To be truthful....I've flown in and out of Chicago six or seven times.....but I've never spent a single night in the town. I worked with a guy....years ago....who grew up in Chicago and laid out the city as an oil painting....rich in colors and life. He would talk of the Cubs on a Saturday afternoon or the White Sox on a Sunday afternoon. He talked of the eternal Bears and their march toward greatness. He would talk of hot dogs and locally brewed beer. He would lay out a hundred different characters that you'd like to personally meet. He talked of the bitter wind in winter and the hot sun in the summer. He spoke of rich local foods that would make you weep.
I'm guessing one of these days.....kinda like the way I accidentally stayed a night in Manhattan....I'll have to tempt fate and hope another Delta episode occurs and I get stuck overnight in Chicago. Its my method of attempting to avoid chaos and trouble...and then forcing myself into a unique situation.
As Friday came and went....word on the street was that Maradona....the Argentine giant of soccer....retired for at least ten years....would tote the damned Olympic torch for China as it arrived in Argentina. Well....for some reason.....Maradona sat down.....pondered what was asked....and considered Tibet. Then he said NO.
I may have been too quick to cut down Maradona on Friday, and I may have said a thing or two that were harsh on the dude. I'd like to apologize for my comments. Apparently, there are still strong-minded men left in Argentina.
Down at the Kingdom of Cheney....referred to in most media channels...as the Gitmo World-class Terrorist Holding Facility.....an event occurred this week.
Some lawyer defending one of the young gentleman....very young in fact....the guy was 15 when captured in 2002 and accused of murdering a US soldier....decided that he wanted to help the young gentleman pass the time of day. The guy speaks and reads English....after all....he is Canadian. So the lawyer gave the guy a copy of the Lord of the Rings.
After search through the belongings of the prisoner that day....the Overlords found the copy of the evil script and banished it from the Kingdom of Cheney.
The Overlords claim little except that it is illegal. So now I will sit and ponder the evil at our gate and how it will be.
Call far and wide....across the mighty kingdom....for Aragorn, Frodo, Gandalf, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin, Sam, Meradoc, and Baromir. Mighty warriors.....we shall need. And held in reserve...waiting for her chance to take on the evil Overlord Cheney himself...shall be the petite Eowyn....who shall say at the right moment when the mighty Cheney says that "no man shall bring harm to me", and she will respond "I am not a man....so let me whack on you with my frying pan" (please note, I am not a Tolkien by any means).
Across the land....let the warriors come and settle a score with the evil overlords of Kingdom Cheney.
Actually....in a bold and southern wit....the guys who run the little villa in Gitmo....have screwed themselves greatly. There is not a single case that will occur this year.....I am willing to bet now. The entire mess will be passed to the next president who will dismantle the entire mess and bring the prisoners into the US. This little episode in US history....is one of the most curious things that any group of government executives has ever invented. None of them can explain what rights the prisoners have or what vast amount of intelligence we've gathered....oh, we always get the chatter about classified data....but then....no one has ever been prosecuted since the place opened. Even in the state of Texas....no one ever sat for five years....waiting for their case to be heard. You can go to any state in the Union and not find such an example.
So in the neverland of Kingdom Cheney....dark days are coming....when someone simply turns off the light and leaves the compound to never return.
Down in Mexico, where wrestling is just as "big" as in America...a trend has started up.
They have some wrestlers now who advertise themselves as "sensitive and yet strong, in overcoming evil". Basically....its a gay wrestler.
So the exotic wrestler these days is a fellow called Maximo...who has pink mohawk hair and he often blows a kiss onto the lips of his evil opponent. The crowds go crazy when this happens. Woman fall apart and guys just sit there in a daze. Apparently, this is a major draw in Mexico....with huge crowd approval.
I sat and pondered how this would translate over to wrestling in America....and for some reason....I just can't see crowds in Austin or Atlanta getting into something like this. Its true, we have yet to have a gay NASCAR driver or a gay president but one day...it'll happen. But in wrestling...I just can't see it.
Out in Maryland this week....the state governor had to weigh in on a very delicate subject. As all of you know....nuclear energy is evil....the son of Satin....as evil as the Republicans....damned and in the last possible row of acceptance. Well....so are coal fired plants and hydroelectric power (takes away from the farmer's precious land). So this week...the Maryland governor halted any chat or discussion of using state land to put down wind mills (the big 200 foot tall contraptions which capture the mighty force of the wind).
US Wind Force wanted to place 100 of the big turbines over near the coast, on state property. There was a problem with the public. Apparently over 1,200 comments rolled in....about 80 percent of them negative. The real fear? Those turbines might kill little critters and wildlife in the area. Some folks also complained that it might kill the view and hurt tourism in the region. So the governor jumped up and said "NO" to public usage....but ifing they could find some private property, then more power to them. Naturally....its a Democratic governor.
Its an amusing place to be in Maryland. State analysts are already saying brown-outs will occur by 2011 if something isn't done shortly to add to the grid. The guys complaining....have yet to see a brown-out period, and I'm suspecting that they might be visibly upset about that and demand action, except NO nuclear plants, NO coal plants, NO wind mills, and NO hydroelectric plants. Basically....they need power....but not from their state.
So for you folks in Bama and Arkansas....that would like to screw those Yankees one more time....build as many wind turbines, hydroelectric plants, coal plants, and nuclear power plants as possible. Sell to the idiots at twice or three times the normal rate. Let them pay for their stupidity and let the south rise again....on Yankee dollars.
The Maryland crowd will see a 30 percent rise in power costs by 2012....as they buy power from border states who accepted life and just moved on. Where will the 30 percent of additional costs come from? Their pocket....and nowhere else. And by 2020....expect power to be double what it cost today in Maryland. They will eventually wonder why electricity costs so much and hire some dimwit from MIT to explain it to them. Then....they might do something....but I kinda doubt it.
Thats the world we live in.
Out in west Texas...the sect boys have been busy....getting the lawyers out...challenging the rangers....and blasting the Texas legal system. So far....the one guy that they had reports on....has not been arrested....just questioned. Without a girl standing up to accuse the guy of rape....he will walk free....my humble opinion.
So the sect boys are talking up a total wash of the whole thing and just let bygones be bygones.
This might happen with the men and no charges. But I'm thinking the Texas social department isn't going to let a single girl under 18 come back to the sect or the parents involved. This might be an interesting hinge development, watching legal case after legal case against the Texas social department. An entire generation of potential virgin girls taken from the grasps of these mighty and horny old gentlemen....and now?
I'm thinking that if things continue this direction and the young virgins aren't released back....the sect will have to conduct a major calling and recruit far and wide outside of the region....maybe even to Bama and Florida. They need new couples involved in the church....preferably ones with young girls in the family.
It'll take a bit of talking....to convince the families to uproot their situation in Red Bay, and pack up to move to west Texas. It'll take a bit of talking to convince them that a far-far-far-out religious cult is the best idea. It'll take a bit of talking to convince folks to let their young girls attend this cult's training seminars. It'll take a bit of talking to convince fathers to let their 13-year old daughter get spiritually married to some 48-year old guy named Wilbert. It'll even take a bit of effort to convince folks that Wilbert can have two or three or four wives....and some can be 13-years old or 16-years old. Yep....mighty big amount of talking.
If the girls don't go back....it'll be a harsh period for guys in the sect. They may have trouble just accepting one wife and it'll weigh heavily on their mind.....day after day. It'll depress a few of them....and may even cause them to drink a bit. Yep....its a sad day for the cult....oh, I mean sect.
There are ways of fixing this in my mind. First....if you open up to non-US citizens and recruit heavily....bringing in illegals as members of the church....then you might be able to repopulate the virgin requirements of the sect. I'm guessing these guys are exactly into accepting illegals....so that might not be a wise suggestion. Second....all those guys who got married five or ten years ago....could just share their wives with these guys who need a spiritual wife....but maybe not a "REAL" wife. We'd call this a spiritual deal....and there would be spiritual cash involved for renting out a spiritual wife to these guys. Somewhere in the midst of this spiritual stuff....would be a spiritual pimp who would make the arrangements and ensure that the sect guys were covered on Friday and Saturday nights. Cash would exchanged and everything would be held at some damn holy temple on the complex....preferably where spiritual booze and spiritual gambling would be accepted as well.
Yep....a sad day for the sect....no doubt.
