Top 10 things said on the youth outing to the mall

10. If you sing another Miley Cyrus song I will beat you.

9. If we don't find a bathroom soon, I'm going to make a puddle.


8. Emo kids suck.

7. Why don't you get out of the car?
Why don't you shut the hell up?

6. You could get your mom a candle?
Why?
Girls like candles.
Why do girls like candles?
Honestly I have no idea.

5. This seems like hell.
No, It's Hot Topic.
What's the difference?

4. Is that a bar?
I think it is a strip club.
Is your mom working tonight?

3. Owwwww! I zipped my, well you know what got caught in my zipper.

2. That will be $5.41
I thought it was $5.
Plus Tax
I don't want to pay tax.
1. Four Ghetto kids riding through the hood singing Rod Stewart's "Young Turks".

The Big Ten getting the shaft?

I admit that no matter the foul situation, Michigan State would have lost the way they played tonight. MSU turned the ball over way too much to be competitive. Sorry Clark Kellog, size had nothing to do with it. However in tournament play this year against the Big East, Big 12, and ACC the Big Ten overall had a 4:3 on the foul ratio. The only game in which a Big Ten team got a foul advantage over one of these conferences was Michigan vs Clemson. Seems a little fishy. There some games that were just ridiculous like Purdue vs UConn (26-12 fouls). It's time for referees to just call the game down the middle and stop bending over backwards for the Big East and ACC. That's the media's job.

What do Republicans think Values means exactly"

http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/speakers

There is going to be a summit for voters about values. This conference is heavily supported by the Christian right. If values only means pro life, then I guess they have it covered. I have been amazed that having "values" in America seems not have anything to do with how a person acts in the personal life. It simply means that you don't believe in abortion. The panel of speakers is full of people I find to morally reprehensible. The panel includes noted racists like Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan, Glenn Beck, and Bill O'Reilly. Before someone jumps on me about any of these. Just go to youtube type in any of these guys names and then the word "racist". If you like what you hear, then respond. I have no idea why a Rush is speaking on values at all. He has been divorced three times, and he is a complete hypocrite. After railing on drug offenders and criminals for years on his program it turns out that he is both. And hilariously on got his case thrown out due to a precedent from a case won by the ACLU. I am really tired of the Republicans claiming the moral high ground and assigning all their beliefs to be Christian. If anyone can show me the biblical argument for gun ownership or tax cuts for the rich, I'm all ears.
I can see it coming, and history may be doomed to repeat itself. After Bush Sr started our economy on a downward turn, America turned to Clinton. He fixed our problems and we saw prosperity in America. Republican leadership had nothing except morals to run on in 2000. We elected Bush Jr. Instead of giving him 4 years to start our economy on a downward turn, we gave him eight years to destroy it. So we turn to Obama. After he fixes the economic system over the next eight years, and he will. The Republicans are once again going to try to run soley a moral campaign. Without a sex scandal it might be tough, but please don't fall for it again America.

Finally if can anyone tell me why anyone would want to hear Stehpen Baldwin talk about anything?

For all you limbaugh fans:
http://newsone.blackplanet.com/elections/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/

Ben's weekend top 10

Ben's top 10 TV Dramas of all time.

Honorable mentions: Tru Calling, Generation Kill, and Fastlane.

10. Boston Public

A great series that Fox screwed with too early.

9. The Sopranos
A show I would have ranked higher if they didn't ruin it in the 6th season. Oh and it was the worst series finale EVER!

8. Soul Food

I discovered this show on DVD, but it was better than the movie. It could have done without the Showtime required sex scenes, but still a great show.

7. The Shield
This show is so good that it made me root for a dirty cop.

6. Firefly
This show got canceled way too early. Fox ran the episodes out of order and only ran a few. But what can you expect from the Fox company? They work for the devil.

5. 24
This show is still good. You can watch it for an hour and it feels like it's only been 15 minutes

4. New York Undercover
Even though it went downhill after Eddie got killed off, this show was my favorite when I was coming up.

3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Yeah I said it, and I'm not ashamed either.

2. Angel
Joss Whedon is a genius. The spin-off was actually better to me than the original.

1. Band of Brothers

This is possibly the best thing ever filmed. I don't care who you are. You'll tear up a little in the last two episodes.

Ben's Weekend Top Ten

My All time top 10 comedies

1. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2. Snatch
3. Dogma
4. Tommy Boy/Black Sheep (let's face it, they are the same movie)
5. Clerks I-II
6. Grandma's Boy
7. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Guantanamo Bay
8. Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail
9. Talladega Nights: The legend of Ricky Bobby
10. Tropic Thunder

FRC has it wrong....again

For those who don't know the FRC is the Family Research Council. They are the political side of Focus on the Family, though they claim to be completely separate. I have apparently gotten on their email list for updates, since I sent the "nonpartisan" organization an email asking them about their attacks on Barack Obama.

I recently received an email from them about trying to stop the adding of homosexuals to the hate crime legislation. The FRC claimed this is part of the "homosexual agenda". The email stated, "Adding "sexual orientation" to thought crimes legislation gives one set of crime victims a higher level of protection than it gives to people like you and me."

First of all they are assuming that their supporters are not racial minorities, which I guess is probably a descent assumption. (at least they know who they are)
Doesn't by definition the law already do this very to non-minorities. No matter what you believe about homosexuality, they are still people that we are commanded to love. I don't understand why a person would think that it is wrong to say that committing a criminal act against a homosexual should be punished just as harshly as one against a person of another race or faith. I can understand if they have a problem with punishing the thoughts of a person as they commit the crime. While I don't agree with that argument on hate crime legislation, I understand it and agree that it has some merit.

Ranting on the Grammys

Alright for a long time the Grammys have been thought of as the "old musicians" awards. Whenever some old group makes something that gets a little critical acclaim, they rain down Grammys on it like it was the second coming. This year was no different. Robert plant and alison krauss was this year's Steely Dan. The one exception seems to be the Best Rap Album category. Every year they simply give it to the Rap Album that sells the most albums. This year Lil Wayne won. The problem is that despite all the hype he gets, Wayne is an average talent at best. Every one of his songs sounds the same: guns, hos, and money (we get it). His rhyme style is terrible. He spits 8 bars, then jumps to a 12, and then a 16. His lyrics are anything but innovative. Many times he can't even think of a word to rhyme so he just uses the same word. So either the Grammys need to get someone who knows hip hop or maybe they should just listen to the albums.

If anyone is wondering who I though should win, it's Lupe Fiasco. His song Dumb it Down was better than Lil Wayne's whole album. He's an MC who can actually flow. His lyrics are innovative and different than the status quo. He is an actual artist.

Ben's Weekend top 10 (movies part 2)

My top 10 all-time action movies.

10. Man on Fire

9. The Patriot

8. The Matrix

7. The Dark Knight

6. The Boondock Saints

5. The Bourne Trilogy

4. Gladiator

3. Braveheart

2. Black Hawk Down

1. Saving Private Ryan

Next Week Comedies

Ben's weekend top 10

I'm going to start doing this for a while. We'll see how it goes.

Ben's Top Ten Drama movies


10. Mississippi Burning

9. The Hurricane

8. Casino

7. The Godfather parts I & II

6. A time to Kill

5. Pulp Fiction

4. Amistad

3. Goodfellas

2. American History X

1. Rocky 1-6 (Yes all of them, even 5)

Kind of cheated counting the sequels as one movie.
Wow a little telling about myself. Half of the movies have to do with crime/gangs. Also half of the movies have to do with racism/race relations.

Should you fire a coach for winning by too much?

A high school coach was fired by the school for not acting in a Christian way, because of a win of 100-0. The national media has jumped on the bandwagon of this story, and thinks that this is great. Really? There have been rumors that he was still pressing late in the game, and if that is the case he should be talked to. But from most parent accounts this is not the case. Another problem the parents at the event were cheering, only after it became a national story did it become shameful in their eyes. The problem they were still shooting threes at the end of the game. Would it have been better to drive and make high percentage layups, or let your bench players bomb away from outside? Should they have let the other team score? In sports you as in all things are always to do your best. It teaches both sides bad things. Not only to the winning team that do your best unless it hurts someone's feelings, but to the losing team it teaches that if your bad enough people in life will give you a break. Even if they played lackadaisical defense there's no guarantee the score would have been any different. As a former player, sometimes you come against teams that have no business being on the same court as you. (I'm looking at you Westville)

People have been saying that these girls had learning disabilities. (Again Westville I'm looking at you.) It is not like the girls were mentally retarded, as some in the media have portrayed. ADD, which apparently ever kid in America has now, does not hinder ones basketball skills. If these girls weren't up to play the private Christian academy, it is the athletic directors from both schools' fault, not the coach.

Finally, in America we know have the attitude that sports is all about self-esteem and everyone's a winner. I hate to break it to you, but in a game there is always one loser. There's a reason why there are no high school gyms in America without scoreboards. Winning matters. If it didn't they wouldn't keep score, maybe that's just the Matt Bush in me talking. I wonder if this same coach's girls always played with integrity, but lost every game would he still have a job? I doubt it. Coaches are fired all the time for not winning. This coach was fired because a bunch of people in the media want to feel sorry for some girls who can't play basketball. He made his girls play their best, and that was wrong?

To all those who didn't catch on to my PCC (Porter County Conference) references Matt Bush was my basketball coach, and Westville was really bad at basketball, and everything else for that matter.

Wonder why the Black Community doesn't trust cops?

http://colorofchange.org/oscar/

Another man executed by police. He did not pose an immediate threat. He was handcuffed. This kind of thing happens all the time. This one just happened to get caught on video. The police in this country for too long have operated with impunity in our neighborhoods. Is it a coincidence that it is normally white police officers shooting black "suspects". This has gone back for a long time. In south police officers use to take part in lynchings. Now they simply execute them and call it self defense. There is no excuse for this in our society. The problem is that they continually get away with it. No officers were convicted in the Sean Bell or Amadou Diallo cases. These men were shot at more than 50 times, were unarmed, and posed no threat whatsoever to the police. In the Sean Bell case he didn't even know the police were present. I often wonder what those people on the jury are thinking when they let these murders go, and that's what they are. If I handcuffed someone, held them down, and shot them in the back, I would be charged for murder. So why aren't Oscar Grants killer charged? Because the average middle class citizen has two ideas in their heads:

1. The police deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Let me say I know that there are good police, but they are far and few between. Think about it this way. Remember the guys who wanted to be cops when you were high school. How many of them were the kind of people that you would give the benefit of the doubt to? Personally most of the ones I knew were overly violent racists who like shooting guns.

2. Black people are scary and criminals.
Don't think that's true. Ask an average black man what a white woman does with her purse when he walks by. Better yet ask white teachers what they think of their black students. I know that the ones my wife used to work with are scared to death of the black boys, and they are in middle school. (Important to note that none of the students have ever attacked any of the teachers) Just because some people were willing to vote for a black man for president, doesn't mean that we don't still have some serious issues with race in this country.

How can we fix it?

1. Require that police officers have to live in or close to the neighborhoods they patrol. Anymore many cities don't even require them to live in the same city. So it is easy for them to see the people as no more than animals that need to be controlled. If they live in the community, then cops have a need to better the community. They have a vested stake in being liked by the members of the neighborhood.

2. Make it a requirement that if a defendant/victim is black that one black person has to sit on the jury. A bunch of white people saying it's OK for white cops to shoot unarmed blacks isn't working. Why not give it a try. I'm not saying that a black person would always vote differently, but maybe they would have a little perspective.

George Bush is a jerk or inept you decide.

So is George Bush trying to pull one more dick move? For the first time in a long time, the president elect and his family are not allowed to stay in the Blair House. It's booked. So let me get this straight either:

A. He didn't plan ahead for something that would obviously happen, like the president elect's family to move to Washington DC, which would illustrate his entire presidency quite well.

or

B. President Bush is pulling one jerk move on his way out, which would also illustrate his presidency quite well.


Oh and MSNBC I don't care what the Obama girls are having for lunch. Act like real journalists for once.