Coming back to the Blog

Well its been sometime sense I wrote on this thing but I'm sitting here and just ran back across it and decided what the hell why not give people an update, if people even read this. I have been in school for the past 7-8 months at OSU, not the most interesting place I'd say. There's not much to do here except drink, heavily and the people are somewhat close minded. At this point I find myself thinking what will the next few years bring if I decide to stick it out in the place. This brings me to my next point, I was online the other day and looked at the U of O website for geography, which is my major here, and see that I would be closer to graduating from there if I transferred back instead of sticking it out here. If any of you know me, you know that I have been to 4 schools in the same amount of years. I'm a ridiculous person when it comes to finding a place I can stick with but Corvallis...well sucks.
I really can't say to much about this place other than maybe I made my decision to soon on where to go.

08' Olympics falling short to 68'

Lets being this by taking a look back in time, 40 years to be exact. The year was 1968, the U.S. was at war in Vietnam, racism was huge, and America was in one of the most interesting times it had seen in its almost 200 year history. That summer the U.S. sent hundreds of athletes to Mexico City to participate in the summer Olympics, but 2 of those athletes had the courage, no the balls to stand up in front of the entire world and without saying one word make the biggest statement during those games. Those two men were John Carlos and Tommie Smith, and that stand was with each of them holding one hand each with one black glove each. With that one statement they were ostracized by the U.S. olympic commitee and together had the nation that supported them so much just turn there backs on two men that had suffered with oppression there whole lives. These men had the platform to make a statement and they did just that.
This leads to today, right now, I just was watching sportscenter and getting caught up on all my Brett Farve news when a short segment was presented about the U.S.A. Men's basketball team. This segment examined the issue of China's involvment in Darfur and with the Tibeten people and the players of the basketball team's stance on those issues. First presenting a segment from May with LeBron "King" James which was an interview in which he was personally talking about those issues and his thoughts on them, which were against what was happening. In the interview he says its "...not about the contracts or the money. Its about the people..." But today we were shown interviews with him and teammate Kobe Bryant saying that "...the politics would take care of themselves."
With this enlightening story presented to me today it only gave me thoughts of the images and footage from 40 years ago. Did we forget where we came from and the history we have in this country of oppression of people. These athletes and role models have the largest podium in the history of the world to make a statement, wheather it's with words or with one hand held high, but they choose to sit back and say its not there position to say anything. I call bullshit on the entire team and the olympic committee for not allowing these individuals to voice there opinion. The U.S. Olympic team has said that the atheletes are free to speak there minds but i guess they choose to just let the politics "...take care of themselves." So I guess if no one will speak out maybe we need to get John Carlos and Tommie Smith back on the podium cause at least we know they have the courage to make a statement.

First Post

So yesterday with the nearly 100 degree heat and me not wanting to venture out and die of dehydration, I decided to head to my moms air conditioned house to take a nap. About 4:30 I get a call from my friend Chris asking if I wanted to help out with the Desert Brawl event that was happening at 6:00, so me being the poor college student I am said yes. This night was definitely something to take in and not for good reasons. This is an event which is basically minor league UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship?), which puts to guys in a ring and have them beat the hell out of each other for a couple rounds. Along with this it has girls dress in the shortest skirts and lowest cut shirts to sell beer and walk into the ring holding a sign that lets all the retards in the crowd know what round it is, cause counting to 3 is becoming harder and harder. You also have girls that are just dressing in skanky ass shit also who aren't even trying to sell things, OK maybe their bodies.
While at the event selling overpriced drinks to anyone who would pay $2 for a bottle of water, Chris and I began to talk about everything that was wrong with the whole thing. The event was pushing violence, sex, and alcohol and yet everyone knew what they were going to see and I see kids that are no older than 8 or9 years old in this place, taking it all in and being taught that these types of behaviors are alright, them being two guys beating each other and guys whistling at the girls in the shorts skirts and sometimes just underwear. I just find this type of "competition" as something that needs to be left up to the wild and not be popularized by a nation that is being dumbed down.
Overall it was a good experience to see why people love to watch this stuff. I did end up making $55 which is always nice to have some extra cash in the pocket and got some free beers, more importantly good beer, Fat Tire to be exact.