It's like We know you're going on a road trip. Let's give you something nice as a sendoff. #88 and #19 got 8 year extensions from the Blackhawks @ $10.5 million each. Lot of money, boys, but for my money, you're both worth it.
As Lindsey Barney prepares to give birth and husband Darwin takes a family leave from the Cubs, to do the good daddy thing, it is Arismendy Alcantara's moment to come up to the show for a couple of games. Good luck to him. Let's hope Barney doesn't become Wally Pipp. There are lots of ML ballclubs who could use his defense. He doesn't have to hit much.
Tribes vs Tribes. No, it isn't an intramural game between Washington and Cleveland. Just this year's death battle between Israel and one of its neighbors. But this is what has occurred in this part of the world for thousands of years. Neither side will stop so I think mediation, cease fires or any outside efforts to quell this will fail. Neither side has rarely "missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity." It's beyond sad.
Rahm Emanuel is sad too. This is the other side of the gun debate. People are calling for the National Guard to come in and go house to house to seize guns of gang members. If it's guns in downtrodden neighborhoods, call in the Natiuonal Guard. If White bozos in purple and red states continue to pass open carry gun laws in their states- ah what the fuck! Why bring that up?For the foreseeable future that will be a hard thing to change
But change is coming. The utter lack of equality between the races is on it's latter stages. This is going to be a nation of color, sooner than we think. I think I'm at the perfect age. I won't have to see this play out in the future. It will be very grim.
Time to pack the car and head south, to my adopted state of madness, North Carolina.It will be good to get away. And I did promise a change of attitude. Root for me to be successful in doing so.
80 or so days to 2014-15 hockey season.
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Time off-AMEN
We're headed for North Carolina for a few days of much needed rest and a change of scenery- and I need a change of attitude. I will be leaving behind a string of recent heartache and frustration- mainly stemming from a very bad stretch of business the past few months. Yes I still have a day job and most of the time it goes well. But lately, the assault of meanness has trumped the good in people and no matter how much you prepare for something negative you feel coming, when it hits, it still hurts. I will write about that soon. We'll be discussing small man's disease and the disgusting ways people use their own inadequacies to "get even".
Since the blockbuster trade made by the Cubs over the weekend, they have, not surprisingly been a little fragile, losing 3 in a row and wiping out my recent enthusiasm. But I'm a fan and I will hang in there.
I have Twitter followers and there are many that I also follow. One in particular seems to be in a state of terrible unease. I wish I knew this person better than to exchange things in 140 characters or less. But I don't and maybe that's a good thing. They seem a little unhinged right now and I wish that person well. But I don't think I can actually do anything to help. At least not presently.
Our country remains divided and polarized. The very idea of people feeling they need to sling an assault rifle over their shoulder as they buy a hamburger at Wendy's is almost beyond comprehension. Here's just a tiny smattering.
1. Fixing Elections
2.Not meeting with another on the tarmac as he lands in their state.
3. Not meeting with shooting victims' families, after he has vetoed a bill that tries to minimize the damage done by multi round magazines on assault rifles.
4. The vilification of the wife of a politician because she champions better nutrition for children.
5. A Supreme Court that thinks they can make a narrow ruling in a landmark case and that their decision will not have endless ramifications down the road.
You get the idea.
I promise to use the time off to reflect on what I have to be thankful for. I will mourn for those who are about to die- both people I know who are in hospice and in the very last stages of life, and those I will never meet who trek a thousand miles to try to enter this country for a better life and are met by angry people within our country screaming. Go home. We don't want you.
I'm not the only one who needs an attitude change.
Today's humstle is Bob Dylan's Ballad Of A Thin Man.
"something is happening but you don't know what it is do you Mr Jones?
Sorry to be a little morose. Sometimes it all gets to be a little much and one cannot just flip a switch.
Maybe I'll post one from the road.
See you soon
Since the blockbuster trade made by the Cubs over the weekend, they have, not surprisingly been a little fragile, losing 3 in a row and wiping out my recent enthusiasm. But I'm a fan and I will hang in there.
I have Twitter followers and there are many that I also follow. One in particular seems to be in a state of terrible unease. I wish I knew this person better than to exchange things in 140 characters or less. But I don't and maybe that's a good thing. They seem a little unhinged right now and I wish that person well. But I don't think I can actually do anything to help. At least not presently.
Our country remains divided and polarized. The very idea of people feeling they need to sling an assault rifle over their shoulder as they buy a hamburger at Wendy's is almost beyond comprehension. Here's just a tiny smattering.
1. Fixing Elections
2.Not meeting with another on the tarmac as he lands in their state.
3. Not meeting with shooting victims' families, after he has vetoed a bill that tries to minimize the damage done by multi round magazines on assault rifles.
4. The vilification of the wife of a politician because she champions better nutrition for children.
5. A Supreme Court that thinks they can make a narrow ruling in a landmark case and that their decision will not have endless ramifications down the road.
You get the idea.
I promise to use the time off to reflect on what I have to be thankful for. I will mourn for those who are about to die- both people I know who are in hospice and in the very last stages of life, and those I will never meet who trek a thousand miles to try to enter this country for a better life and are met by angry people within our country screaming. Go home. We don't want you.
I'm not the only one who needs an attitude change.
Today's humstle is Bob Dylan's Ballad Of A Thin Man.
"something is happening but you don't know what it is do you Mr Jones?
Sorry to be a little morose. Sometimes it all gets to be a little much and one cannot just flip a switch.
Maybe I'll post one from the road.
See you soon
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