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MAN'S OPINION
The Olympics
I love the Olympics. Even when the US doesn't win every medal,
I still love them. China truly did put on a great show, and the
news coverage was good as well. Too bad all the news organizations
rushed home immediately after the games ended instead of hanging
around to see some real world class athletes: The Paralympians.
Yes, I do put them above "the real" olympians (no disrespect)
because it's one thing to be born with natural gifts of speed,
strength or rhythm that allow you to make yourself run faster,
jump higher, move quicker or compete more consistently than your
competitors, but it is another thing to be born with (or have
thrust upon you as a result of a health problem or accident) less
limbs or less use of those you have, to be constantly reminded
that a majority of the population you compete with daily have
more physical abilities and are probably looked on more favorably
by society because they are "normal", to realize that
for the most part our society is set up for non-handicapped people,
yet still push yourself to be the best athlete that you can be.
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Politics
The problem with politics is the same as it's been for 200+ years:
Americans are politically stupid. A politically stupid American
is someone who is willing to make a decision on who they want
to be President of the United States based on a stupid reasons.
For example, ask someone who they are voting for and why. If they
give any of the following responses, they be stupid:
- because he/she is black/white/mexican/asian, etc.
- because he/she is a man/woman
- because he/she is young/old
- because he/she is "a breath of fresh air"
- because he/she is pro-life/choice
- because he/she was a military veteran
- because he/she went to an Ivy League School
- because I've always voted Republican/Democrat/Independent just
like my daddy/mother/husband/wife/gardner, etc.
- because he/she is/is not from Washington
- because my candidate lost and I want to express my pain
If any of these are your reason for picking your candidate, the
problem isn't in Washington, it's in your mirror.
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This Financial Mess
Here's a question. Given the recent losses on Wall Street, is
the United States still the world's financial center? How do you
know? Will it be 10 years from now that we realize more deals
have been made in an as yet unnamed other foreign country than
in the US?
There will be books written for years about how the US got itself
onto the Titanic that our financial system has become. Right now
everyone is blaming the ubiquitous and generic "Greedy Wall
Street Executive" for all our problems, but the rest of us
are at least as responsible if not more than the guys and gals
we're hoping to see do "the perp walk". Yes, they were
gambling on sub prime mortgages and other securities that it turned
out were worth a whole lot less than the paper they were written
on, but they weren't the people agreeing to the underlying financial
arrangements. While their flaw may have been trading the securities
like currency when they obviously had no idea what the real value
was, it was millions of others just like you and me who signed
up for those deals in the first place. In layman's terms, of you
have 5 piles of excrement, and you take a sample from each, and
mix it together, you will still have excrement. I guess some called
this adding value.
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Hollywood Power
Ebony Magazine's cover story is on Tyler Perry, whom
it calls "The Most Powerful Man Not in Hollywood".
I'm not going to dispute this label because I don't know what
their criteria is. But I know that I am still waiting to see a
movie about Hannibal (in 1960 Victor Mature played Hannibal -
gee, thought Hannibal was black. Victor Mature sure isn't black),
or Harriet Tubman, or Thurgood Marshall, or Frederick Douglas,
or Crispus Atticks. With Oprah's pockets and Magic's Theaters
what could possibly be the barrier? Back in the day Spike Lee
was hailed as a powerful director in Hollywood, yet when making
his latest film Miracle At St Anna, ""..Lee
says it was difficult to secure funding for an epic war movie
without any big name stars and a cast of mostly black actors."
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