Favre leaving Green Bay

Whether or not reports of a trade to Tampa are true or not, it appears Favre is leaving town.

Channel 5 News has learned that a flight has been chartered from Austin Straubel Airport in Green Bay to Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

The plane is currently on standby at Dane County Regional Airport. The flight plan has the plane booked from Dane County to Austin Straubel in Green Bay, and then to Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  Manifest information regarding who is to be on that flight is not available. 

According to the Press-Gazette the flight was scheduled to leave shortly after 6pm tonight but that it has been pushed back.  Favre is instead planning to leave tomorrow morning.

All of this comes after the Packers told the NFL Favre isn’t practicing due to a non-football injury.

Adding yet another bizarre layer to the saga that is Brett Favre, the Green Bay Packers reported to the league office Tuesday that Favre is not practicing because of a non-football injury. Non-football injuries are those that occur in activities not sanctioned by the team, including offseason workouts away from the team facility.

That status, as well as physically unable to perform, is typically for players who fail their training camp physical. Players in that category still count against the active roster, and can begin practicing at any time until roster cut-downs when teams must decide whether to keep the player on the roster or place them on reserve. On reserve, the player cannot begin practicing until after the sixth week of the season.

Coach McCarthy alluded to an injury discovered during Favre’s physical that possibly led to the transaction.

McCarthy also said Favre had a lower abdominal strain and had he been at practice today, he would have been in rehabilitation to treat it. But then a business move was made, and Favre is not on the active roster.

That came during a lengthy post-practice press conference that centered all around Favre.  In that press conference McCarthy stated he felt Favre wasn’t in the right mindset.

“My whole purpose in talking with Brett, I thought it was an extremely healthy conversation. I thought it was a conversation that was brutally honest. … The one thing that I was looking for in that conversation was if that he was totally committed.

“His answer frankly was his mindset… that’s not where he was. With that we didn’t really move ahead. … He wasn’t in the right mindset to play here. … Here in Green Bay,” McCarthy later clarified. “He wants to play.”

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(Given the way he feels, are you better served to move on without him?)
Well, given his mindset, why would I let anybody of a negative mindset in our locker room? I don’t want to classify him as a negative mindset; it’s very personal. I’m talking about what we’re trying to accomplish. He is in a place right now that he has to make decisions for himself, so my whole goal with talking with Brett was, are your ready to come back and be the guy Thursday night? That’s one I said; ‘are you going to that guy Thursday night, when I leave my office, and I walk back by the quarterback room, and you’re in there studying film.’ That was a very good question for him. He’s in a tough spot right now. I don’t want to sit up here and keep expressing his feelings. He’s in a tough spot.

(Is his mindset not right for playing here or playing period?)
I would just say here in Green Bay. He wants to play. I told him that through the whole process, I did not think he was going to play this year. Just listening to all the conversation, the number of things that have happened between March all the way to this point, and that was one of the things, I said prove me wrong. Tell me I’m wrong, that you’re playing for all the right reasons. I thought he was playing, I thought he was extremely emotional. I thought his decision to play was emotional. He told me that was not the case, and I respect that. I told him over and over again, I would like to be wrong, but I never thought through this whole process that he was going to play this year, and if I’m wrong, then I’m wrong.

(Can he still change your mind?)
I don’t think so. I don’t think he’s in that place. We talked about a lot of things. We talked about a lot of things. We talked about him coaching high school football, we talked about a lot of things. This is something that has been very stressful for him. It’s been very stressful for his family. He feels the same way the Green Bay Packers do. He would like to resolve this as soon as possible.

This has dragged on for long enough and as a PACKERS fan first and foremost if Brett can’t get past what happen the last month or so then it is time for the Packers to move on without him. Like McCarthy said you can’t have negativity in the locker room. And McCarthy’s responsibility is to prepare this team for the upcoming season, not babysit Brett Favre and his feelings

Favre traded to Tampa Bay?

That’s the news being reported by SaveBrett.net.

The news media will soon be reporting that Brett Favre has been traded to Tampa Bay according to an exclusive SaveBrett.net source close to Favre.

The Journal-Sentinal points out this is the same site that first reported Brett was rejecting the personal services contract.

Indeed, the savebrett.net website, citing a source close to Favre, said it in fact the two sides have already agreed. This is the same website that has fought hard for Favre’s return to the team as the starter, and indeed was the first site to report last Friday that Favre was not considering the $20 million dollar deal to sit but would instead make his way back to Green Bay.

Apparently the damage of the last six weeks was too much to overcome.

House revolt Day 3

The House Republicans continued their uprising for a third day today. Here are some qoutes -

Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX):

“Nancy Pelosi might think she is the most important  person in the house…we know that the people are the most important…She cannot turn off the voice of the American people… who want more American energy.”

“We can’t wish it away that this is a carbon based economy… Dems try to sue it away… some say investigate… Republicans say lets try something else… that the people’s representatives be able to vote… We want an up or down vote.”

Rep. Ron Lewis (R-KY):

“The speaker flies in a 737 paid for by the people… I guess if you’re flying around in luxary you’re not too concerned about the people down below.”

“We cannot let one person say no to the American people.”

RSC Chairman Jeb Hensarling:

“Speaker Pelosi says that we need to “use our imagination” for her to allow a vote for more American energy. Well, I’ve got a wake-up call for her. Americans shouldn’t have to imagine their summer vacations, they should be able to take them. Americans shouldn’t have to imagine their commute to work, they should be able to afford it. And in the greatest deliberative body in history, the peoples’ Representatives shouldn’t have to imagine a vote for more American energy, they should have a right to it.”

Todd Russell Platts (R-PA)

“There’s a time for action and there’s a time for vacation. Now is the time for action.

“I’ve gone to see ANWR myself. Did you know that ANWR is 20 million acres large, of which 1.5 million was set aside for mineral exploration? We are only proposing to drill on 2,000 acres, which is 1/100th of 1% of the total size of ANWR.”

Mike Pence (R-IN)

“We just want Speaker Pelosi to call members of Congress back from their five week vacation for this vote. If you think you are not being heard, I want you to know you are. I am holding a 1,500 page stack of emails you sent me yesterday. Keep emailing your congressmen.”

TIM WALBERG (R-MI)

“For the past three weeks we have been pumping gas for my constituents. I have heard from normal people saying that we need to use our natural resources. We need to drill for oil, we need to use wind, we need to use solar, we need to use geothermal energy.”

“Seventy-six percent of the American people are saying get it done. Stop sending a $170 million-a-week check to Hugo Chavez.”

In addition there is a petition calling on Speaker Pelosi to call Congress back to deal with this issue. So far over 12,000 have signed.  Add your name today.

Josh rightly asks why Congressman Sensenbrenner (WI-05) isn’t in Washington.

I asked Sensenbrenner’s staffer if the congressman was on Capitol Hill standing with the brave House Republicans. “No, he’s back home in Wisconsin.” So he’s not there standing with the Republicans? “He’s in his district.” That’s what I wanted to know so we wished each other a nice day and hung up.

I know there are a lot conservatives in the Milwaukee metro area who are proud of the House GOP for protesting, but do the Republicans in the 5th Congressional District know that their representative isn’t part of the movement? Congressman Sensenbrenner probably hopped on a plane as soon as the House adjourned.

Maybe he’s standing with his colleagues in solidarity from afar, but a lot of the Wisconsin conservative base lives in his district and I’d be willing to bet they wanted their champion fighting for them in Washington this week.

According to the Republican Cloakroom, NONE of the Wisconsin House Republicans have participated to this point.  Perhaps conservatives need to be asking all three Wisconsin Republicans why that is.

Drill Here, Drill Now Tuesday- 8/5/08

This was started over at Wake Up America by Jessi in an attempt to get our supposed Representatives and Senators in Congress to WAKE UP to the problem of rising energy costs. It will continue every Tuesday until the allowing of more domestic drilling takes place.

My Gas Price (the Green Bay, WI metro area): $3.79/gallon for regular unleaded.

American needs to drill here drill now.  America is having a energy crisis and we need to do something now!

Urge Congress and pass a bill to drill in America, where the United States has vast oil and gas resources onshore and offshore that are currently illegal to develop and therefore inaccessible.

U.S. law prohibits the development of approximately 38 billion barrels of undeveloped oil resources (19 billion barrels onshore and 18.92 billion offshore).

U.S. law prohibits the development of approximately 180 trillion cubic feet of undeveloped natural gas resources (94.5 trillion cubic feet onshore and 85.7 trillion cubic feet offshore).

Also did you know that …

CONGRESS RECENTLY VOTED TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO DEVELOP U.S. OIL SHALE RESOURCES

With oil prices at an all-time high, Americans are facing escalating gas, diesel, and aircraft fuel increases. Oil prices are projected to increase further.

Congress, however, has made it illegal to develop vast domestic oil resources in large parts of the United States.

The most startling Congressional prohibition on domestic oil production concerns the recently enacted ban on the development of oil shale resources in parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in the Green River Formation. According to a Rand Study estimate, this reserve contains over one trillion barrels of oil, with 800 billion barrels fully recoverable, or three times the current oil reserves as Saudi Arabia.

I encourage you to sign the drill here, drill know petition if you haven’t already done so.

A perfect storm

H/T – Rev. Weedon

A perfect storm – that’s what gathered to cause the cancellation of “Issues, Etc.” The guys behind the mic have finally explained why those in charge at Synod HQ axed the show in March. Take a listen.

Scott over at Stand Firm cuts straight to the chase after listening the 41 minute Web Extra by Todd and Jeff.

They were basically told the show would get the axe last year by the General Manager at KFUO. The reason? Because Rev. Dr. Jerry Kieschnick, the President of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, would, after the 2007 Synodical Convention, have a majority on the Board of Directors and on the Board of Communication Services, spelling the doom of Issues, Etc.™ That doom of course, was very short-lived, and the Christ-centered Cross-focused program that is Issues, Etc.™ continues to proclaim and defend the Gospel to a fallen world.

As Rev. Cwirla points out this is confirmation of what was documented in the weeks following the cancellation.

Much of what Todd and Jeff are saying was accurately documented during the throes of the crisis at Save the LCMS! and Augsburg 1530.  A “perfect storm” of finances, politics, and theology.

The more important thing though is that the program is back on the air spreading that Christ-centered message to the world.