If You See the Phillies. . .

Sorry about that last post

I was trying to use my wife's fancy new Droid phone to post. I'm not the most high tech guy in the world.

Anyway, Team Chaos was at Turner Field tonight, watching God's team finish off the Atlanta braves.

Guess who scored playoff tickets!

You Know How I Know This Thing is a Scam?

You know how I know that "Seize the Day" is a scam?

Well, first because Sarah the grifter Palin is involved, but also because of this:

$4.95 per person? You got Palin, Laura Bush, Terry Bradshaw, Bill O'Reilly, etc. You're renting out Philips Arena (home of the NBA Hawks) and you're charging 5 bucks? Or $20 for the whole gang? Smells like everyone involved has a book to sell.

And all the participants seem to be speaking on subjects that were just assigned randomly.

Laura Bush on "Personal Empowerment?"

What does she know a bout personal empowerment? First, marry into one of the country's wealthiest, most powerful families. Then, get your idiot coked-up husband clean and sober and wait for him to stumble bass-ackwards into the presidency. Then just let the speaking engagements roll in!




Overcoming obstacles. Really. Unless the obstacles are your own dumbness, laziness and willful ignorance, I don't really see what she knows about overcoming obstacles. I mean, she's not exactly a "when the going gets tough" person. When the going got tough in Alaska, she up and quit. Any obstacle that can't be overcome with a wink a smile and a folksy "you betcha!" is probably not going to be overcome by Ms. Palin.

	In the world of football, few players have come close to Terry Bradshaw's proven ability to build and lead winning teams.

Look, Terry Bradshaw was a fine quarterback, but he certainly did not "build" his teams. The Steelers have a front office full of player-personnel guys who draft, sign, and trade for players.

And they had Chuck Knoll, a Hall-of-Fame coach to lead them.

	Ben Stein's career has covered the gamut – from acting and game shows to political speech writing and social commentary. And he's done it with a wry style that has made him a national celebrity.

So, nowhere in there is there any mention of him ever being any kind of businessman. And yet his topic is "business innovation?" His "business" is writing whiny columns and speaking in a flat, grating monotone. Which I guess, in a way, is a sort of innovation. Prior to Stein, it was assumed that a spokesman or actor would speak in a pleasant, expressive way. So, Ben's sort of a maverick, I guess.

	Les Brown has been motivating people for years to overcome their circumstances and achieve their dreams. It is an authentic message from Les, who was born in poverty and ignored by the education system, only to rise up and become one of the most acclaimed motivational speakers and authors of the day. He is a true American success story.

Les Brown? Without his band of Renown?
You know, it really seems shady that your road to success was teaching others to be successful. How does one become an inspiring motivational speaker without having first been successful in some other field? It doesn't make sense. How do you get that first gig?
Hey, some guy who was born poor and is apparently not well-educated wants to know if we'd like to hire him as a motivational speaker.
Hell, yes We would!

Kids, I'm here to teach you the secret of success. Step one, get people to pay you to teach them the secret of success. That is all.

So I gotta think that this whole thing is a scam. No one is allowed to leave without buying an armload of shitty books or something.

Plus, Sarah Palin is involved.

Sharron Angle Just Keeps Getting Crazier

I don't even have a comment on this story:

Angle: Muslim law taking hold in parts of US

By CRISTINA SILVA, Associated Press Writer Cristina Silva, Associated Press Writer – 35 mins ago

LAS VEGAS – U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle told a crowd of supporters that the country needs to address a "militant terrorist situation" that has allowed Islamic religious law to take hold in some American cities.
In a recording of the rally provided to The Associated Press by the Mesquite Local News, a man is heard asking Angle : "I keep hearing about Muslims wanting to take over the United States ... on a TV program just last night, I saw that they are taking over a city in Michigan and the residents of the city, they want them out. They want them out. So, I want to hear your thoughts about that."

(Okay, one comment. The residents of Dearborn, MI and the Muslims "taking over" that city are the same people. There is a very large Muslim population there. They are "taking over" Dearborn in the same way that German immigrants "took over" much of Minnesota and Italian immigrants "took over" North Beach in SF, by moving there in large numbers. There's nothing nefarious going on there.)

Angle responds that "we're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it."

"My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States," she said. "It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States."

Dearborn, Mich., has a thriving Muslim community. It was not immediately clear why Angle singled out Frankford, Texas, a former town that was annexed into Dallas around 1975.

Angle is in a dead-heat race against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid