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Is Hockey Season Over?

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The coronavirus has been moving across the globe for about 4 months now and in the last month, it’s gotten to the point where we all need to be extra careful to slow and hopefully stop the spread of this dangerous virus. Large public gatherings have been stopped so that means every sport has been put on hold. It’s the right thing to do and this puts us in strange new territory.

Every sports league has gone on hiatus and nothing will be announced about what the plan is for at least a month. We’re all waiting to see how this virus takes hold and it’s impossible to predict the future. If everything goes well, it sounds like we could get back to normal in June or July. So let’s talk about that with the NHL.

There are approximately 13 games per team left to play in the regular season. Will there be time to play those games and then do the playoffs? Or will the season end and go right into the playoffs? The latter decision is one that I’m not in favor of. In the Eastern Conference, there are SIX teams in tight contention for the wildcard slots. It’s the same in the West. Every single game remaining is important. No matter what, I think the playoffs would be cut to best of 5 instead of 7.

Another big factor to consider during this: there are a lot of injured players throughout the league. Given a month or more to heal means many of them will be back to play in any remaining games. That completely changes the firepower of many teams. If the remaining regular-season games are played, the standings will absolutely change. It’s a major factor in the outcome of the year for half the teams in the league.

Now the worst-case scenario–the NHL is done for the season. It’s weird and unwanted but possible. It’s also possible the next season doesn’t start in October. We all love our sports, it’s an outlet and focal point for millions of people. At this point, I’m hoping for the best, that we all get through with few personal losses and it’s back to everything we love to do as soon as possible. There’s no reason to panic. We just need to pay attention, be responsible, and look out for each other. Sports will be there for us in time.

UPENN Stupidity

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This story has absolutely blown up this week and is just hard to believe grown men in a position of power and leadership could be so fucking stupid.

Now all the facts aren’t out, the path of what happened in the passed 15 years (!) on this alleged creep, Jerry Sandusky, aren’t entirely known. It’s safe to say that the complete story is going to come out in the next few months and is going to be much worse and even more mindboggling.

This has nothing to do with football.

Without rambling on too much (there is a ton to this) and to get to my real point, how did this not stop at Mike Mcqueary’s shower sodomy discovery? There’s a hierarchy at that school and mental path that I can’t wrap my head around. From what I’ve read, Sandusky had the heat turned on him for some similar shady allegations in the late 90’s that ended up fizzling out with the authorities. It was about a year later that he retired. 3 years later is when Mcqueary caught him violating the boy. Mcqueary then calls his dad and LEAVES? He does nothing to help the kid? The next day he tells head coach JoePa (and I’m not sure what kind of detail he went into with Joe). Joe goes up a level in the school administration, which ends up going to the president of UPenn. At no time were the cops called. The “punishment” for Sandusky was that he could not bring kids on campus anymore. What? This monster was skipping around campus as of last week! Somewhere in that chain of events and executive decision some things really went wrong.

I absolutely agree that the men who did nothing to stomp this monster out of the public and into a jail cell should be shown the door. For some reason it looks like the media is focusing mostly on JoePa, which I don’t agree with. Let’s point the brunt of the burners on Sandusky (how the hell did this guy get BAIL? He’s not a risk to the public?!) Mcqueary is a dumb son of a bitch as far as I can tell. UPenn is suppossed to have the utmost pride and ethic code around, it’s insane this happened.

Why did Mcqueary think that his bosses were the authority on a heinous crime? Was he afraid of losing his job for outing a pedophile? At the very least couldn’t he have made an annomous 911 (or campus security) call to get the cops to come and investigate? How did he do NOTHING to help the boy? This just just makes him an accomplice along with the rest of the administration that was told and did nothing.

I don’t understand what the end game of their thinking was. How could not going to the cops and getting Sandusky locked up be bad? They thought this would never come out and be a million times worse? This is Freddy Krueger territory! There are 8 known victims as of now, possibly reaching into other states! They could easily have just oust Sandusky and say they had no clue what he was hiding for all these years. THAT is how you protect your industry, school, reputation, faculty, staff and students. We found out and acted immediately to one of the biggest crimes in society. He doesn’t represent the school, we cooperate with the cops to get all this under control etc. It becomes a story of one heinous individual who got caught and stopped by sane human beings and not a napalm bomb years later. Each on of the men with their heads on the chopping block would a)not be arrested and/or b) fired! JoePa could coach for as long as his heart desired and not have his legacy ruined in a trainwreck of national and world news coverage. Sandusky went on to hurt more kids!

What happened?

It took some digging…

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but I found when I originally bought XM Satalitte Radio stock. Way back in June of 2006 for like 30 bucks a share! Dropped ever since. 2008 they “merged” with Sirus to continue the downward trend until very recently where they broke 1 dollar a share as SIRI XM Radio.

Sold it today for $96.60. After fees and shit I got completely murdered. Slaughtered might be a better term. I should have bought Netflix. At least now that I know the exact details I can write this shit off on my taxes to the negative cent.

A good idea.

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I looked through some old posts I made here. I started strong for the first 5 months, more than 10 quality posts. And then fell off from there, never hitting that quantity again. That’s not necessarily bad of course. So that lead to the idea that I should write my reviews for everything here. It’ll work to stir my writing up to something living and active and get something worth reading here. It’ll be mostly movie and tv shows, no set limit for content. A paragraph, a page, whatever I feel necesarry to cover whatever subject it is and I’m not going to cover spoilers. It’ll be more of a dialog review between people who have all seen it. Working around spoilers is too limiting, it’s annoying to work vaguely and I’m not going to bother with spoiler tags or anything. I’m not going to have a rating system, just what I like and don’t like, what I think works and what doesn’t.

TV is back in full swing and I just realized Nip/Tuck is starting this Wednesday. I started this blog during Season 2 so it’ll be fitting to get this underway with the last season to my favorite show. The last 2 movies I saw were The Girlfriend Experience and Nerdcore Rising, so those will be first up.

I’ll still make posts about random stuff, but this should offer more content and motivation for me right now. I’ve said that before (more than once) and I’m hoping I’m not lying to myself this time.

Somebody wasn’t paying attention

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The camera guy had to have set Palin up, there is no other way.

Jump to about 2:30 to get to the point. This stupid turkey pardoning ritual that goes down every Thanksgiving season is enough as it is. But this is just a whole new level as Dumbell Palin gives a post interview outside of the turkey pen only to blabber on right in front of turkeys being slaughtered for food! Look at the guy holding the turkey upside down as the gore pours out of the stupid thing! “Am I on TV? Are they getting this shit? I can’t be in frame….am I? They wouldn’t do that. Nah, they wouldn’t.”

She’s still the butt of a joke even when she’s completely irrelevant now.

Still not a millionaire

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Damn the lottery for me not winning it. The Mega Millions in NJ was up to 260 million and I didn’t win. No one did and it’s now at a mind boggling 310 million dollars. Better believe I’m going to play again.

I’m still fighting off that bug I got last week. I think it’s allergies more than a bug. I don’t feel shitty, but I got some weird ass cough thing going. I sleep fine so that’s a plus.

Let’s see, what else? Potter 4 hits theatres on Friday and I can’t wait. I haven’t looked foward to a movie like this in awhile. All the buzz say it’s amazing and I got my IMAX tickets waiting for me. Expect a review after I see it. Last movie I went to was Saw II with John and I thought it was a worthy sequel. Aside from one character going bat shit insane for no reason, it was good.

In an effort to make some money, I’ve bought some shares in Sirius Satallite Radio. For me that’s like sleeping with the enemy, but this could turn in to some money. I already have XM stock as my investment but I’m getting in on SIRI on the cheap end and if things go the way I think they will, I’ll be able to sell it early next year and make some money. If it takes off that would be completely bad ass. In some what related news, I still think Howard Stern sucks and Opie and Anthony kick his ass every single day of the week.

Oh, I have 3 Gamecube games up on ebay for mad cheap so look up scudnick and buy em. They’re up till Wednesday night.

Lastly, my sister and nephew are in town for the week. Danny continues to grow into the complete pimp that is just waiting to get out. He charms everyone, he’s really smart (kinda scary actually) and he’s funny. If you’re unsure of where you belly button is, he can let you know. I’ll put up some pictures sometime this week.

QUOTE OF THE DAY (oh man, I found my Ramapo quote file. Be prepared for a lot of these.)

“Hey Bagels…how do you like your meat? In your fist?”
-Mr. Moe (week of November, 2001)

Jack Thompon is a piece of trash

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Long story short, Jack Thompson is “lawyer” and he’s been making headlines in the past few months by condeming violent videogames. The same old shit we’ve heard for years. This shmuck started yelling loudest when the GTA: San Andreas “hot coffee” mod showed up. So he’s been yelling like an idiot, making up facts, threatening people, associating himself with groups that want nothing to do with him. The last stupid thing he’s said was a “challenge” to a developer to make a game where the main character kills his parents because he plays violent videogames. Ugh. Here’s the latest from Penny Arcade who have been dealing with him over the past 2 weeks or so:

It was only a matter of time until a mod team took Jack Thompson’s disgusting revenge fantasy and made it flesh – and, just as I suggested, it was deemed insufficient.

Thompson now claims that his repellent suggestion was “satire,” and we must conclude that his financial offer was also satire, some new breed of satire apparently that I’m sure is just hilarious to people in need.

You know what, Jack? We’re going to be the men you’re not. You said that your insulting, illusory ten thousand dollars would go to the charity of Paul Eibeler’s choice. We’ve got a good guess that he’d direct your nonexistant largesse toward The Entertainment Software Association Foundation, a body that has raised over six point seven million dollars over the last eight years. We’ve just made the donation you never would, and never meant to. Ten thousand dollars’ worth. And we made it in your name.

Check out that mod here http://hellfish.gtajunkies.com/Story.html