fanatics doesn’t come close. Atlanta finally has the first three but not yet the fourth.

The winning psyche matters. The AJC’s Mark Bradley captured it perfectly last night (if harshly): Mark Bradley: Falcons lose the most Atlanta game ever. When you make your city’s name synonymous with losing, you have a problem.

The Falcons fan base needs to analyze 37 years of failed UGA football. “Good”, “pretty good”, “almost”, “high winning percentage”, and “next year” just don’t cut it. They have to expect excellence and demand excellence. Stop focusing on how someone else is the worst and become the best yourselves.

Boston

Take everything I just wrote about Atlanta and invert it. As President Trump Tweeted: “They’re winners.”

The Commercials/SJW Watch

I think someone at the NFL and Madison Avenue finally got the memo that Americans are tired of anti-Americanisms. The SJW nonsense was there, subtly, though it was much more muted than I had expected.

Also, I think the age of the stellar, funny, and memorable SB commercials is over.

Lady Gaga

Wow. Part of me (and others) half expected Gaga, an outspoken liberal, to politically ham up her show and continue the shenanigans from 2016. Instead she opened patriotically and put on a heck of a show. In answer to that stupid Masters question of a few years back: “Lady Gaga or Lady Antebellum?” – I’ll take Gaga.

Professional. Witty. Fun. And hot…

The Memes

Will continue:

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Emotional Control = Brady Win

05 Sunday Feb 2017

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football, New England, Patriots, Super Bowl, Tom Brady

Congratulations to the (once again) Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots. Yes. Told ya so. There’s that. I originally called NE winning 31-30. 34-28 does it too. Wow. And they held back the whole first half…

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May have some thoughts tomorrow. I think we can safely call Tom Brady the greatest quarterback in history. 5. Five. 5…

For their part, the Falcons played an incredible game, a championship worthy game.

Ah, well. Memes away!

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Emotional Control Wins The Super Bowl

05 Sunday Feb 2017

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Atlanta, football, New England, Patriots, Super Bowl

This past fall I pretty much cut football out of my life. However, on October 3rd I reserved my right “like a good hypocrite” to revisit for exceptional games. The specific example I gave was the Patriots next Super Bowl. And, today, February 5th, here we are.

New England is going to win tonight (should win). But it’s not simply due to talent. Both teams are immensely talented. It’s about emotional control. Says Tom Brady:

“You kind of have to be right on the edge. It’s such an emotional game. You don’t want to be out of control, but you can’t play with no emotion. You strike different chords for different emotions at different times.”

That might sound strange coming from a player who rarely hides his feelings on the field. Just think back to his return game in Cleveland after his four-game “Deflategate” suspension, when Brady was pumping up Patriots fans on hand during warmups.

Yet he insists Super Bowl Sunday calls for moderation in approach.

“It’s a long day,” Brady said. “I mean it’s a long day because it’s been a long week because there’s a lot of things you’re doing. You’re doing a lot more things this week than you normally do for a game week. Just to get to the game, it ends up being … a four-hour game? A longer pregame and a longer halftime, so … it ends up being 4½ to five hours.

“You’ve got to be able to have something left at the end of the game. You can’t waste it all early in the third quarter.”

A quick look back to New England’s victory over Seattle in the 2015 Super Bowl shows that Brady and the Patriots had plenty left. They rallied from a 10-point hole to win.

The Falcons are far from out of control, but NE are the base masters. They’ve been here before. They’ll be here again (probably next year).

Anyway, it looks to be a very good game.

It also, back to the reasons for abandoning the sport, looks to be an SJW-fest. Reports say everyone from Lady Gaga to Budweiser is gearing up to make some sort of idiotic anti-American political statement. If they do, and if the American fans tolerate it, then the SJW win.

Speaking of winning, I’m going to start the meme parade early:

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Fun and Games and Felony Mayhem

04 Saturday Feb 2017

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America, crime, free-speech, liberals, riots, SJW, violence, Vox Day

Tomorrow night the Atlanta Falcons are going to be beaten by the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI. How badly remains to be seen. I have a meme parade on standby for Monday morning. It’s all aimed at poking fun at many of my friends and the legions of anti-Pats haters out there (97% of the world by their own memes).

That’s the fun and games. Here’s the deadly seriousness of the world:

Vox Day posted a story about an interview with a woman who was viciously assaulted at U.C. Berkeley this week.

He was referring to this interview:

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Said Vox:

Watch the video. Notice how they attack. They’re very skirmish-oriented, very hit-and-run. Effective, limited-force counters are going to require interfering with their ability to do so. Canes and staffs taking them down to the ground by application to the legs would likely be most effective for the untrained; sweeps and strikes to the knee would be the right tactic for the trained. Take them down, then have your allies drag them back away from their companions and zip-tie them.

It’s clear that they are inclined to use pepper spray, but those trying to pepper-spray can be taken out very easily, as when they extend their arm, they are vulnerable to either a) being taken down with a rotation, b) having their arm broken, or, if they’re small enough, c) thrown behind. The key is to be aware and ready for it; as soon as the arm comes out, grab with the opposite hand and pull hard.

Notice that Katrina and her husband thought they were prepared; they both were wearing kevlar vests. But defensive measures are not enough; one has to be prepared to neutralize the attackers when they attack. Always wear a belt, as it’s easy to loop it over an attacker’s neck, particularly one attacking someone else, and incapacitate them with it. In extremis, it can also be used in combination with a set of keys, or a pocket knife with a loop, as a flail.

Notice that both the pepper-spray attackers were women. These are not fearsome streetfighters, they are relying on getting in and out without being touched.

But most importantly, stop relying on the police and the media! They are not going to defend you, they are not going to take your side, and they are not going to give you a fair shake.

It occurs to me that as they rely upon anonymity, an Antifa List should be added to the SJW List so that everyone knows exactly who these people are.

These are the violent actions of the liberals who claim to love and support free speech. They love and support it so much that they must do whatever it takes to shut down the free speech of a gay man from Britain. The same liberals who invented 1,000 hate crime hoaxes after Trump was elected. The same who want to take your guns because you are so violent.

As Vox said, watch the video. Watch all of them – there are many. Another attractive blonde woman was attacked at Berkeley (Video). The same kind of thugs assaulted Richards Spencer in D.C. (Video).

Of course, in the eyes of the left, Spencer deserved it because he’s a “Nazi”. The kind of Nazi who holds rallies for his fellow black, Asian, gay, and Jewish Nazis. Maybe all the blonde women are Nazis too. They are all white. And that made me think of the sign I saw behind Spencer just before he was attacked:

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Does that really mean: “white lives don’t matter”? Or could it just be: “kill whites”? The actions of late speak louder than the words.

These idiots don’t read history. Or care about it. It was the constant attacks by violent communist thugs on innocent people that precipitated the Brownshirts in Germany. Do they want a self-fulfilling prophecy here?

Vox gives some excellent advice for self-defense from the crazed criminals. Also pay attention to what the victimized woman said about the police. They are not there to help you. They don’t care.

I’ll go a little further with the tactics. Even the best trained fighter can be blindsided. Move in groups and have spotters. And be ready at all times. Do not talk to the media or become otherwise distracted. If you can’t go armed to these events, don’t go. And if you’re there and armed, and if you are attacked, kill the bastards. Every single one of these little cretins deserves instant justice. We don’t need to wait for things to get worse (which they will). These thugs are happy as clams to get violent. So must we. They started it. Let’s finish it.

Sooner or later – probably this year (and sooner than later) – the video is coming of a decent citizen dropping one or more of the savages. You’ll see it here along with calls to repeat it until the problems are solved.

Then we go back to fun and games.

Are Employees a Thing of the Past? Probably

02 Thursday Feb 2017

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economy, jobs, money, robots

So hints the Wall Street Journal today, in an excellent, thought-provoking article by Lauren Weber. The gist of the matter is that large corporations across the country are doing everything they can to cut labor costs. This means, for now, outsourcing, independent contractors, other contractors, temps, and freelancers. I took away three things from the article.

First, it’s absolutely true. Employers no longer wish to employ employees. Read the material and look at the graphs. Consult Google – or your own employment experiences. I’ve talked about this before. James Altucher regularly says the same things. It’s happening (or happened).

And it is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. Yes, “traditional” career jobs are harder to come by, vanishing, in fact. But they were a relatively new phenomenon anyway. The 40 hours a week for 40 years thing came along some time in the industrial revolution. Before that people either worked in small businesses, worked for themselves, or grew crops. Things changed. They’ll change again.

Ms. Weber looks into the desperation (and greed) of some of these job-cutting companies. She also looks at the downside(s) for displaced employees (several of those). What jumped out at me, my second take-away, was this:

Some economists liken the strategy to Hollywood studios, which greenlight movies and then hire directors, actors, editors, special-effects teams and marketing agencies for production. All those outsiders work together to deliver the movie, but the studio has no long-term obligations after the film’s release.

This, I see as the silver lining. The silver screen lining, we’ll wittily call it. The directors, actors, editors, effects, and marketing people of Hollywood clean up – at least for the big films and productions. The actors get the fame so I’ll concentrate on them. Jennifer Lawrence (who is so hot) doesn’t care if a movie is a one-time contract gig because she gets $10 Million for her part. She likely also negotiates residual income from it as well.

Actors can command these sums (some of them) and dictate some terms because the have value. They have it, they know it, and they sell it.

This may be the short-term future of employment. Gerry Spence once wrote (and I cannot remember in which excellent book…) that he hoped some day people would be paid based on their talents. He hoped the employees could dictate their own terms. Big business had that reversed for years; society came to accept it – for most jobs. The actors did not. They sold their talent for what it was worth – what people would pay for it within market limits.

Hopefully this trend will spread outside of Hollywood and Burbank. Whoever you are, whatever you do, you have talent and value. Use it. For now. I say “for now” because of the third thing that jumped out at me, the 800-pound mechanical gorilla in the room:

BNY Chairman and CEO Gerald Hassell vowed to “drive down the labor component of our company” with technology that can perform tasks currently done by people. Other companies view contracting as a stopgap until more jobs are automated, freeing firms to dispense with some workers altogether.

The robots are not coming. They’re here now. And they’re getting “better” every day. What’s coming is their revolution. Right now there are very few jobs which cannot be performed by some android, bot, or AI. In a few years (years, not decades) it will be virtually 100% of the jobs. The decades part will fully round out the 100%. 0 humans needed at that point. And that means 0 jobs. Which means 0 pay. Which will make it a little difficult to pay for the goods and services the bots produce.

TERMINATOR GENISYS

The new boss may not be a people person. May not be a person. Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.

This can of worms is open and we’re all getting into it (look – there’s one crawling on your ankle right now). This revolution will either be the greatest thing to ever happen to humanity, one of the absolute worst, or the very last. Fun will be had by all…

Check Your Six

01 Wednesday Feb 2017

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Camacho, cigars

Watch your back. You never know when a good cigar might sneak up on you.

A good while back I was in the cigar shop, pecking away about ISIS or Christmas Ties or something, when someone (Tom, maybe) advised me to “check my six”. I looked back – into the humidor. Then I gave him a puzzled look. He laughingly said something about a cigar. Dense me did not get it. Then.

Now I do.

Behold the Camacho “Check Six” Habana Toro!

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What a fantastic smoke!

She’s a Honduran of multi-national origin. The filler is from Honduras, the D.R., and Nica. Nica’s finest binds it up. And it is wrapped in a luxurious brown leaf from Ecuador. A veritable world tour.

The pros say it’s a ‘medium to full” body. I settle firmly on “medium”. But the flavor – lightly peppered and engaging (in a subtle way) – , the smoke, the construction, draw, and everything else is spot-on perfect.

In fact, I think this may be the best Camacho I’ve had since the looong gone Coyolar Titan Corojo. Remember that monster? It’s been a year or ten ago. And the Check Six really couldn’t be more different from the Titan of old. The Big T was a dark Corojo and extra full-bodied.

The Six is as smooth as the Titan was strong. And, darn it was strong. My palate has tempered quite a bit but, back then, it was all I could do to finish one. There was that drive to Athens, the summer of 2006 … Maybe we’ll do that one another time.

Anyway, try a Six the first chance you get. And remember –

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The Automated Pink Slip: Fred Reed Looks to the Future

27 Friday Jan 2017

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economics, Fred Reed, future, jobs, robots

The slightly uncertain, maybe scary future. That’s why I read Fred – he makes dissecting the unsettling a form of entertainment.

Economists are puzzled by this because they have no grasp of economics. They think the solution is to retrain displaced workers to do higher-tech things. This happy talk ignores that many of the replaced blue-collars are not smart enough to become IT managers and neurosurgeons, even if we had enough brain cancer, and that the jobs for which they would be retrained are rapidly being replaced themselves. Your can’t retrain fifty replaced clerks as programmers because the company already has programmers, and anyway only needs five.

Meanwhile our patriotic businessmen want to bring in millions of prefabricated unemployables to help us be out of work. See? Robots and humans working together. Cooperation is a key to success in almost every thing. Question: How much unemployment is needed for things to get ugly? When does it boil over?

He starts by discussing a new computer that writes better than any Barnard graduate. A little unnerving for those living off ink and keyboards.

My solution for the future? Professional Robot Killer! My services will not be cheap but you’ll gladly pay them. Give it a few years – or until next week…

1,000 Reasons to Read the Blog

26 Thursday Jan 2017

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blog, blogging, Perrin Lovett, perrinlovett.me

This here is Post 1,000! Literally one thousand great reasons to visit perrinlovett.me.

Welcome back. It’s been nearly five years since I cranked out this little post. I quickly followed it up with a report on the Supreme Court’s idiotic decision on Obamacare. Almost 1,000 posts later, this week, I wrote about the pending demise of that failed law and program. Yes, I like to think I had something to do with that.

Over the years (years now) I’ve also written about:

  • Law
  • Government Evil
  • Guns
  • Religion
  • Schools
  • Cigars
  • Western Civilization
  • Christmas Ties
  • Immigration
  • Society
  • The Rich and Famous
  • Movies
  • Fitness
  • Economics
  • And 100 other things.

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As always, there is more and better to come, here. And soon, too. Mark your calendar for June and the site’s fifth anniversary special.

For a thousand posts I give you a million thanks!

Standby! Post 1,001 is right around the corner.

The Chewy Decimated System: The Book Business in 2017

24 Tuesday Jan 2017

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books, publishing

I was in a large Barnes and Noble in a large city several weeks ago – having a large time. The place was half coffee shop, half card store, and half toy store (as author Nick Cole discusses below). Some books were scattered around. Most were geared towards children, housewives, and people who cannot read. I saw writing on the walls.

No, this particular placement for the once vaunted science fiction section, a staple they kept so many bookstores alive with the trade of the faithful binge-buying junkie science fiction readers cleaning them out, is now relegated to the smelly back of the store. It seemed like some sort of discount holdover section no bookseller wanted to be sent into to organize. There was no love. It was forsaken.

The Toy Section (Yes. Toys. In a book store? Tells you everything, doesn’t it?) Took up a quarter of the store and was a swollen and corpulent mess with un-purchased excess from the recent Christmas season. Whole tables, where once New Releases and Staff Pick Impulse buys laid in seductive waiting for junkie readers and unsuspecting passers by, was now filled with mangled and dirty toys that had not sold. And probably won’t.

So what does this tell us writers.

Well, first off it tells you the big publishing is dead. They’re dead and they don’t even know it.

The book business is good. Very good. I’m working on two books right now (aren’t I always). And I’m helping a magazine compile a e-book for rapid publication – not sure if I’ll get credit there though 19/20ths of the work is mine.

The point is, books are booming. And it’s never been easier to write, publish, and sell one than it is now. So, why the demise of B&N? It’s because they’re run by the same idiots who doomed the major publishing houses. The big five will begin to fall any day – probably this year.

Look for major downsizing at B&N and then total closure. I expect Amazon will buy some or most of their online business. Amazon is the present and future of the book world. Small indie houses will still be around. Amazon may open large physical stores in a few select locations. As for 99% of the business, it will be done from the bookstore on your phone or computer – the same one you’re on right now.

As I wandered aimlessly through the coffee and toys a somewhat pleasant woman asked me if I needed help finding anything. I asked her: “Is there a bookstore around here.” I already knew the answer and didn’t bother listening to hers.

Put that in your book!

*Many thanks to Vox Day for covering this story first!

The Not So Big Show

24 Tuesday Jan 2017

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exercise, fat, fitness, health, weight loss

One of my themes here is fitness. When I first kicked off in 2012 I was a large, oozy blob. By the time I reinvigorated things in 2013 I was down 40 or 50 pounds. It’s closer to 80 now, permanent, and I’ve never felt better.

Someone else is making big changes too. Paul White (a.k.a. The Big Show) of WWE(F) fame has recently shed 70 pounds. And he looks great.

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@BigShow / Twitter.

I haven’t watched raslin lately but I do recall when White debuted. He was around 500 pounds. Now, still seven feet tall, he’s under 400. You can bet he’s more dangerous than ever now. And he feel’s better for it.

Congratulations, Big Show!

Now, after you watch the next match, go to the gym.

 

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