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Right and Wrong

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After watching Meet the Press this morning and hearing all the reporters discuss the malaise in the country, they completely missed the point: we’ve removed God from everything and taken morals away. Nobody does any wrong any more.

The media has to confess that they don’t report facts; they report people’s feelings and their own. If we don’t get back to recognizing that we have a right and wrong, we’re only heading down. Right and wrong came from our belief in God. It is through knowledge from God and the Ten Commandments we have morals. Without it, people pursue their own greedy way. The reason for so much dislike of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is that they show no moral principles. Trump is hedonistic, narcissistic and arrogant. Clinton is a seeker of power and money in any form, in any way.

We are becoming a godless society, in danger. Look at the Roman Empire: they were so far flung they spread themselves too thin and were completely without morals.

Chuck Todd and his guests did not once talk about morals, but one on thing we can agree: no matter who is elected, there will be more turmoil. This will go on unless everyone, especially our leaders, recognize right and wrong and truth, which is morals.

I don’t know what all the answers are, but I know there are too many people running around blind-sided. The media must begin to realize what their purpose is, and that is to give the facts, not their opinions. We’ll never know what the true story is unless they do.

And that’s where we are.

 

 

Thoughts Following Louisville’s Post-Season Ban

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In this time of great moral failures, we again are letting the NCAA, presidents of universities, athletic directors, and coaches come down with all their failures and put the blame on players who had nothing to do with them. The salaries paid to these people show you where all the greed is, as does the failure of the education for a lot of the players. It’s time that we as a people rise up and say, “Change it.”

Don’t hand pick one team here and one team there, hit them all when they have an infraction. Presidents of universities, athletic directors, and coaches all know there is no innocence in any of their three. Our entire society is gutted by this behavior. People have got to stand up and demand good morals.

If you don’t know what constitutes good morals, then you need go back and learn them.

And the media can take a lesson in all this, too. Good journalists always print the facts. They don’t give opinions unless they are trying to write on the opinion page, in which case they state clearly they’re sharing opinion and not facts.

I hope that U of L in their final games goes out and beats the pants of all of them, and leaves them all wondering how good they would have been in tournament play.

Lastly, I will add that I really don’t care who wins the Super Bowl, I just hope no one gets hurt.

Politics is stuck in a Catch-22

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After I listened to Meet The Press this morning, I could not keep my mouth shut another minute. I could not believe  Chuck Todd nor his guests didn’t see what I heard: the Catch-22 in American politics today.

In 1961, Joseph Heller published Catch-22 and gave us the perfect example of what’s happening now. All political speech today is Catch-22. If you don’t know what it means, go to the dictionary and look it up. [Editor’s note: I’m not linking to it because Puff would like you to look it up yourself and we all do what Puff says around here.]

Politicians speak in Catch-22-ese, so voters don’t get real answers, and that’s why voter turnout is so low. But it’s not just on the politicians. All American people need a course in basic Logic, so they can discern whether something is a contradiction (black and white) or a contrast (grey matter).

We don’t have logic today; we live in Catch-22: politicians don’t want to say anything that someone might vote against, so nobody knows what they’re saying. We need to make people’s brains move a little bit better and argue a point. We need to look at something someone is saying and ask ourselves, “What are the points here?”

This really affects everyone out there who is running for election and all the elections coming up next week. Let’s see if the men and women who are running for office can speak in logical terms on election day.

Correcting Chuck Todd

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While watching “Meet the Press” on Sunday (sitting mere steps from the editor of this blog), NBC announced Chuck Todd would replace David Gregory as its new host. Then Chuck introduced himself. He says he’s here to “interpret” the news.

WRONG.

He’s supposed to present the facts and the different arguments, not interpret them for the viewer. I’ll decide what the meaning is myself, Chuck. You’re not here to tell me how to think about an issue, you’re here to merely tell the information in a logical fashion.

Let’s just see how you do…

Donald Sterling Is Why We Need To Clean Up The Whole Show

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Saying the n-word should cost millions — and it should’ve cost Donald Sterling a lot more. The NBA has known about this man for far too long. Ridiculous.

Donald Sterling is also why top-level pay — this goes for college athletic directors and coaches — should be cut drastically. We can also apply this to Wall Street and CEOs who ride a company into nothing and get paid over the top sums to do it.

Yet another remind we need to get back to what is deemed right and wrong — fairness — in all things that we do.

Have a great Sunday, everybody.

Commentary on the Sochi hockey commentary

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Five stars, blue ribbon and highest honors to the women and men’s ice hockey games announcer at the Olympics. [Editor’s note: we *think* its Mike Emrick Puff is referring to, but we have consumed zero seconds of Sochi except for Tara and Johnny’s Instagram, so correct us if we’re wrong in the comments.]

You could watch and listen or just listen and know what was going on in the game. All athletic announcers should take a lesson. He wasn’t telling them how to play, he was simply describing the plays as they happened. You had no trouble knowing what was happening. He knew the players on the other teams and could call their names out — amazing. NBC should give him a big raise, and ESPN should take a lesson, because their people can’t do it right.

In other news, everyone needs to start paying attention to their teams for March Madness. Last night, Russdiculous threw up the last shot in OT for the Cards’ sliver of a win over Cincinnati, and Kentucky had a hard time getting past LSU. Should be an exciting tournament…

It’s time to light up the world

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Long past due, it is time to light up the world — not with the Olympic torch — but with honesty and a good sense of right and wrong. Come on, sports world, social and public media, governments, entertainment, business, professionals, spouses, and anyone else I may have overlooked: be honest and truthful in everything you do.

All citizens of the world take note: it is the truth that will win out eventually.

And: hats off to all the Olympians headed to Sochi.

College basketball, take a hint from football!

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Lately, I see so many bad calls by the refs on the basketball court, I have come to the conclusion that basketball should copy the practice adopted by football. They should stop the game so the refs can look at the play over and over so they can make a better guess as to who did what to who, or who smacked the ball out, or broke his mother’s spine when he stepped on the line, etc.

Everyone would benefit! More time for commercials (the networks), more time to go grab another beer (fans) or – during a very difficult one – more time for a potty break! This would go a long way toward keeping the fans in the arena and fans at home from singing the old nursery rhyme about several blind mice.

I know they do this to decide the degree of flagrancy for flagrant files, but I would like to see this done for other calls and missed calls as well. This would not be a logistical nightmare. One possibility would be for the coaches to wave, shout and/or whistle the refs when they think the replay rule should be invoked. I can help them work out the details if they can’t figure it out.

If this seems to be a bad idea, how about a simpler solution: more time in referee school.