Why Soccer Will Never Be Respected in the U.S.
August 30, 2007
David Beckham is a superstar athlete. The most popular in the world (not the U.S.)
The LA Galaxy brought the Futballer over to be the sports ambassador in the States.
However, instead the Celebrity athlete is just putting a spotlight on why the sport will never be respected by mainstream America.
Beckham signs a contract that is so large that honestly if you do the math, there is no way the Galaxy can make it back in TV or receipts So they are coming out of pocket to fund this experiment.
The great Soccer player comes here and then sits out several games with an ankle injury he incurred on his last team in Europe. He then starts getting better and takes several days off (meaning no practice and I belive missed games with his so called team) and goes to play for the England National team.
He reinjures his ankle and sits out some more Galaxy games. As if his paying employers were a distraction he goes back to play for England which I am sure is not helping his rehab.
With all these distractions when he is better does he even have had time to know his teamates names? Then last night against a Mexican team he injures his knee.
Between the lack of loyalty and demonstrated committment it is doubtful that he has impressed a new audience to swing over and to give Soccer a try. To this author he has only proven that which I predicted, he is playing in a second class sport that will always be looked at as a second class sport as it inherant values are in conflict with American values.
Scientific Proof of Global Warming:poof
August 30, 2007
SURVEY: LESS THAN HALF OF ALL PUBLISHED SCIENTISTS ENDORSE GLOBAL WARMING THEORY; COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF PUBLISHED CLIMATE RESEARCH REVEALS CHANGING VIEWPOINTS
In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database from 1993 to 2003, she found a majority supported the “consensus view,” defined as humans were having at least some effect on global climate change. Oreskes’ work has been repeatedly cited, but as some of its data is now nearly 15 years old, its conclusions are becoming somewhat dated.
Damned Energy Wasters
August 25, 2007
An Inconvenient Truth
White House Dweller #1
This White House dweller owns a home that is designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet ( 4 bedrooms ) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.
The water (usually 67 degrees F. ) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.
White House Dweller #2
A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern “snow belt” area. It’s in the South.
The first house is owned by George Herbert Walker Bush
The second is owned by a Democrat named Al Gore. Of course he is never there much as he travels the globe on a private jet trelling us to conserve.
Dems are famous for the “do as I say not as I do” mantra. Knowing that heartstring pulled just the right way always gets votes.
The Libs and press whine that Bush is too stubborn. Do they whine he was stubborn enough to be more Green than more than likely 90% of Congress? The differrence. Doing vs lip service and a new career path that guarantees hefty speaking engagement money from the KoolAid drinkers.
The Demon Michael Vick
August 18, 2007
Michael Vick is about to lose it all.
Here is a guy who was on the edge in the NFL.
He has been on the edge legally, once trying to stow away some personal dope onto a plane.
So to defend him as a Saint is wrong. But the Media has been out to hang him.
Why?
The savagery of his Dog Business? Maybe.
The Gambling part? Maybe.
His past legal and poor behavior? Closer
He’s Black? That too.
Put all of the above together and you have the reason for the Public Hanging by the Media.
Is it right? no.
But it is today American Journalism.
Put into context of all else wrong in the legal system and Animal Sports you are inclined to give him a break. But based on this guys behavior and his skin colr it makes for a good public lynching.
But like some black leaders are saying its because he is black is wrong. It is all of the reasons listed, and more. It is for this reason the blacks have got to know that they are a target for the mainstream. This guy is a perfect portrait of the characture of the “gansta bling bling ” black athlete. A druggie in trouble with the law.
It fits right into a good story. If you call that a good story.
But, instead of blaming the playa, blame the game. As they say.
One Mans Failure Is Another Success
August 18, 2007
The Mainstream still to this day frames the debate.
Unlike our last President who had the greatest economic boom ever, and the greatest home ownership ever. He fought for causes the were humanitarian and cared about the common man.
Currently our President struggles against bipartasinship and corruption.
Hee hee. I am not talking about Clinton. I am talking about Bush.
I am fast forwarding speaking from the future. I am not talking about Bush in the present. I am talking about our future President.
The fight is always the same. History judges on results. The media judges on their ideals.
The current move to call this a failed Presidency, is exactly what comes against a President of Values.
You may not like Bush. You may not like what he stands for. But like Reagan and unlike most Democrats and especially Clinton, you know what he stands for.
This is the advantage and curse of most Republicans that can stay clean.
If you say you are virtous it is not OK to cross over to the dark side as then you are seen as a hypocrite. It is what lost the Congress.
A crook is seen as a crook. Murtha is what he is. THe video of him playing with FBI agents for Bribes is what it is. So for him to talk about right and wrong falls on blind eyes to his Dem supporters.
They know what they have.
The only failure of this Presidency is to know what he was up against. Reagan was strong enough in stature to combat is haters.
Bush does not have the gift for charm or gab to pull it off.
But his downfall was and is the mainstream that had it out for him since day one. They almost pulled it off at the last minute by framing him as a druggie. Gore was in for an ass kicking untill that moment.
Thats how they play. The Republicans still don’t get that. When the Repubs play hard ball it is seen as dastardly. The Rove persona becomes obsession.
But because of the mainstream power. The Republicans can only hit the Dems with guerilla marketing type tactics. They simply do not have the ability to leak that Gore also used drugs. Because then again we already knew that, and simply don’t hold the Green President that could have been, to a higher standard.
People Are Stupid?
August 15, 2007
That H20 Is a Killer
How the Bible Gets Skewed
Watcha Hidin’ Hil?
August 14, 2007
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cites her experience as a compelling reason voters should make her president, but nearly 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years are locked up in a building here, until after ‘08, obscuring a large swath of her record as first lady.
Its Hot Real Hot
August 14, 2007
NASA has called 1998 as the hottest of them all, helping to prove the upward trend toward a global warmth. Then a curious chap from Toronto did some research and found that NASA needs to recheck their math.
NASA did and later revised the list of all-time hottest years. The Dust Bowl year of 1934 now ranks as hottest ever in the U.S. – not 1998.
Ooops. Damn and I listened to Reverend Al (Gore not Sharpton) and Leo “I want ot matter” DeCaprio preach during Live Smurf. I mean Earth.
A trip thru the Library of Congress reveals an interesting Page 2 headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: “Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt.”
In fact NASA estimates, that four of the 10 hottest years in the U.S. were actually in the 1930s.
Despite what transplanted LA dwellers thought was proof of Global Warming when Malibu snowed.
It was the 2nd Generation Angelenos that remember the snow in Redondo Beach in the late 40’s. And going to play in the Snow on the top of Palos Verdes.
And the Private Jets roll on, unfettered by facts, embroiled by power.
Global Fooling
August 6, 2007
The Year 1975. Newsweeks warns the end is near as Earth is Freezing Over. Having grown up in the era I am pissed they never gave us some Rolling Stones Earth Concert with Kiss and Cheap Trick.
Oh well.
Today the warning is:
Citing “ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically,” warnings of an impending “drastic decline in food production.” Political disruptions stemming from food shortages could affect “just about every nation on earth.” Scientists urge governments to consider emergency action to head off the terrible threat of . . . well”
Oops thats from the Global cooling Warning. I can’t keep my disasters straight.
Where Have All The Libs in Congress Gone?
August 6, 2007
What happened to the Big change?
The House handed President Bush a victory Saturday, voting to expand the government’s abilities to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States.
The 227-183 vote, which followed the Senate’s approval Friday, sends the bill to Bush for his signature. He had urged Congress to approve it, saying Saturday, “Protecting America is our most solemn obligation.”