Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Danica Patrick Finishes 6th at Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200
Danica Patrick avoided a wall, recovered from a spin out, rubbed up against some other cars and managed to finish. She started off in the 12th position, but was able to get all the way up to the 6th position. Of course you will only hear about her, you won’t hear about the winner, he’s irrelevant, I mean this is like the minor leagues of NASCAR. You also won’t know that at least three other drivers where women, like Jennifer Jo Cobb, who started off in the 39th position and finished at 17. She was able to cut down her competition by more than half, which is more than Patrick was able to do. But of course we will hear all about Patrick, and how she recovered from that spin and missed the wall that would have put her out for sure. Before the race Dale Jr. decided not to give any advice to the pudding NASCAR racer. He probably realized he is the one in need of some advice on winning races. But before all the Patrick groupies get too excited, remember this is just one race, and she’s not in the big leagues yet. Let’s give this some more time to pan out…and wash out.
Get a Grip
These people make me laugh. I mean really? I thought this issue was laid to rest a long time ago, but these right wing nut jobs still think that Obama isnt a natural born American. Come on people, let's stick with reality, an economy that is trying to recover, two wars in foreign lands, a global war on terror, come on people lets get with the program.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Lane Kiffin, another candidate for D Bag of the Decade
Lane Kiffin is up to his usual douche baggery. He supposedly has a the commitment of a 13-year-old seventh grader to play in 2015 as quarterback. Now he did the same thing when he was at Rocky Top. The thing with this commitment is that it’s not really a commitment. Really nothing can be taken seriously until Sept. 1 of the players junior year. Before that everything is just rubbish. The way Kiffin jumps from job to job, he might not even be there in 2015, so then this whole thing is just a media trick. Lane Kiffin, who hasn’t had a winning season as a head coach knows how to get people to pay attention to him. He must have taken some notes out of Al Davis’ media circus playbook. Apparently Kiffin and Davis who don’t talk to each other are a lot a like. Since Kiffin cant win games, he just plays media games to garner attention for his program. Maybe if he spent more time recruiting viable recruits that can improve his program and win games for USC in the short picture and not worry about a kid that might or might not play of USC in five years.
Trojans get their first commitment ... for 2015 - latimes.com
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
When in war we have soldiers not criminals
The idea that we should treat the Christmas Day bomber, or as I like to call him, the blue balls bomber, as a common criminal is absurd. He is a foreign national that came here with the purpose of hurting and killing people. The government and people of this great nation must come to terms with the war we are in. This war is unlike any war we have seen before. This war is not between countries or necessarily ideologies, instead it is a war of factions and groups.
The Cold War was a war of ideology, it wasn’t necessarily one country against another, instead was a group of countries on two sides of an issue that fought their wars in distant lands and in covert means.
War used to be between uniformed soldiers each claiming their allegiance to a flag or a nation. The soldiers that we face now pledge their allegiance to what they believe to be a omnipotent force and presence. Their allegiance has transcended terrestrial limitations, and they come from different walks of life. They have no nation, no flag, no uniform to distinguish them or designate them as a soldier. During World War II it was easy to know who the enemy was, they wore the swastika or the sun on the uniform, or were unified under a banner of a common symbol.
During WW II German U-boats patrolled the U.S. East Coast sinking merchant vessels. If one of those captains was able to slip past our defenses and crept up the Hudson River to open fire on ships and docks there, and was captured before he could escape or scuttle his boat, that captain and crew would have been held as POW.
There is no difference between that German captain and what Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab did. They are soldiers fighting for something, and they have chosen us as their enemy. It is time we realize that they are ours as well.
Criticism of Obama on national security likely to remain big issue - washingtonpost.com
