Sunday morning youth sports open thread. UPDATED
Bookworm on May 02 2010 at 11:39 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
The things we do for our kids. I was out of town yesterday and put in a two and a half hour drive around midnight last night to get my daughter to her sports event today. I’m tired, but I did the right thing. My daughter — appropriately — feels anstrong commitment to her team, and that means showing up, even when it’s inconvenient. But did I mention that I’m tired? I am not an enthusiastic nighttime driver.
The big news obviously , is the abortive bombing in New York. I understand that the bomb was meant to go off near the Viacom building in retribution for the South Park episode that had already been censored. The clear message: it’s not enough to censor yourself. Instead, you’re not allowed even to have those thoughts. We can bet that our craven media, rather than taking a defiant, principled, freedom-loving stand, will bow down to their new masters.
UPDATE: I have it on good authority that the bombing was not near enough to Viacom to make it a target. This was just a random act of violence to terrorize ordinary people.
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We all know that it is the Tea Party that did it.
Next thing you know, Obama will blow up an American building and blame it on terrorists, like Bush.
Oh… wait.
>>The things we do for our kids….
I’m tired, but I did the right thing.>>
Which is why I’ve come to the conclusion that for about 99.9% of the population, having children is the final step in maturation. We don’t really grow up until we have children ourselves. And since a larger portion of the population is postponing marriage and procreation, we have an increasing portion of the population that is immature in their attitudes. There are some who take on a substitute responsibility, but they’re a very small number of individuals, imo.
The perps were wearing skirts, weren’t they. D*mn Presbyterians!!!
I’m not so damn sure you did do the right thing. When they begin to find out that the world does not in fact revolve around them – say, around age 15 or 16 or so – it’s far less shocking to them if they’ve been previously exposed to that idea. You can cushion that blow by making sure they already know that they aren’t God’s chosen little superstars, they’re just thrown in here as one among all the rest of us. It’s probably far better for them to find out early than to go on supposing there’s something special and extraordinary about them.
“No, darling, the world doesn’t know your name – nor does it care. I do, of course- but the other six billion of us don’t. That’s the way it is: deal with it.”
I don’t know which is the actual better (and ultimately more beneficial to the kid ) approach.
Shrinkwrapped brings up an ominous viewpoint on the The-times-square-car-bomb. Seems while every one has been speculating about Comedy Central, more to the point is the vehicle was outside the Lion King. So our enemies, eagerly and before the vehicle was found, take credit with their normal modus operandi of targeting children. What Bloomberg called amateurish could if properly deployed been a a quite high casualty fuel-air bomb. Good to see the so called leaders are downplaying the bomb to protect, what? Their foolish ideas of murderous islamic terrorists?
We can only speculate as to who/what/why at the moment on the near miss [again]. There is a video of doofus delivering his ‘F’ bomb to the Annual White House Correspondents dinner. What I find particularly odious is that he was aware of the car bomb in Times Square. The time line supports this fact.
I know it’ s shallow of me, but oddly enough I was not watching the doofus doing some bizarre stand up act, because I am keenly aware that he is anything but a stand up guy. Me…I was watching the news in near horror while a real ‘effin’ bomb almost went off. I can only assume that he believes we were glued to another Obama hour and are as clueless as he is about the viewer.
After hearing these remarks that “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money” by President Obama, my first thought’s were whether he thinks the $5 million he and Michelle made last year was enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ56TGYWz0s
I nominate him for a new title– Conicator in Chief
Initial reports – always to be taken with many grains of salt – indicate that the media have strong indications that the perp was a classic disgruntled white male acting alone or in concert with a few likeminded cohorts.
Not a Muslim terrorist.
Which may explain why the media are UPPLAYING this incident, not downplaying it. Ties in nicely to the burgeoning narrative of the “angry white male Tea Party Phenomenon”, regardless of the actual truth that the Tea Party is widely non-violent, and composed of people across many demographics.
We’ll see what the truth is as the days pass. If it does turn out to be a Muslim plot, expect the media to suddenly begin to downplay the story, to the point that it will practically disappear.
Different era. In 7th and 8th grades, I played sports nearly every day with peers who collected at a neighbor’s house who, by virtue of having 7 boys among 10 children, could nearly field their own team. The only involvement my parents had in my sports was to purchase a ball or glove as requested. I won athletic letters in track and cross country in high school. I ran long distance and played soccer on Sunday mornings as an undergrad with much the same people I played with in junior high: the teams changed every week. FWIW, I was usually a captain, because I was in the middle in athletic ability, and the final year, my side never lost a game. I knew how to assemble a team.
I never felt my parents neglected me in sports. I did what I wanted in sports. Different era. The informal pick up games have been displaced by organized sports leagues.
Gringo, that means power has been displaced towards the top of management rather than the people it directly affects.
Now there’s a chain of command or institution that people can blame. Whereas in pick up games, you could only ever blame yourself or the people you played with.
Like the Elf Syndrome, this slows down people’s maturation.
Back in the day, the age of manhood was 15 or 18 or 21. Now it is like 30. And even for some people, 30 isn’t even high enough.
It is untrue that adulthood requires the loss of imagination or flexibility. That’s a Leftist conceit. A Peter Pan fairy tale.
The greatest leaders and survivors of this century were more flexible and imaginative than the most flexible and inexperienced of children.
We were discussing scholastic failures etc in a thread not so long ago…why minorities had problems. This article made me feel good about what _some_ people are doing to get on the right track:
http://betsyspage.blogspot.com/2010/05/learning-from-successful-charter.html
suek, your link was so much more inspiring than a local story …. During the day, the building hosts students. But when the sun goes down, a bar opens up and it has no legal license to operate. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/special_reports&id=7353660