Posted on Apr 30th, 2008
Sure, Tommy Lasorda is wearing a funny t-shirt, but Oscar De La Hoya has worn much funnier attire. Yes, I’m talking about this.
(Photo: The Sporting Blog)
From the New York Daily News:
Roger Clemens carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy McCready, a romance that began when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer performing in a karaoke bar and Clemens was a 28-year-old Red Sox ace and married father of two, several sources have told the Daily News.
Well that’s certainly creepy. It’s not like Roger Clemens would be the first Major League Baseball player to have an extramarital affair. Why did he have to focus his attentions on a child? A 28-year old screwing a 15-year old is definitely creepy unless the 28-year old is a female teacher and the 15-year old is a boy. In that case, it’s just Florida.
Mindy McCready is the country singer that got into trouble with the law for trying to use a fake OxyContin prescriptions. I think she also tried to choke a boyfriend to death. Mindy McCready may very well be a flawed and troubled person because Roger Clemens was throwing her the high hard one when she was just a kid.
I always thought Roger Clemens was a dick. I just never realized he was a sexual deviant.
Mindy McCready has since confirmed the story.
Former Saturday Night Live writer and Air America Radio host Al Franken to pay taxes he had already paid:
Senate candidate Al Franken, dogged by accusations that he failed to file tax returns in California, said Tuesday he will pay about $70,000 in back income taxes in 17 states dating to 2003.
Most of the income at issue was from speeches and other paid appearances by the comedian-turned candidate, who said he got bad advice from his accountant but takes responsibility for the errors.
The Minnesota Democrat told The Associated Press that he and his wife, Franni, “paid taxes on every cent of income we ever had.” He said that during the years in question, he followed the accountant’s advice and paid his entire income tax bill to the city and state where he lived at the time. He lived in New York City from 2003-05 and Minnesota in 2006.
He didn’t try to avoid paying taxes. He paid the taxes. He just paid them to the states he lived in at the time and not the states where he earned the actual income. To be honest, I’ve always been lead to believe that was how it worked. You didn’t pay taxes to the state or states you earned the income, but to the state where you lived.
I live in Maryland, but I work in Pennsylvania. Other then a stupid once-a-year tax I have to pay for the right to work in Pennsylvania, I don’t pay taxes in Pennsylvania. That once-a-year tax is not based on my actual income. It’s a flat fee that everyone working in Pennsylvania must pay. It’s based on the county you are working. The only state income tax I pay is to Maryland.
Al Franken and his taxes have been under much scrutiny lately because of the fact that he is running for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He’s running in his home state of Minnesota. I imagine that there is a lot of pressure running for elected office in Minnesota. It is after all the state that elected former professional wrestler and current 9-11 conspiracy crackpot Jesse Ventura as it’s governor.
How embarrassing it would be to lose an election in Minnesota.
Barack Obama, March 18
Barack Obama, April 29
What I find to be the most interesting thing about all this is that Paster Jeremiah Wright didn’t say anything yesterday at the National Press Club that he hasn’t said before. Everything he said yesterday was already up on YouTube.
At least Paster Wright is consistent. Barack Obama, not so much.
So why would Obama all of a sudden do a reverse on Wright and throw him under the bus? My guess is with yesterday’s repeat performance, it became all but impossible to explain away what Wright has been saying. I can’t count how many times I’ve heard it explained as only being a few sound bites plucked out of context. With yesterday’s appearance at the National Press Club, Obama couldn’t make it all go away with another speech.
What he said today he should have said last month in Philadelphia.
Things aren’t looking so hot for Barack Obama. A new poll just released by the AP shows that Hillary Clinton would do much better then Obama against McCain:
Hillary Rodham Clinton now leads John McCain by 9 points in a head-to-head presidential matchup, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll that bolsters her argument that she is more electable than Democratic rival Barack Obama.
Obama and Republican McCain are running about even.
I think Obama’s poll numbers will only get worse. It doesn’t appear that Obama’s bigoted spiritual adviser is going to shut up any time soon. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright spoke at the National Press Club this morning and he had a lot to say. From Eric Pianin at the Washington Post:
Wright praised Louis Farrakhan, defended the view that Zionism is racism, accused the United States of terrorism, repeated his view that the government created the AIDS virus to cause the genocide of racial minorities, stood by other past remarks (”God damn America”) and held himself out as a spokesman for the black church in America.
Why won’t Wright just shut up? Why can’t the man just stay quiet till after November? Will his ego not allow it?
The NFL held the first two rounds of it’s draft Saturday and the Oakland Raiders chose with the fourth overall pick Arkansas star running back Darren McFadden.
Dumb, dumb, dumb, and dumb.
I think this was a stupid move not just because running backs in the first round usually don’t pan out, but because this guy is just a huge messy “off the field trouble” waiting to happen.
This is the guy you let someone else draft on the first day.
It’s just not worth taking a chance. Mini Muhammad, his mother is a recovering crack addict. He has 11 brothers and sisters. One gang banging brother is a Crip, another is a Blood. He missed Arkansas’ 2006 season opener against the USC Trojans with a broken toe he suffered in a bar fight. Who brakes their toe in a bar fight? He was also involved in another bar fight earlier this year. This time it was at a piano bar. What where they fighting over? If Barry Manilow truly wrote the songs that makes the young girls girl? Then there’s the paternity suite being leveled against him by one Little Rock woman along with the statement from McFadden that he has two other children on the way.
For those keep score at home, that’s two bar fights and three baby mamas.
This is not the NFL from 10 years ago. Character is now important. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell isn’t screwing around when it comes to players committing infractions off the field. What are the chances he’s going to get into another piano bar fight? He’s about to get paid an awful lot of money and the likelihood that he’s going to screw up seem too high to me.
Alan Greenspan’s wife lied again today on Meet The Press. She said this towards the end of the program:
And I do think–let me just say something from being on the ground in Pennsylvania and in Ohio–I think racism is a real factor here. I don’t think it’s being polled correctly because I don’t think it can be polled correctly. I think it is what you see in some of his failure to connect with a particular sector of the electorate. And I’m not sure how you get your arms around it, but I think it is a real issue that there is a resistance to him on some level in the electorate, and you hear these things from voters when you talk to them. “Oh, I heard that he’s not really a Christian.” “Oh, well, he didn’t, you know, put his hand over his heart.” All this willingness to believe totally erroneous things about Barack Obama, which begins to congeal, and I think it’s a problem.
It’s not racist and it’s not erroneous to think that Barack Obama didn’t put his hand over his heart. This photo was in Time magazine. It was taken in Iowa at a steak fry hosted by Tom Harkin during the National Anthem.
Barack Obama — he’s the guy on the left — can be clearly seen with his hand not over his heart.
Maybe its not really important. Maybe he just doesn’t know basic etiquette. I know he’s never been in the military, but maybe he’s never been to a ball game either.
I don’t know why I watch Meet The Press. I actually got duce chills last week when Tim Russert held up an Alexander Ovechkin jersey and said, “GO CAPS”. Why subject myself to that?
Look many of the cool pictures I find online, I was looking for something else when I stumbled upon this photo of an A-10 Thunderbolt II. I like this pic for two reasons - it shows the aircraft dropping a anti-heat seeking missile flare from an ALE-40 chaff and flare system, and the Westinghouse ALQ-119 ECM pod hanging on the port wing. Though I never got to work on the A-10, I worked with the ALE-40 and the ALQ-119.
The A-10 is a remarkable aircraft. It was one of the few combat planes ever designed with ease of maintenance incorporated right in the design. Everything is easy to get to and easy to remove and replace.
I took the original large image and cropped it down to 1680 x 1050 so I could use it as a desktop background. Though I’m a tree hugging liberal, I love combat aircraft.
Everyone knows that Barack Obama is a transformational figure. Everyone knows that Barack Obama has an overwhelming money advantage. Everyone knows that Barack Obama has the admiration and support of the Democratic establishment. Everyone knows that Barack Obama is Powered by Hope™.
With all these advantages, why can’t Barack Obama win?
Because Hillary Clinton wont let him. It’s all Hillary’s fault. Hillary Clinton has been very mean to Barack Obama and she continues to be very mean. Right now at this very moment, Hillary Clinton is in Indiana asking Democratic voters to vote for her on May 6. What she conveniently fails to mention to these Indiana Democrats is that if they do what she asks, they wont be allowed to vote for Barack Obama on May 6.
Election laws only allow voters to vote for one of the presidential candidates on May 6.
She’s pulled this dirty trick before. It’s right out of the Clinton dirty play book. It’s not fair and it’s mean.
Why can’t Hillary Clinton be more like Alan Keyes? When Barack Obama ran for the Senate in 2004, Republican Allan Keyes ran against him. Keyes ran a much more subdued campaign against Obama. He didn’t make things so difficult for Obama.
He wasn’t tough on Obama like Hillary has been.
If Hillary would simply drop out and let Obama win, he could concentrate on running against John McCain. John McCain is a Republican like Allan Keyes. Because of this, we know he won’t be mean to Barack Obama like Hillary Clinton has been. He will be more like Allan Keyes. With Hillary finally out of the picture, Obama wont have to answer any more tough questions about his positions or his judgment. The scrutiny by the national mainstream news media will finally stop.
Let the Obama win.
You’d think that after their performances last year, either Ellie May Manning or perhaps Adrian Peterson would grace the cover of Madden 09. No, that would actually make sense. That would also be forgetting the amount of man-love John Madden has for recovering Vicodin addict and former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre.
Who cares if Favre already retired from the NFL?
It’s not like people spend a lot of time staring at the game’s cover. There’s also websites one can go to where you can make your own covers. All you have to do is upload your own photo and the website spits out a custom cover.
Frankly, I’m surprised John Madden is even still connected to this video game franchise. I used to play Madden Football back in 1991 on the Tandy. This is back when normal people didn’t own computers. Good times!
It’s not like he is the one actually writing the code for the game. There is just something funny about an 126-year old man being the front man to a video game. I’m not saying John Madden is old (yes I am), but when he first began playing football, instead of a ball, they used a severed human head.
Personally, I’m waiting for them to release Andy Rooney Baseball. Maybe Rooney’s not old enough yet to be the pitchman for a video sports game.
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