Archive for September, 2008
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When people send their children to private schools, whether it be an elementary, high school, or college, it is usually done to get a better education for that child. To socialize with a “higher class” of people. To make social contacts that lead to business contacts that can last a lifetime. So what does it mean when these EXACT same “private school” students act like kids from the “public school” system?
At a private, CHRISTIAN college, Point Loma Nazarene College, in San Diego county California, it has been revealed that a hazing gang initiation incident where students were “awakened at 2:00am and forced to walk to the beach and swim naked.” Some if not all of the students were “slapped” and some were “urinated upon.” That sounds like a “Gang Initiation“ to me.
Before anyone says it is an “over reaction” by using the term “gang”, let me give you my definition of gang. I define “gang” as “a group of people together for a common cause that require either ”initiation, deeds, or money, to join.” In this case, “upper classmen” gang leaders, make the “lower classman” (wanna be gang members) ”prove” themselves by doing whatever they are told to do. Certainly being forced to swim naked in the ocean at 2:00am and then having to walk back to the parking lot naked certainly has some sort of sexual overtones. Whether consciously or subconsciously. And urinated on them? Wow! That disgusting act goes without saying. I guess this was their version of the “jumping in” process known to occur at public schools. Their “process” even had a name, NOSing (Naked Ocean Swimming). These “initiations” can take the forms of being forced to drink a certain number of drinks, whether alcoholic or not, to being spanked or forced to perform sexual favors or acts.
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Vince Young, the starting quarterback for the Tennessee Titans, and the face of the team, had the city, the team, and his family worried last Monday night when he left his house, without his cell phone, in a “mentally unstable” state of mind. This series of events lead the family or the team to call the police to try and track him down. Young was eventually found at a friend’s house. Also found in Vince’s truck was an unloaded gun, which was in the glove compartment. Since he was found “safe and sound”, all was forgiven. REALLY!!
Young was injured in the season opening game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. During the game, he was booed by the home fans and then got injured. All of this made him “mentally unstable” to the point that team officials and family members thought it best to call the police. All because he got injured? What a CANDY ASS!
Last season, Donovan McNabb, starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, complained in an Inside the NFL interview, that black quarterbacks are treated differently than white quarterbacks. At the time, this statement was controversial and was talked about on TV, radio, the Internet, and in the newspapers. When Vince was asked about that statement. This COWARD said that the situation “didn’t apply to him” so he had “no opinion on it.” Now that “oft-injured” is being placed before Vince Young, quarterback of the Tennessee Titans, he can’t handle it? CANDY ASS!
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Shaqdeezy, Shaq-Fu-Snickens, the Diesel, the Big Aristotle, Superman. All the Same guy. Shaquille O’Neal. He’s had sooome summer hasn’t he? Let’s see. Where shall we begin!
First he all but guaranteed a championship to the Phoenix Suns only to be almost swept by the San Antonio Spurs. That really wasn’t going to happen, PERIOD. While Shaq may deliver a championship to the Suns in his second season there, he did with the Miami Heat; the Suns gave up the one guy who gave Tony Parker fits, Shawn Marion. Marion is long enough and quick enough to stay in front of Parker and if beaten, can recover quick enough to bother Parker’s shot. Or Shawn could stay in front of Ginobili and get a hand up on the jumper. So the idea of them winning this season was a joke at worse and a fallacy at best.
Second, he does the worse free style “rap” EVER. That was straight wack!! It was so bad that I could only watch half of the online video before stopping it. The rap mentioned former teammate Kobe Bryant; essentially saying that he was the reason for Shaq’s pending divorce. Because there was some offensive language in the “rap”, honorary badges given to him from cities in Arizona and Virginia were rescinded. Some of his early rap, “Biological Didn’t Bother” was right on time, but this “live performance” was awful. It was so bad that the next time I saw Shaq on the screen, I started laughing just thinking about it!
THEN, a rapper that is more famous after meeting Shaq than before, accuses him of “stalking and harassing” her. Because of the “alleged stalking”, she has been granted a Restraining Order against him. I can understand that it might not be easy for him to meet women because of who he is, but to have to stalk someone? WTF??
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The mailman is at it again? First off, let me give you the background.
I was a Laker fan going back to the late 70’s. Pre-Magic. So when Magic brought Showtime to the Forum, it was on and poppin. And even through the early Vlade years when you could get Laker tickets when you bought a gallon of gas, I was still there. Me and Jack. Rollin’ with the Lakers. Up through the 3-peat mini dynasty of the early 2000’s. And because I was a Laker fan, I hated everyone else in the Western Conference. That included the Jazz. And at the top of that list were Karl Malone and John Stockton. Might as well add Jerry Sloan to that list for that matter. The reason I hated them? Well why the hell else. They always gave the Lakers’ fits!
Magic couldn’t stay in front of Stockton so the Lakers put Scott on him. But because Byron didn’t have Magic’s height or length, John was able to make any and every pass that he wanted. And with Karl, the Lakers had absolutely NO ONE who could even make it look good at trying to defend him. He made mince meat of BOTH A.C. Green and Kurt Rambus on a regular basis. While both Malone and Stockton “brought it” every night, they seemed to give a little something extra to the Lakers. And they were cocky about it too. That is why I hated them!
I also hated the “aw shucks” persona of Malone that was presented by both him and the media. I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of character and always felt something was “up” with him. So when I heard that he had teenage children that hadn’t been publicly acknowledged, I had my proof. What kind of shit is that? For someone who didn’t have a father around, to be doing the same thing, with millions in his pocket no less, let me know what kind of character he really had. Not much!!!!!
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Future NBA player Hall of Famer, Jason Kidd, gave his 2008 Olympic Gold Medal to Elaine Wynn because of a conversation they had while the Olympians stayed at a Wynn resort in Las Vegas, before the Olympics began. There are so many things wrong with this that I don’t even know where to begin.
First thing is this. Yes it is HIS medal and he can do whatever he wants with it. But this year’s Basketball Olympics was different. For the last four years, pundits have said America no longer is the leader when it comes to basketball. And that even though players in other foreign nations come to America to play in the NBA, American players are no longer “head and shoulders” above the rest of the world. That losing in 2004 was “inevitable” and that America should “face it.” Other countries are no longer “afraid of us” and that they take great delight in beating us. If anyone saw how Argentina celebrated by winning the 2004 Olympics, they know this is indeed true. So why would you give the medal away willy-nilly because of a conversation?
If anyone was fortunate or unfortunate enough to watch “The Road to Redemption” on NBATV, the main theme of the “redemption” was to bring back the Gold Medal to its rightful place, America, where the game was created. Everyone from Kobe, to Lebron, to Chris Paul, to coach Mike Krzyzewski, all talked about what it would mean to “bring it back.” Even Jason, when interviewed for the documentary, stated that same thing. Yet after being named to the team SPECIFICALLY to bring guidance to a team that didn’t have any in 2004, the medal meant so little to him that he gave it away. With a flip, “I already have one”, the mis-deed was done.
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