August 25, 2005

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  Anyone remember food fighters…I had this toy back in the day.  The combat carton.  Sweet.

  
  

  Watch out for the Mets…1.5 games out of the wild card, their bullpen is still shady, but they’re getting 8 consistant innings out of Seo, Pedro, Glavine, and Benson and Zambrano will pitch a good game every now and then. 

  
  

  Their line-up doesn’t have too many week spots.  Jose Reyes is the fastest player in the game, nearly hit for the cycle last night in a trouncing of Arizona, 18-4.  David Wright popped two dingers, and Mike Jacobs, just called up from the minors, has now hit 4 home-runs in his first 4-games.  With Piazza out indefinately w/ a broken bone at the base of his pinky, Ramon Castro has added some pop to the line-up.  Tonight, Pedro pitches for the sweep, then we head out to San Fran, before a crucial stretch of games, 3 at home vs. the Phillies, then on the road against Florida, St. Louis, and Atlanta, that might determine if we’re still playing in Aug.

  
  

  Televangelist Pat Robertson made a comment on Tues. that the US should assassinate Venezuelan Pres. Chavez.  After receiving flak, he naturally went back and tried to cover his words.  “I only said we should take him out, there’s ways to take someone out besides assasination,” but clearly he was just covering his ass.  I was learning about this on the Daily Show, which is on at the same time as Robertson’s show, the 700 club.  As I flipped back and forth, I caught Robertson making pancakes.  Pancakes!  Strange news show.  Robertson recently apologized for his comments.  But…it begs the question, what is the current situation in Venezuela?  Chavez apparently has a large support base amongs the poor and is moving the country towards socialism, but a guest on Robertson’s show discussed how of the social freedoms being stripped by Chavez.  more to come…

  
  

  CNN had a segment on the NCAA’s decisions to allow FSU to keep the Seminole as their mascot in bowl games, while other team mascots have been banned because groups have been complaining.  The news-host made a comment, “How come the San Diego State Aztecs can keep their name?  Because unlike Native Americans, the Aztecs are an extinct population.  So, the message the NCAA is giving is that it’s alright to conquer and exterminate a population, but not to drive them away onto reservations.”  Ha!!!

  
  

  Intelligent design has been a hot issue in the news today.  Bill O’Reilly interviewed a scientiest who had been harassed by other scientists for his questioning of Darwinism.  Apparently, nobody would even read and comment on his papers anymore.  Bill really sold the story, bringing out a lot of sympathy for this poor scientist.  I mean, how are we supposed to take any science seriously, if we don’t spend time listening to religious zealots masked as scientists proclaiming the bogeyman (god) to be the force driving the evolution of our species?

  
  

  So…Israel has just about completed its withdrawal and handing over Gaza to the Palestinians.  It felt like a monumental week, a show of retreat by the Israeli gov’t, the sacrafice being made by those leaving the homes in the Gaza settlements, the return of land to the Palestinians.  Meanwhile…in the West Bank, the Israeli security wall is being extended.  The Times reported today that it will cut through a portion of East Jerusalem, essentially cutting off Palestinians from the West Bank.  Has any progress really been made…will any progress really be made?

  
  

  I’m getting a bit nervous about this weekend…need to actually buy a wet-suit today, feel like I’m gonna end up going w/ all the wrong stuff.  I’ve done a lot of outdoors stuff, but most of it w/ guide services.  I’m also nervous about the coming year…I can’t see the big picture, and so holding just waiting around till possibly going to grad school next year, doesn’t work well w/ me.  And…interestingly enough, all this talk i’m having about being a therapist, damn…if I had the money I’d love to spend time w/ one.  Hopefully a cute, single, female one, who didn’t take the whole ethics of therapy thing all that seriously…and i could tell her my whole life story, which wouldn’t be all that interesting, but she’d listen to the whole thing, and ask questions, and when it was all done, i’d go back to her place and cook her dinner.  Yeah…that’d be sweet.  Like, combat carton sweet.

  
  

  -dan

  
  

   

  
  

   

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