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4.14.08 @ 12:01AM

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Was in a Wal-Mart yesterday and some old lady in a electric cart had a reverse beeper on her buggy!
-- Mark Morgan

AWESOME SPURS
Re: Michael Brendan Dougherty's Nothing But Net:

I'm so tired of east and west coast reporters bad mouthing my San Antonio Spurs by saying they don't play good basketball, or that they are boring. What's bad and boring about unselfish play and good defense? Have you ever watched Manu Ginobili take his man and several others off the dribble? If you did, you would know why we call this Argentinean "El Contusion" in our backwater little city. And you would be anything but bored. And Tim Duncan's strong fundamentals are anything but boring to a purist basketball fan. Before Timmy did you see anyone using the backboard on a jumper in the last 20 years? They re-coined the term "Double/double" when he entered the league. The Spurs play like many of us were taught to play long ago.

Sure, we don't have someone from Los Angeles accused of rape playing during the playoffs. And sure our small market team works together and doesn't fight among themselves in public. Sure our small town Texas team listens to its military style coach that requires each of them to act professionally and sacrifice for the "Team" (whether it's minutes, points or their body). (What a strange concept, and one that should in no way be honored or encouraged.) I guess some "experts" want more. In particular, a west coast/east coast final. It sounds like your real gripe with the Spurs is geographical.

And, by the way, Tony Parker's father is American, his mother is Belgian, and his wife is gorgeous.
-- Matt Lair
Go Spurs Go

UNOLYMPIAN
Re: John Tabin's Barack's Games:

Inexperienced Obama tell the leaders of anti-American and/or terrorists-sponsoring Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea they're wrong? Not possible. That requires what he appears to lack: wisdom, courage and moral certitude, but also political and national motivation.

Should he, though, wouldn't that violate long-term associations with not only unrepentant terrorists Ayers and Dorn, but also pro-Palestinian Yassir-Arafat-apologist Rashid Khalidi as well as former pastor, spiritual mentor, racial separatist and adviser Jeremiah "God damn America" Wright?

And wouldn't that mean Obama possessed fundamental knowledge of and concern for the electorate, particularly the white electorate -- the same one he recently insulted for having religion (read: Christianity) and making it part of their lives; and for owning guns (read: hunting rifles)?

No, Barack Obama cannot be trusted to stand for America.

But with MSM complicity, we can expect his continued avoidance of revealing who he is and what his real agenda is.

He can't reveal, though, can he? If Obama did, the electorate comprised of ordinary people -- about whom he knows nothing but scoffs at some because of their faith, morality and values -- would learn his brand of change is socialist, morally confused, national-security threatening and anti-constitutional.

That change would comfort Cuba, Syria, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

Mr. Tabin is correct in his statement, "A million dollars in debt means the bank owns you; a trillion dollars in debt means you own the bank. The idea that the Chinese would launch an economic suicide attack is laughable." But the a priori assumption here is that Obama understands rational self-interests. This is not a self-evident truth.

In the classic Science Fiction novel, A Stranger in a Strange Land, Jubal Harshaw explains the ways of the world to Michael Valentine Smith; Harshaw teaches Smith the Randian concepts of objectivism, or rational self-interest: A man can choose logically and work for his own interest or he can act irrationally against them. The concept seems simple yet many people cannot grasp it. China does.

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