25/January/2010

A picture is worth a thousand words
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 10:53 pm | Filed under: Life in these United States    
I still suck
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 10:43 pm | Filed under: Darts    

But we played better as a team.  Lost 20-17 to Cake Mix, but we are showing improvement each week.  We also welcomed Lucky Corpuz as the newest Rubbie…

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Tennis anyone?
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 7:14 am | Filed under: Asst. Misc.    

So, apparently Venus Williams caused a stir at the Australian open this past weekend.

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Heh, one of those optical delusions I suppose.  Not sure what all the fuss is about.  I mean she didn’t make an ass of herself like Fiona Butler did a while back.

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I never had much talent for the game of tennis, but it is a great spectator sport.

Ahem.

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South Carolina: a peculiar institution
Posted by: John McCrarey @ 6:52 am | Filed under: Life in these United States    

Now, I think South Carolina is a great place, probably overall the nicest place I have lived.  Although not natives, my parents and children have made it their home.  Reader Kevin shares this link which serves to remind that historically SC has had some peculiar ideas on certain issues.  Now, I ain’t sayin’ this is just about race because white folks can be poor too, but the attitude expressed by the Lt Governor does make you wonder.

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has compared giving people government assistance to “feeding stray animals.”

“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. And so what you’ve got to do is you’ve got to curtail that type of behavior. They don’t know any better,” Bauer said.

Bauer later Friday told The Greenville News he wasn’t saying people on government assistance “were animals or anything else.”

“You see, for the first time in the history of this country, we’ve got more people voting for a living than we do working for a living.”

Later in his speech, Bauer said, “I can show you a bar graph where free and reduced lunch has the worst test scores in the state of South Carolina,” adding, “You show me the school that has the highest free and reduced lunch, and I’ll show you the worst test scores, folks. It’s there, period.

“So how do you fix it? Well you say, ‘Look, if you receive goods or services from the government, then you owe something back.’”

Bauer said there are no “repercussions” from accepting government assistance.

There are clearly repercussions for electing idiots to high office.  As all Americans are becoming painfully aware.

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