Let The Hating Begin

All my life I have been following crappy teams like the NY Jets. Only in the sport of baseball do I root for a winner. Its probably due to the fact that I started becoming aware of the game in 1977 and they were on top that year I became a fan. Now after a decade long drought, the champs are back on top. In my humble estimation, the turning point was when Andy Pettite piched in game 3 and ties the game with hit. Somehow I knew that if the pitcher was getting the hits now there would be no stopping the rest of the team. I am also very happy to see Matsui get the big hits in the final game, the man is a class act all the way.

Revoke

Say you went to Atlantic City to play a poker tournament. You walked into the room and saw that your opponents were guys employed by the casino you were playing at. Maybe even one the gentlemen was wearing a Casino jacket? You would know, quite quickly that the game was most likely rigged. Right?

So what are your options at this point?
1. You could simply walk away and not care what happens.
2. You could decide to play the game honestly and hope that your example would shame the big players into doing the right thing.
3. You could infiltrate the game play underhandedly as well.
4. You can organize a takeover of the entire casino...or die trying.
5. Or you can simply wait for the entire scheme to become so big and greedy that it implodes in on itself.

Of course none of these options seem palatable, do they? Of course not, it's not only the game that is rigged against you (the small party, the lone honest politician etc.) the entire system is geared for you to fail. Consider the game board is also slanted.

At this point I am embittered. I have now seen another year of eager, well planned out campaigns get barely a blip on the political radar because no one hears their message. You know, stubbornness and perseverance are admirable qualities, but there is also a difference between that and the guy who beats his head against a wall day after day and expects a different result.

I am not advocating giving up mind you but this cannot go on. Maybe Ron Paul was right, at the very least his message got heard? Since he has been off the scene who has even mentioned Libertarian candidates or their platforms save a few fringe publications and web sites? No one, it's not in the interest of the mainstream media to mention anything that would upset the current balance of things. So what do we do? We already have a television show and even a newspaper. At least that is something, a positive trend. The message is clear to me, those who control the media, control the reigns of power in this society. So what do we do? I propose we make our media outlets as close to the mainstream as possible. No one is reading the dailies because of their op-ed. People want some news, a little gossip and maybe the hint of some titties. Once you have their attention you can throw in slanted articles and position the stories to your own needs. Hey, Rupert Murdoch didn't invent this crap you know.

I propose an all out campaign against the stations and papers that have not reported the numbers to this election. This morning I bought the News, Post and Newsday. Not one of these papers had the totals of our candidates. It mostly read Democrat, GOP and other. Excuse me, but is it not the journalistic DUTY of these corporations to bring us the news? Do they not get special privileges on parking, press passes, special access and God only knows what else on the implicit social obligation to report that which is happening? I hereby ask that all major news organizations that did not report duly recognized vote totals be stripped of any and all perks. Please include Channel 4 and 7 to the list as they also did not bother to report the news last night. Why am I being forced to watch NY1 which isn't even a real television station to get news that should be readily available everywhere else?

A Riddle

It became meaningless with Arafat,
irrelevant with Gore,
now it's a joke.

What is it?

Smoke On The Water

J-E-T-S

Got to give the NY Jets some love. 3-0 is an accomplishment worth mentioning. Can't say they are blowing people away (like the Giants) but they are finding the way to win. In a league with parity any one or two plays can be the difference. Kudos to Dirty Sanchez for another stellar game at QB. This team just looks difference under Rex Ryan, the man obvioisly came in with a plan. Watching last nights game between the Cowboys and Jacksonville I was reminded what the Jets use to look like. I watched maybe 15 minutes of the game and in that time the Cowboys racked up three needless penalties. That's the mark of an undisciplined team, a club that won't be going anywhere this year. As for the big green machine, looks good so far.

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Is It Me?

In it's career, the ACLU has done it's share of good work. Every so often I will hear about them protecting a persons right to free spech. Then there are times they are, for the lack of a better term, arrogant assholes. Take "hate speech" crimes. This is the ultimate embodiment of PC stupidity. As if hitting or killing someone because they are different from you hurts the person more then if you were hitting or killing them for other reasons. Nonsesnse. So why no outcry over laws that can produce something as ridiculous as the case here?

Look at the man pictured above. He has just been charged with a "hate crime" because he wrote nasty notes to a hispanic church, I repeat, he is being charged with a "hate crime" against hispanics!

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