I ain't saying you a gold digger, just don't understand that last Twitter.
Yesterday, I didn’t just go to the Timberwolves game, I had an experience. Yesterday, I sat in the General Mills GIANT suite at the Target Center last night. We got there about a half hour before the game. Dinner and drinks were part of the already paid for $250.00 a person ticket. No, I did not pay that much for a ticket. A friend of mine got the extra tickets. They had nice options for dinner and a full bar. Everything was *free. There was dessert at halftime as well. It was quite amazing. I don’t know if you watched the game but the Wolves scored with three minutes to go. They had an eight point lead and I laughed saying it was great going to a game where they won a game against a good game. (Even though Carlos Boozer was out with an injury.) Well, in typical Wolves fashion, they choked at the end and lost. I then got home and saw that the Cyclones were up 60-50 with a few minutes left and ended up losing 66-63 to Drake. It is never good to lose two years in a row to Drake. Oh well. Fortunately, tonight I am going to the Gopher game at Williams Arena against the mighty Jackrabbits of South Dakota State. The gophs should win by 25 or I will consider it a disappointment.
1. You can’t really blame C.C. Sabathia. He has very publicly said he wants to play on the West Coast. He has adamantly said he wants to play in the national leagues. However, when the New York Yankees offer you a six year, 160 million dollar deal to play for them, your priorities change very quickly. This deal once again represents why Major League Baseball will never be America’s most dominant sport again until it figures out the need for a salary cap.
2. I have very much enjoyed Steven Colbert’s new bit, “Operation Humble Kanye West”. I enjoy Kanye’s music but his incredibly pompous attitude has turned me off not just to whenever he speaks, but also regarding much of his music. Stephen Colbert had a goal that he wanted to be higher on the charts for one day than Mr. West. A few days he accomplished it when Colbert’s new comedy album came in at #2 and West was at #4. Colbert naturally was quite pleased. Some of my favorite quotes from that show consisted of: "Why buy Kanye's album? You can basically hear it for free. Just put a tin can to your ear and lean against a 'Pac-Man' machine." "Mr. West, I ain't saying you a gold digger, just don't understand that last Twitter." And of course, While holding a cardboard cutout of Mike Myers: "Kanye West doesn't care about Stephen Colbert people."
3. This goes out to Andrew and other hates that don’t believe in Global Warming. The lead story on MSNBC today is that the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network says that due to recent global warming, 20% of the coral reefs around the world have been destroyed. The final conclusion of the GCRMN is that they are predicting that 99% of coral reefs will be destroyed by 2050 unless “significant” changes happen. This is just further proof that global warming is destroying the environment. I am not a biologist but according to the MSNBC story, the enormous rise in carbon dioxide emissions is what is killing the reefs.
posted by cyclonejohn @ 2:11 PM
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Again I say, when you go looking for reasons for something that you assume is true, you are going to find plenty of reasons. In that article they mentioned plenty of other reasons for damage to the reefs (destructive fishing, nonnative species, pollution). Warming is just a new threat. Plus, they only mention that "warming" is the threat, not "global warming" specifically. There are a lot of reasons why the oceans could be warming, and only a handful will be solved by people being more "green".
Lastly, they also mentioned that over the last 20 years 19% of reefs have been destroyed. The globe hasn't been warming that much even in the last ten!
Obviously I think that the outcome of the "green" movement is a positive one, but the reason for all the panic is not. It's exactly like Bush sending us into the Middle East for WMDs. And look how upset people were about that!
You obviously forgot the best line: “With all the auto-tuning on your records, you’re barely the voice of your own album."
Also: Kanye's music is overrated.
That's fine Andrew. One of the great things about this country is we are all entitled to our opinion. I may disagree with your stance on global warming but I do very much appreciate you taking the time to comment. The world needs more civil discussion and less Crossfire. However, to get back on point, there obviously is no proof that global warming has led to coral reef damage, or the melting of the ice caps, or the multitude of other problems. There simply are enormous correlations. Similarly, there is no "proof" that smoking causes lung cancer but there certainly is a correlation. There is no "proof" that excess exposure to UV rays causes skin cancer but there is a correlation. There are just way way way too many correlating studies showing the problems with global warming to not say that more awareness needs to happen. I applaud MSNBC for making this story their headline all day yesterday and CNN leading with it on Anderson Cooper last night.
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