http://www.pleonast.com/user/markroberts recent pleonast.com entries by user markroberts en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/markroberts?l=5&entryID=601797 Ohio State will go for FIVE IN A ROW against our enemies from The State Up North tomorrow. Michigan is down this year - at 3-8 this is the worst they have ever been. Their "go to a bowl game" streak of 33 years is done. no Michigan team has ever lost 8 games in the school's history. it's been a dreadful year for the Weasels and tomorrow it's just going to get worse. GO BUCKEYES! glitter-graphics.com 2008-11-21 http://www.pleonast.com/user/markroberts?l=5&entryID=601114 this clip is a tad long but worth watching ... ever seen THREE onside kicks recovered in a row? what Plano East did here was incredible ... and the game ended on an even more incredible moment... 2008-11-19 http://www.pleonast.com/user/markroberts?l=5&entryID=599965 "a guy that big isn't supposed to be able to do things like this" uh-mazing! 2008-11-16 http://www.pleonast.com/user/markroberts?l=5&entryID=599660 and didn't fill up because I figure it'll go down even more and I'll want to buy cheaper gas later. cheaper than a $1.85?! can you believe it? in June it was over $4.00 in some places in the nation, and in the high $3.80s around here. how low can it go? how great is this!? what's the lowest you've paid for gas? 2008-11-15 http://www.pleonast.com/user/markroberts?l=5&entryID=597211 My note: I think this well illustrates the stupidity of Darwinian evolution theory and it's fun to read. I didn't write it but it is definitely worth sharing ... M & M's Prove Darwin Right Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them breaks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round. I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world. Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invaria... 2008-11-08 http://www.pleonast.com/user/markroberts?l=5&entryID=596917 it's the last weekend of the regular high school football season here in Texas. for you who live outside of Texas high school football is so far ahead of everything else in importance in this state it's almost funny. no kidding - a jury in East Texas was sequestered for a big murder trial. they found out they weren't allowed out for the Friday night game and nearly mutinied. the judge relented and the 12 jurors were allowed to see the game under heavy escort. there just ain't much more important than Friday Night Lights! in the old days one team from each district made the playoffs. simple. now FOUR teams make it - and that leads to crazy tie breaker scenarios, like this one: "Rockwall needs to beat Greenville, have Carrollton Newman Smith beat Richardson Pearce by 14 or more, then win a coin-flip against Richardson Pearce." wow. their path to the playoffs is complicated but I say GO ROCKWALL! WIN THAT COIN FLIP! 2008-11-07 http://www.pleonast.com/user/markroberts?l=5&entryID=595624 in a few hours (or less) the national networks will confirm what many of us have known all along: the next President of the United States will be a Democrat. Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States. a few thoughts: * I am delighted that a black man will be President. I don't want to live in a country where the color of your skin determines what opportunities you can and cannot have. I hope to see a day when a black person or asian person or white person or whatever can win that office and it not even be mentioned. race has nothing to do with ability - let's vote on ability not color. there certainly are other black men I would rather have been the first black President but at least this barrier has been knocked down. * I will pray for Obama because the Bible instructs us to pray for all leaders, and ask everyone else to do the same. instead of running him down let's hope his evil policies are defeated and any good ideas he has can be utilized. may the Lord... 2008-11-05 http://www.pleonast.com/user/markroberts?l=5&entryID=593639 I come from the time when kids left as soon as it was beginning to be dark and trekked all over the neighborhood to get as much candy as possible. the only restriction was we couldn't eat anything unwrapped. Halloween was a joyous and amazing ocassion. here's my favorite memory. when I was a little kid my older brother consented (hmmmm...) to take me along with several of his friends. we trundled up to the door at one house and I still remember a kind old lady holding out a HUGE wooden bowl brimming with candy bars. there were about five of us boys trick or treating and everyone lunged for a candy bar all at once. someone hit edge of the bowl (not me - as the little kid I was in the back of the pack), it tilted perilously, and the candy bars emptied out smoothly ... into my brother's sack which he was just standing there holding. it was entirely unintentional (you couldn't have planned something like this) but now Chris had received an incredible blessing of chocolate bars and ... 2008-10-31 http://www.pleonast.com/user/markroberts?l=5&entryID=592151 Happy birthday to my favorite US President. He is unquestionably one of the finest Presidents we have ever had. Happy birthday Teddy! 2008-10-27 http://www.pleonast.com/user/markroberts?l=5&entryID=592044 Here’s a question I received recently: “As I understand the Koran, true Muslims (ones who live by the Koran) must do all they can to help destroy Christians. So, how can a Christian accept or trust them? What should be our attitude as Christians? I have had many Christians ask me this question, and I always tell them we are to love everyone.” Like everyone else I’ve received the emails with verses from the Koran (sometimes completely faked) that say every Muslim wants to kill every Christian today. What do we make of this? First, most people don't understand the Koran or its teachings - and thus should not be quoting it. The Koran is a complex poetic book that is very, very different from the Bible. And, as with any book, taking something out of its context is unfair. Imagine how we would react if a Muslim quoted Matt 10:34 to say Christians are war mongers: "Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword" We wou... 2008-10-27