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		<title>You Aren’t Green, You’re Racist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was driving to work after having a four day weekend.  So right there you should be able to tell that I was not in a good mood.  And as I was driving I came to a stop at a red light just behind a Toyota Prius.  And as I glared at this machine [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday I was driving to work after having a four day weekend.  So right there you should be able to tell that I was not in a good mood.  And as I was driving I came to a stop at a red light just behind a Toyota Prius.  And as I glared at this machine in all it&#8217;s glorious stupidity I was blown away by the bumper sticker that I saw.  I was so in shock that I didn&#8217;t even think to take a picture of it.  My searches of the internet did not find the exact sticker but one pretty close.  So here it is.</p>
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<p>The one that I saw said exactly &#8220;My car $tarve$ terrorists.  Does yours?&#8221;  So it added even more &#8220;cleverness&#8221; by adding those money signs in there.  So let&#8217;s try, emphasis on try, to break this down.</p>
<p>The main driving point of this oh so well made statement is that the Prius uses less gas and therefore hurts oil companies.  Considering gas stations are still going to buy and sell gas whether you think you need less of it or not you really aren&#8217;t hurting the big oil companies.  In a way you are making them stronger.</p>
<p>Remember that stupid chain letter that went out a few years ago that said if every person in America didn&#8217;t buy gas on a specific day it would lead to gas prices going down?  Yeah well that was a piece of crap because if everyone actually did do that it would make the oil companies raise their prices, then the gas stations raise their prices to make up for that and you get screwed more than Jenna Jameson in her hey day.</p>
<p>Hybrid owners actually think they are saving money too because they don&#8217;t have to pump a lot of gas.  Well considering that the average Prius costs between $28,000 and $34,000 as opposed to my Nissan Frontier that only cost me $17,000 it will take you probably about 30 years of having the Prius before your gas purchases and the purchase price of the car come close to evening out.</p>
<p>And then you are saying that you are hurting &#8220;terrorists&#8221; by using less gas.  I&#8217;m assuming by terrorists you are talking about Middle Eastern countries that produce oil.  Well how about this hippie?  Forty percent of the oil used for gas in this country is from (drum roll please) America!  Specifically Texas, Alaska and California if you want to know.  That is the largest amount of oil we receive from a single country.  And guess who the next two countries that we receive the most oil from?  Well those are our neighbors to the north and south in Canada and Mexico.</p>
<p>So I guess you are calling us Americans, Canadians and Mexicans all terrorists.  You continue the stereotype of all Americans as ignorant fucks that don&#8217;t know the real news about anything.</p>
<p>And lastly the actual use of the word terrorists is absolutely and down right racist.  Assuming you are referring to people of oil producing countries in the Middle East you are stereotyping an entire group of people who have little to no hand in actual organized terrorism.  And if you think you are so right for passing judgement on someone like that I will go ahead and do it to you.</p>
<p>You are an ignorant, uneducated asshole.  You deserve to be classified with hillbillies, rednecks, hicks and any other people that come from inbred families to where they believe that anyone that is different is the enemy.  You don&#8217;t deserve to vote because you can&#8217;t understand the causes without being moronically biased.  You should never reproduce because you will continue to pass on dumb from generation to generation.  And you should not even be allowed near the generally public to try to poison our young minds with propaganda and nonsense that will just keep this trend continuing.</p>
<p>So you see you aren&#8217;t clever or funny for having this bumper sticker.  You probably aren&#8217;t even getting it to try to be funny.  You have it because you honestly believe it.  You really think you are better than all other people that drive regular gasoline (or petrol for our Brit friends) cars.  You think you are saving the environment from the big bad evil oil corps of this world.  And even worse you believe that you are hurting &#8220;terrorists&#8221; by having this stupid car when actually these evil doers you speak of are America, Canada and Mexico.  You are nothing but a pretentious and racist snob.</p>
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		<title>UFC 117 Aftermath and Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeJurewicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ponied up and purchased Saturday&#8217;s UFC 117 pay per view or even went to a local bar and watched you were treated to one of the best nights of MMA fights ever.  There was a little bit of everything on this card.  You had two heavyweight contenders just throwing bombs on each other [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you ponied up and purchased Saturday&#8217;s UFC 117 pay per view or even went to a local bar and watched you were treated to one of the best nights of MMA fights ever.  There was a little bit of everything on this card.  You had two heavyweight contenders just throwing bombs on each other in the stand up.  You saw wrestling with ground and pound 101.  You were even given a few slick and innovative submissions.  If you weren&#8217;t entertained then you aren&#8217;t an MMA fan.  You should probably go watch that pathetic shell of itself they call boxing because you don&#8217;t know what MMA is all about.</p>
<p>Looking back at my predictions I picked 4 out the 5 winners.  I got one prediction pretty much dead on and almost, ALMOST had the main event picked to a tee.  But even with the winners I did pick right the results did surprise me.</p>
<p>I knew Roy Nelson was a tough dude but I didn&#8217;t think anyone could take Junior dos Santos&#8217; lethal boxing.  Despite that Big Country looked absolutely gassed even in the second round he kept in there and kept trying to throw leather at Juniors jaw as well.  In the end dos Santos won a unanimous decision instead of my thought of a second round KO.  Either way Junior is next in line to face the winner of the Brock Lesnar/Cain Velasquez match up for the UFC Heavyweight Title.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know exactly why I was never a fan of Matt Hughes.  Part of it is that country boy persona.  Part of it was he sometimes cockiness towards opponents.  But one thing I can never deny is that the man is a legend in the sport and he still has some tricks up his sleeve.  I thought Hughes would take the Big Dog down and will and just punish him for three rounds but in the back of my head I had a feeling he could get a submission.  Hughes has always had a really good submission offense and I wanted to maybe say an armbar for the win but didn&#8217;t know if he could pull off a submission against Almeida.  Not only did he pull off a submission but one of the craziest ones I&#8217;ve ever seen.  It was part anaconda choke, part arm triangle, part bear hug.  But is was all awesome.  Ricardo went out like a light and woke up a few seconds later wondering where he was.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s next for a man that has done almost everything in this sport?  He said he&#8217;s going to go hunting and spend time with his family.  Oh such a country boy that Matt.  But I have a thought on who I would like to see him face next.  How about the winner of the Dan Hardy/Carlos Conduit match.  It would be a great opportunity for either of those young men and we get to see if Hughes can still go with someone considerably younger than him.  Joe Silva, Dana White, make it happen.  (Because they read my blog anyway)</p>
<p>I think Clay Guida&#8217;s new nick name should be the Perpetual Motion Machine because that man does not stop moving.  And not only that but he keeps the same pace, always!  Guida pushed the pace very early with Rafael dos Anjos as they spend more time on their feet than I thought they would.  Clay got in some good punches will dos Anjos used very good leg kicks to keep distance.  But Rafael&#8217;s night went south after a Clay Guida punch seemed to have broken dos Anjos&#8217; jaw and in the third round Clay just put his shoulder and all his weight into that hurt jaw and got himself a submission victory and back into the thick of things in the lightweight division.</p>
<p>After that was the potentials/maybe/we&#8217;ll see number one contender match up in the welterweight division.  Jon Fitch came in looking like his normal self with I don&#8217;t care hair and gnawing at his mouth piece.  Alves came in just not looking like himself.  He looked tired and dejected before Fitch even scored his first take down.  And really after that first take down the match was over.  Jon Fitch did what he always does.  He pins down his opponent and keeps them there while punching them in the face while they think about their predicament.</p>
<p>So with his decision win Jon Fitch may or may not fight the winner of Georges St. Pierre and Josh Koscheck depending on who wins, what Jake Shields does in his octagon debut and just if Dana and Joe Silva want it to happen.  I think Fitch is the most deserving as I mentioned in <a href="http://www.mikejurewicz.com/archives/2010/08/06/my-ufc-117-predictions-and-pre-fight-thoughts/" target="_self">my predictions post</a> so hopefully Fitch will want to fight no matter who wins between GSP and Koscheck.</p>
<p>Then it was go time for the eagerly anticipated middleweight title match between the champion Anderson Silva and the challenger Chael Sonnen.  As you know I bought into the Chael hype and talk.  Silva pissed me off as a fan with his last number of title matches.  It was time to pay for those displays and I believed Chael was the one to dish out the punishment.</p>
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<p>But even as Chael was my choice to win I think I was with almost everyone else when Chael went out there and pretty much did what he said he was going to do.  For four and a half rounds Sonnen put Silva on his back and tried his damn hardest to punch a hole in his face.  <a href="http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/08/08/stirring-comeback-win-a-career-definining-moment-for-anderson-si/" target="_blank">According to MMA Fighting and Compustrike</a> Sonnen out struck Silva 289 to 29 through the entire fight.</p>
<p>Now before you say something unintelligent like, &#8220;Well it was all on the ground.&#8221;  Let me offer myself to give you an example if you so wish.  I will be happy to sit in your guard and punch you in the face for about 23 minutes if you don&#8217;t think that is impressive.  See the little Love/Hate Mail link up top you get get a hold of me there if you would like to take up that offer.</p>
<p>But over those 4 and a half rounds Chael looked confident.  He looked dominant.  He looked like a champion.  And then just like that Silva locked in a triangle choke.  Whether or not Sonnen actually tapped or meant to tap is something only Chael can answer.  And so far Chael has not answered that question.  But instead of making excuses Chael took the defeat like a man.</p>
<p>&#8220;I worked hard and did what I could do all that nice stuff, but at the  end of the day you either get your hand raised or you don&#8217;t, and I  didn&#8217;t.&#8221; Sonnen stated in the post card press conference.</p>
<p>Silva in victory got down on all fours at Chael&#8217;s feet and bowed to him.  Finally someone made Anderson work hard and he knew it.  But then this display of humility was slightly over shadowed by his remarks in the post fight interview that he hurt his ribs in training and was told not to fight by his doctor.  If true yes he was a warrior for fighting through it but it also looks like he was making excuses for his performance against a man who really was the better fighter that night.  But I guess Anderson will be Anderson and haters gonna hate.</p>
<p>So that brings up the question as to whether Chael deserves an immediate rematch.  Yes the &#8220;tap&#8221; is questionable but there wasn&#8217;t much of an argument from Chael against the ref&#8217;s decision to stop the match.  And as much as I was even thinking he didn&#8217;t tap and want to see Sonnen as champion I think he shouldn&#8217;t get an immediate rematch.  Vitor Belfort has been quietly sitting back and waiting for his shot.</p>
<p>Belfort was suppose to fight Silva at UFC 112 in April but an injury forced him to pull out of the fight.  He was then leap frogged in the pecking order by Sonnen.  He has been waiting patiently and now he deserves his shot at the belt.</p>
<p>As for Chael who should he fight next?  Maybe the winner of Michael Bisping vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama or how about the ever resilient Chris Leben?  I would even maybe like to see a rematch with Yushin Okami with the winner of that maybe fighting for the title.  Okami has greatly improved since his lose to Sonnen and would give them both a tough match for a future title shot.  Again this is all up to Joe Silva and Dana White.  That is unless they want my help.  At which that Love/Hate Mail button up top is a great  way to get a hold of me guys.</p>
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		<title>My UFC 117 Predictions and Pre Fight Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeJurewicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just realized that since reopening my blog I haven&#8217;t written anything about MMA yet.  Shame on me, shame.  So what better way to start writing about it again then with the upcoming UFC 117 tomorrow night.  And this card on paper should be an absolutely great night of fights including on e title match [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just realized that since reopening my blog I haven&#8217;t written anything about MMA yet.  Shame on me, shame.  So what better way to start writing about it again then with the upcoming UFC 117 tomorrow night.  And this card on paper should be an absolutely great night of fights including on</p>
<p>e title match and two fights with title implications.  Oddly enough ever fight on the card involves an American against a Brazilian.  Coincidence?</p>
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<p>So now I will for a few minutes pretend I&#8217;m a part of real MMA media and give you my take on what to expect of the five scheduled live fights.</p>
<p><strong>Clay Guida vs. Rafael dos Anjos</strong></p>
<p>This match will probably piss the normal meathead crowd off because I imagine it will be on the ground the majority of the fight.  Clay likes to take people down and smash away while dos Anjos is a BJJ wiz.  So my thought will be that this fight will be won or lost on the mat.</p>
<p>If Guida can be mistake free and do what he does best then I think he can definitely take it.  But one mistake can lead to a submission being slapped on.  I think even as intense as Guida is he is too smart to make silly adrenaline rush mistakes.</p>
<p><em>My Pick: Clay Guida by decision</em></p>
<p><strong>Matt Hughes vs. Ricardo Almeida</strong></p>
<p>This one has potential to be just like the first as UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes takes on another BJJ specialist in Ricardo Almeida.  I like this because it sort of has some story behind it as Almeida goes out to face the man that beat up his mentor Renzo Gracie.</p>
<p>Hughes is getting up there in age and not everyone can be a freak of nature like Randy Couture but Hughes has only lost 3 times in the past 6 years and those were to Georges St. Pierre twice and Thiago Alves.  Not bad if you ask me.</p>
<p>Almeida has though has been looking very good since returning to the octagon in 2008.  His only loss was a close split decision to Patrick Cote and his last two wins were against Kendall Grove and the up and coming Matt Brown.</p>
<p>In the end I think it will be again who wins the fight on the ground.  Even though I am not a huge fan of the guy I think Hughes as one more win him with this one.</p>
<p><em>My Pick: Matt Hughes by decision</em></p>
<p><strong>Jon Fitch vs. Thiago Alves</strong></p>
<p>This is a rematch a lot of hardcore MMA fans have been wanting to see.  These two welterweights clashed in 2006 the first time with Fitch coming out victorious but in the time since then Alves has improved significantly including a string of wins over such names as Chris Lytle, Karo Parisyan, Matt Hughes and Josh Koscheck.  The two do share the fact that they both have received title shots at GSP already.  And they were both man handled for 5 rounds in their respective shots.</p>
<p>Fitch has strung together 4 wins in a row since his loss and this will be Alves first fight since the loss to GSP.  Fitch gets crapped on a lot by fans for what is thought of as boring fighting.  He takes his opponents down and grinds to wins most of the time.  He wants to finish them but has seemed to have problems with doing so.</p>
<p>Alves is a beast with his stand up but an irregularity in his brain recently pushed this fight back and it will be interesting to see how he fairs from a long lay off and this medical condition.  Rumors are also going around that Alves is having a hard time cutting weight to make the 170 lbs limit.  Will that play a factor?</p>
<p>Dana White has said that the winner of this fight very well could get to fight the winner of the GSP/Koscheck match for the title.  I think Fitch definitely deserves to be in those talks but Alves is on his first fight back after his title shot and I don&#8217;t think he should be thrown back in immediately with one win.  But it&#8217;s not my job.</p>
<p><em>My Pick: Jon Fitch by decision</em></p>
<p><strong>Roy Nelson vs. Junior dos Santos</strong></p>
<p>This is one of the ones I&#8217;m really looking forward to.  It&#8217;s no secret I&#8217;m a fan of Big Country.  A lot of my friends hate him.  Mostly because he beat up their false demigod Kimbo but many just think he&#8217;s a big fat moron.  My retort is just watch the man fight.  He is a world class grappler who&#8217;s BJJ is constantly underrated and can do pretty damn good on his feet too.  Don&#8217;t believe me?  Ask Brendan Schaub and Stefan Struve if he is any good with his striking.  That is if they remember that their fights with him.</p>
<p>Junior dos Santos has just torn through the heavyweight division with his stand up.  His last five wins are over Fabricio Werdum, Stefan Struve, Mirko Cro Cop, Gilbert Yvel and Gabriel Gonzaga.  There isn&#8217;t a chump in that batch.  I would say dos Santos deserves a title shot now and doesn&#8217;t need to fight another fight to prove it.  He has been an absolute terror on his feet and he should be when you train at Black House with Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida.  His ground game hasn&#8217;t really been tested yet but he is currently a brown belt in BJJ under the Nogueria brothers, who apparently know a thing or two about jui jitsu.</p>
<p>It should be a very entertaining fight.  Nelson claims he isn&#8217;t afraid to stand and bang with dos Santos but that he isn&#8217;t an idiot either and if he feels that isn&#8217;t working will try to take it to the ground.  I for one would really like to see who dos Santos handles himself on the ground.  But in the end I&#8217;m thinking my boy Roy may be in the way of a freight train on it&#8217;s way to the title.</p>
<p><em>My Pick: Junior dos Santos by 2nd Round KO.</em></p>
<p><strong>UFC Middleweight Title: Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen</strong></p>
<p>If it weren&#8217;t for Chael Sonnen most people wouldn&#8217;t care about this fight.  Chael sold this card, plan and simple.  After Silva&#8217;s last three lackluster title defenses Chael came out guns a blazing.  He said what was on everyone else&#8217;s minds about Anderson and he didn&#8217;t let up.  He called Silva everything you can think of and even offered Silva a deadline to which he could pull out of the fight.  Gold I tell you!  And I for one have taken the Kool-Aid and believe in Chael.</p>
<p>Silva has looked totally uninterested in his last three title defenses.  He even tried to say that Vitor Belfort was undeserving of a title shot after only one fight back in the UFC.  Yes this came from the guy that got a title shot after only one fight.  Anderson must have never met the kettle.  I&#8217;m hoping that Chael&#8217;s pro wrestling like trash talk will make Anderson want to actually fight.  Will he?  I&#8217;m not sure.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been saying for awhile to friends and pretty much anyone that will listen that Silva is a counter striker.  He is quick enough and strong enough to take advantage of overly aggressive opponents (see Leban, Franklin, Irvin, Griffin).  While he is still a world class striker he just isn&#8217;t the same if the other fighter isn&#8217;t trying to attack him.  Cote, Lates and Maia learning from others didn&#8217;t charge in swinging like a sever year old wearing boxing gloves.  They tried to work their game.  It didn&#8217;t work but they tried.  Anderson then just kept looking for the opportunity to counter instead of becoming the aggressor himself against these fighters that aren&#8217;t known for having amazing stand up.</p>
<p>Chael I think will be aggressive but not on his feet.  I look for Sonnen to shoot and shoot early.  He will try to take to the ground and smash Silva&#8217;s face.  Chael&#8217;s words not mine.  Now Silva is a black belt in BJJ but we don&#8217;t see it too often because he&#8217;s so good on his feet.  It will be interesting to see if Chael thinking, &#8220;CHAEL SMASH&#8221; gets him caught in a submission.</p>
<p>So which way do I choose.  I&#8217;m going to have to say I&#8217;m a suck and I am buying the hype.</p>
<p><em>My Pick: Chael Sonnen by decision</em></p>
<p>So there you have it folks.  Predictions for UFC 117 from no one with real credentials in the media.  Just a big fan of MMA.  And by that I mean someone that doesn&#8217;t boo when the fight is taken to the mat and two ground guys go to work methodically.  Let me know what you think will happen and maybe I&#8217;ll tell you that you are wrong.</p>
<p>Hopefully I can write more about MMA in the future.  Maybe I&#8217;ll do a follow up and continue to do these preview/predictions.  What do you think?</p>
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		<title>4square Isn’t Real Life</title>
		<link>http://www.mikejurewicz.com/archives/2010/07/26/4square-isnt-real-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeJurewicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4square]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be the first to admit that I can get suckered into new social media trends without really caring for them.  Remember Friendster, MySpace and Google Wave?  They are all but the way of the dodo but I used them at one point.  But I mainly did them for something to do when I was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">I&#8217;ll be the first to admit that I can get suckered into new social media trends without really caring for them.  Remember Friendster, MySpace and Google Wave?  They are all but the way of the dodo but I used them at one point.  But I mainly did them for something to do when I was bored.  The same rings true for why I joined 4square.  I thought it sounded really dumb at first but I just did it out of boredom.  Plus I have given some of my friends a laugh for the rest of their lives because I checked into a gas station.  I guess you had to be there.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-247" title="foursquare_logo" src="http://www.mikejurewicz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/foursquare_logo.png" alt="" width="374" height="151" /></p>
<p>But I don&#8217;t take this seriously.  I mean how serious can you take something that gives out fictional mayorships to buildings.  Anyone that believes in that probably believes in Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Great Pumpkin.  I didn&#8217;t say Easter Bunny because he fucking exists!  Believe me there is a 7 foot tall rabbit out there and he&#8217;s scary as Lindsey Lohan&#8217;s vag after years of binge drinking and group fucking.  But I digress.  There are people out there actually believe that these fake titles hold some sort of social standing in the world.  As if you community will respect you more because you are the mayor of your local drug store.  If anything they should see that as you spending way too much time at the drug store.  They probably think you are always sick or you need more ointment for your hemorrhoids.  Way to go, that&#8217;s respect if I&#8217;ve ever seen it.  I say all this not out of just pure hatred for people, which I do have thank you, but because I have actually experience this sort of behavior from someone on 4square.</p>
<p>A few months back I got mayorship of my local Jamba Juice.  A great place with delicious smoothies that are apparently good for you too.  I mean I go to the place at least once a week, sometimes two, so I guess it was only a matter of time before I attained this status.  A few days later I lost it.  No biggie, I wasn&#8217;t booted from power in some communist country I ruled over.  Then next week I receive it back.  I just thought to myself, &#8220;Oh cool, it&#8217;s me again.&#8221;  Later that day I received a tweet from the now former &#8220;mayor&#8221; challenging me to a duel over the Jamba Juice mayorship.</p>
<p>Now before some of you think that I took his tweet too seriously let me just say that I know he probably didn&#8217;t mean a real duel but honestly, I don&#8217;t know you and you want to say something smartass like about me taking a faux title from you then you are a moron.</p>
<p>I decided to take the higher ground and just ignore that absolute waste of 140 or less characters and go on with my time.  And that was a good choice as I never heard anything from said douche again until a couple weeks ago.</p>
<p>One day I lost mayorship of Total Wine by me.  Again not a big deal.  I didn&#8217;t think to myself, &#8220;Holy shit I have to get over there right now and win it back.&#8221;  Nope I just kept on keeping on.  Then one day I head in there and I win it back.  My excitement was containable as I just went in and bought my beer and left.  Well later that afternoon the ever delusional 4square whore that previously thought it was the wild wild west took said mayorship from me.  I would have had no problem with this if he then didn&#8217;t go ahead and tweet to me, &#8220;Short lived victory.&#8221;  No it wasn&#8217;t.  You know why?  It isn&#8217;t a victory!  You don&#8217;t fucking win anything!  You aren&#8217;t really a mayor of anything in the real world.  And if you were actually a mayor of something you would probably be the first person in this country since modern government has been established to be booted from office, tarred and feathered and then drawn and quartered.  Get it quartered and 4square.  HAHA!  I&#8217;m fucking killing.</p>
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<p>So ladies and gentleman please take my advice and stop taking 4square so fucking seriously!  You don&#8217;t win anything but ridicule from me and countless others that live in the real world where we pay for things with money and not goats.  Oh yeah and if you have a Twitter account and only post 4square updates on it you better stop or I will send Joel Kodner after you to dip his balls into everything in your kitchen, including any people that are in that kitchen at that time.</p>
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		<title>My First Experience at Roller Derby and What I Would Do to Make it Better</title>
		<link>http://www.mikejurewicz.com/archives/2010/07/25/my-first-experience-at-roller-derby-and-what-i-would-do-to-make-it-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeJurewicz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palm Beach Roller Girls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So for the past few months my sister in law has been partaking in an upstart roller derby team down here called the Palm Beach Roller Girls.  They are still pretty new and last night was their first match/game/bout or whatever it is technically called in this sport.  Being a kick ass brother in law [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So for the past few months my sister in law has been partaking in an upstart roller derby team down here called the Palm Beach Roller Girls.  They are still pretty new and last night was their first match/game/bout or whatever it is technically called in this sport.  Being a kick ass brother in law I went to show my support and they took on the South Florida Roller Girls from Port Saint Lucie.</p>
<p>And with that I begin my rant.  The so named South Florida Roller Girls are from Port Saint Lucie and that in my mind is not really South Florida.  It is considered the Treasure Coast and by beer distributing standards it is Central Florida.  And if you know me then you know that if it&#8217;s a standard in beer it is true with everything else.  So I think a name change should be in the cards there.</p>
<p>Now if you are use to roller derby from movies or TV you probably think there is a big old track with banked turns and junk.  Not here.  This is flat track derby and I think that has more potential for great spills, if that&#8217;s the sort of thing you want to see.  Because come on, that is some of the draw of roller derby.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-239" title="pbrg" src="http://www.mikejurewicz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/pbrg.jpg" alt="" width="231" height="332" /></p>
<p>Now on to the actual match.  The girls on each team have creative nicknames and numbers and dress up and modify their uniforms and equipment accordingly.  They show a good amount of creativity with this and it&#8217;s great to see a sport where the participants can do so.  Hell even the coaches and refs have nick names and gimmicks.  This is like pro wrestling on skates already! I like it.</p>
<p>The rules are a little hard to pick up at first but eventually you seem to get it but there is still a lot I have no clue about.  There is a lot of hand signals that the refs do including some obvious ones and some not so.  I swear they were making some of the shit up.  I&#8217;m still a little hazy on the scoring but it seems like most games can be really high scoring.</p>
<p>It was pretty exciting to watch.  The South Florida Roller Girls were fast.  Apparently a number of them have been doing roller derby for a long time.  Their jammers we small and like greased lightning.  The Palm Beach Roller Girls lacked these little speedsters but then again they are almost all mostly new to doing this compared to the opponents.</p>
<p>Also the Palm Beach jammers were getting too many penalties.  And since they are the only players on the track that can score points you can&#8217;t really score if your in the box.  Yeah their are penalties and I think some of those rules are kind of pansy.  Let them go.  No blood no foul they use to say right?</p>
<p>Oh man and was the MC for the match boring.  He barely spoke and when he did he had zero personality.  I think I am going to make a push for a mutiny for me to take over the position.  I could definitely liven things up in there.</p>
<p>And last but certainly not least, the amount of future ex wife material there was off the ways.  So I have a thing for girls with tattoos and piercings and crazy hair and stuff.  Is it so wrong?  Not at all.</p>
<p>So to sum it all up we have a number of attractive girls that are being creative going out on roller skates and smashing into each other.  Then they go out drinking afterward.  Yeah it was a good time and I think you would have a good time too.  Be sure to check out more information about the Palm Beach Roller Girls at <a href="http://palmbeachrollergirls.com/" target="_blank">http://palmbeachrollergirls.com/</a></p>
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		<title>Tournament of Really Awesome Stuff Fighting it Out to the Death CANCELED!</title>
		<link>http://www.mikejurewicz.com/archives/2010/07/12/tournament-of-really-awesome-stuff-fighting-it-out-to-the-death-canceled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeJurewicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Angry Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah so after a few weeks of anger at the lack of participation in the Tournament of Really Awesome Stuff Fighting it Out to the Death I have decided to cancel it.  And it&#8217;s all your fault.  Needless to say the fighters are very sad.  The bear is nearly inconsolable.  I&#8217;ve tried hugs, fresh meat and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah so after a few weeks of anger at the lack of participation in the Tournament of Really Awesome Stuff Fighting it Out to the Death I have decided to cancel it.  And it&#8217;s all your fault.  Needless to say the fighters are very sad.  The bear is nearly inconsolable.  I&#8217;ve tried hugs, fresh meat and even flowers and candy.  I think he may have to be put down if he doesn&#8217;t get better.</p>
<p>So I guess my match making days of death matches are over and it&#8217;s just back to complaining about random shit.</p>
<p>You win interwebs, this time.</p>
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		<title>Two Ties? Really? Come on People</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeJurewicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay so I didn&#8217;t do the 3rd match up yesterday because of a combination of being too tired from the major drinking party the night before and because both of the first two matches ended in draws.  The second only had 2 votes. Come on people! I will be opening the tie breaking votes later [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay so I didn&#8217;t do the 3rd match up yesterday because of a combination of being too tired from the major drinking party the night before and because both of the first two matches ended in draws.  The second only had 2 votes.</p>
<p>Come on people!</p>
<p>I will be opening the tie breaking votes later on and you better do better this time around.  Just saying.</p>
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		<title>Tournament: Round 1 – Ferrigno vs. Ninja</title>
		<link>http://www.mikejurewicz.com/archives/2010/06/26/tournament-round-1-ferrigno-vs-ninja/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeJurewicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awesome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tournament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lou Ferrigno]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for the second of the first round match ups and that brings us Mr. Lou Ferrigno against a stealthy ninja.  This is a true match up of strength and power against speed and agility.  Let&#8217;s run down some keys. Lou Ferrigno is the new Chuck Norris of the internet, don&#8217;t debate it.  And [...]]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s time for the second of the first round match ups and that brings us Mr. Lou Ferrigno against a stealthy ninja.  This is a true match up of strength and power against speed and agility.  Let&#8217;s run down some keys.</p>
<p>Lou Ferrigno is the new Chuck Norris of the internet, don&#8217;t debate it.  And is a big and powerful brute.  But I think his key to victory is to get mad because then he becomes the very famous and very green Hulk.  If Hulk comes out to battle this could be over quick.</p>
<p>The ninja definitely will have speed and the art of invisibility on his side.  But can he stick and move to defeat the powerful Ferrigno?  The ninja needs to utilize it&#8217;s speed and it&#8217;s array of weapons to take the victory.</p>
<p>Now it&#8217;s your time to chime in and choose a winner.  The poll is below.  Be sure to leave your comments on your thoughts as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">[poll id="3"]</p>
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		<title>Tournament: Round 1 – Fedor vs. Homer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeJurewicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awesome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tournament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fedor Emelianenko]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here we are with the first match up of the first round.  You can see the tail of the tape above. This should be an interesting matchup.  We have one of the baddest men on the planet with Fedor Emelianenko taking on Homer Simpson.  Let&#8217;s do some keys to this fight here. Fedor is [...]]]></description>
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<p>So here we are with the first match up of the first round.  You can see the tail of the tape above.</p>
<p>This should be an interesting matchup.  We have one of the baddest men on the planet with Fedor Emelianenko taking on Homer Simpson.  Let&#8217;s do some keys to this fight here.</p>
<p>Fedor is one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time.  He is practiced in almost any situation whether it be on the feet or the ground.  And don&#8217;t let his calm, and sometimes playful, demeanor outside of fighting fool you.  The man is an absolute beast once the bell rings.  He is going to want to take this fight to the ground early using his superior sambo skills.  Then he is going to need to try to grab hold of one of Homer&#8217;s meaty limbs and just crank.  I don&#8217;t think standing and banging with Homer will do any good.</p>
<p>Homer is a proven fighter in the boxing ring with a jaw and seemingly gut of steel.  He is known for just taking the punishment his opponents dish out and gassing them to where they can&#8217;t go anymore.  It&#8217;s then easy pickings for Homer.  He is going to probably want to keep this on the feet and just weather the storm until Fedor is gassed.  But we have never seen Fedor get gassed.  Is it possible?</p>
<p>Okay folks, there is your match up.  Now it&#8217;s your turn to determine the winner.  Please vote below for you winner and do comment on why you believe they are the winner.  The poll is open until 8 am Saturday morning.  So get going!</p>
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		<title>Tournament of Really Awesome Stuff Fighting it Out to the Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeJurewicz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tournament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fedor Emelianenko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homer Simpson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lou Ferrigno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ninjas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So yesterday I was chatting with a friend who was telling me how awesome this blog is and it go me thinking.  I should have a tournament of really awesome things since we are in the spirit of the World Cup tournament.  Except this tournament is a little different.  There will be no group stage [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So yesterday I was chatting with a friend who was telling me how awesome this blog is and it go me thinking.  I should have a tournament of really awesome things since we are in the spirit of the World Cup tournament.  Except this tournament is a little different.  There will be no group stage and it will be fights to the death!</p>
<p>So here&#8217;s the basic concept.  I take 8 really awesome people, animals, fictional characters, etc and I randomly generate match ups for the first round.  I plug them into a bracket and then the fun starts.  Each day will be one match up and the winner will be chosen by your votes.  A poll will be placed and you vote.  Whoever gets the most votes wins that match.  So on and so forth until we have a champion.</p>
<p>And what does the champion win you may ask?  Why the winner will receive congrats from me and knowledge that they were voted by the people as the most awesome thing on the planet that it beat out 7 others for this title.</p>
<p>Now onto choosing the participants.  This wasn&#8217;t easy as whole but there were some pretty obvious choices.  You will see below the brackets for the first round.</p>
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<p>I have to say that despite that I used a random generator to get the match ups I probably would have picked these exact matches.  I guess the generator was scared of not pleasing me.  But let&#8217;s go ahead and do a quick run down of each participant.</p>
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<li><strong>Fedor Emelianenko</strong> &#8211; &#8220;The Last Emperor&#8221; is considered by many as one of the greatest MMA fighters in history of the sport.  The one lose of his record is questioned all the time as it was the result of an illegal strike and then a doctor stoppage.  The man shows no emotion in the ring/cage and just tears his opponents a part.</li>
<li><strong>Homer Simpson</strong> &#8211; The lovable, clumsy yellow dad in our life shows that awesome comes in all sizes.  But most importantly he has shown the ability to take loads of punishment and gas out his opponents on his way to victory.</li>
<li><strong>Ninja</strong> &#8211; Ninjas are a fascination with almost anyone.  <a href="http://www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm" target="_blank">Some maybe more than others</a>.  But there is no doubting they are awesome and dangerous.  They are elusive and quick.  Will this be the ninja&#8217;s game plan?</li>
<li><strong>Lou Ferrigno</strong> &#8211; He&#8217;s the newly appointed <a href="http://www.mikejurewicz.com/archives/2010/06/16/chuck-norris-has-lost-his-mind-we-need-a-replacement/" target="_self">sweet heart of the internet</a>, he will come into this as a heavy favorite.  He&#8217;s big, he&#8217;s strong, he&#8217;s the f&#8217;n Hulk!</li>
<li>Zombie &#8211; Zombies rules.  Plain and simple.  There is no debating it.  Because you can&#8217;t reason with a zombie.  While they may be slow they are persistent.  The also only can be defeated by removing the head or destroying the brain.</li>
<li><strong>Bear</strong> &#8211; It was tough to choose an animal but I had to choose one that can be on land, since all fights will be contested on land (sorry Atlantis).  And bears are pretty awesome.  Plus after I saw Semi-Pro I figured a bear would be great in a fight versus other competitors.</li>
<li><strong>Wolverine</strong> &#8211; Logan is bad ass personified on ink and paper.  The man can heal rapidly.  Has a skeleton made of some absurd mental that no one else knows about.  And he calls people bub.  It takes a sly cat to be able to pull that off.</li>
<li><strong>Sylar</strong> &#8211; Yes I know <a href="http://www.mikejurewicz.com/archives/2010/05/18/the-tv-chopping-block/" target="_self">I complained about how awful Heroes got</a> but that doesn&#8217;t take away from the fact that Sylar was scary in the first season.  It&#8217;s that alone that gets him in this tournament.  His array of different powers will be a force to be reckoned with.</li>
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<p>So there you have it, the eight competitors in the <em>Tournament of Really Awesome Stuff Fighting it Out to the Death</em>.  Stay tuned as the first match up will be up tomorrow.</p>
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