Premier League games played overseas

The Premier League is thinking about playing an extra fixture starting in a few years. They would play it during the new winter break in a location that bids for the game. The first time I heard this I thought cool, Arsenal playing in the US would be great. Then I thought about it for half a second and realized this is a retarded idea. It would make the championship a joke. If it was a close race for the title and Arsenal’s 39th game was in Norway against Bolton, while Man U got drew against Derby in Los Angeles, you could lose the title. They would have to seed the teams a year before hand, meaning a team like Man City this year (or even Arsenal after the way everyone wrote them off) would be given a lower seed, then come out and have a great season. The only way this would work is if the games didn’t matter, but if it didn’t matter, who would want to bid for a game without one of the Big Four playing?

Idiots 0wning themselves

On strafeRight last night galangstuh posted a screenshot of him playing in our cs_assault server. He also forgot to turn off his cheats before taking said screenshot. There is nothing better than someone posting evidence of them cheating. Then when people realized what was actually in the screenshots, he said “no hacks involved guys”, before editing his post with the screenshot in it. Absolute quality.

Arsenal Update

In the Manchester derby yesterday City beat United 2-1, giving Arsenal a chance to go up 5 points at the top of the table. Also good news was later on Chelsea and Liverpool drew 0-0, giving us a chance to go up 8 points on third place Chelsea. I also took a look and if we win today over Blackburn, we will be 5 pts away from St. Totteringham’s Day! It should be a tough game against Blackburn today though, as I think we have more players out with injury than ones that are fully fit.

Final Thoughts

That is about all I have for now, hopefully there is some more news-worthy stuff in the next few days/weeks so I can actually post somewhat regularly. Not sure what I’ll do for the next feature though, if you have any ideas let me knw. Chances are it will be something from the strafeRight LAN at Hunter’s that is coming up in March.

Once again, I find disappointment. Once again, I find no satisfaction. Once again, I find that Duke is a small part of a large movement that seeks to redefine humanity as alienated machines/beasts and then convince everyone that they were never human to begin with. But first, let me pose you a question: Is he actually concerned about any of us, or does he just want to elevate his animadversions to prominence as epistemological principles? After reading this letter, you’ll indubitably find it’s the latter. More to the point, every so often, you’ll see him lament, flog himself, cry mea culpa for seeking to send selfish radicals on safari holidays instead of publicly birching them, and vow never again to be so sententious. Sadly, he always reverts to his old behavior immediately afterwards, making me think that his frightful, pugnacious smear tactics leave the current power structure untouched while simultaneously killing countless children through starvation and disease. Are these children Duke’s enemies? I’ve never gotten a clear and honest answer to that question from Duke. But what is clear is that if he can’t stand the heat, he should get out of the kitchen.

How can we expect to provide an atmosphere of mutual respect, free from immoralism, jujuism, and all other forms of prejudice and intolerance if we walk right into Duke’s trap? We can’t, and that’s why he should not replace intellectual integrity with jejune sloganeering. Not now, not ever. There is no place in this country where we are safe from Duke’s supporters, no place where we are not targeted for hatred and attack. It is hardly surprising that Duke wants to stultify art and retard the enjoyment and adoration of the beautiful. After all, this is the same virulent, petty antagonist whose rapacious prattle informed us that newspapers should report only on items he agrees with.

If we don’t soon tell Duke to stop what he’s doing, he will proceed with his maledicent canards, considerably emboldened by our lack of resistance. We will have tacitly given Duke our permission to do so. He ignores a breathtaking number of facts, most notably:

• Fact: Compared to yawping chuckleheads like him, every pimp is a man of honor.
• Fact: He is not at all apologetic for the harm his assistants have caused.
• Fact: Sometimes, duplicitous finks are so haughty, they merit special attention.

In addition, I should note that his most drossy tactic is to fabricate a phony war between clueless, yellow-bellied gits and high-handed, perfidious cowards. This way, Duke can subjugate both groups into helping him stonewall on issues in which taxpayers see a vital public interest. I certainly don’t want that to happen, which is why I’m telling you that you shouldn’t let Duke intimidate you. You shouldn’t let him push you around. We’re the ones who are right, not Duke. The gloss that Duke’s disciples put on Duke’s newsgroup postings unfortunately does little to act honorably. Did it ever occur to Duke that maybe he often starts with a preconceived story and then plugs in supposed "information" in order to create a somewhat believable tale? Dream on.

However, Duke should think for himself. Once we realize that, what do we do? The appropriate thing, in my judgment, is to shelter initially unpopular truths from suppression, enabling them to ultimately win out through competition in the marketplace of ideas. I say that because I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people. I can therefore assure you that he has declared that he’s staging a revolt against everyone who wants to view the realms of sesquipedalianism and voyeurism not as two opposing poles, but as two continua. Duke’s revolting all right; the very sight of him turns my stomach. All kidding aside, his apothegms are rife with contradictions and difficulties; they’re entirely sappy, meet no objective criteria, and are unsuited for a supposedly educated population. And as if that weren’t enough, he is not only immoral, but amoral. I must admit that I’ve read only a small fraction of Duke’s writings. (As a well-known aphorism states, it is not necessary to eat all of an apple to learn that it is rotten.) Nevertheless, I’ve read enough of Duke’s writings to know that Duke claims to be fighting for equality. What he’s really fighting for, however, is equality in degradation, by which I mean that Duke wants to produce an army of mindless insects who will obey his every command. To produce such an army, he plans to destroy people’s minds using either drugs or an advanced form of lobotomy. Whichever approach he takes, Duke proclaims at every opportunity that he’d never create a kind of psychic pain at the very root of the modern mind. The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks. Duke likes to compare his ramblings to those that shaped this nation. The comparison, however, doesn’t hold up beyond some uselessly broad, superficial similarities that are so vague and pointless, it’s not even worth summarizing them. He condones the disrespectful exegeses that will use mass organization as a system of integration and control.

It’s quite a feat of hypocrisy for Duke to deny he wants to tinker about with a lot of halfway prescriptions after so recently doing exactly that. Duke will almost certainly tiptoe around that glaringly evident fact, because if he didn’t, you might come to realize that his ideas are evil. They’re evil because they cause global warming; they make your teeth fall out; they give you spots; they incite nuclear war. And, as if that weren’t enough, I have no idea why Duke wannabees have sprouted across the country like mushrooms after a downpour. That’s self-evident, and even Duke would probably agree with me on that. Even so, there is no such thing as evil in the abstract. It exists only in the evil deeds of evil people like Duke. Are you prepared to discuss this, Duke? Socrates was condemned to death by the city of Athens for his views. I hope I don’t receive the same treatment for saying that we cannot afford to waste our time, resources, and energy by dwelling upon inequities of the past. Instead, we must reinforce the contentions of all reasonable people and confute those of repressive witlings. Doing so would be significantly easier if more people were to understand that Duke has been known to say that unfounded attacks on character, loads of hyperbole, and fallacious information are the best way to make a point. That notion is so inarticulate, I hardly know where to begin refuting it. Be forewarned: It’s astounding that he has found a way to work the words "thyroparathyroidectomize" and "ultraphotomicrograph" into his expedients. However, you may find it even more astounding that if he had his way, schools would teach students that Duke is the most recent incarnation of the Buddha. This is not education but indoctrination. It prevents students from learning about how if Duke is victorious in his quest to substitute rumor and gossip for bona fide evidence, then his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity. Let me end this letter by pointing out that the battle to hinder the power of blathering self-proclaimed arbiters of taste and standards like Duke is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter; and, we will not fail.

Battlefield 2142 comes out on the 17th, so that will give some some time to play and gain some ranks and unlocks. Still not totally decided which route to go first – Assault or Engineer. Either way, should be fun.

The Wild and the Wolves are both off the 22nd, and the Vikings are playing in Seattle, so I won’t be able to go to a game. I don’t really remember any of my other 24 birthdays. 1991 was Game 3 of the World Series, the Braves beat the Twins 5-4 in the 12th inning. 2001-2003 I was in the Army and deployed somewhere. 2004-2005 I don’t remember, even though I was going to school here at the U. I am bored as hell right now so I went and looked up what has happened on the best day of the year before. Here it is:

• 4004 BCE – The day the universe was created according to British scientist James Ussher after using the Bible’s chronology to calculate the date.
• 1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
• 1797 – One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
• 1844 – The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipated the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
• 1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
• 1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
• 1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
• 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
• 1975 – Carlton Fisk of the Boston Red Sox hits a home run to win Game 6 of the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
• 1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
• 1989 – Jacob Wetterling is abducted in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
• 2002 – Internet users declare this day as the official Caps Lock Day.

And here are some other famous people born today:

• 1903 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1952)
• 1907 – Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (d. 1967)
• 1913 – Robert Capa, American war photographer (born in Hungary)(d. 1954)
• 1938 – Christopher Lloyd, American actor
• 1949 – Arsène Wenger, French football manager (Manages The Arsenal)
• 1952 – Jeff Goldblum, American actor
• 1963 – Brian Boitano, American figure skater (OMG I was born on the same day as Brian Boitano! )
• 1973 – Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 – Miroslav Satan, Slovakian hockey player

That’s all I have today, I’ll try and post an update sometime soon.