Dwight Arrington Myers "Heavy D": 1967 - 2011

James C. Collier

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Joe Frazier: 1944 - 2011

It was tough fighting in the days of Ali, but Smokin' Joe made it a real show. RIP.

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Penn State's Coach Paterno Hides Poor Ethics Behind Legal Shield

Joe Paterno reported one of his assistant coach's - Jerry Sandusky - sexual misconduct to his Penn State superiors and when they did nothing, he did nothing, thus allowing the abuser to continue for years. No termination. No police. No protect children. No nothing. Let's see, hmmmm...how to erase a storied career through misplaced morals and ethics, by Joe Paterno. All Joe had to do was empathize as a father. What was more important? Story here.

James C. Collier

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Andy Rooney: 1919 - 2011

"Rooney always denied that he was a racist. In the 1940s, he was arrested after sitting in the back of a segregated bus in protest.[28] Also, in 2008, when Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, Rooney applauded the fact that "the citizens of this country, 80 percent of whom are white, freely chose to elect a black man as their leader simply because they thought he was the best choice." He said that makes him proud, and that it proves that the country has "come a long way — a good way."" Wikipedia

I liked Andy Rooney, he saw what he saw, and said so, pleasant or not. I never forgot that he was an old fart, so I listened to him the same way I learned to listened to my own father, and every other man of his generation.

James C. Collier

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Occupy Oakland Will Win The Blame Game But Lose The War

In light of their sheer numbers and the recent pass given to the Wall Street mortgage-backed securities scammers like Goldman Sachs (by Obama), the Occupiers and their supporters will undoubtedly win the blame game now going on across the country – that is, if they can stay focused through the holiday buying season – which ain't so easy.

However, I happen to think there is easily enough blame to go around on all sides. Conservatives/rich people say the poor folks don’t work hard enough or smart enough, and they are right. The first thing poor folks do with a dollar is spend it like they know where to immediately get five more. For my adult years I have been watching more and more poor folks buy Mercedes-Benz's, BMW's, big trucks, campers, boats, and the like when they should have been putting it to better use, like educating their kids how not to be knuckleheads and looking for a second job to backstop the first.

Rich folks, for their part, turned their attention from manufacturing useful stuff to export, to figuring out to better fleece dumb poor folks by selling them imported crap they do not need, on credit they should not have. The government and politicians have continually lowered the bar on what it allows rich folks to get away with, in pursuit of gullible pocketbooks. To be serious, the rich folks, who should know better, have pooped in their own back yard and the smell has come back on them. The US has the most over-housed, accessorized, fancy-car driving, recreational-vehicle owning, poorly-educated, ill-mannered population on the planet – courtesy of the trend-setting, conspicuous consumption of the rich.

While the Occupiers may win the argument, the war is already over. The rich do not have enough ill-gotten money stashed away, even if they gave it up, to make up for all the super-sized wants and demanded entitlements of poor folks and their unabashed, non-apologizing ignorance of what drives economic and social advancement.

Lastly, who the hell is running Oakland now that Dellums is officially in the pasture? Thank goodness the city does not own any tanks!

James C. Collier

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One Trillion Education Bubble Gets No Help From Obama/Boehner

Washington political leaders on both sides of the isle are hard at work flushing this country down the toilet! In 2006, John Boehner(R), current House Speaker, wrote legislation that deregulated on-line education, ballooning the education debt and defaults from these 'shady', for-profit, institutions that lure the desperate and gullible (here). This year President Obama did a major 180 degree 'cave' on his campaign promise to clean-up this gross misuse of government-guaranteed loans (here). So, I guess we know what these dudes talk about while pretending to play golf. "Whose turn is it to screw the voters/taxpayers?"

The backdrop to these D.C. dealings is the one trillion, that's TRILLION!, in accumulated student debt that the US is closing in on, including a record $100 billion this year alone. Like the housing bubble, it is only a matter of time before the education bubble explodes. The federal government will ultimately curtail these bad government-backed loans made to people pursuing worthless degrees, at over-priced for-profit AND traditional universities and colleges. When this happens, in the not too distant future, young people will truly come to know what some of us already know, they have been screwed by their elders. There is no longer the pot-of-gold at the end of the education rainbow - just inescapable debt shackles and limited job opportunities.

So children, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you should beware (or be aware)! You are not in Kansas anymore (unless of course you actually live in Kansas, then technically you are, but not really, because Dorothy and Toto are dead - got it?).

James C. Collier

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More Black-on-Black Violence At McDonald's

WARNING: EXTREME VIOLENCE



Some people (previous post here) accuse me of encouraging racism by posting black people behaving badly (to state it mildly). To the contrary, I think it should be mandatory that everyone see this behavior, so we can stop pretending that this country's faults arise from 'others'.

The McDonald's cashier clearly went beyond simply defending himself, and he will suffer for this. On the other hand these two females stepped over a line that justified the initial response (IMHO). No telling what kind of life-threatening beating they were prepared to give this working black man. This is the risk you take when you assault someone - they may have a metal rod handy and experience in using it.

FTR, I assume that anytime I pass a fifty (rarely), that it will be scrutinized in all high/low tech's of manner, in order to validate it's authenticity - including the risk that it may be both authentic and rejected.

James C. Collier

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