Concerning Historical Ignorance

Like many Americans I watched the State of the Union Speech by President Obama Wednesday night. Like most State of the Union speeches it was little more than a defense of the administration, a call for congressional compliance, and is largely, regardless of the President giving it, more pomp & circumstance leaning toward dog & pony show than what the constitution originally intended (like many things) in Article II:

Article II - The Executive Branch

Section 3 - State of the Union, Convening Congress

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

I would be in favor of ending the current annual event as it has lost significance or meaning with regard to the functional political process but merely re-emphasizes & highlights problems with "Washington Politics as usual." The tradition began with Woodrow Wilson, hardly an example for any President to desire to follow. However, it serves to further agendas. Up until Wilson, Presidents merely wrote a letter to Congress following the example of Thomas Jefferson who did not like the precedent set by Washington & Adams in addressing Congress. Jefferson felt that it appeared too monarchial. But, I digress, my opinion regardless of my track record is rarely headed.

You can read or even watch replays, soundbites, commentary, etc. concerning the Sate of the Unions Speech on countless websites. I listened to some banter after the speech last night from both sides. Chris Mathews was so enthralled by President Obama's speech that he forgot his racist feelings towards the black race. Democrat & Republican pundits squabbled about points made, promises kept, and things that were pointless regardless. However no one seemingly had a problem with the quote I provide below.

I was shocked at the historical ignorance by our President, and the lack of reverence & respect given past administrations. The quote I have contention with is: 

"Now -- just stating the facts. Now, if we had taken office in ordinary times, I would have..."

The President went on to essentially blame the Bush administration. Nothing new there, it's been a part of the administrations MO however unappealing or appealing it is based on your political views. However, my question is, "Mr. President, What ordinary times are you talking about? In the history of this country would you please point to a 4 year period of normal times?" It doesn't matter what you would have done Mr. President. In 234 years that this country has existed, we have never known normal times.

As a lifelong student of history, I cannot recall a single President who had executive power turned over to them in these superfluous "ordinary times" that President Obama seems to think are so common. Let's start with Washington in 1789! He was chosen to be the leader of a country that at the time had just broken away from the most powerful country on the planet. In the history of the world the number of nations succeeding from one country & surviving independently for 20 years is staggeringly infinitesimal. For evidence I give you Europe & the Continent of Africa! Washington never decried the challenge he was given however! A challenge that was greater than any Barack Obama will EVER face in his life. Washington was given the task to hold 13 colonies, each of which had very egocentric independent identities, together in the name of Individual rights & freedom. Washington took over and then passed along to Adams, Jefferson, etc. a government that had to establish a Military, Navy, & later an Air-Force. They had to normalize & coin money. They had to set trade regulations & tariffs. They had to deal with a rapidly expanding country thanks to the Louisiana Purchase. There was a war with Mexico. They dealt with a Civil War! This before the country was 100 years old.

Please someone describe to me the normalcy here. Also, it should be emphasized, that while the policies passed & decisions made look nice and sensible & are presented in a nice light in text books, most of these issues sparked much more fierce debate than the silliness of the recent Health Care Reform debate. The Louisiana Purchase & westward expansion was looked upon with disdain by many. It was better "left to the savages" as Native Americans were oft labeled. The government simply coining money was hotly contested though it is difficult to understand today the fears of restriction of freedom that coining money brought to a people accustomed to taxation without representation & oppression by governmental rule at the time.

Post-Civil War, presidents in turn dealt with reconstruction of the Southern United States & continued westward expansion facilitated as a result of the hotly debated trans-continental railroad who's placement was a point of contention for states that succeeded from the Union prior to the Civil War. Also on the table for presidents to deal with is how to deal with suddenly freed slaves. What rights would they be given? Were they allowed to vote? Own land? All points of legislative contention. At the turn of the century just after our hundredth birthday as a nation Presidents had to deal with the newly organized territory of Alaska (before Oklahoma even became a territory mind you). Hawaii, Puerto Rico, & American Samoa were annexed. Not all were popular decisions.

In the "ordinary" part of the early 1900s we helped the citizens of Panama rise up and declare their independence from Columbia so that we could build what would become known as the Panama Canal, one of the greatest engineering feats in the history of mankind. Then in 1914 WWI began with the U.S. entering the fray in 1917. However in the normalcy of that 3 -year interim we invaded Haiti, contended with Pancho Villa, bought the West Indies & U.S. Virgin Islands for $25Million, & began the National Park Service.

In spite of the War to End All Wars, the U.S. experienced dramatic financial and industrial growth during the 1920s. Taxation, trade tariffs, infrastructure, all were unsettled & contentious issues despite the popular dance halls in New York City & Chicago. Oh yeah, after nearly being decimated we gave American Indians citizenship! Citizenship after they had been here for a few thousand years. None of this seems normal to me.

Then in 1929, on Black Tuesday, the stock market plummeted and we entered into the Great Depression. We remained in the Great Depression until we entered into WWII. Curious if FDR, when sworn in thought he was taking an "ordinary" job during "ordinary times."

Since WWII, "ordinary times" as they had been since 1789 were merely naive delusions of grandeur! Post WWII we were immediately embroiled in the Cold War that lasted until the end of the 20th century. We went to war in Korea in the early part of the decade of the 50s. Seems like if anything was normal it would be war & turmoil. After the Korean War it was very long before we had civil unrest in Harlem, NY; Watts in Los Angeles, California; at Kent State University in Ohio, and oh yeah. We were involved in another war. This time in a small country in Southeast Asia called Vietnam. The war in Vietnam, like Korea, was a result of the Cold War. We had a president assassinated, we had a president impeached. We had a missile crisis involving the Soviet Union our adversary in the Cold War & the Island nation of Cuba, a mere 90 miles from our shores. After the war in Vietnam we also had a new drug culture within the United States & an energy crisis. People waited in lines for hours for gasoline, Iran took Americans as hostages. As we entered the 1980s we were gripped with a stubborn recession, inflation, high unemployment, & a bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Doubting that Ronald Reagan felt that there was anything "ordinary" during this period in which he also survived an attempt on his life.

As we entered the 1990s we liberated the tiny country of Kuwait from it's neighbor Iraq in our first war in the Middle East. We endured an attempted bombing on the World Trade Center, the killing of Americans in the bombing of the Kabul Towers in Saudi Arabia, the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, the death of U.S. Servicemen in the terrorist attack on the U.S.S. Cole, earthquakes in San Francisco & Los Angeles, floods in the Mid-West that cost billions of dollars not to mention lives. We enjoyed rapid technological growth, & then a bust of the temporary stock bubble that it created which plunged us into yet another recession.

George Bush was elected president in 2000. The first president of the 21st century. He, as when president Obama entered office had grand ideas for the betterment of American citizens. He quickly moved to cut taxes on Americans which helped to alleviate many of the financial problems caused by the tech bubble crash over the next several years. However, On September 11, 2001, after having been in office less than a year. Islamic terrorists hijacked airplanes that they crashed, in the name of Jihad, into the Twin Towers of he World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon near Washington D.C., with a third crashing in a field in Pennsylvania due to heroics of Americans on board. Forgive me Mr. President, But I will go out on a limb here & assume that this isn't the ordinary term in office that then President Bush envisioned.

Without even mentioning prohibition, women's suffrage, all the assassinations & attempted assassinations of presidents, it's pretty clear that no President of the United States has enjoyed President Obama's grandiose idea of this supposed "ordinary time" in which to govern. You see Mr. President, You have the most difficult job in the world. I know that you would undoubtedly admit that, but based on your statement I cannot believe that you comprehend it. You are unimaginably naive if you think any president has not had to face tough times, tough choices, handle criticism, & answer criticism. In fact, the case can be made that you don't even enter the top 10 list of presidents who took over an office or within the first year in office faced challenges much greater than your own.

There's no such thing as "ordinary." The only constants are changes, challenges, & adaptations.

Therefore, cut out the self pity! Self pity is the 180 degree opposite of what the leader of this nation should be doing. I've never even heard of a great leader even flirting with the emotion of, much less the conscious decision of embracing, self pity. You were elected in spectacular fashion to perform an incredible job. You have the resources of the country at your disposal. You have enjoyed an unprecedented majority in both the House of Representatives & the Senate for your first year, & other than a nearly Trillion dollar spending bill that has failed, you have largely accomplished nothing. You have the opportunity to do a lot of good for this country. If you cannot get enough of your party on board with legislation, nor enough bi-partisan support for the legislation, you are again showing your ignorance of this country. We have representatives in Washington do agree & disagree with legislation for a reason. If the legislation looks to be bad for the country it doesn't get passed. That is an issue that falls directly on your shoulders to deal with that you have seemed dismissive to address.

Therefore, if the bill in question can't be passed.... Change it! Take out the points of contention, work on them later, add whatever is necessary, but make sure that the legislation is beneficial. The more controversial, the less chance it has to be propitious for the nation. Stomping your feet, saying that America "needs" it & then abandoning it weeks later when you didn't get your way, as you have with Health Care Reform doesn't & will never work. Hopefully you have learned this.

You still have an big majority in both houses. IF you have worthwhile ideas or concepts present them in the open & transparent manner you have discussed. Consider the criticisms, evaluate alternatives, discuss them openly in specific terms as opposed to rhetorical metaphors & assertions.

But enough with the self pity, it's Un-American! Coach Boots Garland once stated in the mid 1990s that the American past-time was becoming the transfer of blame. He's been proven correct. It would be great Mr. President if our leader, instead of transferring blame, provided workable solutions. You have that chance.

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What can you say, it's a nice day for a drive!

This is the newest electric car. It can go 30 miles without having to charge!

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America is fat & getting fatter!

Larry Winget is a financial & personal success author, speaker, & advisor. Guru is you will... I've read his excellent book on personal finance entitled, "Your Broke Because You Want To Be!" & parts of his other books. His blog (http://www.larrywinget.com) is also a good read as it is always informative & entertaining. Larry's primary message is an emphasis on personal responsibility & disdain for excuses. He recently posted the information on obesity below on his Facebook page & I found it so compelling that I had re-post it as it is merely a reflection of poor personal choices in today's society.

Here's Larry's post: Larry Winget from my buddy Randy Pennington: "A staggering statistic: in 1986, seven states had an obesity rate of 10-14% and none had a rate above 15%. In 2008, 1 state had an obesity rate of 10-14%. Three states had rates of 15-19% and 46 had rates of 20% or higher. Step away from the buffet and head to the gym, America."
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Some interesting facts about bottled water.

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The real story of the NBA Finals' Game 3

I watched game 3 last night, listened to the horrendous commentating by Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy, listened to all of the sports talk shows today, and have not heard the first intelligent word, phrase, or sentence concerning the game. People in this country have next to nil basketball knowledge. Therefore, I'm here to provide for you a truthful account of the hows and whys of last night's game.

First off, too much has been made of Orlando's amazing shooting percentage, 62.5% from the field, 76.7% inside the 3 point arc. The argument has run like this..... 'The magic had to have the best shooting game in NBA Finals history just to beat the Lakers." Well, yeah, and in Game 2 it took the Lakers overtime to beat a team that didn't shoot nearly as well AND had over 20 turnovers. So what's your point?

Let me enlighten the "experts" on TV that the point they are missing is that this is the WORST defense in NBA finals history by both teams! Neither of these teams can guard a toilet see! The Orlando Magic shot such a blistering percentage because they had better offensive spacing in game 3 than in the first two games and were not guarded. It opened up early outside shooting opportunities and that opened up driving lanes for Rafer Alston and Turkoglu. When you repeatedly put pressure on the paint every trip, scoring becomes easy. Not a single expert has had the basketball knowledge to mention that little fact.

What they have concentrated on was Kobe Bryant. Was it his fault or not? Is he tired or not? Can he do it by himself or not? Well, the answers are Yes, it doesn't matter, and no! Yes it was his fault they lost! He played like shit! Kobe played bad! For you L.A. and Kobe fans who didn't have a heart attack from someone saying that, let me explain why. Kobe too twice as many shots as any of his teammates. Kobe made 7 of his first 9 shots, but then only made 4 or his next 16, one of which was a basket with a half second left that was meaningless. So he had essentially gone 3 of 15 after his first half flurry. Meanwhile, his teammate Pau Gasol went 9 of 11. I.e., he took 11 shots and made 9 of them. By not giving Pau Gasol the ball more, the Lakers are cutting their own throat. Gasol is the ideal center to run the triangle offense through. He's mobile and skilled. As for Kobe being tired, you're not tired if you go 3-15 down the stretch. Yeah, he's played more games than anyone in the last 24 months, but a few games ago he went for 40! 24 months of fatigue didn't suddenly catch up with him in 24 minutes of the second half. Obviously sports writers with 40+ inch waist know little about fintess and conditioning.

Furthermore, Dwight Howard has not fared well when guarding him. Howard is more athletic, stronger, and quicker, but Gasol is smarter and more skilled.

"The big strong guys are always taking from the little guys, but the smart guys, they take from every body." - Pete Carril

What the legendary Princeton coach was saying there, and his teams proved time and again, was that you didn't have to be the best athlete if you had skill and played intelligently. That's what Gasol does, and he can eat the Magic alive whether Howard or anyone else is guarding him. If I were Phil Jackson, we would have a rule, unless it was a fast break bucket, or a lay up, no one shot until the ball had gone through Gasol. If the Lakers did this, they would notice that they were beating the Magic by about 22 points a game! Kobe would get his points on less shots because he wouldn't have to work as hard for them, and this series would be over a lot sooner than it otherwise will be. Gasol is the ideal player to run the Triangle Offense through.

As mentioned, the defense by both teams in this series is atrocious. The help defense by both teams is rare if ever existent. What's more, I've seen more bad pick and rolls by the Magic lead to baskets than I can count, but the Lakers have struggled with the pick and roll throughout the playoffs. If the Magic could dress out John Stockton and Karl Malone for the next three games this series would get silly!

The Magic offense, as mentioned had better spacing for game three which was responsible for the easier shots of which they certainly made. However, they have one of the biggest and most athletic players in the league on the post, and rarely throw him the ball on the block. They typically throw it to Howard on a hi-lo weak side pin, or on the roll of a pick and roll. By doing so this rarely gives the other team time to double team him. Double teams on Howard would give the other perimeter players for Orlando open shots and driving lanes. Now, there is the problem that Howard is not nearly as skilled as Gasol. He is limited offensively. Largely because he has never been truly coached. His only real move is a running hook that he has worked on, but short arms often. He also drops the ball too low too often for guards to swipe at and he spends too much time and too many dribbles gathering himself due to poor footwork. It would behoove Howard to spend the summer watching footwork from old films of Kevin McHale, Bill Walton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Hakeem Olajouwan. They did in 3 steps what it takes Howard to do in 5-7 steps. However, despite his offensive limitations, give him the ball enough on the post and he will command attention. After all Shaquille is still limited offensively, and very few teams choose to NOT double him, even though he's 76 now! But, Magic maintain the good spacing and you'll have a chance to win any game.

Lamar Odom has had a pretty good series. He's shooting a good percentage and making some plays, in fact, you might could argue that along with Gasol, he should be getting more touches in scoring range. However, again, this is due to bad defense and possibly scouting by the Magic. If Odom ever loses use of his left hand he will be able to neither brush his teeth or wipe his ass! Magic defenders, make Odom go right! He will not score!

Now, back to Mr. Bryant, the most beloved player of sports commentators since his Airness.... Here's some advice Kobe..... Instead of trying to go out and win this championship without Shaq and all of that other nonsensical media BS...... Go try to get a triple double! You have guys on your team that can flat score the ball! Derek Fisher rarely misses a big shot late in games. Odom finishes well, you have some decent shooters, and Gasol is the most underused scorer in the game. You don't have to shoot 25 shots a game, in fact, you're hurting your team! It was your fault that the Lakers lost that game. Get Gasol the ball more. He needs 17+ shots a game! Maybe 25, he shoots an incredible percentage and puts pressure on the paint. Putting pressure on the paint is the ONLY key necessity for a successful offense in basketball. Fall away jumpers from 22 feet don't put pressure on the paint.

Open letter to LeBron James

LeBron,

You've had a hell of a year! You are the best in the world at what you do! So far in your career you have also proven to not only be a heck of an athlete, but an outstanding role model for children, as well as a likable personality for fans. With unimaginable media attention and scrutiny, you take everything in stride. You are to be commended for that.

Your team is currently down 3-2 to the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference Finals. You may still come back, win the series and the the NBA Championship. I wish you the best in that pursuit. However, after this season you are going to be faced with a big decision. What to do with the rest of your career.

You are under contract with Cleveland for only one more year. They may try to lock you up in a long term deal this summer. Don't fall for it! Wait and go free agent next year. You are going to win championships whereever you play, it's just a matter of how many. Get out of Cleveland! Danny Ferry is a bad GM, despite his Executive of the Year award. You won him that award.The team he has put around you is silly! You are a point guard! There's no reason to have a short player on the court called point guard that doesn't play point guard. You need to play for a GM that will put a big guard (that can shoot) on the court with you, and a forward that has size, or at least height comparable to your own and is versatile. Think Shane Battier type of a player.

The sheer size of such a lineup would cause untold match up problems for other teams. During Shaquille's era in Orlando, Penny Hardaway, Nick Anderson, and Dennis Scott were all 6'7" or taller and created match up problems that propelled them to the finals.

However, despite being surrounded with inferior players you are also hampered by an inferior coach. Despite any personal feelings you may have for him, Mike Brown is a horrendous coach. I could go on for days about basic coaching mistakes he makes, but it would be pointless. He doesn't even get you the ball in position for you to create effectively, you have to work to get there yourself. Furthermore he doesn't use the players on your team in a way in which they can effectively compliment you as well as they could. Spacing is often horrendous, they move without the ball poorly when moving effectively would provide themselves with additional scoring oppurtunities via your pass. Team defense is unsightly. Help is always a step late if it gets there at all. Again, I could go on for days, but I digress.

As to where you should go.... Not New York! It would be worst than staying in Cleveland, sports writers would love the story, but New York has been a consistently inept organization. They have a new and very good GM and Coach, but you don't want anything to do with New York. Even when they have had talent through the years, New York has had the tendency to smother players with the glitz of the city.

You and Dwight Howard in Orlando would be unbeatable, lots of records, lots of rings, and lots of wins. Don't go to a team like New Orleans. Chris Paul is an excellent player, but he's a point guard and so are you!

A team and particularly coach that would fit you well would be Utah! Jerry Sloan is the best coach in the NBA. He wins 50 games and goes to the playoffs every single year, with talent or without! Now idiots will tell you that it's a small market, unlike New York, L.A., or Chicago and that that's bad. Yeah, whatever, you'll make the market big. They're going to televise your games more than any other player, the media isn't going to forget about you in a smaller market, so go where you want! But again, Sloan is the best in the business.

Another gripe about a small market is that they can't pay you as much as a bigger market team with tons of cap room like New York. What idiots that would suggest such a thing can't comprehend is that your basketball money is merely going to pay the taxes on your endorsement deals, that will grow if you go to a team that provides you a good coach and teammates and allows you to win many rings.

Therefore, I wish you well in your decision and simply caution you to stay away from Cleveland and New York.

Yours Respectfully,

Todd Wilson

Random musings of current affairs.

Just some random thoughts about things in the media.

First we have this woman and her 13 year old son with cancer who are on the run for refusing cancer treatment. There's a ton of issues here that make this a very cloudy, very weird, and very uncertain situation. First the idiots in the media are searching for an absolute answer as to what SHOULD be done. The media always wants definite, absolute, cut and dry, black and white answers in this grey world we live in. That's why the media as a whole rarely gets anything right, and many media outlets are struggling financially.....

But back to this boy... first off, let me state that the mother sounds like a weird, granola eating, tree hugging, conspiracy theorists believing, latter day pot smoking hippie that got her pot and her LSD mixed up! A warrant has been issued for her arrest as she has fled with her cancer stricken 13 year old to avoid court ordered medical treatment.

However, I don't know about this legal precedent! I think that with this relatively curable form of cancer, that the boy should be taking the chemotherapy treatments. However, at the same time I don't want a court telling me I have to have or that I cannot have a medical procedure performed. The boy is 13 years old, at 13 he has an understanding of the consequences of his actions in this. He understands the differentiations of life, death, and suffering. Even if the cancer is treatable, if the treatments were so uncomfortable that he decided he had rather die than suffer through them in an attempt to live, then that should be a choice the court respects and accepts. Because he is not 18 does not mean that he is not capable of making a rational decision concerning his life! At age 13 I knew that I would not want to exist on life support! I can also imagine that I could make a decision on how much suffering I would be willing to endure to live. This is a terrible situation to examine this issue, but unless I am a public health risk, mandating treatment seems to interfere with inalienable rights. One could certainly argue neglect in the case of the mother not providing the opportunity for her son to have treatment, but the kid is 13. He is capable of decisions whether you or I agree with them.

However, before you can accept a 13 year old's decision on a matter as significant as this he must be given all the facts by medical staff, and he should then make such a decision with family and that EDUCATED decision should stand. However, an educated decision doesn't appear to have been made here.

Apparently the mother has an irrational fear, trust, and/or dislike for modern medicine, choosing instead to practice some sort of natural "holistic" treatments of some obscure Indian tribe. Note to you you crazy women...... That Indian tribe's medicinal knowledge has largely been lost over the course of the last 100 years. Sad but so! I am a great believer in alternative medicine and treatments, as I have seen some unique circumstances in which the approach was superior to conventional methods. However, I have also seen wacked out nuts die due to irrational beliefs such as yours. Some one with an infection needs penecilin, not a chant to the sun god along with some pine needle tea!

The intelligent person recognizes that alternative medicine has a place, and that modern medicine doesn't have a monopoly on medical knowledge. However, it is the marriage of the two methodologies as opposed to their estrangement that allows for the best possible outcome.

I am afraid that whatever the decision of this 13 year old, he has been inappropriately influenced in his decision making by the ignorance of his mother. The sad part is that ignorant people make ignorant decisions every day and are grossly ignorant of their ignorance......... and their is nothing anyone can do about it!




The NBA is currently holding its conference finals. LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers are playing the Orlando Magic. The Cavs have had their best year in franchise history, LeBron was MVP, but more disturbing was the Mike Brown received Coach of the Year honors, and GM Danny Ferry received Executive of the year honors. Both are incompetent just as the people who voted on these awards.

LeBron deserved MVP. Kobe Bryant and Dwayne Wade are excellent players but take LeBron James off of the Cavaliers and they couldn't win 25 games! The Lakers would still make the playoffs, and the heat would still not be very good. Lebron is the difference in being a cellar dweller and a championship contender!

Ferry isn't a good GM at all. This team is not very good! Furthermore, they are not assembled in a way that maximizes LeBron's spectacular talents. On top of that, he hired and has retained Mike Brown as coach. The only thing Mike Brown knows is that he coaches the best player in the world and he needs to keep him happy and give him the ball as much as he wants it, which to his credit he does!

The playoffs and probably the finals is where his inadequacies will catch up to the team and LeBron's ability to overcome the other team and his own team's lack of coaching and talent will be tested. Saying that I still think the Cavs will win the Championship this year. However, I will say that I believe they will be better off playing the Lakers than the Nuggets, as George Karl would severly out coach Mike Brown.

In short, whatever success Clevland has is because of one person and one person only! Lebron James! He is the most athletic person his size in history! And he will likely leave the NBA as it's greatest player ever assuming he stays healthy and keeps the seemingly level head he has thus far through his career! He's fun to watch and I wish him the best of a long and record breaking career.



Congress is attempting (it may have passed as of this writing) to give GM another $12 Billion dollars. How can they think it will help? None of this stimulus has worked as suggested thus far. The definition of idiocy is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. At this point if Congress did a rain dance on the steps of the capital I would applaud them because at least they were earnestly trying and it doesn't cost Billions! Furthermore, if the rain dance didn't work we would be no worse for wear!



I don't think that our politicians nor our news media is paying enough attention to, nor appreciates the great threat to our safety that North Korea and Iran are becoming.





Lane Kiffin....... heh heh...... I stated in another blog post below how inept this guy was..... on the micro blogging site Twitter he tweeted that he was excited about a recruit. He promptly blamed a subordinate.

Lane, if your name is on the account, and it's not an imposter what ever is said is your responsibility! Grow up and accept that responsibility! If you didn't approve what was Tweeted then it's your fault that you didn't. If you did it and are not telling the truth, then you are both incompetent and a liar. College coaches cannot under any circumstances discuss recruits publicly! You have proven to be incompetent when it comes to understanding NCAA rules and you have not coached your first game. The NCAA should step in this time and have UT forfeit all non-conference wins this year! An even better penalty would be forcing UT to play on the road at every other Tennessee College or University. One school per year for however long it takes to visit them all Div. I-III and NAIA. It would give boosts to all of those programs as well as allowing Tennessee fans who cannot normally make it to UT games to strain their voices singing Rocky Top!

However, it's not really your fault Lane! As if you would take the responsibility anyway..... it's the fault of the athletic administration of the University of Tennessee! What hallucinogen they were taking when they hired you would fascinate Cheech and Chong!


Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House..... Please change your story one more time. Preferably to one that is remotely believable!


Scott Peterson is on trial for killing another wife. Why do they keep picking on this guy? I mean every time he gets married and his wife is murdered. Hey some people just have bad luck!


Modern Day Cinema is in a state of disarray. The only good movies are remakes of one's made 25+ years ago or they are based off of books, comic books, or stories that because of their fantasy nature simply were not makeable 20 years ago, but are today because of special effects, especially CGI, possible.

However, no modern day movies have compelling stories driven by dialouge! Watching a movie like Casablanca is a stark contrast to a movie made within the last decade. And not because Casablanca was in black and white! You could be blind and hear Casablanca and not miss much. With Wolverine you wouldn't have any idea about what was going on other than there was a bunch of fighting.


That's all for now!