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Golf Writers Association of America Boycott of Tiger Woods’ Press Conference Leaves No Doubt Who the Real Whore is in this Saga
Posted by Lance Haley in Business and Money, Cultural Issues, Economics, Ethics, Get a Life America, Media & Communication, Morality, Show Them the $$$, Sports on February 19th, 2010
Tabloid Sports Writers Resent Tiger Woods’ Muzzling Them From Speaking of Moral Evils at His Press Conference Today
Citing those lofty prinicples of American journalism, the Golf Writers Association of America stated that the ground rules for Tiger Woods’ scheduled press conference today were unacceptable to them, and they then elected to boycott the event. GWAA President Vatan Kupelian said, “To limit the ability of journalists to attend, listen, see and question Woods goes against the grain of everything we believe.”
Bullshit!
“Tiger, you’re now trapped inside the belly of the beast. Capitalism has perverted journalism to the point that fairness, accuracy and privacy are all irrelevant. Bloggers and media corporations working in conjunction with porn stars, strippers and undiscovered reality TV hos can all make money exploiting your personal life.”
Here is the hard truth. Journalists, whether they work for the infotainment industry or the mainstream media, are not just interested in reporting the news anymore. They are often not even so much interested in the truth. Now they want to make the news – as in create the story and be part of the story. That’s how careers and money are made in this business in today’s environment.
Given that reality, Tiger will forever be hounded, stalked, and gossiped about. The media will make news out of the fact he was in the bathroom for longer than five minutes. Truth will no longer be relevant (like it ever has been?). What every little paid bimbo says will become today’s big news story.
Walk away Tiger, before your family gets hurt anymore. Just turn, and walk away. It ain’t worth it. You would have broken Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major wins . You are the greatest who ever played the game. There is nothing more worth proving – at least not at any cost. Forget about it. Vanish like my favorite athlete, Barry Sanders. He would have destroyed every rushing record in the NFL. Now he is the penultimate “What IF” NFL running legend? Go be happy, Tiger. They will talk about you for awhile – at least until you are way past your prime. But your true fans will miss you forever – and we will forgive you, if you earn that forgiveness. You have made a lifetime of extraordianary shots in your career. And you have done so much good, as well. You will never be forgotten.
Oh, and for the benefit of you media people, I have taken the liberty of writing the essence of the Tiger Woods sex scandal story in perfect Ernest Hemingway journalistic style:
“Tiger is a slut. You all are whores.”
End of story . . . and I will take a slut over a whore any time.
UPDATE to post [2-23-10]: Let me take a guess at the argument for today’s “journalistic behavior” . . . Tiger brought this all on his family. You self-rationalizing whores are unconscionable!
Duke Lacrosse Team Rape Accuser Commits Hate Crime & Mike Nifong Hates Fundamental Unfairness of Truth
Posted by Lance Haley in Cultural Issues, Ethics, Media & Communication, Politics, Race, crime on February 18th, 2010
Duke Lacrosse Team Prosecutor Mike Nifong - Complained of Fundamental Unfairness of Disbarment Proceedings While His Puppy Was Eating His Law License
Do you recall that ugly scandal involving players for the Duke University Lacrosse Team, where a stripper named Crystal Magnum – boy was Chris Rock ever right about keeping your daughter “off the pole” - accused several of the players of raping her at an off-campus team party?
Remember the over-zealous Prosecutor Mike Nifong making racially-incendiary insinuations that the alleged rape was a hate crime – all for political gain – along with his other voluminous ethical violations?
Of course, nothing was further from the truth. There was never any crime committed that night. Except, of course – and I sincerely apologize to Duke University for not defending your actions - there was that unthinkable crime of underage drinking by college boys. Oh, the horrors of it all . . . 
Earlier today, Crystal Magnum (did your mom really give you that name?) - that stripper who falsely accused those young white men of the rape – was arrested for allegedly beating the Hell out of her boyfriend, then throwing his clothes in bathtub and setting them on fire in an apartment. While being taken away by police officers, it was reported that she then yelled at the boyfriend, “I’m going to stab you [MotherF&%ker].”
She was charged with “first-degree attempted murder for communicating a threat” while in the presence of police officers, as well as five counts of arson, simple assault, identity theft, damage to property and resist, delay and obstruction of justice. Moreover, there may be three additional counts of child endangerment as a result of setting the fire in an apartment, presumably where the children were present.
All proving once again that she really hates men – black or white.
In a really twisted irony was Nifong’s response when confronted with news reports of Magnum’s arrest. Nifong told a reporter who called him in order to comment on the matter, that he doubted the truth of those reports since he believed media reports “to be of questionable value.”
I guess Nifong forgot about the fact that he didn’t hesitate to disseminate evidence of questionable value regarding DNA and other legal issues to the media during the Duke Lacrosse Team rape case.
Karma’s a bitch – literally and figuratively speaking - ain’t it Mike?
Inside the Mind of An Unapologetic Wall Street Investment Banker
Posted by Lance Haley in Bailouts, Banking, Business and Money, Capitalism, Cultural Issues, Economics, Ethics, Financial Crisis, How and Why We Get Screwed, Morality, Politics, Show Them the $$$, Wall Street, Wealth Disparity & the Ultra Rich, financial industry on January 19th, 2010
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
– “Verbal” Kint, The Usual Suspects
Ok. So you may or may not have cared to see or read about the CEO’s of four Wall Street banks who testified this past week before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
However, wouldn’t you like to literally go inside the mind of a Wall Street investment banker and understand how they rationalize away any sense of responsibility for the untold consequences of the financial collapse? If you have a beating heart in your chest, and blood in your veins, these quotes from a Wall Street investment banker’s blog defending the apparent indifference by these men to the financial calamity that they were complicit in and primarily responsible for creating should send shivers up your spine:
Investment bankers “have absolutely no interest whatsoever in the whys and wherefores of the financial crisis, the proper size and role of banks and investment banks in the domestic economy, or the moral imperatives inherent in stewarding the financial plumbing under-girding the daily lives and livelihoods of six billion people . . . [i]nvestment bankers have almost no interest in why things are the way they are. Rather, they spend all their considerable intellectual and psychological resources on understanding how they can take advantage of the way things are.”
Moreover, “their obvious lack of intellectual curiosity about the sources of the crisis . . . [explains] their resistance to any major change in the way the industry or the markets are regulated . . . changing regulations will [not]necessarily make the industry less profitable . . . [since they] have well-justified confidence in their ability to turn new regulations to their advantage.”
He goes on to conclude, “Don’t look to investment bankers for answers on how we got here. We don’t know and we don’t care [emphasis added]. We take the world as we find it and try to make money.”
After reading this, there should not be a shadow of a doubt in any one’s mind - - they are Financial Terrorists.
These men simply have no souls.
Maybe Rome (America) Really is Burning
Posted by Lance Haley in Bailouts, Business and Money, Capitalism, Congress, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Economics, Ethics, Financial Crisis, Government, Legal & Justice, Morality, Politics, Uncategorized, crime on December 8th, 2009
Do you think that maybe America shall reap what what she has sown?
This is not some biblical or religious condemnation nor commentary. It is obvious that the country is at a watershed moment in it’s history, and it does not bode well for the future. A speech given by a Senior FBI Special Agent in Charge John Gillies in Boca Raton, Florida noted that the seeds of widespread corruption in this society were sown by failures in personal ethics and integrity, and he further insinuates that greed is the driving force.
Agent Gilles said that cheating and corruption in it’s multitude of forms, whether by law enforcement and public officials, wealthy tax cheaters, sports stars like Tiger Woods, or business “fraudsters”, only undermines the moral fabric of our society, and is “the number one criminal threat” in the United States.
It is reasonable to argue that this social paradigm shift has occurred in an atmosphere of unrelenting hubris that this country has displayed in attempting to force the rest of the world to kneel to it’s whims and philosophies – particularly the notion that the United States is the standard-bearer of economic and moral values that all other nations and societies should emulate.
Nonetheless, some will continue to blame the lack of conservative values and the influence of liberalism as the root cause of this condition. If that is the case, then can anyone provide a logical explanation for the dominance of Conservatism from 2001 through 2008, and the concomitant rise in these problems? Special Agent Gilles noted that there was a 25% rise in corruption and fraud during the past five years – and that the scale of these crimes was unprecedented. Remember: Bush and the Conservatives had virtual control of the political structure throughout that period, and had gutted the regulatory and legal systems of the means to uncover these crimes.
Just food for thought.