Today's Chuck Norris Fact:
If you Google search "Chuck Norris getting his ass kicked" you will generate zero results. It just doesn't happen.
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Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist."
-- Matthew 14:8 (NIV)
On days like this, I really loathe and despise anyone who comes from either coast of the United States. In fact, I fully believe that the Midwest would be much better off if it just seceded from the Union and let the coasts do their own thing...they don't know us, they don't understand us, they don't CARE to understand us and they never will, so why even bother with them? To them, we're mere unenlightened, conservative-Christian, weirdo, missing-teeth, incestuous, priorities-out-of-whack, overly-reproductive hicks, and the world would be better off without us.
Sigh...............another problem at OU (or any Midwestern or southern university, for that matter), another chance for the coast-based media to scream for the heads of the athletic director and the head coach on silver platters. It doesn't matter how Bob Stoops and Joe Castiglione handled the Bomar-Quinn case. It doesn't matter how they handled the Kelvin Sampson case. It doesn't matter that they've managed to keep the program relatively clean for the last several years, through good times and bad. It's easy to keep a program clean in bad times; no one really cares then, since you stink and everyone knows it.
Now, the idea that you're just cheating, doing whatever you can to win, that always resonates for those idiot sportswriters, particularly when they get the opportunity to stick it to the hay-seeds. The best part is, they have the benefit not facing Bob Stoops or Joe Castiglione to their faces to make their bold claims and accusations, so at best, they're cowards.
I'm calling you out, sportswriters. Go straight to Bob Stoops and Joe Castiglione. Tell them to their faces that they're cheaters or that they're incompetent, because with all of your outrageous rhetoric you've been spewing the last couple of days, that's essentially what you're saying. And say it TO THEIR FACES.
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I just finished reading Heinlein's Starship Troopers for the third time. It's a great book, in my opinion. Folks claim it's fascist, militaristic, and plotless, and perhaps it is a bit more militaristic than today's literati prefer, but it's still a great book. MUCH better than the movie, though the movie does have its charms. I highly recommend it, especially if you're into sci-fi at all. It makes some very interesting claims about citizenship, civic duty and virtue, corporal punishment of children, capital punishment, the necessity of use of force, historical value of war, and the labor theory of value. The interesting thing in reading it, from my own point-of-view, is that I agree with most of the arguments he makes, on most of those points.
One point, is war necessary, is an important one even today. There are so many who wish war would just go away, and I can't say I disagree. However, unfortunately, war is completely necessary, because there are still those of our own species (and if we branch out into space, possibly other species) for who force is still their primary way of dealing with us. I remember getting an e-mail about punching a pacifist in the nose with no provocation, just to see how he reacts, and I can't disagree. Is war ever desirable? Of course not. Is war something we should actively seek? I would say no, in most cases. Is war sometimes necessary? Yes, it totally is. If another person, race of people, or race of beings brings war our way, and we do nothing but try diplomatic solutions, we might as well just commit suicide. Heinlein argues this point almost from a natural selection perspective; if two species exist side-by-side, and one is stronger and feels it needs to do so, it will simply destroy the weaker species or push them aside. He also argues that all war is the result of population pressure. I don't know if I would agree with that, but it's an intriguing argument, one that bears examination. I've always believed, myself, that there are some people who really just can't understand anything other than force, and that is why, even though we don't want war, we must always be prepared to fight and defeat those who try to do us harm. To believe otherwise is either stupidity or foolish optimism. Call me cynical if you like, but I feel I'm just being realistic.
Something else I know, and this is particularly relevant to the current crises in the Middle East, is that BOTH sides must want peace for peace between two peoples to be an real option. The problem I have with liberals is that they always forget this. Those same liberals claim we should simply pull out of the Middle East, in other words, admit defeat and withdraw. There are two ways to end a war: a) both sides actively want peace and negotiate diplomatically to get it, or b) one side or the other is completely defeated and withdraws, or is completely destroyed. Short of those two options, there is no middle ground. If one side is fully intent on fighting, the other side can either just withdraw or be destroyed, or we can continue to fight until we win. There are many in the Middle East who want to destroy us. We can either fight those people or let them kill us.
The wars we're fighting have been brought to us for the most part (and you can disagree with that statement if you wish...I don't really care), and we must prosecute them to the fullest. Those want to lose these wars are free to just go ahead and go jump off a bridge or put a gun to their head and pull the trigger. I don't plan to go quite so gentle into that good night.
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Most of you know the kind of vehicle I drive now, and some of you may even be interested what it's like to drive such a vehicle around every day. So I thought I'd give you a glimpse into what it's like. First, children absolutely LOVE it!!! This is probably the best part of driving it around. It's hilarious to watch kids, especially kids between 4 and 6, start jumping up and down and laughing and cheering when they see my zebra. Some even call it "the Madagascar car", after the recent animated feature. But it really goes beyond that. Nearly everyone smiles when they see it, and in that way, it's really nice. It's almost like being the flower-delivery person; everyone is happy to see you. If I were a young, single guy, it would be pretty cool, because college-age girls really seem to enjoy it. (That's an important tip, fellas...if you're single and lonely, go get a white Land Rover and paint it up like a zebra, and you can't go wrong.) Some folks probably think it's weird, and that's OK...I don't hear from them at all, or at least, the amount I've heard form them has been minimal. But it is fun, and the stripes actually are fairly low-maintenance, which makes it even better. I have to be careful if I wash it with a high-pressure spray, since those stripes are just heavy-duty decals, but other than that, it's not bad at all.
I'm even considering contacting some local companies and seeing if they'd be interested in buying some advertising space on it for a few hundred a month. I could easily take of the existing decals and put ads on the rear quarter windows and rear window (as long as they don't affect visibility too much).
Thanks for reading along.
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