I apologize for the delay of about 3 weeks. Life outside of the blog has interfered with me and I will try to be more diligent.
Terrell Pryor formerly of THE Ohio State University broke some rules and in Columbus, Ohio he is treated as a criminal. Jim Tressel the former coach of THE Ohio State University broke rules and lied to the NCAA and in Columbus, Ohio he's a conquering hero. Maybe it was his 9-1 record versus the University of Michigan, maybe it was his Number 1 in the Bowl Championship series in 2001 who knows...
Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa allegedly took steroids and enhanced their performance. With their bobblehead looks and sometimes questionable attitudes, it's tough to argue against that allegation...Yet in 1998 the commissioner of baseball Bud Selig, okayed a baseball promotional ad that claimed "Chicks dig the long ball". One of the effects of steroids is that one can continue to work out when their bodies should be resting. This is due to artificial testosterone being replaced into ones body. Now why the head grows it's a mystery to me, but while the testicles shrink makes perfect sense but that's neither here nor there. Bonds, McGwire, Clemens and Sosa while greats of their era won't be able to get to the Hall Of Fame without a ticket, while the architect of the proliferation of the Steroid Era will be forever immortalized by...doing nothing!
Lyndie Englund and many of her cohorts were pictured putting Muslim prisoners in positions that were insulting to their faith. They were put into humiliating positions and had those pictures taken for posterity or a friggin joke. Englund and her lower level ilk caught hell...Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush live off their retirement funds.
Do I excuse Pryor and the rest? No, they did do wrong and of course my point in this blog is accountability. But the way Blue was raised by his old man (a Roosevelt democrat thank you) You have to accept your errors because whatever punishment you get trust me the person above you is getting deeper shit than you are. Sorry Dad, from what it has been proven for a while, what with Golden Parachutes for failed financial executives and coaches and commissioners playing dumb and chief executives never hearing of "Abu Ghraib" tells me that you were sadly wrong. It makes a middle aged guy wonder how one day he will tell his future charges the happy horseshit of being accountable when it appears that if you're middle class or below you get screwed and your boss just because he (and lets not kid ourselves it will be HE) gets a pat on the back and maybe keys to the city.
It isn't a race or gender thing, it's a perceived class thing. Them that got, gets. Until some of my red friends that do have a lick of sense realize that things they were taught ain't being put into practice then its only gonna get worse.
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