Coach Cal's radio show is always entertaining for us crazy Cat Fans. I particularly enjoyed Randall of Fairdale callikng in and reminding Cal of a comment he made a few years ago. He met with the team before the seasion and asked ecah player to say how many points he averaged in High School. He had numbers like 32, 33, 37, etc. They totaled the individual scoring and you told them: You realize we won't average 175 points a game. Great eye-opening for high school starts coming into college.
Cal said this team would have to average around 250 a game at the individuals' averages. Great eys-openers for all of us crazies!
SamKat aka Sam Kegley
Monday, January 5, 2015
Staten Island - Garner ... Thanks Judi C!
It turns out that almost everything bleated out by the race-mongers and the low-information media about the Eric Garner tragedy has turned out to be wrong.Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six, is dead. This is a tragedy, regardless of the circumstances. We rightly mourn with his wife and children. They will never see their husband and father again, and that should break everyone's heart.When we witness a gut-rending tragedy like this, we want to know who is responsible. Who is to blame for depriving this family of its husband and father? As the facts emerge, it becomes increasingly clear that, as tragic as this situation is, in the end the culpability for Eric Garner's death rests with Eric Garner.To put it as simply as possible, if Mr. Garner had not broken the law and then resisted arrest, he would be alive today.While protesters are trying to make this about race, it must be noted that the police showed up in response to complaints from black business owners. The arrest was ordered by a black officer, and the arrest itself was supervised by a black officer, a female sergeant.A crackdown on the sale of illegal, untaxed cigarettes - called "loosies" since they are sold in singles rather than in packs - had been ordered just days before Garner's arrest by the highest ranking black police officer in the NYPD, Philip Banks.So a black officer ordered the crackdown, black business owners called for the arrest, a black officer ordered the arrest, and a black officer supervised the arrest itself. It's also worth noting that the 23-member grand jury which refused to indict the arresting officer included nine non-white members. Ask yourself how many of those facts you have heard from any member of the race-obsessed, low-information media.Garner had been arrested 31 times, and eight of those had been for selling loosies. His rap sheet goes back decades and includes arrests for assault and grand larceny.At the time of his death, Garner was out on bail after being charged with multiple offenses, including illegal sale of cigarettes, marijuana possession, false impersonation and driving without a license.So he certainly knew the law, knew he was in violation, and knew doing it again would likely lead to his arrest, a drill he'd been through dozens of times before.There were 228,000 misdemeanor arrests in New York City in 2013, the last year for which figures are available. All of them put together led to precisely zero deaths.Garner, all six-foot, three inches and 350 pounds of him, clearly resisted arrest, swatting away the arresting officer's hands while loudly exclaiming, "Don't touch me!" After he was taken to the ground, he growled, "This ends here!" That could be taken any number of ways, but in the heat of the moment it certainly could be read reasonably as a declaration that he was going to fight arrest until he was subdued by compelling force.The patrolman who wrestled Garner to the ground, Daniel Pantaleo, did it by the book, using a takedown maneuver every policeman is taught at the academy. He did not, in fact, use a chokehold, which is defined by the NYPD as "any pressure to the throat or windpipe, which may prevent or hinder breathing or reduce intake of air." Now Garner was clearly able to breathe, since that's the only way he could repeatedly say, "I can't breathe."The autopsy explicitly declares that there was no injury to Garner's windpipe or to his neck bones. This was a wrestler's headlock, not a chokehold. (As a sidenote, chokeholds, while contrary to police policy, are not in fact illegal in the state of New York when an officer uses one to restrain a resisting subject. They are not even illegal in New York City, at the insistence of liberal mayor Bill DeBlasio.) Patrolman Pantaleo was not indicted for the simple reason that he did nothing wrong.Garner's death likely should be attributed to the fact that he himself suffered from severe asthma, something the arresting officers had no reason to know. According to Garner's friends, his asthma was severe enough that he was forced to quit his job as horticulturist for the city. He wheezed when he talked and could not walk so much as a city block without having to stop to rest. Garner "couldn't breathe" because of his asthma, not because of a chokehold.In addition, he suffered from heart disease, advanced diabetes, hypertension, obesity and sleep apnea. Contrary to public perception, he did not die on site, nor did he die of asphyxiation. He suffered cardiac arrest in the ambulance and was declared dead about an hour later at the hospital.So it turns out that almost everything bleated out by the race-mongers and the low-information media has turned out to be wrong. As the wisest man who ever lived wrote 3,000 years ago, "The one who states his case first seems right until the other comes and examines him" (Proverbs 18:17).Eric Garner and Michael Brown both fought the law, and the law won. In the end, they have no one to blame but themselves.New York Post columnist Bob McMcanus concluded his column on Eric Garner this way:"There are many New Yorkers - politicians, activists, trial lawyers, all the usual suspects - who will now seek to profit from a tragedy that wouldn't have happened had Eric Garner made a different decision."He was a victim of himself. It's just that simple."
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Russian Sobriety Test ... Thx Ramet H!
Only watch if you are completely sober!
Happy New YearOld or some new sayings ... Thx Ramey H!
Where
did "piss poor" come
from?
If
you're young and hip, this is still
interesting.
NOW
THIS IS A REAL EDUCATION
Us
older people need to learn something new every
day...
Just
to keep the grey matter tuned
up.
Where
did "Piss Poor" come from? Interesting
Story.
They
used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all
pee in a pot.
And
then once it was full it was taken and sold to the
tannery...
If
you had to do this to survive you were "Piss
Poor".
But
worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even
afford to buy a
pot...
They
"didn't have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the
low.
The
next time you are washing your hands and complain because
the water
temperature
Isn't
just how you like it, think about how things used to
be.
Here
are some facts about the
1500's
Most
people got married in June because they took their yearly bath
in May,
And
they still smelled pretty good by June.. However, since
they were starting to
smell,
Brides
carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body
odor.
Hence
the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting
married.
Baths
consisted of a big tub filled with hot
water.
The
man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean
water,
Then
all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the
children.
Last
of all the babies.
By
then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in
it.
Hence
the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath
water!"
Houses
had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood
underneath.
It
was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and
other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the
roof.
When
it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would
slip and fall off the
roof.
Hence
the saying, "It's raining cats and
dogs."
There
was nothing to stop things from falling into the
house.
This
posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other
droppings Could mess up your nice clean
bed.
Hence,
a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some
protection.
That's
how canopy beds came into
existence.
The
floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than
dirt.
Hence
the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would
get slippery In the winter when wet, so they spread
thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their
footing..
As
the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you
opened the door, It would all start slipping
outside. A piece of wood was placed in the
entrance-way.
Hence:
a threshold.
(Getting
quite an education, aren't
you?)
In
those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle
that always hung over the
fire.
Every
day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They
ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They
would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the
pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next
day.
Sometimes
stew had food in it that had been there for quite a
while.
Hence
the rhyme:
“Peas
porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine
days old."
Sometimes
they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite
special.
When
visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show
off.
It
was a sign of wealth
that a man could, "bring home the
bacon."
They
would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit
around and chew the
fat.
Those
with money had plates made of
pewter.
Food
with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the
food, causing lead poisoning
death.
This
happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or
so, tomatoes were considered
poisonous.
Bread
was divided according to
status..
Workers
got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the
middle,
And
guests got the top, or the upper
crust.
Lead
cups were used to drink ale or
whisky.
The
combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple
of days..
Someone
walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them
for burial.
They
were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the
family would gather
around
and
eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake
up.
Hence
the custom; “holding a
wake."
England
is old and small and the local folks started running out of
places to bury
people.
So
they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a
bone-house, and reuse the
grave.
When
reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have
scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had
been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the
wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through
the ground and tie it to a
bell.
Someone
would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard
shift) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could
be,
“saved
by the bell" or was "considered a dead
ringer."
And
that's the truth.
Now,
whoever said history was
boring!!!
So
get out there and educate
someone!
Share
these facts with a
friend.
Inside
every older person is a younger person
wondering,
"What
the heck
happened?"
We'll
be friends until we are old and
senile.
Then
we'll be new
friends.
Smile,
it gives your face something to
do!
Street side of Michael Brown ... Thx Ramey H!
The "street side" Michael Brown of Ferguson, MO in action
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Parenting in the Animal Kingdom ... Thx Ramey H!
Parenting in the Animal Kingdom
You will LOVE this...wait'll you see the tiger!
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