An NBA player, a baseball player, Michael Phelps....AND.....Tony Hawk? The big 4 used to be the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB....It's now MLB, the NFL, NBA and skateboarding???
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
"Worthless" Steve Breaston
Once upon a time, the very unbiased Kirk Herbstreit, who "works" (spewing idiotic opinions that change by the week is work apparently?) for ESPN, said Steve Breaston is worthless when he was at the University of Michigan.
Kirk is a certified ass. How ABC/ESPN let him ever, ever do OSU games from the broadcast booth is beyond me. I don't blame the guy. That's his school. He played for them, but can SOMEONE PLEASE realize that Herbstreit is biased and that it's OK and understandable. Just keep him off of Ohio State games.
ANYWAYS, his "worthless" comment at the time showed his ignorance and bias towards Michigan's football program. Breaston as an under-classman dropped a ton of balls. He was one of the best kick and punt returners in the country, but as a receiver he dropped balls that my 12 year old nephew would catch. SO, they utilized him less at reciever.
On the topic of Breaston, "Herby" called him worthless on his radio show...His COLUMBUS, OHIO based radio show.
Breaston is Michigan's all-time leading kickoff and punt returner, and has the record for most all-purpose yards in Rose Bowl history. Still....worthless?
Steve Breaston went on to have a phenomenal senior year, both receiving and returning kicks, but, because of the media power that ABSOLUTELY affects NFL scouting opinion (see Mel Kiper's TERRIBLE track record), Breaston was a fifth round draft pick. A lot of that HAD to do with Herbstreit's nationally voiced opinion on Stevey B, especially when you consider that:
An extremely comparable player to Breaston at the time was Ted Ginn, Jr. of THE Ohio Stae Buckeyes. They came into the NFL in the same draft, only, Ginn was the NINTH PICK OVERALL and Breaston went in the fifth round.
Since then, Ginn has become a borderline bust. He'll show a flash once a month or so, but, a ninth pick overall, by now, should have more than 20 catches and no touchdowns in his second year as a pro. And also, he probably shouldn't be removed from his duties returning kicks and punts.
Breaston on the other hand is perhaps the next big thing at wide receiver in the NFL. In his rookie year he had nearly 1,800 return yards, including a game-winning TD return against the Eagles, and this season he is still returning kicks, unlike that other guy.
Only, he's added phenomenal wide receiver play to his resume. He's played behind Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin (add Bryant Robinson to that list last year), so opportunities for playing time have been sparse.
Well, Boldin went down with an injury three four ago, and since then, who is Arizona's leading wide receiver? WELL, what do you know, that worthless kid from Michigan, Steve Breaston.
This isn't about Breaston vs. Ginn (but it could be, Ginn sucks, Breaston is going to be a star), it's about Herbstreit and ESPN's monopoly on idiotic rambling (well, them and Fox News, it's like Pepsi and Coke. They both own a stake in the idiocy monopoly). Just YouTube search Skip Bayless...or better yet, Lou Holtz likening Michigan's head coach, Rich Rodriguez, to Adolf Hitler (I shit you not...but nappy headed ho's was offensive????).
There are tons of examples. How about ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd and his blatant material-theft from Mzone.com? This asshole Cowherd who was caught red-handed by bloggers for his material-theft (or better, plagiarism) offered as half-assed apology. A few months later in a rant against blogs (a lot of the mainstream media are scared to death of blogs), Cowherd got his listeners to shut down a blog (thebiglead.com) by overloading it with traffic.
Bottom line is, their opinions all MEAN NOTHING. They are disposable, no more important than your opinion or mine....but they wield so much power. Cowherd got divorced not long after landing the national ESPN radio gig. It's made him a Megalomaniac and that's why wifey went bye-bye. Chris Berman, Stu Scott -- they're all absolute ego-maniacal assholes who treat people as if they are beneath them.
Just this week ESPN knowingly buried a story that would cast Brett Favre in a negative light. They didn't want to hurt their relationship with the golden boy. Thank God Jay Glazer is the real deal, reported the story (because that is his job as a journalist).
All this, and I didn't even mention Paul Maguire.
Kirk is a certified ass. How ABC/ESPN let him ever, ever do OSU games from the broadcast booth is beyond me. I don't blame the guy. That's his school. He played for them, but can SOMEONE PLEASE realize that Herbstreit is biased and that it's OK and understandable. Just keep him off of Ohio State games.
ANYWAYS, his "worthless" comment at the time showed his ignorance and bias towards Michigan's football program. Breaston as an under-classman dropped a ton of balls. He was one of the best kick and punt returners in the country, but as a receiver he dropped balls that my 12 year old nephew would catch. SO, they utilized him less at reciever.
On the topic of Breaston, "Herby" called him worthless on his radio show...His COLUMBUS, OHIO based radio show.
Breaston is Michigan's all-time leading kickoff and punt returner, and has the record for most all-purpose yards in Rose Bowl history. Still....worthless?
Steve Breaston went on to have a phenomenal senior year, both receiving and returning kicks, but, because of the media power that ABSOLUTELY affects NFL scouting opinion (see Mel Kiper's TERRIBLE track record), Breaston was a fifth round draft pick. A lot of that HAD to do with Herbstreit's nationally voiced opinion on Stevey B, especially when you consider that:
An extremely comparable player to Breaston at the time was Ted Ginn, Jr. of THE Ohio Stae Buckeyes. They came into the NFL in the same draft, only, Ginn was the NINTH PICK OVERALL and Breaston went in the fifth round.
Since then, Ginn has become a borderline bust. He'll show a flash once a month or so, but, a ninth pick overall, by now, should have more than 20 catches and no touchdowns in his second year as a pro. And also, he probably shouldn't be removed from his duties returning kicks and punts.
Breaston on the other hand is perhaps the next big thing at wide receiver in the NFL. In his rookie year he had nearly 1,800 return yards, including a game-winning TD return against the Eagles, and this season he is still returning kicks, unlike that other guy.
Only, he's added phenomenal wide receiver play to his resume. He's played behind Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin (add Bryant Robinson to that list last year), so opportunities for playing time have been sparse.
Well, Boldin went down with an injury three four ago, and since then, who is Arizona's leading wide receiver? WELL, what do you know, that worthless kid from Michigan, Steve Breaston.
This isn't about Breaston vs. Ginn (but it could be, Ginn sucks, Breaston is going to be a star), it's about Herbstreit and ESPN's monopoly on idiotic rambling (well, them and Fox News, it's like Pepsi and Coke. They both own a stake in the idiocy monopoly). Just YouTube search Skip Bayless...or better yet, Lou Holtz likening Michigan's head coach, Rich Rodriguez, to Adolf Hitler (I shit you not...but nappy headed ho's was offensive????).
There are tons of examples. How about ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd and his blatant material-theft from Mzone.com? This asshole Cowherd who was caught red-handed by bloggers for his material-theft (or better, plagiarism) offered as half-assed apology. A few months later in a rant against blogs (a lot of the mainstream media are scared to death of blogs), Cowherd got his listeners to shut down a blog (thebiglead.com) by overloading it with traffic.
Bottom line is, their opinions all MEAN NOTHING. They are disposable, no more important than your opinion or mine....but they wield so much power. Cowherd got divorced not long after landing the national ESPN radio gig. It's made him a Megalomaniac and that's why wifey went bye-bye. Chris Berman, Stu Scott -- they're all absolute ego-maniacal assholes who treat people as if they are beneath them.
Just this week ESPN knowingly buried a story that would cast Brett Favre in a negative light. They didn't want to hurt their relationship with the golden boy. Thank God Jay Glazer is the real deal, reported the story (because that is his job as a journalist).
All this, and I didn't even mention Paul Maguire.
Monday, October 20, 2008
A Real Person
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Obama attends daughter Malia's soccer game in Chicago; few notice. Pool report.
Barack Obama returned to Chicago on Friday night, where he worked out and then headed to a soccer game where daughter Malia was playing. Here's the pool report from Geoff Earle of the New York Post:
In what could be counted as a good omen for the Democratic nominee, daughter Malia Obama's red jersey team won their youth soccer game tonight.
Malia's father quietly strode onto the field at 8:15 wearing a dark jacket and blue hat after his workout. None of the other parents or kids seemed to notice him. The game was underway, and Michelle Obama was there.
Obama chatted with another man while watching his daughter's team play against another team wearing yellow jerseys. The field was in the area of the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, which technically connects your pooler to infamous faculty member Bill Ayers.
There was also another team playing on an adjacent field. The games took place under bright floodlights on a chilly night, with the Sears Tower overlooking in the background.
At one point Obama took a break from the game to have a brief footrace with younger daughter Sasha.
The pool couldn't see much of the action from a distance, but after about half an hour the kids in red jerseys all started jumping up and down and cheering. One kid in yellow looked pretty distraught. We don't have an official score, but a player on the red team said it was 1-0.
Motorcade left at 8:45 pm, arriving back at the Obama residence a bit after 9.
We have a lid.
What's the difference between a soccer Dad and a hockey Mom? INTELLIGENCE (Magna Cum Laude from Harvard law school and a B.A from Columbia OR 5 schools, all of which ANYONE with a high-school diploma would get into). You betcha!
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Johnny Mac
This guy is beautiful.
In the debate Johnny the fraud criticized Barack for his voting record, or his "present" votes when he was in the Illinois State Senate.
WELL, I'm reading a phenomenal book, a quick read too, The Real McCain, which really, if you judged by the title, is an unsolved mystery....There is no REAL McCain.
Anyways. in the first session of the 110th Congress in 2007 the Senate had a pretty full day of voting to do on the floor. John McCain was there all day, and voted on all of the bills, EXCEPT for one. Normal right? No biggie, it was probably a early morning vote, or a late vote when he had to go home to Arizona or something....understood.
But, the vote was sandwiched in between two votes in which this phony voted...at 1:30 in the afternoon. It was a bill to give increased funding to local police departments to better fund their counter-terrorism efforts. Here's the record from the book The Real McCain, by Cliff Schecter.
Where did you go J Mac? With his eyes on a run at the presidency in 2008, he knew that a no vote on a bill that would provide funding to state and local law enforcement could be harmful to his campaign. But he couldn't dare vote yes on a Democrat/Joe Biden authored bill, SO, where did he go? He is old enough that it MAY have taken him an hour to go to the bathroom, but the TRUTH (what is that?), is that THE MAVERICK could not have been more NON-MAVERICK.
Someone who says he goes across the aisle (but voted with Bush 94% of the time) should have and wanted to vote yes, but couldn't because he needed the support of his party down the road -- he can't align with a bill he agreed with. It was ultimate politics 101...He's a maverick though right? No, he's a fucking politician who has been in the game for 26 years and plays the same bullshit game where he puts his own interest and politics first. Bottom line.
It's time to break away from the ol' boys network. We don't need a guy who jaked his way through the Naval Academy. Can we please have a Harvard and Columbia educated, brilliant man who is a pragmatist? He thinks things through, and he's brilliant. Every single independent study has said Barack's economic plan is superior to McCain, as well as his health care plan.
But he's black. He's an Arab, he pals around with terrorists. Ask McCain about Marilyn Shannon. Research her yourself.
The point is, it's the policies we need to be concerned about and vote on, but McCain can't win a policy, facts based race.
In the debate Johnny the fraud criticized Barack for his voting record, or his "present" votes when he was in the Illinois State Senate.
WELL, I'm reading a phenomenal book, a quick read too, The Real McCain, which really, if you judged by the title, is an unsolved mystery....There is no REAL McCain.
Anyways. in the first session of the 110th Congress in 2007 the Senate had a pretty full day of voting to do on the floor. John McCain was there all day, and voted on all of the bills, EXCEPT for one. Normal right? No biggie, it was probably a early morning vote, or a late vote when he had to go home to Arizona or something....understood.
But, the vote was sandwiched in between two votes in which this phony voted...at 1:30 in the afternoon. It was a bill to give increased funding to local police departments to better fund their counter-terrorism efforts. Here's the record from the book The Real McCain, by Cliff Schecter.
Vote 109 -- DeMint Amendment # 578 -- to repeal the death tax. 1:13 PM, McCain -- present and voted yes.
Vote 110 -- Biden Amendment #529 -- To increase funding for the COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) program to $1.5 billion for fiscal 2008. Provide state and local law enforcement with critical resources to prevent and respond to violent crimes and acts of terrorism. 1:32 PM, McCain -- NOT PRESENT NO VOTE RECORDED
Vote 111 -- Bunning Amendment #594 -- Provide a defecit-neutral reserve fund for providing state flexibility with MedicAid. 1:52 PM, McCain -- present and voted yes.
Where did you go J Mac? With his eyes on a run at the presidency in 2008, he knew that a no vote on a bill that would provide funding to state and local law enforcement could be harmful to his campaign. But he couldn't dare vote yes on a Democrat/Joe Biden authored bill, SO, where did he go? He is old enough that it MAY have taken him an hour to go to the bathroom, but the TRUTH (what is that?), is that THE MAVERICK could not have been more NON-MAVERICK.
Someone who says he goes across the aisle (but voted with Bush 94% of the time) should have and wanted to vote yes, but couldn't because he needed the support of his party down the road -- he can't align with a bill he agreed with. It was ultimate politics 101...He's a maverick though right? No, he's a fucking politician who has been in the game for 26 years and plays the same bullshit game where he puts his own interest and politics first. Bottom line.
It's time to break away from the ol' boys network. We don't need a guy who jaked his way through the Naval Academy. Can we please have a Harvard and Columbia educated, brilliant man who is a pragmatist? He thinks things through, and he's brilliant. Every single independent study has said Barack's economic plan is superior to McCain, as well as his health care plan.
But he's black. He's an Arab, he pals around with terrorists. Ask McCain about Marilyn Shannon. Research her yourself.
The point is, it's the policies we need to be concerned about and vote on, but McCain can't win a policy, facts based race.
Friday, October 17, 2008
What If....
What if …
What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no lon ger measured up to his standards?
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain had gone to Princeton and Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, an anger management problem?
What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?
What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
You could easily add to this list. If these question s reflected reality,
do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes
positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
Educational Background:
Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard Law School - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no lon ger measured up to his standards?
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain had gone to Princeton and Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, an anger management problem?
What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?
What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
You could easily add to this list. If these question s reflected reality,
do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes
positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
Educational Background:
Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard Law School - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
The McCain Myth
War hero -- granted. But, a man, McCain, who has essentially taken credit for the success of the surge (I don't know if it's his old age or what); but he's got his history and facts so incredibly skewed that it's embarrassing for this man who is truly an American hero.
While the surge has worked for the reasons that it was implemented for (to get our troop casualties down and flush the bad guys out), McCain certainly has some revisionist history about how it all came to be. In fact it was a bi-partisan coalition, including none other than Hillary, Russ Feingold and Lindsey Graham who assessed the situation in Iraq with McCain and decided, along with General Petraeus (a man McCain severely doubted the ability of early in Patraeus' tenure as central commander in Iraq) on the surge policy. They then recommended it to a "hey, fuck it, whatever you guys say" George W. upon arriving back in D.C and the wheels were in motion for the surge...assuredly not JUST because of the maverick.
McCain, when he leads a coalition of delegates into Iraq is balls to the wall. He wants to go places even when commanding officers strongly try to talk him out of it, but it's in one of those visits where we see exactly what this maverick is made of, and it smacks of George Bush's delusional administration.
On a visit to Iraq soon after the surge, to see how things were progressing in Iraq, McCain spoke to a street merchant in the country. The merchant said, while things on the surface have improved, no more street fights and RPG attacks for example, that there were still tremendous concerns about sniper fire from insurgents who just fire blindly into crowded streets and markets.
Upon arrival back home, and maybe because he is senile in his old age, McCain glaringly forgot to mention this exchange with the merchant. He came back with an "everything's coming up roses" report card on the situation in Iraq. This is Bush 101. You paint the picture you want to paint (**cough** mission accomplished **cough**). There are WMDs over there (no there aren't), but not only was it G.W's push to ignite the war in Iraq, McCain was one of G.W's strongest supporters of a war that to this day has no merit. We went to war on the premise of a lie, and McCain is as much to blame for that as is G.W.
Even if the surge IS working...and I guess the scoreboard says it is as long as Americans aren't dying as frequently over there anymore (nevermind the daily bombings between the Sunni and Shia militants that kill hundreds of innocent civilians weekly), we can't lose focus that, it's been two years of "success" from a surge McCain takes full credit for, but those two years have followed five years of an unmitigated disaster. And the five years of disaster were pushed for from the beginning by the ol' maverick.
Let's bring this down a level. For five years, for example, I thought it would be a great idea to use Crytal Meth. But, I've been clean for 2 years, I'm only an alcoholic now....so that 5 years never happened right? No, and the seeds of addiction that were sewn in those five years cannot magically disappear because of two questionably good years in which there are still flaws.
There are bombings still, a few a week, sometimes multiple bombings a day, but since it's just Iraqi's dying in those bombings, it's all good. The surge worked! It also worked pretty damn well for Al-Qaeda and its operatives.
While seeing that there would be an increased American military presence soon to descend on Iraq, the insurgents saw a golden opportunity back in Afghanistan. They retreated back to the Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan and left the Sunni and Shia Iraqis to kill themselves in what will eventually become a civil war in Iraq the day the last American troop departs, if it's not close to being one already. But, that's not our problem apparently, less Americans are dying, and back home, it's a numbers game. If the number of deaths are going down for our boys, then it's been a success right?
Meanwhile, the insurgents re-group and by all accounts are strengthening to pre-9/11 levels, but they're just doing it in a different country now. A country that was ignored and taken for granted once the senseless war, based on a lie, began in Iraq.
After the war began, in 2003, Joe Biden went over to Iraq, long before McCain's first trip into the country post-war, and came back talking about how the infrastructure of Iraq is utterly devastated and will take a decade, if not more, to get back to where it was before our bombs ravaged their country based on fabricated intelligence.
While the surge has worked for the reasons that it was implemented for (to get our troop casualties down and flush the bad guys out), McCain certainly has some revisionist history about how it all came to be. In fact it was a bi-partisan coalition, including none other than Hillary, Russ Feingold and Lindsey Graham who assessed the situation in Iraq with McCain and decided, along with General Petraeus (a man McCain severely doubted the ability of early in Patraeus' tenure as central commander in Iraq) on the surge policy. They then recommended it to a "hey, fuck it, whatever you guys say" George W. upon arriving back in D.C and the wheels were in motion for the surge...assuredly not JUST because of the maverick.
McCain, when he leads a coalition of delegates into Iraq is balls to the wall. He wants to go places even when commanding officers strongly try to talk him out of it, but it's in one of those visits where we see exactly what this maverick is made of, and it smacks of George Bush's delusional administration.
On a visit to Iraq soon after the surge, to see how things were progressing in Iraq, McCain spoke to a street merchant in the country. The merchant said, while things on the surface have improved, no more street fights and RPG attacks for example, that there were still tremendous concerns about sniper fire from insurgents who just fire blindly into crowded streets and markets.
Upon arrival back home, and maybe because he is senile in his old age, McCain glaringly forgot to mention this exchange with the merchant. He came back with an "everything's coming up roses" report card on the situation in Iraq. This is Bush 101. You paint the picture you want to paint (**cough** mission accomplished **cough**). There are WMDs over there (no there aren't), but not only was it G.W's push to ignite the war in Iraq, McCain was one of G.W's strongest supporters of a war that to this day has no merit. We went to war on the premise of a lie, and McCain is as much to blame for that as is G.W.
Even if the surge IS working...and I guess the scoreboard says it is as long as Americans aren't dying as frequently over there anymore (nevermind the daily bombings between the Sunni and Shia militants that kill hundreds of innocent civilians weekly), we can't lose focus that, it's been two years of "success" from a surge McCain takes full credit for, but those two years have followed five years of an unmitigated disaster. And the five years of disaster were pushed for from the beginning by the ol' maverick.
Let's bring this down a level. For five years, for example, I thought it would be a great idea to use Crytal Meth. But, I've been clean for 2 years, I'm only an alcoholic now....so that 5 years never happened right? No, and the seeds of addiction that were sewn in those five years cannot magically disappear because of two questionably good years in which there are still flaws.
There are bombings still, a few a week, sometimes multiple bombings a day, but since it's just Iraqi's dying in those bombings, it's all good. The surge worked! It also worked pretty damn well for Al-Qaeda and its operatives.
While seeing that there would be an increased American military presence soon to descend on Iraq, the insurgents saw a golden opportunity back in Afghanistan. They retreated back to the Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan and left the Sunni and Shia Iraqis to kill themselves in what will eventually become a civil war in Iraq the day the last American troop departs, if it's not close to being one already. But, that's not our problem apparently, less Americans are dying, and back home, it's a numbers game. If the number of deaths are going down for our boys, then it's been a success right?
Meanwhile, the insurgents re-group and by all accounts are strengthening to pre-9/11 levels, but they're just doing it in a different country now. A country that was ignored and taken for granted once the senseless war, based on a lie, began in Iraq.
After the war began, in 2003, Joe Biden went over to Iraq, long before McCain's first trip into the country post-war, and came back talking about how the infrastructure of Iraq is utterly devastated and will take a decade, if not more, to get back to where it was before our bombs ravaged their country based on fabricated intelligence.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Why College Football Rules
So, what's so great about Vanderbilt doing what they're doing?
Well, out of the entire pool of High School seniors that colleges can recruit from, 85 percent are academically ineligible to play at Vandy. They don't lower their academic standards for their athletes, and since, well, World War II, Vanderbilt has been one of the worst teams in college football.
Think about that, only 15 percent of recruit-able players would qualify at Vandy. That doesn't mean that all of those 15 percent go to Vandy, they still go to the bigger schools if they can, or scrap athletics altogether and head to the Ivy League for academic pursuits.
Other great academic schools relax standards for their athletes (I'm looking at you Corey Maggette at Duke); Vandy won't, and they've paid the price in football losses.
The University of Tennessee, Vandy's main rival, has a football recruiting budget of $1.5 million, including a private plane. Vanderbilt's recruiting budget for the entire athletic department is a notch over $500,000.
Vandy tonight beat Auburn, a team with legitimate hopes for an SEC Championship. Auburn's recruiting budget for football is only double what Vandy's ENTIRE budget is, but Auburn can recruit anyone (there are legendary stories of their athletes being illiterate, seriously), but Vandy beat them.
The crowd, filled with kids who got 1400 or better on their SATs, didn't storm the field, which has become a trite and annoying display in college football. The fans and kids displayed the class that so many schools and fans lack in college football (O-H-I-O). It's a ridiculous story, one that seriously sounds like a movie script, but Vandy is in first place in the SEC West, 5-0, and are bound for a good bowl game. And they have phenomenal uniforms!
Friday, October 3, 2008
Creeping Me Out
OK. When I go to the bathroom, even when I would come to visit here (I guess I live here now?), I always got a weird vibe. There's a picture in the guest bathroom (aka, my bathroom) that kind of always left me with a kid of haunting feeling that lasted for a little while even after I was done with my business in there.
Now that I am quasi-moved in, I have my senior yearbook, and I figured it out!!! This is fairly ridiculous. My senior picture and a picture of my Dad's Dad (my grandpa), who died before I was born. We should be roughly the same age in the pics, 18ish...Check it out, it's eerie right?
Am I wrong???
Now that I am quasi-moved in, I have my senior yearbook, and I figured it out!!! This is fairly ridiculous. My senior picture and a picture of my Dad's Dad (my grandpa), who died before I was born. We should be roughly the same age in the pics, 18ish...Check it out, it's eerie right?
Am I wrong???
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