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Soulja Boy was able to win the hearts and minds of millions of americans. Never mind that fact that none of these fans were ever fans of hip-hop or that his song blew up mainly because of the accompanying dance, but quite frankly for this kid to consider himself a rapper is a disgrace. I’m putting up a link to his video only to show that not only can he not rap, but he can barely speak english. His song is all chorus and his lyrics are unintelligible. If you recorded a song while eating peanut butter and snorkeling at the same time, this is how that song would sound. Simply put, Soulja Boy is garbage. He is probably the worst rapper of all-time who just so happened to be born in a time when people like to listen to songs on their phones and like to repeat inane sentences over and while simultaneously doing a dance that makes them seem ready to throw up at a moments notice. I’ll finish by saying that Soulja Boy telling people he’s the best MC in the game today is like Ben MacDonald saying he’s a Hall of Fame pitcher. Who’s Ben MacDonald you ask? Exactly.

Can Terrell Owens Get No Love? - It was reported today that T.O. will be forced to pay the rest of his signing bonus owed to his former team the Philadelphia Eagles. This is just another example of how players in the NFL are just pawns in the system. Not only are contracts not guaranteed, but now a team can ask for their money back after they cut you. That’s right, the Eagles cut Owens and are now making him pay back their money that he originally made as per his contract with them. It would be like you getting fired and your former employer asking for a percentage of your paid salary back. It’s just not done anywhere other than in the NFL where players have no control over their careers. NFL players are played much less on average than the other sports leagues and they have the least guarantees to their contracts. Teams routinely give players long term contracts and then force them to renegotiate 2-3 years into those contracts, or simply cut them. At this point the NFL is so big that the league and teams alike feel they can treat players like commodities and not employees or even human beings, and that’s just sad.

Bud Selig Picks Nose -

Yup, that’s MLB Commissioner Bud Selig going on a nostril expedition during the Senate hearing’s on steroids in baseball. If there was ever a picture that embodied his 16 years as commissioner it is this one. Selig lost the fans trust by allowing steroids to destroy the game of baseball as we know it and is now caught chasing his tale and looking confused as he tries to clean up the mess. This is the same man that let the All-Star game in Milwaukee a few years back end in a tie, much to the chagrin of fans and players alike. The man is just a buffoon who weaseled his way into the commissioner’s office. Not only did he preside over the darkest era in baseball (the Steroid Era) but he has allowed baseball to become a league of have and have nots. A league where the big markets buy up all the top players and the smaller teams are left to cheat their fans into thinking it’s worth it to pay to see their teams play. He has allowed the NL League to become a sort of elite Minor League’s. One NL team official even admitted that the his team is realistically only competing to get to the playoffs, not win the World Series. So Bud Selig picks his nose and I’m not even sure he’s good at that.

U.S. Stimulus Package - I’m going to link to this week’s article by the great Tuesday Morning Quarterback because he gives a great critique of the stimulus package that President Bush and many members of Congress are trying to pass. You can read all about it about a third of the way down here and, if you have the time, it really is worth reading. His point is that this package is a short term solution that will only increase the deficit and pass of the buck to future generations (i.e. people like me) to pay it off. Between Social Security, Climate Change and the ever expanding deficit, people in their 20s are looking at a bleak future. It seems to be the policy of politicians these days to appease big business, the rich and old people without a care for future generations. It’s the old, “Hey, we’ll be dead, so let’s live for today and screw everyone else.,” syndrome.

The stimulus package has passed the House but the Senate has said they will hold it up unless the House agrees to add even more money for Senior Citizens and the unemployed. So at a time when the economy is threatening to go into recession and the housing market has bottomed up, our elected officials feel in necessary to increase our debt to countries like China (our biggest global competitor) by giving money to taxpayers without offsetting the costs. I know people don’t like to pay taxes but how else are we supposed to run our government? President Bush has held fast to the Republican ideal of lowering taxes but he has forgotten that in the past this was accompanied by lower government spending. Instead we spend billions in Iraq, and billions on giving money to taxpayers and billions on Social Security, which by the way may not be there when the current generation paying into it gets old enough to collect. This makes a whole lot of sense. What has surprised me is that this isn’t the number one topic in the presidential campaigns so far. I think most people expect the economy to just sort of get better and for America to simply prosper because that’s what we’ve always done. Well I’m here to say it takes work and not to let your elected officials make such short sighted, p.r. led moves.