Regrets?

I came across a video where a speaker had found out what the top five things people regret about their lives when they are at the end of theirs.

1-     I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.

2-     I wish I’d stayed in touch with my friends

3-     I wish I’d let myself be happier

4-     I wish I had the courage to express my true self

5-     I wish I had lived a life true to my dreams instead of what others expected of me.

Does that list make you stop and reflect on your life currently?

This list had me all messed up for the past week. It has forced me to take an inventory of my life and its just left me deep in thought and I’ve been out of touch for a few days besides normal work stuff.

These are just the top five though. When I was thinking about that list I actually temporarily came up with more that I would regret if I was on my way out today. But that’s beside the point really. I was sort of focused on 4 and 5.

I can honestly say that I have had the courage to express my true self and also that I have lived a life true to my dreams.
I don’t take the last one to mean that I have dreamt about traveling the world and living in the fast lane or something along those lines. I take it mean that I have followed my vision when it comes to things that I have wanted to do to try to make a living, such as making a career change to become an entertainer.

I express myself on here just to point out one example of doing that in my life.

There is a saying, “be careful what you wish for,” that comes to mind with those particular wishes though.

There are plenty of risks involved when trying to live to those particular standards for ones self. Exposing ones ideas verbally, in writing, in music or in art leaves a person wide open for criticism and hate instead of praise and admiration, the more welcome results. Someone not mentally prepared for the negative consequences to which they could be exposed can face a rocky road in life potentially filled with sadness and doubt.

Try living life true to your dreams while those who surround you don’t, or won’t. Want to see a stream of negativity flow through a room? Tell a group of people today that you are thinking about quitting your job to start a business that you have always wanted to start. Many people truly don’t want anyone else from their little world try to break free from the chains that bind them from reaching their goals because it forces them to have to look in the mirror and realize that they are too afraid to take such a risk. Some of them will ridicule and mock you and tell you that it’s impossible because if you do succeed that makes them feel bad about themselves and their own situation. It can breed envy, one of the seven deadly sins, and it’s ugly to watch what those will do and what they will say to keep someone down at their comfort level.

Unfortunately leading a life in these ways can have a bunch of negative consequences also. There is always good and bad. It’s the concept of yin and yang, the Chinese philosophy literally meaning “shadow and light” where seemingly polar opposites are interconnected in the world.

After contemplating all of this for the last few days I can only come to one conclusion that can keep me sane. Rather than focus on what is regrettable, I would rather focus on what I wouldn’t regret. I think that the original question is flawed in that way. I imagine that many people on their death beds start to look back and question themselves in that manner. But the irony is that the #3 thing on that list about being happy can be done so easily by simply focusing on the positive things in ones life. Doing that is allowing one to be happy.

It’s probably just that simple and if we can indeed see the silver lining in every cloud then there will be one less potential regret later in life.

Back to hotness.

We’ll start with the men first and some of your submissions for hot dudes (and thank you for reading and submitting them.)

First up is DJ Qualls. His first role in a movie was as Kyle Edwards from “Road Trip” where he played a young virgin…a real stretch for sure since, I mean, look at him. This hunk of hotness was born in 1978 so get him while he is still hot, girls.

DJ Qualls

The next entry is the one and only Gilbert Gottfried, a stand-up comedian who has Howard Stern to thank for the reason he has a career. Gilbert does many cartoon voices these days and was the voice the AFLAC duck for a while before he made a joke about the tsunami in Japan in 2011 and was fired from that gig.

Gilbert Gottfried

 

The TV show Glee has a couple of hot girls on it. I watched that show early on its run and liked it but it got way too gay for me and I do mean that I prefer not to watch dudes kissing if I can help it. But one of the leads Lea Michelle can really make a lollipop hot and Naya Rivera makes me want to tune back in to watch her in action as well.

Lea Michelle

Naya Rivera

It’s easy to just post up hot pictures since there are models who are strictly in pictures because they are hot. I am limiting these entries to those who are in movies or TV, music, sports, or are otherwise well known for something else besides simple modeling.

This brings me to my next choice and she is Jennifer Love Hewitt. I couldn’t even tell you the name of any show or movie in which she has starred. I could look it up easily enough but I don’t even care. I have adored this girl for a while now. She is now 33 and so far the oldest I have mentioned but again…I don’t care.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Ok, I’ll go older. Another of my favorites for quite some time who still is one of the hottest girls on the planet is Alyssa Milano. She’ll turn 40 this year but clearly has plenty of hot life left in her. She began her TV career at 12 (when legally she was not hot) co-starring with Tony Danza and Judith Light in “Who’s the Boss?” Where she really got hot was in “Charmed” though after doing a whole stack of movies which all sucked except for the fact that she was in them.

Alyssa Milano

I guess, now that I think about it, I do regret not being to have met any of the hot women on my lists so far. But I live in Delaware so that will never happen…unless I live true to my dream and get the hell out of here and allow myself to be happy!

Done.

Smoke and Mirrors

Seven- time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, is having his wins stripped from him and his name erased from the record books for “doping.” You know, for all of those blood tests that he took that came up negative at the time, that’s why he is getting erased from our memories.

Who knows if he doped or not for sure amongst us common folk? Is this a witch hunt? Did he dope later and because he did that makes him guilty and erasable from the time he left the womb? Did he dope well before and everything he did later is under a cloud of suspicion?

We are no privy to the inside information so we will probably never know for sure. But since he has stopped all appeals processes he is being labeled a “cheater.”

So say that Armstrong did cheat for a moment. Take him and all of the baseball stars who “allegedly cheated” their way into MLB record books and I won’t get into naming all of them. What does that say about my generation and its sports heroes? It was all fake? I simply witnessed an illusion on TV for all of those years? It turns out that all of these athletes are no more powerful than David Blaine or Chris Angel.

It’s sad and pathetic. I have a hard time watching sports any more because of it. I am going through Olympic withdrawal right now and don’t know where to turn. But the Olympics are filled with that also. At least it seems that athletes get caught quickly and the justice is dished out promptly. With MLB the Unions had just enough power to fight off investigations into athlete’s possible drug usage. The result of that misuse of power has been a disaster.

Next year’s MLB Hall of Fame ballot has some interesting names on it for the first time; Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa. Bonds and Clemens have been on trial for possible steroid use. Sosa, while not in that same situation, has been rumored to be amongst possible culprits as well.
There are two names, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro who are struggling to get Hall of Fame votes. McGwire has failed 6 years now and Palmeiro twice. Palmeiro has over 500 home runs and 3000 hits which would normally make him an automatic qualifier. He was one who made a claim that he never, ever used steroids and then was linked to them shortly thereafter.
It will be interesting to see if the future record books will list Bonds and Clemens as record holders and/or as members of the Hall of Fame.

Speaking of smoke and mirrors, magicians didn’t fare that well trying to make it into the semifinal round of America’s Got Talent. The clogging group, All That, somehow got in there though. But I did get redemption when Sebastian “El Charro” de Oro reached the semifinal round by getting one of the four wild card selection. He is the 10-year old mariachi singer who should have been in there, according to my earlier picks, amongst the first 16 semifinalists.

Speaking of smoking, I saw a Facebook debate break out about who was hotter, Mila Kunis or Kristen Bell. Both were in the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and when someone recently watched the movie she (yes, she) claimed that Kunis was hotter than Bell.
Coincidentally those two names were going in my next installment of “What’s Hot” today.
This is a tie for certain. It’s simply a matter of what hair color one would prefer on a given day. Kunis, of course, is a brunette and Bell is the blond.
Kunis made her name on “That 70’s Show” and, from what I remember, had lied about her age early in her career and was younger than what she told people she was back then.
Someone in the debate said that he didn’t think Kunis was that hot in the first years of the show. His man instincts were correct there since she was jail bait. But no longer is she that, so fantasize away, dudes.



Brunette- Mila Kunis?



 

I first saw Bell on “Heroes” where I also saw Hayden Panattiere. Any hot girl with super powers gets the edge in my fantasy playbook but straight up without such earthly powers creates the tie.



or Blonde - Kristen Bell?



I asked for women to submit some favorite hot guys for posting here and I did get my first two submissions.

The first is Al Bundy, played by Ed O’Neill, of course. Bundy was a man’s man and a woman’s man. No one can actually doubt his talent as in this category and it’s evidenced by the fact that he moved on to land a role in that other show (which name still escapes me) that has Sofia Vergara as his wife (who made the hot list last blog entry.) So clearly whoever can bag Sofia Vergara has to be hot.

Al Bundy

Next on the list is Danny McBride, better known as Kenny “effin” Powers from the hit HBO show “Eastbound and Down.” Who can resists a flame-throwing, f-bomb throwing, drunken, chubby, coke head who treats women like shoes treat a pavement? Every woman has a secret desire for a bad boy, and Kenny Powers fits that bill.

Kenny Powers

Also making the hot list is someone who I first saw on “Eastbound and Down” as well. His name is Deep Roy. He played in the season where Kenny “moved” to Mexico and his star shined brightly as the thug that he was. Good things come in small packages and when that thing is a bad boy too? Ooh yeah, the women go wild.

Deep Roy

Well, that’s all for now folks. I have to save some hot names to ensure that I have lots more nonsense to write in the future! So, I’m

Done.

What's Hot?

Ah, the internet is a funny place for a wide variety of reasons.

I get information about visitors to this page and it’s very interesting to see where visits originate and even how or why someone visits this page.

One would think that people visit it because I am witty, charming and profound. But, alas, for the most part, this just isn’t true.

Some people do visit because of my hypnosis career, others visit because of the podcast show that I host, but others find and visit the page for many other reasons.

Here is a partial list of keyword searches that resulted in visits to this blog this past week:

Catalina Ponor
Gay Soccer
Jessica Ennis Ass
Soccer Gay
Alfred E Neumann
Anna Kornikova what is she doing now

Bryce Harper Wallpaper
Catalina Ponor Crotch
Catalina Ponor Feet
Catalina Ponor Hottest Pics

Jimmy Iovene

Marshal Manlove

Marshal Manlove blog
Haley Reinhart
Scott McCreary

Anna Kornikova Body

So basically a couple of my thoughts about the Olympics were shared by many others when it came to Catalina Ponor and Jessica Ennis, the hot female stars of the Romanian Gymnastics team and the British Heptathlon respectively (except for feet pictures.)

More than a few people have apparently been searching for a gay soccer league. I don’t think that there are any out there but because someone is looking for one does give me a thought for a new business idea.

Alfred E. Neumann was the winner of American Idol last year and still makes me laugh whenever I think of it.

A mention and a picture of Anna Kornikova in a blog entry about the Biggest Loser last year still draws many views.

Iovene, Reinhart and Alfred E. McCreary are all from American Idol musings.

Bryce Harper, from the Washington Nationals baseball team, is the other mention in this list and its good to see that perhaps a woman reads this page now and then.

Catalina Ponor is clearly the hot topic though and I’m glad that those search terms are of her and not of the 15 year olds who competed in gymnastics this year; Ponor is 23 (I think.)

Since the only way to make money with a page like this is to monetize it through Google it then becomes important to do things to attract visitors who will then hopefully press on an ad link and send money my way.

As someone who spent some time in the newspaper business I know that one of the most important things a paper can do to have lists of names. This is why you will see very simple lists of people who have accomplished anything from graduating school to attending some sort of party. People want to see their names in print and other people are always searching for names whether their own or other peoples.
With all of this in mind its time to really attract some more readers so starting now, and pretty much whenever I write, I am going to start highlighting some of the world’s hottest women.
Ladies, feel free to send me your picks for the world’s hottest men. I am not going to make those calls myself here but will gladly post them for you in return for taking time to send me your choices.

Here we begin…

Scarlett Johansson. My personal favorite right now. In fact, she is such a favorite that on my podcast, The Dungeon of Manlove, I have sworn that I will continue to do the show until she makes an appearance on it. This means that if you hate it so much that you would like me to stop doing it, get her on my show for 15 minutes.

Come to the Dungeon, Scarlett

Sofia Vergara. She is on that show that I don’t watch. One would think that I would spend a lot of time watching it because she is on it but it would just tire me out if I did watch it.

Yikes

 

Kat Dennings. A new favorite of mine who is currently on the CBS comedy show “2 Broke Girls.” The show isn’t funny and she isn’t particularly good as a comedienne but I would make a Marshal sandwich with her and her co-star Beth Behrs (who also isn’t funny.)

Who cares if she isn't funny?

Jennifer Lawrence. She is of recent note from the Hunger Games, which I just watched this past weekend. I am not sure what the big deal about this movie was. Perhaps the book was better than the movie. But with this girl in it I stayed on it for the entire 2 hours and 20 minutes.

The reason to watch Hunger Games

Anne Hathaway. I get some grief for her for some reason, mostly from women who don’t believe she is pretty. Well, since she is on this list those people are wrong. Anyone who gets chosen to play Catwoman HAS to be hot, by definition.

Catwoman

Natalie Portman. In my eyes there are really only three women in my life…Scarlett Johansson, anyone who I happen to be dating at the time, and Natalie. She continues to get better looking as she gets older and I wish that we can just freeze her as she is now. Because it will be a very sad period of earth’s history when she no longer looks like this.

Queen Amidala

 

Taylor Swift. Yes, the country singer is on this list. Normally her hair is curlier, which is just fine with me, but I like this particular look with straight hair a whole lot too.

You belong with ME!

Erica Campbell. I don’t think that she has done anything of note beside have pictures taken of her, but if you think that I care about that, you’re mistaken.

I would watch her show if she had one!

I should add that I could probably just post a link to the Playboy site and have that take care of the hot woman list every month. But it’s much more fun to search the web and do it this way.

I could go on forever! I could post 1000 of these. This is making the words roll off of my fingertips like crazy now. It feels as though I have purpose…a mission, if you will. Remember, though, that my mission is to drive more visitors here.

Note: this is just a random sampling and I can’t explain why the default women are in TV and movies other than the simple fact that they get more exposure. The saying, “Out of sight, out of mind” is the best way to explain the lack of entrants from other areas of our lives. There are plenty of attractive athletes, some of whom have already been mentioned, and if we go to the world of beauty pageants such as Miss America, or Miss Universe, or whatever we can find plenty more to add…perhaps I will later, it strictly depends on how many readers I can get.

Hayden Panattiere. I first saw her on the TV show Heroes, which I miss a great deal. She is on a new show starting in the fall where she will play a country singer. It’s doubtful that I will watch it even with her in it but I’ll just be glad that she’ll have more pictures posted of her for me to see during the run of the new show.

Claire Bear

Eliza Dushku. She dropped off the map over the last couple of years. She burst onto the TV scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but she was in a show in 08 and 09 called Dollhouse, which was a show that I actually did watch simply because she was in it. If you are a fan of her, check out that show if you can because the producers (and she was one of them) would put her in all sorts of different skimpy outfits each week playing a wide variety of roles. Good stuff.

Living Doll

Ok, that’s ten for now. Ladies…again…send in your favorite dudes and I’ll post them up here to give equal time.

But for now I’m

Done

Oh No! Say it ain't Solo!

Super interviewer Savannah Guthie, from the Today Show,
outdid herself the other morning.
She was interviewing US Women's Soccer goalie Hope Solo and
went to a videotape of Solo smiling from ear to ear on the
medal stand after winning the gold medal.
Guthie asks Solo, "What were you feeling at that moment?"

Seriously, this woman gets paid to do this?
NBC hired and pays this tool to come up with this
brilliance.

Gee, what could Solo POSSIBLY be feeling here?

The irony is that there are probably people who believe she
actually has talent and/or sense and intelligence. She
probably believes herself that she actually possesses some sort of
intelligence.
This is what happens when hot chicks get socially promoted
all of their lives. We end up with these tards in front of
our faces completely driving people like me insane.
We know what happened with this girl during her life. She
was hot and she passed her classes because she was hot. This
is all through high school and then college. Because there
is no other way she could have passed anything because her only talent is
looking good on camera.

I am glad that I haven't been able to watch the Today Show
everyday because I would have to write twice a day.

Matt Lauer, the Super Tool of the Today show, has become
such a whipped little sissy on this very liberal network at
NBC. The last morning I watched he was talking with Guthie
(and two negatives clearly don't make a positive.) Guthrie
says something halfway endearing by stating that, "When I
see the athletes getting gold medals and I hear the national
anthem I get a little teary." I was on board with her there.
I thought that finally something useful came out of her
mouth.
But Lauer, making completely sure that his politcally
correct card would not be revoked, said, "It gets me when
ALL of the athletes anthems are being played."
What a pansy. Be proud of your country Matt, its ok...oh, no
wait...on NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN its not ok to show pride in
your country because that makes you arrogant or some stupid
nonsense and makes everyone in the world hate us. Had I been
Al Roker at that moment I would have bitch slapped him for
that.

NBC's Matt Lauer?

I should mention that Roker is ok on the Today Show. So is
the other girl on there, Natalie, or whatever her name is.
But Guthrie and Lauer are the most incompetent hosts a
morning show has ever seen.

Back to Hope Solo. Finally she made a big save and it came
at a big point in time with about 8 minutes left in the game
on one of the Japanese forwards. It was a diving save to her
left that kept the score at 2-1 and helped lead the team to
revenge against the Japanese. This is the team that just
beat them in the women's world cup last year.
I was in and out while that game was taking place. Just as I
turned in at one point, one of the Japanese forwards kicked a
shot towards the American goal that went just wide right.
The cameras cut back to the player and the shot was of her
side where you could see her name. That players last name
was Ohno, and that was pretty much what any of her country's
fans had coincidentally just said when she missed the shot.
I wondered if Ohno's name was an original spelling or if she
changed it from Ono because she was ashamed to be linked to
Yoko Ono, who ruined the Beatles.

Shinobu Ohno

I just ate a pint of chocolate turtle ice cream and have
that simultaneous feeling of happiness and guilt. I want
more though...I need more. A pint of banana ice cream with
chocolate chunks in there would be great.

Its a good thing that we sent a bunch of women's sports team
to compete for us in these Olympics. Because they are
carrying the weight in team competitions for us.
The only men's team that is going to win a medal for us is
the basketball team.
We didn't send a soccer team (as well complained about here)
our volleyball team stunk, we didn't send a field hockey
team and our water polo team stunk. I seem to be forgetting
one or two teams but suffice it to say that our women
outshined our men this year.
Of course this is because we have allowed our women to
compete for some time which is not the case with many other
countries. In time these other countries will catch up to
us. But I will be dead by then so it doesn't much matter to me.

Talk about providing some incentive for your team to win a game. The South Korean men's soccer team took on Japan for the bronze medal game today. The team was told that if they won the game and the bronze medal that their mandatory military obligations would be waived. They won 2-0. Any surprise there? This should be a great lesson to those who believe that most everything that we do work related is done much better when people have a real incentive to succeed. This, by the way, is exactly why "leveling the playing field" never works. One of the commentators asked the other in this game, "What will Japan have to do to come back here?" I answered for him and said, "bring out tanks and actual Japanese military to play," because that was about the only thing that was going to spark a comeback capable of keeping the South Koreans from doing military service at that point.

The 2008 South Korean Soccer Team?

Ok, I can't take it any more. I'm going back out for more ice cream.

Done

Moving to Romania!

This entry is getting written as I watch the Olympics on Tuesday night the 7th. I have my laptop on my lap and am

just going to write exactly what is on my mind (minus normal dirty thoughts along the way) and then make the post

tomorrow unedited.

How about the All-American final in the gold medal women's beach volleyball championship?
Misty May Treanor and Kerry Walsh Jennings take on the other girls whose names I currently can't recall 

who knocked off the #1 seed in the tournament from Brazil in three sets.

Treanor and Jennings had difficulty getting into the final as well having a brutal match against a Chinese team. They

needed to squeak out both sets in the match by two points and needed to come from behind in the first set.
The team that they beat had at one time been coached by the same coach they had and here in the US. So really that match was sort of an American match.
We rule when it comes to this stuff.

Lolo Jones, who tripped over the hurdles in 2008 in the 100 meter hurdles, attempted to come back this year in London.

Making it back onto the US Olympic team was admirable and she is certainly a character who is endearing enough to root for in these games.
She only managed to place third in her semifinal heat and only two in each semifinal (there are three semis) and the

fastest remaining two times advanced. Fortunately she did get one of those spots.

Coaches sometimes over coach their teams and their players and there was an example of that on the womens water polo team in the semifinal game against Australia. Leading 9-8 with less than 30 seconds to go Australia was in the American end of the pool attempting to get off a shot. When they did get off their shot it was deflected by the American

goalie to the left of her goal. Rather than allowing the remaining one second to tick off of the clock, Overcoach

called a time out. The trouble with that move, which I am sure that he thought was brilliant at the moment, was that none of his players were in possession of the ball. In case you weren't aware of the water polo rules (similar to me) it is illegal to call time out without possession of the ball.
After some double checking with officials all over the arena, a penalty shot was awarded to Australia which they

converted to send the game into overtime. Fortunately for Overcoach, the US responded and won the

match to enter the gold medal game.

I am  now watching the balance beam competition and watching more epic failing. So far both Gabby Douglas, the American all-around champion, and Viktoria Komova from Russia have both fallen off the beam.
Now every normal person would fall off the beam just trying to walk across it, but since both Chinese entrants stayed on

the beam and popped some 15.5, and over, scores, that means that both Douglas and Komova are out of medal contention. Aly Raisman was last and I was hoping going in that she would win the gold tonight and win silver in the floor

exercises while Jordyn Wieber won the gold.
Douglas and Komova still manage to score between 13 and 14  points though and I don't get it.
Raisman does a great job on the beam. One little balance check and a forward hop on her landing. I figure that she is

good for bronze. In this case she WINS a bronze as opposed to losing it since she went last. It is much different than

 what happened with Maroney who lost the gold because of her all off the vault the night before.
Raisman ends up getting the shaft though and coming up in fourth place. The American contingent goes wild in the

stands and demand an inquiry.
Now there is drama in the house. She was clearly better than the Romanian who is standing around believing she won a

medal.
This is the whole problem with gymnastics and any other sport which is judged instead of simply competed team vs

team or person vs person. The judges go to a replay screen, which is fair.

The Romanian is 24 years old and she is hot. Its good to be able to say that about a gymnast since most of them are 14 and its not cool to say that.

The second results are in...score changed...Raisman gets

more points...she gets the bronze. Now what for the

Romanians??? Do they get to review her athlete's tape now?

That doesn't seem fair to me even though it goes to the American.
We'll take it though.

Floor exercises coming up next...well, after track.

Lots of fluorescent track shoes being worn by these sprinters.
With all of the attention around Lolo Jones, who lost in Beijing, no one mentions that Dawn Harper is back this year

in the finals and she is the reigning champion from 2008.

But that’s now because the Australian is the favorite. No one has ever repeated in this event, the 100-meter hurdles.
Harper is second...we think...it’s a photo finish...its the Australian Sally Pearson who wins Australia's first gold

medal in this event She was second to Harper in 2008. Harper is second .02 behind and Kellie Wells from the US is third.

Jones is fourth.
Kellie Wells give glory to God. This pisses off the Christophobes out there, I am sure, much like it did when

Gabby Douglas did it after winning her medal. I'm almost shocked that NBC doesn't bleep out the word God knowing how left that network leans.

Back to floor exercises. Wieber goes second and Raiman third. Eight athletes qualify to try to win one of three

medals.14.566 is the opening score for one of the Russians. Here is a chance for some redemption for Wieber. She flubs her first run's landing. Steps out of bounds on her second one. Already she is done. Another fail for the world

champion. She can't even do the dance parts of this well enough to call herself fit to wear a ribbon. It’s on her face

as she walks off of the mat. More tears to come here, I’m afraid. No way that she can be better than 14.566.
Raisman is on deck while everyone awaits the score. Now remember that Raisman bounced on her head doing of the parts of this routine in the team competition. She needs to put it back in to this one.
14.5 for Wieber. How is that humanly possible? The best she can do is silver now, but there is no way that her score

will hold up here.

Raisman goes...and nails the part where she landed on her head previously in warm-ups. She is looking hot...is

she at least 18 and I can say that? She is killing this routine...one more run...she pounds it out. This is gold

medal material. She'll be the one to beat now. Five more girls to go. Her coach says it’s the best routine that she

had ever done. In slow motion it’s amazing. She scores a 15.6. How can that only be 15.6? In qualifying

only two scores are better than that? How could any be better than that if that is such an amazing routine with all

of that difficulty?
Well its puts the pressure on the rest of the girls. But we have to wait for the commercials now.
We are back. The Romanian who Aly tied and beat on the beam is now on the floor. Damn she is hot. I might move to

Romania. What the heck is her name? I want to friend request her on Facebook. She kills her routine too. Wieber will be

off the medal podium now.
Catalina Ponor...that’s her name. Her score...15.2? That doesn't seem right. Where is the inquiry here? But she is

now second.

Catalina Ponor

Now it’s the Italian. They flash their names too quick for me

to type them in on time. She is 6th. If she doesn't get a

15.6 Raisman is assured the bronze. I can tell that the Italian girl will be short and fat in just a couple of years

time. Definitely not as good as my new Romanian girl friend.
The Russian who won the uneven bars gold medal is up next. She is a threat...commercials. I think I see Utah in the

Chevy commercial. I want to move there. Delaware sucks...some day soon I may write a blog entry that is

titled "Why Delaware Sucks."

Back now to Aliya Mustafina. She had 3 medals already. The Italian is now third. Raiman has a guaranteed bronze.
Here she goes...I think she is good for bronze and maybe silver but not gold. Her score...14.9 and good for bronze.

The remaining Romanian, also hot, is last.

Sandra Izbaza

Sandra Izbasa hits the floor but messes up a simple double spin.

Tough to come back from that now I think. She falls on her last run right on her face and that give Aly Raisman the

gold medal. Raisman helps save face for the team in the individual competitions by nailing down the gold medal.
It’s funny to watch the girls try to congratulate each other and they don't all speak the same language. It’s a series of

thumbs up, hugs, and awkward looks on their faces.
But good for Raisman. I wanted her to win one of these gold medals today.

Looks like my dog needs to poop so for now I'm

Done.

White Men CAN Jump!

I'm very proud to still have a juvenile sense of humor during the most of the day. While I can appreciate sophisticated humor from time to time, when I was watching the men's trampoline competition a few days ago I laughed like an 8-year old when China's Dong Dong took his turn to try to win an Olympic medal.

Dong Dong...hehe

It did make me think about what names we use in our country that might have a different meaning in Chinese. For instance, could David mean, "Giant Butt" in Chinese?

South African double amputee, Oscar Pistorius made Olympic history as the first with his type of physical condition to compete in an Olympic track event. Competing in the 400-meter run Pistorius qualified for a quarterfinal run although he came in last in that run. Pistorius runs on specially designed "blades" which had track spikes on the bottom of them. He had to get special clearance to compete, of course, since there were some complaints that he had some sort of advantage.
I had a tendency to agree with that even if some engineers testified otherwise. Those blades are artificial and I thought the whole idea of competing in these events was to do so naturally. This is why there are drug tests and gender tests.

Preparing for the High Jump Competition in 2016

Serena Williams won two gold medals for the US in tennis one of which was the women's singles competition. She completely smoked Maria Sharapova in the gold-medal match 6-0, 6-1. It did truly seem as if Serena was legitimately happy to win these medals. She did say that competing as a member of a team for her country added to her experience and that it was fun to hang out with other athletes and root for the rest of her teammates when she wasn't competing.

Sprinter Justin Gatlin won me over as well with that same attitude in an interview following one of his qualifying races for the 100-meter dash. He said that he wasn't doing this for himself, or for his team, but for his country.

There is a country called Eritrea. It is located in the horn of Africa and they sent a couple of athletes to the Olympics. I was more fascinated with the fact that I had apparently discovered a new country than the athletes themselves.

Here in Delaware we have a track and country coach named Pat Castagno. He has established himself as one of the best coaches in his sport in at least this state there has ever been. He coaches for a small private school called the Tatnall School and churns out state champions at an amazing pace. Because of his knowledge and ability he can attract motivated athletes to his program which then can strengthen his program.
So think about what Alberto Salazar's coaching camp will look like in the next couple of years. Salazar, a member of the National Distance Running Hall of Fame, coached Great Britain's Mo Farah and Galen Rupp from the US to a 1-2 finish in the men's 10,000 meter run. Farah became the first Brit to win gold in this event and Rupp was just the third American to win a medal in Olympic history.

Whenever anyone from Ghana competes I root vigorously against them. Ghana is home to a plethora of internet con men who try all of those online scams to try to rip off people in this country. You have probably heard of many of these con jobs which include subscribing to online dating sites to try to lure older people into sending money overseas to "bring them to the US for love."

Another of these scams include the one in which you get an email saying that you can earn millions of dollars by simply opening up an account so that some royal person from there can clear money that is rightfully his, or something to that effect.

I am in love with GB's Jessica Ennis now. She was the winner of the heptathlon this year and is simply smokin sexy. She lived up to the hype placed on her and didn't succumb to the pressure placed on her shoulders. In fact, in the final event of her competition, the 800 meters, which wasn't her strongest race, she won it to the excitement of the packed house at Olympic Stadium and her countrymen.

Jessica Ennis

Step aside Jessica Alba, I have a new Jessica in my life

The Brit's have committed a series of flagrant flag violations that I have seen so far. I've seen flags landing on the ground and even Ennis was carrying one that was adorned with accolades for Ennis, which here in America is a technical foul.

Who says white men can’t jump? Great Britain’s Greg Rutherford won the men’s long jump gold medal with a leap of over 27 feet! An Australian, who also happened to be white, won the bronze.

Greg Rutherford (NOT Photoshopped!)

NBC’s Andrea Kremer has been the poolside reporter at the aquatic center. How many questions did she ask which had athletes tilting their head as if to say, “Wow, that was a stupid question?”

Lewis Johnson is the track and field interviewer and he has done far better trackside with his questions. He asks open-ended questions that also aren’t, “How do feel about winning the gold?” or “What does this mean to you?” But Johnson must be about 8 feet tall because no matter who is standing next to him it looks as if he should playing along side LaBron and Kobe on the basketball court.

I love the fact that every time a Brit wins a gold and they play their National Anthem that I can sing alternate lyrics to it that are truly America….LET FREEDOM RING!

We didn’t place anyone in the women’s marathon this year as our girls finished 9^th and 10^th this year. Returning bronze medalist Shalane Flanagan wasn’t able to medal in an event which teammate Kara Goucher called “more painful than giving birth.” Flanagan is the American record holder at 3k, 5k and 10k. I actually remember seeing her in the Penn Relays when she was at North Carolina running.

Since our men’s soccer development program is a failure in the US may I suggest that they all transition into Field Hockey? I was watching Great Britain stage a come-from-behind 3-3 tie with Australia recently and noticed how much different it is than the women’s version. Obviously the men are more athletic but the guys who play this sport in other countries really make the game much more interesting than one might think who has not had much exposure to this sport. It is clearly superior to soccer although I would like to see more contact allowed. We should Americanize that sport for men and attract more athletes to it so we can prepare to ban soccer in this country, which would be the greatest thing ever.

This is what happens when I get busy with other things and can’t post for a little while even though I have a lot of notes. It gets long.

Michael Phelps is now “officially retired” from competing in the Olympics. At 27 years old he pretty much has a charmed life for the rest of it. He has earned it putting in all of those years and achieving all that he did.
Still there were lingering questions about his performance in a couple of events to which he responded, “I got the results that I deserved.” I thought that such an honest and basically humble response that I can only agree with him.
Who am I to judge his level of preparedness anyway? I am basically a failure at life who could never, in my wildest imagination, do anything remotely close to what any of those athletes can do or did do.

But that still won’t stop me from commenting anyway.

Major disappointments for the women’s gymnastics team in the individual competitions so far. McKayla Maroney, the prohibitive favorite and reigning world champion, only managed to capture a silver medal in the vault. She was only on this team because of her vaulting capability but she landed on her ass on her second vault losing the silver to one of the Romanians.

I don’t know how anyone can fall on their ass and still medal but a few others of the 8 involved in the final did also so with her first vault providing an excellent score for her she was still able to medal.

I would be happy with a silver, myself. It really depends on which side of the balance beam you are standing to have an appreciation for whether earning a silver medal is a success or failure.
At least she didn’t land on her face like the Canadian girl did.

Felix Sanchez won the 400-meter hurdles for the Dominican Republic, but he was born in NYC, went to HS there and went to college at USC. That should be an American gold, not one for the DR.

Savannah Guthrie, from the Today Show, is the most useless tool in the Today Show tool shed. This morning I watched her take a tour of the Athletes Village in London with one of our athletes. Her first swing of her screwdriver of brilliance came when she walked up on an American high jumper talking on the phone with her mother. Guthrie gets on the phone and asks her mother, “How proud of your daughter are you?” Again, this is a question that should require an instant beating for its uselessness and automatic termination.
But, she outdid herself moments later. Going back live she was sitting near the Wrench King himself, Matt Lauer. Lauer asks her what Great Britain will do with the village once the Olympics are over. Guthrie compliments Lauer by saying, “That’s a great question, I often wondered that!” And that was all we are ever going to be able to do now that Guthrie displayed that amazing journalistic talent after that one.

"Journalist" Savannah Guthrie

Naturally I am not hot like Savannah Guthrie but here is some proof that I can do her job, or Matt Lauer’s for that matter since he was holding on to his King of Tools throne as hard as he possibly could

After the Game, the Olympic Village will be a lasting legacy of essential new housing for east London. It will be transformed into 2818 new homes, including 1379 affordable homes and houses for sale and rent, and will create a new residential quarter to be known as East Village.

NBC, you know how to find me.

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