Recently in high country of North Carolina where I live Global Warming attacked with a vengeance. On my road we received 15+ inches of "white" heat. The temperature has not risen above freezing for a week and this is the south. I suppose if it were not for "Global Warming" we would not be enjoying this delightfully warm winter wonderland and the mercury would be hovering around zero instead of 18. I recall last summer the temperature soared to 83 degrees and stayed there for 3 days. We had to turn on a fan at our house, stop midday activities and drink lots of lemonade, but we survived.
We shouldn't worry though, Obama went to Copenhagen on the fuel efficient Air Force One to help plan another meeting to discuss planning another meeting to confront the problems of Global Warming and plan another meeting. Or, did he go to bow down to someone? Perhaps he will receive the "bent-knee" certificate of achievement for the most genuflects by an American President to place next to his Noble Peace Prize.
In the meantime try to stay cool in the boiling inferno know as Earth while the great leaders of the world and this country pick our pockets in order to formulate a method to return us to the horse and buggy era. That is except for corporate jets and Air Force One.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Take Tiger, Please take Tiger....AWAY
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." That includes you, me and Tiger Woods.
So, this article is not about moral failings but about Woods' iconic celebrity.
I have never liked Tiger Woods and am not in the least bit saddened by his departure from golf. In fact I would have been pleased to see him take his billions and fade into obscurity long before now, thus leaving the golf game in the hands of the competitors and out of the hands of big business and the paparazzi.
It is certainly true that his talent has stirred interest in the game but at what cost. We watch a tournament on TV where the leader is 7 strokes ahead of Woods and who do the cameras follow? You got it, ole' sulking (excuse me ...focused) Tiger himself. Will he surge? Is he hurt? Are his adoring fans, whom he ignores, distracting him? Is it possible that he is actually getting beaten?
I feel the game has suffered because of his limelight status and has lost its place in the arena of gentlemen, but then in this modern era who knows what a gentleman is anyway.
I feel sorry for his wife and children, but for him zip.
So Tiger, take your nine iron, sexual proclivity, and attitude on a long sabbatical and let the gentleman's game return.
So, this article is not about moral failings but about Woods' iconic celebrity.
I have never liked Tiger Woods and am not in the least bit saddened by his departure from golf. In fact I would have been pleased to see him take his billions and fade into obscurity long before now, thus leaving the golf game in the hands of the competitors and out of the hands of big business and the paparazzi.
It is certainly true that his talent has stirred interest in the game but at what cost. We watch a tournament on TV where the leader is 7 strokes ahead of Woods and who do the cameras follow? You got it, ole' sulking (excuse me ...focused) Tiger himself. Will he surge? Is he hurt? Are his adoring fans, whom he ignores, distracting him? Is it possible that he is actually getting beaten?
I feel the game has suffered because of his limelight status and has lost its place in the arena of gentlemen, but then in this modern era who knows what a gentleman is anyway.
I feel sorry for his wife and children, but for him zip.
So Tiger, take your nine iron, sexual proclivity, and attitude on a long sabbatical and let the gentleman's game return.
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