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This Bowman kid is having an awesome 1st NFL day!! Now if only the D could step up!

(1) Obama's good friend, unrepentant Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, whose terrorist group committed so many acts of terrorism that even included deadly bombings, held one of Obama's first fundraisers in his (Ayers') home. (2) As board members for the Woods Fund, Obama and Ayers raised $75,000 for Palestinian spokesman and fundraiser Rashid Khalidi, who was a spokesman for the PLO. (3) Hamas has endorsed Obama for president. (4) Libyan master terrorist leader and dictator Moammar Gadhafi supports Obama for president. (5) North Korean dictator Kim Jung-il supports Obama for president. (6) Marxist Nicaraguan strongman Daniel Ortega, leader of the infamous Sandinistas, has endorsed Obama for president. (7) Obama and his wife belonged to the Trinity Church racist hate group for 20 years. That group now endorses Obama for president. (8) Obama says he will meet with terrorist leaders as president to negotiate (surrender?). (9) Jodie Evans of the anti-military Code Pink hate group is a funding "bundler" for Obama who is closely linked to Marxist Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. (10) Michelle Obama, Barack's wife, says she was never proud of America as an adult until her husband ran for president. (11) The Obamas are huge fans of their mentor, Saul Alinsky, a Marxist organizer from Chicago who wrote "Rules for Radicals", a manual on how to overthrow the government and replace it with a Marxist regime. Michelle even quoted Alinsky (Chapter 2) in her Democratic National Convention speech. (12) Obama refused to serve his country in the late 1970s because he said we were not at war: would he have joined if he thought he would have a chance to kill people? (13) Obama was registered as a student in Indonesia as a Muslim. (14) Obama's brother lives in a tiny hut in a massive slum in Nairobi; Obama, a multi-millionaire, refuses to help him get out of the slum and start a better life. (15) Obama has voted time and again to strip Americans of their 2nd Amendment rights. (16) Obama is threatening those who disagree with him with legal action and imprisonment. (17) Obama has supported abortion upon demand for any reason, even in late term and "live-birth" abortion failures. (18) Obama supports the ACORN voter-fraud scam. (19) Obama has never been the primary sponsor/author of a single piece of important legislation in the Senate. (20) Obama promised to take only public funding via the government for his campaign, but lied: he is now refusing this public funding. ONE POSSIBLE OBAMA CABINET Secretary of Defense John Kerry, traitorous former Navy lieutenant who secretly met with the enemy as a Naval Reserve officer during the Vietnam War. Declared an official hero of the People’s Democratic Republic of Vietnam, or Wesley Clark, humiliated former general who was fired as commander of NATO for character and integrity issues. Good friend of Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic. Secretary of Homeland Security Bill Ayers, admitted and unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist who blew up the Pentagon and Capitol. Close friend, colleague, fundraiser, mentor and neighbor of Obama. Secretary of State Michelle Obama, racist hate-group member for 20 years whose loathing and shame for America would work wonders in this billet. Here is what an Obama cabinet might look like: Secretary of the Treasury Tony Rezko, close friend, fundraiser and business partner of Obama; convicted felon and fraudster. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Charlie Rangel, under-investigation suspected tax evader and fraudster who uses rent-control properties in NY city for personal and political gain. Secretary of Health and Human Services Britney Spears, chain-smoking, non-panties-wearing Left Coast pop tart who can’t comprehend the importance of a child safety seat. Secretary of Labor Tony Soprano, waste-management consultant, labor expert and entrepreneur. Secretary of Commerce Oprah Winfrey, the world’s wealthiest and most powerful woman. Secretary of the Interior Whoever is in charge of the Earth Liberation Front at the moment. Secretary of Education Jethro Bodine, double-knot spy who’s done graduated the 6th grade. Secretary of Energy Rosie O’Donnell, left-wing hate peddler whose body odor alone could be used as an alternative energy source. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Ward Churchill, fake Indian and fake war hero who claimed he was a commando deep in North Vietnam while in the Army but was in fact far behind the front lines running a film projector; admitted terrorist bomb-building instructor. Secretary of Agriculture Tommy Chong, master gardener, horticulturalist and hydroponics expert, and former member of the Cheech & Chong comedy team. Attorney General Ted Kennedy, killer of young girls, womanizer and world-class drunkard. National Security Advisor Moammar Gadhafi, mass-murdering Muslim terrorist and Obama supporter; suspected Obama fundraiser, or Fidel Castro, Marxist Cuban dictator and suspected Obama fundraiser, or Daniel Ortega, Marxist Nicaraguan strongman and suspected Obama fundraiser. Communications Director/Press Secretary Michael Moore, master propagandist and Leftist hate merchant based in Hollywood. Chief of Staff Kim Jung-il, North Korean Maoist dictator. U.N. Ambassador Whoopi Goldberg, far left hate monger, drunkard and racist based in Hollywood

Communism has never worked in any country in which it has been tried. In practice, Communism—the ultimate goal of liberalism—affords everything to and for the power elite and little to nothing for everyone else. It also does away with the concept of meritocracy—unless of course one is a member of the aforementioned power elite. However, more and more this is what Democrat presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama seems to be proposing. On Monday 13 October, Barack Obama was asked by an Ohio plumber: “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” Obama answered him with: “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around [AKA wealth redistribution], it’s good for everybody.” We have to imagine that Karl Marx would be extremely proud. This ideology is terrible to the U.S. Economic picture because if you take from the rich and give to America’s poor it causes the following occurrences: 1. Businesses produce less attempting to stay under the taxation cap, and thus consumer pricing begin to rise, it is proven in previous attempts to change the economic structure. 2. Business Owners who are forced to pay additional taxes and have huge families or large home payments will look over their financial structure and layoff employees or move to areas of the country where labor is cheaper and for large firms this can mean other countries, this will further lead to higher unemployment and smaller economic growth cycles. And of course with a reduced labor force by corporations coping with higher taxes, less consumer spending and people change lifestyles and make different choices in spending habits, thus causing workers in low paid jobs to be laid off. 3. Individuals which are beginning investment into retirement saving plans will be forced to hide even more money and by hiding this the money will not flow into banks but into “offshore investments.” This situation will further hurt ailing banks facing people losing trust in the monetary system and keeping more cash in the safe at home, some benefits researched can include, however many benefits seemingly outweigh the negatives. 1. Asset protection and privacy through an offshore bank or investment account 2. Currency diversification 3. Higher yields 4. Diversified, elite investment you won’t find in the U.S. 5. Offshore bankers offer total discretion and free investment advice 6. Make profits overseas free from foreign taxes These attractive rates, and benefits will further increase and lure American’s that hold disposable income and fall under the two hundred and fifty thousand and one dollar range of Obama’s tax plan, which is simply disguised Communism. 4. By forcing higher taxes and creating more social programs, it is my belief that Obama with his Black Value System is attempting to funnel into the poorest section of America benefit after benefit which is racism in reverse At the same time, civil rights organizations and black politicians did an about-face. They defined the black agenda in increasingly narrow terms: affirmative action, economic parity, professional advancement and busing replaced battling poverty, reducing unemployment, securing quality education, promoting self-help and gaining greater political empowerment as the goals of all African Americans. This left the one out of four blacks who wallowed below the official poverty level, trapped in drug- and gang-plagued neighborhoods. Their children had to go to under served, badly deteriorating inner-city schools that black middle class families had long since abandoned. Lacking education, competitive skills and training, the black have-nots were further relegated to the outer fringes of society. But even though black professionals, politicians and celebrities may be light years apart from poor blacks in their wealth and status, color is hardly a relic of the past. Wealthy blacks fume in anger as taxis speed past and blithely ignore them. They can be stopped shaken down and spread-eagled by the police. They can be subjected to poor or no service in restaurants. They file countless EEOC complaints and lawsuits against corporations for stacking them at the low end in management positions. A sharp economic downturn could dump more than a few of them back into the same crumbling neighborhoods they worked long and hard to get out of. Rich versus poor, progress and poverty. It’s an old tale. The twist is that it can now be told in black America, and of course Obama will try to with his background improve benefits and payments to Blacks along with taxing the American’s that will create the jobs that the Black American’s need,this plan will fail to help Blacks as well as poor Whites, Asians, and Latino’s. Job will become scarce and people will not expand hiding money instead because of higher taxes. These two points alone along with many others are going hurt the U.S. Economy, so you think its rough now wait until Obama’s plans of taxation takes effect, and those of us who own businesses like myself, falling just slightly under but this worries me as I expand, perhaps I will have to reconsider and thus like many will not expand the worker base. The last president to raise taxes when the country had this many economic problems, "even 5% is still a raise", Herbert Hoover, remember what happened tehn?

NFL suspended G Terrence Metcalf four games for violating the league's policy against steroids and related substances. Dan Buenning will now be forced to serve as Chicago's top backup inside. Charles Tillman had a sling on his left arm after Sunday's game. It's possible Tillman re-aggravated the shoulder injury that he suffered in Week 4. He'll be evaluated early this week. Bears reserve CB Trumaine McBride suffered a shoulder injury Sunday. Lovie Smith revealed after Sunday's loss that nickel back Daniel Manning has a pulled hamstring.

NFL Network's Adam Schefter reports that the Cowboys have acquired Roy Williams from the Lions.

OK, people dying was not a good thing under any situation so I will retract that portion, a good thing was the realization that hurricanes happen and people need to be able to know they are living in an unsafe area, if no way to get out move somewhere else where the hurricane can't harm you. People in Galveston this year left the area, not hard to take matters in your own hands, people in the south are 65% more likely to die in a tornado than people in the midwest because they believe god will save them rather than getting out of harms way on their own, and.... The more I dig into the facts behind our current economic crisis, the more I find that points to Democrat corruption, short-sightedness, and obsession with political correctness. The Bush administration tried to reform oversight of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae back in 2003, but was blocked by Democrats. John McCain co-sponsored the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 which was, of course, blocked by Democrats. JustBarkingMad.com posted a good article replete with linked evidence pointing to...you guessed it, Democrats: President Clinton and his Deputy Attorney General Jaime Gorelick Several other bloggers (much more talented than I) have already detailed the evidence... Protein Wisdom: As with much of their showy populism, Congressional Democrats were more interested in the short term — and wholy self-serving nobility — of being perceived as championing the little guy than they ever were with the long-term effects such socially-engineered practices must necessarily have. Morrissey compares the Democrats’ posture here as being similar to their posture on Social Security reform. But to my mind, the clearest analog in practice is to race-based affirmative action — where the short term pressure on universities to admit students of various ethnic backgrounds has led to a disproportionately high drop-out rate among those same students. I’m all for evening the playing fields, be it in education or credit allocation. But simply wanting to do so doesn’t mean we should rely on easy, superficial remedies — particularly if all we’re doing is putting a Band-Aid over a wound that is deeply infected and requires more than a kind of Democratic Christian Science to heal it. Investor's Business Daily: ...it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street's most revered institutions. Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties. The untold story in this whole national crisis is that President Clinton put on steroids the Community Redevelopment Act, a well-intended Carter-era law designed to encourage minority homeownership. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but "predatory." Dr. Walter Williams (George Mason University professor of economics): Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 is a federal law that intimidated lenders into offering credit throughout their entire market and discouraged them from restricting their credit services to low-risk markets, a practice sometimes called redlining. The Federal Reserve Bank, keeping interest rates artificially low, gave buyers and builders incentive to buy and build, thereby producing the housing bubble. Lenders were willing to make creative interest-only loans, often high-risk "no doc" and "liar loans," in order to allow people to buy more housing than they could afford. Of course, with the expectation that housing prices will continue to rise, it was no problem for lenders and borrowers but housing prices began to fall, leaving some people with negative home equity and banks in trouble.

ESPN's Michael Smith reports that Tony Romo will miss four weeks with a broken pinkie. That would mean three missed games and a return in Week 11. deep.

Ryan is unbeliebaly accurate today but our pass coverage SUCKS ASS! Not sure how we win unless we get a special teams score or Defense causes a turnover.

Matt Forte is a workhorse. He proved it at Tulane and he's proving it for the Bears. Forte is a fantasy owner's dream. He is a true feature back and doesn't come off the field in short-yardage or third-down situations. Forte has appeared on the injury report just once in the first five weeks. He was listed as probable in Week 2 with "ankle soreness." But since the Bears' season opener, Forte's yards-per-carry average has dropped sharply. On his last 61 totes, Forte holds a Cedric Benson-like 2.7 YPC. In Forte's last two games, he's mustered only 2.3 yards a carry. And in one of those contests he was going against the Lions. As a senior for the 4-8 Green Wave, Forte carried the ball 361 times in 12 games. That's an average of 31 carries per week. Forte then had to prepare for January's Senior Bowl, where he took MVP honors. Less than a month later came the NFL Combine, where Forte was clocked at 4.46 in the forty-yard dash after an excrutiatingly intense three weeks of preparation. Through five weeks this season, Forte ranks second in the NFL in carries. No player in the league has touched the football as many times on offense. That's awesome and all, for now. But there has got to be concern that Forte is headed for a rookie wall. The second-round pick's rapid descent in per-play productivity is alarming. And like a player on a "short week" preparing for a Thursday night game after playing the prior Sunday, Forte is essentially playing on a "short season" after following up a massive senior-year workload with a months-long preparation period for the NFL Draft. We saw rookie breakdowns happen late last year with Marshawn Lynch and Adrian Peterson, and they didn't take nearly the beating Forte has early this season. The Bears are also returning slide-and-glide rookie left tackle Chris Williams from injury, and his lack of upper-body strength could be a downgrade for the run game once he surpasses John St. Clair on the depth chart. The Bears also have yet to begin their annual two-game set with the Vikings.

Blame the president on a hurricane huh Cracker? Maybe your smoking crack like the rest of the losers in New Orleans, worst crime rate in the US, poverty beyond belief. Why build a city below sea level when you know there is a chance the place is smack in the middle of a hurricane zone, how bout blaming the leaders of the city, jackass democrat mayor idiot! Maybe they could have gotten the poor out of there in advance? This was actually a good thing that happened there to wake these people up, maybe they will get smart and move inland. Maybe if there levy system was updated, but in the long run it was demolished and I think the Gov't helped blow up levy's to flood the poor downtrodden and cess ridden filth the place had become, maybe they will re-build "stupid idea" but what the hell!

He was on crutches yesterday and he's limping around without crutches today," the coach said at his noon news conference. "I guess that's a positive. It will be a race to get him ready for Sunday. It's not torn or damaged, but there is a strain in there, yes." It would seem unlikely that Westbrook will be ready for Sunday night's game against the Chicago Bears, which would mean Correll Buckhalter would get the start. Reid said he thought fullback Tony Hunt would be able to return against the Bears after being knocked out of Sunday's game with a concussion in the first quarter. Reid also seemed to think that quarterback Donovan McNabb will be ready for the Bears. "Do I think he'll be sore this week? Yeah," Reid said. "He's sore today and I think he'll get progressively better as the week goes on. He's got a contusion on his upper chest." The coach did not have an update on tight end L.J. Smith, who left the game with a back injury. It did not sound as if Pro Bowl guard Shawn Andrews was close to returning to the lineup. Reid said Andrews' lower back injury had not improved. REPLAY IT AGAIN SAM. It’s one thing for the officials to get things wrong on the field because the players and the game move ultra fast in the NFL. But the replay official has the modern technology of super slow motion and plenty of time to get the calls right.

The MRI on Brian Westbrook's ankle didn't reveal any tears, breaks, or ligament damage. He's "day-to-day" with an ankle strain. Good news. "He's limping around without crutches today," coach Andy Reid said. "I guess that's a positive. It will be a race to get him ready for Sunday." The Philly Inquirer thinks Westbrook is unlikely to play against Washington, although it's early for guesses. Correll Buckhalter would replace him. Jeremy Shockey will undergo sports hernia surgery and miss at least the next 3-6 weeks, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Mike Lombardi of the National Football Post has learned that Packers CB Al Harris could be lost for the season with a ruptured spleen.

''If you want me to be truthful with the situation, I don't know who it was, but they grabbed me in places they shouldn't have grabbed me after the play and that's what started the whole thing,'' Trueblood said. ''I think those guys take a lot of pride in what they do, and we take a lot of pride in what we do, but one thing I don't stand for is someone grabbing you in your genitals.'' Trueblood wrestled on the ground with defensive end Adewale Ogunleye and then the skirmish broke out that ended with Tillman trying to pull players off a pile before engaging with Clayton. ''I don't know who it was,'' Trueblood said. ''But whoever was beneath [me] paid the price. I was just doing what I do on a block. I was just laying on top of him, not moving. And then those guys ... we were kind of cool with the situation. That [stuff] happens on every play. ''Someone is going to grab and someone is going to poke. We were kind of letting it ride. I was going to get up, I was going to walk away.'' Bears defensive tackle Tommie Harris had a different take. ''If a dude does something to your teammate, you go in and help,'' Harris said. ''The referee saw whatever he wanted to see. One of the dudes was doing something dirty to Wale on the ground after the play. They didn't get the first down, so we could have been going off the field. They were down there fighting and then everybody jumped in. ''Would you leave your teammate? Would you leave your partner out there in war if you see somebody jumping on them? No, it's the principle. We're men, man. ''Regardless of that, if I see my teammate down there getting stomped, two dudes jumping on Wale, one dude and another jumped in, he better not just walk off. If they walk off while I'm down there, we've got a problem. They better at least pull the dude off of me. ''Everybody knows that; you don't just leave your teammate.'' Harris said the cheap play started with the Bucs three hours earlier, when guard Arron Sears shoved him after the whistle on the first play. ''Their line is dirty and we knew that coming in,'' Harris said. ''I guess they thought they were going to come in here and just think we were going to accept that. Like Trueblood blindsided me when the play was over with. [Trueblood] is dirty, he wants you to know that. Since he's not that talented and not that good, he wants you to know that, 'I'm the dirtiest player.'''

Orton has NO feel for the long pass and it's really killing us

Running back Matt Forte was limited in practice Friday with ankle tightness but coach Lovie Smith said there was no chance of him missing Sunday's game at Carolina. "He's limited [Friday]," Smith said, adding that the same approach was taken with cornerback Nathan Vasher, who was held out of parts of practice on Wednesday with a sore shoulder. "Sunday I think we'll have all our guys ready to go." Forte downplayed any problem beyond simple soreness. "I'm fine," he said. "You get bumps and bruises and you've got to take care of them."

If you're Bears rookie left tackle Chris Williams, you have Nov. 2 circled on your calendar. That date against the Detroit Lions in Week 9 of the NFL season looks like the earliest Williams might be able to contribute after he underwent surgery Wednesday night to repair a herniated disc. If he ends up contributing at all this season. Williams was told following the procedure that he should expect to be out 10 to 12 weeks, a source said Friday. The Bears are idle Oct. 26 -- just before the 12-week mark -- before beginning the second half of the season at home against the Lions. Even if Williams were to return at the midseason point, it would be difficult for the Bears to expect too much from the player they had planned on being in the starting lineup from Day One. Williams' recovery timetable forces the Bears to consider reconfiguring their offensive line and potentially returning right tackle John Tait to the left side, where he has played the previous three seasons. Current left tackle John St. Clair has more NFL experience on the right side, and there's always the possibility of the Bears re-signing Fred Miller or trying to swing a trade for a veteran such as Kevin Shaffer of Cleveland. Williams was considered such a health risk on draft day that NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock reported that three of six teams he talked to dropped the tackle from their draft boards. From Jerry Angelo to Lovie Smith, everyone in the Bears organization insist Williams checked out medically during exhaustive research and no red flags were raised. Angelo maintained after the game the latest injury was sustained July 24 during the second workout of training camp in the middle of a non-contact drill. Treatment initially included anti-inflammatory medicine that helped the spasms subside. Williams began working out on an adjacent field during practice but his condition didn't improve once he started to curb his medication. Sources said Williams tweaked his back while working out this summer at Vanderbilt in preparations for the upcoming season but didn't consider it serious – and apparently it wasn't serious enough to prevent Williams from passing his team physical. He missed one practice in five years at Vanderbilt, according to the football personnel at the university. He expected to be just as durable as a pro. The Bears sought to compare Williams' surgery to the same procedure successfully being completed on cornerback Charles Tillman, who is more than 100 pounds lighter. Offensive tackles also rely on their back more than most positions. Tillman, by the way, also had the luxury of recovering during the off-season and wasn't cleared until June after having surgery in February. If the Bears continue their stated plan of keeping Williams on the active roster, the team essentially will be operating with a 52-man roster until midseason. They took the same approach in 2004 when Jerry Azumah underwent neck surgery in preseason and returned quickly for the fifth game of the season. With a first-round draft choice expected to play the position for the next decade, the Bears should be in no hurry to rush Williams back before doubts about his back have been removed – if that's possible. from tribune

I live in Denver, the Broncos signed 2 safety's in the offseason knowing that Lynch wasn't going to be able to beat them out, he doesn't want to be a second stringer so he was given his release.

It's a live by the sword and die by the sword scenario to me. No way the Bears have a chance at the Super Bowl with the current QB'S. Favre brought a far less talented "IMO" Packer team inches from the big game, he ultimately cost them with the OT pick, the season would certainly be more interesting with him on board us, rather than give the NFC to the Vikings if they can get him.

Yes , or Leftwich,

Hester is arguably the most valuable player on this entire team. No one scored more than him last year!! Questions still exist on how this team will score on offense this year. At least he provides a threat, what defense fears the Bears offense in it's current state? Pending on the trade value I don't feel this hold out will go into the season but the Bears have a policy not to negotiate unless the playter reports.' They did it for Urlacher, why not Devin Hester?

I would have open competition, I don't believe Grossman has done anything special to deserve the starting job, I don't ever want Orton either, he will never be an effective passer, remember 2005. Grossman has the arm but not the instincts, can't hold onto the ball when pressure comes, Leftwich or Simms should be given a chance too, if we indeed make a move.

If he goes to the Vikings they immediately become the favorite in the NFC, it's really their main missing piece of the puzzle.

There is no doubt Favre talked to coach Mike McCarthy about coming back two weeks ago, despite Favre's claims to the contrary. It's also clear through Favre's family and this report that Thompson doesn't want Favre back. The Gazette says Favre would have "un-retired" as early as May if Thompson had asked him back, but that didn't happen. Thompson reportedly isn't returning Favre's agents calls. This is all a little childish on both sides, but Favre can force Thompson's hand by being definitive about his plans. It's debatable whether he'll be willing to do so.