Horse Racing Needs To Change
Posted on May 6, 2008
Filed Under Muse, News, Sports | 3 Comments
I’m sure everyone is quite aware of the tragedy which occurred at Churchill Downs last saturday.
Last Saturday was the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby which was won by Big Brown.
Eight Belles, a filly, was running in the race and finished second behind Big Brown.
Immediately after the race finished, disaster struck.
Eight Belles was galloping for another quarter mile past the finish when she broke both of her front ankles.
She was euthanized on the spot.
Now PETA has issued their familiar calls to ban the jockey, riding crops and to prevent the racing of horses under the age of 3. I don’t think any of the above (except increasing the age of the horses who are able to race) is the proper way to go. The jockey did everything right and his use of the crop avoided an in-race disaster that could’ve incorporated other riders and horses. Waiting to race horses until they are a bit stronger is the best solution PETA has proposed so-far.
Biggest Loser - I “Lost”
Posted on April 29, 2008
Filed Under Personal Development | 4 Comments
Ok I promised you all that I would update you on my results of the Biggest Loser Challenge.
As you are no doubt aware the challenge was between 15 overweight guys to see who could lose the biggest % of their weight between January and April 19th.
Just a few weeks ago I was roughly in 3rd place (top 4 finishers finish “in the money”).
As of April 1, I had lost 29 pounds, down to 216lbs (for a total of 11.8% lost).
The final weigh-in was a few weekends ago and here’s how I did…
Barack = John Kerry Part Deux??
Posted on April 15, 2008
Filed Under Muse, Politics | 5 Comments
Leave it to Barack Obama to make John Kerry look like he understands Blue Collar America.
Barack was in San Francisco, speaking to donors, and was trying to tell them what he is trying to overcome and “fix” in order to win the election.
The result was a particularly odious, condescending, monologue exposing Barack as just another limousine liberal who looks down his nose at “Middle America”.
Barack said;
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Everyone got that?? In one short speech he basically painted Middle America as a bunch of xenophobic, fundamentalist zealots who have no real views and morals but instead are reflexive amoebas who become “religious” or “gun nuts” because they lost their jobs.
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