As if the Olympics aren’t shoved down my throat every four years already; having them here would be even more nauseating.

Let’s be honest. The Olympics are boring. Do you even know how many medals we won last year? Can you name an American gold medalist who isn’t a swimmer or a basketball player? I can’t.

So congrats to Rio. You’re a big deal.

Maybe now Chicago can focus on improving it’s schools and lowering the crime rate.

Screw everyone from Willie Brown to Whoopi (“it’s not rape-rape”) Goldberg who are defending this piece of scum Roman Polanski. He’s a child rapist…there is no defense of a 44 year-old man having sex with a 13 year-old girl. none.

Last I checked having sex with a child is a heinous crime. Drugging and raping a 13 year-old child should result in extended jail time and surprisingly, actually does for everyone not named Roman Polanski. He was found guilty of this crime and fled the country making him a fugitive of American justice. Why this guy wasn’t ripped from Europe years ago is beyond me. But he’s in custody now and he now needs to serve his punishment.

Anyone who defends Polanski defends the abuse of children!

proper punishment

Yahoo Sports broke a story about alleged NCAA violations coming from UCONN in the recruitment of a basketball player. Something about an ex-student turned agent blah blah blah.. go to Yahoo and read it. No link here.

Regardless it’s about a kid who doesn’t play for UCONN and I think the timing of this sucks. Way to try to tarnish a great NCAA tournament Yahoo Sports. You couldn’t wait a few weeks??? I don’t like UCONN in fact I hate them. But I just think that this story breaking now will undoubtably have an affect on guys who have absolutely nothing to do with it who are trying to win a National Title. I won’t go so far as to say it’s tasteless but it’s pretty obvious that Yahoo Sports is trying to steal some limelight from the greatest event in all of sports.

Makes me want to rip my Yahoo fantasy league… and yeah.. maybe hate UCONN a little more.

If you haven’t seen Stewart roast Jim Cramer, CNBC and the crooks who did this on Wall Street then you need to. Well worth it.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/62203/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-thu-mar-12-2009

Sarah Palin’s pregnant teenage daughter was carted out with her boyfriend during the campaign to appear as a happy young couple. It comes as no shock that they are no longer together and have effectively “split“.

It was pretty obvious to me that this was a staged relationship. They plucked that dude right out of Alaska..slapped a sharp suit on him and said “you’re gonna love this girl.. do you understand?”
How relieved was he that the election went the other way?

awkward!

By all accounts I’ve seen that the Big Ten will get the nod and have the most teams in the NCAA tournament. They aren’t even remotely the best conference in the country. In fact I’d say that they’re maybe the fifth best behind the Big East, the ACC, the Big 12, and the SEC. Yet somehow they’re looking to get 8 bids! Why? Because “they’re the most competitive league”?
Bullshit..whoever said that is a moron.. the Big Ten sucks.. They currently have 2 teams ranked in the Top 25…The Big East has 6. Michigan St. is ranked 7th while 3 Big East teams are in the top 5. Michigan St. beat Texas early. In my opinion their only big win of the season. The rest of the ranked opponents they played were from their own crappy conference. I hope they get 8 Big Ten terams into the first round and zero into the Sweet 16.

I’m ready to move on from the steroid issue in baseball and I have a solution. From this point forward anyone who has played baseball in the “Steroid Era” shall have an asterisk next to their name. Anyone who USED steroids should have at least two asterisks.. or a cross next to their names.
the single asterisk is actually a good thing because it will mean you were better because you played AGAINST steroid users. While anything besides the single asterisk means you did steroids and therefore hand an upper hand against the real athletes.

double asterisk

Last year I made a donation to the NRDC. My mistake. I think it was to save a forest or the polar bear. What I didn’t think would happen is I’d be cutting trees down and making more trash. That’s just what my donation did. I know of no other organization or business in the world that sends out as much mail as the NRDC. I get more letters, newletters and general junk mail from the NRDC than all the car dealers and pizza shops put together.

But the worst part of it is since getting their mail I’m getting donation requests for up to 5 other environmental groups…Sierra Club, WWF, etc.

They’re all sending me large amounts of mail. Tons of paper. There’s no excuse.

Whenever someone tries to sell you something and at the same time tells you not to ask any questions… “just buy it you need it”.. it’s pretty likely that you’re going to get screwed.

This is the case with the financial bailout. As we see companies like Merrill Lynch paying early bonuses of nearly $4 billion dollars. My bonus was cut in half this year and we had an decent year. What are these bonuses for? Obviously not for making the company money or they wouldn’t be in such a dire situation needing to sell to Bank of America. It’s obscene. There have been stories of redecorating offices.. Bank of America spent millions on sponsoring the Super Bowl this year.

The trouble in the financial markets has had no affect on the people who have gotten us into this mess. So far over $300 billion dollars have been paid out and as far as I can see there hasn’t been more lending.. there hasn’t been any job creation and people are still losing their homes.

This money would have been better served elsewhere.

As for Bernie Madoff. I think he deserves the death penalty. His scam has put countless lives in financial ruin. He stole from charities and pensions. There are at least two suicides that I know of that he is at the very least indirectly responsible for.
Why this man isn’t in prison is beyond me. It’s picture of American injustice. If you have money..you can stay out of jail. I say we burn him at the stake. If not death penalty.. I think someone who he cheated will have his number.
Serves him right.