Sixers Sign Elton Brand

What does this do for the team? I'm hoping it isn't another Chris Webber type of trade. I was excited when I went to see Webber's home debut for the Sixers. I don't really blame Webber all of the way. Some of the blame goes to Iverson. I love the way AI plays but he had the shoot first mentality and you can't have that and have another superstar on your team.

Will Brand make the Sixers better? Only time will tell.

Where Can I get on the Next Bus?

If you haven't realized this already. I am a big Steelers fan. I guess the euphoria of last year's championship is finally wearing off because I haven't even been worried with their horrific start to the season. When they were 1-1, it was cool. I expected that. Then they were 1-2, shaky start but nothing to really worry about they had 13 weeks to start rolling right? Wrong. Since that point they have one just one more time and lost 4. That means that my team, the blue collar Steelers aren't playing blue collar ball. That means my passion for smothering defense and "smack you all around the head and neck" football hasn't had time to manifest itself this season. I mean my favorite college team, Syracuse, is playing like their former Big East league mates in North Philly the Temple Owls. When did Syracuse get so bad. I mean they had a QB that went #2 in the draft and after that it has been mostly downhill, isn't it usually the other way? Doesn't draft is the starting QB and he can't seem to link two wins together. The Temple Owls, a team I always hope plays good football but never does) are still the Temple Owls. My high school football team isn't even the best team in town...and to top all of that off, the Steelers are doing everything they did last season a little better but still losing. The only thing they aren't doing is protecting the football. This isn't Steelers football.

I think the reason they are turning the ball over so much is because everyone is out there trying to make BIG, HUGE, GIGANTIC plays because that is how they won the Super Bowl. Big Ben does this he only thing is that the big plays aren't what got them there. Smashing heads is what did it...I hope they find a good replacement for Cowher. I don't see the fire and he will retire to greener pastures like Bill Parcells did.


I guess that is why I have found the following past times to pre-occupy me during football season:


The Wire- Season 4

I admit, I stopped watching this story about urban decay during the second season. I only watched it on the ho-hum during the first season but it was gritty and really urban with some ground breaking characters. Who ever thought the most succesful stick up kid in B-More would be a homo.

Madden '07

If your real life team isn't winning but they have talent, you can learn to utilize this talent into a winning team. I play Madden online and I can turn the lowly Detroit Lions into a pretty good team with the talent they have in various areas. The days of Tecmo Bowl are over, you actually have to game plan a little bit more now, there are no sure fire bread and butter plays. Now you actually have to sit back and read the defense. With the amount of defensive and offensive audibles you can actually make every game feel new. Now if I could only find a way to stop tall TE's and WR's.

Hip Hop....

Nasty Nas said it was dead...And I have to agree. I'm only amused at which new over played "stereo-typical rapper" with a talent eclipsing ego will take the top position. Jay-Z and Nas headline Def Jam's always packed line up but I see Jay selling more than anyone because he controls the purse string in the promotion department. I don't think he will imitate his girl Beyonce and finance his own videos because he has no need to he can utilize OPM...

Due to recent inactivity this blog was posted very late...I love being right though. (Bill Cowher comment was on point)

The Storm Has Been Brewing

I'm sort of a pessimist. I just don't see things getting better and I really can't get past the idea of Hurricane Katrina and the treatment of the poor people in New Orleans. The real problem wasn't the hurricane, the problem is poverty. Although a hurricane can be a big problem poverty is an even larger problem stares these people in the face every day. We all know hurricane's have eyes in which the center area of the storm is the strongest. Well poverty has an entire body and it has to have millions of tentacles because it reaches all parts of the world.

We have a problem America. We have a problem that George Bush and the Republicans won't admit to. The problem is quite frightening because the middle class is disappearing and the growing ranks of the poor are drowning in the despair that comes from their poverty. The White House knows this because they seem to have change the way that the Department of Labor catalogs jobs. They will tell you that we have job growth but their idea of growth is sort of false. The are replacing the disappearing manufacturing jobs with the service jobs at the ever growing glut of national franchises. Let me think is a job at a Starbuck's anywhere near as financially rewarding as a job at GE used to be? I don't think it is possible.

Think about it, how can we as American's obtain our American dream when Wal-Mart's in my area have shut down entire small town shopping districts? The American dream is just a dream and poverty can be hell on earth. Have you ever wondered why heroin is the largest employer in Baltimore, MD or Camden, NJ? If our country is so worried about promoting capitalism worldwide why can't we stem the flow of something to our streets that is so devastating? How do you expect the local Iraqi people to become entrepreneurs when they don't even have electricity now? How change this storm before more are devastated? I think we have to vote for change and become more involved in politics.

Grillz Online

Do you like Grillz? If you do you don't have to rob that jewelry store as Nelly suggested. Now, all you have to do is go online.

You too can look like your favorite rappers. You can be Paul Wall, and emulate the disco ball look. You know, I listened to his rhymes and I think he needs to find something else to talk about. Comercial rappers used to be the guys like Young MC and Tone Loc, people that MTv put in rotation played but Jamal on the block wouldn't dare. Nowadays anyone can make a hit. Its like Dem Franchize Boyz, of course you didn't start the long white T craze...but if you rap about it first you get credit. Grillz are a sign of blacksploitation economics. The people that don't need and can't afford them are the ones that are buying them.

I wonder if anyone has a brainchild of selling brains online. But then again...I don't think today's consumer would want anything that cumbersome. And the people peddling definitely wouldn't want you to have anything of the sorts.

Justice, Revenge and Foul Shots

al-Qaida Leader Killed Today
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed today in Iraq. The man that was allegedly called the "Prince of the al-Qaida in Iraq" by no other than Osama. The United States military dropped two five hundred pound bombs on a residence in which he was holed up in. I'm wondering why the regal state of the US has turned into ruthless killers? Dropping two bombs that big has to kill an auwful lot of people. While watching a news broadcast on the killings I even heard it mentioned that a timely strike wasn't needed because they had a lot of time. Why not bring in some troops and attempt to bring him in alive. I thought the American form of justice was that all men deserved a fair trial. Well, he didn't get o. Is it an attempt to keep him quiet? If you look at the picture below you will see the 'westernmost of al-Zarqawi'. Wow that sounded like an album name.



If al-Qaida operatives all looked like this picture on the right no one would even be wary of them. Instead they look like the picture above when they appear in videos. Why not look clean cut? Is it to add to the war propaganda. In a published report one Sunni insurgent leader claimed on 11 December that "Zarqawi is an American, Israeli and Iranian agent who is trying to keep our country unstable so that the Sunnis will keep facing occupation." Isn't it funny how many people who are in leadership roles in the al-Qaida have CIA links? Wouldn't a Sunni led government be a thorn in the side of the US even more so than Saddam? So many questions but no answers.


Is the Hit On Zarqawi a Revenge Killing?
The father of West Chester native Nicholas Berg, one of two American civilians allegedly beheaded by Zarqawi, has weighed in on the killing of the al-Qaida leader. In an interview on ABC Michael Berg has said that today was a day of REVENGE, and if revenge is a motive of both sides of the war it will only deteriorate. "Zarqawi killed my son and he looked at him. Zarqawi felt my son's breath on his hand as he held the knife against his throat. Zarqawi had to look in his eyes when he did it. George Bush sits there glassy eyed in his office with pieces of paper and he condemns people to death. That to me is a real terrorist. George Bush terrorizes with air strikes, air strikes, indiscriminately killing people. To me that is a big terrorist." Berg is currently a Green Party canidate in Delaware.

NBA Finals
Why can't Shaq shoot foul shots yet? Doesn't he realize that when he is fouled free throws are free shots that can't be contested? Why does he act like there is a man in his face when he shoots them? If the Mavericks win the series the reason would be foul shots. I guess you can have the most athletic team and still lose. If you are reading this and you are 7'2'' 300+ lbs, practice your foul shots.

Food For Thought....

If you really want to answer...you can answer in the comments section....
1) Which is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on over twenty different countries since 1945?

2) Which is the only country to have used nuclear weapons?

3) Which country was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80 civilians in Beirut in 1985, in a botched assassination attempt,.

4) Which country's illegal bombing of Libya in 1986 was described by the UN Legal Committee as a "classic case" of terrorism?

5) Which country rejected the order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to terminate its "unlawful use of force" against Nicaragua in 1986, and then vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on all states to observe international law?

6) Which country was accused by a UN-sponsored truth commission of providing "direct and indirect support" for "acts of genocide" against the Mayan Indians in Guatemala during the 1980s?

7) Which country unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in December 2001?

8) Which country renounced the efforts to negotiate a verification process for the Biological Weapons Convention and brought an international conference on the matter to a halt in July 2001?

9) Which country prevented the United Nations from curbing the gun trade at a small arms conference in July 2001?

10) Aside from Somalia, which is the only other country in the world to have refused to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?

11) Which is the only Western country which allows the death penalty to be applied to children?

12) Which is the only G7 country to have refused to sign the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, forbidding the use of landmines?

13) Which is the only G7 country to have voted against the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998?

14) Which was the only other country to join with Israel in opposing a 1987 General Assembly resolution condemning international terrorism?

15) Which country refuses to fully pay its debts to the United Nations yet reserves its right to veto United Nations resolutions?The answer to each question is .... ? The United States Of America

SOS: I'm Calling for the Soul Patrol

I know its been a few weeks since the American Idol finals and I am very late in commenting on this situation. I didn't feel the need to comment right away. I really shouldn't really be shocked because America has shown her spots time and time again. Terrell Owens used this statement a statment relating to Jeff Garcia a while back. If it quacks like a duck, it is a duck. Well I guess Americans can't get past the color thing. I mean if you listen to the 12 Idol finalists sing, the best singers went home early. So if it acts like the racist past, the racist past is really never left.

I know people vote for what they like, but come on, if that were the case William Hung would have been the American Idol. Fantasia, Ruben, and Carey Underwood won out because of they were talented. I can't really say the same about Taylor Hicks. Can we say David Hasselhoff with out the looks? He can't sing especially well, and we all know he can't dance. How did he get the name soul patrol? I am offended. When Hicks sings you can't feel his soul. You can't feel the inklling of what the words feel like...Clay Aikens has faaar more Soul than Hicks. Can the real soul patrol please stand up? Will its members please help American find its soul quickly? Or have we have forgotten what soul really is.