Thursday, August 25, 2005
Huffington-Puffington~What a freaking joke!
My suggestion to My suggestion to Arianna Huffington, is to hire a voice coach, an interpreter, so that Americans can understand what she is saying! She spews anger, and makes no sense at all,and these talk shows have her on, just to make fun of her., that is my way of thinking about it. Huffington's husband went gay, and I personally think it was because during sex, she wouldn't shut-up! Huffington has a blog, and she has many people of influence writing about how bad the world is, how bad President Bush is, etc, etc, etc.! I think that until Huffington-Puffington can learn how to communicate in English, that maybe she should go back to her native homeland of Greece, and stay there until her speaking and her attitude gets to be a little better!, is to hire a voice coach, an interpreter, so that Americans can understand what she is saying! She spews anger, and makes no sense at all,and these talk shows have her on, just to make fun of her, that is my way of thinking about it. Huffington's husband went gay, and I personally think it was because during sex, she wouldn't shut-up! Huffington has a blog, and she has many people of influence writing about how bad the world is, how bad President Bush is, etc, etc, etc.! I think that until Huffington-Puffington can learn how to communicate in English, that maybe she should go back to her native homeland of Greece, and stay there until her speaking and her attitude gets to be a little better!
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Older woman, the younger man?
This morning on the CBS Morning Show, Renee Syler did a piece on how older women, are chasing younger men! Oh, my GOD, what is going to happen to the world? Is it going to come to an end? I think it's great if some older woman, can wrap up a younger man. It's a physiological thing, and it's most probably just about the sex!
Pat Robertson
I think Pat Robertson got it all wrong, and I think what he was trying to say, and what he should have said was this,(to keep it biblical) "We should go in
with the jawbone of an ass and whip Hugo Chavez to death." Now, doesn't that sound better?
with the jawbone of an ass and whip Hugo Chavez to death." Now, doesn't that sound better?
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Madonna
So, Madonna, fell off a horse, poor horse! I tell ya', Madonna, (whose real name is not Madonna) is a hack, a has been, a career is over "material-girl"! I have never purchased any of that broad's records and never will! Madonna is now into writing children's books, and I guess after parents don't go out in flocks to buy these books, she'll start writing books about her sexual fantasies? Who know, who cares? I place the Madonner in the category with Demi Moore, who digs the younger man. I bet one day, that Guy Richie will leave Madonna for another young "hot" babe, and leave Madonna writing books about how young guys will break your heart!
Monday, August 22, 2005
Paris Hilton is a "Nasty-Asty"!
Paris Hilton is the kind of gal that you don't really want to take to meet mom and dad(especially dad). Paris is dating some cat named "Paris", and he an aire to a shipping fortune, and they are supposedly in "love"? Now, Paris is a young gal, that has been in home-made "porno-flick", was also in the horror movie, "House of wax", but you know what, I just don't see any beauty in this babe! I mean, what is the big deal about Paris Hilton? She is a young broad, with just too much time on her hands! There is a really good chance that the other Paris will get smart and marry some Greek babe, since he is Greek, or maybe he's a "geek"? Yea, maybe, he's a "pencil neck-geek", and not a Greek? But, think about it, anyone in their right-mind, would not marry the "nasty-asty", Paris Hilton. I'm an old man, and I think I would turn her down! Yikes!
Shane & Napoleon Dynamite, two of my favorite movies!
I love the movie, "Shane", and I really love the movie, "Napoleon Dynamite"! It has to be one of the best movies that I have seen in years. The writers, and the director did a great job on portraying how it must be to live in a small town, this time in Idaho. The actors stayed in character, and it even has Hillary Duff's sister in this movie, playing the role of Summer Wheatly. I highly recommend this movie, it is one that you can watch over and over, again, and again, and find something new each time you watch it! The lead actor Jon Heder was only paid a 1000 bucks for the lead role, and the movie has made close to 50 million. I say, "check-it-out"!
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Demi~Ashton
It's pretty damn sad, when ever an older woman has to claim that a much younger man his her so-called "soulmate"? Demi has lost her mind, and so has that non-talent Ashton Kutcher! That guy is a pretty bad actor, and that is verified by his movies, that don't seem to do that well. One day, Ashton will leave Demi for some young babe, and Demi will jump in the ocean and follow the whales to oblivion. Poor, poor children of these "wacko stars", who haven't a clue, on how it is, in the real world!Talk about meeting your soul mate," the 42-year-old actress tells Harper's Bazaar in its September issue. "I truly feel I have been given that gift. And believe me, I wasn't some lightweight package. I'm, like, the package that didn't just come with luggage -- I had trunks"! No, Demi has so much baggage, that is would take Allied Van Lines to move it all. The so-called washed-up actress also said the two would like to 'expand' their family. She met Kutcher two years ago. They now live together, and they like to snuggle "nekked"! Please spare us the details Ms. Moore! Enough of this nonsense, grow up. I guess you still like changing diapers, and I'm not talking about newborns.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Rushbo! Oh no!
Rush Limbaugh is wanting to settle the dispute between Donavon McNabb and Terrell Owens. Say it isn't so Rush! Are you losing it? For the life of me, I just don't understand how Rush can slam McNabb, and then turn around and want to assist in a dispute. Rush, once made the remark, that McNabb was overrated, because the media wanted to see a black quarter-back succeed, and know he wants them to settle the dispute on his radio show! "I am here to offer and to assist. I can," Limbaugh said on his nationally syndicated radio show Friday, according to a transcript on his Web site. "I could bring these two guys together. I've been there, folks, and I could do this, and I'm serious in my desire to do it."Limbaugh resigned from ESPN almost two years ago after pissing off America by making a off-color remarks on a pregame show that he didn't think McNabb was as good as perceived from the start. Rush also said,"I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well," Limbaugh said on "Sunday NFL Countdown."Now Limbaugh wants to wants to be the good guy with the white hat, and make things lovely between the two. Other quotes of Limbaugh,"This rift cannot be allowed to continue, ladies and gentlemen. It just can't, and I would like to offer this program as a means of getting these two Americans and star players back together," Limbaugh said. "They may not want to talk to each other face-to-face, but perhaps they would join me on this program and speak to each other telephonically via this program and settle this." Rush get a grip!
My daughter-dad-mom-my birds.
Since the death of my daughter almost a year and a half ago, it just seems to me like my life has come to a stand-still. I stay depressed, I'm on the verge of losing everything, because of my depression, and not being able to work! I have only begun to start so-called working again, but being in business for yourself can be a struggle, and trying to return to the broadcast business has been a chore. Most stations that receive a sample of my work, like my presentation, but I'm never offered a job. Here of late, I have developed a nagging cough. I raise birds, pigeons, parakeets, and don't know if the dander, that they shake out of their feathers is giving me this cough, but if the problem persists, I'll have to go to a doctor, I believe? It's hard to do anything, when your not able to breathe. My life is certainly a "quirky" one, and it always has been, and just maybe one day things might get better? I think of my dad, who passed away, more than ten years ago. My dad died of cancer, and my mother died of cancer almost seven years ago, and then the loss of my daughter, a year and a half ago is just hard to take. I think, I keep the birds around, not only for the enjoyment, but for something to keep my brain occupied. This story continues, one day, but not today.
Paula Dean-Cooking Network
I just love watching Paula Dean on the "Food-Network". She typifies what southern cooking is all about, and it's just a lot of fun to watch her. I lead a pretty boring life, so what is better than watching Paula Dean, and the "Food-Network"? I believe, Ms. Dean will be in a movie soon?
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Terrel Owens stinks!
Terrell Owens is a guy with no brain in his head, but just barely a pulse in his body, and that's about it! At the moment, Owens averages about a thousand bucks a day, and he still wants more. Owens is nothing more than a greedy bastard, and he needs to be let go by the Philadelphia Eagles, he is nothing more than a distraction, and will do nothing for that team! Owens signed a contract, and a contract is suppose to mean something. I was watching Owens tonight, being interviewed on ESPN, and sitting beside him was his greedy agent bastard, coming across as Owens being a nice guy! Screw Owens, he signed a contract, and that should mean something. You can't sign a contact, and then expect the Eagles to change it! On another note, Owens is trying to get more money because of his half-ass performance in last years Superbowl, but remember, he was hurt most of the season, and the team made it without him, just fine! Owens, take you agent, and go peddle some fish with some other organization. You both stink! I think the reason Owens is so screwed-up, is due to the fact that his new agent wants more money? Let's face it, big over-blown salaries have destroyed the National Football league, and eventually the bottom will fall out!
Our greedy politicans have ruined this country.
Thanks to our great politicians, who would rather sell us out to get votes rather than to keep our country safe. See how we are being invaded by South America, especially Mexico. The hell with the Alamo, and the brave men and women that sacrificed their blood, to make this country what it is, only to have it over-taken by illegals! See story below!
Census: Texas newest state where minorities are the majority
EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- Texas has become the fourth state where minorities account for most of the population, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday, a trend driven by a surging number of Latinos moving to the state.
According to the population estimates based on the 2000 Census, about 50.2 percent of Texans are now minorities. In the 2000 Census, minorities made up about 47 percent of the population in the second-largest state.
Texas joins California, New Mexico and Hawaii as states with majority-minority populations -- with Latinos the largest group in every one of those states except for Hawaii, where it is Asian-Americans.
Five other states -- Maryland, Mississippi, Georgia, New York and Arizona -- aren't far behind, with about 40 percent minorities.
Public policy analysts said these states and the country as a whole need to bring minority education and professional achievement to the levels of whites. Otherwise, these areas risk becoming poorer and less competitive.
William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., said lawmakers need to start with immigration reform, while striving to bring minorities' education and salary levels in line with Anglos.
"Immigration is good for the United States ... it's important for us to keep our doors open, but we need to keep an eye on the people coming in," Frey said. "While initially it will be a state problem, eventually it will be a national issue, and education is the best way to deal with it."
Complications from the cultural shift aren't likely to be exclusive to states that already have majority-minority populations, Frey said.
Nevada, for instance, has seen a massive influx of minorities in the last 15 years, reducing the percentage of Anglos since the 1990s from nearly 80 percent to about 60 percent. Such a rapid shift is likely to cause growing pains that include trying to balance the needs of a bigger and younger minority community with an aging Anglo community, Frey said.
"That's the kind of state that is going to have to deal with quick transition," Frey said.
Though some areas may never see this shift, the country as a whole is expected to continue the trend first noticed more than a decade ago.
The nation should be more than half minorities by 2050, said Steve Murdock, a demographer at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
"If you look in the 1990s, in every one of the 50 states, non-Anglo Latino populations grew faster than Anglo populations," Murdock said. "It's a very pervasive pattern."
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Census: Texas newest state where minorities are the majority
EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- Texas has become the fourth state where minorities account for most of the population, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday, a trend driven by a surging number of Latinos moving to the state.
According to the population estimates based on the 2000 Census, about 50.2 percent of Texans are now minorities. In the 2000 Census, minorities made up about 47 percent of the population in the second-largest state.
Texas joins California, New Mexico and Hawaii as states with majority-minority populations -- with Latinos the largest group in every one of those states except for Hawaii, where it is Asian-Americans.
Five other states -- Maryland, Mississippi, Georgia, New York and Arizona -- aren't far behind, with about 40 percent minorities.
Public policy analysts said these states and the country as a whole need to bring minority education and professional achievement to the levels of whites. Otherwise, these areas risk becoming poorer and less competitive.
William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., said lawmakers need to start with immigration reform, while striving to bring minorities' education and salary levels in line with Anglos.
"Immigration is good for the United States ... it's important for us to keep our doors open, but we need to keep an eye on the people coming in," Frey said. "While initially it will be a state problem, eventually it will be a national issue, and education is the best way to deal with it."
Complications from the cultural shift aren't likely to be exclusive to states that already have majority-minority populations, Frey said.
Nevada, for instance, has seen a massive influx of minorities in the last 15 years, reducing the percentage of Anglos since the 1990s from nearly 80 percent to about 60 percent. Such a rapid shift is likely to cause growing pains that include trying to balance the needs of a bigger and younger minority community with an aging Anglo community, Frey said.
"That's the kind of state that is going to have to deal with quick transition," Frey said.
Though some areas may never see this shift, the country as a whole is expected to continue the trend first noticed more than a decade ago.
The nation should be more than half minorities by 2050, said Steve Murdock, a demographer at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
"If you look in the 1990s, in every one of the 50 states, non-Anglo Latino populations grew faster than Anglo populations," Murdock said. "It's a very pervasive pattern."
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
New Orleans Saints
I'm a big Saints fan, been watching the team since 1967, and the Saints are good for the state. Read the story below about the Saints wanting to resume talks with the state is most probably a ploy by Benson to sell more season tickets. Us, in Louisiana, will just have to wait and see what takes places, between out not so-intelligent Governor, and Benson.
Tom Benson wants to resume negotiations with the state, possibly by the end of the summer, on a deal to keep the National Football League team in Louisiana.Saints executive vice president Arnold Fielkow said he had no comment about any upcoming meetings. He said Blanco and Benson met a few weeks ago."At the appropriate time, we look forward to having an opportunity to continue to discuss ways to ensure the Saints receive a long-term agreement," Fielkow said.The two sides are looking at resuming negotiations in August or September, said Denise Bottcher, a spokeswoman for Gov. Kathleen Blanco. Benson broke off talks on April 27, saying he wanted to concentrate on the upcoming NFL season.Bottcher said Benson requested and received a June 17 meeting with Blanco at Saints headquarters in Metairie."It was a very friendly meeting," Bottcher said. "Mr. Benson expressed a strong desire to stay in New Orleans, and the governor expressed a strong desire to make that affordable for the state."Fielkow confirmed the June meeting.Under the team's existing agreement with the state, the Saints can cancel the contract and move from New Orleans after this season, but Benson would have to pay the state about $81 million in penalties. The state can opt out of the contract in 2008 without paying penalties.The contract calls for the state to pay the team $186.5 million from 2002 through 2011, a deal negotiated by former Gov. Mike Foster and one that Blanco says the state cannot afford.The state has had to borrow $15 million two years in a row to make the annual payments to the team because revenue from the hotel-motel tax in Orleans and Jefferson parishes has not met its projected revenue to finance the deal.---Information from: The Times-Picayune.
Tom Benson wants to resume negotiations with the state, possibly by the end of the summer, on a deal to keep the National Football League team in Louisiana.Saints executive vice president Arnold Fielkow said he had no comment about any upcoming meetings. He said Blanco and Benson met a few weeks ago."At the appropriate time, we look forward to having an opportunity to continue to discuss ways to ensure the Saints receive a long-term agreement," Fielkow said.The two sides are looking at resuming negotiations in August or September, said Denise Bottcher, a spokeswoman for Gov. Kathleen Blanco. Benson broke off talks on April 27, saying he wanted to concentrate on the upcoming NFL season.Bottcher said Benson requested and received a June 17 meeting with Blanco at Saints headquarters in Metairie."It was a very friendly meeting," Bottcher said. "Mr. Benson expressed a strong desire to stay in New Orleans, and the governor expressed a strong desire to make that affordable for the state."Fielkow confirmed the June meeting.Under the team's existing agreement with the state, the Saints can cancel the contract and move from New Orleans after this season, but Benson would have to pay the state about $81 million in penalties. The state can opt out of the contract in 2008 without paying penalties.The contract calls for the state to pay the team $186.5 million from 2002 through 2011, a deal negotiated by former Gov. Mike Foster and one that Blanco says the state cannot afford.The state has had to borrow $15 million two years in a row to make the annual payments to the team because revenue from the hotel-motel tax in Orleans and Jefferson parishes has not met its projected revenue to finance the deal.---Information from: The Times-Picayune.
Tucker Carlson, that fat Rita Crosby!
Tucker Carlson is now at MSNBC, and I like his show, he does a really good job. CNN, I still watch on occasion, and have scaled back on watching FOX News, and the reason for that is that their logo ruined my brand new high-definition television, and that really bothered me! FOX News is going to hell for ruining my television! Rita Crosby left FOX because of contract problems, but hell, FOX News carried her, not the other way around, She'll bomb on MSNBC, you'll see. FOX News hired the beautiful Gretchen Carlson, and let me tell you, if they let that hot babe loose, FOX News will have even better ratings, she is a "hottie"! FOX News, by far, has the best looking babes in "news-land", that is why their ratings are so good!
Clear Channel, Rush, etc.
Clear Channel has ruined radio forever! Radio will never we the same, and thank God for XM, and Sirius satellite radio. Satellite radio will change the way we listen to radio. Rush Limbaugh is always complaining about satellite radio, says he has a hard time picking up the signal, but we all know why Rush says that? If Rush stays off satellite radio, he stands to make way more money. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a Rush fan, but sometimes he gets a little out there, on a limb, so to speak!
Football season is about to get under way in the southland!
An Auburn family of football supporters headed out one Saturday to do their Christmas shopping. In the sports shop the son picks up an LSU jersey and says to his older sister, "I've decided to become an LSU fan and I would like this for Christmas".His big sister is outraged by this and promptly whacks him round the head and says, "Go talk to mother".Off goes the little lad with the LSU jersey in hand and finds his mother."Mom?""Yes son?""I've decided I'm going to be a LSU fan and I would like this jersey for Christmas".The mother is outraged at this, promptly whacks him around the head andsays, "Go talk to your father!" Off he goes with the LSU jersey in hand and finds his father. "Dad?""Yes son?""I've decided I'm going to be a LSU fan and I would like this jersey for Christmas".The father is outraged and promptly whacks his son around the head and says, "No son of mine is ever going to be seen in THAT!"About half an hour later they're all back in the car and heading towards home. The father turns to his son and says "Son, I hope you've learned something today."The son says, "Yes, Dad, I have.""Good son, what is it?"The son replies, "I've only been a LSU fan for an hour and I already hate you Auburn bastards."
Tattoos, they are stinky, and sometimes smelly, just like the people that have them!
I have come to the conclusion that the only reason that people go out and get tattoos is so that they are able to take their clothes off! I, mean, think about it, you get a tattoo, and the only way that it is seen, is by taking your clothes off! I would never don a tattoo, it is just wrong to desecrate the body! Back in World War II, Hitler would tattoo Jews, because if a Jew had a tattoo, they could not be buried in a Jewish Cemetery. Tommy Lee Jones has tattoos all over his body, and besides him looking like a crow on heroin, the tattoos make him look moronic, don't you agree? Basketball, football players have to have their tattoos, even movie stars have tattoos, and Kelly Ripa has a tattoo. The only tattoo that I ever liked was Hervé Villechaize of Fantasy Island fame!
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
The NCAA is wrong, and they need to be stopped!
The NCAA is wrong, and they need to be stopped! Read below!
NCAA nixes ‘hostile’ names
By Matt Perkins
NCAA championships are about to change — or at least the names of the teams participating in them are.
Some of the most popular and successful teams in college sports are at the center of an ongoing controversy that reached new heights last week.
The NCAA Executive Committee issued a policy Friday that prohibits colleges and universities from “displaying hostile and abusive racial/ethnic/national origin mascots, nicknames or imagery” at all 88 NCAA championships. Specifically, the policy is aimed at American Indian representations.
But the policy will not cover regular season play, which has caused a continued uproar from some tribes that have headed up a campaign to ban certain NCAA nicknames completely.
On the other side, the announcement is cause for complaint from certain teams, such as the Florida State Seminoles, who have the support of local tribes to continue using their nicknames.
At the root of the decision, which some call a compromise, is the fact that what might be offensive to some isn’t to others, and vice versa.
TED S.WARREN, AP
Illinois mascot Chief Illiniwek is at the heart of the controversy about American Indian nicknames and imagery in college sports. Some find the dance, shown here, offensive when used at sporting events.
“It has to be on an individual, case-by-case basis,” Minnesota Athletics Director Joel Maturi said. “But you have to be sensitive to that issue. It’s all about where you draw the line and what is the intention of it.”
Eighteen schools will be affected by the policy, including Florida State, Illinois’ Fighting Illini, North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux and Utah’s Utes, among others.
Florida State has revealed that the Seminole Tribe of Florida is supporting the school’s case to keep the mascot. Conversely, several Sioux tribes in North Dakota have rallied and petitioned against the school’s mascot.
And come the beginning of the spring championship season in March — the policy begins taking effect Feb. 1, 2006, with full prohibition set for Feb. 1, 2008 — the focus on Illinois might shift from its athletic success to its struggle with the new policy.
The nickname “Fighting Illini” might cause some to take offense, but Illinois mascot Chief Illiniwek is the source of the most controversy.
Dressed in regalia given to the school by Sioux Chief Frank Fools Crow in 1982 during a halftime ceremony of an Illini football game, the school’s mascot gets the crowd going with a dance some believe shouldn’t be performed for entertainment purposes. The dance is mirrored after a sacred American Indian dance that some believe should only be performed for ceremonial purposes.
Now it might have stirred up as much controversy as school spirit over the years, and the NCAA’s latest step is in more of a politically correct direction, said Bryan Alkemeyer, co-coordinator of the Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative, an “anti-Chief” activist group based in Champaign, Ill.
“We’re really pleased with the NCAA decision,” Alkemeyer said. “We’re hoping they continue to evaluate race-based mascots in sports and possibly even take a stronger stance in the future.”
As of now, it seems nobody is completely happy with the policy, but all sides are left trying to sift through its vague definition of “hostile and abusive.”
The one thing that’s certain is that it’s all part of a process.
“We have to learn more about the NCAA’s policy,” said Thomas Hardy, University of Illinois executive director for university relations. “We need to take some time and figure out some of the ambiguities in the policy. Then we can determine where we go from there.”
NCAA nixes ‘hostile’ names
By Matt Perkins
NCAA championships are about to change — or at least the names of the teams participating in them are.
Some of the most popular and successful teams in college sports are at the center of an ongoing controversy that reached new heights last week.
The NCAA Executive Committee issued a policy Friday that prohibits colleges and universities from “displaying hostile and abusive racial/ethnic/national origin mascots, nicknames or imagery” at all 88 NCAA championships. Specifically, the policy is aimed at American Indian representations.
But the policy will not cover regular season play, which has caused a continued uproar from some tribes that have headed up a campaign to ban certain NCAA nicknames completely.
On the other side, the announcement is cause for complaint from certain teams, such as the Florida State Seminoles, who have the support of local tribes to continue using their nicknames.
At the root of the decision, which some call a compromise, is the fact that what might be offensive to some isn’t to others, and vice versa.
TED S.WARREN, AP
Illinois mascot Chief Illiniwek is at the heart of the controversy about American Indian nicknames and imagery in college sports. Some find the dance, shown here, offensive when used at sporting events.
“It has to be on an individual, case-by-case basis,” Minnesota Athletics Director Joel Maturi said. “But you have to be sensitive to that issue. It’s all about where you draw the line and what is the intention of it.”
Eighteen schools will be affected by the policy, including Florida State, Illinois’ Fighting Illini, North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux and Utah’s Utes, among others.
Florida State has revealed that the Seminole Tribe of Florida is supporting the school’s case to keep the mascot. Conversely, several Sioux tribes in North Dakota have rallied and petitioned against the school’s mascot.
And come the beginning of the spring championship season in March — the policy begins taking effect Feb. 1, 2006, with full prohibition set for Feb. 1, 2008 — the focus on Illinois might shift from its athletic success to its struggle with the new policy.
The nickname “Fighting Illini” might cause some to take offense, but Illinois mascot Chief Illiniwek is the source of the most controversy.
Dressed in regalia given to the school by Sioux Chief Frank Fools Crow in 1982 during a halftime ceremony of an Illini football game, the school’s mascot gets the crowd going with a dance some believe shouldn’t be performed for entertainment purposes. The dance is mirrored after a sacred American Indian dance that some believe should only be performed for ceremonial purposes.
Now it might have stirred up as much controversy as school spirit over the years, and the NCAA’s latest step is in more of a politically correct direction, said Bryan Alkemeyer, co-coordinator of the Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative, an “anti-Chief” activist group based in Champaign, Ill.
“We’re really pleased with the NCAA decision,” Alkemeyer said. “We’re hoping they continue to evaluate race-based mascots in sports and possibly even take a stronger stance in the future.”
As of now, it seems nobody is completely happy with the policy, but all sides are left trying to sift through its vague definition of “hostile and abusive.”
The one thing that’s certain is that it’s all part of a process.
“We have to learn more about the NCAA’s policy,” said Thomas Hardy, University of Illinois executive director for university relations. “We need to take some time and figure out some of the ambiguities in the policy. Then we can determine where we go from there.”
Monday, August 08, 2005
Aging gracefully.
A 70 yr. old nurse walks into a bank and prepares to endorse a check. She reaches in her pocket and pulls out a rectal thermometer and tries to write with it. She looks up at the teller, pauses for a moment, then realizing her mistake, she says, "Well that's great , just great... Some asshole's got my pen."Reporters interviewing a 104 year-old woman: "And what do you think is the best thing about being 104?" the reporter asked. She simply replied, "No peer pressure." The nice thing about being senile is you can hide your own Easter eggs.Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, "How old was your husband?" "98," she replied. "Two years older than me." "So you're 96," the undertaker commented. She responded, " Hardly worth going home is it?" I've sure gotten old. I've had two by-pass surgeries. A hip replacement, new knees, fought prostate cancer, and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. Have bouts with dementia. Have poor circulation, hardly feel my hands and feet anymore. Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92. Have lost all my friends. But... thank God, I still have my driver's license!A 97 year old man goes into his doctor's office and says, "Doc, I want my sex drive lowered." Sir," replied the doctor, "You're 97. Don't you think your sex drive is all in your head?" "You're damned right it is!" replied the old man. "That's why I want it lowered!" An elderly woman from Brooklyn decided to prepare her will. She told her rabbi she had two final requests. First, she wanted to be cremated, and second, she wanted her ashes scattered over Walmart. "Walmart!" the rabbi exclaimed. "Why Walmart?" "Then I'll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week."
Sunday, August 07, 2005
The Passenger Pigeon
A sad, but true tale.
The Passenger Pigeon
In all probability, the Passenger Pigeon was once the most abundant bird on the planet. Accounts of its numbers sound like something out of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and strain our credulity today. Alexander Wilson, the father of scientific ornithology in America, estimated that one flock consisted of two billion birds. Wilson's rival, John James Audubon, watched a flock pass overhead for three days and estimated that at times more than 300 million pigeons flew by him each hour. Elongated nesting colonies several miles wide could reach a length of forty miles. In these colonies, droppings were thick enough to kill the forest understory.
Passenger Pigeons were denizens of the once great deciduous forests of the eastern United States. The birds provided an easily harvested resource for native Americans and early settlers. To obtain dinner in the nesting season one needed only to wander into a colony and pluck some of the fat squabs that had fallen or been knocked from their nests. Audubon wrote in his classic Birds of America, "The pigeons were picked up and piled in heaps, until each [hunter] had as many as he could possibly dispose of, when the hogs were let loose to feed on the remainder."
Old magazine illustration of hunters shooting Passenger Pigeons. Note the density of the flight.(From copy in Schorger, 1955.)
Market hunters prospered, devising a wide variety of techniques for slaughtering the pigeons and collecting their succulent squabs. Adults were baited with alcohol-soaked grain (which made them drunk and easy to catch), and suffocated by fires of grass or sulfur that were lit below their nests. To attract their brethren, captive pigeons, their eyes sewn shut, were set up as decoys on small perches called stools (which is the origin of the term stool pigeon for one who betrays colleagues). Squabs were knocked from nests with long poles, trees were chopped down or were set on fire to make the squabs jump from nests. Disruption of the colonies was so severe that wholesale nest abandonment was common and breeding success much reduced.
So successful were the market hunters that pigeons became cheap enough for use as live targets in shooting galleries. Laws intended to protect the pigeons did not help. In 1886 an editor's note in Forest and Stream said:
When the birds appear all the male inhabitants of the neighborhood leave their customary occupations as farmers, bark-peelers, oil-scouts, wildcatters, and tavern loafers, and join in the work of capturing and marketing the game. The Pennsylvania law very plainly forbids the destruction of the pigeons on their nesting grounds, but no one pays any attention to the law, and the nesting birds have been killed by thousands and tens of thousands.
As railroads penetrated the upper Middle West after the Civil War, many millions of pigeons were shipped to cities along the Atlantic seaboard, since, by then, clearing of oak and beech forests and hunting had already exterminated the birds on the East Coast. Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon came with stunning rapidity. Michigan was its last stronghold; about three million birds were shipped east from there by a single hunter in 1878. Eleven years later, 1889, the species was extinct in that state. Although small groups of pigeons were held in various places in captivity, efforts to maintain those flocks failed. The last known individual of the species, a female named Martha, died in 1914 in the Cincinnati Zoo and is now on display in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History.
Of course, market hunting ended as soon as harvesting the birds was no longer economically profitable. That point was reached when tens of thousands of the birds still flew within large stretches of suitable habitat. Much of that habitat still exists today, although many of the largest nut-producing trees that were common in the heyday of the pigeon were logged. Why, then, did the birds go extinct? No one knows for sure, but it appears that to survive they needed to nest in vast colonies. Perhaps this permitted them to "swamp" predators with their enormous numbers, so that the relatively few predators in the area of a roost were unable to make a significant dent in the huge breeding colonies. And since these colonies dispersed as soon as breeding was over, predators were prevented from building up their populations on the basis of such an ephemeral resource. In any case, the fate of the Passenger Pigeon illustrates a very important principle of conservation biology: it is not always necessary to kill the last pair of a species to force it to extinction.
Sad to say, the lesson of the Passenger Pigeon has not been learned. At the present time the White-crowned Pigeon is threatened by the horrendous slaughter of nesting birds on its Caribbean breeding grounds.
The Passenger Pigeon
In all probability, the Passenger Pigeon was once the most abundant bird on the planet. Accounts of its numbers sound like something out of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and strain our credulity today. Alexander Wilson, the father of scientific ornithology in America, estimated that one flock consisted of two billion birds. Wilson's rival, John James Audubon, watched a flock pass overhead for three days and estimated that at times more than 300 million pigeons flew by him each hour. Elongated nesting colonies several miles wide could reach a length of forty miles. In these colonies, droppings were thick enough to kill the forest understory.
Passenger Pigeons were denizens of the once great deciduous forests of the eastern United States. The birds provided an easily harvested resource for native Americans and early settlers. To obtain dinner in the nesting season one needed only to wander into a colony and pluck some of the fat squabs that had fallen or been knocked from their nests. Audubon wrote in his classic Birds of America, "The pigeons were picked up and piled in heaps, until each [hunter] had as many as he could possibly dispose of, when the hogs were let loose to feed on the remainder."
Old magazine illustration of hunters shooting Passenger Pigeons. Note the density of the flight.(From copy in Schorger, 1955.)
Market hunters prospered, devising a wide variety of techniques for slaughtering the pigeons and collecting their succulent squabs. Adults were baited with alcohol-soaked grain (which made them drunk and easy to catch), and suffocated by fires of grass or sulfur that were lit below their nests. To attract their brethren, captive pigeons, their eyes sewn shut, were set up as decoys on small perches called stools (which is the origin of the term stool pigeon for one who betrays colleagues). Squabs were knocked from nests with long poles, trees were chopped down or were set on fire to make the squabs jump from nests. Disruption of the colonies was so severe that wholesale nest abandonment was common and breeding success much reduced.
So successful were the market hunters that pigeons became cheap enough for use as live targets in shooting galleries. Laws intended to protect the pigeons did not help. In 1886 an editor's note in Forest and Stream said:
When the birds appear all the male inhabitants of the neighborhood leave their customary occupations as farmers, bark-peelers, oil-scouts, wildcatters, and tavern loafers, and join in the work of capturing and marketing the game. The Pennsylvania law very plainly forbids the destruction of the pigeons on their nesting grounds, but no one pays any attention to the law, and the nesting birds have been killed by thousands and tens of thousands.
As railroads penetrated the upper Middle West after the Civil War, many millions of pigeons were shipped to cities along the Atlantic seaboard, since, by then, clearing of oak and beech forests and hunting had already exterminated the birds on the East Coast. Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon came with stunning rapidity. Michigan was its last stronghold; about three million birds were shipped east from there by a single hunter in 1878. Eleven years later, 1889, the species was extinct in that state. Although small groups of pigeons were held in various places in captivity, efforts to maintain those flocks failed. The last known individual of the species, a female named Martha, died in 1914 in the Cincinnati Zoo and is now on display in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History.
Of course, market hunting ended as soon as harvesting the birds was no longer economically profitable. That point was reached when tens of thousands of the birds still flew within large stretches of suitable habitat. Much of that habitat still exists today, although many of the largest nut-producing trees that were common in the heyday of the pigeon were logged. Why, then, did the birds go extinct? No one knows for sure, but it appears that to survive they needed to nest in vast colonies. Perhaps this permitted them to "swamp" predators with their enormous numbers, so that the relatively few predators in the area of a roost were unable to make a significant dent in the huge breeding colonies. And since these colonies dispersed as soon as breeding was over, predators were prevented from building up their populations on the basis of such an ephemeral resource. In any case, the fate of the Passenger Pigeon illustrates a very important principle of conservation biology: it is not always necessary to kill the last pair of a species to force it to extinction.
Sad to say, the lesson of the Passenger Pigeon has not been learned. At the present time the White-crowned Pigeon is threatened by the horrendous slaughter of nesting birds on its Caribbean breeding grounds.
Democrats!
What is wrong with the Democrats these days? They have great leaders like John Kerry, Dr. Howard Dean, "Fat-man" Ted Kennedy, and let's not to forget to mention the beautiful Hillary "I'm a man" Clinton! So, Hillary wants to lead this country, wants to be our president, wants to be able to bring Bill back to the White house. Can you imagine that even happening? It's up to us southern men that vote, to make damn sure that doesn't' ever happen! Our country has been through enough turmoil with the Clintons. Hillary, just write another book!
Dukes Of Hazzard!
I went to see the new movie, "The Dukes of Hazzard", starring Jessica Simpson. Now, can anyone out there tell me why Jessica Simpson is considered to be so beautiful? I don't see it, now I must say that she did a pretty good job of shaking her ass, but that was about it! I recommend this movie, for the fun, but it's not for those "movie-goers", that demand great scripts, with a great story, because this movie has neither, but it was fun to see Burt Reynolds, and Willie Nelson. The hell with what the critics say, go see this movie just for the out-takes at the end of the movie, it is worth the ten bucks!
Friday, August 05, 2005
Kelly Ripa, the "kiss-ass-kiss-up" babe!
This morning, Kelly Ripa, had sitting beside her co-host Jessica Simpson, and all that Kelly Ripa could do was "kiss-up" to Jessica "no-brain-in-the head" Simpson! Jessica Simpson sings OK, but the way she jerks that head around while on stage can make you develop a case of "vertigo"! Molly Sims, the actress with the bad-lisp was also kissing up to Jessica Simpson! I'll go see the "Dukes Of Hazzard" movie to see Jessica in a bikini, but I also want to see the fine acting! Yep, Kelly Ripa is a "kiss-up", "kiss-ass", type of gal! Kelly, gain some weight!
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Hillary Clinton for President? You've go to be kidding!
See below, and this woman wants to be president? She has balls, that's for damn sure! We, Americans, are a bunch of "brain-dead" idiots, if we elected that mean, hateful, female dog to the office of the presidency!
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI DEC 05, 2003 19:58:09 ET XXXXXHILLARY RIPS BUSH: WARNS OF 'IRREPARABLE HARM' TO NATIONSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton blasts President Bush and his "radical" administration on Saturday for attempting to dismantle the "central pillars of progress in our country during the 20th century."Clinton makes the comments to Saturday editions of the HOUSTON CHRONICLE, sources tell DRUDGE.The former first lady says she has become convinced the Republican administration wants "to undo the New Deal," the Roosevelt-era policies that ushered in Social Security and a host of other governmental assistance programs.She said that Bush, who campaigned as a "compassionate conservative" in 2000, had taken a "hard-right turn to pursue an extremist agenda" after moving into the White House."I don't know where it came from, but the fact is that this President Bush has not only been radical and extreme in terms of Democratic presidents but in terms of Republican presidents, including his own father," she says.She believes Bush is beatable next year because his administration is "making America less free, fair, strong, smart than it deserves to be in a dangerous world.""We have to change direction before irreparable harm is done," she adds."This administration is in danger of being the first in American history to leave our nation worse off than when they found it."Developing...
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI DEC 05, 2003 19:58:09 ET XXXXXHILLARY RIPS BUSH: WARNS OF 'IRREPARABLE HARM' TO NATIONSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton blasts President Bush and his "radical" administration on Saturday for attempting to dismantle the "central pillars of progress in our country during the 20th century."Clinton makes the comments to Saturday editions of the HOUSTON CHRONICLE, sources tell DRUDGE.The former first lady says she has become convinced the Republican administration wants "to undo the New Deal," the Roosevelt-era policies that ushered in Social Security and a host of other governmental assistance programs.She said that Bush, who campaigned as a "compassionate conservative" in 2000, had taken a "hard-right turn to pursue an extremist agenda" after moving into the White House."I don't know where it came from, but the fact is that this President Bush has not only been radical and extreme in terms of Democratic presidents but in terms of Republican presidents, including his own father," she says.She believes Bush is beatable next year because his administration is "making America less free, fair, strong, smart than it deserves to be in a dangerous world.""We have to change direction before irreparable harm is done," she adds."This administration is in danger of being the first in American history to leave our nation worse off than when they found it."Developing...
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the right hand man to Bin Laden is nothing more than a joke! He makes statements about killing thousands of American soldiers if we don't leave Iraq! What the bastard doesn't understand is that if one one American soldier is killed, that is equivalent of a thousand to us Americans! Ayman al-Zawahiri doesn't understand the will and might of American soldiers in battle, especially Marines, you go around killing them, and more will come after you! Ayman al-Zawahiri is a bastard, that is going to hell, and will have bombs exploding up his stinky-ass for all eternity, and God will have Bin Laden cleaning out the asses of camels for all eternity! I don't think these morons understand, that a creator that gives life, and gives you life, is not going to reward you for taking someone's else's life! What God do they pray too, or should I say prey too? You bastards are going straight to hell!
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Jessica Simpson
This Friday, the movie, "The Dukes Of Hazzard" will be released with Johnny "Jack-ass"-Knoxville, Sean William Scott, and Jessica Simpson. Now, Jessica Simpson, I think would have been better off if she would have been in a movie called "Hooters", because she has a pair of nice big"hooters"! It's hard for me to believe that Jessica Simpson married "pencil-neck-geek", Nick Lachey! I'm going to the movie, and I know I'll see some fine acting, or I'll see a movie that makes no sense?
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