And here we go with the Tiger incident(s)...
I emailed my friend and asked, You didn't sleep with Tiger too, did you? She replied. No but I'd sleep with Kobe. LMFAO....
*sigh* well.......
Kobe probably feels off the hook right about now from his drama. but let me give you my 2 cents on Tiger. When I was driving to work the other morning and they were reading his email fantasy to one of his chicks and they mentiioned he pops Ambien before sex, my first thought was ...what???? who does that????
Ambien equals no round 2.
Hey Tiger- you wanna get with <----------------------------------------------------------------------------this , Kristina.....stop the Ambien, you need your strength...your ass aint droppping me cuz you're half asleep.....You're short changing women around here Tiger.....That's why I'm saving my ass for a fucking Yankee....*pshhh*
I have spent the last week thinking that I ruined his Thanksgiving. I’ve started to think that having a relationship with someone is a bad thing. So much so, I didn’t feel the need to call my friends and discuss my pathetic life. If I were to talk to them, I’d make my topics general or lend a ear to them, but discussions of Kristina and whatever else…wouldn’t happen. When I returned from California, I asked him if we were dating again….Which this is what it has led to , well besides a bunch of nothing- all topics were discussed over electronic communication which sucks ass. He asked me when I contacted him in Vegas, was relationships on my mind. No. To me Vegas is mutual ground. No one is alone, I mean maybe we could have been alone if so be it but realistically, I thought he would be with his friends and if we met up for dinner, then it’s a few hours of hanging out. He said he invited me to California because we both wanted to see each other, we both won’t doing anything, why not basically. True. I did want to see him, but the problem is I’ve been in love with him. You see, when he first invited me I didn’t know what to think. I asked if was a “drunk invite” I asked if was really inviting me. He claims he was truly inviting me then I started to think, ok…hmmm…a holiday…Nah…really??? I told my friend that about it and that I was considering going. I think when she heard his name, that that is the last person who I would want to spend a holiday with. And she asked, “People don’t spend holidays with just anyone, does that mean he’s trying to pursue you again..I mean, seriously, this is a MAJOR holiday….maybe he’s trying to make it up to you…. BUT…if he’s not are you ready for that?” I hadn’t asked him what his intentions were. I feared that we’d argue about distance or freaking left over feelings or just the past in general. I didn’t want to ruin the moment, if rekindling was what it was. One conversation we had before I went down there was about if he was with another girl. Meaning dating or sexually or whatever. When he told me about her, I didn’t know how to feel and that’s when I started to fear that when I’d see him, I fall in love all over again. I told him how he invited to Thanksgiving, a holiday I haven’t spent with a guy since 2005, we slept together, did couple like things, I feel I left on a good note- I feel like I have a right to ask are we dating again… He said he wanted to be my friend. Let me tell you, I have a ton of guy friends. When we go kick it or spend night together because we have been drinking or we vacationed together, we never hold hands, we never wonder I’m going to sleep, we never watch TV and lean on each other. Again I ask are we dating again? I’m driving myself crazy here because I’m not sure if I really just fell into a bunch of nothing, or if I messed a what could -have-been but wont-be-because- I -asked -about - relationship, or if he just got the holiday lay and proves me wrong- people do spend the holidays with just anyone. I’m not the girl who he met last week, I’m the girl whom he met in 2006 on a dance floor in Vegas who was very married at the time, and I danced with him all night long and talked to him for several hours and gave him not one kiss until I met him again a month later and after I was with him, I freaking fell. Hard. And I try and try to talk to him, to get to know him and what’s he all about and what makes him happy, or what makes him laugh, or hell, just anything to get on his important people list for that matter and the moment I ask about a relationship, I’m the bad person. Am I? I want to be his friend. Don’t get me wrong- relationships need the friendship. But again I ask- why am I the bad person? I’m this freaking woman in Seattle that is a mother, and loving person and in my eyes- a down ass chick for her man and dammit if I’m flying to California, I don’t want ass. I want to know this person cares for me and that they want to see me again and that I mean something. And I often think- look dude, if we are dating, I could be seeing your ass on Friday….or can we skip the bullshit and just establish something already????? Do you know how hard it was for me to be with him, in bed, him inside of me and not say the words, I love you…now dammit..HARDER…DEEPER……*LOL* ………………………………............ And now he’s not talking to me….
Do me a favor, would you? Start counting. I’m willing to lay pretty long odds that you counted like this:
and not like this:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Why does this matter? Because this is 2009 and, just as was the case in 2000, there are many out there calling this the end of the decade. Simply put (in deference to Kent [1]), this is the ninth year of the decade not the tenth – the decade won’t end until December 31, 2010.0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Don’t believe me? Go back to that counting you just did, only start with 2001. 2009 is only number nine on the list, not number ten. See – we’ve got a whole ‘nother year in the decade!
So why do people do this [2]? Partly laziness and partly a failure to think. The failure to think is obvious – just counting the years would show that this wasn’t the end of the decade [3].The laziness is a little less so. Because so many people have decided to go with the wrong answer, other folks assume that it is the right one [4]. And few of those who know better are willing to make the obvious point that the wrong answer is, well, wrong. They feel (not without reason) that there are more important things to worry about than a misplaced terminator [5] (e.g., the end of the world, the end of the world as we know it, and the end of the whirl as we know it).
To a certain extent I agree with them. But it still annoys the crap out of me that so many cannot even count, much less think about what they are counting!
John
[1] Geek points for the reference!
[2] FWIW, this is not a new phenomenon. There were folks in the 1800’s who were just as confused as to when the twentieth century began [a] and don’t even get me started on the whole change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendars [b]!
[3] Other than in the same sense that any year can be the end of a decade, if the decade is arbitrarily begun.
[4] Sort of like the idjits on TV that refer to Clinton, Reagan, Bush, and the other ex politicos as “President So and so”, even though they are no longer properly accorded that title once they have left the office of PotUS. Or the jukes who think that the seasons begin on the solstices/equinoxes and not half-way between them. Or the kallikaks who vote single party tickets.
[5] They also worry (again, not without reason) of being labeled as “party poopers” and pedants, simply because they would like things to be called by the correct honorific. IMHO, those who use the pejoratives do so because that is the only answer they can make.
[a] And that’s another source of confusion, isn’t it? The first century covers the years from 1 to 100, the second covers the years from 101 to 200, and so forth until we reach the twenty-first century, which covers the years 2001-2100.
[b] Proposed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 CE, it wasn’t the international standard until 1926, when Turkey finally adopted it. What this meant was that if it was Tuesday, March 9, 1926 in Belgium, it was Tuesday, March 22, 1926 in Turkey. Imagine drawing the International Date Line for 1900, when at leat eight major countries had not adopted the Gregorian calendar!
Following up yesterday’s look at the NFC, I wanted to take a look at the AFC, where I think the picture is much more wide open. With Atlanta being taken out by-and-large by injuries, the NFC is really about 7 teams trying to fill 6 spots – the AFC, by contrast has 10 legit teams and even a couple at 5-7 that aren’t mathematically eliminated just yet.
AFC East
New England (7-5) – a couple of weeks ago, the Patriots annihilated the Titans 59-0 and seemed to be on cruise control in their division and ready to make a serious playoff run, but after dropping 3 of 4, they suddenly find themselves in a dogfight for their division. I still think they’re the best team in the east having quality wins (QW, win against a team currently 0.500 or better) against ATL, BAL, MIA and NYJ. Fairly easy schedule remains – only JAX is a quality opponent – suggesting that they’ll make it in barring a big collapse, but they certainly don’t have the aura of danger of previous Pats teams.
Miami (6-6) – the big turnaround team from last year got out to a terrible start, going 0-3, and still being stuck at 3-5 a month ago. They’ve gotten some QWs – NYJ (2x) and NE last week. Big game with JAX this week and a finale versus the teetering Steelers will likely tell the tale. Still, I don't think this team can go very far.
NYJ (6-6) – sort of the anti-Dolphins. Rex Reed’s team race out to a 3-0 start, but have been scuffling for wins ever since. Their only QW was an age ago (September) against NE. They have a couple of winnable games (TB and ATL) and then two against IND and CIN, who may not be playing for much. That bodes fairly well, but I think these guys are done.
AFC North
Cincinnati (9-3) Consider that they lost their 1st game on that crazy deflection play against DEN and you can argue that they should be the 2nd best team in the conference. QWs versus GB and season sweeps of division rivals PIT and BAL (and CLE, but those don’t count). Like the Eagles, inexplicably lost at OAK and that may keep them from getting a 1st round bye. Still, they’re the Bengals, so how much can you believe? I’ll believe a lot more (or not) after their next two games MIN and SD.
Baltimore (6-6) Nobody really seems all that Wacko for Flacco anymore as the sophomore QB has had all sorts of issues. Like the Jets, they got out to a hot start (3-0) and then dropped three in a row – granted, it was to NE, CIN, and MIN – but aren’t those the caliber of teams they’re going to have to beat in the playoffs? (Their QWs are against SD, DEN, and PIT) They have a pretty good chance of making if they can sweep against PIT, which is the last decent team on their schedule, but they're not playing like contenders.
Steelers (6-6) Like NE, the mighty have fallen in recent weeks. The Men of Steel seemed to shake off a sluggish start and were cruising a month ago at 6-2 after cranking out QWs vs. SD, MIN and DEN. Now having dropped four in a row (including head-scratchers to KC and OAK), the Champs will be lucky to get a chance to defend with GB, BAL, and MIA to close after a gimme at CLE this week. Is it really all Troy Polamalu and his hair?
AFC South
Colts (12-0) The mirror of the Saints in the NFC, the Colts have won every week this season – sometimes not so pretty, but Peyton Manning has gotten it done (QWs = JAX, MIA, ARI, NE, BAL) while taking time off from his full-time job as a product spokesperson. With a 3-game lead on home field advantage, they’re almost assured of playing at home through the AFC Championship. The whole “resting for the playoffs” hasn’t worked so well for the Colts in the past. It’ll be curious to see what they do differently, if anything, this year.
Jacksonville (7-5) Who invited these guys to the playoff race? Probably the most under-the-radar decent team in the league, the Jags only QW is a win against the NYJ. They’ve beaten a bunch of mediocre teams but will have to earn their playoff spot with games against MIA, IND, and NE coming up. I don't see that happening.
AFC West
Chargers (9-3) This was supposed to be a cakewalk year for the Bolts, but DEN’s 6-0 blitzkrieg at the beginning of the season derailed that parade. After struggling to 2-3, SD has rolled off a league-best 7 straight wins (QWs = MIA, NYG, PHL, DEN). Tough games against DAL and CIN will determine if they are legitimate contenders to take out the Colts, or another good-but-not-quite-good-enough Norv Turner team.
Denver (8-4) After blazing out to six straight wins, the Broncos came back to earth with four straight losses. They got off the schnide with a good win against NYG and have a slew of other QWs (CIN, DAL, NE, SD). Two tough games (IND and PHL) will tell us if they’re more like the early-season winners or mid-season losers but two should-be wins (OAK, KC) suggest that the Broncos will get a WC and maybe even the division if the Chargers falter down the stretch.
All-in-all, I’m not sure that there’s anyone that will be able to contend with the Colts at home in the playoffs. I think the Pats are starting to show their age, and the Bengals – well, they’re the Bengals. The only real possibility is the Chargers if they can improve their defense for the stretch run. For what it’s worth, I think the Ravens will be the last WC team (after DEN).
Ah, remember the days when Chrysler rested on the words of another Italian guy, Chairman Lee?
Now it has gone all arty. Under Fiat control, it is adapting some commercials from the Italian company. Here’s one that’s being used by its Lancia brand:
Homer replies, puzzled, ‘I … don’t … know!’
We have a Chrysler 300 looking very dated in this commercial, even if I agree with the sentiment. I am not convinced it’ll hold Americans’ attention that this is a new Chrysler and a new beginning.
I realize Chrysler needs to shift product now before new products arrive, and the quality, apparently, has been improved since the Daimler and Cerberus days. That message, which is pretty important to buyers, doesn’t come across that strongly.
The aligning of Chrysler to Lancia is not a bad idea. About ten years ago, I wrote that Ford should reconceive Mercury as a sort of American Lancia, so it seems Fiat has a similar idea. It’s just that commercials need not be clones when American consumers have different tastes from European ones.
Still, does this mean that some day we will see the First Lady of France, Carla Bruni, sell Chryslers?
Vox bug note: the compose window still took a quarter-hour to open. The editing window took one hour.
Over Thanksgiving, you may have read that the naturally disfigured racist, Helen Thomas, said she was thankful this year for a black President?
Well, that got me to thinking - he had no experience and no resume, he's proven himself to be incompetent and merely marginally intelligent, he's created a larger deficit in less than a year than his predecessor had in eight years which has resulted in 10% unemployment, he wants to impose health and climate regulations that will bankrupt those he doesn't kill first, and now he has the lowest approval rating of any President at the same stage of his tenure...
And Helen is thankful for all that?
So with Christmas almost here, I felt a song coming on...
I'm dreaming of a white...
President.
Just like the ones
I used to know.
Where our enemies listen
And children are christened
While profits are the only thing we know.
I'm dreaming of a white
President
With every blog post
That I write
May your days
Overflow with human rights
And may all your Presidents...
Be white!
I don't remember seeing this sign on the wall of my doctor's office last year.
...because my cats are sleeping together again.
This AP article speaks for itself.
By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer Philip Elliott, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" until more Americans are back at work.
Without giving a price tag, Obama proposed a package of new spending for highway, bridge and other infrastructure projects, deeper tax breaks for small businesses and tax incentives to encourage people to make their homes more energy efficient.
"We avoided the depression many feared," Obama said in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. But, he added, "Our work is far from done."
For the third time in a week, Obama sought to focus on job creation, noting that the unemployment rate was still at 10 percent in November, though down slightly from its 10.2 percent peak. He said "a staggering" 7 million Americans have lost jobs since the recession began two years ago.
While his proposal did not include the kind of direct federal public works jobs that were created in the 1930s, he said government could set the stage for more job creation by private businesses.
A major part of his package is new incentives for small businesses, which account for two-thirds of the nation's work force. He proposed a new tax cut for small businesses that hire in 2010 and an elimination for one year of the capital gains tax on profits from small-business investments.
Obama also proposed an elimination of fees on loans to small businesses, coupled with federal guarantees of those loans through the end of next year.
He called for more government spending on infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges and water projects and for new tax breaks for consumers who invest in energy-efficient retrofits in their homes. This could be what some administration officials have called a "Cash for Caulkers" program modeled on the now-expired Cash for Clunkers program of tax rebates for people who turned in old cars for more fuel-efficient models.
The administration also is eyeing ways to get money still not spent in the $787 billion stimulus bill passed last winter into projects more quickly.
Obama did not characterize his new proposals as another stimulus program like that mammoth measure, but Republican critics have called it just that and have said it will increase a federal deficit that is already at a record level.
Obama included sharp criticism for Republicans in his speech, accusing them of opposing economic stimulus efforts and his health care overhaul while supporting tax cuts and spending that have ballooned the deficit.
He said that soon after taking office, he and congressional Democrats took "a series of difficult steps" to try to stabilize the financial system and pull the economy out of a deep recession.
"And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that led to the crisis, decided to hand it to others to solve."
Obama did not say how much his proposals would cost, although congressional Democrats are eyeing a $70 billion package to help create jobs and to provide aid to hard-pressed state and local governments. Administration aides suggested that the part of the package dealing with roads, bridges and other infrastructure could total about $50 billion.
While acknowledging increasing concerns in Congress and among the public over the nation's growing debt, Obama said critics present a "false choice" between paying down deficits and investing in job creation and economic growth.
To pay for the new programs, the administration is citing the Treasury Department's report on Monday that it expects to get back $200 billion in taxpayer-approved bank bailout funds faster than expected.
Obama suggested this windfall would both help the government spend money on job creation while also paying down the nation's debt, which now totals $12 trillion.
Obama called the bank bailout, under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), "galling."
"There has rarely been a less loved — or more necessary — emergency program," Obama said. The program is expected to go out of business at the end of this year unless extended by Congress.
Since the program is costing taxpayers at least $200 billion less than expected, Obama said, "This gives us a chance to pay down the deficit faster than we thought possible and to shift funds that would have gone to help the banks on Wall Street to help create jobs on Main Street."
But Republicans continued to insist that the leftover and repaid TARP money must be used exclusively for deficit reduction and not for a new jobs program.
"The president's announcement is further proof that TARP has morphed from an emergency injection of liquidity to thaw frozen credit markets into a $700 billion revolving slush fund to promote the Democrats' political, social and economic agenda," said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas.
Obama said he is backing the measures he outlined because they "will generate the greatest number of jobs while generating the greatest value for our economy."
"These targeted initiatives are right, and they are needed," he said.
IDIOT!
