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| I have, for the first time, found myself fascinated by the FIFA Soccer Championship Games. I have always been confused as to why Soccer, also known as Football, is so popular around the world, as my experience with the game of "Football" has always been the American style of football. The Rules of the Game were first layed down by the Football Association and introduced in1863 in London, England. The rules were changed by thge Football Association to exclude hacking, tripping, holding, and running with the football in hand. All of these excluded rules are now part of the game of American style of Football. American style football equips their players with helmets, shields, body armor designed to inflict and a futile attemtp to prevent great bodily harm. But these body armors do not prevent great and permanent injury to its players, including brain injuries, broken limbs, loss of cognizance and malodies that last an entire lifetime that include other behaviours associated with brain injuries such as immobility, criminal behavior, and the inability to live a full and happy and healthy life. My note is a comparison to what Americans call "The World Series Championships" of football, baseball, basketball and other sports. But these sports do not invite champions from other countries to participate, and therefore do not represent world champion players of these sports other than from American ballclubs. I've noticed that the American "World Championship" games are a contest between the same states and same teams year after year and do not represent a worldwide competition. How can baseball have a "World Championship game" if other countries and their teams do not participate and compete? Hence, American World championship games garner a false sense of importance, entitlement, ability, and invite no competition. The game of American football is dangerous. No other world teams will participate because it is not a competition, it is game designed to cripple and incapacitate its oponents and therefore, in my humble opinion, doesn't really qualify as a sport. Soccer is the true sport enjoyed and loved by world champions and their fans around the World, a true World Champion competition. |
| yes to all of this |
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| I'm watching the Disney channel National Geographic series about Egypt and the building of the pyramids. National Geographic claims that the people who built the pyramids did so out of love and loyalty to Pharoh, but that's not exactly true. The Bible is rife with stories about slaves, particularly Hebrew slaves, who were beaten and staved and literally worked to death making mortar for bricks and hewning stones and workings without pay or food. How can National Geographic claim that the pyramids were buillt by people devoted to Pharoh when the Bible states differently? Is the Bible not true? I do admit that everything in the bible is not exactly fact, but the building of the pyramids I believe were built by slavery and not loyatly. Does National Geographic refute the story of Moses and the story of his escape from Egypt for the killing of a guard who was beating a slave? Keep in mind, Moses considered himself an Egyptian until he discovered he was found floating the the reeds by Pharoh's daughter. I'm sorely disappointed. |
| It probably also depends on who you are asking. The people who wanted the pyramids built may have been devoted to Pharoh. Those are NOT the same people who actually did the labor of building the pyramids. People can also be devoted to ideals that actually put them through horrible situations, so perhaps the people who built the pyramids were devoted. In the end, does it really matter? Appreciate them for what they are, appreciate that people gave their lives to make them so their importance is not diminished. |
| In the bark of the old pine tree sits and old man, greyed by the full moonlight. His hair is long, his lbrows have grown as long as his hair and shadow his eyes from the light. A long gray mustache begins beneath his straight, sharp nose and connects to his mouth and chin, around his ears and down the back of his neck. |
| It's cold in the low desert this morning. There are course breezes moving through what's left of the leaves on the 50-foot white cedars; and the 80-foot pines don't care how briskly the winds swirl through their branches. The olive trees seem to grow in the direction of the wind, no matter how hard or in what direction it comes. The time has come for me to reassess my life and make changes. Living alone is forcing me to look at my accomplishments and failures. Either I confront my demons, or they won't let me rest. But the truth is, I haven't been ignoring them at all. I simply haven't make any decisions concerning which way I shall committ. But that's not altogether true. If that were true, I doubt that I'd have the conversation under any circumstance. It appears the opportunity has finally come. |
| The year 2030 was first brought to my attention by Al Gore. He warned us of climate change. He told us that by the year 2030, climate change could be catastrophic, unless we alter our behavior toward mother nature. We are now in the spring of year 2021. In nine years, we will be in year 2030. Climate change hsa become and is now eminent around the globe. It's a topic we hope that, if we simply igore, it will go away. In fact, the opposite has become true. |
| I am engulfed in the controversy about the American President, Trump. Reading the rules associated with impeachment, I see that the Senate has the final say as to whether an impeachment "trial" will occur. The senate even has the power to leave the proceedings incomplete, thereby adjourning the proceedings before the final vote, which will be to determine if the President is to be removed from office, unfinished. The Senate can simply and essentially stop the proceedings before completion. I cannot but wonder who wrote these laws and what was the intent when the American Constitution was penned. How is it that only the Senate has the power to remove a President from office? Should it not have been a majority vote including the House of Representatives as well as the Senate? Would that have been more democratic and more representative of the Will of the People? Bias seems to be sown into the very fabric of this nation, designed to create a permanent imbalance. Its disheartening. But alas, all is not lost. The sentiment of the populace and the desire and will of the people can sway the Senate to act justly and completely, or face the wrath of the voters. We must express our beliefs and concerns by voting for local elections each and every time the opportunity presents itself. For it is the Will the People that will rule out. |
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