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Snipers are Bad People!

One of my friends asked me about my last blog post about Howard Schultz.  He asked me if I thought it was responsible to include comments such as “Where is the crazed gunman when you need him?”.   The question made me think a little bit.  I wasn’t really suggesting that somebody should sit on a tower and take out Schultz with a high-powered sniper rifle.  I was merely wondering aloud.  After the initial shock of Columbine, it hasn’t really been a matter of if some crazed psycho with access to assault weapons will snap at a shopping mall, it’s just a matter of when.  The real sad thing is that when evil shit like that happens, it is usually a bunch of innocent people that get shot down.  That really doesn’t seem fair when that crazy fucker could just as easily take out an evil dick like Schultz instead.  Now, once again, I am not advocating this type of behavior.  I think it is deplorable.  I am merely suggesting that an evil act would be better served against an evil person than it would be some unarmed teenager buying a Britney Spears album at her local Sam Goody.   Evidence suggests that we haven’t seen the last random shooting.  I just wish that these folks would set their sights a little higher and try to reduce their evil footprint on the way out. 

This Kid Claims to want to Kill the President I`m pretty sure this kid can be arrested for releasing this. But, it is pretty crazy. Thanks Slog.

All I’m saying is that it’s too bad this kid isn’t a Sonics Fan.  If somebody out there IS a crazed Sonics Fan and you aren’t good at Google searches, let me help you out a bit.  I’ll periodically try to point you in the right direction (just make sure to leave Paul Allen and Mark Cuban alone). Today, we start with Number 1 on the list:

David Stern

645

Fifth Ave

New York

,

NY

10022

The REAL Axis of Evil...

Today, the Seattle Times reports that Howard Schultz plans to sue to get the Sonics back.  The article states that Schultz “relied on promises made by Clay Bennett and his ownership that they desired to keep the team in Seattle and intended to make a good-faith effort to accomplish that” and he will be suing to unwind the deal.  Now all of the sudden Schultz cares whether or not the Sonics stay?  Suuuuuuuurrrrrrrre.....

When the sale was announced, people out there wanted to give Bennett the benefit of the doubt.  We all wanted to believe that he would actually make a move to keep the Sonics in town.  I can’t think of one single person who actually believed it though.  Does anyone really believe that Schultz really thought a bunch of Okies wanted to own a team in

Seattle

? 

Either Schultz is the dumbest billionaire on the planet (which is quite possible), or this whole thing has been as rigged as a game officiated by Tim Donaghy from the start.  I can easily imagine a plan hatched by the REAL axis of evil (Howard Schultz, Howard Stern and Clay Bennett) where an owner who is frustrated that his cash-strapped city has decided not to support the standard 200-300 million corporate NBA welfare program goes in with a commissioner fighting for the integrity of the game to sell to a redneck who just wants to feel like one of the big boys for a little while; hoping to scare the city into supporting this broke business model with a very real threat that the team will leave.  Now Schultz gets to ride in to be the hero with some secret side letter to save the Sonics?  This thing smells fishier than Starbucks’ Pike Place Blend. 

Please Howard…  Haven’t you already molested the city of

Seattle

enough?  Stay down in your tower counting all of the money you made raping Sonics fans.  I’d much rather have Mark Cuban acting as the voice of reason in this situation.  Where is a crazed gunman when you need him?

Big Brother is Watching (still)

Are you curious about what happened to our stats the day after I posted this blog about our stats being viewed by the army and department of defense?  They suddenly went to ZERO for two days. 

Admittedly, we just had a submission deadline on January 15^th and things typically cool off immediately after a deadline, but I know for a fact that we couldn’t have zero visitors because I was actually visiting the site during that time so I could make a list of changes for our designer.  Obviously, I think the two incidents are related and I’m sure this will make some people worry that I ran out of medication or something. 

But if I did clue in somebody that I could see them watching and they fixed it, what exactly does that mean?  Should I be less concerned?  Once these folks realize that I haven’t done anything wrong, will they notify me that I am no longer under investigation?  Will I get reimbursed by the government for the performance hits that my phone and internet services have taken?  The next time our web stats report zero, should I be suspicious?

I love my country.  I fear my government.

Clint