To be honest, I'm sick of the media circus surrounding Tiger Woods. What is going on here? He went from being a well respected golfer to the worst person in the world suddenly.
Ok, what he did was wrong, I don't condone cheating on your spouse. But the media needs to BACK OFF. I'm sick and tired of hearing about Tiger Woods this and Tiger Woods that. Don't you have anything better to report on, like starving children in Africa? Seriously, back down and give the man his privacy. He is taking an indefinite break from golf, the story has been reported. Move on.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
"The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"
I LOVE the winter holiday time period. It's the biggest feelgood time during the year, ....unless you were at Wal-Mart on black Friday. But besides that everyone is enjoying the up coming, and even if you don't celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, or Kwanzaa you can still cash in on all the good deals that the stores have.
But, the over commercialization of just Christmas is backfiring on itself. The people who want to enjoy what normally occurs everyday on, for example television, is being blocked out by Christmas specials. Additionally, we don't see gigantic Menorahs at Rockefeller Center, nor do we see "Chanukah lights" out on people's front lawns.
Granted a majority of the people celebrate this holiday, but honestly there are a lot of people who feel left out in all of this excitement, namely the people who don't celebrate Christmas. And, people have taken the commercialization of Christmas to ridiculous levels, I spotted a Christmas commercial this year as early as the day before Halloween. But regardless of the fact that sometimes the winter holidays can be an over commercialized excuse for people to make money, it still is the most wonderful time of the year.
I'm sorry I haven't updated my blog in the past couple of days. I'm still thinking of a time structure that I can base my entries off of, such as daily, every other day etc. A lot has happened since my last post, so some topics you can expect in the future are: Tebow crying, Tiger Woods, the Grammy nominations, and the BCS selections.
But, the over commercialization of just Christmas is backfiring on itself. The people who want to enjoy what normally occurs everyday on, for example television, is being blocked out by Christmas specials. Additionally, we don't see gigantic Menorahs at Rockefeller Center, nor do we see "Chanukah lights" out on people's front lawns.
Granted a majority of the people celebrate this holiday, but honestly there are a lot of people who feel left out in all of this excitement, namely the people who don't celebrate Christmas. And, people have taken the commercialization of Christmas to ridiculous levels, I spotted a Christmas commercial this year as early as the day before Halloween. But regardless of the fact that sometimes the winter holidays can be an over commercialized excuse for people to make money, it still is the most wonderful time of the year.
I'm sorry I haven't updated my blog in the past couple of days. I'm still thinking of a time structure that I can base my entries off of, such as daily, every other day etc. A lot has happened since my last post, so some topics you can expect in the future are: Tebow crying, Tiger Woods, the Grammy nominations, and the BCS selections.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Bowden, McDaniels, and Ovechkin
Before I get angry about stuff that's been going on, I wish to extend a hats off to Bobby Bowden, one of college footballs greatest coaches, who recently announced his retirement from the Head coach of Florida State. Among the highlights of Bowden's career are two national titles, twelve ACC championships, twenty one total bowl wins, and an overall record of 399-141-4, the second most in college football history behind Joe Paterno. Bowden, who is 80 years old, has been the head coach of Florida State for 34 years, since 1976. He will coach the FSU Seminoles in the upcoming bowl game.
Now here's where I get mad, Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels is the hot topic after an incident last Thursday, here's what happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubgGON_9TFE&feature=related
The NFL network apologized for McDaniel's ability to speak French, but McDaniels isn't the one to blame. If he apologizes at all for this, then that's just plain rediculous. First off it's the NFL Network's fault for not checking then censoring the clip. Secondly it's no secret that when you read the lips of most NFL coaches, you can see multiple expletives emitted from their mouths. Sometimes there is even audio to go with it, such as in the case of McDaniels. Several weeks back when the Baltimore Ravens played the New England Patriots, John Harbaugh got furious with the officials ater a questionable pass interference call against the Ravens. Well, the camera next to him was turned on, and it caught the audio of Harbaugh screaming "...BULLSHIT CALL." (Harbaugh then got unsportsmanlike conduct called on him because the pass interference call had been two plays ago.)
McDaniels, of course, did win the motherfucking game in question.
Finally I go to a topic that has people shocked, when they really shouldn't be. Washington Capitals forwar Alexandr Ovechkin has been suspended for two games for his knee to Carolina's Tim Gleason. Ovechkin was injured during the hit. Here's the hit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FfxSWmgRvI
It's about time that Ovechkin got a suspension for his aggressive/dirty tactics. He's been ejected from games before, such as this hit on Patrick Kaleta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x3-dufZHg4
and this ugly hit on Daniel Briere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxMJrQhGoSg
Newsflash hockey fans, just because you're one of the leagues biggest players does not grant you immunity. It may take time to get a suspension called on a player with tactics similar to Ovechkin, and sometimes the suspension may not be for something they actually deserved (think about Sean Avery.)
Now here's where I get mad, Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels is the hot topic after an incident last Thursday, here's what happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubgGON_9TFE&feature=related
The NFL network apologized for McDaniel's ability to speak French, but McDaniels isn't the one to blame. If he apologizes at all for this, then that's just plain rediculous. First off it's the NFL Network's fault for not checking then censoring the clip. Secondly it's no secret that when you read the lips of most NFL coaches, you can see multiple expletives emitted from their mouths. Sometimes there is even audio to go with it, such as in the case of McDaniels. Several weeks back when the Baltimore Ravens played the New England Patriots, John Harbaugh got furious with the officials ater a questionable pass interference call against the Ravens. Well, the camera next to him was turned on, and it caught the audio of Harbaugh screaming "...BULLSHIT CALL." (Harbaugh then got unsportsmanlike conduct called on him because the pass interference call had been two plays ago.)
McDaniels, of course, did win the motherfucking game in question.
Finally I go to a topic that has people shocked, when they really shouldn't be. Washington Capitals forwar Alexandr Ovechkin has been suspended for two games for his knee to Carolina's Tim Gleason. Ovechkin was injured during the hit. Here's the hit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FfxSWmgRvI
It's about time that Ovechkin got a suspension for his aggressive/dirty tactics. He's been ejected from games before, such as this hit on Patrick Kaleta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x3-dufZHg4
and this ugly hit on Daniel Briere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxMJrQhGoSg
Newsflash hockey fans, just because you're one of the leagues biggest players does not grant you immunity. It may take time to get a suspension called on a player with tactics similar to Ovechkin, and sometimes the suspension may not be for something they actually deserved (think about Sean Avery.)
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Obama's Progress
President Barack Obama is expected to make a speech tonight at 8 in regards to the situation in Afghanistan. I read in the paper this morning that he's basically pulling the Afghanistan version of the surge. What does he hope to accomplish?
Don't get wrong, I love Obama. I'm going to stick with him thorugh and thorugh, but in fairness to his critics, he hasn't done squat/he has done very little. I remember last year around this time there was so much hype about what he planned to do to fix the various messes the country is in right now. Sure, he's taking small steps to reform health care, deal with the war in Iraq, and clean up the economic mess. But I fear that the steps he is taking are to small over a long period of time, and that by the time the next election comes around, he won't have gained enough ground to be re-elected.
I hope Obama can do something that will send his popularity ratings back up. He needs to re-take control of the Senate in order to get the legislation that he wants passed, that's his biggest issue.
In the mean time, the situation in Afghanistan requires serious attention. Our progress in fixing the problems there has become a problem in of itself. We lost serious ground when we committed troops to the Iraq war, and we lost many lives over that pointless attempt for George W. Bush to finish what his father started. Thankfully Obama has oulled the troops out of the Iraq cities. Realistically it would take eighteen months to move all the soldiers and equipment back home, but the troops may be detouring to Afghanistan on the way back. Oh, that reminds me, WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING IN AFGHANISTAN ANYWAY? Are we still trying to capture bin Laden? We have bigger problems domestically, and the money we're spending on these "wars" is going to waste on the false hope that we can catch a terrorist mastermind. Obama needs to get that through his head before more lives are lost over nothing.
Don't get wrong, I love Obama. I'm going to stick with him thorugh and thorugh, but in fairness to his critics, he hasn't done squat/he has done very little. I remember last year around this time there was so much hype about what he planned to do to fix the various messes the country is in right now. Sure, he's taking small steps to reform health care, deal with the war in Iraq, and clean up the economic mess. But I fear that the steps he is taking are to small over a long period of time, and that by the time the next election comes around, he won't have gained enough ground to be re-elected.
I hope Obama can do something that will send his popularity ratings back up. He needs to re-take control of the Senate in order to get the legislation that he wants passed, that's his biggest issue.
In the mean time, the situation in Afghanistan requires serious attention. Our progress in fixing the problems there has become a problem in of itself. We lost serious ground when we committed troops to the Iraq war, and we lost many lives over that pointless attempt for George W. Bush to finish what his father started. Thankfully Obama has oulled the troops out of the Iraq cities. Realistically it would take eighteen months to move all the soldiers and equipment back home, but the troops may be detouring to Afghanistan on the way back. Oh, that reminds me, WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING IN AFGHANISTAN ANYWAY? Are we still trying to capture bin Laden? We have bigger problems domestically, and the money we're spending on these "wars" is going to waste on the false hope that we can catch a terrorist mastermind. Obama needs to get that through his head before more lives are lost over nothing.
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