Actually, Amanda is no longer Miss Delaware. The title was taken away from her along with her college scholarships and given to the "first runner up" because the pageant stated Amanda was "too old". How old is she? Well, she's an ancient 24 years old. So the title was ripped away from her and given to Brittany Lewis who is a young 24 years old. Does this sound wrong somehow? Does it sound crooked, maybe? Well let's make it sound even more crooked.
When the crown was then given to Brittany Lewis at the Dover Downs hotel and casino, they had a brief ceremony and then announced, "No questions!" So obviously we can't ask things like why they would disqualify a woman based on her age and then give the title to another woman who is the same age. Their reasoning is supposedly about the month when Amanda's birthday falls. She had provided this information over and over and over and over before entering the pageant, but that doesn't seem to matter. All that matters is the crown now belongs to someone else and no questions can be asked.
Amanda may have put her education on hold to enter this pageant and may have spent money and sacrificed and done quite a few things to earn this title, but that's just too bad. NO QUESTIONS! Does it seem funny that the new "ceremony" where the crown and sash were handed over to another woman was held in a casino? Oh sorry, that was a question. Will there be an investigation as to what really happened? Who will be investigating? Whoops, there are more questions. And no questions are allowed. Well, that's not actually true, questions are allowed, they just won't be answered.
I've watched a guy who showed up late every day for work and slept on duty get an award for "employee of the month". No questions were allowed about that kind of thing either. I did try asking why he deserved the award and was told "Because he does a good job!" A good job of what, checking the inside of his eyelids for pin holes?
So what this comes down to is favoritism. Amanda Longacre won the Miss Delaware Pageant fair and square, but the win was taken away from her and given to someone else more than likely because of favoritism. I'm sure Brittany Lewis either knew someone, or did a favor for somebody, or maybe she wasn't involved at all. Maybe someone she knew did a few favors?
Now attorneys have to be involved. Everyone will sue everyone else because that's the American way! More than likely nothing will be resolved and no one will ever find out the real reason the Miss Delaware title was taken away from Amanda. How sad for any honest people who live in Delaware because now it looks like one really corrupt place!
I’ve been watching a bit of the FIFA World Cup this year and
to be honest, it really hasn’t lived up to what I thought it would be. Firstly, I thought England would do a whole
lot better than they did. There were
quite a few of their players who didn’t much seem to care. They ran around and kicked the ball, but it
looked like it was just another paycheck to them. Win, lose, they didn’t seem to care. With how important football is in England,
they should be ashamed to go back home after the performance they put on!
One of today’s matches had England playing Costa Rica. The match ended in a 0-0 tie and England didn’t
even field most of their “starters” if you can call them that. I guess they needed rest before the English
football season which starts in August by the way. They needed to rest up to collect the
millions of pounds they’ll be paid to play back in England. If you are a captain of your country’s
international squad, you should be out there on the pitch leading your team for
EVERY SINGLE MATCH! If you have the attitude that since your team
won’t be advancing in the tournament you don’t need to play anymore, then you
don’t deserve the title of captain.
Steven Gerrard lost a lot of the respect I had for him when I saw him
sitting on the bench looking like he didn’t care at all.
But let’s move beyond England for now. A while ago I wrote a blog about a scumbag
named Luis Suarez. Suarez thinks he’s
some kind of wild animal and likes to bite other players. Here’s the link to the first blog post I wrote about him in case you missed it
the first time:
This idiot is from Uruguay and is playing in the FIFA World
Cup for the Uruguayan national team.
While playing in the English Premier League he has bitten a player on
PSV and a player on Chelsea. And I’m
sure you’re going to know what’s coming now, yes he bit a player on the Italian
National Team during the World Cup. He
sank his teeth in deep and from the teeth marks it looks like he tried to take a
good sized chunk out of Italian player Giorgio Chiellini. The match referee didn’t even
bother to call that a foul! What’s
worse, biting another player, or being a referee and thinking that’s a legal
thing to do? Chiellini even pulled his
shirt down trying to show the teeth marks to the referee, but the ref didn’t
care. Maybe Chiellini should have bit
the referee? If it was legal for Suarez,
then it should have been legal for Chiellini, too!
It wasn’t enough for Suarez to bite Chiellini, Suarez then
began to pretended that his mouth had been fouled by Chiellini’s shoulder. He held his teeth and played the wounded
player begging for a free kick.
Oh no, did that hurt poor Suarez’s teeth? FIFA says they are going to “investigate” the
matter. I guess the teeth marks in
Chiellini’s shoulder weren’t enough proof.
A two game suspension sounds insane to me. So what does it take to get thrown out of
professional football in England or the World Cup for that matter? How many people does this rotten idiot need
to bite? He is so lucky that the Italian
players showed a lot of restraint.
Now is Suarez really the kind of player you want representing
your country? In two years will people
remember how far Uruguay got in this year’s World Cup? No, they’ll remember that Suarez bit another
player.
Here’s a picture of Mario Balotelli:
Mario is playing for the Italian National team in this year’s
World Cup. Mario is known as a rough and
brutal player. He’ll head butt you, kick
you, push you and really rough you up, but he DOESN’T BITE PEOPLE! He may
be even considered a dirty player occasionally and supposedly has a troubled
off field life, but he DOESN’T BITE
PEOPLE! Hell, last season Balotelli
got a yellow card AFTER A MATCH WAS OVER and as it was his second card of the
match, he was suspended for three games because of “intimidating and insulting
remarks addressed to the referee”. This
guy can be such a problem that he gets penalties for his behavior even off the
pitch! Take a look at the article:
My point is why is Suarez getting off for the third time
biting another player? No yellow card,
no red card, nothing. Nothing would make
my day better than to see another player punch Suarez in the mouth several
times during a match. And personally, I
think it should be a team’s captain who does that. If you’re the captain you need to stand up
for your teammates!
I do have one more suggestion before I end this. Let’s have Suarez play some hockey with the
1974 Philadelphia Flyers. They were a
hockey team that was known for violent fights in just about every game they
played. Suarez can try to bite any one
of them he likes, but he may not leave the ice rink with any teeth left.
Have
you ever really wanted to go somewhere you haven’t been before?Sometimes you want to go on an African
safari.Sometimes you wish you could see
the Egyptian pyramids.I’ve personally
wanted to take a trip to San Francisco and tour Alcatraz prison.I actually made that trip a while ago and it
was everything I’d hoped!*chuckle*
Now
I’ve found a new place I’d like to see.
Something to put on my “bucket list”, so to speak. And it’s not in some foreign country, or one
of the “Seven Wonders of the World”. It’s
a motel. A motel full of clowns. Yes, I said full of clowns. Do you know anyone who’s afraid of
clowns? I’m sure they wouldn’t much care
for this place. And it’s called
appropriately enough, Clown Motel.
The
Clown Motel is located in a place called Tonapah, Nevada. It’s one of those places that’s way out in
the desert and the next closest town is about 70 miles of desert away. And not only does this place have thousands
of clowns, it’s also right next to a turn of the century cemetery. Is the Clown Motel haunted, you may ask? Why, now that you mention it, I think
hauntings have been mentioned once or twice.
But if they include clowns, they’re fun hauntings, right? Fun hauntings including clowns and full-sized
dinner hams?
“At one point early in the evening we were
hearing strange sounds and what appeared to be someone screaming followed by
lot popping and crunching noises. While in the bathroom my buddy decided to
have a peak outside of the bathroom window. My buddy lets out a yell and busts
out into the room and I'm like "what?!" He doesn't say anything but
goes right to his back and gets his Smith and Wesson 357 out. I'm thinking
"what the $%#" and I dig into my bag to get my Sig 232 out. He says
we need to get the %@#& out of there right now. I saw he was serious and
that made me serious about it, we grabbed our $#!^ for the most part (left a
few clothes behind) and looked out the peep sight to make sure it was clear to
our car. I threw my gun into my pocket, he put his in his waistband and we
hauled ass to the car and got the hell out of there. On the ride away, I asked
what he saw in the bathroom. He told me when he looked out the window there was
this creepy-ass clown facing away from the window, pants at his ankles, making
a weird motion. He told me the clown slowly turned 90 degrees to look at him,
my friend said he looked down to see this clown $#@%ing a full-sized dinner
ham, when he looked up from the ham $^@!ing the clown was smiling and waving at
him.”
Wow, a full-sized
dinner ham! That’s…uh…well I guess it’s
not as frightening as seeing a laughing clown with a bloody axe or
something. Just make sure all your
dinner hams are secured and things should be ok, right?
Now I’m sure
some people would be freaked out and feel like they’re being watched with all
the clowns around the motel, but I don’t think it would bother me. I think I’d even like to tour the cemetery
and look around a bit. What would be
even more fun would to put on some evil clown makeup after checking in and then
peek into the windows of other motel rooms.
That would be fun, wouldn’t it?
At least until I come across a room and find another clown peeking back
out at me. On second thought, maybe I
won’t do that.
Anyway, that’s
where I’d like to go. On the plus side,
beyond all the haunting rumors the hotel is supposed to be very friendly and
well maintained! So one of these days I
do want to try and make it there for an overnight stay.
The World
Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world!
Unless you’re American, that is.
The sport of soccer isn’t really that big in America, and besides that
when we want to have some kind of “world” thing like our “World Series”, we
usually only want American teams to participate. Some people think America is the center of
the universe!
Stupid people aside, there
are millions, possibly billions of people worldwide who care about the World
Cup. They are passionate and hang on
every word the announcers say whether watching the matches on television, or
listening to them on a radio. A lot of
people who aren’t American will tell you that soccer, English football,
European football, or whatever you want to call it is a religion. For some people, losing a war would be less
important than losing the World Cup
The last
World Cup was held in 2010. England had
a strong team and was going up against Germany.
I was working security at a Las Vegas casino on the day of that match
and it was going to be shown on some large screens in the casino’s sports
book. There were a LOT of people from
England in town and they began gathering pretty early in the morning to get
good seats in the sports book to root on their national team. There was a lot of excitement in the air! Germany took off and scored the first goal of
the match and then notched a second goal making it 2-0 in Germany’s favor. But then England came back! England scored making it 2-1 and then scored
again making it even! Or did they?
Though
the ball went into the goal area and was clearly a goal, the keeper grabbed the
ball and threw it back out onto the field and the match went on as if there was
no goal. The English side was
horrified! If football is a religion,
then the match referee just stepped on the English God.
I’ve seen
cheating in sports before and even a few times when I thought a player was
trying to intentionally lose a game, but this was the World Cup. How do you ignore a goal in a match this
big? Though I was in America when the
goal was disallowed, I think I actually heard the majority of England
scream. One guy in the casino sports
book stood up from his seat and began yelling “This is an embarrassment!” He was quite upset. Germany did go on to win 4-1, but would
things have turned out the same if England had been given that goal? And what crosses my mind is if a referee was
crooked enough to not allow a legal goal, how many other illegal things did he
allow to go on during the match? Things
just didn’t seem fair.
Now the
World Cup is organized by FIFA. FIFA
also controls quite a few football leagues.
So could FIFA have maybe had any part in what happened to England in
2010? Let’s take a look at the FIFA
track record.
Back in
2010 the World Cup, or the FIFA World Cup if you like, was held in South
Africa. FIFA decided that the South
African court system wasn’t good enough and convinced South Africa to allow
them to create the FIFA World Cup Courts.
So basically FIFA ran their own justice system in the country of South
Africa. And these courts even sent
people to prison if they were convicted.
And if you went to the FIFA World Cup Courts, your trial wouldn’t take
very long. Two guys from Zimbabwe robbed
a couple of journalists on a Wednesday, went to court on Thursday, and then
began 15 year prison sentences on Friday.
NO ONE MESSES WITH FIFA! To show
I’m not kidding, here’s a link to an article:
The 2014
FIFA World Cup is being held in Brazil.
(I spell American. In European,
and according to FIFA, the country is spelled “Brasil”.) Brasil had a few too many deaths involving drinking and so decided to pass a law that no alcohol would be allowed
to be sold during football matches. One of FIFA’s
big sponsors is Budweiser who makes and sells alcoholic beverages. So in order to make FIFA happy and to have
the FIFA World Cup in Brasil, they will allow alcohol to be served at the World
Cup matches no matter what their laws say. Nothing can go wrong with
that, right? But who cares if things do
go bad and people die? It’s FIFA and the
World Cup!
Brasil
also decided to spend 270 million dollars, or Euros, or whatever Brasilians
spend on a new stadium for the World Cup.
It’s built in a place called Manaus along the Amazon river. There is almost no access to this place from
a normal roadway and really no football team that will play there after the World
Cup. After all the matches are over, the
stadium may become a home for a nearby Amazonian tribe. Either that, or they’ll just let the jungle
over grow it like an old ruin.
One
question I have is if it’s so hard to get to Manaus, how are fans going to
arrive to watch a match? Will everyone swim,
or row, or somehow go up the Amazon river to get there? I’m sure it’s hard to find tickets to a World
Cup match to begin with, but once you get the tickets you now have to find Humphrey
Bogart to take you up the Amazon River on the African Queen to get to the
damned stadium! Doesn’t anyone see
anything wrong here?
There are
rumors regarding bribery to FIFA officials.
Mostly because they decided that the 2022 FIFA World Cup would be held
in Qatar. Sadly, I don’t even know exactly
where Qatar is. The Qatar national
football team has NEVER even qualified to enter any World Cup in history, but
now they’ll get to host it in 2022? Oh definitely
click the link below if you’d like to read more about this!
The
President of FIFA Sepp Blatter claims the organization is “non profit” however
FIFA has over a billion dollars in the bank.
That’s more money than quite a few countries have! They had a shot of him on television when the
English goal was disallowed against Germany back in 2010. I think his expression looked something like
this:
Blatter
claims the Billion dollars in the bank is a “reserve”. A reserve for WHAT? What is all this money for? From what I’ve seen FIFA relies on countries
to build their own stadiums, and fund everything for the World Cups themselves,
so who gets all this money? Maybe they could use the money to promote women’s
soccer? When asked how women’s soccer
could be made more popular, Sepp Blatter replied “They could wear shorter
shorts.” Wow.
I will
admit that there is one very popular video on YouTube of Sepp Blatter.The clip is only a few seconds long, but is
very entertaining, especially if you don’t much care for the FIFA organization.I think for this clip I’ll let “Keyboard Cat”
handle things:
Ok, I’m
sure I’ve ranted and raved enough about the FIFA organization enough. To be truthful, to me they’re just a soccer
video game name. I’m actually looking
forward to the World Cup matches this year since I’ll be able to watch
them. If it were up to me though, I
would make one change. If I could, I
would bring a bunch of Oakland Raider fans to Brasil to root for the United States team. The Oakland Raiders are an
American football team and play American football, not soccer, and some of their
fans are pretty insane. Let’s take a look at
regular American World Cup fans:
They may
scream and yell and even blow into a vuvuzela once in a while, but they’re
probably mildly distracting at best. Now
let’s take a look at some Oakland Raider fans:
You think
English soccer hooligans can cause problems?
I think we need a stadium full of these guys for the United States matches! *chuckle* And since the stadium in Manaus is only going
to be used for four matches, these guys can tear the place apart and no one
will care! It’s win win! We’ll just dress the United States team all in
black, write “Raiders” across their kits and let the fun times roll! *chuckle*
All
foolishness aside, I really am looking forward to the World Cup this week. And if football really is a religion, then
count me in. I’ll be right along side
the millions of fans worshiping this weekend.
I was
talking to my niece yesterday about her high school experience. She’s just finished up her associate’s degree
and was accepted to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV). She mentioned she was a bit upset about the
drug testing that was going on back at her high school in Oklahoma. I guess it wasn’t what she considered “fair”.
Now I’m
not in favor of drugs and think drug testing is a good idea. But I guess this school in Oklahoma wasn’t
quite doing it right. My niece said no
one on the football team was tested.
Actually, that’s not true. One
kid’s mother was doing her own home drug testing and her son was showing
positive for drugs there. She contacted
the school and wanted him tossed off the football team, but the school
refused. They also refused to do any
drug tests on him themselves because if he came up positive, he wouldn’t be
able to play football.
Football
aside, if a student wanted to participate in any other extracurricular activity
they had to be drug tested. If you
failed, you weren’t allowed to participate in the activity anymore. The chess club was totally decimated mostly
because there was only one kid in the school who had joined the chess club, and
he failed his random test. Consequently
he was told he could no longer play chess.
Some
members of the school band failed their drug test and were told they could no
longer play instruments. So the
band then no longer had a percussion or woodwind section and only one trumpet
player was left. Two cheerleaders were no longer allowed to participate and
several members of the “flag team” were told they could no longer carry or wave
flags.
One kid
who liked to sit in the library when not in class failed the drug test and was
told he could no longer sit in the library.
How dare he read books after not passing a drug test!
Now if a
student was selected for drug testing they had approximately half an hour to
fill a bottle with urine. If you couldn’t
fill the bottle in the allotted time, you failed the test. So if you used the bathroom before getting to
school you’d still better produce some piss in half an hour, or else! The testing company didn’t have much
time! Perhaps the testing employees
should have been tested a bit themselves?
So in a way, the drug testing wasn’t about whether or not a student was
actually testing positive for any kind of drugs, it was more about being able
to piss on demand. And the kids who
couldn’t do that were told they could no longer participate in things. What a great life lesson, huh?
In case
you’re curious, my niece was not selected for testing probably because she didn’t
participate in any extracurricular activities.
She spent most of her time studying.
If she had been selected and failed the test perhaps the school would
have told her she could no longer study?
Either learn to piss on command or we’ll take away all your books!
Now yes,
I understand the importance of trying to keep drugs out of schools. And I went through something a bit like this
while in the U.S. Air force. We would
have random drug checks, but you would be put in a room and couldn’t leave
until you filled the provided cup with urine, however we weren’t given a half
hour time limit. As long as you didn’t
leave the room before filling the cup, you could wait a few hours if need be
because you didn’t have to pee at the moment.
The military understood that some airmen go to the bathroom before going
to their work place!
So is this school in Oklahoma really interested in stopping drug use? Or are they more interested in making money
for the drug testing company that will fail a student for not being able to pee
on command? It’s sad when a place gets
this corrupt, especially a supposed “learning institution”.
I've spent the last ten and a half years working for an ungrateful Las Vegas casino. After finally having enough, I quit. Now I'm an unemployed writer. Broke, but much happier.
