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This is not so much a comment as much as it is an embarassing testament to the understanding of the English language.  The article is entitled ‘Looser Gun Law, other new state laws start Tuesday’.  The comment is as follows:

By Kahne

Jun 30, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

“looser”? Must mean the AJC is concerned the Perps are loosing some advantage over their victims. Now they will have to wonder if their potential victim is armed.

Not only does Kahne impress us with his use of ‘Perps’ as if he is in law enforcement (let’s hope this isn’t the case), but he manages to show he has no idea of the difference between lose and loose.  And to prove that he has no vocabulary skills even further, he manages to use loosing (a word?) in a sentence….yet these are the folks who want guns….scary to me.

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High School to NBA . . . via overseas? That’s one scenario for Brandon Jennings, a top incoming freshman at the University of Arizona. 

Instead of abiding by the NBA’s ‘One Year Removed from High School’ rule and being forced into college ball, this prep star is thinking why not get paid for a year and then see what the NBA has to offer.  And Xpinionated says ‘Go for it’.

In a country where the majority of citizens never attend college, I find it preposterous that so many folks use their own selfish reasons to insist that prep basketball players attend college for at least a year before getting entering the NBA.  These people fear a decline in the level of college basketball while at the same time touting the importance of getting a college education.  Give me a break, most college basketball fans didn’t attend the college for which they cheer and they definitely did not throw their support to the college because of it’s Entomology department.

In a country where we will give an 18 year old an assault rifle and send them to the other side of the world to fight a war for a reason they barely understand, I find it preposterous to suggest an 18-year-old does not have the right to forgo college if he so desires.

If it were anything other than a pro sport (in my mind, even if it were pro baseball or hockey), folks would have no problem with an 18 year old forgoing college to make his way in the world legitimately.  College is not for everybody.  And though studies show those who attend college make more money, there are exceptions — and one of those exceptions is the sporting world. 

If a kid has god-given talents and gifts that can be used to secure his place in this world as well as his family’s place, why should we force him to provide those talents to an institution for an education that he doesn’t necessarily value?

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Isn’t odd how many folks on the internet will read an internet story, take the time to sign in or register on the website, take more time to leave a comment and the comment says something to the effect of ‘I don’t care about this topic’ but with a lot more words?  If you don’t care, why waste the time, energy, and space to tell us?  Why not just not care?

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Kentucky Gunman

Yet another coward with no moral fabric and little social skills gets a gun.  I am really getting fed up with the stories of people opening fire over what usually amounts to trivial issues.  I’m even more fed up with cowards such as these ‘turning the gun on themselves’ after their dastardly deed. 

In my opinion, if you’re ‘man’ enough to shoot someone, and man enough to boast to your girlfriend that you’re going to kill your boss, then you should be man enough to face the families you’ve destroyed, to face the consequences you’ve earned. 

<—Face of a coward — and yeah, I’m intentionally not putting his name here for he deserves no fame or recognition.

Zimbabwe Elections

Every time I think U.S. politicians are some of the lowest of the low, situations such as the current Zimbabwe elections reminds me of how lucky I am.  Do you realize that people are being killed as a means of deterring votes for the challenger Tsvangirai.   And we in Georgia are worried about Voter I.D. laws? 

It saddens me sometimes to think of how people in other countries live and fear — fear of doing things to make a better life (hopefully) for themselves.  It angers me to think that the incumbent Mugabe has run a country through fear for this long yet my country, who often feels it must police the world, has done nothing to step in — not enough oil I guess…..

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I promise you, Devin just insisted that I take this photo…and all the others too!!

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I sometimes wonder why I blog.  I see other folks blogs and wonder how they became so popular.  How did they get such a loyal fanbase?  Then I tell myself that I don’t do it to gain a fanbase.  It would be nice, no doubt, to have or to know that somebody out there has found Xpinionated other than the scammers who try to spam my comments.  But after six years, I guess I do  do it for myself.

I do feel as if I have something to add.  Although, I may not have a particular theme with Xpinionated (which is probably part of the reason the readership is low), I do have an opinion that I would like to be heard.  Though, I don’t blog as much lately, I still want to be heard.

Even if I wanted a theme, I’m not sure what theme that would be.  As witnessed by the decline in my Lakers and Redskins/Hokies blogs, even the things I love I don’t always feel like talking about. So to put a theme to this blog would mean I would have to damn near be obsessing over something….I’m too old to obsess or at least too old to actually put any kind of extra effort into my obsessing!

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I’m not a T.D. Jakes fan.  Or Creflo Dollar or any televangelist.  I think most, oops I mean all, are using religion as a money making machine which doesn’t sit right with me.  But this story caught my eye.  The formerly Atlanta based Megafest Christian get together is moving to South Africa in 2008.  Apparently, folks found traveling to Atlanta and lodging expenses too much of a burden.  In response to that, Jakes is moving the money machine, I mean get together, to . . . wait for it . . . . South Africa?!?!

This makes sense how?  In addition to getting together for some worship — on another continent, Jakes’ organization is also going to be offering 11-day tours around the same time as the get together for five to six grand per person.  And this doesn’t strike anyone as fishy, odd, conniving, or scammish?

“When you’re the mother of a couple of kids, it’s not something that you can do on an annual basis, ” said Williams, who managed MegaFest for Jakes. “We want to be sensitive to the needs of our delegates.”

Sadly, the quote above is referring to the good ol’ days when the get together was in Atlanta……

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