Dr. Ben Carson will rally Republicans in Lexington County

Democrats fear Carson, as do some
establishment, Republicans. The US
desperately needs a hero; is it Carson?

Possible 2016 presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is scheduled to be in Lexington.
The details are still being finalized, but the plans are for Carson to speak at a rally in Lexington County, a couple days before the Nov. 4 election.

Carson, is an attractive GOP presidential candidate, because the party has failed to field a Conservative, in the last two national elections. 

Carson worked his way up from poverty. He has also been very open in his criticism of President Barack Obama. Carson is an African-American, and very successful as a neurosurgeon.   

Obama has used race to empower himself, and shield himself from being fairly assessed for his, and the Democrat Party's, record of failure for six years. 

Carson could be especially effective in a presidential bid versus assumed Democrat Party nominee Hillary Clinton, who is from a wealthy family, and will have difficulty relating to many in her party. 

SCPSD will provide more details on this visit to South Carolina by Carson, as they are learned. 

Sanford's Gothic Drama triggers re-posting of Confession Anniversary

Is Sanford the Gothic Southern Tragedy,
or is there a more interesting chapter?

Mark Sanford is in the news almost every day. He is being asked to take anger management classes and told his "fiance" the wedding is off, via the media. This is one of the most-read posts since this site was launched. From June 24: 

Five-year anniversary of Sanford's THE CONFESSION!

There are a lot of people in South Carolina politics who still really believe in former Gov. Mark Sanford.

He's a very persuasive and attractive figure.

Sanford waltzed to election a year ago and is the US Rep. For SC - Dist. 1.

It's ironic that his name would be mentioned today. It's June 24, and Run-Off day, two weeks after the June 10 primaries.

It was a 2002 GOP Primary in which Sanford came from nowhere and took out former Lt. Gov. Bob Peeler, to win the Republican nomination for the governor's office.

Today is also the FIVE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY of THE CONFESSION.

I remember listening to, not watching, Sanford on a live press conference broadcast on WIS-TV in Columbia. It was the aftermath. 

The Governor could not be found. He had his press secretary tell everybody, including media, he was hiking The Appalachian Trail. Today that term is idiomatic.

But his political opponents had ferreted out his location, and told an eager-to-bust-him reporter that he was flying into Atlanta. The married-with-children governor had been with his lover, in Argentina.

“I've been unfaithful to my wife,” Sanford blurted out in the middle of a rambling monologue that matched his usual pedestrian oratory style. The room, and the second-half of his governorship, had been dull until he shocked the world.

Sanford, the silver-spooned Richard Cory, who walked a few inches above everybody else, had met the political equivalent of the fictional character created by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

If you meet Sanford, you may get the impression he values your opinion more than anyone else's. You could come away feeling he's the nicest, most genuine guy in the world.

Or you may get the opinion that he's petulant and pious, with that aforementioned Cory-esque air.

How he treats you may depend on what you can do for him.

Regardless of how you see Sanford, he is as interesting a character as there is in modern politics.

The biggest question now is: will Sanford one day burst from the bounds of the more-permissive SC First and pursue that once limitless potential that he squandered on weakness; or was it his boredom?

Or will he become the perpetual, small-voice re-elect to an ego-serving office, on a treadmill he once swore against?

Is he Richard Cory, or will he write the last half of the drama with a creativity that will jolt us as THE CONFESSION did five years ago today? 

Richard Cory 

By Edwin Arlington Robinson - 1869–1935

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,

We people on the pavement looked at him:

He was a gentleman from sole to crown,

Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,

And he was always human when he talked;

But still he fluttered pulses when he said,

"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—

And admirably schooled in every grace:

In fine, we thought that he was everything

To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,

And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,

Went home and put a bullet through his head. 

Georgia fans express on-line anger, give reasons after loss to South Carolina

Bad day for Bulldogs,
great day for Gamecocks. 

From the Georgia Bulldog Facebook page.

The name of the poster is first, followed by their comment regarding the USC-Georgia game,

Saturday.

Correll Pounds I don't post much here because I refuse to get involved with the day-to-day idiots (you know who you are) but I have to vent. I'm sure most of what I'll say has been said. I've been a diehard UGA fan for 45 years. I knew a week ago that this game would be just like it was -- I've seen this movie over and over again. Never bet on UGA in a big game. The difference is this ... Steve Spurrier is a motivator... Mark Richt is an administrator. End of story. If Richt knew what to do with all the talent he has, he'd have done it by now. Between cutting edge football and the vampire bus, he's over-matched by the top coaches in the profession......

James Ysrayl Jacobs Richt to busy tryna get his players into heaven that he done forgot how to get his players to win

Frank Paul you get a gift...and the most conservative team on earth has a thought besides handing the rock to their all-world running back...that's what separates Mark Richt from championships.....

Joey Horn I wish he would have head butted the refs Mari, they act a lot like you sort of mindless and not all there. It's pathetic

Prezton Grannt Season Over!

Prezton Grannt Huston Mason is garbage.

Prezton Grannt People keep talking about bad officiating the refs didn't miss the field goals the refs didn't not run Gurley on the 4 yard line dam excuses

Thomas Heller Wish Georgia had a coach who was involved in the game. You know one who might throw a hat or maybe his sunglasses or maybe even call a play! Georgia needs a coach who is not content with nine wins before the bowl

Chris Porter See ya at Outback or chik fil a bowl or maybe music city...typica

Tiffani Tidwell Mauldin I'm just not impressed with Mason's performance at all!! He has got a lot of work to do... definitely needs to work on his passing game! Ugh!!!

Mike Miller It wasn't Bobo's playing calling that did that... That was ALL, gurley. On that 3rd and long first down pickup.

Clint Meadows FIRE MIKE BOBO

Alan DeBenedittis Fire Obama

Jordan Kyle Steen Someone let richt know to just keep rotating the backs

Clint Meadows What a joke...this is flat embarsssing

Tasha Sterling Come on Dawgs!

Bobby Davis Obamo fired I love it

Barry Bales Layoff Mason. His first year. Bobo sucks. And Murray came back for selfish reasons. And did nothing

Clint Meadows Who runs it's on 3 and a mile you IDIOT!! There's high school coaches better than bozo's sorry ***

Mike Miller Mason's looking kind of dry. I GOT to see something out of him

Clint Meadows If bobo is so good then why hasn't he gone to head coach anywhere? Every offensive coordinators dream is to be a head coach somewhere..but nobody wants him cause he sucks..it's pitiful Georgia puts up with this

Democrats in SC bash African-American candidate, but praise white career politician

Green's the fastest runner, but not allowed
to win in a party with a strong history of
racial discrimination. 

Cassie Cope, of The State newspaper praises Democrat US Senate candidate Brad Hutto for his work ethic. Hutto is white. Cope says state Sen. Hutto “is a candidate who makes the Democratic Party proud.”

Cope, in a Sunday story, also said Black Democrat Alvin Greene, the 2010 Senate candidate, "embarrassed Democrats by winning their party’s nomination.”
Cope said Greene's Senate candidacy was a “debacle.”

But the white Democrat, Cope says: is “a Georgetown University-educated lawyer....”
In the article, Cope lauded Hutto for his 20 years as a career politician, while bashing Greene because he was "unemployed" at the time he was running for office.  

And while Democrats could not wait to get rid of Greene, Cope says: “Even if he loses in November, Hutto could find his way onto future statewide tickets.”

Democrats are "proud" of
White candidate Brad Hutto,
but called Black candidate
Greene, an embarrassment. 

Liberals are typically the most color-conscious group in politics, but how often do they express their true feelings about race, then publish it?
It is left to be seen if harsh words for the Black Democrat will have any backlash at the polls. Blacks typically vote for Democrats at a 95% rate, despite very little economic and social change for the rank-and-file Black American. In fact, the Hispanic community has passed African-Americans in numbers and attention, thanks to Democrat politicians needing more special interests to maintain their grip on power, federally.  

This is not the first time the subject of rejection of Greene man has surfaced in the Democrat Party.

In 2010, the white Democrat establishment wanted Vic Rawl to win its Senate primary in South Carolina. Democrats were so incensed when voters chose Greene, a protest was filed in an attempt to block the Black candidate's win. It was rejected after state election officials stepped in and ended the attack by a White Democrat on Greene.

Race is also an issue for Democrats in the 2014 Lt. Gov's race. There, a Black candidate is demanding his opponent quit a country club, because no African Americans want to be members. Ironically, the Democrat's White boss - a liberal Democrat, personal injury trial lawyer - is a member of the same club. But the Democrat candidate has no problem with the hypocrisy.  

The State news' Gamecock reporter says Georgia win not a big deal; problems, losses ahead!

The State's Josh Kendall
seems to have some pent up angst
that his prediction of a SC
loss did not materialize. 

Beating No. 6 Georgia not significant. Problems not solved, and trouble is awaiting Gamecocks, says USC beat reporter. 

Josh Kendall, USC Beat Reporter for the State newspaper, is discounting South Carolina's big 38-35 win over Georgia Saturday. Kendall, a Georgia grad, also predicted South Carolina would lose to Georgia.

In his Soundoff opinion piece Sunday, Kendall is spitting sour grapes. He implies beating Georgia was easy. The headline of his column reads: “Now comes the hard part for USC”
He said the Ga. win in no way means the "Gamecocks' problems are solved." 

Kendall writes: "The Gamecocks have beaten the SEC East champion (Georgia) before....but" he says just one, not very significant win is: "all that was accomplished.”

USC fans would beg to differ. SC got off the mat after being laid out by Texas A&M, and delivered a punch so severe, some Georgia fans are likely again calling for Bulldog Coach Mark Richt's head. The Head Ball Coach got 'em again. Do you know what this loss did to Georgia's self-image? It's not good. And that may be why Kendall is so transparent in his tirade. 

Spurrier put a mojo so strong on Georgia, some of them are likely at the root-worker's house this morning instead of church. It was a BIG win but Kendall says: "That the Gamecocks were expected to lose – and lose big – doesn’t matter now.”

WHAT?...It maters tremendously. Now EVERYTHING is back on the table for the Gamecocks.

But Kendall seems to be hoping there is a loss for SC in the next slate of opponents. He says: “What matters now are the next six games.”..... “Missouri is coming to town in two weeks and Auburn and Florida on the road,” He warns. 

Keep projecting losses for the Gamecocks Kendall, like you predicted Georgia would win. You're just wishful thinking at this point. Coach Spurrier said he will take one game at a time, and hopes to get better. Unlike Kendall, Spurrier believes SC has “got a chance.” And if you pit Kendall against Spurrier, I'll put my money on Spurrier any day. Kendall was WRONG about Georgia, so let's hope he is wrong about the visions of Gamecock loses that are now dancing in his head.

PS: The State newspaper has disallowed any links from this site to its comment section, even though it allows others. If you would, please link it. The State is prolific in its comments about Spurrier and the Gamecocks. Why do they not allow comments and analysis of their coverage?  

Gamecock offense clicks, best still possible, if Gamecocks can do two things

First beat Auburn, then avoid the upsets

Spurrier has to feel like "We got a chance." Spurrier was
beaming win Ga. win. CBS TV photo. 

The SC win over Georgia, almost wipes the slate clean for the Gamecocks. Everything is back on the table for South Carolina.

Offensively South Carolina is good. The 2014 SC offense is as good as any Head Ball Coach Steve Spurrier has fielded at the school. And it can get really good. With all of the WRs contributing, and the tight-end play, scoring looks a lot easier for the team than it used to be.

QB Dylan Thompson looks more comfortable with each rep he gets. 

And the O-line may finally be playing like a fine SEC unit. So the RBs, including Mike Davis, Brandon Wilds, Shon Carson and David Williams are a viable option to the pass.

But the Gamecocks have to go to Auburn Winning at Auburn will not be easy. The Tigers are good, and sound. Auburn is highly respected and highly ranked, with good coaches.
The Gamecocks D will have to keep improving. To beat Auburn, SC's current defense will have to mature more. It is making strides. The Auburn game is not until Oct. 25. That is time to grow up some.
The Tigers actually have SC's former defensive coordinator, Ellis Johnson.

Hopefully SC's current DC Lorenzo Ward knows enough about Johnson to help prepare the Gamecocks for Auburn's D.

But one can also contend that it will not be out of the question for SC to beat Auburn. “We got a chance,” is what Spurrier is fond of saying. And the Gamecocks “got a chance” versus Auburn. But SC must be more focused, especially on D.

Auburn got a lot of breaks in 2013. Will luck hold out?

Upsets

In the past the Gamecocks have been upset by Kentucky, Vandy and last year Tennessee. Those teams come to Columbia this year.

Florida is on the road, but it will be surprising if Florida is as much of a test as most consider it to be.

Gator Head Coach Will Muschamp is probably not the answer in Gainsville.

Bottom line: South Carolina beat Georgia. The fact that the Gamecocks have something to play for again, should renew the excitement of fans.  

Gamecock post-game report - Can USC ban CBS's Gary Danielson?

Dylan Thompson has a big night.
Goes 21-for-30. 

The smile on Steve Spurrier's face was as big as you've ever seen after the 38-35 win over Georgia.

The Gamecocks outplayed the Bulldogs and almost blew it in the end. Needing a break badly, Georgia missed its second FG of the night, late in the fourth quarter.

The Gamecocks O was as good. And it could be much better. Dylan Thompson is a keeper.

Georgia had a great RB in Todd Gurley, but SC had Mike Davis, and just as big in the end, Brandon Wilds. He took a third and long, with less than two minutes left, and made if fourth on two inches.

It was as Big a regular-season win in the Head Ball Coach career. It was obvious he really wanted it.

Defense was better, but has a long way to go. The D got Georgia off the field in the first half.

The defense had some spirit, but needs some more work. The mental effort and fire was there. It can get better. If it does, don't count this team out of anything, yet.

Who got the breaks?

SC got some breaks in the first half. Georgia actually got called for holding. That is rare, even though Ga. Holds a lot.

Gurley actually threw a couple punches, or at least pushes, and SC got flagged for it. That was an absurd call. And it was on a third-down stop.

In the second half, the officials flipped. SC got few breaks, but was victimized by some cut block calls, that were not really cut blocks.

CBS announcer for the SC-Ga. Gary Danielson was AWFUL.

He was obviously down when SC made a play, and upbeat, with a lilt in his voice when the Bulldogs did something good.
When the video of CBS showed that SC QB Dylan Thompson got the game-ending first-down, Dalielson said "No Way." He complained that the review process is not that precise. He was having a difficult time accepting that the game was virtually over, and Ga. would not get the ball back. 

Danielson credited some great plays by the Gamecocks to mistakes by Georgia.

He commented on the bruising, hard and extra effort run that Mike Davis was injured on, by saying Davis does not have the breakaway speed of the great Gurley.
Danielson was so busy layering praise on Gurley he did not notice SC's Brandon Wilds. Wilds plus Davis trumped Gurley, especially on Wilds' last, almost first-down, but set up, run.  

When it was obvious that SC would pull it out, Danielson warned Gamecocks fans not to get any ideas about the SEC-East. He scolded that Georgia only has Florida at a neutral site, and Auburn at home, whereas SC has to go to Auburn and Florida.

Either Danielson or almost as bad booth-mate Verne Lindquist complained about an eight-hour day. He said, as the clock ran down, it was not very fun.

If I don't go to the game again, and CBS broadcasts it, I'll get a radio with a delay so I can listen to the Gamecock announcers.

What can we learn about the Gamecocks if Georgia wins?

If South Carolina fails to defeat Georgia Saturday, it may send some panic through the minds of the

This photo was taken about 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Fans were already
parking and scalpers were in full-deal mode. It's a BIG game for
many reasons, with lots of story lines. Get ready!

fans.

Will a loss to the Bulldogs mean SC Head Coach Steve Spurrier's program-building project has peaked? Are three-in-a-row 11-win seasons the pinnacle?

The Gamecocks lost to Georgia last year, in Athens. And South Carolina began this season with an embarrassing 52-28 loss to Texas A&M.

Have the bad ol' days come back to Columbia? Fans may begin to fear that, on a larger scale, if South Carolina cannot take care of a team that it has come to expect to beat, at home.

Also: Will a loss to Georgia mean Mike Davis' best performances are behind him? The highly talented RB needs to be close to, or be better-than, the Bulldogs' Todd Gurley, today.

Another question, if Georgia wins, will surface.

Did the Gamecocks squander the success of All-World Jadeveon Clowney, by not using him as a calling-card to attract top-notch talent on defense? 

Are there not enough good players on D to beat a good football opponent? If so, why? 

Will a loss, especially if it can be pinned on the D, mean that 2014 is already a bust, compared to the previous three years?

And will a Georgia loss mean that the Gamecocks have the wrong coaches on defense, with the only option being to tread water until the end of the season to make needed, and overdue changes?

Is 2014 a chance to extend the Spurrier success, or a rebuilding year?

After the Georgia game, we should know a lot more?  

Mark Sanford seems surprised at the mess walking out is causing in his life

What did Sanford expect?
Taking the wrong path, often results
in an even more difficult life. 

Sanford publishes the 2^nd Book of Mark on Facebook

In a long, and tortured Faebook diatribe, US Rep. Mark Sanford laments the treatment from his ex-

wife, as if he is trying to write an addendum to the New Testament.

Sorry, there is already a Book of Mark in the Bible.

Sanford drones on about being summoned to court, publicly embarrassed, losing family property and custody of his children, settlement disagreements, and general contempt for the ex.

When he took up with another woman, and cheated with her, what did he expect the result to be?

Jenny Sanford may be a lot of things, but she is not stupid. And she's not meek.

He threw the first punch, and he threw it hard. The fact that she is reacting should not be a surprise. Violate any contract, and the victim is liable to exact what is legally available to him of her.

What is baffling, in his long-verse is Sanford's references to Scripture. There are actions one can take that taint all that one does from that point on. Ripping apart your holy vow before God, walking out on your kids and shacking with the GF fits that category. Especially when you were the governor, setting an example for all to see. It is startling that Sanford does not understand the wages of his sin.

While Sanford is not short on self-pity, he fails to understand what happens when you decide you want out of a marriage, or a contract.

There are likely thousands of “Average-Joes” in South Carolina who can tell the esteemed former governor, that's how it is.

One other aspect of Sanford's treatise. All of those words are personal problems. Us people out here in the real world have enough trouble digesting the minutiae of our own lives. We feel for you bro, kinda. But we have our own problems.

So I'll tell you like they’d tell us: “Tell to the judge.”

You're a man who has been given an un-common, privileged lifestyle by first your parents, then by those in South Carolina. But it seems you are having a difficult time when the system, and the people you have severely hurt and damaged, ask you to react in a way common to anyone else who did what you did.

Suck it up. You made this bed, now lie in it. That's what any parent would tell you, if the parent had your best developmental interests in mind. Maybe that is what God is trying to get across to you, too, if you'd just listen.  

A story about a fictitious Mr. Sanford, after the tryst

Ever know a guy in your neighborhood when you were a kid who was a friend's dad.

I'm a gall-darn good-lookin' man.
And I'm still a playa. 

The story is fairly common and goes like this.

You know the man as the father of his children, and a husband. Until one day the bombshell drops that he's been cheating with another woman.

It blows everybody's mind. All the mothers in the block are talking about it, and they throttle down to a whisper, or hush, when a child walks into the room.

We've all seen it. He leaves the house for that fresher set of linen.

The most lasting part of it, is when you become college aged, and you're hanging out in the local dive. Mr. Sanford walks in, 25 years older than everybody else, acting like he's one of the guys from campus. He comes up to you, slaps you on the back, and says: “How ya' doing?” Then, as you nervously look for someplace to hide your beer, a girl in one of your classes walks up, and you figure out she's with Mark, your childhood friend's former father.

“Meet my fiance,” Mark says. You blush a little, and shake her hand.

He's all smiles, at ease shootin' the breeze, like he's 21.

You're not so comfortable with it, very nervous.

Mr. Sanford used to be the go-to father. He waxed authoritative on the virtues of family, and responsibility. His father worked, hard, and left him set. And he preaches that to you.

So when he brings his little prize into the bar, you're uptight, feeling a little out-of-balance, not knowing how to place Mr. Sanford in this role.

Of course he has had no problem in transition from pontificator to fornicator.

You're just praying his son does not walk in, to make it more creepy than it already is.

Five years down the line, you see Mr. Sanford again. The fiance thing didn't work out. And the harshness of the life outside his family, is showing all over Sanford's face.

Shots, and the next party, have for years taken the place of Dixie Youth Baseball games, and trips to the fun park's batting cage, like he used to do when you knew him.

Mr. Sanford, was such a handsome man, is not so much anymore. Age is moving on him fast.

He stands around, using dirty words with girls half his age, not seeing them mimic a gag reflex. You see, in his mind, Mr. Sanford is still that young handsome dad you used to know at the community pool, when you and his son were in fifth grade. Not a lecherous, old creep, trying to convince everybody that he is somebody special, as he orders another belt to help him take some years from his mind.

Editor's Note: All characters used in this account are fictitious and for the purpose of entertainment. Any similarities to actual people are totally coincidental, and intended. 

Trial lawyer hinting at insanity for child murderer

Is a trial lawyer setting up an insanity plea?

“Timothy Ray Jones Jr., 32, has been treated for mental health problems in the past, his attorney Aimee Zmroczek said. She would not specify what sort of treatment or problems he has had,” according to the Associated Press.

Anybody with any sense at all knows this man is crazy. You'd have to be to kill your five children.

His attorney also said: “He is being portrayed as a monster. He is just a man and is trying to deal with this situation," she said. “He is scared and simply wants someone to guide him through the process,” said the AP. 

I'm sure his children were scared when they figured out what their father was doing to them.

His fear, or clams of insanity, should not make any difference. It is repulsive that after he took the lives of the five precious children God gave him, that a slick attorney is already testing a loophole to spare Jones' life.

Jones should be tried immediately. There is a confession, so guilt is not debatable. And there is NO reason that can be offered in Jones' defense.

Anti-death penalty liberals argue that the the death penalty does not reduce the murder rate.

If killers were tried quickly, condemned by the public, then executed, it has to have an affect on other would-be killers.

As it is, the trail lawyer industry is fat and filthy rich getting a lighter sentence for heinous criminals. In some cases, brutal killers attract a cult following of sick potential copy cats.

There should be NO legal maneuvering to deny justice to this animal.

Give Jones a chance to ask God to save his soul, then move on with the will of the majority of the people.

If this murderer is allowed to legally finagle some sort of deal, any judge, prosecutor or politicians related to it, needs to be removed from office.

And we, as voters, should keep our eyes open to make sure the law is carried out. We all lose when justice is perverted. 

Media already exploiting child murders for a political end

Jones is the murderer, not DSS
or Gov. Nikki Haley.

While South Carolinians, sick with grief, mourn, media wastes no time trying to aid Democrats.

The media, liberals, and their politicians, have told us they can solve the ailing nature of societal sin through a welfare agency, and nanny-state social workers. Christians and Conservatives know that government intervention will never cure the disease triggered by hedonism, non-accountability and irresponsibility.

Friday's The State newspaper: “The children were not removed from Jones’ custody. The Social Services caseworker wrote there was “not enough to arrest (the) father.”

Social Services officials said Thursday the embattled agency, which reports directly to Gov. Nikki Haley, has begun a review of its involvement.”

And so the BLAME GAME Begins. And will it end in electing Democrat Vincent Sheheen as governor?

It seems sick, and sad that it has to be said, but justice screams for this to be voiced.

The media is trying to use the murder of five innocent children to blame the S.C. Department of Social Services (DSS) and Gov. Nikki Haley and elect Democrat Vincent Sheheen. Will it work? Who knows?

Because we have people in our society diseased with selfishness, and pop culture pursuits, championed by the left, they are a danger to the precious children they have been given.

A sick, drug-using man, who has an adultery-prone wife and a delusional father who raised him, kills his five children.

During the first news conference in Lexington, Wednesday, a day after the news broke, the media had already begun to badger the Department of Social services for answers.

Before this horrible tragedy, the media and Democrats had already been trying to use DSS to weaken the Republican governor.

The bottom line is: The same liberals and media who demand freedom to use drugs, and the rights of parents, no matter how bad, are the same crowd now trying to pin these hideous child murders on their political enemies.

The tragedy is already so disturbing it's difficult to accept. But leave it to the media and the Democrat political establishment pushing them, to drop this deeply troubling episode to a level so low, it's nauseating.

While decent people recoil from the evil this individual exacted upon his own children, liberals, Democrats, and their media are busy in the gruesome task of trying feed their political power by exploiting it.

Expect Gamecocks to beat Georgia Saturday

Spurrier IS Sir Big Spur. And Gamecock
fans have learn to depend on him in games
like Saturday's game versus Georgia.  

Despite the oddsmakers' predictions, the Gamecocks should beat Georgia, Saturday.

There are few chances to play on a stage like the platform SC will be offered in this week's game.

The Gamecocks are a six-point underdog to the Bulldogs, but fans don't buy that, and they shouldn't.

The Gamecocks are a team that has looked bad in Coach Steve Spurrier's last three years, but it has been very rare that the team has under-achieved, especially at home.

And it will have to come in unprepared, again, on a very national and judgmental stage to lose to Georgia. That is not likely based on what we know about the Head Ball Coach. His teams have looked bad before, but still turned around and figured out how to win big games.

What is baffling, is that Texas A&M was able to rout the Gamecocks on Aug. 28. That loss is still hard to understand.

And even in the 52-28 A&M debacle, if SC could have mustered just three more stops, and not dropped a sure TD, it would have pulled that game out. But it didn't.

And for that failure, the football world has turned its back on the Gamecocks. The program that has been one of the winningest in the country of late, is now diving in the polls, spat upon by Vegas and considered a probable “W” by some future opponents.

The reason SC is now the scourge is because of a defense that has looked lost and of mediocre talent.

It took so much to get to where it was, and so little to topple it. But disparage the Gamecocks at your own risk.

The loss to the Aggies, as ugly as it was, is not enough to bury the Gamecocks versus Georgia.

The defensive players will have a charged and large partisan crowd on fire behind them on Saturday afternoon. That will be a huge factor.

That defense knows every eye is on it. And every successful play will bring an eruption of euphoria. That's a very addictive motivator. Gamecock ticket holders should be very anticipatory.

Aside from that, the Gamecocks know what is at stake. This is the season for the team. Lose this, and the same, old jackals are waiting to pounce. And Spurrier knows that and that will push him.

And I'd take odds on Spurrier, versus those who want his failure, any day.

That old coach lives for a stage like this. It ill be a big surprise if he does not slap back his detractors, to the delight of those who are on his side.

Vice, crime and irresponsibility, all factors in child murderer's life

The 60s drug culture,
claimed peace and love as its
basis. That was not true.
It's more closely related  to
evil and irresponsibility. 

Timothy Jones, 32, killed his five children, ages 8, 7, 6, 2 and 1.

Facts are slowly trickling out about the horrible act.

As information leaks out, we can ask God to please let those with open hearts and minds take note of the danger posed by commonly accepted practices of the worldly.

First, we leaned that Jones' wife of 10 years, Amber Jones 28, had been accused of an improper relationship with a 19-yer-old neighbor. She had also been accused of neglecting her children in a DSS complaint, before the Joneses divorced.

Interim Lexington County Sheriff Lewis McCarty, called Amber Jones, who did not have custody of her children, a “very sweet lady.”

On Wednesday, Jones' father, Tim Jones Sr. warned people not to make a judgment on his son.

"He is not the animal that he will be portrayed through the media,” Jones Sr. said. “Our little Tim a very loving father, brother and son.”

Tim Jones Jr., the Lexington transplant form a suburb of Chicago was arrested in Mississippi on Saturday and had drug-related paraphernalia in his vehicle. He seemed to be under the influence of drugs, police said. Police found blood and childrens clothes in his SUV.

Jones Jr. when he was 19, was arrested for a cocaine possession charge in March of 2001, in Illinois. Later that year he was charged with stealing a car, burglary and passing forged checks, according to criminal records in Illinois. Jones has also been discharged, early from the Navy

Tim Jones Sr., admitted his son had a criminal record, but he made light of it.

“Typical teenager doing stupid stuff, that's about it," Tim Jones Sr. told the Associated Press from his home in Amory, Mississippi.

Tim Jones Jr. had a wife who allegedly fooled around. He had a penchant for illegal drugs and a father that seems to be delusional. There may be a picture developing here before our eyes.

Of course, nothing can explain why Tim Jones killed his precious five children, unless he is the Devil himself.

But there is no mention of any church in his life, his father seems out-of-touch with reality, and there is no accountability aimed at the mother of the children. Tim Jones vowed mate for life, seemed to be devoted to her personal pursuits, more than tending to the welfare of her children.

When media fails to lay out the secular and pop culture items that surrounded Tim Jones, it is no wonder that it is difficult to fit all the pieces together.

All of the societal diseases that oft-ridiculed social conservatives rail against were prevalent in Jones' life before he murdered his five children.

Until we focus on the rot of our culture, and are honest about the danger, without apologies, why should we not expect to see more Tim Joneses?

Can Gamecocks revisit South Carolina vs Georgia, 2000?

It was Sept. 9, 2000, a beautiful day at Williams-Brice Stadium. The No. 9, SEC-East favorite, Georgia Bulldogs were in town. The Gamecocks had ended a 21-game losing streak week before by beating New Mexico State, 31-0. That win, began the process to rid the ghosts of the Brad Scott era. He had left the program in a shambles for Lou Holtz to take over.

But Georgia was no NMS. The Bulldogs were national title contenders.

Phil Petty, USC QB, 2000. 

Derek Watson, scores a
TD vs Georgia, 2000. 

The Gamecocks were lead by QB Phil Petty and RB Derek Watson. The Bulldogs, were lead by Quincy Carter, who was billed as an All-World QB. Carter was intercepted five times that day, and his Heisman hopes flew out the window, as SC rolled to a 21-10 win.

Georgia defensive lineman Richard Seymour, who played at Lower Richland High School, attacked the ragtag band that flattened his high-riding, elite football team.

“It’s tough losing to an inferior team,” Seymour said in newspaper report. “This is devastating.”

Seymour's comments certainly did not do anything to add to his team's reputation for class.

The win was an eye-opening jewel in a 8-4 Gamecock season. It was one of the biggest turnarounds for any team in the history of college football.

On Saturday, the Gamecocks face a similar task. The Bulldogs are heralded as an All-World team. Georgia is favored ranked ahead of SC, with no intention of letting an “inferior team” as many Bulldog fans view South Carolina, blemish their record.

The question is: Will South Carolina play with the heart it mustered on that sunny September day in 2000?

It may be a good idea for the SC coaching staff to find some film encapsulating that game, and let the 2014 version of the Gamecocks see what happens when the underdog wants the bone, more than the Bulldog.  The result can be exhilarating for Gamecock fans. 

The numbers and the South Carolina or Georgia game

South Carolina is a home underdog to Georgia. The two teams play at 3:30, Saturday in Columbia.
Head Coach Steve Spurrier is 5-0-1 in his last six games as a home underdog. Georgia Coach Mark Richt is 2-6-1 against the spread against Spurrier at South Carolina.
In 14 of the last 17 meetings of SC vs Ga., neither team has scored has scored more than 20 points. Only once did the number get to 20, in those 14 games.
South Carolina is a six-point underdog. A lower score favors the dog with a higher spread because the lower the spread, the harder it is for one team to jump out way ahead.
But remember, the Gamecocks had an 18-game home win streak before Texas A&M erased that.
At one point SC was a four-point favorite, but the Gamecocks bled a lot of respect because the of the 52-28 thrashing the team took from Texas A&M on opening night.  

The role of the wife and mother in the Lexington child murder case

This horrible tragedy of five murdered children in Lexington is a good time to look at the woman's role in society, and start demanding better from the worst of them.

Too many women are placed in a position as the recipient of sympathy, no matter what they do.  

Current American culture is vicious toward men. Ray Rice was essentially banned from the NFL for punching his fiance. And a cavalcade of media wants more blood for the abuse of Rice. There are demands that the NFL commissioner be fired, because he did not act severely enough, soon enough.

And Tim Jones, who killed his five children in Lexington, is rightly seen as a demon. And that is fair. We all hope our justice system executes the just penalty, unblocked by criminal-friendly, appeal-filing trial lawyers. 

But what responsibility do women have in society for their actions?

Tim Jones, was distraught over what he believed was his wife’s “inappropriate relationship” with a 19-year-old neighbor in 2012, according to court records.

Amber Jones, 28, and Tim Jones were married 10 years. The marriage ended last fall with a divorce because of allegations of Amber Jones' affair. She was also charged in a complaint with neglecting her children, the court records state.

Amber Jones was investigated by DSS for alleged neglect of her children in September of 2011.

In a report filed by the husband, Tim Jones said his wife “had not been taking care of the house or the kids. Mrs. Jones did not clean their home or feed the children in an acceptable manner,” a report in The State newspaper says.

Marriage is a contract that goes two ways. But women seemed to be given a pass when they fail to hold up their end of the deal. Has the feminist movement so vilified men, that women don't have responsibility?

If wife abuse is a major issue in America, and it is, what about women who cheat, or fail to attend properly to their children?

It's about time we implement gender equality. Cheating, drug-using and child-neglecting wives are a disease to our families. And this sickening case in Lexington is a horrific example what decadent behavior gone bad can result in.

Good mothers, and accountable wives, know what sacrifices have to made. It about time these bad women are called out for the harm they do to our society.

South Carolina and Georgia - roles are reversed this year

Can SC contain Gurley?
He cannot be allowed to
run free. 

About a year ago, Georgia was sitting at home waiting for South Carolina to come, after losing to a team they had owned for years. In its loss to Clemson of the ACC, Georgia gave up 38 points and could not stop the Tigers when they needed to.

In 2013, the Gamecocks were going to Athens, 1-0 of winning versus UNC of the ACC, to play a team that had its star RB nursing an injury. Georgia, needed a win desperately, and beat the Gamecocks 41-30.

Fast-forward to 2014, and the role for each team is reversed.

South Carolina was embarrassed in its first game to a team it was favored to beat.

Georgia is coming off a home, season-opening win versus Clemson of the ACC.

In the position Georgia was in a year ago, South Carolina played one of its worse games on defense, of the year. The Gamecocks left receivers wide open, and could not stop Todd Gurley, who was hurt a lot in 2013, but he played the whole game versus SC.

On offense, QB Conner Shaw had a rare fumble, in a key situation. The Gamecocks also had a late failure to score from inside the five-yard-line. 

This year, like Gurley was last year, Gamecock RB Mike Davis could be a big factor in the game. If Davis can stay in the game, and eat up clock with yards to go along with it, Gurley will cool on the sidelines.

Word is Davis is enthusiastic, and ready to play in a BIG game.

The bigger question is: Is SC's defense up to the task?

If Georgia has to run to move the ball, that may be a better set up for South Carolina. It's the pass defense that has looked so awful versus Texas A&M. But the secondary did have two INTs versus ECU.

Regardless of how it plays out, the Gamecocks need to channel the same force Georgia was able to harness in 2013. If SC can treat the Bulldogs, as the Gamecocks were treated in Athens in 2013, it will be a good day for the home team.

Media playing BLAME-GAME in Lexington child murders

Sometimes there is no answer, or way to stop evil. 

Tim Jones. The evil man accused of
murdering his five children. He was caught
with synthetic marijuana on him. 

Maybe we can live our lives in a way that influences others to disavow darkness and the immoral. And not enough of us do that. Too many spend their time on pop-culture morality values, but not in opposition to true evil, and wicked behavior. 

But as is often, after a deplorable crime has been committed, media thinks if they can find someone to blame, it is a benefit to the cause. That is not true.

As a matter of fact, some media representatives embarrassed themselves during the just-concluded five child murder press conference.

A custodial father, who had a divorce, killed his five children in the home, and drove them to Alabama to dump their bodies.

As Lexington County Sheriff Lewis McCarty conducted a press conference, two unidentified female reporters tried to beat up law enforcement because an Amber Alert was not issued.

Another male reporter kept trying to implicate DSS because that has become a political issue, in an attack of SC Gov. Nikki Haley.

A representative from SLED had to explain, the case of a legal father vanishing with his children does not meet the criteria to issue an Amber Alert. It likely would not have helped anyway. The murderer likely killed the children before he took to the road, according to the sheriff. 

Also: McCarty became emotional in discussing the case. It had to be hard. He said he is a father and grandfather. McCarty also said a case with one child is hard. And a murder is difficult to investigate. He said the murder of these five children has profoundly impacted SLED, the FBI and Lexington County Sheriffs Department. Just as it has affected any of us who has a heart.  And there is no one to blame, other than the Godless criminal who did this. 

Lexington Child Murders; sobering call for repentence

If the evil act upon these children does not wake you up, you are lost.

The bodies of five Lexington County children, were found in Alabama Tuesday. The kids were of the ages 1-through-8. The father of the children, Timothy Ray Jones, 32, is being charged with killing his children.
What has happened to this “man's” generation?

It's not often public crimes against God, deeply affect me personally. But this does. It's debilitating. It makes me want to cry. You have no idea where to start in analyzing the affect it has on you. And that really does not even matter. But you, and more of us, MUST speak out.

We live in a society where cheating is cool, divorce is easy, drugs are plentiful, abortions are championed and “self” is king. Any kind of debauchery is viewed as sophisticated.

What used to be called sick, is now hailed as glorious. If you mentioned God, you used to be ridiculed, now you're threatened with legal action. And it seems to get worse every day, with our institutions on the side of the most-offensive, not the righteous.

Parents are told by society that pursuing pleasure for themselves, no matter how perverse or dangerous, should be put before everything else. More and more children are being murdered by parents. It's an epidemic.

Anyone hurt or sickened by the murder of these precious little babies, will be told to shut up and not judge. But it is time to judge. The post-modern era is one of of exalting sin, selfishness. Seeking  personal gratification at all costs is seen as virtuous, while attacking people who take responsibility, is the norm. The results of that are horrific. 

If you get out in the streets and march in favor of immorality, or even promote it on Facebook, you are guilty. You perpetuate all of the evil things being thrust upon society by people who are performing the acts you so gallantly advocate as freedom and “progress.”

The killing of the Lexington Children hits home. Nothing else matters but stopping and asking yourself: Do you contribute to a civilization that has gotten this sick? If you do, you need to get down on your knees, and ask God to forgive you. Societies have been through this before. And there never has been a saved society, unless it was done by God.

Unless we, as a nation, turn from sin, and evil, our culture will die from it. It may not kill you directly, but it will kill you spiritually. And if the murder of five children in Lexington County does not wake you up, you may already be dead.

Ray Rice saga sets the tongues of ignorance wagging

Pundits from all corners, especially women, are deluging other women with advice to battered women.

Rich and pampered women like Hillary
Clinton have the means to get out of emotionally
abusive marriages. But for power and greed, they stay.
Women of a lesser station, don't have the means. 

Ray Rice was essentially banned from the National Football League for brutally beating his then-fiance.
Rice did it. Let him suffer the consequences for this violent act upon his now, wife. 
The incident has promoted violence against women to the leftwing's "cause-de-jour," pop culture must-talk-about status. 
But sadly, most of the female, and male, media experts commenting, have no idea how people in these situations live. They'd NEVER know what to do, or how to do it, if in the same situation. 
So many of the media, and leftist, elite come from one cushy, pampered situation, and marry into another.
The women being beaten are far different from you, and they will have to figure out by themselves how to get out of the situation. Your preaching has no value. 
No knock on you because your parents cared enough, and were able to take care of you. But to have people who live insulated lives, addressing the issues of totally different types of people, is futile.
To give advice, wax-on and pontificate makes the media pseudo-authorities feel good.
But many liberals commandeer these causes, because it's their way to feel engaged in something besides the boredom and cliches of a leftist life.
Feel good, and feel concerned, but know that your words are not those of wisdom or solution. They are only ego-bolstering for yourselves. 

Lexington County Council tax proponents BEWARE!!!

Some members of  Lexington County Council
are vehemently pushing a tax increase.
Council spent $450,000-plus to hire a pro-tax
firm to help promote the tax. 

Amy Kovach - a school district administrator in Berkeley County - was indicted in February on an ethics charge for using of public funds to influence the

outcome of an election.

It was reported Tuesday that she has also been indicted by a Berkeley County grand jury on one count of forgery.

Public funds to influence an election is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 or one year in prison.

Lexington County Council better be careful. Shilling for more tax money is one thing. But arrest, big fines and jail time are a much bigger deal than lusting after more money from taxpayers.  

Spurrier looks forward to facing Georgia

Johnson is one of the better sources
for accurate Gamecock information
in Columbia media. 

During Coach Steve Spurrier's Tuesday press conference for the Georgia, he said the defensive secondary was instrumental with the INTs.

He said the offense did well, for the most part, versus ECU. Although the team needed more TDs not field goals.

Spurrier was very respectful of  Bulldogs running back Todd Gurley.

Said he hopes SC can keep Gurley off the field as much as possible. Said time of possession needed to favor the Gamecocks.  

 Gurley had15 carries and 198 yards in the season opener against Clemson. 

About the Ray Rice wife-beating incident: "Spurrier said he dismissed two players due to hitting a female. Said every team and corporation should have that rule.

Spurrier said he talked to Conner Shaw before he signed to the Browns' practice squad. He said some other teams were coming after Shaw, with interest in signing him to a practice squad.

Brent Johnson of 107.5 The Game radio, is one of the best Gamecock commentators, in an SEC city that has one of the most hostile medias to the home team.

Johnson said after Coach Steve Spurrier's Tuesday press conference for the Georgia game that SC matches up well with the Bulldogs.

Johnson said Spurrier was smiling, seemed upbeat.

He also said the Gamecocks D may have struggled with Texas A&M and ECU because the SC defense did not match up well with the offenses of those teams. Johnson said watch out for Georgia's O-Line vs SC D-Line. He said SC lost a lot (of course) of the D-Line from last year. And the Gamecocks cannot allow Georgia to push them around, and pick up substantial ground yards consistently.   

Obama's America, The Headlines Sept. 9, 2014

EBOLA SPREADING 'EXPONENTIALLY'

REPORT: U.S. not prepared for pandemic...

O'KEEFE STRIKES AGAIN: SLIPS THROUGH CANADIAN BORDER 'WITH EBOLA'...

NYTIMES: President haunted by past statements as he returns US to war...

'Fundamentally misguided view of the world'...

MAJORITY: Obama presidency a failure...

Obamacare costs small business workers $22 BILLION annually...

Over 100 teens swarm Memphis plaza, 'knocking out' shoppers...

SHOCK VIDEO: Blacks Beat White With Pumpkins...

CHARGE: Student beaten at bus stop for acting 'too white'...

Teacher pleads guilty to giving middle schooler 'full contact' lap dance during class...

CHUCK TODD: Hillary Wouldn't Be Frontrunner 'If She Were Running to Be the Second Woman President'...

Zuckerberg pushes amnesty at Carlos Slim event in Mexico...

ISIS threatens to kill TWITTER employees...

Price of milk hits all-time high...

Family of beheaded Sotloff slams White House...

Media goes to strange measures to dispute Spurrier

Wow: The State newspaper is running a monster, top-of-the-page headline on its Website declaring:

"The Tape: Gamecocks’ D-line better at affecting QB; pass coverage struggles again"
It refers to Saturday's game vesus East Carolina. And the headline has since been removed.

The State's Josh Kendall has been adamant that USC Head Coach Steve Spurrier triggered unrealistic expectations by telling fans the team would be good in 2014.

Stae's Josh Kendall badgers Spurrier for an admiission

Spurrier also specifically cited the D-Line, impugning the 3-4 defense after an ugly defensive performance versus Texas A&M, Aug 28.

Spurrier is specific about defense problem after A&M loss

Despite Spurrier's acknowledgment, the media has been steadfast in promoting the defensive line coaching, and defending it as competent.

In the article proclaiming a cured D-line, The State, or Kendall, says: “South Carolina was credited with seven quarterback hurries in Saturday’s game against East Carolina. The stats book might not have been giving the Gamecocks enough credit.”

The secondary has two INTs, but the D-line did not have a sack.

Kendall, in the Tuesday article defending the D-line also goes after the USC secondary and the linebackers.

Kendall says: “The linebackers, believed to be the team’s strength entering the season, missed too many tackles.”

Kendall criticizes QB Dylan Thompson, too, but admitted Thompson settled down and played better in the second half. He said: "The offensive line was hit or miss again."
After the ECU game, Spurrier was full of praise for the blocking of the WRs. Kendall mentions that. Near the end of his article he begrudgingly agrees that Spurrier was accurate, and says: "South Carolina’s wide receivers blocked much better than they did against Texas A&M."

It's getting to the level of Kooky, the lengths The State is going to, to prove itself right and Head Football Coach Steve Spurrier wrong.
If so, it's a battle The State, and Kendall, will eventually lose. Just ask Ron Morris.