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Owens Won’t Return to Eagles

I applaud Philadelphia Eagles Head Coach Andy Reid for sacking hot-shitshot Terrell Owens for his on-going bad attitude and behavior.

From FOXNews.com – Reid: Owens Won’t Return to Eagles

PHILADELPHIA — Terrell Owens can take his touchdowns and dance somewhere else.

The tempestuous star receiver won’t return to the Philadelphia Eagles this season — or probably ever — because of “a large number of situations that accumulated over a long period of time,” coach Andy Reid said Monday.

Owens was suspended for Sunday night’s 17-10 loss at Washington, and will remain suspended for three more games without pay. After that, the Eagles plan to deactivate him for the rest of the season.

It’s about time – the gutless San Francisco 49ers staff let Owens’ bad antics go on for years.

Reid said the outspoken player “had been warned repeatedly about the consequences of his actions.”

“We gave Terrell every opportunity to avoid this outcome,” he said.

Owens was suspended Saturday, two days after he said the Eagles showed “a lack of class” for not publicly recognizing his 100th career touchdown catch in a game on Oct. 23. In the same interview with ESPN.com on Thursday, Owens said the Eagles would be better off with Green Bay’s Brett Favre at quarterback instead of Donovan McNabb.

The NFL in general should take a critical look at deteriorating sportsmanship in the league. Every week lately, Damsel and I are appalled at the shenanigans and antics performed by many so-called professional athletes.

Update: As you might expect, the NFL Players Union has filed a grievance in the Owens case. This is just another example of organized labor taking the wrong side of an issue; instead of demanding excellence, they condone bad behavior.

07 Nov 2005 by People Sports

Astronaut Walt Cunningham – Ambassador of Exploration

From SPACE.com — Astronotes

NASA will honor former astronaut Walt Cunningham as an “Ambassador of Exploration,” an award which provides recognition for the astronauts of the space agency’s first manned spaceflight programs: Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.

On Friday, October 7, at 12:00 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT), NASA officials will present Cunningham with the award, a lucite-encased moon rock, at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas. He is donating the rock to the museum, which presently displays the Apollo 7 Command Module on loan from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

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This is too cool! Walt Cunningham’s family lived up the street from us when I was a kid. One of his sisters used to babysit my brother and me and another sister went to the same high school I did. Congratulations Walt Cunningham!

06 Oct 2005 by Aerospace People Rocket Science

Japanese-American WWII Soldiers Gather to Honor a Fallen Comrade

God bless these amazing men who came from far and wide to honor Torrance, California’s only WWII Medal of Honor recipient Ted Tanouye:

Veterans ‘Go for Broke’ in honoring fallen soldier

The old soldiers gathered in the morning sun, greeting each other with hands that trembled with age, snapping pictures of a granite monument to a fallen comrade.

They were Nisei, second-generation Japanese-Americans who fought in Italy and France while their parents waited behind the barbed wire of relocation camps. They had fought alongside Ted Tanouye, the Torrance farm boy who earned a Medal of Honor in World War II

Read the whole article in the Daily Breeze.

05 Oct 2005 by California Military People

Top 10 Reasons Why People Use a Wireless While Driving

Damsel suggested I resurect this piece from the old database . . .

Daily, I commute through southwestern Los Angeles County, amongst this blue-state’s worst drivers. Many of them are on the wireless as they commute (I estimate a fourth of them). Damsel and I came up with a list of potential motivations for this phenomenon:

The top 10 reasons to use your wireless while driving:

  • 10. Using the wireless while carpooling allows you to avoid boring conversations with the moron carpooler(s).
  • 9. If you roll down your windows while using the wireless, you can impress persons within earshot about how important your conversations are. This also applies to non-driving use of the wireless in public.
  • 8. You can demonstrate your superior ability to multitask between high-tech wireless communicating and using one hand to control your 3500 pound SUV in rush-hour traffic.
  • 7. You can become the center of attention when the enraged driver behind you begins honking the horn while you fumble with dialing a number after the light turns green.
  • 6. You have the satisfaction of having the ability to adroitly switch between driving, talking and screeching at your baby-on-board toddler in the car seat.
  • 5. You benefit from preventing hearing loss by using the phone rather than blasting your eardrums with your over-emphasized, tectonic plate-moving bass boom box.
  • 4. You can distract attention from that POS Volvo you’re driving by brandishing your combination phone-camera-gameboy-MP3 playing-tazer projecting-cigar lighting unit for all to see.
  • 3. You are far safer yakking on the wireless than applying makeup (i.e. “women farding in the car” – per Rush Limbaugh) or plucking random hairs.
  • 2. While most guys think that going for that elusive, deeply lodged booger while in the car is invisible to the public, it is definitely not. Using his wireless while driving will keep him from pickin’and grinin’ and will benefit other drivers who no longer have to witness the desperate green-gold mining operations.

And the number one reason . . .

  • 1. When you use the wireless, it allows the person you called to accurately recount the events and your last words, prior to the impact, and the Good Samaritan who happens upon your accident will be able to quickly dial 911 after prying that wireless from your cold dead hands.
05 Oct 2005 by California Humor People

Maxwell Smart Heads into the Cone of Silence

Don Adams, born Donald James Yarmy (April 13, 1923 – September 25, 2005), was an American actor of Jewish and Irish Catholic descent, best known for his role as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) in the TV sitcom Get Smart (1965-1970), for which he also directed and wrote. Adams won three Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Max.

He served with the USMC during World War II and came down with malaria during the battle of Guadalcanal. He worked as a comic and mimic, taking the stage-name of Adams after marrying singer Adelaide Adams. His work on television began in 1954. After the success of Get Smart his later efforts were less successful, including the comedy series The Partners and three attempts to revive the Get Smart series in the 1980s. He continued to make the majority of his income from live work on stage and in clubs.

He also worked as a voice actor. His first work was in Tennessee Tuxedo and his Tales (1963-1966), but he was more famous as the voice of Inspector Gadget in the initial run of that television series (1983-1985) and the Christmas Special as well as in later reprises. He also attempted a sitcom comeback in Canada with Check it Out! in 1985, but the show was not successful.

He stated in interviews that his famous “clippy” voice characterization was based on, and an exaggeration of, the speaking style of actor William Powell.
Hat tip Wikipedia for the mini-bio.

26 Sep 2005 by Entertainment People

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