Well, well, well. It seems that long-time GOP senator Arlen Spector is jumping ship from the Confederate. States Party. I would have to say that he's seen the writing on the wall and determined that the GOP philosophy is so out of whack, so bad for not just the country, but the future of the nation and for the entire planet for that matter. GOP policies of hands off government has so wrecked the US that it's doubtful we'll see the country mean anything until after Obama leaves in his second term. The way I see it, as I've said before, Dubya Bush was The Nero of the American Empire. He presided over the burning and looting of the country - with such a cavalier attitude that it was stunning. We're seeing how his lawyer criminals twisted and perverted the laws to allow torture and other disregards of humanity

What this does though, is give the Democrats the votes they need to punk the GOP/WBN/Condederates!

Israelis keep Gaza as a hellhole! It's been 3.5 months since the Israeli Defense Forces (great oxymoron) stormed into Gaza, tore the shit out of the place and left it simmering in its own piss! And what's happening now is the Israelis are barring any importation of concrete and other building materials.

Wasn't it Jimmy Carter who said in a recent book that the situation with the Palestinians is worse than anything that went down in Aparteid-controlled South Africa? And yet there is no American Media or Entertainers rallying behind this cause, what's the real story behind that?

Lie Down WIth PIgs and Get The Swine Flu

Noted author, scholar and anthropologist Jared Diamond wrote in his book GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL that humans are susceptible to getting viruses and other diseases from animals by living in close proximity to them for too damn long.

Well, that seems to be the case. Apparently, the Bird Flu hit up these pigs in Mexico, and then SOMEHOW the Pig Farmers in MEXICO got the bug and have been transmitting it to fellow humans.

What's really frightening is how fast and how far this flu viruses (SARS, Bird Flu, Swine Flu) travel ACROSS THE GLOBE! One day it's confined to Mexico and SW US of A, next day it's in Scotland, Canada, Japan (where they're using heat monitors to see if you're breaking a fever... "you're too hot, sir, get the fuck out of line and step into quarantine, please...") and Sri Lanka...

I wonder how the Pork Industry is going to spin this? Those "The Other White Meat" ads haven't been seen on TV in a while, and I'm sure that American Muslims, under the yoke of Louis Farrakhan, are going to be rallying behind this news, too, stating (to some effect) that the Pig, the Swine, is so damn unclean, unhealthy, that it's threatening our very lives!!! (applause, applause).

You know the deal with these type of health epidemics... fringe religious groups find a way to capitalize and fan the flames of fear.

I wonder what the damn Evangelicals are saying?

And why wasn't Dr. Gupta from CNN nominated (and then confirmed ) to be Surgeon General? Is he a bad choice? Or does he not want to go under the scrutiny? I figure now that the GOP/Confederate party Fucks are pissed off by the Budget and Financial Stimulus packages that Obama rammed down their throats, they're going to really rip the dicks off of the rest of Obama's Cabinet Nominees. Mark my words... 100 Days in and no Surgeon General or other top officials at Treasury? That's some shit, shame on the GOP/Confederates!!

Anticipation

Meagan "so" Goode "it hurts"
Originally uploaded by Phalanx

So this isn't no crazy post about how a hot woman like the Dick Stiffening Hottie Meagan Goode over there plays the skin flute like she's first chair in the New York Philharmonic...

No, this is blog entry about the NBA Play Offs, which just started over this past weekend. I'm not too interested in the games this year, and I've noticed that I've been waning with my attention/caring for the Game, because of the Playoffs. But wait you say, "aren't the Playoffs the best time to watch? what you've been waiting for all year?"

Well, yeah that's true, but there's not really any excitement in the playoffs... because of the current format. See, when the David Stern bowed under pressure to change the first round from 5 games to 7 games series, he stuck a hot poker up the ass of the fans' anticipation. Because it's nigh impossible for an 8 seed to vanquish a 1 seed -- a moment immortalized when the NBA was on NBC and there was game maybe back in 1991 or 1992, where the Denver Nuggets led by Robert Pack and Dikembe Mutumbo (who's STILL muthafuckin' playin') beat Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp's Seattle SuperSonics... the Number 1 seed.

Also, who really wants to see a 7 Game series between the Number 1 seed in the East versus the Number 8 seed? It was disappointing to see The Celtics get pushed to the limit by the Hawks last year. I mean, that series might have gone 5 games (in a Five Game series) and maybe the Celtics would have lost... TALK ABOUT A MAJOR UPSET. And the upset is what the fans thrive on, because it amps up the chaos factor... and that's where the true magic moments are made.

The anticipation is destroyed when there's no chance of chaos, because take this year, while 16 teams are in the Playoffs, we know that the Finals are going to be played by the Cavs, the Celtics or the Magic against the Lakers and maybe New Orleans or the Spurs... but it's pretty much the Lakers and the Cavs... because they will grind out a team the Best of 7 format that is currently being played.

So where's the anticipation, no one is going to pull an upset... like a Number 7 seed taking that first game in a five game series, because that's when it becomes what the immortal Chick Hearn called "Nervous Time."

David Stern would do himself good, by changing the Playoff Series format....

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