tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12694967276675930472011-12-01T07:38:05.612-05:00Ramblings of a somewhat fractured mindBobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363909020977822734noreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1269496727667593047.post-27314056350709576132011-10-19T01:07:00.002-04:002011-10-19T01:22:05.590-04:002011-10-19T01:22:05.590-04:00

Last year I was extremely critical of LeBron James. I disagreed (understatement!) with the way he handled his move from Cleveland to Miami. I thought then, and I think now, that it was in bad taste, but I do understand (and defend the fact that) he was well within his rights to do so, I just wish he had picked a better way to do it. While I disagreed with him that did not give me the right to

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Insomnia lead me to take this strange belief quiz (use adblock to be safe) since I don't really have anything else to do, I got this:1. Liberal Quakers (100%), 2. Unitarian Universalism (96%), 3. Mahayana Buddhism (85%), 4. Neo-Pagan (81%), 5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (80%), 6. New Age (78%), 7. Theravada Buddhism (75%), 8. Taoism (72%), 9. Orthodox Quaker (72%), 10. Secular

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I really didn't want to end my long blogless streak with a post about professional eating. Actually I didn't care what I ended it with, I just don't like the idea behind professional eating, I think it's vulgar, then again I am more or less a priss. But oh well.I spent most of Independence Day in bed with a headache, this meant I spent a lot of time channel surfing. One of the recent television

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Jake Delhomme couldn't contain himself as he broke down during his press conference today. The most accomplished quarterback in Carolina Panthers history found himself in tears and didn't bother fighting back. That's the way he's always been, and the reason he has earned such a passionate fan base in the Carolinas.It's easy to assume Carolina fans are happy about the decision if you aren't a

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Seriously.I have depression and I bitch about it, a lot. Both because it sucks and the fact that my current situation only serves to exacerbate it most of the time. Don't worry, this isn't another blog about that. Though for whatever reason those posts play well in Beverly Hills according to my analytics account.But, I'm alive. I have ground under my feet and clean water to drink. It's not always

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Yes, I'm expanding on a blog post she made. No, I'm not copying it.I nearly got killed today. Seriously.This isn't like Jane's post where a "techie", or a "Gen-Y", or a "Millennial" was texting her BFF Jill. No, there's a term for this person. This person is a wanker. Full stop.I don't care what's on television, I don't care who's at the club, I don't care who you have a date with or if you have

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So, I've never sewn anything before. In fact, October 31st was the first time I've ever threaded a needle so I went into this project without a clue as to what I was doing. After watching a few tutorials on how to prepare my sewing area, which is basically my computer desk, I set to work on sewing a plush Hobbes doll.Jane is a big fan of Calvin & Hobbes, and she's been quiet good to me through

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...I need a little Detroit in my soul.You know what? I love Detroit. Detroit is one of my favorite cities, I love several things about it. I love it's backbone, I love it's faded excellence, and I love the role it played in building this country. Detroit is a real city, a city with a soul and although all the naked eye can see of Detroit is the torn, battered skin of a wounded city, there's much

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Hough High School isn't going to work because someone is going to pronouce it "Ho High", and even then "Huff High" has drug connotations so it simply shouldn't be the name of the new High School in Northern Mecklenburg County, according to folks from Northern Mecklenburg County who just so happen to have the mental capacity of the average seven-year-old.Yes, this is actually being debated at

Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363909020977822734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1269496727667593047.post-31655482878177416492009-11-16T23:16:00.003-05:002009-11-16T23:43:52.740-05:002009-11-16T23:43:52.740-05:00

Wow. $538,000 for the Pontiac Silverdome, that's daylight robbery. Surely the very land it sits on -- about 130 acres -- is worth more than $538,000. But that's what it sold for, less than 1% of what it was constructed for between 1973 and 1975.Most Americans know the Silverdome as the former home of the NFL's hapless Detroit Lions, nearly everyone turned on their television every Thanksgiving

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Today Google announced that it has purchased VOIP provider Gizmo5, which is similar to Skype except it's open-source. This could potentially position Google to offer phone service for next-to-nothing, and this should probably scare the likes of AT&T.As everyone knows, as the internet goes, Google is a juggernaut and it can pretty much take whatever it wants. This is worrying to some people, but

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Chances are, you don't know much about Tokyo Verdy FC, if you know anything about them.Verdy was once Japan's foremost soccer club, a giant in a sea of minnows. Originally known as Yomiuri FC -- owned by the same company that owns baseball's wildly successful Yomiuri Giants, thirty-times Champions of the Central League -- Verdy was founded in 1969 -- thus it's old name: Tokyo Verdy 1969 -- and

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Shush.Lou Pritchett was at Procter and Gamble (good folks) for awhile, he recently wrote a letter about how scary and mysterious Barack Obama is. It's a pretty crappy letter, about the same quality as those chain e-mails that people send saying we have to press 1 to hear the phone message in English. Anyway, here it is in all it's "glory":(Link to Snopes)AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMADear

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I should be in bed, I want to be in bed, but I'm too bitchy at the moment.Meghan McCain isn't a slut, she just isn't. Do I know the girl personally? No. I'd certainly like to, but I don't. The American -- and it usually is only our media for this type of thing, we have the sensitivity of Puritans with the attention-span of mall-rats -- media had a hissy-fit over a picture Meghan posted on her

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No, this isn't "Which one of these things doesn't belong", and I'm not Grover. Though we have the same wrist circumference.We aren't posting USL stuff on majorleaguesoccertalk.com much anymore because some people get pissy when we do. I don't know why, they just do. The very mention of the USL is more controversial to some MLS fans than the bank bailout and the abortion issue combined, and almost

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"I have here seen the power and glory of a Supreme being: the majesty of His handy-work is in that 'Testimony of the Rocks.' That mute appeal-pointing to El Capitan-illustrates it, with more convincing eloquence than can the most powerful arguments of surpliced priests." - Lafayette BunnellI'm not sure if it's more indicative of the quality of programming the PBS is able to produce, or

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It's not because Charlotte is too small, it's big enough. It's also has the transport links and a plethora of quality training venues. The stadium itself fits all the standards required. It's the culture of the stadium.It's stuff like this.We must have the only stadium in the world where a fan can get kicked out for cheering, amazing. As if it's not bad enough that you have to sell the soul of

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A lot, apparently.For some reason Chris Brown's worthless ass has been in the news again today, so much so that you would indeed believe that the last metroid is in captivity, and yes, the galaxy is very much at peace.But it isn't.Chris Brown's apology, like Michael Vick's before it, is just words. Until I see Chris Brown helping out battered women of his own volition and on his own dime, I won't

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So, Amity Gardens is getting a Wal-Mart supercenter. Good for Amity Gardens, but it's not exactly "breathing new life" into East Charlotte, is it?There's already a Wal-Mart less than two miles northeast of Amity Gardens at Eastway Crossing, an equally - if not more - economically depressed area of East Charlotte. That Wal-Mart is likely to become another empty big box, something which has become

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The greatest athlete of this generation, in any sport, by far. He's unlikely anything I've ever seen.I know people will throw out Tiger Woods and all of his major titles, and there is no doubting that Tiger is out of this world and by far the best in this country, but Bolt simply isn't human. He's the best this world has to offer, maybe ever. I know it's impossible to compare him to athletes from

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Just because I don't like Michael Vick doesn't make me a cold hearted, unforgiving racist. It doesn't mean I value the life of an animal above that of a human being (I have no idea where this peach of an argument came from). It means I don't like Michael Vick because he is a Class-A wanker.Yeah, yeah. "He's done his time and he deserves a second chance", he already had a second chance, and a

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Recently the drought that affected Charlotte, North Carolina and much of the Southeast has gotten a lot less severe than it was in 2006 and 2007 when Mecklenburg County (and counties surrounding it) enacted mandatory water restrictions on all it's residents that use the city-county water supply.We were told by Mayor Pat McCrory that "brown yards are beautiful too" and many did their civic duty

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NASCAR used to, and still does to a small degree, have a mantra that went "Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday". They said this because the cars they raced on the NASCAR circuit were actually cars that you common people could afford to buy at the car dealership on Monday. But that all changed when NASCAR race cars became a thin sheet of metal on a roll cage, it looked like the car you could buy, but it

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Yes, your mess. We didn't make it, you never elect us, you never even pay attention to us. You crapped on the floor, and now you're bickering about the best way to fix it. Not only are you fighting each other, you're fighting yourselves! Normal Democrats are mad at "Blue Dog" Democrats, Ohio Republicans are mad at Southern Republicans. You aren't getting anything done, the crap is still on the

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Of course, I'm referring to the Republican Party of the United States and it's hilarious infighting. Of course, if they keep it up, they could meet a similar fate to the Toon!Recently Barack Obama's poll numbers have taken a hit and while some Republicans have been quick to point this out, the party itself has been unable to capitalize on them, at all. In fact, their numbers managed to take a hit

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