An Unwanted Sexual Assault by Any Other Name is Still a Sexual Assault

In  an earlier post I discussed the case of Michael Vick being reinstated into the NFL after doing time in the Federal Pen for running and bankrolling a gambling ring involving dog fighting.  (A $30 million contract and this guy is interested in chump change made from dog fighting?)  Apart from the brutal treatment of the dogs, one would have thought the gambling offense would have permanently barred Vick from pro-football.  Other sports leagues like the NBA and MLB have barred players and referees for life because of gambling.

The post also discussed other dubious NFL characters like Lawrence Phillips, the Nebraska running back that once dragged his college girlfriend down several flights of stairs at a college dormitory... what a he-man!  In both cases, obvious sociopaths are/were allowed to pursue lucrative NFL careers.  The NFL is also the same league that doesn't think Rush Limbaugh is fit to be an NFL owner, yet a part owner of an AFC franchise that is known for a very public urination incident is fit to own an NFL franchise.  The NFL is a strange institution.  Many of the players have attended college for varying time periods.  (Most of them spent more time in classes during four years of college than Barack Obama spent "working" in the the United States Senate during the four years he was a Senator. Obama attended Senate sessions about 143 days total.) 

For some reason, the NFL is a haven for thugs and misfits.  Yes, I know that NBA has its share of thugs, but it pales in comparison with the NFL.  A couple of seasons ago, there was running gag as to whether the Cincinnati Bengals would be able to field a football team because of the abnormal number of Bengal players being arrested.  The Oakland Raiders have lived off an overblown outlaw image for years. Their fan base is so notorious that a local bail bondsman runs this ad whenever the Raiders come to town. 

Humor and showbiz aside, there is a dark side to the NFL's crypto-outlaw image.  Rae Carruth, an emerging NFL star with the Carolina Panthers is doing time for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend Cherica Adams.  Carruth had already lost a paternity suit and apparently didn't want the additional financial obligation of another child.  What a stand-up guy!  Carruth was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, using an instrument to destroy an unborn child (he probably had her killed because she wouldn't get an abortion at a legalized murder mill like Planned Parenthood) and is serving a prison sentence of 18-24 years.  Thankfully the child survived.  Kind of ironic isn't it?

My local team, the San Diego Chargers has had its share of misfits and felons.  Terrence Kiel died in a car crash on July 4, 2008 after leaving a party.  Kiel pleaded guilty in February 2007, to felony and misdemeanor drug charges for shipping codeine-based cough syrup to Texas and the Chargers released him.  The Chargers recently traded flash in the pan cornerback Antonio Cromartie to the New York Jets.  Cromartie was involved in a recent barroom incident involving a thrown champagne bottle hitting another patron in the head...  but really, Cromartie is truly a class act because it was probably a Cristal Champagne bottle that slipped from his hand!  BTW, Cromartie is currently facing a paternity suit in San Diego.  So he's negotiating the terms of child support.  (Hey, it's a lot better than Rae Carruth's approach to unwanted pregnancy, n'est pas?)  But after watching his last two seasons of play, I don't think that Cromartie will reach the five year mark to get a fat NFL pension unless he spends the rest of his career as a back-up or a kick returner.  Apart from the usual DUIs and a Tila Tequila aficionado, the Chargers are a relatively tame NFL team.  In the 2010 draft, they seem to have drafted a quality character guy in Ryan Mathews, a seemingly genuine "aw shucks" guy.  Mathews would follow in the footsteps of another quality character guy, LaDainian Tomlinson who now plays for the New York Jets.  Of course I could be as wrong about Mathews being an "aw shucks" guy as I was with another first rounder also named Ryan over a decade ago.  Ryan Leaf is now doing time for a drug offense.


So what's all this discussion leading to?  A week ago, a district attorney in Georgia decided he would not prosecute Ben Roethlisberger in connection with a sexual assault complaint filed by a 20-year-old female college student.  While "Big Ben" has escaped the long arm of the criminal law process--again, he's still facing a civil lawsuit in Nevada from another woman alleging a sexual assault by "Big Ben."  But Roethlisberger did get firm disciplinary action from the NFL.  Big Ben got a six game suspension from moral sentinel and NFL Commish Roger Goodell.  But knowing the éclair spine of Roger "Not so" Goodell, it will probably be reduced to four games.  The NFL is a business after all.  Fans want their heroes to play!  And the Steelers are one of the legendary franchises in the NFL.  Do you really think that Goodell will allow the iconic Rooney family's business to flounder while their franchise QB languishes in saloons looking for some "touch"?   I doubt it.  If Goodell was willing to allow a sadistic  dog-killing bookie to be reinstated in the NFL, this latest peccadillo should land Roethlisberger in the Pro-Football Hall of Fame and a juicy blurb in Penthouse Forum letters.


Boy, do I miss the good old days as when then Charger star defensive back Leslie "Speedy" Duncan gladly signed an autograph for my little brother (and me) in the sporting goods department of the old Broadway Department Store in 1969.  Forty years later I still remember it like it happened today.  During the Golden Age of Pro-Football, players were regular guys that held real jobs in the off season and gladly signed autographs.  With the Super Bowl, Big Media, Mega Beer Brewers, and Big Gambling--the Pro-Football Valhalla of a young boy's imagination is long gone.  Too bad.  Boys and grown up men need more stand-up guys to look up to.  We all do.

Destestable, Deplorable, Disgusting, Disreputable, and Downright Dirty!

Your Tax Dollars at Work...

Look at this video clip and you'll easily see why the Democrook controlled Congress has such low approval ratings. After viewing this YouTube gem it's no wonder that Obama seeks legislation to control the Internet and talk radio. These so-called Solons are little more that greedy, overpaid, egotistical windbags. Yet they've given themselves yet another raise in the form of an extra $93,000 in "petty cash" to spend as an office expens. Meanwhile, they have the audacity of a dope to tell private corporations to limit their bonuses and cut down on perquisites, i.e., perks, and Gulfstream jets. Just recently, their attempt to buy several Gulfstream jets for Congressional [mis]use thwarted by the alternative media talk radio, the Internet, the cable news networks. A Mandarin by any other name is detestable.

Wah, Wah, Wah! Democrats cry crocodile tears.

Hypocrisy is nothing new or unique to Washington D.C.  However, the Democrat furor over Joe Wilson's (R-SC) outburst during Obama's health care address before a joint session of Congress would be laughable if it were not so pathetic.  Wilson accurately called Obama a liar. So what!? The Democrats think that no one  remembers the boos that greeted George Bush when he said that Social Security would be broke by 2042 in his 2005 State of the Union address.

After eight years of listening to political ridglings like Sen. Harry Reid call George Bush "a loser" and a "liar" in front of school children, Democrats have little or no credibility with regard to decorum.  The unity that happened following 9/11 lasted about two weeks until the Democrats reverted to their usual douche bag ways critcizing Bush's lack of action regarding Afghanistan.  After Bush attacked Afghanistan the Democrats attacked him for doing that.

All Joe Wilson did was to tell the truth that Obama is lying about illegal aliens not being eligible for ObamaCare.  It's in at least one of the draft health care bills floating around. Of course it's a poorly kept secret that illegal aliens are a big part of the Democrat voter base. So when the health care rationing begins; watch old people be denied coverage while erstwhile non-citizen voters receive health care.  The race card is being played by the Democrats with the assertion that any disagreement with Obama is racist.    Democrats are deplorable.

Is this thing on?  (tap...tap)

Disgusting doesn't quite cover it with regard to California Assemblyman Mike Duvall's (Yorba Linda - R) antics.  A married man, whose  sexually explicit remarks about his sexual conquests were inadvertently broadcast over an open microphone has abruptly resigned from office. Legislative leaders stripped him of his committee posts and launched an ethics probe of his actions.  The only redeeming thing that he did was to resign, were it a Democrat that had done the disgusting deed it would have been a resume enhancement for most Democrats that are morally inert.  Not only was the bragging ungentlemanly, especially since it may have been untrue with regard to the female lobbyist, but it was simply crude, lewd, and disgusting.

Keith Olbermann is the Worst Liberal-Fascist Person in the World

The worst Liberal-Fascist person in the world is spreading more "journalistic" (sic) manure by calling for anyone in his audience of 500 basement dwellers to get "dirt" on Glenn Beck.  Beck is the squawk radio guy that almost single handedly got Commie racist Czar, Van Jones to resign.  Apparently the resignation of Van Jones, self described Communist and overt racist has rankled the feelings of the often idiotic leftist Olbermann.  Olbermann, with his track record of stupid remarks and even stupider actions is a non-credible critic of anyone.  But seeking to please his neo-com masters, the MSNBC leftist toadie is going on a McCarthyite witchhunt of Glenn Beck.  (And I thought a Liberal would never be against anyone exercising their First Amendment Rights!)  Well sieg heil baby, Olbermann is just acting out his Nazi tendencies. 

He's also an ungentlemanly dipstick that frequently disses Laura Ingraham; a woman that he dated briefly in the 1990s. (Wottsa matter, Keithy baby?  Too smart of a woman for you? Did she turn your amorous advances down?)  Typical of most Liberal males he's analogous to a gelding or at best a ridgling with the inability to cope with strong smart women like Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, or Laura Ingraham.


Olbermann will be looking for fresh new dirt since it is common knowledge that Beck was once a substance abuser, but that's really old news.  Olberdork, as he is affectionately known by Conservatives, seeks to take the political dialogue a notch lower, by engaging in the Liberal Fascist game of the politics of personal distruction.  Liberal Fascists can't win the battle of ideas--ever.

This would be the lowest that a Liberal has ever sunk since the 1960 West Virginia primary when then-JFK surrogate FDR, Jr., suggested that the noble Hubert H. Humphrey was a draft dodger.  It was a devasting charge against Humphrey.  Of course by 1992,  draft dodging was a resume enhancement for Bill "I loath the military but I didn't inhale" Clinton. Olbermann's tact has taken not in vigorous argument against an opponent, but instead is the eradication of political opponents.  By displaying his Liberal Fascist Soviet-like urge to purge; Olbermann is disreputible.
 

R U ready 4 scum football? 

 The NFL has begun it's season and like all entertainment enterprises has now entered the world of tabloid journalism. The dust up between Shawne Merriman and reality show diva, Tila [Nyguen] Tequila has made national headlines.  Briefly, Merriman was arrested by San Diego Sheriffs Deputies on a citizen's arrest warrant by Nyguen alleging battery and false imprisonment.  Merriman denies the charges and claims he was trying to prevent an intoxicated Tequila from driving away from his Poway, California home.  The San Diego County DA  declined to file charges against Merriman citing insufficient evidence.  Nyguen has indicated that she will pursue civil charges against Merriman.  TMZ has exclusive fotos showing brusing on Ms Nyguen's arms, which may prompt an out of court settlement.  Both parties deserve each other and definitely qualify as downright dirty.