Themes, sports, and politics

So my lovely wife inspired me to have a regular theme in my posts, random words. I am a creature of math and often make up words in certain situations that suit the need of the moment. For example, we were in NY for Christmas and had visited ground zero which prompted me to ask the question, "I wonder when they will be unconstructionized down there." Somewhere in my sub-conscious I knew this word did not exist, but it felt right for the context I was trying to get across. So here is the definition:

Unconstructionized: (verb); The act of finishing construction so an area is returned to its normal/new state. (noun); An area that is not under construction.

Sports
Ok so moving on to sports. The college football world has gone insane with bias and blindness. The VT/UM game was sloppy but both teams played very good defense all game. The game got criticized as horrible and just downright un-watchable. The two prior bowl games were touted as "thrillers" because they were also close, like the VT/UM game, but ended with scorelines like 400-397. American football fans have really lost sight of how to enjoy good defense, unless it is the SEC. I will not rail on the SEC nor say VT/UM are as good defensively as SEC teams, but people really need to learn that defense exists outside of the SEC and games that end with less then 1000 points don't need to include SEC teams to be good. On top of the frustration is Clemson getting blown out. I don't care that they did team wise, but the hot topic after the game is everybody using that loss to state that the ACC has horrible defense and all around crappy teams. Did they forget that only one day prior another ACC team played amazing defense? The media is no help either because anything that isn't part of the SEC or doesn't score over 40 ppg doesn't belong in football.

Hockey has also been on my mind because it is always on my mind. I came to a great realization the other day about how gullible yet awesome Islander fans are. The team is in last place and we all get depressed and call for changes and generally just whine a lot. Then the same team wins 3 in a row and suddenly we start chanting, "WE WANT THE CUP," and generally acting like the team is suddenly amazing only to be disappointed with more losses. I love the Isles til' I die but man are we gullible haha.

I had some fleeting thoughts yesterday while reading about Futbol (Soccer). Now I have been a general fan of futbol most of my life, but really only got into a team and following heavily in college. I started rooting for Manchester City and have ever since. The thoughts that crossed my mind were amazement at how much I enjoy futbol when I can watch every game. I feel so compelled to watch every game of Man City's I can, and this is not just because they are winning. The sad part is that I can get this excitement for a team because they are actually on TV. I now wish that the US would step up and realize how silly Football really is so we can have more Futbol on TV here, I want to watch Man City even when they aren't first in the league.

Politics
Yesterday and Wednesday I was digging into some political issues going on around the country. Wednesday was an "Occupy" day. I had the sudden realization that I had no idea what they actually wanted. I was in the place I hate where I was generalizing a movement/cause/etc just because of heresay. Where I stood was, "Man they are dumb kids who want life on a silver platter." So I dug around for a few hours and sadly it seems that no one really knows what Occupy wants because they don't know what they want. I found that they were lumping people into this 99% but their own description of the 99% contradicts itself. I was always against the movement because I hate youtube politics and youtube evidence. You can't show me a 3 minute clip of some girl/guy getting pepper sprayed and yell, "SEE BRUTALITASTICNESS!!!!," and expect me to just jump on board, I have more intelligence then that. I realize now that this whole movement garnered so much support because people just didn't ask questions. So when I watch the occupy clips here are the questions that come to mind.

What happened before this clip was taken? In the hours/days/seconds before the cop sprayed? If a person takes a poop on the cops horse then sits on the ground and the cop pepper sprays him but youtube only shows me the latter, how can I be expected to jump on board? I need context people!

Why do you believe that rich people don't pay taxes? All of the people that get these tax breaks are still paying taxes, and to be perfectly honest they have more then likely donated more money to charities then you have or will ever pay in your entire life.

So in conclusion of Occupy, I think the movement will die out because they are yelling about 99% and change and rich greed and how Yoda got screwed and, well ok not that, but they have failed to actually ask for anything concrete. Why not write up a mock bill for a flat tax? Then maybe I can get behind you.

Moving on to the Republican Primaries. Yesterday I finally got around to reading about the candidates and the result of the Iowa Caucus frackin scared me. A man who still believes that Gay is a choice and says something on video and then lies about it only loses by 8 votes??? Either Iowa is full of a lot of ignorant people, I doubt that is true, or religion is way too embedded in politics, that is probably true. So I followed up on this and found this site to take a quiz to tell me who to vote for, and I got 70% Ron Paul and only 1% Rick Santorum (Thank awesomeness I did not relate to that guy).

In conclusion of my second diary entry, umm blog post...ahem, I would like to just say that it feels good to get these kinds of things off my chest and wow facebook would have taken about 40 status to fill that out. TGIF headed into a weekend where the Isles will be continuing their epic storybook playoff run by looking to extend a win streak against the woeful Ducks tonight and the decent Coyotes tomorrow. Followed by an FA Cup Derby between Man City and Man U Sucks. Concluding the sports weekend will be the LSU/Bama game as well as finally getting to fight some Dag (Dagorhir) battles for the first time since August.

Peace out everybody!

-Minos