It looks like Eddy Curry will miss the rest of the season, joining Luol Deng. The Bulls have role players who can fill their roles adequately, but then who will fill the roles of the role-fillers?
Even if they could, it'd be difficult for the Bulls to bring in a player late into the season. Unlike football where you can hide amongst the other 21 players or baseball where there is no system to learn, you are on the hot seat once you step out onto an NBA court. You have to be familiar with your own team system as well as that of the opposing team.
The Bulls had a good chance of making it out of the first round of the playoffs if their youthful enthusiasm hid their inexperience. Now things look grim. But, hey, they have proven all of us wrong before, and I hope they do it again.
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Asking For It
On the potential of an age limit to enter the NBA:
"In the last two or three years, the rookie of the year has been a high school player. There were seven high school players in the All-Star Game, so why we even talking an age limit? As a black guy, you kind of think [race is] the reason why it's coming up.
You don't hear about it in baseball or hockey. To say you have to be 20, 21 to get in the league, it's unconstitutional. If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes?"
- Jermaine O'Neal, forward, Indiana Pacers
"But we live in America. Home of the free, land of opportunity. A country where they want to shift the age limit for someone to be able to make millions, but not the age limit to be able to die for it.
And just because the overwhelming majority of the people the new rule would affect are of one color ... well, in America, what's racist about that?"
- Scoop Jackson, ESPN Page 2
I agree with Jermaine and Scoop.
All of a sudden asking questions has made everyone nervous. People roll their eyes whenever issues of race are brought up like:
Didn't we solve that problem? Like, didn't we have get rid of slavery and have civil rights marches and all that?
Didn't OJ get off?
Just because you see a Black rapper on Tv doesn't mean Blacks are all of a sudden wealthy. (as Chris Rock said the men who write the checks are wealthy) In fact, it shows that, for many young Black men, the only legal way out of poverty is through music or sports.
Those of us who live relatively comfortable lives might tell these kids to go to college without actually picturing ourselves in their shoes, without contemplating what's considered being successful in America.
Images of bling-bling on TV aren't put there by Blacks.
Teenagers aren't being drafted into the NBA by Blacks.
The same people who complain that things need to be changed are the ones who started it and still benefit from it.
Does that make sense?
Don't ask me.
-CT
Full articles: "Why Can't O'Neal ask questions?" http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/050414
"Stern wants NBA age limit raised to 20"http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2035132
"In the last two or three years, the rookie of the year has been a high school player. There were seven high school players in the All-Star Game, so why we even talking an age limit? As a black guy, you kind of think [race is] the reason why it's coming up.
You don't hear about it in baseball or hockey. To say you have to be 20, 21 to get in the league, it's unconstitutional. If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes?"
- Jermaine O'Neal, forward, Indiana Pacers
"But we live in America. Home of the free, land of opportunity. A country where they want to shift the age limit for someone to be able to make millions, but not the age limit to be able to die for it.
And just because the overwhelming majority of the people the new rule would affect are of one color ... well, in America, what's racist about that?"
- Scoop Jackson, ESPN Page 2
I agree with Jermaine and Scoop.
All of a sudden asking questions has made everyone nervous. People roll their eyes whenever issues of race are brought up like:
Didn't we solve that problem? Like, didn't we have get rid of slavery and have civil rights marches and all that?
Didn't OJ get off?
Just because you see a Black rapper on Tv doesn't mean Blacks are all of a sudden wealthy. (as Chris Rock said the men who write the checks are wealthy) In fact, it shows that, for many young Black men, the only legal way out of poverty is through music or sports.
Those of us who live relatively comfortable lives might tell these kids to go to college without actually picturing ourselves in their shoes, without contemplating what's considered being successful in America.
Images of bling-bling on TV aren't put there by Blacks.
Teenagers aren't being drafted into the NBA by Blacks.
The same people who complain that things need to be changed are the ones who started it and still benefit from it.
Does that make sense?
Don't ask me.
-CT
Full articles: "Why Can't O'Neal ask questions?" http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/050414
"Stern wants NBA age limit raised to 20"http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2035132
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Liberal Depression & The Gay Media
I haven't been in the mood to write in my blog in a while. Frankly, I've been too depressed at how being a Republican or right-winger has been an excuse for inexcusable and immoral behaviour lately. Actually, it seems all manner of stupidity is being excused or, at worst, awarded.
How else can we explain Condoleeza Rice getting a promotion?
Or how "The Tsunami Song" was allowed to play on Hot 97 before being removed from the air?
Or how the "Sugartime" episode of Postcards from Buster gets pulled from the air by PBS?
Or that the We Are Family Foundation's video is thought to be "...manipulating and brainwashing kids."
All of this has got me all fired up enough to speak out.
Not that it would make a difference.
Yet for some strange reason I still have faith in humanity. There are still examples of hope and love throughout the world. It is incredibly hard to find these examples since it seems we are all so determined to hear bad news that that is all that is reported.
I'm not a psychologist, but I assume tragedy gives us that wonderful thing called "perspective" and reminds us that there are people worse off than us, so the more bad news the better. Happiness is an unwelcome stranger. The happier we are, the more paranoid we get, just waiting for the next tragedy to tear out joy from us.
Rarely do we fully enjoy this gift of life. We don't have to be alive and aware. But since we are, I figure we should take full advantage of it and not live in self-inflicted misery.
QUOTES - "Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode...Congress' and the Department's purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television,"
- Margaret Spellings, new Secretary of Education, in a letter to PBS president and CEO Pat Mitchell regarding the "Sugartime" episode of Postcards from Buster which features the children of two lesbian couples. Spellings also demanded that PBS return the $77,000 in taxpayer dollars used to produce the episode.
RESPONSE - If parents don't want their children exposed to the gay/lesbian lifestyle they can turn the channel. From what you're saying, you can make the argument that since there are parents who don't like the "black lifestyle", that all shows with Blacks should be banned. If this is a matter of "majority rules", then (assuming that the majority of parents find this inappropiate, which they don't) that would mean the majority is always right. History has proven that even in a democracy the voice of truth and reason is often a whisper.
QUOTES - "...sensitive in today's political climate." - PBS spokeswoman Lea Sloan said after PBS pulled the episode prior to Spellings letter.
RESPONSE - Is this a way of copping out? It sounds like what was said should go like this: "We can't broadcast any shows that have any hint of independent thinking because of a few radical evangelists and a Republican-run government."
QUOTES - "... You're taking a kid and what he loves to do most -- which is watch cartoons -- and you're introducing an adult topic which is inappropriate...It's extremely offensive that they would even consider doing this issue...They're teaching the acceptance of homosexuality to toddlers...People are sick of homosexuality being everywhere -- when they turn on the TV, when they open the newspaper...Everywhere you turn in the culture homosexuality is being promoted and celebrated and treated as if it's no big deal. The average American -- not just the average Christian -- but the average American is sick of it...They're trying to get kids used to the idea that having two moms or having two dads is normal, when actually it's very abnormal and it's very harmful to children...This is the liberals' way of indoctrinating our children -- all the while they lecture us about being intolerant and respecting diversity."
- Peter LaBarbera, executive director of the Illinois Family Institute, as told to Baptist Press.
RESPONSE - Wow. This guy is so determined to be evil and illogical that it almost doesn't make sense to comment on him.
But I will anyway.
I've seen homosexuality get labeled as an adult topic before. The problem is people like this see homosexuality as sex rather than a class of human relationship. What could even be more dangerous is that LaBarbera might be using the "adult" argument, knowing it has nothing to do with sex, as another PR weapon in a hate war against, in this case, homosexuals. Hate mongers have been known to try to use any angle necessary to get people on their side--if not the majority, then a powerful minority.
LeBarbera is also an empath, much like Deanna Troi of Star Trek. He seems to intuitively know that Americans really hate gays and lesbians. I'm not trying to pretend I know it all, but my general philosophy is any philosophy that's based on exclusion can be very dangerous.
QUOTES - "Our kids are targeted particularly in schools and in the media to adopt a worldview consistent with a group that we would vehemently disagree with...There are big stakes with cartoon characters because they have the power to define for a child what's real or what's acceptable or what's true." - Marc Fey, director of Christian worldview and education analyst at Focus on the Family, who called the Postcards episode an "insidious attempt" to teach children what many traditional parents would find unacceptable.
RESPONSE - Hmm...traditional parents, eh? Are these the same parents who are more likely, according to studies, to abuse their children mentally and physically? There are a ton of issues I could get into regarding "traditional" (white, Christian) parents, but I don't have the web space or the time.
The only way that cartoon characters have the power to warp reality and values for a child is if the cartoon characters are the parents. Even the children of TV Babysitter Parents (they sit their child in front of the TV rather than interact with them) have an idea of what's real. Depsite their parents, and despite what they might see on TV, children still might decide for themselves what is right or wrong when they grow up. Tricky business this child rearing is, huh?
SPONGEBOB GAY? http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=11140&cid=1&cname=Media
REALLY BAD TSUNAMI SONG http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050126/ap_en_ot/ny_tsunami_radio_suspensions_2
POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050128/ap_en_tv/parents_pbs_show_2
How else can we explain Condoleeza Rice getting a promotion?
Or how "The Tsunami Song" was allowed to play on Hot 97 before being removed from the air?
Or how the "Sugartime" episode of Postcards from Buster gets pulled from the air by PBS?
Or that the We Are Family Foundation's video is thought to be "...manipulating and brainwashing kids."
All of this has got me all fired up enough to speak out.
Not that it would make a difference.
Yet for some strange reason I still have faith in humanity. There are still examples of hope and love throughout the world. It is incredibly hard to find these examples since it seems we are all so determined to hear bad news that that is all that is reported.
I'm not a psychologist, but I assume tragedy gives us that wonderful thing called "perspective" and reminds us that there are people worse off than us, so the more bad news the better. Happiness is an unwelcome stranger. The happier we are, the more paranoid we get, just waiting for the next tragedy to tear out joy from us.
Rarely do we fully enjoy this gift of life. We don't have to be alive and aware. But since we are, I figure we should take full advantage of it and not live in self-inflicted misery.
QUOTES - "Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode...Congress' and the Department's purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television,"
- Margaret Spellings, new Secretary of Education, in a letter to PBS president and CEO Pat Mitchell regarding the "Sugartime" episode of Postcards from Buster which features the children of two lesbian couples. Spellings also demanded that PBS return the $77,000 in taxpayer dollars used to produce the episode.
RESPONSE - If parents don't want their children exposed to the gay/lesbian lifestyle they can turn the channel. From what you're saying, you can make the argument that since there are parents who don't like the "black lifestyle", that all shows with Blacks should be banned. If this is a matter of "majority rules", then (assuming that the majority of parents find this inappropiate, which they don't) that would mean the majority is always right. History has proven that even in a democracy the voice of truth and reason is often a whisper.
QUOTES - "...sensitive in today's political climate." - PBS spokeswoman Lea Sloan said after PBS pulled the episode prior to Spellings letter.
RESPONSE - Is this a way of copping out? It sounds like what was said should go like this: "We can't broadcast any shows that have any hint of independent thinking because of a few radical evangelists and a Republican-run government."
QUOTES - "... You're taking a kid and what he loves to do most -- which is watch cartoons -- and you're introducing an adult topic which is inappropriate...It's extremely offensive that they would even consider doing this issue...They're teaching the acceptance of homosexuality to toddlers...People are sick of homosexuality being everywhere -- when they turn on the TV, when they open the newspaper...Everywhere you turn in the culture homosexuality is being promoted and celebrated and treated as if it's no big deal. The average American -- not just the average Christian -- but the average American is sick of it...They're trying to get kids used to the idea that having two moms or having two dads is normal, when actually it's very abnormal and it's very harmful to children...This is the liberals' way of indoctrinating our children -- all the while they lecture us about being intolerant and respecting diversity."
- Peter LaBarbera, executive director of the Illinois Family Institute, as told to Baptist Press.
RESPONSE - Wow. This guy is so determined to be evil and illogical that it almost doesn't make sense to comment on him.
But I will anyway.
I've seen homosexuality get labeled as an adult topic before. The problem is people like this see homosexuality as sex rather than a class of human relationship. What could even be more dangerous is that LaBarbera might be using the "adult" argument, knowing it has nothing to do with sex, as another PR weapon in a hate war against, in this case, homosexuals. Hate mongers have been known to try to use any angle necessary to get people on their side--if not the majority, then a powerful minority.
LeBarbera is also an empath, much like Deanna Troi of Star Trek. He seems to intuitively know that Americans really hate gays and lesbians. I'm not trying to pretend I know it all, but my general philosophy is any philosophy that's based on exclusion can be very dangerous.
QUOTES - "Our kids are targeted particularly in schools and in the media to adopt a worldview consistent with a group that we would vehemently disagree with...There are big stakes with cartoon characters because they have the power to define for a child what's real or what's acceptable or what's true." - Marc Fey, director of Christian worldview and education analyst at Focus on the Family, who called the Postcards episode an "insidious attempt" to teach children what many traditional parents would find unacceptable.
RESPONSE - Hmm...traditional parents, eh? Are these the same parents who are more likely, according to studies, to abuse their children mentally and physically? There are a ton of issues I could get into regarding "traditional" (white, Christian) parents, but I don't have the web space or the time.
The only way that cartoon characters have the power to warp reality and values for a child is if the cartoon characters are the parents. Even the children of TV Babysitter Parents (they sit their child in front of the TV rather than interact with them) have an idea of what's real. Depsite their parents, and despite what they might see on TV, children still might decide for themselves what is right or wrong when they grow up. Tricky business this child rearing is, huh?
SPONGEBOB GAY? http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=11140&cid=1&cname=Media
REALLY BAD TSUNAMI SONG http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050126/ap_en_ot/ny_tsunami_radio_suspensions_2
POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050128/ap_en_tv/parents_pbs_show_2
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Dont' blame Hip-hop
When I saw that a Sun-Times editor, Sue Ontiveros, wrote an article about how today's music stars haven't made anti-war songs like the stars of the '60's, I was very hopeful. It seemed that someone was finally going to expose the shallowness of the modern music industry in print. Instead, she shows her own shallowness.
She said it was reported that Patrick Daley, Mayor Richard Daley's son, had enlisted in the Army and that Eddie & Jobo, B96 morning DJ's, played the Destiny's Child song "Soldier" in their honor. Unfortunately, playing that tune was inappropriate, at best: the subject matter is about the girls "...on the prowl for a guy in a nice car with street cred." Ontiveros was correct to point out the idiocity of this. It makes me seriously ill that not only can a popular group have the gall to use references to purple hearts and soldiers in a shallow booty song, but that the single is so popular. I understand that what can construed as worse subject matter has been addressed in R&B, but that is no excuse to be just as senseless as everbody else.
However, it is unfair to expect all of hip-hop and rap to be the sole voice of reason that speaks to today's youth.
Hey, it's not todays youth are just interested in Hip Hop music.
And if you want to blame someone, blame the media outlets for not paying attention to enough of the artists who do have a positive and/or revolutionary message.
She said it was reported that Patrick Daley, Mayor Richard Daley's son, had enlisted in the Army and that Eddie & Jobo, B96 morning DJ's, played the Destiny's Child song "Soldier" in their honor. Unfortunately, playing that tune was inappropriate, at best: the subject matter is about the girls "...on the prowl for a guy in a nice car with street cred." Ontiveros was correct to point out the idiocity of this. It makes me seriously ill that not only can a popular group have the gall to use references to purple hearts and soldiers in a shallow booty song, but that the single is so popular. I understand that what can construed as worse subject matter has been addressed in R&B, but that is no excuse to be just as senseless as everbody else.
However, it is unfair to expect all of hip-hop and rap to be the sole voice of reason that speaks to today's youth.
Hey, it's not todays youth are just interested in Hip Hop music.
And if you want to blame someone, blame the media outlets for not paying attention to enough of the artists who do have a positive and/or revolutionary message.
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Sox Trade Lee
The White Sox traded away one of my favorite players, Carlos Lee, up north to the Milwaukee Brewers for Scott Podsednik, Luis Vizcaino, and a player to be named later. It had to be done and I think it has the potential to be a pivotal move. The Sox will save roughly $8 million next year will trading Lee and can use that to either sign an All-star starting pitcher or make a deal for another position player. As GM Kenny Williams said, they are done dealing for middle-of-the-road guys. If they are going to make another deal, it will be a big one. But if they don't make another big deal, the Sox will look like they just wanted to save some cash and don't really want to improve the team. We'll have to wait and see.
Wife Swap Sues Trading Spouses
The producers of Wife Swap are suing Fox, claiming that the show Trading Spouses is a blantant rip-off. Come on, guys! That's like the word "crap" suing the word "dung". Modern TV is filled with rip-offs, that's just how it goes. Get over it. There haven't been many original ideas in the past 20 years or so, and I really wouldn't want to take credit for a show about swapping wives. I don't care how much money I could make off of it, I'd kick my own arse before I'd peddle that garbage.
Friday, December 10, 2004
You Gotta Know When To Hold 'Em...
First off, let me inform those of you who aren't hip to The Onion that it is a satirical "news"paper with fake headlines, stories, and horoscopes. So please remember that the story I am about to refer to isn't fact, but it is based on some truth. The headline reads:
I won't reprint the whole article here, but my favorite line has to be:
Well, the government has been dipping their hand in gambling publicly since the 80's once they found out that running numbers was both popular and profitable. Gambling is now a socially acceptable way of increasing state revenues and lining legislators pockets. (I find myself buying Illinois Lottery scratch-off tickets hoping for a chance at a quick buck to no avail.) So, a federal-sized lottery or gambling system is not inconceivable, especially since His Honorable King Bush the 2nd is having trouble finding the $2 Trillion he needs to reform Social Security.
"President Bush signed an ambitious Social Security plan into law Monday that will allow citizens to bet a third of their payroll taxes on their favorite sports teams."
I won't reprint the whole article here, but my favorite line has to be:
"Why let your retirement money sit around in an account when
you could double or triple it in a single year? Under the new plan, anyone with access to a sports page can control his financial destiny." Added Ryan: "Assuming, of course, that Favre keeps a lid on those turnovers next season."
you could double or triple it in a single year? Under the new plan, anyone with access to a sports page can control his financial destiny." Added Ryan: "Assuming, of course, that Favre keeps a lid on those turnovers next season."
Well, the government has been dipping their hand in gambling publicly since the 80's once they found out that running numbers was both popular and profitable. Gambling is now a socially acceptable way of increasing state revenues and lining legislators pockets. (I find myself buying Illinois Lottery scratch-off tickets hoping for a chance at a quick buck to no avail.) So, a federal-sized lottery or gambling system is not inconceivable, especially since His Honorable King Bush the 2nd is having trouble finding the $2 Trillion he needs to reform Social Security.
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
BCA Gets This One Wrong
The Black Coaches Association has a very important role in college athletics. They try to make the search for college coaches a more open and equal process. However, their boycott of South Carolina is unfounded. Lou Holtz didn't announce his retirement until several weeks into the season. South Carolina had a chance to get a superstar coach in Steve Spurrier and they went for it. If they had wasted time trying to sign him, he might have gone elsewhere. I'd rather they did that than just parade in a few Black coaches for fake interviews just for appearances sake.
If you want to boycott a school, how about Notre Dame for firing Tyrone Willingham way too soon. Everyone from the outgoing school president to the Black Alumni of Notre Dame are embarrassed and upset by the administrations handling of the situation. Classy to the end, Coach Willingham blamed himself for his dismissal. But Irish quarterback Brady Quinn makes an excellent point: "Think about it: It's not even allowing one of his recruiting classes to get all the way through." So what does mean? They never gave him a real chance to succeed.
If you want to boycott a school, how about Notre Dame for firing Tyrone Willingham way too soon. Everyone from the outgoing school president to the Black Alumni of Notre Dame are embarrassed and upset by the administrations handling of the situation. Classy to the end, Coach Willingham blamed himself for his dismissal. But Irish quarterback Brady Quinn makes an excellent point: "Think about it: It's not even allowing one of his recruiting classes to get all the way through." So what does mean? They never gave him a real chance to succeed.
Saturday, December 04, 2004
Sweet Stuff
I thought that I finally found an alternative to regular soda, which isn't the healthiest product in the world. It turns out that Splenda, which I was so excited about, is made from Chlorine. There have been no long-term human studies done on it, and the few tests that have been done show some nasty stuff.
http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/93/102132.htm?pagenumber=2
http://www.youngagain.com/splenda.html
http://www.hsibaltimore.com/ea2004/ea_040616.shtml
http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_dangers.htm
http://www.mercola.com/2001/mar/10/soda_pop_dangers.htm
http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/93/102132.htm?pagenumber=2
http://www.youngagain.com/splenda.html
http://www.hsibaltimore.com/ea2004/ea_040616.shtml
http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_dangers.htm
http://www.mercola.com/2001/mar/10/soda_pop_dangers.htm
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
My First Blog
It's Blog, it's Blog, it's big, it's heavy, it's wood...spumco
Welcome True Believers to my first Blog. Be warned: To look upon these words, is to look upon the truth of one's soul. Or it may make you scratch your crotch. Ya know, whichever comes first.
For my first posting, I will recycle an email I sent yesterday to my friends:
You can label me a Leftist, Commie, Weirdo, Liberal but these are my opinions and I'm stickin' to 'em! -ct
Hmm. OK. So guns don't kill people, people kill people, right? Well, if Chai Vang had a bow or a regular rifle instead of a semi-automatic hunting rifle, there might be just one dead instead of 5. No matter whose version of the story is the truth, no one deserved to die that day. Guns and testosterone don't mix very well.
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What going on in Texas!!?? Mothers are going crazy killing their kids in gruesome ways! No wonder Bush got re-elected. But, somehow this will get blamed on the "liberal elite."
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So chronic back pain may shrink your brain, eh? Turns out all that stress if burning out nerves and synapses causing them to age up to 11% faster. I'm no scientist, but from that I'd have to conclude that happiness slows the aging process. And a study also found out that money does make people happier. So mo' money = IMMORTALITY! Yet another reason for me to 'jack P-Diddy.
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Oh darn! The Toronto Argonauts won the 92nd Grey Cup Championship of the Canadian Football League by beating the British Columbia Lions 27-19. Hello? Anyone?
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Oh, please tell me y'all been keeping up with Boondocks!
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Dan Rather is retiring. And somewhere, someone gives a $#!+
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Keep an eye on the Cassini-Huygens mission. If you check out Astronomy Picture of the Day, you probably noticed on November 24th the stunning yet puzzling pictures on Titan, arguably Saturn's most intriguing moon. The mission is composed of two elements: The Cassini orbiter that will orbit Saturn and its moons for four years, and the Huygens probe (probe release: 12/25/2004, 8pm CST) that will dive into the atmosphere of Titan (1/14/2005, 5am CST) and (hopefully) land on its surface. The reason I say hopefully is that some scientists believe that Titan has hydrocarbon bodies of liquid. So its possible Huygens will dive headlong into a lake of automobile gas!
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Since everybody has an opinion on The Big Brawl , here's my take:
*After following his career, I have come to the conclusion that Ron Artest seriously needs psych meds, like a mood stabilizer. I'm not kidding. He should do it for his four kids. But from what I've heard, he's hopeless. As I was watching the replays, I turned to Nikki and said, "How does he know that he went after the right guy?" It turns out he didn't! Oy freakin' vey!
*The Pistons need to be fined or sued for lack of security. I mean, if my Mom was there (were you, Ma?) I would've been livid that more wasn't done to control the situation.
*Alvin Shackelford, who ran up on Artest on the court, got the blast to the mouth that he deserved. But I guarantee you he did that on purpose because he saw an opportunity for a lawsuit. Keep an eye out for that.
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Welcome True Believers to my first Blog. Be warned: To look upon these words, is to look upon the truth of one's soul. Or it may make you scratch your crotch. Ya know, whichever comes first.
For my first posting, I will recycle an email I sent yesterday to my friends:
You can label me a Leftist, Commie, Weirdo, Liberal but these are my opinions and I'm stickin' to 'em! -ct
Hmm. OK. So guns don't kill people, people kill people, right? Well, if Chai Vang had a bow or a regular rifle instead of a semi-automatic hunting rifle, there might be just one dead instead of 5. No matter whose version of the story is the truth, no one deserved to die that day. Guns and testosterone don't mix very well.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What going on in Texas!!?? Mothers are going crazy killing their kids in gruesome ways! No wonder Bush got re-elected. But, somehow this will get blamed on the "liberal elite."
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So chronic back pain may shrink your brain, eh? Turns out all that stress if burning out nerves and synapses causing them to age up to 11% faster. I'm no scientist, but from that I'd have to conclude that happiness slows the aging process. And a study also found out that money does make people happier. So mo' money = IMMORTALITY! Yet another reason for me to 'jack P-Diddy.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oh darn! The Toronto Argonauts won the 92nd Grey Cup Championship of the Canadian Football League by beating the British Columbia Lions 27-19. Hello? Anyone?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oh, please tell me y'all been keeping up with Boondocks!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dan Rather is retiring. And somewhere, someone gives a $#!+
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keep an eye on the Cassini-Huygens mission. If you check out Astronomy Picture of the Day, you probably noticed on November 24th the stunning yet puzzling pictures on Titan, arguably Saturn's most intriguing moon. The mission is composed of two elements: The Cassini orbiter that will orbit Saturn and its moons for four years, and the Huygens probe (probe release: 12/25/2004, 8pm CST) that will dive into the atmosphere of Titan (1/14/2005, 5am CST) and (hopefully) land on its surface. The reason I say hopefully is that some scientists believe that Titan has hydrocarbon bodies of liquid. So its possible Huygens will dive headlong into a lake of automobile gas!
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Since everybody has an opinion on The Big Brawl , here's my take:
*After following his career, I have come to the conclusion that Ron Artest seriously needs psych meds, like a mood stabilizer. I'm not kidding. He should do it for his four kids. But from what I've heard, he's hopeless. As I was watching the replays, I turned to Nikki and said, "How does he know that he went after the right guy?" It turns out he didn't! Oy freakin' vey!
*The Pistons need to be fined or sued for lack of security. I mean, if my Mom was there (were you, Ma?) I would've been livid that more wasn't done to control the situation.
*Alvin Shackelford, who ran up on Artest on the court, got the blast to the mouth that he deserved. But I guarantee you he did that on purpose because he saw an opportunity for a lawsuit. Keep an eye out for that.
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