The cash rewards handed to men we hardly knew in Afghanistan in exchange for “terrorists” has loaded Guantanamo up full of people we have no evidence against. It wouldn’t make sense to conduct business this way unless the intent of it all was to appear crazy and irrational enough to break all the rules. Consider the speech Bush gave to the nation two nights ago, coinciding with air strikes on AlQaeda in Somalia that resulted in zero success, and a roundup of Iranian nationals that had been approved six months prior by Bush. For consecutive actions to synchronize so well out of a necessity determined by facts “on the ground” rather than what is going on politically here at home, then let’s also assume that Barry Bonds never used steroids, OJ didn’t kill his wife and everyone reading this is only a day old. Ridiculous doesn’t
adequately describe all of this well enough, but I suspect it does in fact describe the level of cunning that remains and perhaps has always been peaked out at such a sadly pathetic level since day one. To honestly believe that they’re fooling anyone at this point is indicative of something far more troublesome than the actual things they do during these publicity campaigns. Notice that the rest of the world is insisting we go fuck ourselves at this point, a sentiment that will be on full display during our Secretary of State’s official tour of the region that is saying it loud and often.
Notice that Saudi Arabia summoned our “serious” emissary (Shooter) for an explaination of how we should specifically go about fucking ourselves…a procedure that involved Saudi oil money funding Sunnis, the initial enemies we were fighting over there in Iraq rather than here, in an effort to slaughter by proxy the Iranian rooster in the fight, a scrappy bunch of Shia maniacs who like to pray and decapitate infidels, and so the President cites Syria and Iran with innuendo and most likely zero evidence from the raid of Iranian offices within Iraq in his speech, puts them “on notice”, while leaving out the Saudis who told of their funding of terrorists in front of the international media. It’s about as confusing a series of events as you’d see on any episode of Sesame Street or perhaps Barny and Friends, and oh so scary. The only real question in all of this is whether or not the moves are driven by stupidity alone or a combination of stupidity and an assumption of the American public’s stupidity. I’m going with number two, simply because of the air strikes in Somalia. Because the obvious intent of doing that was to provide the idea that terrorism is still everywhere, all the time, right next door to where you live…if you live in Africa.
Shit…Nixon could say the war was concluding, kill a million people with bombs and napalm that he’d deny ever happened, and STILL catch every single playoff game on the television this time of year! George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are to Nixon what Kevin Federline is to everything that surrounds him. Talentless when it comes to the games that they chose to have define their legacy, and with the amateurish maneuvering of the past week, I’m convinced that they have no idea of how bad they really are at this. And THAT is the scariest aspect heading into 2007…that there’s an international Katrina on the horizon and they’re again prepared to fight it with the best political phrases and publicity stunts that money can buy.
What?! Barry Bonds did steroids? It wasn’t steroids. It was amphetamines. One of his teammates probably handed it to him.
I thinkl Bonds jumped into a vat of cream, clear, and speed.
Corey Dillon entered training camp this year cut like a statue, and he told the reporters, “this ain’t no clear, this is just hard work right here”…
The Bonds story about amphetamines is rather ho-hum to anyone who knows about baseball…Chad Curtis…was that his name? He played outfield for Texas, NYY and I saw an intereview with him a while back talking about how players pop amphetamines for games…
“You gonna go out there NAKED?” Playing naked was the term used when a player WASN’T on speed.
I don’t think that’s a problem as much as the steroids, but if the objective is to clean up the game…I don’t know, they’re combining entertainment with morality, and in this country the two are often kept as far away from each other as possible.
The NFL is my favorite sport when it comes to the way they hold players accountable, but when Ricky Williams is bannished for pot while about half the Bengals team gets arrested for actions that could potentially kill another person…priorities are out of wack…not nearly as bad as baseball though.
Come to think of it…I need to bust out some anti-Selig words in the coming days. You guys watching the playoff games today? I’m hoping for Baltimore and Philly to shine…don’t know what the lines are, but I’m sure Philly is an underdog by at least 3, so I’ll take them…I’d imagine it’s Baltimore by 3, so I’ll take that as well.
OK – boys are done w/ their scrambled eggs and grits, I’d better get back upstairs before they do something drastic.
I agree with you on the Ricky Williams deal.
Great 1st game. I wasn’t pulling for any of the present or former Baltimore teams; I just love great defensive games, mired in field goals.
I’d agree for the most part, but as you can see w/ my post blasting Billick, to not pound the ball on the ground against Indy is dumb. The Ravens could have won that game with better play calling. Having McNair put it in the air that often is asking for trouble. The way they needed to play it was to come out running in the 2nd half, wear the front 7 down forcing Indy to put Sanders in the box on a first down and THEN you run play action and take a shot deep.
I hate seeing Peyton handed a game he had no business winning!
True. But the Ravens’ offense has always been an issue.
True, but it was never enough of an issue that they’d try to throw all day in a game when they’re never down by more than 9. The plays were called to eat up 15-25 yard chunks, but the DBs and pass rushers on Indy are better than the receivers and pass blocking on Baltimore’s D-Line…the only way to shake up that situation is to beat up on their front seven using the run, forcing them to bring up help…
Notice that on the long pass plays, especially the last interception, the safties were playing back, able to keep everything in front of them, and react to McNair’s eyes and his tendencies. The only way Mason and Heap were going to get behind those safeties was for play action to draw Sanders and the rookie up closer to the line.
Since Indy had the lead and Baltimore wasn’t running it that often, the ideal situation for the passing game to work never developed.
Billick should have taken more from the entire Indy season than just the KC game…If the Pats win today, I really hope they don’t abandon the running game either…because I feel they did that too early in the regular season meeting against the Colts.