January 26, 2009 by Jeremy.

Girls Basketball Coach Fired After 100-0 Win

This is so stupid! I am not one for running up the score, but I am also not one to hold back either. The coach probably could have done more to hold the score down, but firing him for getting his team to play well is absurd. Winning and losing is part of life! You can learn something from both outcomes.

I wen to a private school and was Manager of our Basketball team. We had a game where we played a newly formed team that was not very good. We blew them out of the water even while trying to limit the score. Their coach got mad and called our school and told (not asked) us that we should play our JV team next time against their Varsity team. Our coach, against my advice, agreed to their terms and we lost. He never did that again.

Participating in sports is about doing the best you can and if you fail then you just try to make yourself better. I would never tell my team not to do their best because that is not the right thing to be teaching them. I would tell them to have good attitudes about it though.

I do think that the fans should not have been so excited abotu getting to 100 points because it was obviously not that great of an accomplishment considering the other team scored no points at all. There is a balance to be found here, but firing a coach for getting his team to do their best is not the answer.

“On its Web site last week, Covenant, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy. “It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition,” said the statement, signed by Queal and board chair Todd Doshier.”

There is nothing Un-Christlike or dishonorable about doing your best as long as it is done with a humble attitude. If the better team was bragging or being rude about it then that is a different story. That does not seem to be the case here though.

We live in a society where (even in our churches) everyone has to be equal and no one is allowed to lose. This is the same reason you see schools that don’t want to give kids harsh grades or even tell them that hey are wrong. I believe that we learn far more from failure than we doing from winning and that will be valuable to our daily lives and that’s how the story should have ended. We should be encouraging the other team to do better and work harder and come back next time and play a better game. We should not hold one team back so the other team does not feel bad.

That is not Christian and it is not Common Sense!

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January 22, 2009 by Jeremy.

I am not qualified for this position because I actually pay my taxes. Who knew that would keep me out of such a prestigious position. I really had faith that my government and my new President would not let this go any further than it already has.

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“The Senate Finance Committee decided Thursday that Timothy Geithner’s tax problems should not imperil his nomination for treasury secretary, voting 18-5 to recommend confirmation in the full Senate. ”

Seriously? They think that a guy that doesn’t pay his taxes is qualified for this job. I would think that would be on the top of the list personally. It does seem rather important.

“The committee vote came a day after Geithner had appeared before the panel to apologize for what he called “careless mistakes” in failing to pay $34,000 in taxes earlier in the decade when he worked at the International Monetary Fund.”

I want you to try that same excuse to the IRS when you don’t pay your taxes this year. Let me know how that works out for you!

“I am disappointed that we are even voting on this,” said Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo. “In previous years, nominees who made less serious errors in their taxes than this nominee have been forced to withdraw.”

That seems very logical to me. This laughs in the face of Common Sense and you know here at CT that is our driving force. I hope this is not a foreshadowing of more bad choices and a failure to use plain Common Sense by our new President.

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January 21, 2009 by Jeremy.

Although I do not agree with our new President in many of his visions and ideals I do wish him the best as a President. I hope that he governs more to the middle than the traditional left stand he has taken on so many issues. I also hope that people will get over the fact that he is black. He is a black man but most importantly in that thought he is still a man. We will never overcome race issues entirely in this country until race plays no significant role regardless if it is good or bad. So many people think he alone is the answer but they will be wrong.  I hope, for the sake of this country, that this President has the intelligence and fortitude to make the right decisions even when it will make him unpopular.

So I will be watching on Fox News (who has a good idea here really) The First 100 Days of Presidency of President Obama.

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January 14, 2009 by Jeremy.

I’ve never been a fan of Rourke or thought him to be all that intelligent but I think he is spot on here!

If it were up to actor Mickey Rourke, he would exonerate President Bush for any wrongdoing during his tenure in office when it comes to the War on Terror.

“President Bush was in the wrong place at the wrong time, I don’t know how anyone could have handled this situation,” Rourke told Britain’s GQ in the magazine’s February issue.

Rourke said Bush wasn’t given much of a choice but to respond to the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and that the War on Terror goes way beyond his presidency.

“It’s too easy to blame everything on one guy,” Rourke told the magazine. “These are unpredictable, dangerous times, and I don’t think that anyone really knows quite what to do.”

Rourke, who won a Golden Globe on Sunday for his performance in “The Wrestler,” says that after 9/11 even he wanted to do something about terrorism.

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January 6, 2009 by Jeremy.

240,000 dollars awarded to man forced to cover Arab T-shirt

“Jarrar, a US resident, was apprehended as he waited to board a JetBlue flight from New York to Oakland, California, and told to remove his shirt, which had written on it in Arabic: “We will not be silent.”

He was told other passengers felt uncomfortable because an Arabic-inscribed T-shirt in an airport was like “wearing a T-shirt at a bank stating, I am a robber,’” the ACLU said.

Jarrar eventually agreed to cover his shirt with another provided by JetBlue. He was allowed aboard but his seat was changed from the front to the back of the aircraft.”

I do think that it is perfectly reasonable to make the man change his shirt or cover it up (as he did). His shirt could cause fear, apprehension, fighting, etc. on that plane and is is the airlines responsibility to ensure the safety and well-being of its passengers. Free speech is not intended to start riotous acts or even used as an attack at a single individual or a group (I believe his shirt did just that).

It is not fair, however, that he was made to sit at the back of the aircraft. He did what was asked of him and he should have been allowed to board as a regular passenger.

We have taken this PC movement too far. Things are more black and white than people want to believe. There is right and wrong and we need to get away from this gray middle because that will lead us to a point where we are unable to speak out against anything and that is truly a detriment to the Freedom of Speech.

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