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Mass Extinctions
We should not be surprised at this news and those of you who are surprised or even those of you don't believe the scientific evidence watch this video.
It puts into animation much of what a report today says is the biggest mass extinction since the last ice age. What will cause the greatest conflict though and probably generate the most responses is the fact that those extinctions are human induced.
Watch the video and leave me your thoughts, but I don't know how you can debate what the facts state. One incredible stat, we are now as a civilization using 25% more natural resources than our planet can sustain.
Category: environment
Look Who Is Still At Large
Gee I guess we never have caught the guy behind 9/11 and he sure as hell isn't in IRAQ. Bin Laden is still out there despite being the mastermind behind 9/11 and still the leader of Al Qaeda. He is also the man that George W. Bush swore to go after immediately following 9/11.
How hard could this guy be to find? Why aren't we, better yet, why haven't we and the media been questioning the Bush administration as to their motives for not going after the one who actually started this thing and instead going after a guy who yes he wasn't a saint, but he certainly wasn't the cause of it either.
Its a big lie, the war and this whole last 7 years. If George W. Bush was serious about finding the terrorists and winning this thing, he and his administration would have found Bin Laden long ago, instead they choose to ignore the guy who masterminded this attack and therefore, run around in a country that they have essentially invaded and have no idea how to get out of.
The first 6 months after 9/11 was Bin Laden, since that time its been ignoring him and all Iraq. I think we all have been duped in the long run and who ever takes office will be right in getting out of Iraq and focusing their attention, if they want to continue this offensive on finding Bin Laden. If that is not the objective then clear out altogether. But don't keep running a campaign that has no clear set goals and stop wasting valuable taxpayer money.
Get Out The Brooms
The Blue Jays got their brooms in gear as they swept the Minnesota Twins. This team has been through big highs and big lows and the result is they are one game away from .500 again. However, this recent surge combined with the lackluster play of the Yankees puts them a half game ahead of NY.
Will the real Jays please stand up? The outfield with the addition of Wilkerson and Mench looks like it will hold up through Vernon Wells absence and may even thrive and Scott Rolen has shown up and been productive since his return.
The key now is not to lose 4 in a row. Either keep winning or don't lose the next series but don't erase this latest surge by getting swept against the Phillies this weekend. We know this pitching staff is going to be lights out this year, all we need from the batters is production, it doesn't even have to be pretty, just be productive in key situations and let your starters and bullpen hold the leads. It doesn't matter if you win pretty 11-2 or win ugly 3-2 just score one more run than the opponent and everything else will work itself out.
Category: Sports
Long Course Season
Tomorrow through Sunday I will be at the Tonawanda Aquatic and Fitness Center for our first long course swim meet of the season. I have a big group of kids representing my group within the Stingrays Swim Club and we should be represented well.
Tomorrow night is all the big distance stuff including the 200's (IM and Freestyle), 800 Free, 400 IM and 1500 Free. For the 1500 they will swim two to a lane otherwise we would be there until 4 AM.
This really is my favorite season of the swimming year, shortcourse is all indoors and you feel like you never see the light of day, long course is beautiful out, you have a few ourdoor meets and its a time to hang out with the swimming community and enjoy the best of the sport. It is also the time of year we swim the sport it is meant to be swum. in the big 50 meter, olympic size pools.
These are double what you would see in most of your typical high school pools and are the most challenging for novice kids getting it for the first time.
Stay tuned and I will have some updates throughout the weekend.
Category: Swimming
No Offense To Gays
No offense to gays but this California passing of gay marriage rights may have come at the absolute worst time if you hope to get the republicans away from the presidency.
All this does is gets the political base of the republicans talking again and brings up an issue that quite frankly should not be talked about in the political forum.
Whether or not two people can be married or not, whether gay, straight, black, white, purple or orange shouldn't matter, if two people love each other, then they should be able to have the same rights as any other couple and that is to be able to marry.
You may argue that if they are going to share the same rights then it is a political matter and I still say that it is for their respective churches to determine if they are going to marry or not, certainly not the governments.
Its a religious issue not political one and therefore, politicians should be miles away from this issue. Now, it is the worst possible time for this to come up for democrats because it wakes up the republican right and distracts a lot of peope including eventually McCain and Obama from talking about the real issues that Obama can and will out duel McCain on in the general election including healthcare, the war and energy.
Watch for this to take shape in the coming month, next meaningless issue to rear its head will be flag burning. You watch, its Karl Rove playing his little crap tactics behind the scenes again.
Category: Politics
Playing God
It always pisses me off to hear about how our government or any government for that matter places a species on the endangered or threatened list. Today, the polar bear was placed on the threatened list and once again our politicians try to "play god".
Who are we as humans, politicians or otherwise to say what living things we are going to concentrate on protecting more?
We should be protecting all wildlife and doing what is right for all living things be it plants, animals or friggin insects and microscopic life. The polar bear is cute, its symbolic and its great that it gets people interested in the whole subject of protecting the environment, but that is what is wrong with it.
We can list the polar bear as what ever we want to list it as, but if we don't protect its environment and the overall rock on which we live, it won't matter what list its on, it will be extinct.
Category: Politics | environment
I Wish I Liked Lacrosse
The Buffalo Bandits have made it to the NLL Championship game, who says Buffalo ain't a winning city, we may not have won anything with the two major sports teams but we have the Bandits and the Bisons who have won their fair share are winners.
That said, I wish I was a lacrosse fan because something tells me I'd be loving every minute of it. From what I hear its a fantastic experience going to the games, they make it a fun, family atmosphere that is geared toward the kids and there are a lot of physical altercations.
Whats not to love? I can honestly say I have never gone to a Bandits game, however, next year, I am going to make it a point to go to one game to see what its like. Fact is, Im a hockey/baseball fan, and no matter what happens when I do go to a lacrosse game, hockey will always trump it. So I guess my point of view has been why bother going to a Bandits game.
Well maybe its time I try it.
Let The NFL Settle Their Own Disputes
Republican Senator Arlen Spector has clearly lost his mind. He wants to re-open the NFL spygate case which I may say, the NFL seemed to be handling pretty well on its own and in fact closed its own investigation the other day.
So why must the tax payers of this country pay for the US Senate and their indpendent investigation of a problem that the NFL and Roger Goodell should be able to handle on their own?
I mean come on, teams video taping other teams whether illegal by NFL standards or not, is not a cause for national security or worth the tax payer dollars of this country. Not to mention that the NFL should be able to police itself on this and other issues. It handles its own substance abuse issues and other problems.
It is especially insignificant when you take into consideration that we have a significant national debt, a lack of funding for medicaire and medicaid, a war that we are having trouble paying for and a whole host of other issues that our politicians and leaders in Washington should be spending their time on.
Spygate, to me isn't that big a deal all the teams do it and so what? Its no different than a guy on second stealing signs from the catcher and then relaying those signs to the batter in baseball but there will never be an investigation of that.
First we had the Mitchell report and I had the same issues with that, taxpayer dollars being spent on a drug issue in a professional sport that makes billions of dollars a year.
I think that if Arlen Spector really wants this investigation done, he should resign as senator and do it himself, if the NFL chooses to pay him, then so be it but the tax payers of this country shouldn't have to fork over a dime for this investigation of what is essentially the richest sports league in the world.
The Worst of the No Goals
The no goal against the Dallas Stars didn't bug me as much as this one still does to this day. As long as I have a memory, this one will stick out as the true no goal in Buffalo sports history. This really was no goal, no matter how you slice it. Play should have been stopped, time reset and the goal taken away.
I remember the image of Darcy Reiger in the officials replay booth standing on a chair pointing at the TV and screaming at the officials with no positive results to follow.
John LeClair, despite what the stats say, you do not get credit for this goal in my book!
Fraggle's On the Big Screen
Yep, I just read it and apparently Jim Henson's company is teaming up to bring this thing to life. One of the most successful HBO series is coming out on the big screen!
I liked the Fraggles especially the music in the shows. It was a great mix of rock and roll and artsy jingles that they came up with, I can not wait to hear the music that goes with a full length motion picture of them.
I've posted it before but its worth another go round the Fraggle Theme (gotta love Gobo on the gord guitar):
Category: Movies
