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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
It's Wednesday again............We apologize for last week. Too much work just interfered with our Hump Day Rantings.........We will attempt to rectify that this week by giving you more rants than ever..........
First.........let us dip into the political scene.................
EDWARDS DROPS OUT OF RACE
...will not immediately endorse
John Edwards is out............Hey John........what took you so long? You came in third in your home state of South Carolina...........The interesting part of all this is from a New York Times poll that exposed a very disturbing fact. Even though Edwards finished a distant third..........He had the most votes by White South Carolina voters, beating both Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama. Seems the deep south is not yet ready to elect a black man.........much less a female.
Staying in politics.........check this out:
Tiger Woods impressed by Obama...
Wow......an athlete taking a stand. We applaud Tiger for speaking up.......But really Tiger......what exactly are you saying? Just go to the polls with the rest of us and vote your with you heart. We know that Obama is articulate........tell us something we don't know.
Burress says Giants win, 23-17
It has happened yet again............a member of the under-dog team has made an astonishing prediction.......This time its Plaxico Burress making a Joe Namoth like prediction.......
Dah............New England has won 18 straight .........Do you think they give a rats ass what Mr. Burress thinks? I think not.
Anyone keeping up with "American Idol"?
Did everyone receive their W2 forms?
Are you guys really expecting a gift from George W. ? In the form of a tax break check of between $600 and $1200?
Spend it wisely.................
Monday, January 28, 2008
Woods Renews Attack on the Record Book
The above courtesy of the New York Times...........
On a rather cold (by California standards) and rainy Sunday afternoon......one Mr. Tiger Woods made a statement. Tiger won the Buick Open by 8 shots in a tournament that wasn't even this close. He simply obliterated the field. But Woods doesn't win tournaments on Sunday.
Tiger Woods wins tournaments the day of the start........usually Thursday. This is when there are no less than 150 eager golfers that tee it up and hope this is their day.
Most of the 150 "pros" are only trying to "make the cut"..... Tiger's only missed a handful in 10 plus years. Most play Thursday and Friday to get to the money round.
Tiger plays Thursday and Friday to get a true feel of the course.......then by Saturday and Sunday.......it's lights out.
With Sundays win........Tiger now has 62 Tour wins, tying him for forth with the legend Arnold Palmer....
Palmer, 78, was among the first to congratulate Woods, sending a statement prepared earlier in the day at Bay Hill Golf Club, where he was playing golf.
“I congratulate Tiger,” he said. “I’m sure that there are many, many more coming in the future. There isn’t any question about that. I wish him all the luck in the world.”
Let us just sit back and enjoy something we can tell our grand kids...........We actually witnessed and appreciated the greatest golfer of all time.
So....Phil Mickelson, Rory Sabbatini and Vijay Singh................you guys are good.........but you're in an era in which you are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
You are Charles Barkley, Karl Malone and Patrick Ewing against Michael Jordan.........
No fought of your own........but just a little bit ............over matched.........
Thursday, January 24, 2008
From the AJC.......
Racy photos cause Shockley to resign
So..........former University of Georgia quarterback D. J. Shockley is in the news........no big deal.....
Unless, his father happens to be one Donald Shockley.....the high school football coach at metro Atlanta's North Clayton High School.
This is fast becoming a sports story as well as a high tech story.............
Seems Mr. Shockley solicited one of his students to "fix" his personal computer ..........low and behold.........the student finds these illicit photo's of Shockley and a female assistant principle in some rather uncompromising positions .......
Said student then spreads the images all over the school..........
Two points here.............
Mr. Shockley, do you have ............half a brain?
Said student............. do you have any back bone?
Indeed........Mr Shockley messed up............ It is a bad scene......... but this little punk took the easy way out by outing Shockley and his female co-conspirator .
Note to .........everyone.........
Fix your own stuff..............
Never let your hard drive come into the hands of ............anyone......anywhere............especially geeks like this one....in this case.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
From the Red & Black.........
Athletes face DUI, alcohol-related charges
Yes it's college.....and boys will be boys. But the must disturbing part of this whole fiasco is the comments to the police officer by one of the arrested Georgia players:
Munzenmaier told the officer he thought the police car was a taxi and tried to flag it down. The officer searched Munzenmaier, and afterwards he "thanked me for 'costing him two games,'" the officer wrote. He asked what sport Munzenmaier played.
"'Look at me,'" Munzenmaier replied, according to the police report. "'What sport do you think I play?'"
On the way to the Athens-Clarke County Jail, Munzenmaier told the officer it was "obvious 'we have it out for them.'"
Munzenmaier expressed concern about "a point system that the police have apparently against athletes."
Munzenmaier told the officer to "shut up" and used an expletive because "he didn't want to make small talk."
Please note that Munzenmaier is a third string fullback who rarely saw game day action......If he has this kind of feeling of entitlement ........I can only imagine what the real stars are thinking.
Such is the reality of big time football in the south.........Georgia, just being Georgia.
A preview of more to come........from those northeast tabloid newspapers........
At least this ends.....The Brett Farve.....Love-fest.....for now....
0 comments Posted by asem tuwo at 2:58 PM
All season long we have been subjected to one Brett Farve story after another.......after another. Brett Farve........He loves his team mates ..........Brett Farve, he plays the game the way it should be played. Brett Favre, the ultimate gunslinger........Brett Farve, a "mans' man. ESPN even got Mrs. Farve involved in one of its' Monday Night Football telecast.
Well, thanks to the 23-20 overtime victory (in Green Bay), at Lambeau Field , the Giants have effectively put an end (for now) of that love-fest created by the national sports media.
All week long we were told that Eli Manning........he of the low lands of southern Mississippi....could never deal with the cold chill of 6 degrees and a wind chill factor of 20 below in that hated atmosphere of Lambeau Field.
Well now........it seems they somehow forgot just where Brett Farve was born.......Try Gulfport, Mississippi. And he went to college at Southern Miss. The media would have us believe Farve was born, weaned and raised on the frozen tundra of Green Bay.
Bottom line? Southern boy #2 (Eli Manning) got the better of southern boy #1 (Brett Farve) on Sunday night. And that's a good thing.
We now get a 4 month break from the media's love affair with Mr. Farve.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Winter Wonderland?
We here in these southeast parts are getting part 2 of a rare winter system of sleet, freezing rain and .....dare I say????? Snow. The forecast calls for a low of 21 degrees tonight.
But............before we start feeling sorry for ourselves..........lets look at tomorrows weather conditions in Green Bay, Wisconsin:
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Now that's cold...........
Rams owner Georgia Frontiere dies at 80 (AP)
Yes the old bag is dead...........While she's being praised by the media, the Los Angeles contingent will only remember her as the witch who took away their beloved Rams and moved them to St. Louis. Los Angeles is still without a pro football team to this day.
Stubblefield pleads guilty in BALCO case (AP)
Dana Stubblefield learned..........life lesson number 4,500. Never, ever lie to men in suit s. He plead guilty to not telling the truth to a federal grand jury. It's alright to do the crime...........bu t just don't set yourself up for a perjury conviction.Well............the snow has ended...........I've got a 6:00 am store to inventory....so I'll slip & slide away.
