a pink number 9?

Dear Jessica,

The only thing that brought me the least bit of joy amidst these early snow storms had previously been to see my favorite football team go out and beat the snot out of everybody they played with the exception of the one team they may face again in the Super Bowl.

I don't know who you think you are, and I'm sure you think you had good reasons, but I don't think you being anywhere near the vacinity of Texas Stadium was the least bit helpful to our man Tony. Oh sure - you probably don't think you had anything to do with it...

Blondes often don't...

But all I know is that roughly four hours ago Tony was getting ready to lead the best record Dallas Cowboy football team in the history of the franchise out onto the field. Ranked with the second best ranking in the NFL of 107.7 and seeming at time unstoppable this season and oh yeah - the team was pretty much injury free.

But then you had to go flaunt your blonde locks and dance around in your pink number 9 Jersey. (BTW NFL commissioner's office: no more pink jerseys - at least not for Dallas, San Francisco - sure - knock your little panzy-self out!)

Not only that they kept flashing you doing the "don't my boobs look awesome dance" up on the stupid stadium jumbo tron.

What the heck? I thought this was a home game...

Anyway - after your dance and such pops up on the screen - next thing you know five Dallas players are injured including the man whose career you're now poisoning.

Look I do NOT CARE if he says he wants you to be at the game, hurt him to help him. Give him a kiss goodbye when he leaves for the stadium and tell him you won't miss a single play - while you watch your stupidly huge flat screen that Nick probably installed for you.

Bake him brownies and put him in his bag... leave kisses and secrets on his cell phone... text him on his way to the stadium - but for the LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY - stay the heck away from any place where your statiscally impossible measurements can appear on any screen that will be beamed into the gaming arena OR put on television.

Today it was a busted thumb and causing him to throw the pass behind nearly every receiver on the field. Look just because you may enjoy catching passes thrown behind you doesn't mean that the 'BOYS can survive doing the same thing.

In fact today's game was all the evidenciary proof one needs to recognize that the further you stay away from him in the actual act of playing the game - the better off everyone will be.

My own Lovely Bride predicted the 'BOYS demise because of your sudden emergence onto the field, into the discussion of the Joe Buck/Troy Aikman broadcast, and the in stadium Jumbo-Tron.

And understand - we're not saying this to be mean. We wish you and Tony all the new romance bliss the two of can take. Just take it in Hawaii during the Pro-Bowl - NOT in even ONE MORE game that matters this season.

You seem like a nice girl, who used to have some singing talent, still searching for your direction in your acting career - and we wish you all the best on your endeavors. In fact... why don't you head back to Malibu and read scripts until say the middle of February. Maybe you'll have actually completed one or two by then...

Just kiddin' girl - you know we love you.

But we do need to tell you this - if you even think about showing up to Texas Stadium or any other arena Mr. Romo may be playing in for the rest of this regular and playoff seasons? Well, we will be forced to drag you by your gold locks all the way back to the beach... And as best I can tell that's several hundred miles in every direction.

Plus we may poison your cat, deflate your tires, and write "I killed my boyfriend's shot at the Super Bowl" across your forehead with a Sharpie while you sleep.

Get the picture?

Sincerely,
The Entire Fan Base of the Dallas Cowboys

The Family Research Council's President Dr. Tony Perkins is not endorsing a candidate in the 2008 GOP Primary race, but he is sounding off on the fundamental unfair double standard some candidate's campaigns and by extension talk show host surrogates have attempted to apply to other candidates:

Over the weekend I had flashbacks of the brutal judicial confirmation hearings that took place between 2003 and 2005 where certain nominees like William Pryor, Janice Rogers Brown, Charles Pickering, and others were filibustered by the Democratic minority because of what Sen. Charles Schumer called their "deeply held personal beliefs." Those "beliefs" were the religious convictions that led them in part to hold a position that abortion was wrong. There was a reverse religious litmus test applied. A subtle message was being sent that a person had to choose between an active, life-impacting faith and public service. It was wrong then and it is wrong now as it is being applied to Mike Huckabee. Let me preface what I am about to say by first recalling what I wrote last week (Dec. 3, 2007) explaining why I had not endorsed a presidential candidate and at present have no plans to do so. I remain undecided and what I say below does not imply a change in those plans; however, I feel compelled to rise to the defense of Mike Huckabee.

The media had been toying with and even promoting Mike Huckabee, thinking he would go nowhere; however, after FRC Action's Values Voter Summit he began a steady rise in the polls. In my opinion it was not because he finished a close second in the straw poll to Mitt Romney, but because he came out for the first time at our event, co-hosted by Focus on the Family Action and others and spoke unabashedly and unequivocally conservative on all the core social issues. He began to compete for territory that had been ceded to Gov. Romney. That message has resonated and he has not only climbed to first place in Iowa, but nationally he is second only to Rudy Giuliani in the most current polls. There is apparently fear now among the elites that his rise could be real and not a creation of the media.

Enter the reverse religious test that is being applied. In various settings over the last few days Huckabee has been confronted with articles from nearly a decade ago containing statements on the morality of issues like HIV-AIDS, homosexuality and even the need for spiritual awakening in America. He was basically asked to recant. I am pleased to say that he did not recant.

This morning, for example, the lead story on Drudge was a 1998 article from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporting on a speech that Huckabee gave at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptists calling on the church to wake up following a rash of school shootings. The Drudge headline touted, "Take this nation back for Christ," a subtle but clear warning to secular elites. Columnist Richard Cohen wasn't as subtle last week when he said Huckabee is climbing in the polls because of "his obdurate and narrow-minded religious beliefs."

There is clearly a reverse religious standard being applied to Mike Huckabee, a standard that says there will be no defining religious beliefs. I would hope the other candidates, including the Democrats, would clearly and absolutely denounce this reverse religious test and keep the media from going further down this path. If not, I predict that bible-believing Christians will step over policy differences they have with Mike Huckabee to stand by and support a candidate who is being attacked because he believes, as they do, that their Christian faith should actually impact the way they live. If that happens, the recent meteoric rise of the Huckabee campaign in the polls could look minuscule compared to the tsunami of support that he will get from Christians who are tired of the elites who belittle their beliefs and attempt to rob them of every public reflection of their faith.

"Unstoppable!"
4-0 for the first time since 1995!

(...they won it all that year...)

Steps down...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tony Snow, the highly visible White House press secretary, will leave his job on Sept. 14 and be replaced by his deputy, Dana Perino, an administration official said Friday. President Bush was to announce the changes during an appearance in the White House briefing room.

Snow, ailing with cancer, had said recently he would leave before the end of Bush's presidency. The father of three children, Snow said he needs to make more than his White House salary of $168,000. He could earn far more money on the speechmaking circuit.

The 52-year-old Snow was a conservative pundit and syndicated talk- show host on Fox News Radio before he was named press secretary on April 26, 2006. He is the latest in a string of White House officials to head for the exits.

Friday was the last day of work for political strategist Karl Rove. Others who have left since Democrats won control of Congress are counselor Dan Bartlett, chief White House attorney Harriet Miers, budget director Rob Portman, political director Sara Taylor, deputy national security adviser J.D. Crouch and Meghan O'Sullivan, another deputy national security adviser who worked on Iraq.

In 2005, Snow had his colon removed and underwent six months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer. This March, he underwent surgery to remove a growth in his abdominal area, near the site of the original colon cancer.

Doctors determined it was a recurrence of his cancer. He was out of work for five weeks, then returned and underwent chemotherapy, treatments that only recently concluded and have left him thinner, grayer and with less hair.