Serious stuff today, fun stuff later!
Over last weekend, in a show of solidarity with the Men’s Lacrosse Team, Duke University’s Womens Lacrosse team wore arm bracelets with the numbers of the 3 indicted Men's Lacrosse players on them during their tournament game. My first response was “what?!!!” I actually couldn’t believe the act. And I’ll echo the sentiments of Sports Reporter John Saunders of ESPN, who was thinking the same thing I was, in explaining my surprise.
Although we don’t know if the rape allegations against the men are true at this point, we do know that the Men’s Lacrosse team paid for strippers to entertain them at an off-campus party. And at least one of the Men’s players wrote a very cryptic, violent email, threatening to commit murder in his angst over the rape allegations.
Given these realities, I’m puzzled as to how self respecting women that have even a shred of understanding of the gravitas of the situation at hand, can so brazenly cast their lots in favor of support of these men. Either ignorance abounds, or peer pressure is a beast…maybe both.
Here's a thought for the Duke's Women's Lacrosse team: If they want to support someone so bad, maybe they could look around their locker room. Here are some quick, startling stats and a statement that I am borrowing from John Saunders because he’s totally correct: Between 14 and 20 percent of all women will be sexually assaulted their lives. Over half of all women in college will be sexually assaulted in some form during their time there. And this is just disgusting, but a recent study pointed out that 15% of men in college ADMIT to sexually assaulting a woman. Now, given that many women don’t report rape (and I’m sure that many men never own up to their sick criminal act), imagine that those percentages are certainly underestimates.
And with those stats, I’ll simply echo Saunders sentiments in saying that if the Women’s Lacrosse team wants to stick their necks out and support someone then they should look around their locker room, because it is highly likely that one of their teammates, as a result of sexual assault, could use their support.
Keeping with the women in sports theme, also over last weekend Indy Car fanatics crowded into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to watch the famed Indianapolis 500 race. In the field of drivers was 2nd year driver Danica Patrick; the only female in the pack. Since Danica has hit the IndyCar circuit, the profile of the institution has risen to levels that it hasn’t been at in decades. Unfortunately for Danica, she can’t buy a break simply because she’s a woman.
Last Sunday’s Indy 500 was only her 20th start, and sports writers and critics from all over were calling for Danica to win or else they will don her “the next Anna Kournikova.” “If she doesn’t win, the hype is unwarranted,” they'll say. Well look, here’s a lil fact for ya, the average number of starts before winning a single race was 34 for this years Indy 500 field. She actually led for a few laps at last years Indy 500 (en route to a 4th place finish) and she finished in the top 10 again this year. She is actually pretty phenomenal.
In any case, I have to wonder, why so much scrutiny for this one person who is doing more than holding her own. Would we even be talking about how she needs to win to validate herself if she weren’t a woman? On the other hand, would we be paying attention to her if she weren’t attractive and didn’t appear in a handful of magazines in sexy poses?
What a dilemma!!!
Women in sports are in a precarious position. In order to get any acclaim they have to be portrayed as sexy, but at the same time if they aren’t “good” (as defined by the male-dominated media’s criteria) then they get criticized because “she’s only famous because she’s sexy.”
Having said that, I’d like to point out that even Anna Kournikova was a pretty darn good Tennis player. She was ranked number 1 in the world in Doubles Tennis, and was ranked as high as 7th in the WTA Singles standings. And I know she’s criticized for having never won a tournament, but there are literally hundreds of male and female Tennis players out there that have never won and never reached the top 25. In fact, only a few dozen have more than 1 Singles title, and significantly fewer have ever won a Grand Slam.
So, true Kournikova was famous because her looks (though it didn’t start out that way), but that’s because women seemingly have to play the sexy role in order to gain the kind of acclaim that notable male losers get easily. I can reel off a huge list of NBA players, for example, that have never won despite their fame, but are considered great (Malone, Ewing, Baylor, Stockton, A.I., Payton, etc…and the same is true in a wide array of sports, including individual sports like Tennis).
And to get back to Danica, I think the men in the IndyCar field know that she’s good and that they’re gonna get beat by a girl one of these days real soon. So they come out of the woodwork with all these pre-emptive excuses (like Robby Gordon’s comment that she only weighs 100 pounds so she has an advantage over the 160+ pound guys). Even the old racing men have come out of nowhere to take swipes at her (Racing great Richard Petty said just prior to the Indy 500 that women shouldn’t be on the race track).
Let ‘em talk Danica…then you show ‘em how ladies do it!
-Maelstrom
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Straight Talk on Illegal Immigration
With further recent revelations surrounding our governments Domestic Spying program through the NSA, I must begin by reminding you of some very important facts. Number 1, neither the NSA spying program nor the Patriot Act would have been necessary to prevent the attacks of 9/11 (as reported by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission Report). Furthermore Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and all the reasons that we went to War with Iraq have proven to be false and unfounded (including the falsely suspected link between Iraq and al-Qaeda). Finally, we (American citizens) don’t have to choose between security and freedom (that’s the foolish choice that the political Right keeps trying to make us decide on as a reason for Spying on its citizens). No person/country in the history of the planet has ever had either, there was only the illusion.
Now, to the topic at hand…
If you haven’t heard the grand noise surrounding illegal immigration over the last several weeks, then you must’ve been in a coma. I’ll admit that it is a topic that is hard to tackle for several reasons, but is one that must be dealt with. To begin, I’ll just point out a few key terms that deserve to be distinguished:
• Illegal Immigration
• (Border) Security
• Rights
• Laws
To be sure, nothing significant has changed this year or last year with respect to illegal immigrants. Millions enter this country every year from a wide array of demographic, racial and social backgrounds (this is not a Mexican problem as some might think), and this has been going on for decades. So why is illegal immigration a major news issue these days, one might ask?
Well, the answer is simple: illegal immigrants want rights largely on par with US citizens. Many people have pointed out that illegal immigrants do jobs that US citizens don’t do. Some, including Mexican President Vicente Fox, claim that illegal immigrants do jobs that Americans won’t do. And indeed it is true that you often find illegal immigrants working in incredibly dangerous situations where many would not want to. So if and when those illegal immigrants harm themselves at one of these jobs, they want the right to have health care coverage, for example, just like a legal co-worker would. Some go much further and want driver’s licenses and photo ID, etc. Essentially, they want many, if not all, of the rights and privileges of being an American Citizen while maintaining their loyalty to their country of origin.
The United States’ border is also a major issue in this post-9/11 world. And in case you don’t know, when we talk “border security,” we really mean Mexican border security, because apparently no one ever crosses the Canadian border, serial killers included. On the Mexican border, thousands upon thousands of people cross into the United States illegally each year. In fact, at one point I heard that 3,000 people are caught trying to cross the border each day. Largely as a result of crossing the Mexican border, it is estimated that between 12 and 20 million illegal immigrants live in the USA today. Recent proposals to prevent border crossing have included putting up a wall along the border, as well as sending National Guardsmen to enforce the border.
Lastly, there is the issue of Rights vs. Laws. Semantically speaking, Laws give you Rights; therefore you don’t have Rights if those Rights aren’t within the parameters of the Law. For example, you have the Right to health care/leave of absence/financial compensation if you are injured while performing your job (provided you were abiding by company regulations). But you only have that Right if you are lawfully employed by the company you are working for, and such coverage was part of your contract with the company. So the question becomes, if an Illegal Immigrant is injured on a job, do they have such Rights? Sounds like an easy question to answer, but consider that they were working for the company (which benefits the company), and consider that there are Human Rights obligations in existence.
Now I suppose that Laws can also take away some Rights in a myriad of ways, but that’s a different subject for another time.
Here’s what I think…
Unlike the Civil Rights’ marchers of the 50’s and 60’s, I think many of the people marching in the “immigration” parades recently have 1 thing all wrong. If you want the same rights as US Citizens, it’s not a wise idea to “rep your city” (i.e. don’t flaunt your flag from another country). Nothing is more likely to infuriate people on Capitol Hill (as well as the general US population) than “lawbreakers that want our rights while being loyal to their foreign country.” It’s just not wise.
Plus, if your country is so great then why are you trying to work/live here? With respect to Mexico, why is your President Vicente Fox bantering to force the USA to give citizen’s rights to the illegal Mexican immigrants in this country? And how can he do such things when Mexico’s penalties for crossing into Mexico and working/living illegally there are at least as strict as the United States’ policies. Could it be a mixture of money, politics and economics? I think so.
On the issue of Border security, I think EVERY one of the proposals I’ve heard is completely mindless. You can’t put up a fence that runs the length of the Mexico-USA border (I think it’s roughly 2,000 miles long), and there’s no better way to further fuel animosity between neighbors than by doing so (just ask Israel and Palestine or East and West Berlin, Germany). Another proposal I heard consisted of putting up a fence along portions of the border, which is silly for the aforementioned reasons and because people will just find places where there is no fence and try to cross there. Then there’s the big issue of money, time and manpower that it would take to put up a fence of that magnitude. Now if the government is willing to contract out a company for Billions of dollars to get the job done like they did Halliburton in Iraq, then maybe they should go for it; but only if the same care is taken at the much longer Canadian Border too. I mean, this is about security, right??? And if not, then please shut that noise up.
So, I don’t think that illegal immigration would be much of a problem if the Laws, which are already on the books, were being enforced. Employers who surreptitiously hire Illegal Immigrants should be jailed, then there would be no place for the Illegal Immigrants to work, then Illegal Immigrants would have much less of a reason for crossing the border. The problem is that companies, as well as the government, benefit from Illegal Immigration financially. I have never believed that Illegal Immigrants do jobs that American’s aren’t willing to do; Illegal Immigrants can just be paid slavery wages to do jobs that would require an employer to pay a citizen much more. And in a capitalistic, selfish society like the United States of America, of course many of these Billion-dollar-a-year companies will employ cheaper labor, even if it’s illegal.
Also, there may be those instances where Americans wouldn’t perform a job because the wage for that job is unrighteously low considering the work load. Imagine working in the hot Arizona sun all day, risking serious injury but working for an hourly rate near minimum wage (which is $5.75 an hour and hasn’t been raised in 10 years) while the heads of the company spend their “hard day at work” making thousands of dollars an hour for breathing while swinging their golf club at the city’s local clubhouse. In the richest country in the world, Americans shouldn’t have to do any job of that ilk at a wage that they can’t survive on.
It can’t be overlooked that there are legal ways of obtaining citizenship in this country (albeit sometimes unfairly distributed in my opinion). You can migrate here, work and pay taxes for a specific number of years, then pass your naturalization tests. You can come over on a work-Visa or College Fellowship, “fall in love,” and marry an American citizen. Heck, you can even come over here for a space of time, get pregnant and have a child (which would then be an American citizen), and that process would open certain doors that may make it easier for you to become a citizen. Whatever the method, there are legal ways to do it (including a random citizenship lottery), and it is unfair that many people have attempted those legal routes and been denied, but those who are clearly illegal want to “step in front of the line.”
• Yes, illegal immigration is a problem.
• No, I don’t think it will be fixed anytime soon.
• Yes, it is being used as a political tool by both the Left and Right in this election year.
• No, there is not an easy solution to the problem.
• Yes, the USA should enforce the already existing Laws.
• No, those Laws can’t be truly enforced without first enforcing the Borders.
• Yes, Physicians should treat illegal immigrants that have been injured (as a part of the Hippocratic Oath).
• No, I don’t think Illegal Immigrants should be given Health Benefits…but maybe.
• Yes, employers of Illegal Immigrants should be prosecuted.
• No, amnesty is not the answer to the problem.
• Yes, President Bush’s proposal IS amnesty.
• No, sending 6,000 unarmed (internationally strained) National Guards to help enforce the border is not a benefit AT ALL!!!
• Yes, sending 6,000 unarmed (internationally strained) National Guards to help enforce the border is about the dumbest thing I’ve heard come out of this debate.
• No, deportation of millions of Illegal Immigrants is not plausible.
• Yes, I’m confused about the notion of giving Illegal Immigrants photo ID’s and Driver’s Licenses…isn’t that backwards on both sides of the argument?
And NO, Illegal Immigrants should not be given the same rights and privileges as American citizens, no matter if they’re working in this country. Otherwise, what would be the value of being an American citizen, and what about the millions upon millions of poor, disadvantaged and disenfranchised citizens and immigrants that already live in this country? Isn’t it the duty of the United States’ government to take care of them first?
I know that there are many angles that I haven’t addressed or touched on. This topic is too big to be contained in just one posting. That being said, here are the things that I think would help the problem:
1. Enforce the borders and secure the ports (which seems to be a no-brainer to me after 9/11, especially since the President keeps claiming we’re safer now than we were then).
2. Enforce the existing laws and prosecute employers that employ illegal immigrants.
3. Raise the minimum wage to a living wage for people 18 and older.
And I’ll leave you with this thought:
Laws are what make countries manageable, and Borders are what define a country. If Laws and Borders aren’t enforced, then what do you have? Seriously, consider that.
-Maelstrom
Now, to the topic at hand…
If you haven’t heard the grand noise surrounding illegal immigration over the last several weeks, then you must’ve been in a coma. I’ll admit that it is a topic that is hard to tackle for several reasons, but is one that must be dealt with. To begin, I’ll just point out a few key terms that deserve to be distinguished:
• Illegal Immigration
• (Border) Security
• Rights
• Laws
To be sure, nothing significant has changed this year or last year with respect to illegal immigrants. Millions enter this country every year from a wide array of demographic, racial and social backgrounds (this is not a Mexican problem as some might think), and this has been going on for decades. So why is illegal immigration a major news issue these days, one might ask?
Well, the answer is simple: illegal immigrants want rights largely on par with US citizens. Many people have pointed out that illegal immigrants do jobs that US citizens don’t do. Some, including Mexican President Vicente Fox, claim that illegal immigrants do jobs that Americans won’t do. And indeed it is true that you often find illegal immigrants working in incredibly dangerous situations where many would not want to. So if and when those illegal immigrants harm themselves at one of these jobs, they want the right to have health care coverage, for example, just like a legal co-worker would. Some go much further and want driver’s licenses and photo ID, etc. Essentially, they want many, if not all, of the rights and privileges of being an American Citizen while maintaining their loyalty to their country of origin.
The United States’ border is also a major issue in this post-9/11 world. And in case you don’t know, when we talk “border security,” we really mean Mexican border security, because apparently no one ever crosses the Canadian border, serial killers included. On the Mexican border, thousands upon thousands of people cross into the United States illegally each year. In fact, at one point I heard that 3,000 people are caught trying to cross the border each day. Largely as a result of crossing the Mexican border, it is estimated that between 12 and 20 million illegal immigrants live in the USA today. Recent proposals to prevent border crossing have included putting up a wall along the border, as well as sending National Guardsmen to enforce the border.
Lastly, there is the issue of Rights vs. Laws. Semantically speaking, Laws give you Rights; therefore you don’t have Rights if those Rights aren’t within the parameters of the Law. For example, you have the Right to health care/leave of absence/financial compensation if you are injured while performing your job (provided you were abiding by company regulations). But you only have that Right if you are lawfully employed by the company you are working for, and such coverage was part of your contract with the company. So the question becomes, if an Illegal Immigrant is injured on a job, do they have such Rights? Sounds like an easy question to answer, but consider that they were working for the company (which benefits the company), and consider that there are Human Rights obligations in existence.
Now I suppose that Laws can also take away some Rights in a myriad of ways, but that’s a different subject for another time.
Here’s what I think…
Unlike the Civil Rights’ marchers of the 50’s and 60’s, I think many of the people marching in the “immigration” parades recently have 1 thing all wrong. If you want the same rights as US Citizens, it’s not a wise idea to “rep your city” (i.e. don’t flaunt your flag from another country). Nothing is more likely to infuriate people on Capitol Hill (as well as the general US population) than “lawbreakers that want our rights while being loyal to their foreign country.” It’s just not wise.
Plus, if your country is so great then why are you trying to work/live here? With respect to Mexico, why is your President Vicente Fox bantering to force the USA to give citizen’s rights to the illegal Mexican immigrants in this country? And how can he do such things when Mexico’s penalties for crossing into Mexico and working/living illegally there are at least as strict as the United States’ policies. Could it be a mixture of money, politics and economics? I think so.
On the issue of Border security, I think EVERY one of the proposals I’ve heard is completely mindless. You can’t put up a fence that runs the length of the Mexico-USA border (I think it’s roughly 2,000 miles long), and there’s no better way to further fuel animosity between neighbors than by doing so (just ask Israel and Palestine or East and West Berlin, Germany). Another proposal I heard consisted of putting up a fence along portions of the border, which is silly for the aforementioned reasons and because people will just find places where there is no fence and try to cross there. Then there’s the big issue of money, time and manpower that it would take to put up a fence of that magnitude. Now if the government is willing to contract out a company for Billions of dollars to get the job done like they did Halliburton in Iraq, then maybe they should go for it; but only if the same care is taken at the much longer Canadian Border too. I mean, this is about security, right??? And if not, then please shut that noise up.
So, I don’t think that illegal immigration would be much of a problem if the Laws, which are already on the books, were being enforced. Employers who surreptitiously hire Illegal Immigrants should be jailed, then there would be no place for the Illegal Immigrants to work, then Illegal Immigrants would have much less of a reason for crossing the border. The problem is that companies, as well as the government, benefit from Illegal Immigration financially. I have never believed that Illegal Immigrants do jobs that American’s aren’t willing to do; Illegal Immigrants can just be paid slavery wages to do jobs that would require an employer to pay a citizen much more. And in a capitalistic, selfish society like the United States of America, of course many of these Billion-dollar-a-year companies will employ cheaper labor, even if it’s illegal.
Also, there may be those instances where Americans wouldn’t perform a job because the wage for that job is unrighteously low considering the work load. Imagine working in the hot Arizona sun all day, risking serious injury but working for an hourly rate near minimum wage (which is $5.75 an hour and hasn’t been raised in 10 years) while the heads of the company spend their “hard day at work” making thousands of dollars an hour for breathing while swinging their golf club at the city’s local clubhouse. In the richest country in the world, Americans shouldn’t have to do any job of that ilk at a wage that they can’t survive on.
It can’t be overlooked that there are legal ways of obtaining citizenship in this country (albeit sometimes unfairly distributed in my opinion). You can migrate here, work and pay taxes for a specific number of years, then pass your naturalization tests. You can come over on a work-Visa or College Fellowship, “fall in love,” and marry an American citizen. Heck, you can even come over here for a space of time, get pregnant and have a child (which would then be an American citizen), and that process would open certain doors that may make it easier for you to become a citizen. Whatever the method, there are legal ways to do it (including a random citizenship lottery), and it is unfair that many people have attempted those legal routes and been denied, but those who are clearly illegal want to “step in front of the line.”
• Yes, illegal immigration is a problem.
• No, I don’t think it will be fixed anytime soon.
• Yes, it is being used as a political tool by both the Left and Right in this election year.
• No, there is not an easy solution to the problem.
• Yes, the USA should enforce the already existing Laws.
• No, those Laws can’t be truly enforced without first enforcing the Borders.
• Yes, Physicians should treat illegal immigrants that have been injured (as a part of the Hippocratic Oath).
• No, I don’t think Illegal Immigrants should be given Health Benefits…but maybe.
• Yes, employers of Illegal Immigrants should be prosecuted.
• No, amnesty is not the answer to the problem.
• Yes, President Bush’s proposal IS amnesty.
• No, sending 6,000 unarmed (internationally strained) National Guards to help enforce the border is not a benefit AT ALL!!!
• Yes, sending 6,000 unarmed (internationally strained) National Guards to help enforce the border is about the dumbest thing I’ve heard come out of this debate.
• No, deportation of millions of Illegal Immigrants is not plausible.
• Yes, I’m confused about the notion of giving Illegal Immigrants photo ID’s and Driver’s Licenses…isn’t that backwards on both sides of the argument?
And NO, Illegal Immigrants should not be given the same rights and privileges as American citizens, no matter if they’re working in this country. Otherwise, what would be the value of being an American citizen, and what about the millions upon millions of poor, disadvantaged and disenfranchised citizens and immigrants that already live in this country? Isn’t it the duty of the United States’ government to take care of them first?
I know that there are many angles that I haven’t addressed or touched on. This topic is too big to be contained in just one posting. That being said, here are the things that I think would help the problem:
1. Enforce the borders and secure the ports (which seems to be a no-brainer to me after 9/11, especially since the President keeps claiming we’re safer now than we were then).
2. Enforce the existing laws and prosecute employers that employ illegal immigrants.
3. Raise the minimum wage to a living wage for people 18 and older.
And I’ll leave you with this thought:
Laws are what make countries manageable, and Borders are what define a country. If Laws and Borders aren’t enforced, then what do you have? Seriously, consider that.
-Maelstrom
Monday, May 01, 2006
I think...
I think that there should be a word for that sensation you feel when you think you’re going to sneeze but nothing comes out. So, I’ve come up with one. I think it should be called an Imsnozter, as in a sneeze that’s an imposter or an imposter sneeze that occurs at your snoz.
I think that if you buy a Veinte cup of White Mocha at Starbucks more than once a week, you don’t have the right to complain about the cost of a gallon of gas.
I think that some of the writers of Disney movies might be a lil bit racist. How come every time there’s a movie with an African theme the characters are depicted by animals, like The Lion King and Madagascar?!!!
I think groups on thefacebook.com are hilarious because the group isn’t a real group until one particular swear word is amended to the end of the group name (e.g. It’s Pop B*tch, Not Soda or I Went to Detroit Public Schools and Still got into College B*tch! or I’ve been Starting and Maintaining Groups since Before you were Born B*tch or D*mn right I Drive a Hoopty, my Mama wasn’t Rich B*tch!)
I think if your boyfriend doesn’t buy you flowers because (he says) “they (the flowers) are gonna die in a few days” or “its cliché to buy flowers” or he “doesn’t need to do such things to express his love for you”…I think he’s cheap and I think that you should dump him!
I think that if you have bought into the idea that your boyfriend doesn’t have to get you flowers every now and then, you should re-evaluate your own view of your self-worth.
I think that if you bought your 2007 model luxury vehicle in March of 2006 you got gypped.
I think R. Kelly should be behind bars.
I think R. Kelly should continue recording.
I think R. Kelly should continue recording behind bars.
I think that TiVo was the evolutionary precursor to homo sapien
I think that you should go to jail if you walk across the street while talking on your Cellphone, Bluetooth, or Blackberry.
I think Pat Sajak has a big head
I think Don Cheadle is the world’s greatest actor, followed by Tom Hanks!
I think that Long Hair is a sign of genius. However, in those rare cases where genius and long hair don’t amalgamate, I think that Long Hair wins championships. And sometimes Long Hair does bof (yup…bof)!
I think that the three biggest causes of today’s problems on earth were the birth of Jesus, the birth of Mohammed, and the invention of the car. And in that regard, I don’t think the three are unrelated.
I think you should continue reading all of the “I thinks” written in this particular post because, well, I think you should!
I think, as it pertains to relationships, that it’s the presence and not the presents!
I think it’s funny how 12 years ago if you met someone over the internet you were considered weird and risky, but now it’s an extremely common and acceptable practice.
I think that in sports, stats don’t lie, but they don’t always tell the truth.
I think that it is incredibly sad when a major news story 4 days after Hurricane Katrina hit is Natalee Holloway (thank you Fox News).
I think it is sadder still that Natalee Holloway is a major news story at all almost a year after she went missing.
I think Natalee Holloway is a major news story because she is a missing (blonde) white woman. In fact, stuff (I want to use another “s” word, but I’ll be nice) like this MAKES ME SO MAD that if you’re reading this blog I want you to visit this website (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-15-missing-minorities_x.htm). That might help you to understand my outrage!
I think that this whole Iran Nuclear weapons thing is a farce and a sham. There is no way the US is going to risk nuclear war with Iran, and seriously, who is really paying attention to the Iranian President’s rhetoric.
I think my mother is hilarious. No seriously, the lady is a riot!
I think I wanna marry a lady newscaster…they’re so hot; especially the ones that appear during primetime news hours. I’ve even got a top 10 for CNN!
I think that the term “passive-aggressive” is an oxymoron and doesn’t prove or say anything at all.
I think there’s something seriously backwards about someone making a whole television series based around their criminal activity just prior to their incarceration (meaningful stare in the direction of Lil Kim). There’s also something wrong with a channel that would support such silliness by producing the show (angry glance at BET).
I think that if you STILL believe that going into war with Iraq was the right decision then you need to read the 9/11 Commission Report while recalling the reasons given for going to war with Iraq (Imminent Threat, WMD’s, ties to al Qaeda). I also think you need to go to jail, not be allowed to vote in the next two elections, and should talk to my first cousin who was stationed in Baghdad.
I think it's worth noting that the three most recognizable figures in the terrorist organization al Qaeda (OBL, Zawahiri, Zarqawi) made tapes and recordings public within one week last week. I also think it is a little bit too coincidental.
I think that the world is going to oblivion on June 6th of this year (ie 06/06/06, as in 666)…just kidding!
I think I think a lot.
I think sometimes I think too much.
I think I’ll stop now!
-Maelstrom
I think that if you buy a Veinte cup of White Mocha at Starbucks more than once a week, you don’t have the right to complain about the cost of a gallon of gas.
I think that some of the writers of Disney movies might be a lil bit racist. How come every time there’s a movie with an African theme the characters are depicted by animals, like The Lion King and Madagascar?!!!
I think groups on thefacebook.com are hilarious because the group isn’t a real group until one particular swear word is amended to the end of the group name (e.g. It’s Pop B*tch, Not Soda or I Went to Detroit Public Schools and Still got into College B*tch! or I’ve been Starting and Maintaining Groups since Before you were Born B*tch or D*mn right I Drive a Hoopty, my Mama wasn’t Rich B*tch!)
I think if your boyfriend doesn’t buy you flowers because (he says) “they (the flowers) are gonna die in a few days” or “its cliché to buy flowers” or he “doesn’t need to do such things to express his love for you”…I think he’s cheap and I think that you should dump him!
I think that if you have bought into the idea that your boyfriend doesn’t have to get you flowers every now and then, you should re-evaluate your own view of your self-worth.
I think that if you bought your 2007 model luxury vehicle in March of 2006 you got gypped.
I think R. Kelly should be behind bars.
I think R. Kelly should continue recording.
I think R. Kelly should continue recording behind bars.
I think that TiVo was the evolutionary precursor to homo sapien
I think that you should go to jail if you walk across the street while talking on your Cellphone, Bluetooth, or Blackberry.
I think Pat Sajak has a big head
I think Don Cheadle is the world’s greatest actor, followed by Tom Hanks!
I think that Long Hair is a sign of genius. However, in those rare cases where genius and long hair don’t amalgamate, I think that Long Hair wins championships. And sometimes Long Hair does bof (yup…bof)!
I think that the three biggest causes of today’s problems on earth were the birth of Jesus, the birth of Mohammed, and the invention of the car. And in that regard, I don’t think the three are unrelated.
I think you should continue reading all of the “I thinks” written in this particular post because, well, I think you should!
I think, as it pertains to relationships, that it’s the presence and not the presents!
I think it’s funny how 12 years ago if you met someone over the internet you were considered weird and risky, but now it’s an extremely common and acceptable practice.
I think that in sports, stats don’t lie, but they don’t always tell the truth.
I think that it is incredibly sad when a major news story 4 days after Hurricane Katrina hit is Natalee Holloway (thank you Fox News).
I think it is sadder still that Natalee Holloway is a major news story at all almost a year after she went missing.
I think Natalee Holloway is a major news story because she is a missing (blonde) white woman. In fact, stuff (I want to use another “s” word, but I’ll be nice) like this MAKES ME SO MAD that if you’re reading this blog I want you to visit this website (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-15-missing-minorities_x.htm). That might help you to understand my outrage!
I think that this whole Iran Nuclear weapons thing is a farce and a sham. There is no way the US is going to risk nuclear war with Iran, and seriously, who is really paying attention to the Iranian President’s rhetoric.
I think my mother is hilarious. No seriously, the lady is a riot!
I think I wanna marry a lady newscaster…they’re so hot; especially the ones that appear during primetime news hours. I’ve even got a top 10 for CNN!
I think that the term “passive-aggressive” is an oxymoron and doesn’t prove or say anything at all.
I think there’s something seriously backwards about someone making a whole television series based around their criminal activity just prior to their incarceration (meaningful stare in the direction of Lil Kim). There’s also something wrong with a channel that would support such silliness by producing the show (angry glance at BET).
I think that if you STILL believe that going into war with Iraq was the right decision then you need to read the 9/11 Commission Report while recalling the reasons given for going to war with Iraq (Imminent Threat, WMD’s, ties to al Qaeda). I also think you need to go to jail, not be allowed to vote in the next two elections, and should talk to my first cousin who was stationed in Baghdad.
I think it's worth noting that the three most recognizable figures in the terrorist organization al Qaeda (OBL, Zawahiri, Zarqawi) made tapes and recordings public within one week last week. I also think it is a little bit too coincidental.
I think that the world is going to oblivion on June 6th of this year (ie 06/06/06, as in 666)…just kidding!
I think I think a lot.
I think sometimes I think too much.
I think I’ll stop now!
-Maelstrom
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