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A Response To Ben Bernanke's 'Misunderstanding' About The Gold Standard (GLD, SLV, IAU, SGOL)
The Daily Capitalist: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has been giving a series of lectures on the Fed to students at George Washington University. They are available as videos for our enjoyment (see links, below). In his first lecture, Mr. Bernanke discussed various reasons why a gold standard would not work and why in the past it has caused many of our economic problems. We at the Daily Capitalist have a fondness for the gold standard and take umbrage and exception to Mr. Bernanke's 'misunderstanding' of the gold standard and history. We have asked one of our resident experts, Keith Weiner to respond to Mr. Bernanke, as politely as Keith could be.
Dear Chairman Bernanke: You have publicly gone on record with some off-the-wall assertions about the gold standard. What made you think you could get away with it? Your best strategy would have been to ignore gold. Although I concede that with the endgame of the regime of irredeemable paper money near, you might not be able to pretend that people aren't talking and thinking about gold. You can't win, Mr. Chairman. In this letter I will address your claims and explain your errors. I hope you enjoy it.
Before I get into your specious claims, I want to point out two of important facts. First, the gold standard exists when people are free to choose what they wish to use for money. Gold has won this market competition over thousands of years. When people are not forced to use government-issued scrip they choose gold. And, Mr. Bernanke, the shabby little secret of your irredeemable paper money is that you have a money monopoly (legal tender laws) and can force creditors to accept it. Why won't you let people be "free to choose"?
Second, central planning does not work. The Politburo in the since-collapsed Soviet Union did not know how many shoes to make of what sizes. And you don't know what rate of interest to set. Central planning has always led to the collapse of the specialization of labor and the economy with it, to the degree that it is attempted. The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the USA, is the central planner for money, credit, interest, and discount. Given the importance of money to every single aspect of the economy, it is no exaggeration to say that there is no such thing as a free market built on top of a centrally planned monetary system.
In your speech at George Washington University, you made the following claims:
1. The gold standard hasn't really worked since the end of WWI.
2. To have a gold standard, you have to go dig up gold in South Africa and put it in a basement in New York. It's nonsensical.
3. The gold standard links the currencies of every country, causing policy in one country to transmit to another. So for example, if the UK fixes the number of pounds to an ounce of gold, and the U.S. fixes the number of dollars to an ounce of gold, then the pound and the U.S. dollar inadvertently become linked.
4. It creates deflation, as William Jennings Bryan noted. The meaning of the "cross of gold" speech: Because farmers had debts fixed in gold, loss of pricing power in commodities killed them.
5. The gold standard tends to cause interest rates to rise during downturns and interest rates to fall during good times, the exact opposite of what monetary policy should be doing.
6. The economy was far more volatile under the gold standard.
7. The only way the gold standard works is if people are convinced that the central bank ONLY cares about maintaining the gold standard. The moment there's a hint of another priority (like falling unemployment) it all falls apart.
8. Gold standards leave central banks open to speculative runs, since they usually don't hold all the gold.
9. The gold standard is based on the "desire to maintain the value of the dollar"—implying a "desire to have very low price stability."
10. The gold standard is based on an aversion to allowing the central bank to respond with monetary policy to booms and busts, and a desire not to give the central bank that power.
11. There's simply not "enough" gold.
12. The commitment to the gold standard is that no matter how bad the economy gets, we're going to stick to the gold standard.
13. The gold standard was one of the main reasons the Great Depression was so bad and so long.
I will discuss your assertions in order.
1. The gold standard hasn't really worked since the end of WWI.
This is true. Just prior to Christmas in 1913 (which, by the way, is before the beginning of the war) the Federal Reserve Act was passed into law. Ever since, the Fed has taken for itself and been granted more and more power to try to centrally plan money and credit. You and your predecessors have been in power for a century, but this fact is in no way an argument against the gold standard.
2. To have a gold standard, you have to go dig up gold in South Africa and put it in a basement in New York. It's nonsensical.
The fact is that for thousands of years, people have been digging gold up and putting it in basements. To call the behavior of so many people over so many years "nonsense" is arrogant. A free country has room for arrogant men, but no place for arrogant men to back their whims with the force of government power. From 1933 until 1975, one could be imprisoned for the "crime" of possessing gold. This was part of FDR's scheme to centrally plan the economy. To this day, it is not legal for a creditor to demand payment in gold. If you are so confident that you are right and all that good men should be happy that you print dollars at your discretion, can we agree on an experiment? Let's repeal the laws that force creditors to accept paper, and the laws that nullify gold clauses in contracts, and the taxes on the "gains" in gold, and the laws that force taxpayers to use dollars as their unit of account for bookkeeping purposes, and see what people choose when the gun is not compelling them. I would wager one ounce of good gold against a frayed old dollar bill that people will choose gold if you let them.
3. The gold standard links the currencies of every country, causing policy in one country to transmit to another. So for example, if the U.K. fixes the number of pounds to an ounce of gold, and the U.S. fixes the number of dollars to an ounce of gold, then the pound and the U.S. dollar inadvertently become linked.
Actually, Mr. Chairman, you are describing the gold exchange standard that prevailed from the treaty at Bretton Woods until it collapsed in 1971 with Nixon's default. This isn't the gold standard. The choice is not between price fixing vs. excluding gold altogether. The choice is between the freedom for people to choose gold vs. your 'smart and efficient' central planning.
4. It creates deflation, as William Jennings Bryan noted. The meaning of the "cross of gold" speech: Because farmers had debts fixed in gold, loss of pricing power in commodities killed them.
The Coinage Act of 1792 fixed the price of silver in terms of gold at (15:1). Like every instance of laws that attempt to interfere with the markets, this provision was an unmitigated disaster. Whichever metal is officially valued at less than its market value will be pulled out of circulation and sent elsewhere for its market price. Whichever metal is overvalued will be imported from every corner of the earth and come flooding into the country.
In 1873, the government was ready to open the US Mint again. But when they wrote the list of which coins the Mint was authorized to coin, they somehow "forgot" to include the one ounce silver coin. Silver was demonetized. I am sure it had nothing to do with lust for power by the good men who ran the government, nor with any lobbying that might have occurred around that time. This was dubbed the "Crime of '73".
Demonetizing silver destroyed enormous amounts of capital. Just imagine the farmer, to use your example, who has been working hard and saving all his life. And then the government, in callous and cavalier fashion, passes a law that destroys the value of his savings. This is the power of central planning: to sit in an office in Washington, taking into account the planners' whims, pet theories, and the desires of lobbyists, and casually dispose of the income and wealth of the people without their consent. One would think, Mr. Chairman, that this has more to do with power rather than monetary soundness.
5. The gold standard tends to cause interest rates to rise during downturns and interest rates to fall during good times, the exact opposite of what monetary policy should be doing.
Mr. Chairman, this is exactly what the economy needs to recover. ZIRP has only delayed recovery, consumed more capital, and discouraged savings.
The Fed has pushed interest rates down to zero on the short end. This has achieved nothing good, and yet you are unwilling to consider that just maybe this theory is wrong. Your ZIRP policy has shown to be ineffective at stimulating the economy.
The original promise of the central bank was that it would prevent recessions and depressions. As recently as the "Great Moderation" which abruptly ended in 2001, the myth that the Fed could do this was widely believed. But instead we have seen more frequent and much larger downturns (such as the one which began in 2008). Instead of preventing downturns, the Fed is causing downturns.
Let us look at the cause of these downturns. At first the Fed (or any central bank) encourages credit expansion by various means. Then bond speculators (who did not exist under the gold standard) jump onto the bandwagon and the result is that interest rates have fallen for more than 30 years in a row. Why does this happen?
During this long period much credit is created by member banks. This credit is, in effect, counterfeit. This fiat credit, credit not based on real savings, allows the borrower to acquire assets with "money" based on … nothing. Savers who deposit money with such banks have no idea that their demand deposits are being lent out or that their time deposits are lent for a term longer than the term of their certificates of deposit (such as anyone who deposits in a bank nowadays). Also it occurs when the borrower lacks either the means or intent to repay (such as the government, or many bond issuers and banks). Sooner or later, the game is up. Further borrowing can no longer keep current on the interest payments. Not even by "rolling" the debt. As an aside, Mr. Chairman, here is another dirty secret of the irredeemable currency: there is no way for any debt, ever, to be repaid; it only moves from one debtor to another and ultimately ends up at the Fed or the Treasury.
When this mountain of fake credit and fiat money eventually collapses we have what you call a "downturn". Every such boom always has a bust. This is the painful process of writing off bad loans. Capital has been destroyed, and everyone who made bad loans must write them off. You are correct to note that interest rates rise as a result. Capital is far more scarce than people believed during the boom.
6. The economy was far more volatile under the gold standard.
Mr. Chairman, I don't think even you really believe this, so I will not comment further except to note that the 1929 crash occurred under the tender ministrations and brilliant central planning of the Fed.
7. The only way the gold standard works is if people are convinced that the central bank ONLY cares about maintaining the gold standard. The moment there's a hint of another priority (like falling unemployment) it all falls apart.
8. Gold standards leave central banks open to speculative runs, since they usually don't hold all the gold.
A gold standard is what occurs when there is no central bank. You somehow assume that it is the Fed's role to centrally plan gold. That doesn't work. If the Fed did do this, then, yes, based on the Fed's history of mismanagement, it would be subject to runs.
9. The gold standard is based on the "desire to maintain the value of the dollar"—implying a "desire to have very low price stability."
The gold standard is about many things. But, Mr. Chairman, your statement reveals a profound misunderstanding of the gold standard. First of all, to hear you speak about the "maintaining the value of the dollar, is interesting since it has lost about 98% of its value in the 100 years since your organization began centrally planning. Second, under gold, prices do not remain constant. That kind of stasis is neither possible nor desirable. Prices, and more importantly changes in prices, signal to consumers and entrepreneurs what is scarce and what is in demand. What remains stable under a gold standard is the rate of interest.
Yet under the Fed's careful designs, interest rates have been massively unstable. As recently as 30 years ago, the rate on the 10-year US Treasury was almost 16%. Today it is 2.2%, having recently hit a low under 1.8% (and this rise of more than 22% in a short period of time is both staggering and revealing). Volatile interest rates brought about by Fed policies cause enormous destruction to industry. It makes it difficult for businesses to plan for growth. Under the Fed's guidance, neither prices nor interest rates have been stable.
10. The gold standard is based on an aversion to allowing the central bank to respond with monetary policy to booms and busts, and a desire not to give the central bank that power.
Here you are correct, Mr. Chairman. You should not have that power. No one should have that power. A brilliant author by the name of JRR Tolkien wrote a story about power, The Lord of the Rings . That power that you believe is essential to prevent booms and busts is the central problem: the Fed creates booms and busts. It's hard to take off that ring, Mr. Bernanke.
11. There's simply not "enough" gold
How much gold do you think there is, Mr. Chairman? How much gold do you think a gold standard would need? You don't know either number, of course. This canard is illogical on its face. It is like saying, "what should prices be?" Prices will be what the market decides them to be. What you are really talking about are prices based on today's depreciating Federal Reserve Notes. Here is the rule: prices will adjust to whatever level the market determines based on the supply of and demand for gold. Problem solved.
12. The commitment to the gold standard is that no matter how bad the economy gets, we're going to stick to the gold standard.
This is an interesting logical fallacy. You are lumping together commitment to gold with bad economy. This called "begging the question". You are presuming what you ought to be asking.
13. The gold standard was one of the main reasons the Great Depression was so bad and so long.
This is an astounding yet common argument against gold, which amounts to "curve fitting" to match a desired outcome (denigrating the gold standard). It is a false argument based on false history. If you wish to understand the Great Depression, this article written by a great scholar, Hans Sennholz, is a good start.
I distinctly remember you saying that the main cause of the Depression was the Fed's mistaken monetary policy. This Monetarist view propounded by Milton Friedman says that the Fed could have avoided the Depression by increasing the money supply to counter a shrinking money supply. If it were only so simple. Of course this was the policy you advocated and implemented to prevent the Great Recession that still plagues us, as you often note. So now are you changing your position on this and blaming the Great Depression on the gold standard?
The causes of the Great Depression were complex and varied, but two themes run through it: the Fed's policies before and after the Crash of '29, and the government's interference in the economy. As a reputed scholar of the Great Depression, you should be aware of these causes and think independently rather than blindly follow myths about the Great Depression.
Mr. Chairman, I am convinced that the regime of irredeemable paper money and hence the Fed is going to come to a sudden and catastrophic end. Please see my paper entitled "Gold Bonds: Averting Financial Armageddon". One way or another the power of the Fed will end and I would prefer that it end without ending Western civilization. Recall my earlier statement about capital being rare and precious? Your policies are helping accelerate an unprecedented destruction of capital. When the capital is gone the game will be up.
I would like to avoid plunging into a new Dark Age. Can we agree at least on this, Mr. Bernanke?
I hope to hear from you soon.
Very truly yours,
Keith Weiner
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On a recent trip to the great state of Ohio, I decided to leave behind a couple of gifts for the locals. Enjoy!
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Entering the third week of the season, 32 teams remain undefeated. Six contests pit unbeaten Utah prep squads, all with 2-0 records: Westlake at Corner Canyon; Salem Hills at Juab; Beaver at Parowan; Jordan at Pleasant Grove; Cedar at Skyline; and Uintah at Union.
In games involving unbeaten Utah team against out-of-state foes, Bingham (2-0) travels to Las Vegas' Bishop Gorman (2-0), the top-ranked team by USA Today, while Desert Hills (2-0) hosts Legacy (North Las Vegas) in the Longhorns' season opener.
Five more games match 10 of the remaining 31 winless squads: Box Elder at Bear River; Delta at Emery; North Sanpete at Maple Mountain; Altamont at Milford; and Diamond Ranch at Whitehorse.
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Parowan began the 2013 and 2010 seasons at 2-0, but with a home win over Beaver, will be 3-0 for the first time since 2001 ... Provo started 2011 with a 2-0 record, but will see 3-0 for the first time since 1991 by defeating Mountain View.
Enterprise pitched consecutive shutouts for the first time since 2010. The only other time the Wolves opened the season with back-to-back whitewashes came in 2003 when Enterprise advanced to the Class 1A finals.
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A list at the end of this week's column gives the best-ever start for each school currently playing football.
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Just three first-year coaches remain undefeated after two weeks: Jan Jorgensen at Carbon; Justin Thompson at Skyline; and Erik Thorson at Richfield. Tony McGeary, also 2-0, is new at Provo, but coached five seasons at Lone Peak from 2008-12.
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So far, Utah teams have compiled a respectable 9-6 record against out-of-state opponents, including Timpview's impressive 42-28 victory over San Diego-area power Mission Hills. Utah vs. The Nation continues with six more games this week, highlighted by the aforementioned Bingham at Bishop Gorman match and East at 2-0 Valor Christian (Highlands Ranch, Colorado).
After losing at home to Bingham last year, VC captured 12 straight and successfully defended its Colorado 5A (largest class) state crown.
MaxPreps ranks Valor Christian No. 1 in Colorado and 24th in the nation and places East 558th nationally this week.
After Duchesne's 48-game winning streak was snapped by North Summit, the Eagles aim to regroup against much-improved Carbon. Perhaps Duchesne can take some solace in knowing it wasn't alone last week. Regina (Iowa), which shared the nation's longest winning streak at 56 games, lost as well.
Bingham now has the longest current streak in Utah at 16 games, followed by Timpview, 14, and Desert Hills, eight. The 29 teams with 2-0 records follow them.
Meanwhile, Ben Lomond has dropped 22 consecutive contests, while Payson has lost 11 straight and Altamont has dropped nine in a row.
Rivalry games
Box Elder visits Bear River in the state's longest-running uninterrupted rivalry, which began in 1923. The rivalry is tied for the third most-played series overall. Going into the 94th meeting, Box Elder owns a 66-25-2 advantage. Since 1959, the winner has carried home the Golden Spike.
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Hundreds Pitch In On Parsons Ave. Clean Up | WBNS-10TV, Central Ohi...
There are 52 comments on the 10TV WBNS story from May 15, 2010, titled Hundreds Pitch In On Parsons Ave. Clean Up | WBNS-10TV, Central Ohi.... In it, 10TV WBNS reports that:Hundreds of people spent Saturday pitching in on Parsons Avenue, hoping to revitalize an area known as the gateway to the city's south side.
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#1 May 15, 2010
Good luck with that! I think it's great they want to clean up the area. However, it will not clean up the crime in that area committed by thugs. They don't care if you clean up the area or not. If they want drugs and gunfire, they will continue to do it. Be truthful, even though they cleaned up the area, would you move there?
#2 May 15, 2010
clean up the drugs and then someone might move here, the south end is the pits, parsons has been a hot bed for drugs and prostitution for decades, thats the only reason any one goes down parsons
#3 May 15, 2010
no business man or woman wants to open a business on the south side, i dont see them lining up, do you mayor.
#4 May 15, 2010
Parsons Ave. has been the pig sty of Columbus for way to long to think that you can revitalize it without a bulldozer. Sorry grew up there it SUCKS!!!
#5 May 15, 2010
I think this is really cool- will the video be put online- I want to show someone who misssed it. It is great to see two good causes as the top stories for a change :)
#6 May 15, 2010
Just drove down Parsons Ave.You volunteers did a very nice job.Would be nice if it would stay this way.Thanks for your help.
#7 May 15, 2010
True that there are a few areas that are a hot mess but by cleaning up Parsons is a step in the right direction.
Transformation will take baby steps, and cleaning up Parsons is the first step, and it sends a very clear message that poor behavior will not be tolerated and there is now a GREATER FOCUS on Parsons and other neighorhoods on the Southside. Take my word for it, they are being watched!
#8 May 15, 2010
We take Pride in where we live and Parsons Avenue is not the ghetto as everyone seems to think it is. We work very hard all year long to maintain a safe, clean neighborhood for our residents and visitors...Pride on Parsons is a great step to add to what we are already doing! Thanks everyone for all the great, hard work that was put forth today!
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#9 May 15, 2010
Awesome job, volunteers! Thank you for working to make a difference!!!
#10 May 15, 2010
You are very wrong...we have a lot of NEW businesses coming to Parsons...The negativity that you put out here is the problem...not the solution...get a clue!
#11 May 15, 2010
Why sre you so negative? You must be one of the dealers or prostitutes that we are trying to run out of here...Get a life...If you don't like the South Side then don't come down here only to complain...We live here and we love it!
#12 May 15, 2010
Pride thats what it takes. Keep on going and tell the nay sayers to jump off a bridge.
#14 May 15, 2010
Just getting people to pay attention is something. The only way my neighbors would pay attention to their community is if you put it on television.
I would do that if we had Public Access.
#15 May 15, 2010
hey stephanie, good luck, you just dont want the truth, go to autozone and watch the hood rats creep out of the cracks to see if they can roll you, business can come but will customers come when this happens everytime they want to get something from one of those business.payday loans and thrift store arent needed nor used junk furnituer,get things people really need and get serious by busting the balls on the punk #ss hood rats.only then when theyre ran out will things get better.
#16 May 15, 2010
I remember when folks used to talk like that about the Short North.
#19 May 15, 2010
I think this is great! If you keep up with the area businesses will continue to open and people will move in. German Village is just a few blocks west. Great job today everyone! Columbus inner city is making a comeback!!
#20 May 15, 2010
went great let's keep it this way
way to go all that helped
#22 May 15, 2010
Today is a good start to help the community. Just having someone care enough for the area, is a morale booster for the residents. Great job!!
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#24 May 15, 2010
Good job to all involved in the clean up of the area! It is a positive step in the right direction,More events like this needed to get members of the area to work at reclaiming their community and driving the Drugs,Thugs and Whores who drive out the good people away.It is a good way to get the people to comunicate and act as a community.If they just give up who wins?The area has alot of potential if the people who live in the area band together and do positive things toward a common goal to create a good and vital neighborhood as it was in the past.Good start,keep it going!!
#25 May 16, 2010
I bet Mayor Coleman was not there.
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Tony Law (born 20 September 1969) is a Canadian stand-up comedian. Originally from Lacombe, Alberta, he has been based in London, United Kingdom since the age of 18. He lives in Islington with his family.
He is known for his highly surreal material and delivery, and eclectic historical style of dress, favouring boots with turned-up jeans and a Viking/explorer style of hair. Many of his stand-up routines are ad-lib and built around various subjects that he has thought of, but not planned a routine about. His routines are often built around fictional and surreal situations.
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Law was born on 20 September 1969 in Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. He described his younger self as a "dickhead".[1]
A lot of Law's material features tales of his time-travelling exploits in the company of his sausage dog, Cartridge Davison. Cartridge is the eponymous "Dog Of Time" from his Edinburgh show of the same name, and has appeared with Law on ITV's Comedy Cuts TV show.
In 2002 he was a regular panellist on the Channel 4 comedy quiz show Does Doug Know?. He also appeared in a series of television adverts for Gala Bingo and has had TV exposure on Edinburgh & Beyond and Comedy Cuts.
Law performed on Russell Howard's Good News in April 2011 as part of one of the extended episodes called Russell Howard's Good News Extra.[2] On 17 October 2011, he also appeared on the satirical music-based panel game Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
In 2011–2012, he toured his comedy show Tony Law: Go Mr Tony Go!. In August 2012, Tony returned to the Edinburgh Fringe to perform his new show, Tony Law: Maximum Nonsense. The show was nominated for best comedy show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.[3]
He appeared on the BBC One show Have I Got News for You, a satire panel show, on 1 November 2013, hosted by Kirsty Young. In November 2012 he appeared on 8 Out of 10 Cats, and returned to that show on 8 February 2013.[4] In February–March 2013 he appeared in Comedy Central UK's The Alternative Comedy Experience. In 2014, the British Comedy Guide revealed that Law is set to appear in a BBC sitcom pilot entitled Tools.[5]
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- Maximum Nonsense (recorded 2013, released 2016) Download/DVD
- ^ "[HD] 8 out of 10 Cats S15E04". YouTube. 2013-02-09. Retrieved 2015-03-05.
- ^ "Tony Law on Russell Howard's Good News : Videos 2011 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". Chortle. 2011-04-26. Retrieved 2015-03-05.
- ^ Tim Clark (2012-08-22). "Edinburgh Comedy Awards: Dr Brown, Josie Long, James Acaster, Tony Law, Claudia O'Doherty and Pappys nominated". Such Small Portions. Retrieved 2015-03-05.
- ^ "8 out 10 Cats Episode Guide". Epguides.com. Retrieved 2015-03-05.
- ^ "Tools - Pilot - British Comedy Guide". Comedy.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-03-05.


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IRVING - The last time the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans squared off, it was quite a shindig.
The Texans made their NFL debut that night in a game Houstonians had anticipated for years, ever since the Oilers packed up and left. The game received a marquee spot on the NFL schedule, and commissioner Paul Tagliabue showed up, even proclaiming it the "Texas Super Bowl" before kickoff.
And it turned out to be a game that neither club can forget.
For the Texans, getting off to a 1-0 start at the expense of their in-state rival remains their greatest accomplishment. For the Cowboys, losing to an expansion team making its debut remains the low point in their long, proud history.
Four years later, the teams finally meet again today at Texas Stadium. And while it would make for a nice story to say Dallas is eager to avenge the 19-10 loss in the 2002 opener, it would hardly be true.
The Cowboys have only four players and two assistant coaches left who were part of that debacle. Plus, the big story has remained Dallas' loss at Philadelphia last weekend, overshadowing pretty much any talk of the Texans.
The rematch hasn't generated any of the hype the first one did. Beer companies haven't built ad campaigns about a "Battle of Texas," and the mayors haven't made a bet.
Heck, as of Wednesday, team owner Jerry Jones hadn't even told coach Bill Parcells anything about wanting to even up the series.
"But I'm sure he'll get around to it," Parcells said, unintentionally summing up the ho-hum attitude folks in Dallas have toward this, uh, rivalry.
Houston quarterback David Carr understands. The Cowboys (2-2) are the accomplished big brother and the Texans (1-3) are the baby brother trying to make a name for themselves. He even threw out the fact there are probably more Cowboys fans living in Houston than there are Texans fans in Dallas.
"I mean, how many championships have they won compared to how many we've won?" Carr said. "We definitely have some catching up to do."
Carr earned a spot in Houston sports lore by knocking off the Cowboys four years ago. Yet as much as he loves talking about that night, it's become a bittersweet memory.
After all, the Texans have won only 18 of 67 games since.
"To have to look back at a game four years ago to have to get excited about something is pretty disappointing," he said.
Houston is coming off a win, its first under new coach Gary Kubiak, and a bye. Carr arrives as the NFL's top-rated passer, his numbers boosted by a 73 percent completion rate and the fact that he's throwing to Andre Johnson (410 yards, 30 catches, two touchdowns).
The duo's success comes as little surprise to two observers in the Cowboys organization: cornerback Aaron Glenn and quarterbacks coach Chris Palmer.
Glenn was with the Texans from 2002-04, then joined the Cowboys last season. He's remained close friends with many of his former teammates, including Carr and Johnson. Glenn was told several Houston players got together last week to watch the Cowboys-Eagles game.
"Those guys pull for us as a team to win when they are not playing against us," Glenn said.
Palmer was Houston's offensive coordinator from Day 1 until he was fired during last season. He joined the Cowboys this season, working with Parcells and quarterback Drew Bledsoe, as he did a decade ago in New England.
Dallas needs Bledsoe to bounce back strong today after the loss at Philadelphia, starting with fewer turnovers - he threw three interceptions and lost a fumble against the Eagles, and was sacked seven times.
And, for sanity's sake, the Cowboys could use a few more completions to Terrell Owens.
T.O. is off to one of the worst starts of his career, prompting his complaints lsat week about not being used properly. If Dallas flubs another game, there's no telling what Owens might do.
Then again, if things go well and Owens ends his three-game scoring drought, there's still no telling what he might do. It would be his first touchdown at Texas Stadium as a member of the Cowboys, and could be his first truly worthy of a celebration; the other came when Dallas was trailing at Jacksonville.
While he remained tightlipped about any dance plans, he said he thought that a breakout game was on the horizon.
"I know it is," he said. "I know it is. I am just waiting."
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Line: Cowboys by 12
Facts: In case the Texans have their eyes on setting a record, the worst defense in league history belongs to the 1950 Colts at 450.2 yards a game. Houston is giving up 435 an outing. ... Dallas RB Julius Jones is tied for fifth in rushing yards at 388 and leads the league with a 97-yard average per game. ... Dallas QB Drew Bledsoe threw two interceptions inside the Eagles' 40 last week, his first two that deep in enemy territory this year. He's done so only three other times in his Dallas career. ... Houston QB David Carr continues to be the league's top-ranked passer (108.7 rating, 7 TDs, 2 INTs). After Week 5 last season, he was 28th.
Analysis: The Texans' defense, which shouldn't get too much credit for foiling Daunte Culpepper and Miami two weeks ago, likely will offer free passage for Terrell Owens and Terry Glenn. Even Bledsoe should find smooth going against a team that's giving up 295 yards per game through the air, almost 20 yards worse than any other team.
Forecast: Cowboys 34, Texans 17
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First-Grader Suspended Over Plastic Squirt Gun School District Says Policy Prohibits Exceptions
POSTED: 3:50 pm CDT September 19, 2006 UPDATED: 5:01 pm CDT September 19, 2006 Email This Story | Print This Story Sign Up for Breaking News Alerts KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A mother is angry that her first-grader was suspended from school over a plastic toy gun.
"I asked her, 'You're going to suspend my son for 10 days for this? He cannot harm a soul with this,'" said Danielle Womack, whose son, Tawann Caskey, was suspended from Milton Moore Elementary School.
KMBC's Natalie Moultrie reported that Tawann was suspended over a 2-inch plastic squirt gun.
"She told me it's a weapon, a little girl saw it and reported to a teacher that he had a weapon," Womack said.
According to Kansas City, Mo., School District policy, the squirt gun is a simulated weapon and a class IV, which is the most serious school offense. Moultrie reported that principals have no discretion in cases like Tawaan's. It is an automatic 10-day suspension.
"We ask our principals for safety of students and staff, and we do follow the code of conduct and do not give exceptions to Class IV offenses. We take it very seriously," the school district's Phyllis Budesheim said.
Moultrie reported that the incident will stay on Tawann's school record. But Womack said her son does not understand why he's not in school.
"I think this could have been resolved in a different way. It's wrong to bring it school, but come on, he's 6 years old. This would not hurt a soul," Womack said.
The school district said it is all policy -- one that the school told students and parents about at the start of the year.
"We regret that this happened. My feeling is that by not giving any exceptions, this young man will not bring a toy gun to school again," Budesheim said.
The school district said that the incident should be a reminder to parents to check their children's backpacks before they go to school.
Moultrie reported that Womack is waiting to state her case before a school district hearing Wednesday morning.
Yep, you are so right. They create the appearance of doing something, dare I say the illusion, and then when things go horribly wrong, they can shrug and say, "I had no choice - the rules didn't give any leeway" (I was only following orders - hmmm, where have I heard that before)...
Idiot. My feeling is that by suspending this first grader for 10 days, they've significantly decreased his chances of graduating from high school.
The KC school district is run by a bunch of idiots. And I mean that literally, not figuratively. I live in the KC suburbs on the Kansas side. That school district has to be the most screwed up school district in the nation.
.... move on Ken.
I'm having a hard time finding specifics, but this spokesperson, Dr. Phyllis Budesheim, appears to be "Executive Director for School Leadership", whatever the heck that is.
I bet we could use less of it.
Couldn't find contact info on the school system site.
Contacting her would probably be pretty useless, anyway. Going directly to the school board is typically the only way to get any traction, on things like this.
Exactly... everyone's gotta have their PC labels. Sadly, even some here believe he should be suspended for 10 days because *gasp* his last name is different than his moms (and does sound kinda ethnic donchayaknow).
What a world what a world.
That's it continue to appologize to the idiotic PC left. A class IV offense? Wrong to bring the piece of plastic to school? Calling the water pistol a "weapon"? Defend them if you want but I will never accept such behavior from school officials.
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I bet that'll get you a lower-level drone who reports to Phyllis.
This is nothing. A friend of mine had her daughter suspended from school for pointing an oak leaf at another kid on the playground and making sounds simulating the firing of a gun. One week under zero tolerance rules.
This has gotta stop. We cannot allow our children to be treated this way. This is inhuman.
Th school is focusing on the wrong dangers. I am unaware of any water pistols being used by terrorists. However they have attempted to use shoe bombs. So for school safety shouldn't we ban shoes? Oh and coats, pants, shirts, lingerie and boxers can all be used to conceal weapons. Safety first, ditch the clothes. And let's not forget the most recent foiled plot. Perhaps we should ban bringing toothpaste, hair gel, and other liquids to school. Come to think of it why the heck to students need scissors in class? Kind of sharp and pointy aren't they? Too dangerous for sure. Textbooks are heavy and pack quite a wallop. Do you want to be faced with angry students ready to bash you with their math books? I think not.
I think for school safety it is probably best that schools rethink their security policies. " Learn Naked" has the making of a good slogan that students can support.
You are made too many assumptions and gave the public school the benefit of the doubt. We really don't know that the mother came in at acted like a raging fool. I am certain this would have been the school's reaction no matter how the mother behaved. School administrators almost universally act like mind-numbed robots when it comes to these zero tolerance rules.
Actually, it sounds dumb more than on the surface. I live in the area, and there is a whole lot more wrong here than meets the eye.
For instance, I didn't catch it when I skimmed the article, but the first grader was made to sign the school's disciplinary form in the space reserved for the parent - before the mother arrived at school.
This whole situation reeks of idiotism on the part of the school district. The schools are "failing" in this district, meaning that they cannot meet their required metrics for actually teaching. So, ban all squirt guns! That should help the students learn better, right?
Sorry if I'm too sarcastic. I am simply fed up with idiots running the educational institutions across this country (and may God bless those few exceptions to that generalized comment).
When squirt guns are banned, only little squirts will own guns.
I think it's more a case of their lawyers not wanting to be sued by whiners for enforcing the rules in a discriminatory manner.
This is way it was so hard for me to resist choking educators when my oldest kids were in school. People in charge of teaching our children should at least be required to have common sense.
I would at least give 'ole Phyllis a good scare. :)
"It's official. We've become a nation of total pu**ies."
Anybody remember cap guns? I went to a Catholic School and all of us would play war in the wooded lots adjacent to the school during recess. The snapping and popping went on all the time and no one ever got hurt. Granted, this was 30 years ago ... yikes has it been that long?
Gosh, being young today must really suck!
It's not about safety, it's about stamping out the "gun culture".
Now a squirt gun can be a disruptive item, the same as a squirt bottle, and thus they probably should be controlled or even prohibited, but not at the level of a permanent entry on the kid's record, nor at the level of suspension for 10 days for a first violation.
Where are the parents when these asinine rules are being made?
Adoption, step-children, or foster children are three I come up with.Or mom got married/re-married after her son was born. Or took her maiden name back after a divorce.
When my niece was born her mom and he agreed that if she was a girl she would have mom's last name, a boy would have ours.
Actually in many cases they did take them to school. Either so they could hunt on the way to/from school, or to shoot at the school's gun range. They did not kill their classmates, teachers, staff, etc.
I think for school safety it is probably best that schools rethink their security policies. " Learn Naked" has the making of a good slogan that students can support.Perhaps not in high school, where all-day "biology lab" might result. >:o
The Russians and Chinese still use this dated system...
Might as well call it the Michael Moore Elementary School...
Kids need to learn the joys of full auto fire.
Aw, too cute!
These are the same schools that DON'T allow recitation of the Pledge of Allegence or flags in the classroom, and don't allow even private prayer.
I'm 48. I started carrying a knife to school when I was in the third grade. My classmates and I would stand around on the playground and see how far we could throw our knives and have them stick in the ground.
But at least we didn't bring 3 inch red water pistols to school!
Nope. I just searched for "garden hose" on Google images and looked for one with someone spraying the hose. That one caught my eye.
agreed........I could tell you stories that would just piss you right off...but I usually won every battle ( one teacher failed my youngest son just because he could, that is the only battle I lost )but in light of the circumstances involved, I did not punish my son. But I used the example to explain about petty beaurocrats and the little bit of power they hold. He is a hard core conservative now.
Zero Intelligence = PC Zero Tolerance .
Kansas City, Missouri run by liberal democrats.
This is part of leftist anti-firearm brainwashing. School kids are punished and humilated for even talking about or drawing a picture of a gun. The hope is that these kids will grow up and become gun control supporters.
What bad record? By the time the kid is in second grade, he'll be boasting about it!
It is like with my daughter. We still boast of how, on her first day in kindergarten, she was sent to the principal's office for beating up a boy that cut in line in front of her...she was smaller, but she jumped on him and pulled him to the ground in a headlock.
He should have brought in a condom. They would have made him "Pupil of the Month".
My father was in a gun club at his middle school in the 40s. They had a shooting range in the basement of the school. He walked to school every Tuesday with his shotgun, put it in his school locker until school was over for the day, then went to the basement for the club meeting and shoot.
How times have changed. That was in Chester, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia then, a murder capital of Pennsylvania today. Can you imagine any kid doing that in today's PC world ?
LOL on full auto.....
I'm about to be 48 and in my 6th grade summer school in KC we had a rifle range under our gym where we brought our dad's 22 and shot short 22 to learn gun safety and aiming. This was a private school called Pembroke Country Day.
True. Back in the early 80's, my brother and I used to hunt before school. We would leave the shotguns i the Vice Prinicpal's Office while school was in session , then bring 'em home ON THE BUS at the end of the day.
Oh and get ready for this......this happened in NEW FRICKIN JERSEY!
Times have certainly changed my friends!
Or the mother continued to use her maiden name after she was married. That's not all that uncommon these days.
Now, I suppose TECHNICLY a water pistol could be filled with something other than water...something noxious or even harmful.
Would a six year old do that? WAS it filled with anything??
Its always the same with these quivering administors and school boards. common sense goes out the window because they have a "policy". [spit]
Many school districts don't even allow in military recruiters because of their association to guns, and for other PC reasons...
There are some awfully realistic looking squirt guns out there do you want to put the schools in the business of deciding which are realistic enough to fool other children or staff? Realistic enough to be mistaken by security staff for the real thing? IMO, the most even-handed way to avoid such difficulties is to issue a blanket ban on any sort of object gunlike enough to pass muster as a squirt gun.
And then, there is also the issue of what's in the gun children do some pretty stupid things for reasons often unclear to the adult around them; if their child gets a squirt of bleach or insecticide in he face are most parent going to accept the explanation that boys will be boys or it's only a squirt-gun anyway?
Finally, there's the question of why any child should be in the possession of any object that's sole purpose in a school is to distract and disrupt.
As for the response having been something as serious as a 10 day suspension, how else do you otherwise intend to get the child and their parents to take such questions seriously?
We are attempting to to raise children to understand that actions have consequences, and an important part of this process is the develop the ability to understand what will be required of them as adults - and in the current climate of concern with workplace violence, a squirt gun - realistic replica or not - is not part of the job description, And using one even as a joke - will likely get you in deep trouble, if not summarily fired.
all the more reason to close public schools and give choice back to parents ...
Are you completely NUTS???
Stop abusing your child, lady. Get him out of government school. They will traumatize him into thinking his every playful impulse is some kind of crime against the state. They're making a good little comrade out of him one trauma at a time.
Yes. As short a time ago as the fifties and sixties. And possibley even the 70s and 80s in some quarters. Not everyone in the country reacts to the sight of gun with a neurotic emotional breakdown.
Or maybe not. Imagine seeing all your classmates nekkid since kindergarten through all of lifes little pleasures. Like the onset of projectile vomiting when someone gets the flu. And so forth and so on ...
"Biology lab" might not be so appealing having seen, heard and smelled the full range of the human condition throughout childhood in living naked color. (or pallor as the case may be.)
Just a thought. ; )
Yikes, a toy squirt gun? School has changed so much in the decade or so since my son was a first grader. I suppose if the young boy had a condom with him it would be ok, and a lesson in safe sex would be held...
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