tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694493961784306202024-03-05T11:45:14.983-08:00The Muntab QuestionPolitical commentary about countries around the world, but with an emphasis on the US.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-71323848957229949672010-06-01T14:42:00.000-07:002010-06-01T14:48:24.434-07:00Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh... they criticize....DemocratsI was reading an article today about how "if you listen to Hannity, Beck or Limbaugh, you'll think the president is doing a lousy job," but if you listen to anybody else, you'll think he's doing a great job.<br /><br />There were several comments appended to this article, and more than one of them said, "The reason why Obama is getting all this criticism is because Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh are racist." But they went further. "Everyone who criticizes Obama is racist."<br /><br />What these people don't seem to realize is that Obama is not being criticized as a man. (Unlike his wife, of course - who is insulted regularly about her looks and the way she dresses. But that's not racist either. That's just the way men treat women, regardless of what field they are in.)<br /><br />He's being critizied on the issues. Let me repeat, ON THE ISSUES.<br /><br />Listen to any of Limbaugh's programs and he cites SPECIFIC things Obama has done that are bad for the country. He, like Hannity and Beck and Savage, also cite SPECIFIC things that white folks do, like Robert Gibbs, Nancy Pelosi, Napolitano, ya da ya da. THey go after everybody who is not a democrat, regardless of race.<br /><br />To state categorically - to believe categorically - that the ONLY reason why most Republicans and most Independents are tired of Obama is because he's black is just plain stupid.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-16138720820382195232010-05-01T12:10:00.000-07:002010-05-01T12:27:33.411-07:00All Gall: The Stephen Baldwin Restoration Project<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL77hlBUGYjztj9AYnbAtgd7dbaQEuiUB1Iyt4qoyH1KDejHkVNMRY5XYrcfyY0fbPRWZm6AKNYwv6_UreLkUik4CGIFTT5xYYIH9It-Hhqhty2GYDWIGJy2MHv7AL1cemp6zJlqb4fF8/s1600/StephenBaldwin.PNG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 184px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL77hlBUGYjztj9AYnbAtgd7dbaQEuiUB1Iyt4qoyH1KDejHkVNMRY5XYrcfyY0fbPRWZm6AKNYwv6_UreLkUik4CGIFTT5xYYIH9It-Hhqhty2GYDWIGJy2MHv7AL1cemp6zJlqb4fF8/s320/StephenBaldwin.PNG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466381410812444306" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.restorestephenbaldwin.org/">http://www.restorestephenbaldwin.org/</a><br /><br />What should charity, and welfare, be designed to do? It should be designed to help people out temporarily... to give people in need a breathing space while they find a job to get back on their <em>own two feet</em>.<br /><br />It should not be something that is given to thousands of people, from their birth to death - in other words all their lives. Why not? Because if you pay people to sit on their butts and do nothing... they'll sit on their butts and do nothing. Except they have access to TVs, and will be able to see people - who actually work - buying things that they can't afford to buy. But since they have no idea of the concept of working, all they can think to do is steal what they want, or "get rich quick" schemes like selling drugs, and so on. <br /><br />That's what's happening in Haiti, for example. So many people over there are getting free food and medical care that actual Haitian farmers, who have food to sell, can't sell it. People who were not hurt in the earthquake have moved into the tent cities just so they can get the free medical care.<br /><br />In the States? We've had a welfare class for four generations now. Welfare has destroyed the black family - women can make more money with a dozen kids and no man in the picture. (And, of course, Latino and white women are following suit, now. Whether it's because of the destruction of morals of the whole populace, or a desire to get on the gravy train, I'll leave it for you to decide.)<br /><br />So now we come to Steve Baldwin. Baldwin is "one of the Baldwin brothers." A successful movie star, he made more money on a single picture than you or I will make <em>in a lifetime</em>. <br /><br />But, a few years ago he had a setback and had to declare bankruptcy. Much like thousands of people who make thousands of dollars a year instead of millions.<br /><br />Now, there is a website out there, proclaiming Stephen Baldwin a born again Christian, and requesting donations to help restore him to the luxurious life he once knew.<br /><br />The website itself is very professionally done, and must have cost a few thousand dollars to create, I'd wager.<br /><br />And I'm thinking, what is the gall of this man, and the gall of these religious types who have put up this site, to ask that avererage people, like you and me, donate our hard-earned money to help this man.... who is not in a wheelchair, does not have any kind of disease to prevent him from working, does not have any children with dehablitating diseases that have sucked all his money away.... why should we donate money to help him live a life of luxury???<br /><br />I checked the Internet Movie Database yesterday. Baldwin is still working - he made three movies in 2010, and the year is not even half over. Even if they are just cameos... an actor of his stature will get a minimum of $100,000 for that cameo. That's how much Hollywood pays big-name stars, even for cameos.<br /><br />More than that, as I said, this man is not physically or mentally disabled in any way. He is able to get a job with which he can capitalize on his fame, selling cars for an Obamacar company, for example. Getting speaking fees for groups that want to hear his Born Again message.<br /><br />There is no reason why this man cannot provide for himself and his family on his own. And if he can't, can't some of his brothers help him out? Can't his wife go to work?<br /><br />The very idea that this able-bodied man, still in the prime of life, is looking to solicit donations..not for a ministry, not for a worthy cause... but for himself to get back into the luxurious life... it is obscene. He should be ashamed of himself, the religious folks who put together the website should be ashamed of themselves, and anyone who donates to this site, instead of sending it to some much more reputable charity, should be ashamed of themselves!Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-8772785922520854022010-04-28T08:49:00.000-07:002010-04-28T09:09:21.043-07:00Just the Facts, PleaseThe only facts that are known about the last hour and a half of Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax life is that someone stabbed him, and that he lay on a New York street, dying, while over 20 people walked past him and did not bother to call 9-1-1-.<br /><br />Those are the <em>only </em>facts.<br /><br />Yet the man is being called a hero.<br /><br />Do not misunderstand me. I hope he was a hero. There's no reason why he, or any homeless person/illegal alien, couldn't act just as heroically as a citizen of this country. I'm not trying to imply otherwise.<br /><br />I'm just saying that there are no facts, at this point, one way or the other, to prove what he was, and yet he is being trumpeted as a hero without any facts at all.<br /><br />I've seen the surveillance video in question, probably we all have. <br /><br /><object width="340" height="185"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YmknOKkaPEI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YmknOKkaPEI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="185"></embed></object><br /><br />From this, it is impossible to tell what happened. Perhaps the "attacker" of the woman was actually someone who knew the woman. They stop to talk, the homeless guy stops them and asks for money, the attacker (in this case, really an attacker) overreacts and stabs him, then runs away.<br /><br />(Of course, perhaps the video shows more than what is shown here, and the actual stabbing has been edited out. The vidoe does seem like it has been edited at that point.)<br /><br />I saw nothing in the video to suggest what Yale-Tax was doing before he was stabbed...being a hero or asking for money.<br /><br />Obviously, if he was panhandling he didn't deserve to be stabbed, either. It just disturbs me that on the basis of no evidence at all, except for the fact that he died, the man is being hailed as a hero. <br /><br />Obviously, the people who let him lie where he was without lifting a finger to call 911 are scum, as is the woman who, whether victim or innocent bystander, is as well. She at least would have called 911, one would have thought, always assuming she had a cell-phone.<br /><br />Now, anyone want to take bets that Law and Order will be doing a story shortly, featuring this tragic incident as a jumping off point?Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-85101820625866916382010-03-09T13:31:00.000-08:002010-03-09T13:34:43.344-08:00Want to Fish? Forget about it.<a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762">http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762</a><br /><br />I can see banning fishiing for sailfish, tuna, and large fish of that nature. But to tell people they can't fish for sunnies, crappies, and so on... it's obscene. And its unAmerican. (But you may be sure Native American tribes will get to keep their rights to fish.)<br /><br /><blockquote>The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters. <br /><br />AP/Luis M. Alvarez<br />One sign at the United We Fish rally at the Capital summed up the feelings of recreational and commercial fishermen. This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is "fluid" and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn't issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.<br /><br />That's a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry insiders who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force. These angling advocates have come to suspect that public input into the process was a charade from the beginning. <br /><br />"When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) completed their successful campaign to convince the Ontario government to end one of the best scientifically managed big game hunts in North America (spring bear), the results of their agenda had severe economic impacts on small family businesses and the tourism economy of communities across northern and central Ontario," said Phil Morlock, director of environmental affairs for Shimano.<br /><br />"Now we see NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the administration planning the future of recreational fishing access in America based on a similar agenda of these same groups and other Big Green anti-use organizations, through an Executive Order by the President. The current U.S. direction with fishing is a direct parallel to what happened in Canada with hunting: The negative economic impacts on hard working American families and small businesses are being ignored. <br /><br />"In spite of what we hear daily in the press about the President's concern for jobs and the economy and contrary to what he stated in the June order creating this process, we have seen no evidence from NOAA or the task force that recreational fishing and related jobs are receiving any priority."<br /><br /><br />PHOTO GALLERY<br /><br />Fisheries In Danger<br />Consequently, unless anglers speak up and convince their Congressional representatives to stop this bureaucratic freight train, it appears that the task force will issue a final report for "marine spatial planning" by late March, with President Barack Obama then issuing an Executive Order to implement its recommendations — whatever they may be.<br /><br />Led by NOAA's Jane Lubchenco, the task force has shown no overt dislike of recreational angling, but its indifference to the economic, social and biological value of the sport has been deafening. <br /><br />Additionally, Lubchenco and others in the administration have close ties to environmental groups who would like nothing better than to ban recreational angling. And evidence suggests that these organizations have been the engine behind the task force since before Obama issued a memo creating it last June.<br /><br />As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled "Transition Green" shortly after Obama was elected in 2008. What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper.<br /><br />Then in late summer, just after he created the task force, these groups produced "Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy." This document makes repeated references to "overfishing," but doesn't once reference recreational angling, its importance, and its benefits, both to participants and the resource.<br /><br />Additionally, some of these same organizations have revealed their anti-fishing bias by playing fast and loose with "facts," in attempts to ban tackle containing lead in the United States and Canada.<br /><br />That same tunnel vision, in which recreational angling and commercial fishing are indiscriminately lumped together as harmful to the resource, has persisted with the task force, despite protests by the angling industry. <br /><br />As more evidence of collusion, the green groups began clamoring for an Executive Order to implement the task force's recommendations even before the public comment period ended in February. Fishing advocates had no idea that this was coming.<br /><br />Perhaps not so coincidentally, the New York Times reported on Feb. 12 that "President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities." <br /><br />Click here for archiveMorlock fears that "what we're seeing coming at us is an attempted dismantling of the science-based fish and wildlife model that has served us so well. There's no basis in science for the agendas of these groups who are trying to push the public out of being able to fish and recreate.<br /><br />"Conflicts (user) are overstated and problems are manufactured. It's all just an excuse to put us off the water."<br /><br />In the wake of the task force's framework document, the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) and its partners in the U.S. Recreational Fishing & Boating Coalition against voiced their concerns to the administration.<br /><br />"Some of the potential policy implications of this interim framework have the potential to be a real threat to recreational anglers who not only contribute billions of dollars to the economy and millions of dollars in tax revenues to support fisheries conservation, but who are also the backbone of the American fish and wildlife conservation ethic," said CSF President Jeff Crane.<br /><br />Morlock, a member of the CSF board, added, "There are over one million jobs in America supported coast to coast by recreational fishing. The task force has not included any accountability requirements in their reports for evaluating or mitigating how the new policies they are drafting will impact the fishing industry or related economies.<br /><br />"Given that the scope of this process appears to include a new set of policies for all coastal and inland waters of the United States, the omission of economic considerations is inexcusable."<br /><br />This is not the only access issue threatening the public's right to fish, but it definitely is the most serious, according to Chris Horton, national conservation director for BASS. <br /><br />"With what's being created, the same principles could apply inland as apply to the oceans," he said. "Under the guise of 'marine spatial planning' entire watersheds could be shut down, even 2,000 miles up a river drainage from the ocean.<br /><br />"Every angler needs to be aware because if it's not happening in your backyard today or tomorrow, it will be eventually.<br /><br />"We have one of the largest voting blocks in the country and we need to use it. We must not sit idly by."</blockquote><br /><br />Now, admittedly, this isn't <em>quite </em> as ridiculous as letting a whole series of home go to wrack and ruin because to fix them would harm the habitat of a snail - a <em>snail </em>- but it's up there.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-29919639279328410792010-02-11T13:52:00.000-08:002010-02-11T14:34:08.311-08:00Tea-partyers Must Learn From the Plight of the American Indian<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiciU5ijtm_hLidHlEJB75JmlhDk02dKudd7OkM7zYk_fL77n6UqwiZu9vjtDB47h2tTlVNJvPQh6ydI94C3izMXEU0RzzMN3mk04Q3RNn2hYQFmST12TX6StIl7N6W_PzpxBIaklADlMs/s1600-h/WeWantOurCountryBack.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiciU5ijtm_hLidHlEJB75JmlhDk02dKudd7OkM7zYk_fL77n6UqwiZu9vjtDB47h2tTlVNJvPQh6ydI94C3izMXEU0RzzMN3mk04Q3RNn2hYQFmST12TX6StIl7N6W_PzpxBIaklADlMs/s320/WeWantOurCountryBack.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437107468489892498" /></a><br />The above cartoon was written by someone named Lalo Alcaraz. I don't know what paper it appears in, I read it at Yahoo's comics page.<br /><br />The inference of the comic is, I think, that the Tea Partyers have no right to whine and cry about "wanting their country back" because they're hypocrites - and because "they" stole this country from the Indians. <br /><br />I submit that there should be a different interpretation. The plight of the American Indian - confined to reservations (<em>now</em>) by their own choosing, 80% unemployment on some reservations, alcoholism rife, and the loss of their particular patch of country (for various tribes of Indians were scattered throughout the North American continent) - is one that all Americans need to look at and understand.<br /><br />Native Americans lost their land for one reason - they did not secure their borders. Caucasians - Spanish and French first, then the English, came in and took over - and they did it by force. The various Indian tribes <em>hated </em> each other and would not band together to fight off the enemy. So, they lost their country.<br /><br />Now, is it hypocritical [as the cartoon tries to imply] for Americans today - perhaps ancestors of those original "illegal immigrants" - to be angry as they see <em>their </em>country, the country of the last 200 years, the United States of America, one that encompasses the entire country and has laws that encompass the entire country - being taken over by a new wave of illegal immigrants? Illegals who are taking over not by force, but by economic pressure and the forces of liberalism?<br /><br />I submit that today's Americans - a melting pot of every region's people that has ever come here - have no reason to feel guilty for what their ancestors did 200 years ago, when life was extremely different to what it is today. (And when millions and millions of dollars have been paid out in re-payment of the land, if not the lifestyle, which is gone forever, and just needs to be accepted. Time to move on.) <br /><br />But one lesson remains the same.<br /><br />The Indians lost their culture, their language and their ways because they <strong>could not secure their borders</strong>. The "illegal immigrants" of that time, if you want to call them that, took that all away by force. <br /><br />The culture and country that replaced it was one where everyone spoke English, immigrants who came here melted into the pot and also spoke English. (Yes, Asians and blacks who could not melt had hard times, but I'm trying to make a point here. At least the Asians learned how to speak English and we don't have an Asionics. And today they are very successful - although losing ground now that more and more Asians of the illegal variety are coming in....and we're getting gangs and so forth.<br /><br />The culture of the United States, honed over 200 years, the language of the United States - English - all of it are in danger of being destroyed by a new invasion.<br /><br />If we (Americans of <strong>all races, creeds and colors </strong>with perhaps two things holding us together - a knowledge of English and a belief that we should all stand on our own two feet and make our way in the world) do not want to see our culture destroyed, we need to stop illegal immigration now.<br /><br />Don't misunderstand me. It only makes sense for people to want to come to the US, the greatest country in the world. Who could begrudge people that? <br /><br />But it's all about economics. We're a bankrupt country as it is - we simply don't have the money to keep putting our own citizens on welfare, let alone illegal immigrants. At one point people were ashamed to be on welfare (much as women were ashamed to be unwed mothers [as opposed to divorced mothers]), now a majority of people go on welfare as a matter of course and don't bother to fight their way off it. And why should they, if that welfare will always be there - which is what the Democrats want. As for unwed mothers, nowadays <em>that's </em>a badge of honor. Not loveable enough to get married, but at least a guy wanted to sleep with me, and see, I have proof, here's my kid. Now, where's my welfare check?<br /><br />Immigrants should come to this country legal, in batches so that they can be integrated into our culture. <br /><br />Anything else is sheer lunacy, like continuing to pour water into a bucket that's already full.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-16282459807854702872010-02-04T11:36:00.000-08:002010-02-04T12:09:46.614-08:00FYI, It's Aq-kwigh-nus, not ack-kwee-nusGeorge Bush has long been mocked by people as someone who mispronounced the world nuclear. One must ask oneself, does he really misprounce it, or does he use the pronunciation of the region in which he was born and raised?<br /><br />Different regions of a country (but since I live in the US I'll talk about the US) have different pronunciations for the same words.<br /><br />For example, I'm a northerner living in Norfolk, Virgina, and I pronounce it Nor-folk -- the way it <em>should </em>be pronounced. But people who were born and bred here pronounce it Nor-fuck (please, childish minds, don't snigger over my use of the f-word there. It isn't the f-word, it's how they pronounce Norfolk.)<br /><br />However, there are some words that, if you know the rules of grammar, can only be pronounced one way. <br /><br />Such a word is corpsman. Yes, there's a P in it, and kids reading that word may be forgiven for pronouning that P. But they will be told (if their teachers are allowed to teach) that the p is silent and so the proper pronunciation is coreman. Indeed, I'm sure that as a kid I pronounced it corpse-man myself, until someone - probably my brother - corrected me and said, no, it's coreman. <br /><br />Apparently, President Obama had no teacher and no brother to tell him how to pronounce that word. And so he ends up embarrasing himself (Of course, the Dems won't mention it, but the Republicans will never let it go, much as the opposite happened with Bush.)<br /><br />But this brings up a larger issue, which is why my post is entitled FYI, It's Aq-kwigh-nus, not ack-kwee-nus.<br /><br />We've just had first hand evidence of why it is important for someone who mispronounces a word to be corrected! That person may never use that word again, or he may be standing up in front of 10,000 people and mispronounce it in front of them and all the world.<br /><br />I have a college-level education, but I acquired it on my own, by systematic reading in subjects that interested me. In my early 20s, I met a couple who were quite erudite. I visited their house once, looked over their library, and saw that they had books by Thomas Aquinas. Now, I had read much of this man, but I'd never heard his name pronounced, so I pronounced it Ack-kwee-nus.<br /><br />My friend, a woman, corrected me. "Ac-kwigh-nus." Her husband <em>immediately </em> reproved her for correcting me - this despite the fact that it was just the three of us! I immediately said, "No, thanks for the correction. I'm glad to have learned the proper way to pronounce it."<br /><br />Now, in my case, I've never again had the change to use the name Thomas Aquinas in conversation, but if I <em>had</em>, I know I wouldn't have mispronounced it.<br /><br />Look, on the other hand, at the dicussions (if they can be called that) that go on in message boards. People mispelling words, using improper grammar, etc. Now, obviously, some people correct their grammar and spelling not in an effort to teach, but in an effort to put down...but that doesn't change the fact that people who spell incorrectly, or use the wrong grammar, should - gently - be corrected. <br /><br />Otherwise, they may make the same mistake in a letter to a potential employer, for example. Now, that may be stretching it...the real reason they should be corrected is because people should <em>know </em>the right spelling, the right grammar. People in their twenties and upwards who do not know correct grammar and word usage should be ashamed of themselves, because it shows they have no interest in knowledge and increasing their knowledge - and we all of us need to increase our knowledge of the world, every day of our lives. <br /><br />Now, some intelligent and articulate people are not good spellers. I grant you that. I don't understand how that can be... but I know that it is so. I've met several people who are not only well educated but smart enough to understand and apply what they've learned (the two don't necessarily go together), but they can't spell for toffee. But, they're smart enough to have a secretary or a spell-checker verify their work.<br /><br />It is sad, therefore, that should someone mispronounce a word or mispell a word, people are not allowed to correct them, for fear of hurting their feelings. (Just for one example, teachers can't use red ink to correct papers anymore, it makes students feel bad! Students can't grade each other's papers any more... it makes a student feel bad if someone else knows he missed every single question. And rather than being spurred on to do better work in fture, better that he just not be humiliated to begin with, eh?)<br /><br />Dumbing down of the world....Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-85477984725380240982010-01-14T14:53:00.000-08:002010-01-14T15:05:56.734-08:00Exactly how much help does Haiti need?President Obama has promised a $100 million relief effort. Several countries around the world are also promising help.<br /><br />So why do we Americans have to do anything else? It is our tax money that is part of that $100 million relief effort. <br /><br />If our government is helping the Haitians, as are the governments of several other countries, again, why does the "little person" have to do anything (except continue to pay our taxes, of course.) <br /><br />I'm not saying that the little person shouldn't help out people in need, I'm saying that the government has already got this under control. (And of course, much hay will be made out of how efficiently Obama is reacting to this as opposed to how Bush handled Katrina, but then, Obama had the Katrina debacle to learn from.)<br /><br />The reason I bring this up is because of a Gossip website called Celbrity-Gossip.net.<br /><br />If you read the headline, it's Tiger Woods: $3 Million for Haiti? If you read the first sentence, you get "People all over the world are scrambling to help the rescue effort in earthquake-torn Haiti, and Tiger Woods may be joining the cause."<br /><br />But if you read the entire article, you find out that the whole thing is just made up. A hip-hop mogul is going to <em>ask </em>Tiger Woods to donate $3 million. He's going to do this tomorrow. (Does this mean this guy actually knows where Woods is? Or is he just going to ask Woods people?)<br /><br /><blockquote>Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons told press, “Tiger is working on sending a mobile hospital with 50 EMTs to go set up a triage. I am just asking for his heart and his hand. Just to meet the needs of the people.”<br /><br />Simmons continued, “I am just reaching out to him as a human. I am waiting to have the conversation with Tiger tomorrow morning. I am hopeful that it is a yes.”</blockquote><br /><br />So what this Simmons guy says in the first para is that Tiger <em>is </em>doing this, the second paragraph is that he's going to ask Tiger to do this tomorrow.<br /><br />Why is this even being reported. Why is Simmons going to the press and saying he's going to ask Tiger for money?<br /><br />Well, it's a form of blackmail. You tell the press you're going to ask Tiger for money, if Tiger says no he'll come across as even worse of a jerk than he is now. But consider.... Tiger is losing endorsements left right and center...so he has no new money coming in. His wife is going to take him for half of the money he has now.<br /><br />A man in such straits can't afford to send $3 million to Haiti, especially when, as stated before, the US government is already committed to spending $100 million!<br /><br />All these people who are saying they're going to donate a million - the MLB, probably soon the NFL and NBA - blackmailed into it, I"m sure - will go for good PR, but what's the point. HOw much money over $100 mil do the Haitians need? And why not wait until that $100 mil is spent <em>before </em> you donate, so you can make sure your money is going to Haiti and not to some other part of the world that whatever charity you're giving to, will divert funds.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-35791359849928602262010-01-13T14:24:00.000-08:002010-01-13T15:04:57.914-08:00How Does Pat Robertson Have Any Followers At All??According to Pat Robertson, the earthquake in Haiti that is estimated to have killed 100,000 people - and probably more by the time humanitarian aid gets there -- is the fault of the Haitians themselves because they made a pact with the Devil 200 years ago.<br /><br /><a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2010/01/pat-robertson-cursed-haiti-may-have-blessing-in-disguise-in-earthquake/1">Earthquake was "blessing in Disguise"</a>. <br /><br />So, people <em>today </em> are being murdered by God because their ancestors made a pact with the Devil?<br /><br />Rush Limbaugh was talking about Haiti today, pointing out that it was a miserably poor country, but if you went over the mountains to the Dominician Republic it was like night and day... and it was the leaders of Haiti who were to blame (Communists, etc.) [Haiti occupies one third of the island of Hispaniola, Domincan Republic occupies the other two thirds.] What I want to know is... where is the aid from the Dominican Repupblic?<br /><br />Apparently some woman was saying that the level of poverty on Haiti was unacceptable.<br /><br />Debbie Wassesrman Schulz blames the US -- apparently we shoudl have gone in with guns blazing and made Haiti a terriroty, like Hawaii?<br /><br /><blockquote>You should think of the most primitive environments, the most primitive living conditions that you can imagine. It is wrong, especially in a region as prosperous as this one, for us to continue to allow the desperate situation that exists in Haiti to continue, and I want to conclude by saying that in particular it's incredibly important that the United States grant TPS, temporary protective status to the Haitians that are here because the last thing in the world that we need to have happen is for Haitians who are here to be sent back to Haiti in this desperate hour that they are struggling through, there's no way they could support that.</blockquote><br /><br />Why not send them back, as part of construction crews to help rebuild <em>their </em>shattered country? We give money - to honest construction firms, of course - and the Haitians rebuild their country and stay there. <br /><br />[Just read up a bit more on Haiti at Wikipedia...apparently the Dominican Republic keeps Haitians out by force...since they're black and speak French.... Dominican Republicans are Latino and speak Spanish.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-77065990075313279952010-01-11T19:28:00.000-08:002010-01-11T19:36:55.272-08:00Making Money Out of Victim HoodThese women deserve to be ridiculed and laughed at, not made to look like victims who deserve sympathy.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=55037">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=55037</a><br /><br /><blockquote>Tiger Woods' alleged mistress lands TV project<br />A woman who alleges she had an affair with shamed golf star Tiger Woods is extending her 15 minutes of fame - by teaming up with another self-proclaimed "mistress" for a new TV project.<br /><br />Jamie Jungers came forward last year with allegations the sports star seduced her at a party in 2005 and subsequently struck up an illicit 18-month affair with her.<br /><br />She is now said to be making plans with Sarah Symonds, who went public with her own claims of an affair with British TV chef Gordon Ramsay last year, for a TV project to help women stuck in "bad relationships with married men."<br /><br />Symonds, who runs a support group for needy women, wants to film a TV special with Jungers to help raise awareness of the issue.<br /><br />She tells New York Post gossip column PageSix, "I run a group called Mistresses Anonymous. It's the only support group for women who are in bad relationships with married men. I have been talking to Jamie about getting her involved.<br /><br />"Ideally what I'd like to do is a TV special with all of Tiger's mistresses, where they could discuss the downside to being 'the other woman,' and whether he was good in bed."<br /><br />Woods' relationship with his wife, Elin Nordegren, came under the spotlight in November after a string of alleged mistresses came forward with stories of secret trysts with the golf star. Woods later admitted his "infidelity". The couple married in 2004 and has two children.</blockquote><br /><br />Why do women who are in "bad relationships with married men" need support? If they get involved with a married man, they have no rights. He's married. Deal with it. If he promises to divorce his wife to marry them...wait until he's divorced his wife before you start having sex with the guy. Then you'll see how quickly that divorce comes through , and if it never does, you know he's lying!<br /><br />In the same way that women throughout history have been victimized by men, by having sex before marriage, and then getting dumped by the man, so they either had to give the baby away or raise it as their own to the scorn of the rest of the world. And frankly, I blame the girls who were told that they shouldn't have sex before being married... but they just couldn't wait...<br /><br />(And no, I'm not saying that women today should wait until after marriage to have sex. I'm just saying that they should use condoms and the pill, (the boots and braces philosophy) to ensure that they dont' have children. If they want children, they should be in a committed relationship. Because as statistics show, single parents - if the parent is female - are typically poorer than couples with kids, and the child suffers accordingly. Not to mention the welfare the woman gets... which comes out of the taxpayer's pocket.<br /><br />Of course there are always exceptions to every rule...but I'll reiterate that a married man's mistress deserves no sympathy whatsoever. If he's married, she's got no business messing with him <em>until </em>he gets a divorce. (And then of course she can spend her time wondering if he's going to cheat on <em>her</em>, next.)Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-3817481931060996422010-01-03T08:12:00.000-08:002010-01-03T08:27:05.745-08:00Rush Limbaugh's Press Conference Before Leaving HospitalPosted January 1, 2010<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oglQ3RP2PkA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oglQ3RP2PkA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br />I actually haven't bothered to listen to it myself. Apparently he points out that America has the best health care in the world. This is, I beleive, true, but of course the naysayers are pointing out that Rush is very wealthy so he can afford to pay for the best health care, and so his case proves nothing.<br /><br />However, as Rush points out, anyone can get healthcare. If you don't have insurance, you are simply billed on a payment plan. Which, granted, may take you a lifetime to pay. Which is why everyone should buy insurance, and on that point I really dont understand why Rush and other conservatives are up in arms about *that particular portion* of the healthcare bill. <br /><br />No need to put them in jail. Simply deny them any medical help. If they can't afford to buy medical coverage for themselves - they can't afford to have children, either. But how many poor people continue to have children, content in the knowledge that the government will support them? (Yes, I know that's a complex issue. Many people have children they can't afford because they are trapped in a religion that prohibits them from practicing birth control, no matter into what hell their babies will be born.)Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-1743104461648380392010-01-03T07:41:00.000-08:002010-01-03T07:50:23.179-08:00Truth vs Perception: "Armed police targeted young blacks"I was looking at a website called Ananova today, which culls newspaper articles from England and presents them on one page. It's pretty much a useless site in one instance, as the newspapers that these articles are from aren't mentioned!<br /><br />Nevertheless, here's one of hte headlines from today:<br /><br />Armed police targeted young blacks <br /><a href="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3623666.html">http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3623666.html</a><br /><br />And I'm going to assume that that's the same headline that appeared in the original newspaper article, and on on-line newsfeeds. Now, what do most people do? They get their news from headlines, not from the actual article - that would take too much time to read, eh? So they read the headline, which says "Armed policetargeted young blacks," and that just reinforces what they've already been trained to believe, that white cops (obviously the cops are white and racist, that's a given) are going around shooting at any young black man who moves.<br /><br />But if you read the article, that's not the case.<br /><br /><blockquote>Internal Scotland Yard documents revealed senior officers suspected a small number of gang members and drug dealers were carrying weapons.<br /><br />They decided to send in specialist CO19 armed officers alongside neighbourhood officers to patrol troubled London housing estates last year.<br /><br />A series of forms completed ahead of the operations named key suspects and criminal gangs known to hold guns.<br /><br />They show officers realised the move could fuel racial tensions as almost all the suspects were black.</blockquote><br /><br />So - the cops go into troubled housing estates, looking for specific suspects - who are black. That's a far cry from going in and shooting every black person they see, which is what the headline implied.<br /><br />It's as funny, and as sad, as that poor woman who called in someone whom she thought was a prowler trying to get into that black Harvard professor's home in Cambridge. She had the utter gall to tell 911 that the person she thought was trying to break in was black - therefore she must have been a racist! Obviously what she was supposed to do was say, "Someone's trying to break into a man's house. I can't tell you his race, because that would be racist, so just hurry to the house and stop everyone on the street, regardless of their race, and ask them if they're the ones who tried to break into the house."<br /><br />Political correctness is going to kill us all. (And by us, I mean all Americans, all Brits, all "every civilized country in the world that is caught up in political correctness".)Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-23909233798072244122009-12-24T19:57:00.000-08:002009-12-24T20:02:47.002-08:00Roland Burris' version of Twas the Night Before Christmas<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y3tWfqpAn2s&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y3tWfqpAn2s&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />You'll hear the line, "no matter what was in it."<br /><br />That's the problem with this whole health care debacle. No one has read this bill, they don't really know what's in it. The Republicans know it's a disaster, however, and the Democrats have tons of pork. Business as usual in politics in Washington.<br /><br />Meantime, Obama and his family are off enjoying themselves for a vacation. If Bush'd gone on vacation during these tough economic times..what outrage! But Obama gets a free pass. Also standard operating procedure.<br /><br />As for the health care bill - give health care to everyone on welfare, to be paid for by people who work their butts off... milk the wealthy dry.... as long as there are no wealthy people, the poor won't complain any more... as long as everyone's miserable, they'll be happy... never mind that if they'd just stopped having babies they couldn't afford, and gotten educations and then decent jobs, they could have afforded health care under the system as it used to be...<br /><br />Wake up, everybody. The poor will love this bill...as everyone else will join them in poverty.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-91654701189376483182009-12-22T19:01:00.000-08:002009-12-22T19:09:56.600-08:00Law and Order certainly knows how to fan the flames...Just saw the last half of an episode called "Rapture." A wealthy Wall Street type, who had promised to give money so a guy could take his welfare boys to a house in the country where they could skate, play ball, ya da ya da, reneges. But his company gets a bailout, and they proceed to go to Arizona to party on the tax payer's money.<br /><br />So, the guy kidnaps the man's girlfriend, she manages to escape, runs into the street and is killed.<br /><br />The guy goes on trial, and the lawyer puts all the blam on the Wall Street type for not fulfilling his promise. "The woman would be alive today if the wall street guy hadn't been a cold - hearted bastard."<br /><br />And the writer has the jury aquit the guy! And when McCoy, and his DA and assistant are discussing the case, McCoy acts like he agrees with the verdict. And the DA has his little speech.. "The pain that the Wall Street people caused you, the destructoin, etc."<br /><br />So the Wall Street debacle - fueled by the failure of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, who were ordered by Carter, Clinton and other dems to give loans to people who couldn't afford them - is to be blamed on the "shadiness" of Wall Street. <br /><br />And killing them is justified.<br /><br />I'm reminded of the story of the minister in the UK who told his congregation it was perfectly okay to go out and shoplift from the big stores, because they were rich and therefore evil.<br /><br />At the end of the episode, McCoy - or it may be the woman asistant, said "This is what is to come. More and more people are getting angry..." and of course they're going to take it out on those who are more "fortunate" (never more industrious) than them.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-44686377669797276232009-12-17T07:41:00.000-08:002009-12-17T07:48:28.857-08:00What's a prenuptial contract and why do people sign oneif it can be renogotiated at the drop of a pair of pants...admittedly, hundreds and hundreds of times over the last 7 years. <br /><br />In the case of Tiger Woods vs his wife Elin Nordegren, I have no sympathy for Tiger. He brought this on himself. But when the woman married him, she signed a prenuptial contract. So now that she's going to divorce him... there is no debate. She gets exactly what that prenuptial contact states. And hopefully it's a good one.<br /><br />But if it isn't...that's just too damn bad. It was a contract, she signed it, she wants a divorce now, there is no "renegotiating!"<br /><br /><a href="http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20091217/tts-us-sports-golf-woods-marriage-media-193c25a.html">http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20091217/tts-us-sports-golf-woods-marriage-media-193c25a.html</a> is the article that says that she's going to get a divorce "after" she reneogiates the prenup. <br /><br />I have sympathy with her now. If she really is trying to "renegotiate" that prenup, I will no longer have any sympathy for her. And that goes for anybody who signs a contract - premarital, sports or otherwise, and then gets some shyster lawyer to help him or her renege on it.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-56941674184950057202009-12-13T08:57:00.000-08:002009-12-13T09:27:48.210-08:00Tiger Wood's humiliation is not yet complete<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyUrHdPQVqcRnmIKp9y9plUQSR_FpKIJ6h2dLatBdYgqkNO2ZZjqx29sYBxdNwHxykFQRvS9wJuwo2cR7GBBTYdBEmGucTOxNfVvhGEE80Tc9r_2Vf0ebTyM05u52XHXyj18Qnu27NhyphenhyphenM/s1600-h/TigerWoodsandElin.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyUrHdPQVqcRnmIKp9y9plUQSR_FpKIJ6h2dLatBdYgqkNO2ZZjqx29sYBxdNwHxykFQRvS9wJuwo2cR7GBBTYdBEmGucTOxNfVvhGEE80Tc9r_2Vf0ebTyM05u52XHXyj18Qnu27NhyphenhyphenM/s320/TigerWoodsandElin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414773772820056370" /></a><br />I've never been a fan of Tiger Woods... in the first place because I've never been a fan of golf, in the second place because, when my attention <em>has </em>been drawn to the game of golf in my capacity as a freelance writer, it's been to see Tiger's feet of clay on the golf course - the tantrums and the swearing, which I don't like in children, let alone grown men.<br /><br />But, as the Tiger Woods saga goes on, I admit I have taken to reading the articles and the comment sections attached to those articles. Not so much because I want to read all the salacious details of Woods' various affairs and rent girls, but because I find it fascinating (and depressing) to read about his incredible stupidity, and it's interesting to see how many people writing their comments are a) writing directly to Woods as if they actually think Woods is going to read their little scribbles, and b) religious types urging him to turn to God.<br /><br />And that is when Tiger Woods' humiliation will be complete. When he finally does make his public appearance - on Oprah or Jerry Springer or whatever - and says he's turned to God and prayed and prayed and found redemption, and now he asks his fans to forgive him too. <br /><br />God's got nothing to do with it!<br /><br />Atheists have morals just as religious types do... indeed <em>their </em>morals are more pure, because they come out of an instinctive knowledge of what's right and wrong, and do not come from a book that promises eternal hellfire if they break the rules.<br /><br />Adultery is a common human condition...humans may be at the top of the animal chain but they are animals neverthless, and most animals are not monogomous. Supposedly wolves are, and swans I think...<br /><br />So although I'm disgusted with Tiger Woods that he'd cheat on his wife, it's not so much that he's cheated, as that he's done it so stupidly. <br /><br />Indeed,that's what I can't understand about any man who cheats on his wife, and does it stupidly. A married man has no business fathering a chlid on another woman - wear a damn condom, you moron! Not only so that you don't get your paramour pregnant, but so that you don't catch any disease this woman might have and in turn present it to your wife!<br /><br />And TIger Woods apparently never wore condoms when he was having sex - so he was dependent on the women in the case to take it upon themselves not to get pregnant. We've yet to hear of any women coming forward claiming to have a child he fathered or demanding a paternity test...which surprises me a lot, I don't mind telling you.<br /><br />Then there's the fact that he apparently called up his women and actually left sexually-related voicemails! Which those women could in turn record off the phones and use in blackmail plots! How stupid is that? obviously if you call a mistress, you talk innocuosly or cryptically, so no one else who hears that message will be able to know for sure that you're talking to a mistress/prostitute.<br /><br />Then there's the fact that Woods apparently used a madame and prostitutes provided b y her.. I presume this was in Nevada where it's legal...now I don't know about guys - obviously they use prostitutes all the time otherwise prostitution would not be known as the oldest profession -- but I've often thought... doesn't this affect the guy's ego? An actor, a politician, an athlete...and he has to <em>pay </em>for sex?<br /><br />Well, what else is there? Of course, there's the fact that all of Tiger Woods' many women are blond haired and white. Certain pundits are saying that this means Woods has not gotten past the "post-racial" America (or "post-racist" as one man called it, and which seems to me to be a better term). Instead he's "bought in" to this "false view" of what constitutes beauty - which is blonde haired blue eyed women. So he's a disgrace to his race, not because he's cheating, but because he's cheating with the wrong color woman.<br /><br />I have yet to read that he was in to bondage...which would <em>really </em> put him up the spout as far as most of his still-remaining fans are concerned. (And I must admit that I really liked Gil Grissom on CSI, until the character of the dominatrix was introduced and they made it seem like Grissom had availed himself of her services - that ruined his character for me, how can you respect a man (or a woman) who likes to be dominated in the way that dominatrixes do it?)<br /><br />And I haven't heard that he beat on any of his mistresses or his wife, which again would really be beyond the pale, and much worse than cheating. (And considering his temper on the course, it's rather surprising, in view of these relevations, that he wasn't violent in the home. Although perhaps his wife kept a golf club handy to guard against that very proclivity.)<br /><br />And perhaps what might have been worst of all... at least all these women he was bedding were women, and not men. Because if it had turned out that Tiger Woods was gay, the firestorm that's been going on would have been three times more explosive.<br /><br />In the end, it turns out that Tiger Woods was "just a man after all", too stupid to exercise a little restraint in order to keep his image intact. Iit's not "pride goeth before a fall," but rather "stupidity goeth before a fall," and Tiger sure was stupid.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-57064825337005553612009-12-11T09:32:00.000-08:002009-12-11T09:53:26.715-08:00Did Tiger Woods Want to Get Caught?I didn't bother to read any of the Tiger Woods coverage for the longest time...I dont' really care about Tiger Woods or what he does, what had me disgusted was how all his mistresses were suddenly coming out of the woodwork...eager to cash in on this opportunity to get 7-figure payouts for their sleazy stories.<br /><br />Of course it turns out their speed was probably a good thing. As more and more of 'em come out into the open, the size of their payouts will probably diminish... of course they will probably get together and file a class action lawsuit against Tiger for not paying them all equally, or something...<br /><br />Today, I was listening to the Rush Limbaugh show and he pointed out that a new "madame" had come forward and said that Tiger liked threesomes, and had paid one woman $15,000 for her services over a period of time.<br /><br />And I"m just thinking to myself... was he <em>trying </em>to get caught?<br /><br />Because he's an intelligent guy... or at least he sounds intelligent... why get married if you have no intention of not being a faithful husband? He was rich enough to be able to afford a cook and a maid and a laundress, so he didn't need a "free" one - which is what a wife is, eh? So he could have had three women in his very own house to service him... kind of like James Coburn's Derek Flint's harem in <em>In Like Flint</em> in the 1960s.<br /><br />But <em>why </em>have so <em>many </em>mistresses and prostitutes? The more people of that nature you have, the more chances someone is going to spill the beans!<br /><br />Of course what boggles my mind, among other things, is that Tiger actually paid for sex. I've never understood why men pay for sex. Doesn't that destroy their egos, to know that they can't get sex from a woman unless they pay for it? But for Tiger, actors, and athletes, with women throwing themselves at them all the time?<br /><br />Of course the accepted logic is that men like Tiger pay for sex because they don't want a casual one-night stand woman to delude herself into thinkig she meant more to Tiger than that, and try to blackmail him to leave his wife and be faithful to her. Whereas girls you pay, know you're paying them for sex and that's it.<br /><br />Another thing Limbaugh said was that Tiger had sex without protection - ie without a condom. If so, that's downright criminal and he should go to jail just for that. In the first place of course, it's stupid. Has Tiger never heard of Jason Caffey, or Shawn Kemp each of whom has over 9 illigemate children by different mothers? And never mind the illegitimate child issue. How many of these women would have had sexually transmitted diseases that he, in turn, could have passed on to the little woman at home? Or even AIDs?<br /><br />(As an aside, Sports Illustrated did a story about athletes and their predeliction to procreate like rabbits.<br /><br /><blockquote>Nearly one-third of all children in this country are born to unwed mothers. But this week, Sports Illustrated reports that among professional athletes out-of-wedlock births are epidemic. And of athletes in the major sports leagues, those in the NBA appear to have the greatest number of cases. According to SI, one of the NBA's top agents says he spends more time dealing with paternity claims than he does negotiating contracts. The agent tells the magazine that there might be more kids out of wedlock than there are players in the NBA. According to Sports Illustrated, Larry Johnson of the Knicks is supporting five children by four women, including two he has with his wife, and Shawn Kemp of the Cavaliers, who is not married, has fathered seven children. Other NBA players who have been the subject of paternity-related lawsuits include Patrick Ewing, Juwan Howard, Scottie Pippen, Jason Kidd, Stephon Marbury, Hakeem Olajuwon and Gary Payton, as well as Larry Bird, who is now the coach of the Pacers, and current NBC game analyst Isiah Thomas. <br /><br />In other sports, baseball's Gary Sheffield and Juan Gonzalez, along with former greats Jim Palmer, Steve Garvey and Pete Rose, have been hit with paternity suits. The NFL names include Andre Rison and Alonzo Spellman; hockey, Mark Messier; boxing, Oscar de la Hoya; and tennis, Roscoe Tanner. </blockquote><br /><br />Read the oomplete article here:<br /><br /><a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/1998/weekly/980504/insidelook.html">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/1998/weekly/980504/insidelook.html</a><br /><br />Of course the article doesn't explain the real reason why athletes have more illegitmate kids than anyone else - they're too stupid to wear condoms. And the woman in question "saw them coming" as the saying goes. Because even once a mulit-millionaire athlete's career is over and he's making nothing, apparently the support payments have to continue as if he <em>still </em>did have that income...which seems pretty stupid.<br /><br /><br />And finally,there's the issue of Tiger's wife.<br /><br />According to Limbaugh, Tiger's wife is still with him, and they're going to go together on a cruise.<br /><br />If that's the case, the woman is a fool - and a gold digger - and deserves scathing comments heaped on her head.<br /><br />The guy cheated on you - not with one mistress, not with two... but with <em>dozens</em>. And not only mistresses but for prostitues hired for the occasion - sometimes two at a time!<br /><br />He's not worth being married to. Take your pre-nup and get out now, with the kids.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-29777244940869238012009-11-22T20:32:00.000-08:002009-11-22T20:35:52.705-08:00Conscious in Coma for 23 yearsTalk about a living hell<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1230092/Patient-trapped-23-year-coma-conscious-along.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1230092/Patient-trapped-23-year-coma-conscious-along.html</a><br /><br />The pro-lifers are going to say, "See? This is why people in comas who are vegetables need to be kept alive for decades. They might really have brains working in there and be conscious!"<br /><br />While I can think of a few worse things, they are not much worse than being locked in an unmoving body for 23 years, not able to move. I'd much rather be dead.<br /><br />This guy can now "comminicate" using lights or something. He still can't move. I'd still rather be dead. Quality of life for people like this, zero.<br /><br />Anyone who thinks God would be upset because someone like this is let out of thier misery, sure has one sick idea of what God is.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-56489411737653046182009-11-14T18:09:00.000-08:002009-11-14T18:14:28.774-08:00Bow down to your masters, obsequious Americans!First Obama, the President of the United States of America, which at one point was a sovereign country, bowed down to the Saudi King. There was a bit of outrage, but his "people" explained, "of course he didn't bow. The King was just a much smaller man." Also, "It's really hard to tell what he was doing. That other guy obscurs him."<br /><br />Well, now he's bowed to the emperor of Japan.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZQGDqAaL6A0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZQGDqAaL6A0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Here's the thing. American presidents don't bow. They shake hands as equals. If he wanted to pay his respects to this much older man, he'd have bowed his head, not bent over so far you could iron a shirt on ihs back!Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-57684290963425453122009-11-13T12:15:00.000-08:002009-11-13T12:19:40.680-08:00Please don't let Sarah Palin be the next Presidential candidateI am really tired of this woman...<br /><br />I'm a Republican, and a woman, and would very much like to see a competent woman as our next President...what a fist in the eye of radical Muslims <em>that </em>would be. <br /><br />But Sarah Palin?<br /><br />She's got a new book out, in which she details "tension" in the camp with McCain.<br /><br />Now, the McCain/Palin campaign was one of the worst-run campaigns either, and you've got to blame McCain for that.<br /><br />But what I want to know is...why was his choice of running mate delayed for so long. For that matter, why is any Presidential candidate's choice of running mate delayed for so long? Surely, these VP candidates should not only be vetted, but also *talked to*, for months in advance, not just picked out of the air in hopes of giving someone a political advantage.<br /><br />The whole election system, not to say political systesm, in the USA has to be cleaned up. It never will be of course, as the crooks are firmly entrenched...Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-81053400956095555952009-11-06T11:50:00.001-08:002009-11-06T11:53:02.727-08:00Go Out as a Hero, not as a Despicable Piece of ...Let me preface this blog entry by saying that I'm not advocating anyone going postal and going out and killing innocent people.<br /><br />If you're at the end of your tether and don't feel like you can face life anymore and want to commit suicide by cop... do it by first killing people who don't deserve to live - drug dealers, rapists, murderers who got off because of technicalities. Then, if you're shot down by cops doing their duty, you'll at least be remembered as someone who cleansed the earth of garbage. <br /><br />I just don't understand why, when people snap, they want to go out in a blaze of gunfire and be remembered for killing innocent people who had little or nothing to do with them, so that their names will be despised forever by all right thinking people.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-48200877010205338682009-11-05T15:30:00.000-08:002009-11-05T15:39:50.871-08:00Obama gives a shout out before talking about Fort Hood murdersObama was to have given a speech today about health care and Native Americans. *Before* he got on the rostrum, he was given the information about the murders at Fort Hood. Instead of going into that directly, he talks for three minutes to the Native Americans/First Americans in the audience, and <em>then </em>goes on to talk about Fort Hood.<br /><br />Seems to me he should have talked about Fort Hood first. <br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/T0hiw8iXdMM&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/T0hiw8iXdMM&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />On the other hand, I've read posts at various Replican websites that say that Obama was cheerful and smiling and upbeat, and then in a blink of an eye goes somber (just as Clinton did at somebody's funeral a while back... my mind's blanking on that person's name.) Anyway, to me, it doesn't look like he's cheerful at all, he speaks in his normal laid back manner. As for the "shout out" to a Medal of Honor winner... I dislike the term "shout out" for anyone except an athlete. "Let's give a little respect to..." something like that. Neverthless, it does seem odd that he would talk about the Health care stuff first, and then Fort Hood, when on a day like today, Fort Hood - and the fact that the shooter was a converted Muslim - is bound to raise some concerns, considering that other Muslim-American soldiers have also killed American soldiers recently.<br /><br />(Having said that , the practice of a subordinate killing an officer has apparently a long tradition in the US military, but that's one guy killing an officer because he disliked that officer's treatment of him, not a guy killing others based on their religion because he's of a different religion. And let's not forget Timothy McVeigh killed a helluva lot of people too...)<br /><br />As I've said over and over again, the only way to get peace on earth is to get everone converted to atheism and humanism. Then we might have a chance, because 20009 years of Christiantity/Muslims/Jews just ain't working.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-66727700959375282762009-10-15T08:25:00.000-07:002009-10-15T08:35:00.225-07:00Are you now, or have you ever been, a racist?That's a play on words from the question during the Communist witch hunts of the 1950s, for those of you who "just don't get it," as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright would say.<br /><br />To refresh your knowledge/memory... actors were brought into the room to testify. They could either name their friends who were communists, or they could keep their mouths shut, and be blacklisted for failing to cooperate. And of course, everyone they named would be blacklisted as well.<br /><br />The same thing is now happening with the race business here in the US. <br /><br />Take the Rush Limbaugh debacle. He's part of a group of businessmen who want to buy the Rams, and Al Sharpton and everyone in the race business is all outraged. Then even some owners chime in and say they dont want Rush. (Do they not want him, or do they want to give the impression that they don't, to get on the rising tide of sentiment against him so that they are not convicted as racists by being silent on the subject?)<br /><br />"Convicted as racist." That's the point. Take football players. They can lie, steal, cheat, kill... and they'll get another chance on the football field because they are good players. But let someone schmuck be convicted of being a racist (and when I say racist, I am referring to a white person. Everyone knows minorities can't be racist! All that tension between Asians and blacks ... that's just disputes over living space. Nothing racist about it! Between Jews and blacks? No, that's not racist...)<br /><br />ANyway, the actor who played Kramer made some unfortunate repartees to a heckling black guy at a night club, and all of a sudden his career is over. He's been branded, not as being unfunny or slow of wit when it comes to dealing with a heckler, but racist, and he'll never be allowed to work again. Although Jerry Seinfled is doing his best to "rehabilitate him" in the eyes of the people - and Bravo Seinfeld for taking such a brave step!<br /><br />Meanwhile, Asians tried to do it to Shaquille O'Neal (after he "mocked" Yao Ming and therefore, the whole Chinese race), but O'Neal stood tall and said it was ridiculous. Of course, he could afford to do so - he's a great basketball player.<br /><br />But when it comes to people who work in normal businesses, who can be replaced by dozens of other people...get yourself branded a racist - true or imagined... and your life is over.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-526187950845778272009-10-08T20:36:00.000-07:002009-10-08T20:37:03.033-07:002,000 Invisible Dogs Invade the City<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i9iq9gdeIE4&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i9iq9gdeIE4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-8073360790726741432009-10-08T14:15:00.001-07:002009-10-08T14:16:38.501-07:00Piano StairsI don't think they could do this in most cities in the US - too many vandals who just love to destroy for destructions sake... but I guess there are still places in the world where it's possible to create beautiful things, safe in the knowledge that no one will come along and destroy it for the fun of it.<br /><br />I think this is the Netherlands:<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2lXh2n0aPyw&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2lXh2n0aPyw&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-869449396178430620.post-54741423248279674172009-10-05T18:42:00.001-07:002009-10-05T18:45:28.915-07:00Father drowned trying to save others, son succeeds<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPKjiKkM6cV0LzqgGS5aiPzcGW-WIZeba0amyeoltzPGdmbgOBw5MBCNAw63NJBQOLK8hwKMwVYOjTExxWAUhALrFo52pfmFs6nJ5Oi1xRJS47gDbG9E32a2Qy-yRnAbjdw058Adn4TBQ/s1600-h/Zack.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPKjiKkM6cV0LzqgGS5aiPzcGW-WIZeba0amyeoltzPGdmbgOBw5MBCNAw63NJBQOLK8hwKMwVYOjTExxWAUhALrFo52pfmFs6nJ5Oi1xRJS47gDbG9E32a2Qy-yRnAbjdw058Adn4TBQ/s320/Zack.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389297016885769170" /></a><br />This is a great story...this guy -- and the men who teamed up together to help him -- are heroes.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/02/father.son.flood.heroes/">http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/02/father.son.flood.heroes/</a><br /><br /><blockquote>LITHIA SPRINGS, Georgia (CNN) -- As Zack Stephney stepped into the floodwaters last week, history washed over him.<br /><br /><br />Thirty years after his father drowned in a rescue attempt, Zack Stephney helped save a woman whose car sank.<br /><br />The youngest of five children, he was only 8 when his father died.<br /><br />For three decades, he'd carried with him mere snapshots of memories: Family time at Christmas. Riding on the back of Dad's motorcycle. Tommie Stephney's love for drag-racing.<br /><br />But as the 37-year-old Douglasville, Georgia, man set out September 22 to try and save a woman whose car was swept away by rushing waters, he thought of his father's drowning. He, too, had fought to rescue people struggling against currents. <br /><br />That was in 1979. </blockquote><br /><br />See link for complete article.Caroline Minisculehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01342734539106563601noreply@blogger.com0