I first wrote about Pat Tillman last Spring when it was found out he was killed in action while fighting the war on terrorism in Afghanistan, and I bring it up again because this past weekend, the NFL honored Tillman's memory by having all players wear a number 40 sticker on their helmet, and the Arizona Cardinals retired his number.  If anyone wants to know why Tillman gave up the NFL to fight for our country, here's what he said right after September 11, 2001 -

In Arizona, Senator John McCain appeared on the jumbotron for the memorial and had probably the best quote to sum everything up -

Amen Senator.  Like I stated, I wrote a Buzz about Tillman last Spring on the old totalnonstop site.  It's thinking about someone that gave up what he did that makes my problems seem pretty petty.  Also, I never want to downplay or belittle the sacrifices of everyone else by any means, but because Tillman was a public figure, his death impacted more people on a national scale.  If I ever have a son, I truly hope that one day I can sit him down and point to Pat Tillman's life as a true example of what character and honor means.

Now, I read today that another American has been beheaded by these monsters in Iraq.  Ok, it's time that we as a nation ask ourselves "How much more of this will we take?".  Isn't it about time we allow the military to exercise their full strength and allow them to do their job?  Isn't it time that people quit bitching and whining about the "feelings" of small groups of people so we can accomplish what we need to do?  I'm tired of it...I really am.  I really don't think that some people truly realize that there are people in this world that are completely souless and evil...and it ain't President Bush regardless of what the latest "celebrity who is reaping the benefits of everything this country has to offer yet still bitches about it" says.  Even if you disagree with President Bush, he ain't the one beheading people...ok?  Just a little newsflash for you.  It just infuriates me to see the news that someone else had their head cut off by these savages.  You can't negotiate with them...you can't reason with them...they are pure evil and need to be exterminated.  And you know what?  These people who do this have to be some of the most cowardly bastards around.  Hey guys...if you are all so big and bad THEN SHOW YOUR FRIGGIN FACES!!!  Serious...if you truly think your "god" is on your side...then why hide under a hood in the videos????    There is a time where there is a clear cut right and wrong, and those people are wrong...and they need to be wiped out.  Screw it if someone is offended if a Mosque is bombed to take these bastards out...screw it.  Oh, did anyone care about our feelings when over 3,000 civilians were killed on September 11, 2001?  Yeah...how many of those same people we might offend by bombing a mosque were outraged when the World Trade Center Towers went down.  I seriously doubt there were that many.  But enough...I'm ranting now and could go on for hours.

The rest of this Buzz was actually written a few days ago, so be prepared for a change in tone....just so you know.
 
 

You know what Sportsfans?  I will be SO happy when this Presidential election is over.  Why?  Because here we are with about 50 days to go, and the amount of stupidity clogging the airwaves just boggles my friggin mind!  You see, back in the old days of The Buzz, I used to give out a weekly “Babe of the Week” award which led to the coveted “Babe of the Year”.  When I decided to start doing The Buzz again, I dispensed with this idea because, quite honestly, 99% of the female population absolutely infuriates and baffles me, and I don’t need constant reminders of the physical beauty that lures me in only to be gutted while they point a claw at me and laugh maniacally as I crawl away trying to hold my intestines in…I just really don’t need it.  Bitter?  Me?  Nahhh.  Now before the hate mail rolls in, I did say 99% which leaves a coveted 1% of the chicks that don't infuriate and baffle me....so there!   Well for this second go-round, I decided this week to begin the “Bumblehead of the Week” award to the one individual who truly typifies what stupidity is all about.  This week’s winner?

Ok, now you want to know why.  Well, last week I touched on it briefly but man…has it grown to epic proportions.  You ever known someone who told you a lie, then lied to cover up the first lie, and another lie to cover for that one and so on?  Well that is exactly what CBS and Dan Rather are doing.  Forget politics, forget Republican and Democrat…just forget all this for a moment and listen to how stupid he is…or how stupid he thinks WE all are.  Last week, memos surfaced that had pretty disparaging remarks about President Bush’s actions while in the Air National Guard.  Shortly after the story airs, it starts coming out that those documents were forgeries…as in not real…fake…frauds..whatever.  The reason it came out they were forged was because a few people were interviewed about the validity of the story, and their interviews were not used on Dan Rather’s segment…those people were just ignored.  So those people who said they weren’t true went to other news outlets and reported that.  Anyway, experts were brought in to check on the validity of the memos, one that looked at them was that dude Frank Abgandale (I think that’s his name)…you know the dude the movie “Catch Me If You Can” was based on.  His quote was classic…he said something like “As bad as those are, if I had created them it would have been ‘Catch Me In Two Days’”.  So this past Wednesday, CBS was going to issue a big statement about the story and its validity.  Here’s the gist of what happened – Dan Rather interviewed the former secretary of the Air National Guard dude, I think his name was Colonel Killian, who supposedly wrote this memo.  She told Rather that she didn’t type it and it doesn’t look like it came from him….HOWEVER…the content in it could be true….WHAT THE HECK???  “Yes, the document is fake but what it says could be true”.  That makes absolutely ZERO sense.  Now when ace journalist Dan Rather heard this statement he’s like “oh, I see…I see” like he was trying to say to everyone “There!  So it COULD be true…AHA!”.  What a load of crap!  AND THEN they have the audacity to say that Bush needs to answer for the items THAT WERE INCLUDED IN A FORGED DOCUMENT!  Does everyone see how stupid this is???  Allow me to use an analogy to further demonstrate just how dumb this all is.  Let’s say I get arrested for a bank robbery.  During the trial, the prosecuting attorney shows the jury photos that supposedly came from the bank’s security camera that show me holding a gun robbing the bank.  Sounds bad, right?  Now let’s say my defense attorney shows that the pictures are fake…doctored up in Photoshop.  Sounds like the case is closed, correct?  Not so fast…because then the prosecuting attorney stands up and says “Ok, yes, the pictures are fake, but we believe the CONTENT of the photos are true so Mr. Heyward still needs to prove that it’s not him in those photos robbing that bank”.  IT MAKES NO SENSE!!!   Man, can people just not admit that they are wrong anymore??  I swear…it infuriates me.  You know, I would actually have some respect for Dan Rather if he came out and said “boy, we made a huge mistake” instead of trying to say “the documents are fake but we believe the content is true”.  Hey, Mr. Idiot, IF YOU HAVE A FAKE DOCUMENT THEN THE CONTENT IS FAKE TOO….FAKE MEANS IT’S NOT AUTHENTIC YOU BUMBLEHEAD!  That would be like me trying to sell a fugazi to someone and they’re like “ummm…this isn’t a real diamond in this ring” to which I reply “well, no, the jewel is fake but what makes up the fake jewel is real” and try to charge them a ton of cash.  This has got to be one of the lamest attempts at covering up a screw-up I have ever seen.  They’re trying all these semantics and twisted logic to try and keep from admitting their agenda.  Wow, you know what I just remembered?  Last week I said that the great thing about a lie is that the ones you don’t want to find out about it always do.  Guess what, we all found out about it and now CBS News ratings are plummeting.  Good.   Congrats Dan Rather, the first ever Rum & Coke Buzz Bumblehead of the week!  Oh, one last thing, seems that now Rather will hit the airwaves and admit that CBS news was duped.  And guess what they put some of the blame on…just take a wild guess….give up?  The White House!!  Can you believe that?  Apparently CBS felt that because The White House didn’t dispute the validity of the docs then they must be true.  You know why the docs weren’t disputed?  Because The White House basically has a policy of not verifying every story that will be run by a major news organization because they are GENERALLY researched ahead of time  by the media’s news department.

But wait…it gets better…yes it does.  Well, actually it gets worse.  Here’s another reason I’ll be glad when the Presidential election is over.  Take a look at this picture below.  Last Thursday in Huntington, West Virginia, there was an event attended by John Kerry’s running mate John Edwards.  A father and his 3 year old daughter decided to attend and show support for President Bush by holding up a sign.  Check the picture out and see what happened to this sign.

Can you believe that?  What kind of scumbag is going to rip a sign out of the hands of a 3 year old???  I’ll tell you what kind of scumbag….take a look at Johnny backwards hat free thinking college punk next to him.  Notice the crumpled up bit of a sign in his hand?  And now here’s the worst part – I heard an interview with the girl’s dad and this jackass who ripped the sign originally still tried to grab the rest of it from the little girl while the crowd was yelling at the father that he should be ashamed of making his daughter do such a horrible thing like making his kid hold a sign.  Oh heaven forbid someone with some decency go kick the ass of the guy who’s ripping the sign out of the girl’s hands because THAT’S not horrible, but holding up the sign is.  I gotta say this, if I was that father I probably would have been arrested for assault and Johnny backwards hat would have been gumming applesauce for a few days while he waited on his false teeth to come in from the oral surgeon , luckily this guy had a cooler head on his shoulders and walked.  This is just unbelievable.  Now if I was at a George Bush rally and some 3 year old kid was holding a John Kerry sign, would I go up to her and rip it out of her hands?  No, I would not.  You know why?  Oh I don’t know, maybe because I like to attempt to conduct myself as somewhat of a decent human being.  I’m not bringing this up to show that Kerry supporters are jerks or whatever, there are wackos on both sides of the political fence.  Heck, take a look at the hardcore right-to-lifers who will firebomb an abortion clinic or shoot a doctor that performs abortions while yelling about “right to life” the whole time…..what morons.  This just all boils down to decency.  What is wrong with people?  Ok, enough politics for one week.

My mighty Atlanta Falcons are now sitting pretty at 2-0.  You know what happened the last time they started 2-0?  They went to The Super Bowl baby!  Yeah, I know it’s early…but I can dream can’t I?  I tell you what, my man-love for Michael Vick grows more and more every time I see the dude play.  What I thought was sooo funny was all the messageboards where people were like “oh we’re doomed…Vick hardly played in the preseason…he won’t know the offense…wah wah wah”.  I kept telling people not to worry because once a REAL game is going on, Vick will be there and go all out…guess what…I was right as usual.  But you know how to tell when you play too much ESPN NFL2K5 on the PS2??  It’s when Warrick Dunn gets injured in the game, and then when you think about the REAL game that was played on TV you think Dunn got hurt in real life.  Yes, it has gotten that bad…no longer am I able to distinguish reality from digitized players running around on a video game.

On the musical front…remember…the mighty NoiseCult will be playing in Murfreesboro at Gentleman Jim’s on Saturday the 25th.  And be sure to keep up with all that is NoiseCult over at  www.noisecult.com  We’ll have t-shirts done here shortly, and we are putting the final touches on the DVD and CD before we start our world domination and conquer everything all in the name of METAL!!  Oh, I also got some excellent news last Friday.  I’m sitting at work and then Chris, our singer, send me an Instant Message asking if I was going to Metallica.  I was like “WHAT???  WHEN???  WHERE???”.  He told me tickets went on sale the next day, so I crawl out of bed at 9:45 to get online and secure my tickets.  I hardly slept Friday night because I was afraid my alarm wouldn’t go off the next morning and I would miss out.  I swear, other dudes my age were probably getting the family together for a day in the park while thinking about their stock portfolios…but not me…no I get up and my hands are shaking as I keep hitting “refresh” on my web browser waiting for Metallica tickets to be available.  Will I ever grow up?  No way baby!

In general entertainment news, I broke down and checked out “The Punisher” this weekend.  The Hulk is my favorite comic book character of all time, and The Punisher would rank up there in the top 5, mixed in with Iron Man, The Thing from The Fantastic 4, and Spider Man.  Yep, most of my faves kick it old school.  The Punisher was the last comic I got into, and I had my reservations about going to see this movie so I passed on it in the theater…but now with the new big widescreen TV and everything, I figured I’d check it out.  I gotta say, I was pleasantly surprised.  I’m a sucker for a good revenge story…something about a dude who isn’t afraid to die because he has nothing to lose anyway just rocks.  Lots of guns, explosions, and some cool lines in it.  Oh, and the fact that he keeps pushing away this chick who wants him was very cool….mush like Snake Plissken did in “Escape From LA”….it’s all business.  My favorite line had to be at the end…so if you don’t if you don’t want to hear it, skip this part.  Frank Castle (The Punisher) is leaving the apartment he’s been at for a little while, and when chick neighbor asks about him leaving, he tells her she’ll know where he’s at by checking the newspapers.  She says “which section?” to which he replies “the obituaries”….kick ass.

Ok, that's plenty for one week...so until next time Sportsfans...later!