*North Korea
*Sports Veterans
*Iran
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North Korea - North Korea has long been the 800 lb gorilla in the room. Much like North Vietnam and the threat posed by China. Now we find that North Korea kidnaps (or more politically correct..detains) our American journalist and sentenced them to 12 years of hard labor in prison. Why? North Korea claims that these two journalists who work for the independent channel Current TV (owned by Al Gore, no less) were in North Korea illegally and creating and spreading a "smear campaign" against the North Korean government. Not to mention, the North Koreans have been testing nuclear weapons pretty regularly, which include long range missiles. If it were to go down today, Hawaii could be hit by those long range missiles.President Obama says that North Korea could still find a "path of peace", but that would only be if North Korea were ready to give up their nuclear weapons. Nuclear Weapons in this part of the world will definitely destabilize the economy and upset the balance of peace in these Asian nations. The U.S. is prepared to fully support their allies like South Korea and China, who happens to be a North Korea ally, to bolster the U.N. sanctions placed against North Korea for the nuclear and missile tests. Just this week, Japan banned all exports to North Korea to strengthen the sanctions against North Korea and show it that the U.N. is serious and so are the nations who are supporting the sanction. This is merely the tip of the iceberg and will continue to develop into a situation that needs to be closely watched. Dont believe me....check this out...
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Sports Veterans - I am a fan of football. I absolutely love college football and really enjoy Professional football as well. If you followed my diatribe on my sickening of the spoiled athlete, then this piece will seem in complete contrast. However, these pieces should have been written on the same day. It further explains what the hell is wrong with the game today.One of my favorite players in the NFL for more than a decade has been Derrick Brooks. He has been a consummate professional and one of those throwback type of players that lets you know that it is not all purely talent, but HARD WORK that has propelled him to the ranks of superstardom. Derrick Brooks has been in the league for 14 years and in that time amassed 11 Pro Bowls, 6 First Team All-Pros, A Super Bowl Win and Defensive Player of the Year. So why is it that Derrick Brooks is currently unemployed? Someone who has been the heart and soul of a team and in 14 years has only been hurt once, last year, and there is no place for him in the NFL. No teams have contacted Brooks. As of right now, he will not be playing this fall. Has he lost a step? Is he no longer getting the job done?
Teams say they want to go younger and faster. Not to mention dumber. They don't want someone who is going to work harder. They don't want someone who has an amazing knowledge of the game. And the sad part is neither do the players. The younger players. Someone who has that much knowledge to soak up, why don't you latch on to them and learn everything you possibly can. This is one of the qualities in the younger players that makes me hate Kobe. I can not deny his talent and can not say that he is not amazing on the basketball court. However, being the world's number one Michael Jordan fan, I remember when a young rookie Kobe was approached by Michael Jordan to be given some sage wisdom and Kobe brushed him off. He was going to do it on his own. He did want any advice, especially from his Airness. That has always struck me wrong. In the years since, Kobe has changed his tune and RAN to Jordan for advice, but it's the attitude of these young players. They know every damn thing. You can't tell them anything and they don't want to know anything. They are all going to wake up and hit some internal switch and be great. They don't have to work hard. That kills me. Shouldn't Derrick Brooks be playing this fall? I think so. The fans thinks so. But the management and new coach don't think so. Why have a guy like Brooks around? What can he really do for our organization that he hasn't already done?
The sad thing is, this is not a new phenomenon, just a worsening one. Look in the classroom. It is more acceptable to be the dumb student. NO ONE wants to be labeled as smart. Conform. Be like the rest of the ignorant sheep being led to slaughter. Yet, these type of students don't realize that the prisons are being constructed for them. Low wage jobs that used to be for them are disappearing. So what are they to do? There is always a life of crime. But we are producing kids who are too dumb to even be good criminals....Don't think so...Check this out....
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Iran - Iran seems to be the new focus of our attention these days. We play everything we can on the television to make us more in tune and perhaps sympathetic with what is going on in their country. The real problem erupted when the national election for President on June 12th did not go according to plan. The current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, won the election with 62% of the vote over challenger Mir Hossein Moussavi who had 33% of the vote. Many analyst predicted Moussavi would win. However, it has been discovered that many of the towns voting for Ahmadinejad had more people voting than actually lived in the towns. Due to the high number of irregularities about this election, the people have taken to the streets. There has been civil unrest in the capital city of Tehran for more than a week now. Early reports have said there have been at least 32 murders (with reports that the number could be as high as 150), and up to 457 people arrested for vandalizing. Moussavi has used his facebook and twitter accounts to talk to the young people and tell them to "exercise self-control".Now you may be asking yourself, why do I care? The government of Iran has accused the British and U.S. of "meddling in the affairs, such as the post-election results, of Iran and helping to stir up the unrest in the young people of Iran". Really? We would never do that....(catch the sarcastic overtones)... While I understand and feel sympathetic for the Iranian people as they try to get to a fully democratic nation, I am sick of the media exploiting this fact. This is another ploy by the government and the media to get us to care and then get us to not care about sending aid in the form of money or troops to Iran, because we are aiding this fledgling democratic country through their process. Never mind that this is another country that has a shit load of oil. If all this country had was rocks (like Afghanistan), we wouldn't care less. I'm tired of the government lieing to my face and then the American public being too damn gullible, naive and purely stupid to keep believing this bullshit. Don't believe me....Check this out.....
Well until next time....
R. Steed (Big Goldie)
"Fluffy Puffy - The Media Mogul in Training"
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