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Dancing With The Stars (DWTS) Week Four

Oct 14

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Season 7 of Dancing With The Stars is well underway here in week 4 of the competition. I admit it. I like DWTS a lot. This season may very well be the best and most competitive since the show’s debut. Two Olympic champions started, An Oscar winner, A Superbowl Champion, A Grammy winning singer, Assorted Actors, etc, and they’re all Ballroom Dancing. It’s just cool.

But, I’ve been asked who my picks are for finalists this season. I’ve narrowed it down to two…and “in no particular order” as they say…Brooke Burke, and Warren Sapp. Both are dancing very well, put on a good show for the audience, and have lots of appeal. I didn’t really know what to expect from Brooke Burke since I’d only seen her hosting shows on TV and gracing numerous computer monitors, but she’s shown she can really dance and be competitive. On the other hand I thought Warren Sapp might be pretty good. It seems like the NFL players that have been on the show have done very well and Sapp is no exception. I’m guessing that having a high degree of conditioning, a strong work ethic, and a competitive spirit that NFL players have to have makes it easier for them to do well.

I’ll be watching tonight to see who’s eliminated but I doubt it will be Brooke Burke or Warren Sapp. If I had to guess who will leave I’d say….Chef Rocco Dispirito or Oscar Winner Cloris Leachman, but I’ve been surprised before.

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Steroids In Baseball…Who Cares?

Dec 14

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C’mon who really cares that a bunch of overpaid professional ball players use steroids and human growth hormone? Regular season baseball is about as exciting as watching paint dry so why would anyone mind that maybe it gets spiced up a bit?

Think about it. Why are steroids banned in sports? In amateur sports it’s to supposedly keep the competition level by making it about the athletes instead of who has the best lab. I buy that for the Olympics and similar venues where many of the athletes are minors and where countries may have fewer resources than their competitors, but pro sports are different. The players are adults and every team has lots of resources. If the players are stupid enough to inject steroids and die young in pursuit of a better career so be it. It might make that boring ass game of baseball a little more fun.

By the way…I’m REALLY Glad the American Taxpayer had to foot the bill for the Mitchell Report – aren’t you?

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Dancing With The Stars Final

Nov 29

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Ok, I’ll say it. “I told you so.” I’ve been predicting that Helio Castroneves would be in the finals of Dancing With The Stars since the first or second show. Congratulations to Helio and his partner Julianne.

Even though I’m not surprised that Helio won the dancing title I am surprised at who was there at the end with him. I could not have predicted that Mel B and Marie Osmond would be in the finals. With Marie Osmond I wouldn’t have thought that she’d have the stamina to do so well, nor that she’d bounce back after the loss of her father. The other surprise was Mel B. When the season started I didn’t think she’d make it because I thought her partner would be in jail for choking the life out of her whiny butt. Oh well, nothing like live TV.

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Pierce Brosnan Gets One Right Maybe

Nov 1

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First it was Britney Spears, now it’s Pierce Brosnan beating up on a photographer. Supposedly, the leach (photographer) was just complimenting Brosnan on his James Bond films when Brosnan hit him. Come on…a “celebrity photographer” that was just saying something nice? Not getting in someones face taking pictures while trying to incite anger? I’m not buying it. I’m not buying it because it’s all too common to see video of these misfits doing just that…trying to incite bad behavior in celebrities.

Ok. I do get that people like Pierce Brosnan are famous public figures and that if you’re in the “biz” you should expect to be recognized, etc. But should these famous figures be mobbed everywhere they go so that some creep with a Nikon can make a few bucks? I don’t think so and I make sure to do my part by passing up the gossip rags that support such poor tactics used by the photogs.

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San Antonio Spurs Start Their Season

Nov 1

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Tonight is Halloween and the Spurs are out and about as the current NBA World Champions. Last night was the Spurs home opener and it was a great night. I had the opportunity once again to be present for the championship ring ceremony and the unveiling of the new championship banner. It’s fun and exciting to see these things live. The game? Yes, it was a good game against a young but good Portland Trailblazers team. A good game particularly because the Spurs won it.

Tonight they’re now 2-0 having defeated the Memphis Grizzlies in a close game. While I’m happy the Spurs are starting off with 2 wins it’s a long way to another championship. I’m optimistic that the Spurs can get a back-to-back championship though because it’s pretty much the same team. There’s still Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker, Bruce Bowen, Fabricio Oberto, Michael Finley, Robert Horry, Francisco Elson, and Matt Bonner. Missing of course is Beno Udrih who has been traded to the T-Wolves. So, this year there’s hope and I’m looking forward to the ride.

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Dancing With The Stars Week 6

Nov 1

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Wow, what a week on Dancing With The Stars. Mel B got a perfect score and deserved it. Jane Seymour got even better and seems to be a real contender despite being the oldest of the remaining competitors, as well as the best looking. But the real shocker….Sabrina Bryan was eliminated! You could have knocked me over with a feather. I had picked Sabrina to be a finalist but I guess she just didn’t have the votes from the fans at home.

So who’s gonna be in the finals of Dancing With The Stars now? I still think that Helio Castroneves is a favorite based on his dancing, but will he have the popular support? I think that Cameron has improved but I don’t think he really can win it, but will his soap star status give him the edge?

I don’t know what’s going to happen but I’m looking forward to the rest of the season.

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Dancing With The Stars Week 5

Oct 26

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Dancing With The Stars finally saw the end of Mark ‘The Mouth’ Cuban. Yes, the boy billionaire lost 30 pounds and learned to move his feet without moving his mouth but couldn’t buy the affection of the fans. People finally saw through his nice guy act. Oh, I finally figured out why he might have been chosen for the show to begin with….he’s a producer….of movies. He has been the producer of several movies including the now showing “We Own The Night.”

I don’t know what else to say about this week on Dancing With The Stars…I finally can focus on the people that could actually win it without buying it.

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Britney Spears Gets One Right

Oct 20

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I’m not really a fan of Britney Spears. However, after a year or two of really screwing up royally Britney Spears finally gets one right. Being surrounded by scumbag photographers and trying to drive away Britney ran over the foot of one of them. Hah! She might not be the best mom, wife, or even lip synch artist but she got this one right. And it’s almost poetic justice. I’m not saying that all of the photogs ought to be run over but anybody who’s that much of a leach really needs to have some salt put on them. With the lenses available today there’s absolutely no need to be in someone’s face all the time unless you’re trying to provoke that someone. If that’s the case it should be ok to punch them, spit on them, or occasionally run over their foot. Way to go Britney Spears!

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Dancing With The Stars Week 4

Oct 18

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Dancing With The Stars said goodbye to a champion this week. Floyd Mayweather was the dancer released in round 4 and that’s a tragedy. It’s a tragedy because “Bigfoot in a suit”, Mark Cuban, is still in the running. It’s a tragedy because the other person in the bottom two, Mel B, is still in the running.

On the good side of things the dancing of each star is really improving and getting more exciting. Both Jenny Garth and Jane Seymore turned in some of their best performances and have really stepped it up, but Helio and Sabrina are still right there at the top. Helio turned in a solid performance while Sabrina got the first perfect score of this season.

It’s really getting good and I’m looking forward to next week.

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Congressman Bennie Thompson Hates NASCAR Fans

Oct 13

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Congressman Bennie Thompson (D – Miss), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, thinks NASCAR fans are disease ridden and that his aides need to be inoculated before mixing with us. How’s that for some elite behavior from an elected official? How’s that for alienating a large portion of voters from his own district?

According to Yahoo Sports: “The seven-term Congressman recently instructed committee aides who visited Talladega Superspeedway last weekend and are also at this weekend’s Nextel Cup race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway to be immunized against a variety of diseases such as hepatitis A, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus and influenza.”

Something not in the story that I’ve wondered about…is this an indication that Congressman Bennie Thompson is a racist? I certainly hope not and I don’t know of anything he’s said that would make that case, but he’s African-American and the overwhelming majority of NASCAR drivers and fans are white. If a Republican Congressman had made a comment like that about a predominately African-American event what would the press be doing right now? They’d be camped out on that Republicans doorstep and asking if he was part of the KKK. Where’s the coverage here? Why didn’t this story about a Democratic Congressman lead the 6 o’clock news?

Hopefully, even without heavy news coverage the voters in Congressman Bennie Thompson’s district will shake his hand and let him know they’ve had their shots when he’s out pressing the flesh. Hopefully they’ll remember what he thinks of them when they vote in the next election.

But you know what? This type of thinking by a Congressman like Bennie Thompson is not unusual in Congress. These elected officials go to Washington, D.C. and start acting as though they’re royalty and above the citizens they are there to represent. It’s time we all got together and voted out ANY politician who has had more than two terms in office. Congressman Bennie Thompson has had 7 terms, look what it’s done to him.

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