Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.
--Wess Roberts
(On TommyFranks.com)
I just don't have the time or patience right now to make any real posts, so I just continue in my job of reporting the random news that I run across while mindlessly surfing the net to avoid doing real work. So here is the daily take.
The minor league baseball Pacific Coast League suspended every player, but one, from the Portland Beavers for chasing a fan through the stands and then beating him. What was the one guy doing while the rest of the team was fighting?
On Father's Day in 1997 the Charleston RiverDogs were going to give away free vasectomies at the game. The event was cancelled because of complaints.
This is funny because we have all seen those stupid and confusing warnings and symbols on every bit of packaging that we receive.
In an act of incredible insensitivity a black women who is to undergo a foot amputation was told that she would have to take a white prosthetic because black ones were more expensive. Once again I'm not even going to attempt to comment on this.
Now to add to the growing list of disturbing ways to die. (Maybe I should create a category for these). A Cambodian teen died when a fish that he had caught jumped in his mouth and suffocated him. Somewhere a PETA member is thinking, "serves him right for thinking that he is better than the fish."
As you can probably tell I've been tinkering a little more with my blog. I'm a little obsessive so I'm sure that the tinkering will continue. Just keep watching for updates.
In other news, yesterday I got more hits on my blog than any other day since I started tracking statistics. What's odd about this is that I didn't even make a new entry yesterday. Why, you might ask, would anyone visit this blog unless they saw on Chattablogs that I had posted a new entry? Well, it appears from looking at the referrers to my site that there are a lot of people looking for audio and video of Ozzy Osbourne singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" and my blog ranks pretty high when you search for such things. So if you are here to find out about Ozzy Osbourne singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" then go here and don't be afraid to leave a comment. [Yes that was a shameless attempt to get more hits on my blog].
I have resisted commenting on the Dave Bliss situation at Baylor University for several days. I wanted to say something before but I just couldn't figure out how to say it. I'm not sure that I know what to say now but I feel like something needs to be said. There seems to be an epidemic among college coaches that cause them to lose their minds and cheat in every way imaginable and do stupid things like spend the night with a prostitute and then leave your credit card with her or spend all night partying with coeds from the school that just beat your team and then get your picture on the front page of the paper.
David Bliss has taken that stupidity to a whole other level. As a coach at a school that is at least in name Christian (I don't know anything about the school so I can't comment on whether it is still guided by that claim or not) he tried to cover his own butt by defaming the name of a murdered player. He tried to drag everyone else into the scheme, including players and assistant coaches and then he had the audacity to say "It's not like we created his situation. We're the victims." I don't even want to start on that comment, it just makes me sick.
The whole situation makes me sick. The fact that a coach would do something so stupid is disturbing. The fact that this would happen at at "Christian" school hurts even more. I just don't know what to say.
Well, I've got to go to a meeting now. Maybe I will comment a little more later. I've still got some other thoughts about this whole mess. I'd be glad to hear what anyone else is thinking.
And on that same disturbing note of freak accidents, a man was killed when his hair got caught by a roller coaster that he owned at Paradise Amusements in Idaho. Passangers of the ride watched as he was carried 40 feet in the air by the train, scalped, and then dropped on his back on a fence that ultimately killed him. There are going to be some therapists working overtime some time soon.
This is terrible. Can you imagine being stuck in an elevator for 20 minutes with someone who had just been decapitated? What are you thinking about while you are waiting for them to get you out? I don't think it would be about lunch. I don't think that I will rush to get on an elevator any more.
"Elevators and escalators kill about 30 and injure about 17,100 people each year in the United States." What? 30 people dead and more than 17,000 injured. I didn't realize that these things were so dangerous.
Once again Ozzy Osbourne proved himself to be the poster child for why not to fry your brain with drugs. In the time-honored tradition of the Chicago Cubs having celebrities lead the singing of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch, Ozzy Osbourne was invited to lead the song yesterday. Needless to say Ozzy has spent most of his life destroying his brain and there is not much left. Listen to the results.
[I don't know if this is legal but I recorded this from ESPN Radio because I couldn't find it anywhere else. If someone knows that it is illegal I will remove it. The quality is also not the greatest because it is recorded in this way and at one point you will hear laughing, which is the hosts of the show laughing at Ozzy].
Continue reading to sing along with Ozzy.
One, two, three, and ... let's go out to the ballgame, let's go out to the hghdfh, take me hdsgd areng tdgu, I don't remember what I have to do, ragh garef rata da ra rame, adu dda da dgd ddf, dor eag rea, two, three strikes your out at the ol ball game. Yaaaaayy! [Now let's get some runs]. Yeah let's get some runs, c'mon.
In light of the Outage of 2003 and the blame game that is going on between the U.S. and Canada as well as George W.'s visit to California, the land of the Terminator, I began wondering if the U.S. should take this opportunity to put Canada in it's place. So George W. and Ahnold should hop on that fighter jet and head off to Canada. The only problem is that "hasta la vista, baby" doesn't translate well into French. "Au revoir, hoser" doesn't have quite the same ring.
I mentioned in an earlier post, Kobe, Race and Celebrity, that the Kobe Bryant case in Eagle County Colorado would probably bring focus to the issue of race because of the demographics of Eagle County. Eagle County is only .3% African American and of course the case against Kobe, a black man, is based upon the accusation of a white woman.
It appears now that some idiot white supremacists are trying to exploit this situation. (I included a link to their website out of some sense that I have that I should be journalistically fair and present information on all sides of the issue. I encourage you not to visit this site though so that they do not receive the hits on their site that they would like.) The National Alliance, the aforementioned idiot racists, have taken credit for distributing racist flyers throughout Eagle County in what could be viewed as an attempt to taint the jury pool. Whatever their overall motive the morons are trying to stir up racial tensions in an already heated situation.
I have several friends that all but refuse to use public restrooms because of the germs. If they are forced to use such facilities they will basically wrap their hands in paper towels so that the germs on everything that they touch will not be passed to their skin. Well it looks like the Japanese have invented one part of the solution to this problem, Toto. With the combination of faucets that turn on automatically and doors that open automatically you might not have to worry about picking up the germs from every disgusting person that never learned to wash their hands. You might just be able to stop at that gas station and feel cleaner in the bathroom than out behind the tree.
I assume that just about everyone knows about the whole Pete Rose ordeal. If you don't, I don't know what hole you have been living in, but I will give you a brief synopsis.
Pete Rose was a great major league baseball player a couple of generations ago (before my time). During his playing career he established himself as a hard-nosed player that earned the nickname "Charlie Hustle." Over his career Rose amassed 4,256 hits, more than any other player in major league history, he had a 44-game hit streak and won a World Series MVP. After finishing his career Rose became a manager for the Cincinnati Reds, the team that he played for. In 1989 Rose was banned for life from baseball for "conduct detrimental to the game." Basically Rose was caught betting on baseball and even worse betting on games that he had a direct effect over. In other words he was betting on games that his team was playing in and therefore games that he could manipulate (to some extent) the outcome of. This is the chief of all sins in baseball and Rose received the equivilant of the death penalty. He was banned from all things baseball and most importantly to his supporters, from the Hall of Fame.
Well the debate has resurfaced as reports have come out that Rose is in the midst of making a deal with Bud Selig, the Comissioner of MLB, to allow him back into baseball. First into the Hall of Fame and then possibly as a manager.
This just makes me sick. If Pete Rose actually bet on games that he could control the outcome of then why do we want him back in baseball? Why would we allow him to manage again? The proof against him is insurmountable yet he has never admitted to wrongdoing. He was convicted of tax fraud because he didn't report his gambling earnings but he won't admit that he gambled. The guy is just sleazy and I don't want him back in baseball. Yeah, maybe he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame as a player based upon his career but he screwed up and took that opportunity away from himself. I have no pity for him. He got what he deserves.
The whole discussion on the newly confirmed gay Episcopal priest got me thinking about homosexuality and all of the justifications that surround the issue. Particularly I was thinking about the arguments that homosexuality is normal or genetic or something like that. (Anything that falls into that set of arguments that denies that homosexuality is an abhoration). I was considering this argument in light of evolution and it sparked a couple of thoughts. It seems to me that if homesexuality is natural and we have evolved from apes then it would seem to follow that homosexuality would also be natural for apes. Maybe I'm mistaken but I don't know that I have ever seen or heard of gay apes, or any other gay animals.
Maybe someone can prove to me that there are gay apes and can blow this whole argument out of the water. Whatever. It still doesn't change the fact that homesexuality is an abhoration.
Did you know that almost every disaster that has taken place on American soil can be directly related to a pending U.S. foreign policy decision that would lean in favor of the Palestinians? Well, if you don't know then you haven't been paying attention. You need some education so read this article. I'm glad they pointed this out to me. I was missing the obvious meaning of these signs of God.
[If you don't know me and you missed the dripping sarcasm go back and reread this post with the appropriate inflection in your mental voice.]
The tracker that is on my blog tracks search engine referrals to my blog. This means that it tracks what people were searching for when they found my blog. It is interesting to watch and see how people found me. The interesting thing is that I have gotten more hits from my inability to spell than anything else. In one of my previous posts, More Kobe News, I misspelled Kobe's last name. Instead of "Bryant" I mistakenly typed "Bryan." I first realized my spelling error when I saw a search engine referall with the mispelling in it. I promptly changed the spelling on the post, but it has not stopped people from finding me with this mispelling. Apparently there are a lot of people out there who can't spell or who just don't know what Kobe's last name really is. Whatever the reason, I have gotten most of my search engine referalls from people looking for information on "Kobe Bryan".
Maybe I should mispell things more often. I get more traffic that way.
I hate when I am working on something and I keep getting an error but I can't find what is causing the error. Every time that I read through the code it looks fine. I'm sure though that if I could just get up and leave and come back later to look at it that I would find the problem. It is usually just a matter of having a fresh perspective on the problem. Well I'm stuck right now. I've got some problem with my code and I can't figure out what it is. The problem is that I still have 2 and a half hours before I can get up and walk away. So I'm trying to waste some time so that I can get a little bit of a fresh perspective. We'll see if it helps.
And adding his names to the list of crackpots running for Governor in California ... Gary Coleman. The choices just keep getting better. Also officially announcing his intentions, on the Jay Leno show, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Last September two drunken idiots, a father and his 16 year old son, ran onto the field at a Chicago White Sox/Kansas City Royals game and attacked from behind Tom Gamboa, the elderly first base coach of the White Sox. The idiots were immediately pummeled by players from both teams and then arrested by stadium security. Gambo ended up with a large gash on his head and still is suffering from hearing loss directly related to the attack.
Cook County Judge Leo Holt sentenced William Ligue Jr., the father of the duo, to 30 months probation, community service, parenting classes, he must remain in a substance abuse program and abide by a curfew for 90 days. The maximum sentence could have been 5 years in jail. Judge Holt said that the sentence should not be considered a slap on the wrist because Ligue will have to “live with the stigma of being a convicted felon.” WHAT!?!
Ligue’s son was earlier sentenced to five years of probation and 30 hours of community service but will probably be sent to prison boot camp because he already violated probation. So the son got a stiffer sentence than the father. The judge also said that baseball players encourage violence by throwing at batters and batters charging pitchers and benches-clearing brawls. Because of these things and the fact that Ligue is a drunken idiot he isn’t responsible for his actions. I don’t see the logic. Neither does Tom Gamboa. Maybe they should have just let the players continue to beat the crap out of the two idiots.
This just makes me sick. I’ve got a lot more I could say about this but I don’t have the time and it just continues to make me angry so I am going to stop.
I think that I solved my problem. I have also played with the format of my page a little bit. I'm still tinkering and will fix some more when I find more time.
So what was the solution? Through process of elimination I figured out that when I removed the top and bottom border on my blog body I started getting the shifting. I still don't understand why but I have learned with code that you don't always get to know the answer why. You just fix it and move on. However, if anyone knows why this happens I would be glad to hear from you. It still annoys me.
I realize that there are still a couple of problems with the layout that I am trying to fix. The text on the left side extends past its borders so it cuts off some letters. This should be easy to fix.
Let me know what you think of the new layout and any suggestions that you might have.
Help! I don't know what is happening. My blog seems to be sliding off the left side of the screen. If you scroll down the page you will see it for yourself. You will notice that some of the text is sliding out of its space. I don't know why this is happening. I have looked at my main index and my stylesheet and I can't find the problem. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. I am hyper-anal about things like that and it is really bothering me. Please help.
Politics in California just seem to be a joke, and it just seems to be getting more and more funny. Or maybe more and more sad. If you don't know, Gray Davis, the current governor of California is facing a recall election where he could lose his job as governor. The whole process just seems to be bringing the wackos out of the woodwork. (And there are plenty of wackos in California to go around). Apparently more than 200 people have taken steps toward getting their names on the ballots. There's an 18-year-old who couldn't get elected as class president running, Arnold Schwarzenegger may run, and even a crazy lady selling thong underwear with her campaign slogan on it. But hey, she's got a blog, so she must be cool.
I've added Categories to my blog so that I (and anyone else) can track the things that I am talking about. I went back through and added categories to all of my past posts to see where they fit in. You can now find the list of categories on the sidebar and the list of the last few posts under that category there as well.
Just in case anyone cares.
This really pisses me off. Why do people keep selling out to the leftist, liberal, homosexual agenda? Why is the church doing it now? Have these people actually ever read Scripture?
My last post about PETA got me thinking about meat. For those of you who know me and know my dietary habits you know that it doesn't take much to get me thinking about meat, but that is beside the point. I started thinking about meat and about how much a PETA member would hate me if they ever met me. Keep in mind that I have never met a member of PETA or taken much time to even really understand what they believe. Basically I don’t really care because what I have seen of what they believe is crap. So I’m not going to waste my time studying any more. I think my basic problem with PETA is that I believe that animals like cows were put on the earth so that I could eat them and they believe that cows have feelings and should be protected with more fervency than we would protect the life of a human child.
[Pause for random tangent]
[The following paragraph is going to be a random tangent. If you are easily distracted and cannot continue your train of thought while pausing for random thoughts please skip this paragraph.] For some reason I have this idea that at some time in the history of the world all animals were "wild" as opposed to "domesticated" or the like. Modern day cows wouldn't necessarily be considered “domesticated” but they definitely aren’t “wild” animals. Working off my assumption that all animals were at some point wild it would follow that at some point cows were wild. I don’t know if it is just me, but I have a hard time imagining this. Anyone that has seen cows first hand knows that they are about the slowest and dumbest of all animals. I can’t imagine how they survived before someone put them out in a field and put a fence around them. I just have a hard time seeing a herd of cows roaming the prairies and fighting off a pack of wolves. Are there any wild cows still out there? Maybe someone can help me here.
[Back to where we left off]
I just get sick of people who put the “feelings” of plants and animals above the well-being of humans. Where the crap do they even get the idea that plants have feelings and even if they do why do I care what a plant or animal feels or how I treat it beyond the concepts of stewardship and the like. I'm not going to go into my rant about the stupidity of chaining yourself to a tree so that it won't get cut down but not caring at all when millions of children are dying of hunger in Africa not to mention the horrors of abortion in this country. I'll just say, "GET A PASSION THAT MATTERS!"
I guess I just get angry at anyone who would try and deny me a good burger. To quote Nick Smith, “I like animals, they taste great.”