yeah America …

Poor Rush Limbaugh.  Dropped from the group that was put together to purchase the Rams all because his mouth and a bit of truth when talking about Donovan McNabb in 2003 when working with ESPN.  Was it a tad racists?  Maybe.  Was there truth to the matter?  Of course there was.  Rush was being what he’s good at, an instigator.  Where’s the truth you ask?  Limbaugh called McNabb overrated and prior to 2004 he was.  Everyone compared McNabb to Randall Cunningham, a great scrambling QB with a rifle of an arm that was somewhat accurate.  McNabb was a great scrambler but his arm wasn’t that accurate (sub 60% completion percentage).  Then in 2004 the Eagles were able to get T.O. and things changed.  Not just because McNabb finally had a good receiver to throw to but he also started to learn how to play the QB position in terms throwing the ball instead of just running around.  So my point in all of this, before 2004 McNabb was overrated.  After that he’s a pretty good one who’s playing extremely well right now.  And yes, I’m a McNabb fan.  Unfortunately, he gets a raw deal from the Philly fans for always trying to kick him out while trying to replace him with someone else (this year it’s Vick).  All in all, IMO Limbaugh was accurate in his assessment of McNabb back then.

A few things surprise me about all of this ordeal.  First, one would have thought if Limbaugh became an NFL owner they would have pressured him to keep his mouth shut.  Look what happened to Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner.  Sure he’s a fiery owner who speaks his mind but after a few seasons and huge fines for opening his mouth he’s calmed down now.  Now with Limbaugh out of the ownership picture he has nothing holding his mouth back whenever the NFL, it’s players or anything NFL related does something he doesn’t agree with.  The NFL doesn’t like to be in the spotlight unless it’s sports related.  Now it’ll always be in the spotlight because of Limbaugh.  Smooth move. 

The last surprising bit is that we hear nothing from Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson about Jason Campbell and his current escapade in the NFL.  I wonder why.  I wonder why.

Some other interesting links worth reading:

• Buying American, even if made in Mexico really does matter.  Well maybe it does and maybe it doesn’t.
• Right to bear arms and the right for 1 Mb/s internet speeds!!!!  If the US is supposed to be the greatest country in the world why aren’t we at the forefront of stuff like this?  Mostly because the idiots that run this country are stuck in the past and don’t care about innovation.
• However, this guy is pretty innovative.  Chewy just makes me not use the soap at the hotels and makes me bring my own.

World Wide Web fun …

Just a bunch of funny stuff I’ve found on the web recently.

I guess this Redskin’s fan has finally had enough.  I was actually surprised that eBay didn’t pull the plug on this one but nonetheless it was still funny to me.  Then again living in this area and being long time Bullets/Wizards, Caps, Terps and a Orioles fan you get used to the losing.  Sure we’ve got DC United but who cares about soccer?

With the holidays coming up do you have any football fans on your list?  Do they also happen to like the Slanket or the Snuggle?  Well you’re in luck since they now have the NFL Huddlers.  What I found the funniest was the poor model who had to pose with each Slanket.  When I originally saw this HSN had her mug for every team in a different head slant and smile.  It was hilarious.  I unfortunately, was too slow to grab a screen shot thinking this stuff would be a shelf-warmer.  Boy was I wrong!

And lastly, a Tom Toles political cartoon from Sunday.  For all the people who still side with the selection, this should clear it up for them.  But wait they’re probably the same people who tell their kids that they can’t fail and even when they do it’s not their fault it’s the “systems” fault.  Man I luv to generalize.

Say WHAT? …

If you haven’t heard President Obama has just won the Nobel Peace Prize.  Yes, for nine months in office and seemingly little results other than words he has just won one of the major world awards.  To quote Michael Steele (How can you not like Michael Steele???  He luvs puppies!!!):

“The real question Americans are asking is, ‘What has President Obama actually accomplished?’” Steele said.

Depending on where you sit on the fence I think Republicans and those with intelligence are asking that.  Those still swooning over Obama are not.  It’s funny how the act of trying to get rid of evil is seen as non-peaceful.  That the need to eradicate those whom harm the innocent, exploit the poor and demean women and those of other cultures is noted as being as horrible as those being targeted.  (This would be Bush we’re talking about)

I guess the world see’s peace as being ignorant with a blind eye.  If it doesn’t affect me, my life style and I’m happy then there must be peace.  I have no responsibility to the rest of mankind because there is peace in my mind.

This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666. (Revelation 13:11-18)

Update: Some good stuff in here – some highlights:

• If Obama deserves the Noble Peace Prize then so does every Miss America contestant who babbles about world peace. – Michael Lipkin
• How can Obama get the Nobel Peace Prize hours before the U.S. is supposed to bomb the Moon?! – kzamri
• And then there’s this picture of Obama as a peace dove: 

What do these things have in common?

• Teen girls having an STD
• Teens who own their own car are in a car accident
• Women misreading a pregnancy test
• Being an obese Illinois adults
• NYC adults having herpes
• People at work using Instant Messenger
• Worldwide, identify themselves as Muslim 

Basically the odds for each above instance is 1 in 4.  Surprising?  Or not?

All the while we sit in our cozy houses …

And we thought we had it hard being able to worship freely in whatever style or method we so choose.  The aisles could be too narrow or the organ playing solo’s during the sermon but at least we’re not being chopped up and kidnapped.

On a slightly lighter note, yes, it’s from the Onion, but having lived through the whole Juwan luv affair this is just funny.  Ah, I should dig up my Juwan Bullets jersey AND my Juwan Wizards jersey for old time sake.

New Sharka Shirts …

Just a bunch of links …

• It’s ALL about ME.  Yes, me.  It’s not surprising since our parents generation grew up on watching West Side Story.  All I can think of is Natalie Wood singing “I am pretty, oh so pretty …”  Wait, West Side Story is one of my favorite movies, what am I talking about?
• Narcissistic society?  It’s all because we were spanked as kids.  You know because “Spanking, moreover, reinforces negative memories in the child’s mind, Newman said. Parents should aim instead to build “prominent, happy memories” of childhood for their kids, she said.”  Really?  Is that so?  Good thing my brothers and I have that oh so, aggressive behavior later in life.  What morons.
• I gotta go find this British chocolate.  It’s like when you go to McDonalds outside of the U.S. and the food taste soooo good because they use the bad oil.  It’s gotta be just like that.  It has to be.
• The anti-green reason for using non-rechargeable batteries.
• Sounds cool.  Really wish I was this creative in college, or now.
• Wanna know what swine flu feels like?  Ask Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
• Maryland finally announces their recommendations for the cost of using the ICC. 
• A co-worker and I were talking about this maybe a year or so ago.  We should have patented the idea!!!  I find it funny (or irritating depending on how you look at it) that they want to introduce a bill to yet again, protect us from ourselves.  I guess air pollution is all the craze but nothing about noise pollution.  I can get the bit about those who are blind but everyone else?  Hello!  Pay attention to your surroundings.  Wait.  Wait.  That would require us to live outside our narcissistic, self-centered world.  Yep, morons.

A Surfing Shark? …

And everyone thought he just holds onto his surfboard. 
(Time to find some thread so Sharka doesn’t lose his surfboard)

For a Sick Friend …

A friend of ours has been ill for the past several months and the doctors have no clue what’s causing him to be sick.  A few of us have been praying for him, fasting for him, sending him DVD collections to watch and basically hope that God will heal him.  Not that I don’t want my friend to get well, but I secretly hope that when they figure out what’s wrong with him and cure him, my friend will send his story to the writers of House to make into a future episode!  That would be so awesome … for him.

During worship, we song one of his favorite songs …

Hope you get better soon!  Let me know if you need season 2 & 3.