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Well, on the Jaguar front, the good news is they picked up an offensive tackle in free agency. Tra Thomas may be older and not quite the pro bowler he was, but he's better than anyone on last year's roster at that position. I just hope he's better than Hugh Douglas, the last free agent past his prime we got from Philadelphia. That guy was a huge waste of money. On the bad side, Matt Jones, who got in trouble last year for cocaine possession, got in trouble again in a random drug test (not a new charge, but breaking a condition of his plea deal on the cocaine rap) that picked up alcohol. He had a beer or two while playing golf with some buddies. In itself,that's not a crime, but when you agreed not to as a condition of an earlier offense, that's where the rub is. He's in jail for 10 days. I realize he was one of the better receivers we had last year, but that's not setting the bar very high. Can he go now?
I see our new president OK'd the government spending money for embryonic stem cell research. Yeah, let's take one more step to legitimize abortion...so we can harvest stem cells. I'll say it again. Embryos aren't the only source of stem cells. They're just the only source that involves dead babies. Coincidence? Oh sure it is. None of that matters though, because we're all seeing the first family through the distorted media drool they're covered in. I'm surprised Brian Williams isn't suffering from dehydration.
Speaking of abortion, I see the Pope gave Nancy Pelosi (who claims to be Catholic) a personal audience/reaming because of her views/voting record on the subject. I can't imagine having the head of a belief system which you profess to call your own, picking you out and saying, "Yo, we need to talk." That had to feel pretty good. Seriously, when you say it's OK to kill babies because of some mythical "right to choose", how can you possibly then say child abduction (or anything else, for that matter) should be illegal. Oh, if you swipe kids from their parents, that should be wrong, but if you kill them outright, that's OK. The logic escapes me.
My friends on the right side of the political world want to blame the current economic crisis on the Clinton administration, because they pressured banks into giving mortgages to people who otherwise couldn't qualify, and that got us into this foreclosure mess. It may be a factor, but I'll say this again too. No government got us into this mess. It wasn't the "failed economic policies of the last eight years" or the failed economic policies of the eight years prior to those eight years. Irresponsible borrowers got us into this mess. You know what you can afford to pay each month for a mortgage. If you agree to terms that have you possibly paying more than that, even if it's two years down the road, what the hell are you thinking? You gambled with your house. Then financial institutions around the globe gambled with your house. Everybody lost. No government put your name on that dotted line. That's on you. Just because someone will give you more credit than you can handle doesn't take away your personal responsibility to understand what you're getting into, and pay back what you take.
Played golf for the first time in ages this weekend. A friend retired from the Navy and his ceremony was on Saturday, with friends traveling in from all over the country. He organized golf Saturday morning for as many of the guests as wanted to play (me among them). I managed to keep the score in double digits, which made me pretty happy, considering the layoff. Some of the guys want to make it a weekly affair, and want me to participate. I just don't have that kind of time...too many other things to do. Now that I'm spending more time on a bike, I see that as far better exercise. It's not as social though, and I miss that part of golf.
Oh the "things that make me go Hmmmmm" front...I gave the guy who retired from the Navy a bike jersey as a gift, because he rides with me and will do the MS Ride this fall...and he doesn't have a lot of bike clothing yet. When he was opening presents and opened that one, one of his out of town friends started giving him grief. "Oh God, Fred. You aren't one of those people who wear those skin tight shorts are you. What do you do? Stand around comparing your package with all the other guys?" The guy went on and on about how you can pretty much see everything you have through those shorts. First, no you can't, or not easily anyway if they're black. There's padding down there for your bottom on long rides and to keep everything where you want it. Yeah, I guess if you get up close and start inspecting, you can make some observations, but...who does that? I can honestly say I haven't made a single package inspection and don't have any planned in the near or distant future. We don't wear those shorts to stand around. We wear them to bike ride. Second, this same guy, earlier in the evening, was bragging about doing naked cannonballs into a pool on a cruise ship. You wanna talk about hanging your junk out there for everyone to see?
Until next time....
I see our new president OK'd the government spending money for embryonic stem cell research. Yeah, let's take one more step to legitimize abortion...so we can harvest stem cells. I'll say it again. Embryos aren't the only source of stem cells. They're just the only source that involves dead babies. Coincidence? Oh sure it is. None of that matters though, because we're all seeing the first family through the distorted media drool they're covered in. I'm surprised Brian Williams isn't suffering from dehydration.
Speaking of abortion, I see the Pope gave Nancy Pelosi (who claims to be Catholic) a personal audience/reaming because of her views/voting record on the subject. I can't imagine having the head of a belief system which you profess to call your own, picking you out and saying, "Yo, we need to talk." That had to feel pretty good. Seriously, when you say it's OK to kill babies because of some mythical "right to choose", how can you possibly then say child abduction (or anything else, for that matter) should be illegal. Oh, if you swipe kids from their parents, that should be wrong, but if you kill them outright, that's OK. The logic escapes me.
My friends on the right side of the political world want to blame the current economic crisis on the Clinton administration, because they pressured banks into giving mortgages to people who otherwise couldn't qualify, and that got us into this foreclosure mess. It may be a factor, but I'll say this again too. No government got us into this mess. It wasn't the "failed economic policies of the last eight years" or the failed economic policies of the eight years prior to those eight years. Irresponsible borrowers got us into this mess. You know what you can afford to pay each month for a mortgage. If you agree to terms that have you possibly paying more than that, even if it's two years down the road, what the hell are you thinking? You gambled with your house. Then financial institutions around the globe gambled with your house. Everybody lost. No government put your name on that dotted line. That's on you. Just because someone will give you more credit than you can handle doesn't take away your personal responsibility to understand what you're getting into, and pay back what you take.
Played golf for the first time in ages this weekend. A friend retired from the Navy and his ceremony was on Saturday, with friends traveling in from all over the country. He organized golf Saturday morning for as many of the guests as wanted to play (me among them). I managed to keep the score in double digits, which made me pretty happy, considering the layoff. Some of the guys want to make it a weekly affair, and want me to participate. I just don't have that kind of time...too many other things to do. Now that I'm spending more time on a bike, I see that as far better exercise. It's not as social though, and I miss that part of golf.
Oh the "things that make me go Hmmmmm" front...I gave the guy who retired from the Navy a bike jersey as a gift, because he rides with me and will do the MS Ride this fall...and he doesn't have a lot of bike clothing yet. When he was opening presents and opened that one, one of his out of town friends started giving him grief. "Oh God, Fred. You aren't one of those people who wear those skin tight shorts are you. What do you do? Stand around comparing your package with all the other guys?" The guy went on and on about how you can pretty much see everything you have through those shorts. First, no you can't, or not easily anyway if they're black. There's padding down there for your bottom on long rides and to keep everything where you want it. Yeah, I guess if you get up close and start inspecting, you can make some observations, but...who does that? I can honestly say I haven't made a single package inspection and don't have any planned in the near or distant future. We don't wear those shorts to stand around. We wear them to bike ride. Second, this same guy, earlier in the evening, was bragging about doing naked cannonballs into a pool on a cruise ship. You wanna talk about hanging your junk out there for everyone to see?
Until next time....
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