To quote Ice Cube: "Peace....don't make me laugh." That is what I have to say to outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld this morning. Yes, the man most Americans have come to love to hate, has finally stepped down from his position, long after he should have done so. The majority of the time, when someone resigns, it usually means they were forced out, and you would have to think that he was fired. Although, with this administration and the comments last week from George Bush that he wants Rumsfeld to stick around through the rest of Bush's tenure as President would make you think otherwise. Its an interesting thought - Rumsfeld, the day after the elections in which the Democrats took over control of both the House and the Senate, saw the writing on the walls and cowardly quit. Bush claimed yesterday that this decision was made before the election, but that clearly can't be the case. If that was true and he were as smart as he thinks he is, he would have relieved Rumsfeld of his duties before the election, therefore gaining some credibility with the swing voters in key states such as Virginia and Ohio. But again, that is vintage W. In reading about Rumsfeld online, I found a website devoted to the memorable quotes if this man. A couple of my favorites: - "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
- "We do know of certain knowledge that Bin Laden is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead."
It is great to see so many right-wing conservatives backtracking now that the Senate and the House are in Democratic control. I heard a clip of Rush Limbaugh yesterday saying that a lot of the things he was saying and backing, he didn't really agree with, he was just trying to go along and push his party's policies and keeping them in place because "the stakes were too high." As a friend of mine said to me yesterday, "now how is that for a flawed sense of things, the stakes are high, but you're defending something you think is wrong, because your party is selling it?" I couldn't agree more. The bottom line here is that the country has spoken through the power of the vote. They wanted change and that is what they are getting. It should be an interesting two years.
Lets move into some less thought provoking topics, like my favorite wanna-be celebrity, Kevin "K-Fed" Federline. So Britney Spears finally decided to drop this no-talent loser and served him with divorce papers. This is perfect timing for "Fed-Ex" since he is out touring and promoting his new album "Playing With Fire". A couple of his shows have been cancelled due to a lack of ticket sales, including here in Cleveland (I'm proud to say). I heard yesterday his show in New York sold only 300 tickets, and he came out 3 hours late because he was sitting back stage waiting for more people to show up. Then I came across this gem of a story. K-Fed played at the Chicago House of Blues last night. Several songs into the set, he referenced his breakup with Spears. "Hey, I see a lot of fine ladies in here," said the rapper. "You know I'm a free man, right, ladies? You wanna dance with a pimp?" HAHAHAHAHA! What a tool! Make sure you click on the link above and read about the rest of his evening in Chicago. Meanwhile, he is now suing Spears for full custody of their two kids. What judge in their right mind would grant custody to a hard-partying, no talent zero with pretty much no earning potential and three kids from two different women who he is no longer with? He may be getting the last laugh though. He did at one point land Britney Spears and will probably come out of this divorce with enough money to last anyone a lifetime.
A couple quick sports notes:
- The Tribe just landed their second basement for the next 5 years in trading for young stud Josh Barfield. We only had to give up third base prospect Kevin Kouzmanoff who was stuck behind both Andy Marte and Ryan Garko and has a chronic back problem. No doubt Kouzmanoff can hit. That is why The Padres, desparate for a third basemen, were hard after him. Barfield is perfect for the Tribe. He is only 23, plays a great second base, has speed, and best of all for our ownership, comes very cheap. We can control him for 5 more years.
- Lebron James caught a lot of flack nationally for walking off the court with 7 seconds left as the Hawks were running the clock out the other night in their win over the Cavs. Predicatbly, this story didn't even register on a local level here because Lebron can do whatever he wants. In small print, the one quote James had was "The game was over. I walked off the court. We were down by seven [actually nine] points with three seconds left. There was no way we were going to win."
- The KU season starts this Friday with some baggage weighing over the program. You recall a few weeks back, I told you the story of CJ Giles, who was suspended. Since then, our other top Center, Sasha Kaun, hurt his knee and will be out for 6 weeks. Magically, Coach Bill Self re-instated Giles saying "we are in the business of helping kids succeed." Two days later, Giles was arrested for battery of a female student. He was kicked off the team for good a few hours later. I don't like how this reflects on the program. Self put himself in a precarious position by re-instating Giles out of necessity. He will deny it, but that is the truth. Giles screwed him big time and the already immense pressure on Self to succeed this year was just heightened.
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