Insanity is more like it...
This is just a quick warning to those of you that still read this that the next couple blogs will most likely be dedicated to college basketball. During the regular College Basketball season, I am not much more than a casual observer. If a Pitt game is nationally televised, I'll watch as much of it as I can. I'll check the scores every day and the rankings every week. But then, as we reach March, I get an inflicted with a month long malady known as March Madness.
Pitt actually has a real solid team this year, so I might get a slightly worse case than in the past.
Although, back in college, I’d get it so bad that, the first Thursday and Friday of the tournament, I’d find myself laid up in bed missing some classes, stuck watching TV.
Like I said, this is a warning more than anything. Right now, we’re sort of getting the appetizers with the individual conferences having their Championship Tournaments. Pitt has reached the Semifinal of the Big East Tournament. I’m so excited at the prospect of them winning the Big East, I’m not sure what to say. The month of March in college basketball is a genuinely unique and special time of year for sports. With so many dynamics, so many teams involved, so many communities following the proceedings, so many implications with each and every game, I think it’s fair to say there isn’t anything else in sports like this past week and next week. Unfortunately, the best word I can come up with right now is NEAT!
On a side note, the ports deal fell through when the Dubai based company pulled out and said they’d sell the US assets off. Obviously, this saves the President a whole lot of embarrassment as it was becoming more and more likely that there would be legislation passed to block the deal. My feelings on the whole thing are mixed. First, I’d love to know what actually happened behind the scenes. The rubber stamp of the deal in the first place was yet another glaring example of cronyism in this pathetically inept White House. It was grossly negligent and short sighted. But the fact remains that, given a fair shake and handled properly, the deal probably would have been OK’ed. There’s little reason to think that an Arab company, even one owned by an Arab country, wouldn’t be fully capable of managing our ports. They’re not going to let terrorist who just so happened to be from their country sneak in to blow shit up. Make no mistake, Arabs love them some money. And the Arabs in control and with all the money love keeping their money to themselves and making more of it. It definitely serves their interests to have a populace which is uneducated and mad at everybody except for the people actually keeping them uneducated. As a direct result, they passively support their people blowin’ shit up, and quite possible NEED their people to be blowin’ shit up to keep the system propagating itself. However, they don’t want their people blowing THEIR shit up. And they sure don’t want anything they own or actively manage being directly implicated in the blowin’ up of shit anywhere. Therefore, you might actually say that an Arab run port in the US would less likely be entry site of shit used for blowin’ shit up. Don’t get me wrong: some of that money they’re making probably was donated to someone who then donated it to someone who made the shit for blowin’ shit up. But that wasn’t the argument against the deal. The fact is: rejecting the deal is definitely racist. It based entirely on the Fear which this administration has built its reputation on and was the sole reason for its re-election. And I’m against that. On the other hand, anything that makes the Village Idiot look like a bigger idiot, I’m in favor of. So I’m torn. I was happy to see the Idiot twist in the wind but I was sad to see Democrats use the Idiot’s own tactics in criticizing the deal.
And there’s nothing I can do to feel really good or really bad about the whole thing, so I guess I’m just glad it’s over.
Pitt actually has a real solid team this year, so I might get a slightly worse case than in the past.
Although, back in college, I’d get it so bad that, the first Thursday and Friday of the tournament, I’d find myself laid up in bed missing some classes, stuck watching TV.
Like I said, this is a warning more than anything. Right now, we’re sort of getting the appetizers with the individual conferences having their Championship Tournaments. Pitt has reached the Semifinal of the Big East Tournament. I’m so excited at the prospect of them winning the Big East, I’m not sure what to say. The month of March in college basketball is a genuinely unique and special time of year for sports. With so many dynamics, so many teams involved, so many communities following the proceedings, so many implications with each and every game, I think it’s fair to say there isn’t anything else in sports like this past week and next week. Unfortunately, the best word I can come up with right now is NEAT!
On a side note, the ports deal fell through when the Dubai based company pulled out and said they’d sell the US assets off. Obviously, this saves the President a whole lot of embarrassment as it was becoming more and more likely that there would be legislation passed to block the deal. My feelings on the whole thing are mixed. First, I’d love to know what actually happened behind the scenes. The rubber stamp of the deal in the first place was yet another glaring example of cronyism in this pathetically inept White House. It was grossly negligent and short sighted. But the fact remains that, given a fair shake and handled properly, the deal probably would have been OK’ed. There’s little reason to think that an Arab company, even one owned by an Arab country, wouldn’t be fully capable of managing our ports. They’re not going to let terrorist who just so happened to be from their country sneak in to blow shit up. Make no mistake, Arabs love them some money. And the Arabs in control and with all the money love keeping their money to themselves and making more of it. It definitely serves their interests to have a populace which is uneducated and mad at everybody except for the people actually keeping them uneducated. As a direct result, they passively support their people blowin’ shit up, and quite possible NEED their people to be blowin’ shit up to keep the system propagating itself. However, they don’t want their people blowing THEIR shit up. And they sure don’t want anything they own or actively manage being directly implicated in the blowin’ up of shit anywhere. Therefore, you might actually say that an Arab run port in the US would less likely be entry site of shit used for blowin’ shit up. Don’t get me wrong: some of that money they’re making probably was donated to someone who then donated it to someone who made the shit for blowin’ shit up. But that wasn’t the argument against the deal. The fact is: rejecting the deal is definitely racist. It based entirely on the Fear which this administration has built its reputation on and was the sole reason for its re-election. And I’m against that. On the other hand, anything that makes the Village Idiot look like a bigger idiot, I’m in favor of. So I’m torn. I was happy to see the Idiot twist in the wind but I was sad to see Democrats use the Idiot’s own tactics in criticizing the deal.
And there’s nothing I can do to feel really good or really bad about the whole thing, so I guess I’m just glad it’s over.
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