You may have heard of Minnesota Fats, Indiana Jones, Carolina Steve,  The Florida Boys, Texas Pete.  They have nothing on Alabama Tim.

Alabama Tim is a Crimson Tide football fan and he needs help.  His is a bit delusional about how good his team is this year.  I would say the Tide would have a better chance if Tim was their offensive coordinator.  The offensive coordinator is problematic for the Tide this year and many Tide fans can already admit it.  Not so for Alabama Tim.  Please think about him this season.  It won’t be easy on Brother Tim this year.

There are too too too many little deer running around my environ to make me un-nervous.  I am already nervous.  This fall when they are a little bigger and hanging out with their older cousins and moms and dads, the majority of them will be attempting to make contact with my vehicle as I drive down the road.  I can feel it.  I have felt this way before.  It works that way.  To date I have hit five deer that have caused significant destruction to the vehicles I have hit them with.  My head will be on a swivel soon enough as I drive down the road.

In less than 48 hours I will be sitting here watching the Ole Miss Rebels play the Boise State Broncos in a game played in Atlanta, Georgia.  Nothing left to say about that.  Bring it on.

I wrote a post early in the speaktherights.com history of posts about a wonderful lady that made a huge impact on my life during a most impressionable time.  Vallerie King was a youth pastor at the church I attended as she was going to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  I hope she reads this.  I can report to all of you that I remember the date of her graduation…it was December 20, 1985.  I was not there.  I regret that.  At the church I now attend, we recently were blessed with a new pastor.  Her name is Pastor Jill.  The pastor she replaced was Pastor Jack.  Anyway, I have no problem with having a female pastor.  I am sure that there are some in the world of faith that probably don’t share this belief.  So be it.  They can go somewhere else….to church, that is.  Pastor Jill’s delivery so reminds me of listening to Vallerie when I was a teenager.  She is that good.  Our church is blessed to have her.

Education in this country is nothing like I was prepared for.  When I was in college to learn how to teach we were engrossed with teaching methodology…which has come in handy over the years.  We also…twenty years ago…spent quality time talking about diversity and multiculturalism and learning styles that have actually helped many of us take a thing called differentiated instruction by the horns and make progress with it.  What we were not prepared for is the T-Square political mentality that is driving kids off a contrived do this…do that…pass this test…and you too will become this…wooden plank that is not based on learning styles and diversity…or what kids want to do with their lives.  Politicians have only been able to screw this up because the kids aren’t old enough to vote.  Answer me this.  I hear all these stats about how low our test scores are compared to other countries.  If this is the case, then why are so many foreign students coming to America to go the college?

Right now I need some help.  Nothing a bag of low-fat Jollytime Kettle Corn and a diet ginger ale can’t take care of.

Hope all is well with you and yours.

Speaking the rights.

I think Justin Hayward and John Lodge would agree with me.

Danny Johnson