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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

NFL Black Monday: Head coaches canned

Saw one of the Hasselbeck boys on my ESPN sports TeeVee making a fairly simple point which had escaped me; our media devotes hours off air time and even ink and paper for dead tree media speculating on which coaches will get fired and then more time on post mortems on reigns of these tinpot dictators and even more time on coaching relationship carousels figuring out the name of the next coach to get hired to run these losing teams.

Not to put too fine a point on it but screw the coaches. What about the players, people who get cut all the time without anyone caring or noticing except maybe their mommas.

What about the players?

The coaches in many cases have years and multi millions more of dollars left to get paid on their contracts; players get jack squat beyond their guaranteed signing bonuses except maybe injury settlements.

Greg Schiano, bully, Tampa Bay, still has 3 years at 3 million per on his contract. Should we cry him a river 'cause he gets to bang brews on the beach for 3 yearsand not worry how to feed his family?

God damnit, I thought life had moved on, at least at professional level, from having asshole coaches who physically and verbally abused their employees. Schiano brought that back. How well did that style work this season for Tom Coughlin of the New York football Giants? Not very well despite the fact he fines players if they don't make it 5 minutes early for meetings.

That style only works in colleger or high schools nowadays when coaches can control every facet of their players' lives, even up to and beyond the point of death. Exagerration you think. No, football players die all the time from trying to play a game they love.

Let us remember a name, Derek Sheely, killed by football and whose parents received an anonymous letter describing Derek's death: [The writer said he was a player on the team and described a horrible sequence of events that led to Derek's death, of Derek hurting his head at practice, bleeding from the forehead, and a coach berating him for wanting to sit out. One line in particular has been repeated often in media stories: "Stop your bitching and moaning and quit acting like a pussy and get back out there!" the email quoted the coach as saying.]

The Sheelys do, however, want to change the culture of ignorance and faux toughness that pervades football....

The Sheelys say they didn't want to sue, but they say they ran out of options in their quest to find out what happened to their son. They wanted — still want — the NCAA or Frostburg State to investigate the case. They can't believe a young man is dead and neither has done anything to find out what happened. They can't believe the NCAA investigates parties thrown by agents, but not the death of a player. They can't believe other coaches get fired for foul language, but Frostburg State coaches have faced no consequences after a player died in practice. (Rogish resigned at the end of this season....)
http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2013/12/17/5217634/sharing-derek-sheely-a-helmet-to-helmet-hit-took-the-life-of-a-22?utm_source=sbnation&utm_medium=nextclicks&utm_campaign=articlebottom

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/12/30/5171100/greg-schiano-fired-tampa-bay-buccaneers

Monday, December 30, 2013

Hugh Janeus, calling Hugh Janeus

Whoops, did this get posted? Meant to save it to drafts. Well, we need some laughs sometimes. Remember, many a slip betwixt cup and twit.

http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/open-thread-best-news-bloopers-2013

"Like dogs returning to their vomit"

Just to remind any sentient being who cares how these right wing neocon slime spreading pricks operate--yes, Sarah Palin wears a skirt but really think her born a man and now post operative transexual--they invent the wildest lies, calumnies, and deceits to impugn the reputations of decent Democratic politicians and any one else who gets in their way by trying to tell the truth.

For example, my sources say Ted Cruz really sired by a Satan spawned demon and in his off hours eats roasted puppies and picks his teeth with leg bones of babies sacrificed on the altar of Mammon.

[For example, Fox News' Chris Wallace doesn't know that the NYT article was intended to "clear the decks for Hillary", but, as always, some people say...just as I don't know that Mike Wallace's death in 2012 was the result of heartbreak brought on by unbearable humiliation at having such a shameless hack for a son, but I hear some people say that too...

But seriously, like dogs returning to their vomit, if you have eyes to see and memory you will not fail to notice that the clowns who are now circling the Benghaaaaazi! wagons over the Treason! of Four Dead Americans! Murdered! Deliberately! By Hillary! The Butcher of Benghazi! are the same, blood-drunk chickenhawks who spend the Bush Years jerking off behind their keyboards as the lives of thousands of Americans, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and trillions of your tax dollars were shoveled down the rathole of their dreams of Neocon Empire.

A regular, Chickenhawk High School reunion.]
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2013/12/sunday-morning-comin-down_29.html

Lest we forget, these Chickenhawk shitheads lied us into war with Iraq for no gain and lots of loss, of money and the precious blood of American soldiers, and started a war in Afghanistan now perpetuated because of ignorance.

More recently, some of these very same people shut down our government like spoiled brats who dod not get their way with all they wanted.

Also found at Driftglass, Ted Cruz, Senator, state of unparalleled ignorance, gives an interview denying the fact he instigated that governmental shutdown, as befits a man of God whose illegal alien Canandian Daddy says annointed to save freedom, thus freeing Teddy boy from any pesky ninth commandment to tell the truth.

Chuck Norris vs. Jean Claude Van Damme

In an epic display of testicle tearing limberness, the American icon par excellence Chuck Norris responded to Jean Claude Von Dumb's obviously computer generated pseudo stunt with a patently real stunt of Chuck's own to prove America the bestest and all them other wog countries worstest, with each individual gun toting by God Amurrican gooder than any furrin colored person.

Chuck Norris and America, my sweet land of unbridled greed, kind of go together like peanut butter and bananas.

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Neil Young: "Waging Heavy Peace"

As both my readers may have noted, listening to a bit of Neil Young's music as well as reading his autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace, demolishing along the way my preconceptions of the man, his life, and his music.

Sure, knew of his reputation as bit of an eccentric, model train enthusiast, and father of an autistic son. Yet, if possible, his book revealed him as so much more: artist searching his whole life through for glimpses of his muse, a humble kid from Canada, and a modern day Da Vinci--the Leonardo one--with an abiding concern for our planet and a future fucked by fossil fuels.

Instead of just wringing his hands and whining like most hippies, however, Mr. Young has taken the lead in inventing new power system for our cars, ones which use biomass energy to create electrical energy to keep battteries charged.

We humans can literally use our waste to create propulsion, and can do this without converting too much corn into ethanol, thus leaving food for hungry masses--at least inasmuch half the book has explained to my little brain.

Perhaps more interesting to me remains still how he has internalized, dealt with, and accepted a series of health problems for himself and his son.

This stands in utmost contrast ti my reactions--denial and anger over the fact my legs have failed and again have to walk the path of becomiing a quadrepeligic if my spinal cord continues to atrophy. For now, am angry at my legs for failling me.

Mr Young's life brought him many times for anger at fate or others and he chose other, peaceful paths.

Pray his exsample will teqch me how to wage peace,

Jeff Bridges: I choose to support the No Kid Hungry campaign because I'm outraged that every days kids across this country don't get enough to eat.

There are more than 16 million kids in America who struggle with hunger and they need our help. They are the most vulnerable members of society and their voices aren't often heard in the halls of their schools, let alone in the halls of Congress.

That's why I'm reaching out to you today. I hope you'll show your commitment to ending childhood hunger by making a tax-deductible donation to the No Kid Hungry campaign by December 31.