Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by Myke.

“…and the truth shall set you free…”

Not in the case of McGwire.  I have only read one decent story about Mark McGwire admitting to steroids and the rest seem to be bashing him and basically telling him to get lost and that MLB should ban him for life.  So as a society today, when someone admits fault then we should shun them forever and call them cheaters and cowards?!?  This is not the way we want to live our lives.  We should live our lives as a caring and forgiving society, not a hateful society.  Even though these so called baseball experts want McGwire banned for life, we have current and active players in MLB playing and getting paid millions…after they admitted to using steroids.  If we want to take a firm stance, then every player that ever gets caught for cheating in any way needs to be banned for life, no questions asked.  If a sports writer does a false story, they should be banned for life from writing about sports.  MLB needs to do away with their suspensions for failing drug tests.  If you fail, you are banned for life.  Does that make sense to be that critical?  No.  Yes, cheating is wrong and should be punished.  But to say that one player should be banned for life and the others are forgiven is stupid and makes you look like a jackass.  A-Rod can admit to steroids and other drugs, swing his dick around every city in the World and use women like rag dolls…but he gets a free pass because he was young and dumb when he used them…or…he learned his lesson and has never cheated since.  Really?  REALLY?!?  Let’s ask his ex-wife how truthful of a man he is.  Let’s ask Madonna how truthful a man he is.  Come on man, wake the f**k up.  There was an entire era of baseball that was filled with drugs, steroids, HGH and what ever else they could get a hold of.  It was encouraged by trainers, scouts, managers and other players.

Should they hold records in the record books? No.  Should they be hailed as hero’s? No.  Should they be banned from MLB? No.  They should be used as poster boys of the wrong way of doing things for the younger generation out there.  The media always hypes how these drugs make boys into men with great strength and makes it unfair for the non-drug users.  Is that message we want our kids to read or hear about?  No.  The message should be about the side affects that these drugs can cause now and in the future.

I will keep Mark McGwire’s apology recorded for my son to watch when he gets a bit older.  I want him to see a grown man have to admit to the World the mistakes he made.  I want my son to know that there is a right way and a wrong way of playing sports.  The wrong way has life long lasting affects, medical affects and mental affects.

Having McGwire as a coach on the St Louis Cardinal’s is a great thing for baseball.  He will be there to tell every player around him the downside of everything he did.  He is basically like taking an ex-con into a school and letting him/her tell every student the bad side to prison…in graphic detail.  McGwire is going to be a modern day baseball scared straight coach.  He loves baseball and dedicated his life to it.  He has passion and love for a sport and that is something he can pass along to other players young and old.  If McGwire coached my son in baseball, I would feel honored to have such an honest and caring man teach him the right and wrong in baseball.

To be a sports writer and come out and say, “Ban him for life for lying, stealing and cheating”, is ignorant.  He apologized to the World after he apologized to his family, friends, fellow players and more importantly to the Roger Maris family.  He knows what he did was wrong and he came out to tell everyone after telling the ones he hurt the most first.  I also believe he saw how close he was to making the Hall of Fame and that really drove him to admit his wrong doing.  He knows he will never make the Hall after this apology and he accepts that.

You have to remember folks, taking steroids does not give you the ability to hit a 90 MPH fastball, a 12 o’clock to 6 o’clock breaking ball or the coordination to play great defense at a hot corner like first base.  It gave McGwire the ability to heal injuries quicker, get stronger and train longer.  Yes you can account for some homeruns going 500+ feet to steroids, but not every one of them.  Baseball is still a skill of the mind and takes great talent to make it to the majors.  I do agree that records should be cleared out of the record books, but do not clear out the players themselves.

*Note*
Steroids can give you an advantage in many sports, but in a game of skill and coordination it only goes so far.  Sports like boxing, MMA, martial arts, football (certain positions) and rugby, it gives you a great advantage…not in baseball.

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Friday, October 9, 2009 by Myke.

Please accept this post as a message from the general public and one very outspoken fan of professional sports and the American People.  You suck.  I have watched you go from a flashy tie wearing, decent comment speaking guy to a complete moron with s**t in his mouth and hands and you fling it like it was beads at Mardi Gras.  I actually used to listen to you and think maybe this guy has a point.  Then I started to grow up and realize what a complete idiotic jack@$$ you are.  Every once in a while you come out with some decent speech or rant and it sounds good but then you follow it up with complete diarrhea of the mouth.  Being a huge professional sports fan I was angry and sad at your comments when you tried your ESPN Countdown gig about 6 years ago.  Now that you are attempting to buy a stake in the St Louis Rams, the NFL had better stand up and point your @$$ to the closest KKK rally and send you packing.

Let’s take a look back at what you suggested on ESPN Countdown.  You suggested Eagles black quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated by a sports media concerned about looking politically correct.  Are you kidding me man?  McNabb is a solid QB with a solid career and has numerous charity events and groups he dedicates his time to.  The guy was drafted and booed like there was no tomorrow yet he stuck it out and fought through everything.  Now the city of Philadelphia loves their QB and can appreciate everything he has done for their football team.

Do you think that McNabb has zero friends in the NFL?  If you were allowed to buy into the Rams you would get boycotted by just about every player in the league.  These guys are a family and stick by each other.  Just ask Michael Vick if his brotherhood of NFL players stick by each other.  The NFL does not need you or care about you.  What the NFL needs is leaders and mentors, not jerk @$$, moronic s**t flinging numb-nuts like yourself.

Want to keep this debate up?  Then let’s move forward with your brilliance of speech.

Statement about our President Obama: “Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, ruled by dictate.” - Holy s**t @$$munch!  I may not be sold on Obama or some of his political agendas but to compare a husband/father/leader to one of the worst human beings of all time.  That is just flat out stupid and uneducated of a statement.  If Obama were anything like Hitler, my guess is that you would have been cooked well done on a nice over-sized oven by now.

Statement about Michael J. Fox’s struggle with Parkinson’s disease: “He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act… This is really shameless of Michael J Fox.”- Wow man, seriously?!?  So he is faking his disease and faking the shakes.  Do you actually know anyone with Parkinson’s disease?  My Grandmother on my Father’s side of the family has it and she shakes without any control what so ever.  She is aging faster than you can imagine and to think that someone would say she is faking…we need to talk face to face to settle this one.  You and I need to put on the gloves, step into the cage and settle this one like men.  I really hope for this comment you get some life threatening disease that takes you down so someone can come out and say you are faking.  Maybe then and only then will you ever understand what that comment felt like.

Statement to a black caller on his radio show: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”- Yet another reason I would steer clear of the NFL if I were you.  Where I work we actually do work in Africa and have an African working here in the States.  I can admit I have never seen or heard of anyone wearing a bone in their nose.  Now I have seen tribes people in Africa/South America/Central America that do body dis-figuration’s of all kinds but they do not represent the average person from those regions.  If you want to see bone wearing folks, look right here in the States at some of the younger generation running around.  They disfigure their ears, eyes, noses, mouths and anything else they can stick a piece of metal/bone through.

Statement about the NAACP: “The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”- Can you say stereotype @$$hole?!?  So now black people are the only people that rob liquor stores???  So all the white/hispanic/latino/asian people in prison/jail never robbed a liquor store before?  Weird, I thought robberies were committed by every race there is.  But what do I know, you are the all mighty and all knowing “Master Race”.  Do you think this comment will sit well with NFL players?

Statement about the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal: “This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation, and we’re going to ruin people’s lives over it, and we’re going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time.” - Just because the enemy commits horrible acts against our men and women during war does not give us the right to act a fool.  Did they hurt anyone doing this?  No.  But was it a disgrace to us as a nation?  Yes.  99% of our men and women in the armed forces are great people with a great head on their shoulders.  Having a good time during war is having a drink with the troops; going to a USO show; calling home; getting letters from home.

Last but not least is your statement about the NFL: “Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons.”- The icing on the cake my man.  I am sure that every single player in the NFL and retired from the NFL thinks this is a good and okay statement to make.  Two thirds of the NFL is black and yes, there have been some morons to join the league (PacMan Jones* and Michael Vick** are great examples) but they do not represent the average player in the NFL.  These guys work damn hard at what they do.  They entertain us and they break our hearts.  They work damn hard at charity work and good will gestures.  To associate the black players in the NFL to gang bangers and thugs is flat out stupid.

I once saw an episode of Southpark where everyone figured out how to crap from their mouths.  Listening to you and watching what you do I can now understand where the episode came from.  You have so much s**t flowing from your mouth it is disgusting.  Remember one thing Rush, you do not represent the average American like you say you do and you will never be able to live these statements down.  You made them, you live with them.  Stay out of the NFL and away from our children.

* - I chose PacMan Jones because he is a moron and a thug wanna-be.  He flashed his cash, when he had some and thought he was the top dog and King of the World.  Funny how fast your World crumbles when you do not take care of it and let your so called friends help run your life.

** - I chose Michael Vick because he was a leader of a very strong underground World.  He is trying to make amends and that is great.  He is a gifted athlete and only time will tell if he has actually changed his life for the better.  I would actually shake his hand and tell him congrats and wish him the best.  I for one understand what getting a second chance at life is about.

To any and all NFL folks reading this.  Rush Limbaugh is the modern day Anti-Christ and he would hurt the NFL more than help it.  Keep him as far away as possible and find a solid hard working group of investors to work with.

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Friday, September 25, 2009 by Myke.

If you know me then you know I have good knowledge of the Justice system and how it works.  I have watched things lately and have been floored by some stories recently.  I have been slacking on my posts lately but things are crazy in Reinhold Land.  I watched as former NY Giants WR Plaxico Burress was taking into jail the other day and watched his emotion on his face.  The guy is scared S**TLESS and has a good reason to be.

Let’s first start with why I think our Justice system is failing us.  Over the Spring of 2009 a football player, Cleveland Browns WR Donte Stallworth was driving his vehicle both drunk and stoned.  He then hit a pedestrian and killed him.  HE KILLED HIM!  He did this while being drunk and stoned.  Now knowing what you just heard, what do you think his punishment was?

1. 23 days of jail and a lifetime ban on getting a drivers license
2. 23 weeks of jail and a lifetime ban on getting a drivers license
3. 23 months of jail and a lifetime ban on getting a drivers license
4. 23 years of jail and a lifetime ban on getting a drivers license

If your answer was #1, you are correct.  He served 23 days in jail and cannot get a drivers license ever again.  WTF?!?  So let me get this straight, you kill someone with your vehicle while being stoned and drunk and you serve 23 days of jail and can no longer drive legal in the US.  *shrugs shoulders*

Now let’s move over to Plaxico Burress now.  He goes to a night club with some buddies and has a gun in his pants (save the gun in pants or happy to see me jokes for later).  The gun slips and while fumbling for the gun in his pants he shoots himself in the leg.  He shoots himself in the leg, not anyone else or anything else.  He shot himself folks…in his own damn leg.  Dumbass, yes…dangerous, yes…stupid as f**k, yes…funny, well yeah it is.  Anyways.  He now is going to serve 2 years in prison and will serve another 2 years of supervised release.  Granted he will serve about 20 months in jail but still.

So my rant today is that one person kills a man while being drunk and stoned serves 23 days in jail and another who shot himself will serve about 20 months in jail.  I am not the smartest man alive, I am not the lawyer type person and I am not a judge.  But I see a very clear case of “bad justice system” being played out here.  There is no way to explain this to me other than to say one guy got the shaft (save the prison shower jokes for later) and the other guy got the yellow brick road.

To me this is a very serious problem in our society today.  Yes we have other issues out there and other larger problems to deal with but our Justice system can become a very large problem sooner than we may think.  Do I feel that the President needs to address this, no.  I think this is a problem that the entire country needs to address.  I see way too many people buy their way out of trouble but yet the little guy with no green backs can get years and years of prison abuse for the exact same crime.  I know that is not what happened in these two cases, except that Stallworth bought his way out.

Simple fix to our crime rate and justice system.  Bring back public executions (hanging, stoning, burning, etc) and let the prison systems run as a private corporation.  Let the private companies do as they please to prisoners.  Once you become a prisoner, you lose all rights and are no longer a citizen.  If and when you get released, you have to earn your citizenship or face exile to an island.  On this island you will have savage beatings, raping and whatever else you can think of.  if every person knew this could happen to them, things would change quick…real quick!

I know this is rude and crude, but if you knew that these things could happen to you…I bet you would think twice about everything you ever did.

Cheers.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 by Myke.

You may or may not remember these complete freaks of nature but they have made the news again.  I have tried to search and determine a word that best suits these freaks of nature but cannot find one.  I cannot describe how sad I feel for their children being raised in this culture of hate.  Where in any bible or religious writing does it teach hate?  I have posted on these morons in the past with the ever famous Santa will kill your childrenbut to sing a song about God hates the World and all her people…WTF?!?  If God hates the World and all her people…does that not include you?  I mean you do live on this World correct?  Or are you broadcasting from another planet?  Please do me a huge favor and everybody else a favor…drink some tainted kool-aid and die.  Seriously…please just die and go away.  I do not promote hate or tell people to hate, but you and your following…I hate you all!  You suck in every way possible.

Here is the link to their website, but I warn you it is wrong in every way possible.  I know posting about this is like giving them free publicity but we need people to be aware of who is out there.  These people truly scare me.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 by Myke.

If you know me in any way you know that I love MMA and going out to watch UFC at Champ’s.  Some have even asked if Champ’s pay me to endirse them…I only wish they did (that is a huge hint Nate, Mr. Manager of Champ’s at Aspen Grove).  Anyways, for me MMA is the best thing to watch other than professional football.  If the NFL is not careful the UFC fan based will get so big it could even overshadow the NFL…in a few years maybe.

Back to the story, if you watched UFC 100, you saw a masterful beat down in the heavyweight division by Brock Lesnar.  His only MMA loss is to Frank Mir and he came in with anger and attitude and got his revenge as he beat Frank Mir’s face in.  This fight was one of the big reasons I watch MMA.  The pure gladiator feeling of it, the blood being sprayed everywhere, the arms and legs getting bent in ways they are not supposed to be bent.  Men are in nature drawn to violence and sex, that is why they have the card girls between every round.  We get to see the TNA and watch violence at the same time.  it is like watching a pure action movie.  Some people object and say that it promotes violence, exploits women and is just not a proper thing to have on TV or see live in person.  To those folks I say, “STFU and go help your kids solve the next Diego/Dora story!  These women are not exploited, they are working and getting paid for looking beautiful.  These men and women that fight are getting paid for putting on a great fight.  These men and women train very hard for their MMA fights.  If you dislike something, CHANGE THE CHANNEL!”

I have been watching MMA since I first saw the UFC live here in Denver on November 13th of 1993.  This is back when the fights were tournament style and not one on one.  You had to fight until the end and if you could not go an alternate was put in your place.  I watched with amazement and joy as the Legend Royce Gracie one that day.  He had to endure 3 fights that day and still showed his master ability of submissions.  I also one other legend that night, Ken Shamrock, get beat by Royce Gracie.  Since that day, I have been hooked and I can proudly say my wife is hooked as well.  Of course she loves the women fights just as much as I do.

Man, I keep getting off track here…back to the idea of this story now, Brock Lesnar.  I heard people “boo” and piss and moan about how he acted after he beat the ever living crap out of Frank Mir.  I disagree, what he did was draw more fans to the UFC.  People talked about this fight that night, the next day and are still talking.  That talk leads to more people watching and more people getting hooked.  Everyone wants to know who this bad boy is, who this jerk ass is, who this guy is that made fun of his beaten down opponent.  The people that hate Brock Lesnar will now tune in just to see if he loses.  I even heard people call him the fat-ass of the UFC, the wanna be champion and even the lucky champion.  How the hell do you get that out of a guy who is built like a tank and has always been a champion in every thing he did?!?  Brock Lesnar did exactly what he should have done, beat his opponent down, talk trash as he tried to get up and let the Las Vegas crowd know how he felt about them cheering on Frank Mir.  He is a fighter folks, not a freaking suit running for President.  His job is to beat the crap out of whoever steps in against him and be proud of it.  He is the champion, the UFC Heavyweight Champion…enough said.

When the fight was done, Brock decided to let everyone know what was running through his mind.  “I’m going to go home tonight and drink a Coors Light because Bud Light won’t pay me,” said Lesnar, pointing at the logo of the presenting sponsor of the event. “I’m going to sit down with my friends and family and hell, I might even get on top of my wife tonight.”  I personally think that is awesome!  If Bud Light decided to not pay him, then screw them.  If he wants to go go home with the boys, the family and knock his wife out in bed…good for him and damn good for her!

One other comment that drove Frank Mir fans crazy was, “Frank Mir had a horseshoe up his ass and I told him that a year ago,” said Lesnar, who refused to touch gloves or shake hands with Mir before or after the fight. “I pulled that [expletive] down and I beat him up. Whooo!”.  WHOOO is right baby!  This is not a gentlemen’s game people, this is war, this is the real Gladiator sport.  The only thing we are missing is Caesar and the Colosseum.

Remember, for every good guy there is always a bad guy.  We need bad guys, we need hated opponents to boo, we need Brock Lesnar in the UFC.

God Bless Dana White for the UFC!

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Thursday, July 9, 2009 by Myke.

Yes I said ignorant white people suck and I meant it.  I am white and I am not afraid to admit this.  I am not against any race, creed or color and feel everyone deserves their fair shot at everything in life.  If you are gay and want a job, you deserve it as long as you earn it and so on.  We could go through every example but you get my point.  I am writing this rant for many reasons but one recent story in particular.  Montco Swim Club Sucks  So this swim club in Philly took money from a group called Creative Steps, Inc so that 65 children between the ages of 5 and 12 could join Valley Club.  They showed up, started swimming and started to hear the questions, “Why is there browns and blacks in our pool?”.  WHY?!?  Because they paid to be there just like you, you f***ing ignorant dumb s**t!  Here is an exact quote, “What are all of these black kids doing here?”.  What in the f**k are you doing asking that question and who gave you the right to ask it?!?  Here we are, 2009 and we still have ignorant morons running around shooting their mouths off.  By the end of the day for these kids and parents, this so called Valley Club gave the group their check back ($1,950 to be exact).  With this refund given to the group, that means these kids no longer have access to the club or pool.  With the explanation as to why the refund was given, space issues not race, the Valley Club of White F***ing Morons has started quite the racial storm in Philly.  I mean come on, what are you afraid of?  You afraid they might actually have fun and get along with the white kids?!?  You afraid your precious little white daughter might take a liking to a black boy?  I actually read this story and thought to myself, why?

Everyone knows the story of Tiger Woods.  If you do not know his story, maybe you should read about it.  When he joined the PGA, there was still golf courses he was not allowed to play at because they had specific rules about anybody that was not white and of white origin.  Since he came along, these courses have decided to open their minds and get with today’s society and allow other races to join and play their courses.  Yes, there is still some dumb-ass white golf courses in this World but for the most part it has not affected the average everyday man or woman.  I know we still have racial tensions and problems in this World but to actually tell a group of black and Hispanic kids get lost, white kids only…that is just sad and wrong.

Back tot he swim club, if space was the issue you are using then why in the hell did you take their money in the first place???  To me that sounds like a very sad excuse and a very quick reaction answer.  Step up and tell us the truth.  Admit you are a racist group and let the race war begin.  I am not saying we start an all out war against racism, but something has to be done about crap like this.  I especially do not think we need to hear from Jesse Jackson about this issue but I am sure he will at some point.  No offense Jackson, but you are a cause to some of our racism in the World.

Can’t we all just get along?  ;-)  I am proud of my stance on race and if you cannot say that then maybe it is time for you to change as well.

Montco swim club accused of racial discrimination

By Zoe Tillman and Max Stendahl

Inquirer Staff Writers

Days before a Northeast Philadelphia day camp’s membership at a private suburban swim club was rescinded, several of the campers said they had heard racial remarks about themselves at the pool.

Parents and staff members of Creative Steps Inc. day camp are considering legal action against the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, said Alethea Wright, the camp’s executive director.

Sixty-five campers, kindergartners through seventh graders who are African American and Hispanic, arrived at the private swim club around 3:30 p.m. on June 29. It was their first visit to the club, but the camp had made arrangements for weekly trips on Mondays through Aug. 10.

While the campers were swimming, Wright said, three of them came up to her and said they had heard club members asking what African Americans were doing at the club.

Although the children were upset, Wright said, they stayed at the pool for an hour more to complete their session. She said that she approached club president John Duesler while events unfolded that day and that he seemed apologetic.

On July 3, Wright said, the camp’s $1,950 check in membership fees to the swim club was refunded, meaning the children no longer had access to the pool. She said Duesler gave no reason for the refund except that the membership no longer wanted the children at the pool.

Repeated attempts to reach Duesler, other club officers, and the club’s management yesterday were unsuccessful. NBC10, which first reported the story, said yesterday that Duesler had given the station the following statement: “There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion . . . and the atmosphere of the club.”

The club is not affiliated with the Huntington Valley Country Club, which today inadvertantly found itself a target of public rage.

“We’ve been getting a lot of nasty calls,” country club receptionist Karen Ojeda said.

Wright said she heard no racially charged comments when the campers were at the club but did hear a club member express displeasure that the children were at the pool. She said many parents made their children leave the pool after the campers arrived.

“There were no behavioral problems” with the campers, who were accompanied by eight Creative Steps staff members, Wright said. “They never gave a reason.”

Club member Bernadette Sinnott, 44, said that although she was not at the pool on June 29, she had heard the club took back the campers’ membership because of space issues, not race.

“I think they thought it was too crowded,” she said.

Sinnott was at the club yesterday with her son Brandon, 14, who said he was biracial and had never encountered racism at the pool.

The camp first contacted the club about membership after the New Frankford Community Y in the Frankford section of the city - where the children used to swim - closed last month because of lack of money. The club is about a 20-minute drive from the camp’s location at Devereaux and Summerdale Avenues in Northeast Philadelphia.

The campers swim at an indoor pool on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Jewish Community Center in Philadelphia, but Wright said the camp wanted to get them to an outdoor facility as well. She said Girard College had offered its pool to the campers for the rest of the summer.

City Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez, who represents the camp’s Northeast Philadelphia district, said the allegations were upsetting but not surprising.

“It is outrageous and unfortunately part of what we still confront day in and day out because of folks’ lack of understanding,” she said. “Once you cross the county line, it’s a whole different world.”

Several parents and the camp are looking into possible legal action against the club, said Staci Morgan, a Creative Steps board member and Philadelphia social worker.

Their options depend on whether the state Human Relations Commission has jurisdiction over the club’s operations, said Michael Hardiman, a lawyer with the commission. Organizations that are “distinctly private” do not fall under that jurisdiction.

Hardiman would not say whether the Valley Swim Club met the commission’s criteria for investigation.

The club includes more than 10 acres of land and a 110,000-gallon pool, according to its Web site, and is a private nonprofit organization chartered in 1954. A single membership is $395 per year.

09-0710 Update by Myke Reinhold

So the owners have come forward and decided to plead their case on live TV to say this is not about race but rather safety.  Um, sorry you white devil bitch but I am not buying this made for TV apology and as far as your hubby is concerned, maybe a nice white hood would have suited him better for the interview.  I am sorry but they told you how many kids were coming but you still say it is about the fact you had no idea that many kids were coming.  *cough* BULLS**T! *cough*

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Monday, July 6, 2009 by Myke.

It has been some since I wrote or spoke about Global Warming.  I promise you that I regularly pester and challenge the Green Peace monkeys on the 16th Street Mall in Denver.  I also promise that Right-Brain continues his challenge of the Green Peace monkeys and to this day non of the wanna be Global Green Caron Credit collecting turds has been able to live up to their “beliefs”.  How can you say you are out their to educate the public when you cannot actually provide any written and proven fact to the general public?!?  My point is well documented in an article I just read that shows 5 very high profile Global Warming freak-outs proven to be media overblown and falsely given data.  If you want to start a Global Warming media frenzy, just give a simple story to your local news agency with what appears to be hard data collected over a 5 year study.  Then let the media blow it way out of proportion…then follow up with a simple, “Sorry, we were just playing and read the data wrong.  Okay, actually we put data together that we collected while playing 2nd life and decided it looked good and official.  Sorry.”.  If it were not for the media, Al Gore never would have gotten as far as he has.  Okay, back to this story.  The story is titled, 5 Climate Studies That Don’t Live Up to the Hype.  It goes through 5 very big and media driven stories that were proven to be either 100% false or so far fetched that they could make a movie out of it.  Want to have fun?  Ask a Green Peace activist if the movie The Day After Tomorrow (2004).  I have asked 10 of them to date and all 10 said the exact same thing.  “Um, so like Al Gore is a God and we worship his every word and our binders are filled with trueness and Godness from his holyness.”

Myke- “Hey tree humper!  Are movies like The Day After Tomorrow accurate?”

Tree Humper - “If you need any proven truth to that question, watch An Inconvenient Truth (2006) by Al Gore.”

Myke- “But that documentary was based on falsely collected and documented data.  The Al Gore group has even come back and aid that some data was misdriven and misguided but for the most part accurate.  To me that sounds like the famous ‘I am not a criminal’ or ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman’ or better yet ‘I did not offer sex to that man in the bathroom stall, I was simple asking him for toilet paper’.  Come on man, every bit of ‘data’ you have in that binder is so out-dated and biased it is not even funny.”

Tree Humper1 and Tree Humper2- “Why don;t you just move along carbon emitting lazy mammal.”

Myke- “Really?  Really?!?  Is that the best you have now???  Move on you carbon emitting lazy mammal.  Let em guess, you do not pass gas and your shoes are made from sea weed and the clothes you have on were woven from weeds in the darkest forest and your binder is filled with inkless paper made from an inkless printer.  Sad, so very sad.”

At this time the dynamicless-duo proceeded to the other side of the street.

My point being is very simple folks, the Earth was once covered in Ice, Mother Nature will soon shake us off again, Greenland was once green and very soon Al Gore will have his day as people begin to wonder why they have given him so much money for nothing other than to pay for his homes, cars and McDonald’s burgers.  Wake up people, if you want to help slow the next coming of the ice age…walk, run, use public transportation or ride a bicycle.  We are an evolving World and to think that we can stop what has already been started is just plan idiotic.  Try stopping Right-Brain at BD’s from getting any meat on his plate…exact same thing as trying to stop Mother Nature from hitting the reset button.

Here is the story written with information collected by Gavin Schmidt, a NASA climate modeler, author and PM editorial advisor.

A leading climate scientist argues that overbroad claims by some researchers—coupled with overblown reporting in the media—can undermine the public’s understanding of climate issues. Gavin Schmidt, a NASA climate modeler, author and PM editorial advisor, concurs with the consensus view that the planet’s temperature is rising due largely to human activity. But, he says, many news stories prematurely attribute local or regional phenomena to climate change. This can lead to the dissemination of vague, out-of-context or flat-wrong information to the public.

“People think that if there’s a trend, it has to be connected to this bigger trend,” he says. “You often get this kind of jumping the gun.” Sometimes researchers are citing a potential connection to global warming to get noticed, he says, and sometimes journalists are focusing on that connection to make the story more compelling. “There’s a bit of a backlash amid people who have a brain,” says Schmidt. “It’s akin to [the media’s reporting on] medical studies. It adds to people’s confusion.”

Here are 5 studies Schmidt points to that made unfulfilled promises, used loose, questionable climate connections to sensationalize a story or predicted events that never came to be.

The Study: In a study released to the public last month and set to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in August, a team of American scientists found by gathering wind-speed data across the country that average and peak wind speeds in the Midwest and the East had decreased since the 1970s.

The Fallout: Though the authors acknowledged their study was preliminary, they raised an intriguing possibility—that if dying wind were a true trend, global warming could be the cause. The reasoning was that warming in polar regions, brought on by climate change, would shrink the temperature difference between the poles and the equator, as well as the pressure difference. This would mean that winds would die down, and wind-power generation would be harmed by the very thing its proponents are trying to combat.

The Truth: Despite the delicious irony, Schmidt says, it’s far too early to say that the dying wind is even a trend, much less one caused by climate change. Windiness is a complex phenomena with different causes in different places, he says, and is not one that can be measured by a singular cause on a global scale. Winds can change in one area, but if they do, expect to see changes in phenomena related to wind, like temperature gradients, as well. The data don’t bear that out, he says, and his climate models don’t predict wind changes over the North American continent caused by global warming.

The Study: The thermohaline circulation is crucial to the Earth’s climate, acting like a conveyor belt carrying warm water into the North Atlantic and moderating the climate of North America and Europe. Many studies, however, have suggested that freshwater from melting sea ice might have the potential to shut down that circulation. A 2005 study showed a steep slowdown of the circulation between 1957 and 2004.

The Fallout: The idea that thermohaline circulation could come to an end, pushing the planet into a new ice age, exploded into popular culture after it showed up in movies like The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and Al Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth (2006).

The Truth: Schmidt says that what looked like a full-blown trend of the circulation weakening can be explained in part by studies showing that the circulation can vary its strength over many timescales, making it hard to see a real trend in the noise. That doesn’t mean that circulation could never be changed, Schmidt says, but the possibility was blown out of proportion. “The Gulf Stream shutting down is such a powerful meme,” he says.

The Study: In early 2006, a study in Nature published surprising results that plants were giving off trace amounts of methane.

The Fallout: We know that methane is a far more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, so the suggestion that it comes from plants led to a blizzard of headlines suggesting that trees could be contributing to global warming.

The Truth: The researchers balked after the media coverage of their study broke. The scientists said they were widely misinterpreted when it was reported that plants contribute to global warming. Rather, if plants do give off methane, they’ve been doing it since long before humans were on the scene and their emissions aren’t connected to today’s anthropogenic climate change. Schmidt says the findings were controversial among scientists from the beginning, because plants had never been known as methane emitters. “Subsequent work has dialed down the magnitude of this new effect tremendously,” he says.

The Study: A catastrophic rise in sea level is one of the worst consequences that some climate scientists predict for a warmer world. A study in Science in 2006 noted that temperatures by the end of the 21st century could be comparable to those 130,000 years ago, when global sea levels were about 20 feet higher.

The Fallout: Unsurprisingly, given the implications of the sea level rise, this study was sensationalized with headlines like “London Underwater by 2100 as Antarctica Crumbles into the Sea.” In his world tour, Al Gore also picked up the statistic, which led to much backlash both among scientists trying to get the science corrected and among climate skeptics.

The Truth: There’s a big gap between saying something is possible and predicting that it will occur, Schmidt says, and the authors didn’t predict that climate change would turn London into Atlantis by 2100. As Science’s editors said in the same issue, past climate changes should be taken into account when trying to predict future climate change, but they won’t be exactly the same. When media and others used the study as a predictive measure‹to say the sea will rise 20 feet in less than 100 years, Schmidt says, that “was a pretty egregious mess-up.”

The Study: In 2007, scientists found the oldest authenticated DNA ever, gathered from 400,000-year-old tree and insect samples entombed in the bottom of a Greenland glacier. About half a million years ago, the study concluded, Greenland was a pretty warm place.

The Fallout: When the study came out, Schmidt says, about many people responded to the DNA find itself. But the others keyed onto one sentence in the press release, in which the lead author suggested that the finding meant the Greenland ice sheet was more stable than scientists had previously thought. Because these seeds and DNA specimens were found in the ice sheet, the ice must have been intact for at least a half-million years and survived the warm period 130,000 years ago. This could mean that Greenland is more stable than scientists thought and in less danger from current warming.

The Truth: Schmidt isn’t impressed with the claim. The fact that Greenland was hot so recently (geologically speaking) shows that the ice isn’t that stable at all, and the latest satellite evidence contradicts the stability claim and shows that Greenland is steadily losing mass.

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Monday, June 29, 2009 by Myke.

I must first warn you that if you are a fan of Michael Jackson’s you may want to move past this article as this will either really piss you off or finally open your eyes.  I want to first start out by saying that I was once a fan of his music and his ability to perform.  But as time went on and he started to change/transform into the pasty white thing he called his true self…I began to understand he was actually sick in the head.

I believe he is actually sick in the head with a very serious illness I like to call whiteenvitous.  He wanted to change his appearance to become a white man with a pointy nose.  My only thought I can think of is that he saw the Catholic Priests having their way with little boys and being protected that he thought being the pop icon he was he would get away with it as well.  People, the guy molested young boys and had three ways with the boys and his pet monkey at Neverland Ranch.  The guy was sick!  Over the course of 15+ years the guy had God knows how many surgeries and every one fo them made his nose smaller and his skin more ghostly.  The guy was wasting away before everyone’s eyes and he was getting away with child molestation.  Oh, so you think the molestation charges were bogus???  Why would he have said his most famous line when asked if he slept with those boys in his own bed, “Why can’t you share your bed?”???  He is a sick and twisted person with a very sad ending to his career and legacy.  Notice the rather strange “is” remark?  That’s right, he is not actually dead folks.  He is alive and well.

His autopsy was performed by a hired medical staff, not the City of LA.  It was said to be inconclusive with no real proof of the cause.  WTF?!?  If the freak did in fact wake up that day, pass a mirror in the hall and scare himself to death, an autopsy would prove that.  If he in fact died of a true heart attack, an autopsy would prove that.  Why is his life long manager’s 911 call so damn calm?  If your bread and butter just fell to the ground and was not breathing and his heart was not pulsing…wouldn’t you be calling in a fit of panic and hysteria?  Face it people, he is alive and well and going into hiding.  Want proof?

*takes a deep breath*

The mother f***er is going into hiding and will have numerous surgeries to make him black again and give himself a nice big ethnic nose somewhere between an ugly Italian woman and a gorilla.  Once that is done he will be placed into the church somewhere.  At this point he will again have access to small boys of all races and creeds.  He will be known in the “church-hood” as Father Beatett, pronounced as BEAT-IT!  He will tell his followers that the spirit of Michael Jackson is running through his veins and he will start dancing like him and singing like him.  People from all over the globe will follow him and flock to him.  Hell, some folks may even offer up their first born to him.  He is a sick and twisted person who deserves to rot in hell for all of eternity.  Is that a little harsh?  No, I truly believe every single person that rapes, molests or hurts children in any way should get the same treatment.  I just feel more hate towards this freak because people actually felt sorry for him.  On top of all of this is the fact that he is more than $400 million dollars in debt.  The day they announced his death…his record sales hit the sky and have not slowed down yet.  he is making more money right now than he has in the last 10+ years.  On top of that he can no longer be sued for not performing at his sold out shows.  he can no longer be sued for touching little boys.  He can longer be held liable for Neverland Ranch.

Mark my words people…he will rise up and make a fool out of every person that has ever followed him.  Including me.  And to think I used to dance like him because it was the cool thing to do when I was a kid.

*drops the microphone on the stage and moons the crowd*

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 by Myke.

“Gentlemen, start…your…banjos!…”

Every ethnic group has a sad gene pool, for us white folk we have White Trash.  There are many names for them but today we will refer to them as White Trash.

*scene - Dallas, TX trailer park, 1 white trash man, 3 white trash women*

I read the story and for the life of me I could not figure out how it happened or why someone would put themselves in that situation.  I mean the picture of the guy is sad enough with his old grey mullet and wanna be silver bling.  I read the story a few times to fully absorb everything and I still shake my head in disbelief.  This guy is living with his wife and girlfriend and his girlfriend’s Mom lives right there as well…my guess is the trailer next door.  This story did however remind of the old Jerry Springer days.  Okay, enough said…you read the story and be the judge.

A Dallas woman reportedly stabbed her husband’s girlfriend in the stomach with a screwdriver Monday because she said she wanted the child dead, according to reports.

Gaston County Police charged Tabtha K. Logeias, 32, with assault with serious bodily injury, simple assault and communicating threats. She is accused of stabbing 24-year-old Patty Love Simmons, who is six weeks pregnant, in the left side of the abdomen with a sharpened, 6-inch screwdriver, according to arrest warrants and affidavits.

The incident occurred about 5:38 p.m. on the street near Simmons’ residence on Hillcrest Road, which is located off Dallas Bessemer City Highway. Simmons required emergency treatment at Gaston Memorial Hospital, according to a warrant. The hospital declined to release information on her condition at the request of the patient, according to a nursing supervisor.

Simmons’ mother, Patsy May, 58, was also treated at the hospital for an injured arm she suffered when Logeais grabbed her wrist, twisted it and forced her to the ground, according to warrants. May was attempting to pull Tabtha Logeias off her daughter when she was assaulted, according to a warrant affidavit written by Gaston County Police Officer J.D. Thompson.

Tabtha Logeais’ husband, Wade Logeais, arrived on the scene about an hour after the incident and said he has been living in the same home with his wife and Simmons for some time. He said the three have been arguing lately, and that his wife called him at work earlier Monday and told him, “I’m going to kill that baby.”

Tabtha Logeais allegedly repeated that threat to Simmons, which led to the communicating threat charge, according to the warrant.

Logeais said he is the father of Simmons’ unborn child, and that’s why his wife was so angry.

“It’s my kid,” he said Monday, a few feet from the scene of the stabbing.

The mobile home where Wade and Tabtha Logeais live with Simmons is just down the street from Simmons’ mother’s home. Neighbor Jessica Kirkland said she saw Tabtha Logeais carrying Simmons’ clothes down to May’s home and throwing them in a pile by the street about 5:30 p.m.

“She was kicking her out of the house,” said Kirkland. “She was talking about how she was going to stab her in the stomach to make sure she didn’t have that baby. She thinks that’s her husband’s baby, evidently.”

When Simmons approached Tabtha Logeais, Logeais punched her in the side of the head and the two began fighting, Kirkland said. Logeais then stabbed her with the screwdriver.

“Patty started yelling, “I’ve been stabbed, I’ve been stabbed!” said Kirkland. “That’s when I saw something yellow and black sticking out of her stomach. It was the (screwdriver) handle.”

Kirkland said she pulled out the screwdriver, which had gone in about an inch deep.

“She was screaming in pain,” Kirkland said.

After fighting with May, Logeais realized neighbors were calling 911 and dove through the open window of her car to drive away, said nearby resident Cathy Sanders. But another neighbor prevented her from leaving.

When police arrived, witnesses said Logeais ran up the street to meet them, Sanders said.

“She took off running up the road and was screaming, ‘Here I am, Here I am! I’m the one you want!’” Sanders said.

Logeais was held at the Gaston County Jail on a $50,000 bond.

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Thursday, June 11, 2009 by Myke.

We all know that steroids has become a big impact on professional sports.  Everyone has their opinion on the issue and everyone has their feelings about the professional sports record books.  One thing that folks need to understand is that steroids is nothing new, it has been here for years and will always be here.  To hear a sad story about a high school athlete dying from using steroids, the flip side to that story is he/she is not alone.  Kids have been dying since before I was a kid.  On top of that we add HGH (human growth hormone) which folks like Sly are advocates of it.  Does it hurt sports?  Does it kill you?  Is it destroying the World as we know it?  Yes, it can and no.  Steroids is just another illegal drug on the street that people use and some people over-use.  When I say over-use…I mean OVER F***ING USE!

I think professional sports has taken the right approach in longer suspensions for violations but is it enough?!?  What if players knew that after testing positive once you were banned for 5 years and if you test positive once more it is a lifetime ban?  Would they stop using performance enhancing drugs?  My best guess is that a vast majority would stop but you would still have the retards (Barry Bonds) that think they can still hide it and everyone will believe they are innocent.  Now I am fan of just about every professional sport there is and have had my fair share of baseball games.  I have seen drug use, performance enhancing drug use and flat out cheating.  I do not think that steroids gives you the ability to hit 70+ homeruns a season…but it helps.  You still have to be able to hit a 90+ MPH fastball, hit an 11 o’clock to 5 o’clock curveball or a 50 MPH knuckleball that just drops right out of thin air and into the dirt before your eyes.

Bottom line is this, MLB, NFL, NASCAR (try not to laugh too much here), NHL, NBA and so on needs to put a lid on all of this.  Cheat once, gone for 5 years…cheat again and you are banned for life.  There is a huge supply of solid athletes that fans may never get to watch because of the drug use issue.  But if we started to ban these fruit cakes from day 1, professional sports would once again be a solid group of people to look up to…minus the athletes that murder, rape, beat women/children and kill dogs.  That is a whole separate post.

In conclusion (sorry I have always wanted to say that), I give you the Steroids Over F**KING Use Hall of Fame.

 80’s feathered hair and steroids.

 Arnold before and after.

 Anyone have a needle…I just want to run up and pop him.

 Dear Barry, when you grow 3 hat sizes and 100 pounds of muscle after your adult years…

 Carrot Top like you have never seen him before.

 One of Michael Vick’s suspended dogs.  Vick says the dog cheated. 

 I now pronounce you Mr and Mrs Gold.  Man when you fake and bake so much that the camera is not sure what to do with your color…you over did the tanning.

 Nobody wants to play.

 Is this a man or woman?  You be the judge.

 Baby got…back…

 ”My bicep is so huge!  Do you want to touch it?  I know you do!”

 I just want a hug is all.  Will you please give me a hug?

 Do I make you horny baby?  Do I?  YEAH BABY YEAH!  Okay I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

 When other steroid users say you cheated…you may have overdone it a bit.

 After the successful head transplant, he was able to live and compete again.

 Please, for the love of GOD…PUT SOME DAMN CLOTHES ON!

 You know, there are folks that should wear a thong and others who should not.  You lady, should not!

 When two cousins have a child who then does steroids…

 I bet you were pretty one day.  What a waste.

 My guess is that they are both looking at the penis that just fell out of her bottoms.

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