WTF!!???

Oh god... I just can't...

Oh wait - YES I CAN:

All of you are going to be sorry I obtained and read "Ted, White, and Blue - The Nugent Manifesto". I've always admired my Uncle Ted for his bodacious, atrocious, balls-to-the-wall Rock & Roll. Now he's got me pissed off enough that I believe I'm just not gonna keep my mouth shut anymore.

Here's a little "feel good" story I ran across. It doesn't look like much, and many will wonder why I waste my time looking at this crap when I could be examining weightier issues. Read, and come back for my rant:

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=903780


Man, I'm nauseated...

SINCE WHEN is it NOT the point to WIN a sporting event? I could see a point if the winners had cheated, but by all accounts they did not. They played fair and they played well.

What the hell do the words "Shameful", "Embarrasment", "Victory without honor", or "Bad judgement" have to do with this game? WTF?

I tell ya... What's shameful and embarrasing is that a team that plays so well isn't allowed to win. Victory without honor? Someone's been watching too many Kung-Fu reruns - there ain't no such thing in a fair game. It appears that the only bad judgement exercised was by the league and the losing coach, for allowing such a loser, suck-ass team to be matched against Ace players in the first place.

This is an A-one, first class example of the direction our entire country is heading. Other REALLY good examples are Vietnam and Iraq. Our fightin' girls and guys haven't been allowed to do their jobs (kicking ass - which they're eminently qualified to do). Someone (not me, and probably not you) decided that to allow them to take the necessary action to REALLY end these wars and bring everyone home would be "shameful", "embarrasing", "without honor", and "bad judgement". Bullshit. Vietnam should now be a denuded crater filled wasteland. Iraq should be a toxic radioactive sheet of molten glass.

But I digress...

These girls - who bested a lesser prepared team should not be made to think that their superiority renders them in ANY way inferior or without honor. They practiced, learned to function as a team, executed the game (battle) plan, and beat the pants off the other guy. They paid their dues. They earned and deserve their victory. The fact that they beat them so badly should be icing on the cake.

But no... Instead, they are being penalized for being TOO GOOD.

Son of a bitch...

The old adage "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." only applies to actual fairness (playing according to the rules), and giving your best effort - no matter what the outcome. If both sides gave their best effort and played according to the rules, the victory (and the loss) is deserved.

If I was on the losing team I'd be supremely pissed - not that we'd lost, but that our opponent took pity on us and told us "We're sorry we're better than you."

Oh yeah?

Go fuck yourselves. I'd rather lose.

I blame the school's headmaster, the director of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, the mother whose daughter plays for Dallas Academy, and anyone who allows "mercy" or "golden" rules in sporting events.

The only bright spot in the entire ordeal is the Dallas Academy freshman, who stated: "Even if you are losing, you might as well keep playing. Keep trying, and it's going to be OK." If that attitude is indicative of the studentry Dallas Academy turns out, I wish MY kids went there.

Final score:

The Covenant School - 0: For pandering to the notion that to excel in ANY endeavor is wrong.

Dallas Academy - 100: For giving it their all, sticking it out to the end, and "losing" with grace and dignity.

THAT is sportsmanship.

UPDATE - 1/25/09:

My hero for the day: http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=904726

Peace be with you.

PH

Alfred Hitchcock Presents:

THE BIRDS!

Man - I'm speechless.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090116/us_time/08599187217500

If you're scratching your head trying to figure out why this story chaps my ass:

Pretend you're a goose flying along with your brothers, just migrating along the same way your ancestors of thousands of years have done. All of a sudden...

Now read the story again.

If you're a TIME subscriber - perhaps you should reconsider. I mean really...

Uh-Oh, I Read a Newspaper Again...

In the news: The Federal Proposed Cow and Pig Gas Tax

http://www.millardccp.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=187&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2812&hn=millardccp&he=.com

This is only one example of a story brought to my attention through my local paper. I looked at several stories on the Internet and found them to be pretty much the same. The knee-jerk reactions from those in the cattle raising biz is that the EPA is planning to institute such a tax. The EPA is back-peddling and claiming that no such plans are being made, but that the possibility of such a tax has been announced to encourage public debate on alternative methods of regulating GHG emissions.

My spin? - It's obviously a further measure to control the population by keeping us weak. Artificially raising the price of our food will help to keep the poor in the poorhouse. Not to mention that it's hard to maintain the fight when you're malnourished...


Next: Report: Web Safer For Kids Than Previously Feared, Still Lacks Safeguards

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/37560449.html

Um... Oh, really?


And finally, the one that simultaneously chaps my ass, scares the crap outta me, and perhaps puts me in a sweet entrepreneurial position:

http://ammunitionaccountability.org/Legislation.htm

Don't let this happen. I'll be more than happy to trade you ammo for food/services in the bleak (and apparently not-too-distant) future, but I don't wanna have to...

XOXOXO

PH