I'm sure letting EVERY kid I know see this one!

Puyallup Girl Sentenced In Drug Overdose Death

POSTED: 11:54 am PDT August 26, 2008

EVERETT, Wash. -- A 19-year-old Puyallup woman was sentenced to nearly two years in juvenile detention for providing the drug Ecstasy to a 16-year-old friend who died of an overdose.

The woman, Donalydia Huertas, was 17 years old when she gave the drug to Danielle McCarthy of Puyallup during a New Year's Eve party.

Huertas failed to seek medical attention after McCarthy became ill.

She was eventually taken to Stevens Hospital in Edmonds where she was pronounced dead on Jan. 1, 2007.

Huertas was found guilty last June of controlled substance homicide and second-degree manslaughter. She was sentenced Monday in Snohomish County Superior Court to remain in custody until she is 21.

Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. (I hope I'm not in trouble for re-publishing this, or whatever it is I've done....:) I'm only trying to help.. OK?
SOURCE: KIROTV.com

Hillary Speech a GRAND SLAM at Convention

I wasn't feeling well the past couple of days and ended up SLEEPING through the speech, darn it! And, although I haven't been able to hear it in it's entirety YET, based on the pundits, CNN.com, etc., it seems she hit a HOME RUN!

I knew she would...............

TaRon & Grandma's Summer Vacation ~ WHEW!!

Catching up on my zzz....'s since my 9 yr old Grandson left for home/Oklahoma City last Saturday at 5:40 am. He was here for SIX-WEEKS!!! Yeah...........

We did SO........ much stuff. First we had the July 3 & 4, activities, then the planning and packing all the stuff for the 4th annual Ernie BBQ, that was going to be down at the beach this year. We rented a U-Haul so we wouldn't have to bother people about haul this, haul that. One trip there and one trip back and it's all done.

Then we had Lakefair week and going downtown everyday for Demo Burgers. Friday he and I dropped off Uncle Nels and he got a $22 wristband to ride as many rides as he wanted for 3 hours. He had a BLAST. Then Olie and Alex came over and we had a bonfire in the backyard for hotdogs & smores.

Saturday we went downtown at 1:30pm and roped put out our chairs for the Lakefair Parade at 5pm, a great spot right by a speaker, a couple blocks past Union with the sun behind us.

Then on Sunday, the 19th, Olie, Alex, TaRon & I went downtown across from Hannah's with our chairs in a parking lot to watch the fireworks . (I thought the Lacey fireworks on July 3, were MUCH BETTER! )

They went home Monday afternoon and he had a couple days of quite, then Lucinda and Victor came back over to go to the SeaFair TorchLight Parade in Seattle on Sat. July 26. They had a GREAT time, PIRATES!, CLOWNS!, Lots of Floats, Bands, Horses, etc. Lucinda waved at EVERY thing in that parade. Her arm MUST have been tired!

Wed Dark Knight/Batman a surprise with me and Uncle Nels
Thurs - Lucinda & Victor spend night to leave in the morning
Friday - Seattle to see Blue Angles (got stuck in traffic for two plus hours coming home) had goodbye party planned at 5:30 with all TaRon's neighborhood Friends. We got here at 5:30. It all worked out, his friends got here around 6, and it turned out perfect. They all stayed until 10:30. I cut out the NOISY running around the yard at 8:30 and said if they wanted to stay we'd have quiet time and watch a movie. 'Call your parents and see if you can stay till the end. I'll drive or follow you home on your bike when the movie's over.' They watched Mark Walberg in Planet of the Apes. Must be from about 2000.

TaRon and I only had 3 hours to rest before we had to get up. We got home at 11:00pm and had to be up by 2:00 am to get to SeaTac for his 5:40 am departure for home. You have to get to the airport 90 minutes before your flight leaves to check in, and get through security. Plus, we had the one hour (at least) drive to Sea Tac to begin with.

Needless to say, THAT was a week that I KNEW was going to be TOO much for me especially that last day, and getting stuck on the freeway, leaving me NO TIME to prepare for the SURPRISE PARTY (it wasn't as much of a surprise as I had hoped), plus just the stress of stop and go, stop and go for TWO STRAIGHT HOURS -- STRESSFUL!!!

But, he got off and home in one piece with a GREAT summer under his belt.

No alcoholic issues, no drug issues, no drama or fights, just fun, fun, fun. Parades (3), He was in the Beach Crest (our neighborhood) 4th of July Parade, Lakefair/Olympia, Seafair Torchlight/Seattle, Blue Angels, Hydroplanes, swimming pool, slip-and-slide, bike riding, skate-boarding, Memorial Gathering Beach BBQ for Ernie, playing on the beach, going to his neighborhood friends' houses. Just a very stress-free summer!

He also helped me with my garden and can tell you the name of almost every one of my plants.

NOW, I'm resting. For the past week I have worked around the house and garden in the morning, then napped in the afternoons and evenings.

OH MY GOSH, Brett's a Jet....

Well... That is going to be the STRANGEST thing ever. Green Bay with no Brett. NYJ with! It's been an ugly mess this Farve retire/unretire thing. McCarthy must have really insulted Brett cause he just was NOT going back there, even when it was pretty much a given he'd get his job back. Next thing you know, he's a JET. At least he gets to still wear green :).

100 Arrested in Kent Street Racing STING!!

I say, "YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!"

These kids have NO IDEA the chances they are taking. Mortality doesn't kick in until you're about 25, sometimes 30. Death is something that happens to someone ELSE.

Well, my son was KILLED by a drunk driver who thought he was going to follow in his father's footsteps of being a race car driver. One of HIS friends said, "Oh, David Butterton, his THING is going around corners sideways." Well he went around the MARKED 25 mph HARD LEFT CURVE on Union Mills Rd SIDEWAYS right into a TREE, killing my BEAUTIFUL son INSTANTLY.

Then had the nerve to go around town telling people he didn't think would tell, "Oh I'm going to walk I didn't blow very high." IS HE NUTS? Well he just got out of 3 1/2 years in prison for killing my boy. TWO YEARS EARLY for good time. Not much for murder in my mind. I think when you drive 80 mph ON PURPOSE you should get charged with MURDER! Not just vehicular homicide, that carries a 3 yr sentence. He did get an extra 24 months tagged on for having a previous DUI, *two years prior that he'd done nothing the court told him to do when he killed my boy.*

He was waiting on a probabtion violation hearing that had been postponed by his attorney Rick Cordes, several times. Then when he does show up for his hearing less than a month after THE CRASH, he walks in to court and low and behold my son and I are sitting there. What does he do? He looks over and says, "Hey." HEY?????? to the family of the kid you just killed. I thought my son was going to burst. I walked into the probation office and asked, "Why is that guy here? He killed my son and I want to know why he's here. Is he here about my son's death?" We had NO IDEA he had been on probation at the time of the crash until that day. Until that day I had really thought THE CRASH was just a horrible ACCIDENT. The blood work wasn't back yet, and we had NO IDEA about his history. Almost killed himself AND others in '95 in a freeway crash.

His sister was killed in a DUI crash in the early 90's, that people have said his other sister caused. Drunk driving home from the Evergreen Ballroom acting out and bumped the car from behind. She went home hid the car and went back to the scene to find her sister DEAD. She got away with it. The FAMILY told us this. NOW, this is hearsay, so I'm just repeating what was told to me. BUT it was told to me by about 30 people AND FAMILY MEMBERS! That's the sort of family he comes from.

So, there you have it. My commentary on drunk driving and these kids who think this racing is COOL. DEAD COOL!

I've been GONE but I'll be back SOON......

Well, as ya'll have noticed and complained..... I am on summer/Grandson sabbatical.

My Ernie's son, he's 9, is here for 6-weeks. June 14 - Aug 2.

I have not had ONE MINUTE to sit down and post to my BLOG. Swimming, fishing, fairs, parades (local & Seattle's BIG evening Torchlight Parade last Saturday), lots of kids over (sometimes 3 or more for days on end.)

I just LOVE kids, so this is/has been like HEAVEN to me.

Well, of course I love kids, that's why I founded THE MOMS' HOUSE and YUP! (Youth Unlimited Partnership) back in '96. To assist disadvantaged youth, young mothers and everyone else along the way to FINISH SCHOOL, negotiate bureaucracy, and prepare for a PRODUCTIVE adulthood!



WELL............ I should be back to my BLOGGING by next week. My little guy leaves Saturday morning (have to have him at Sea Tac at 3:30 am Sat.)

See ya'll soon.....

US OPEN ~ Holy Moly, You See That Shot At The 18th???

Now, there's going to be an 18-hole playoff round on Monday with Tiger (ranked #1) and Rocco Mediate (ranked #158) . This guy Rocco must be thinking,

'What a THRILL! What if I WIN? I COULD WIN.?.? I COULD?.? Maybe Tiger's knee will give out, he must be REAL tired. But then it's Tiger. I saw that shot, he sure didn't look tired or in pain to me or ANYONE ... Tiger's going to pull out EVERYTHING to win. I've got to calm myself and not let all these THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE bother me and do my best.'

Sometimes Tiger really does outdo himself, and makes you WANT TO ROOT for him. Sometimes I'm like, "Let the other guys have a chance, but when he COMES CHARGING BACK like that and shows off his BIG TIME SKILLS coming from behind THEN I have to give him his props and root for him. BUT when he leads from start to finish, I'm like, "Pooy, I could care less."

So, for GOOD ratings, tell Tiger to lag behind then do his come from behind thing. Us fans, we love it!! And, not just Tiger, any player. Most folks LOVE THE UNDERDOG, I know I do.

That's it for me. Gotta post about my Celts!! Who let LAL win last night so they could win the Championship at home.....

(OK, I know they didn't LET them win)

I LOVE These Guys!

Tim Russert YOU WERE A GREAT MAN

I HOPE YOU REST IN PEACE, and GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY.
I HOPE THAT SOMEHOW GOD GIVE THEM STRENGTH
ALL THE KIND WORD COMING FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE GLOBEMUST BRING YOU COMFORT...

Mr. Russert, you were the PERFECT host for MEET THE PRESS. I am a pretty hip, but EVERY involved 54 yr old MOM, GRANDMA, AUNTIE DeeDee, FRIEND to MANY, community activist, mentor, honest, funny, politically involved citizen of a relatively small county (about 130,000) in the Pacific NW.

I have watched MTP for YEARS, but more the last few years and a lot more since your book came out. It really humanized you. Plus, I've been disabled since 2003, so I get to watch a lot more TV than I used to. Never had the free time on my hands that I do now (and it's not something I like, but my health is awful- pain, breathing, no energy YUK!!!) Now, I spend a lot of time on the couch watching CNN, and Sunday mornings are almost always tuned to MTP. If it's not there that I see you, I see you as a Special CNN Correspondent. You have turned into quite the IN-TER-VIEW-ER!!!

WELL, like Kanye says: JESUS WALKS.....

Say hello to my boy.. PLEASE. I miss him SO................................... MUCH!!! I am getting ready for his 4th Annual Memorial Gathering, Wednesday, July 9. It's been four years since THE CRASH. Doesn't seem possible that it's been four years since I've seen my beautiful, beautiful boy. My BEST BEST FRIEND. I miss his phone calls. Every day when he'd wake up, if I wasn't home, he'd call, "Where ya at? When ya gonna be home? What's up for dinner? Hey did you see that such and such got arrested???" :) We sure kept up on the police reports and the sports pages together.

Like Tim, his father, and son and his wife of course, and how close they were, I was to my boy, so I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW.... A shocking, unexpected passing like this hits you like a ton of bricks. I got through it OK and helped everyone else, then about two or three weeks after I fell apart. It's really taken me about three plus years and I'm finally trying to get back involved in some community activities, as best I can. But, I'm not well, so that has made it more difficult for me, and other hurtful extenuating circumstances.

MY PRAYERS ARE WITH TIM'S FAMILY, FRIENDS, all of his COLLEGUES, AND ADMIRERS AROUND THE WORLD. We have lost a great man this Tim Russert!

Tim I salute you!

What a CUTIE!!

Rajon Rondo #9 PG
2007-08 STATS
PPG - 10.6
APG - 5.1
SPG - 1.7
Birth Date February 22, 1986
Birth Place Louisville, KY
Height 6-1
Weight 171 lbs.
Age 22
Position PG
College Kentucky
Salary 2008: $1,229,280

Guess I Wished Hard ENOUGH!!!

WHEW!!!!!

I LOVE IT.............. We are up 3-1, who'd a thunk??? Not me, that's for sure. I HAD to give the Lakers their PROPS. I was sure they were going to give the Celts a run for it. ALTHOUGH.... that last game the Celts played against Cleveland, and they did SO well in Boston.

It's going to be AWFULLY HARD for LA to win now. IN FACT, no other team has won the finals after being down 3 games to 1.

BUT, you can't look at like that, at least not the Celts. They have to go into the game on Sunday like they're down 1-3.

If the Celts let up even ONE IOTA Mr. MVP, Mr. 40 PPG, you get the gist, will get to work AND ... KILL 'EM!!!

You know it, I know it, and EVERYBODY WHO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BASKETBALL KNOWS IT!

With all that said here's some artwork to wet your appitite for eye candy...

Notice I didn't BRAG when the Celts WON those first TWO games?

Cause I KNOW it ain't over till that ol' FAT LADY SINGS! But ain't this some comeback my Celts have made in the 4th quarter of game 4? Win or lose, they were down 24 and they and scratched and dug and made their way back.

If we could ONLY WIN THIS GAME.... WISH WISH WISH... I don't pray for these sorts of things.

I don't think you should call on GOD for sports, I guess unless you are on the team and then you can pray to play your best.

MTV: Buzzworthy Artist of the Week N*E*R*D

Now, I have seen N*E*R*D, in person, twice now in the past two months, or is it three. April 16, in Seattle and June 3, in Portland. Both times with Kanye's GLOW IN THE DARK tour as one of the three opening acts. Lupe Fiasco, N*E*R*D and Rihanna. I have always had great respect for Pharrell, with all his production skills with EVERYONE it seems. Madonna, Britney, Sade (most recently), and Kanye (of course). The list goes on-and-on. AND he's a clean and sober guy. Has been! Doesn't smoke, you know, nor does he drink (not 100% on that one, but I'm pretty sure.) My boy met him in Seattle at KUBE before he passed and went on-and-on about it when he got home. "I met one of the Neptunes today." I guess he TRIED to smoke with him, but found out he didn't smoke! I think it was around that time that he himself quit. Maybe P had something to do with that, ya think?

CLEAR & CLEAN MINDS HAVE TIME

FOR ALL KINDS OF CREATIVITY!!!!

So, with all that commentary, here's the article from MTV Buzzworthy:

Check your iPod. If you don’t have any N.E.R.D. tracks (and if that’s true, then you need to get on it, so read on to avoid further pitying), then dollars to donuts, you’ve got something they’ve applied their Midas touch to as the Neptunes — their production operation. Madonna and Britney, Ludacris, Snoop, and Kanye — they’re currently backing him on his much-lauded Glow In the Dark tour. Hell, they’ve even remixed Sade.
Or, put another way: open up the Billboard charts, close your eyes and randomly point to an artist. Now open them. There’s an excellent chance the brain trust behind N.E.R.D. produced, remixed or will remix and/or produce that artist, taking already solid material to a new dimension you didn’t know existed but suddenly need a whole lot more of — the flavor of dream you’re not sure is the good or bad type, but you know it tastes better than being awake.
N.E.R.D. is Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shae Haley. Like a giant squid fused with a set of conjoined octopus twins, the end result of N.E.R.D.’s time spent behind the controls sounds like they’ve got a lot more than just six hands and 30 fingers on deck. And the tracks snap, crackle and pop with the hyperstimulated sizzle of sticking all 30 into 30 different electrical sockets.
“With the Neptunes,” N.E.R.D.’s Chad Hugo told Hamptonroads.com, “we have that ability to collaborate with artists, and they have their vision and we’re there to paint different scenarios. As N.E.R.D., what we put out is directly from our brains to the stage. We’re in our own shoes. We have the ability to be ourselves.” Right. Which is why they’re about to drop their third N.E.R.D. album, Seeing Sounds, (out tomorrow), named for the neurological phenomenon synesthesia, where your senses basically swap shoes for the day. The album’s a celebration of their genre-resistant, chopped-and-screwed, tilted-and-twisted sound, complete with that hypnotic sawtooth bass swagger, dirty-ass drumming, superfunked, sexed-up, spaced-out blips, beeps and bumps.

We always suspected these guys saw things we don’t. Turns out they see everything we don’t. And with N.E.R.D. — forever the sickest and coolest kids you know — piloting their musical spacecraft into complete sensory overload, we get to explore a whole new galaxy of songs, sounds and sights we’d never otherwise hear… or taste.

Watch N.E.R.D.’s new video, “Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing In Line for the Bathroom),” plus a few all-time N.E.R.D. classics, check out their MTV.com live peformances, watch an exclusive Buzzworthy interview with the Va Bee three, watch their exclusive Artist of the Week videos — including performance clips shot at Special Sauce in Bayshore, New York — and road trip clips, featuring Donnell Rawlings (Ashy Larry of Chappelle’s Show.)
SOURCE: MTVBuzzWorthy

This is SO.......... CUTE!!!

La petite mon ami... (I remember a tiny bit from Jr High French) J'entre don le salle de class. Uu, du, twa, cat, sank, seese, set, veet, nuf, deese. Obviously, I DO NOT remember the French spelling of one through ten, but I sorta remember how it sounds.

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"Too much candy" II-The bonus scenes ! from Capucha on Vimeo.

Kanye West NYC 5.15 - Can’t Tell Me Nothing

G-SHOCK EVENT Kanye does Can't Tell Me Nothing

You GOTTA see this! Check out the topless dancers with the space helmets, or whatever you call them. Pretty cool.....

SOURCE: ClickHere: KanyeLive.com

What is N*E*R*D ?? I KNOW ~ Nels & I saw them in Portland w/Kanye on his GLOW IN THE DARK tour (6th row, right in the middle)

N*E*R*D was formed in 2001 by BAND MEMBERS Pharrell (Williams), Chad Hugo, & Shay Haley. N*E*R*D (pronounced ‘en ee are dee’, often referred to incorrectly as simply ‘nerd’) is the name of a group consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of The Neptunes and their friend Shay Haley. It is hard to pigeon-hole the band into one genre; they are loosely a blend of rock, hip-hop, and R&B.

Pharrell explains; “What is a N*E*R*D? N*E*R*D stands for No one Ever Really Dies. The Neptunes are who we are and N*E*R*D is what we do. It’s our life. N*E*R*D is just a basic belief, man. People’s energies are made of their souls. When you die, that energy may disperse but it isn’t destroyed.”

Williams and Hugo originally recorded the band’s debut album, In Search Of…, for European release in 2001 using similar digital production techniques used on Neptunes-produced records. However, they decided that if N*E*R*D was to be different from the Neptunes, it should sound different. This led to them re-recording the album (still titled In Search Of…) with the power pop band Spymob for worldwide release in 2002.In Search Of… achieved moderate success in the U.S.: the album reached number 59 on the Billboard 200; its first single, Lapdance, reached the top 40 on the modern rap charts; and its second single, Rock Star, reached the top 40 of the modern rock charts in the US. “Lapdance” also went top 40 in the Netherlands and its music video received heavy airplay on American MTV2. The album was well-received by critics even though it was not as successful as many of the Neptunes’ previous productions.The album won the second annual Shortlist Music Prize, awarded (by a group of musicians, journalists, and other music professionals) to the best album of the year which had sold less than 500,000 copies at the time of nomination. The band performed at the show, bragging that the week prior to the ceremony, the album had, in fact, achieved gold status by selling over 500,000 units.A 6.1 surround mix of this album was released by DTS Entertainment on a DVD-Audio disk in 2005 under catalog number 7243 8 11521 9 5.Fly or DieThe band recorded its second album Fly or Die during 2003. The band actually learned to play the tunes live, as Chad Hugo told MTV News on December 9, 2003: “We’re the ones playing the instruments live this time. “I just started playing guitar last year so I’m learning as we go. Pharrell’s playing drums. [Last time] we didn’t have time to learn certain instruments so we got Spymob to help us out.”The band also recruited some assistance to record the album with Lenny Kravitz playing on the track

Maybe (which has been featured in ads for XM Satellite Radio) and Joel Madden and Benji Madden of Good Charlotte playing on the track Jump. Several of the tracks discuss issues of particular concern to adolescents, for example Thrasher, which is about bullies; Drill Sergeant, about rebellion; and Backseat Love, which talks about first love.Fly or Die went on sale on March 22, 2004. The album has so far gone top 10 in the USA, while the lead-off single, She Wants To Move, has gone top 5 in the UK, top 20 in Norway, Ireland, and Denmark, and top 40 in Australia and the Netherlands. The music videos for “She Wants To Move” and its followup single, “Maybe”, have received strong support from the digital cable network VH1 Soul in America.‘Break Up’In March 2005, Williams told BBC Radio 1 that he was unhappy with the band’s direction under management at Virgin Records and therefore the group had “expired”. He later issued a statement through the group’s manager retracting his previous comments saying the band had not broken up.Upcoming albumIn an interview with Billboard.com in July 2006, Williams said that they will be heading back to the studio later in the year to begin recording a third N*E*R*D album.

TODAY IS THE DAY

I've kept quiet, just in case my son checked in here, but TODAY he and I are driving 110 miles to Portland to see Kanye and the Glow in the Dark concert with Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D., Rhianna and Kanye's unbelievable GLOW IN THE DARK lost-in-space one-man performance.

My son still has NO IDEA where we are going. In fact, even though I've been telling him for weeks we had something to do today, and again on Sunday not to go out and get drunk and have a hangover today (he's 26). When he went to bed at 4 am, (I was sleeping on the couch, and he woke me up,) I said, "You have to get up at 11 to get ready, we're leaving at noon," he said, "WHAT????" "I told you, we've got something to do today," and he trucked off with the dog to go to sleep. I had told him on Sunday we'd be leaving at noon, so he couldn't say ANYTHING! He'd had PLENTY of warning!

I was at the tour's first show in Seattle on April 16, with my step-daughter WAY up on the side of the stage. We really couldn't see the light show very well, so THIS TIME, I got 4-star seats in the first 20 rows. You don't find out where your seats are until you pick them up the day of the show.

SO, I'm hoping N.E.R.D. plays Everybody Nose. I just LOVE that song. I bounce around the house doing my chores to it. My E met Pharrell up at KUBE radio in Seattle back in 2003 I think. Could have been 2002. He was up there with Matt who did commercials for them.

Well, doubt I'll have time for any other posts today. GOT TO GET READY TO GO! It's raining and I don't even know what to wear....

My Celts Pulled it Off Friday Evening....

I've been SO.... busy (best friend over for dinner, then her daughter, 8 yr old, spent the weekend with Auntie) so haven't had time for posting.

I was, for the first time EVER, the first one to GRAB a plate on Friday to get in the living room to watch the game. Usually, when I'm entertaining I don't eat. BUT, dinner was SO.........good I HAD to get a plate. I barbecued salmon on the grill outside, had chili rellenos, ceasar salad, and fried rice. YUMMEEEE!!!

SO.. it will be the BOSTON Celtics v Los Angeles Lakers I AM SO.... EXCITED!!!

I will be rooting for the Celts. I know that may not be the favorite, but that's my choice, not because I'm sure they'll win, but because I'm a die hard FAN!

My Spurs got the Shaft the other night, but the Celts are DOING IT!!

ALTHOUGH, the Pistons did their darnedest (is that a word??) with a, not so much run, but what do you say, picking away at their lead until there was NO LEAD at the end of the game. It was Garnett's two free throws with 3.2 to go that REALLY clinched it.... What was that? The Celts were WAY up and totally dominated the third quarter.

The BEST game I've ever been to was a Sunday Sonics v Suns (Sir Charles was playing then) and they (the Suns were up by 17 at the start of the fourth quarter). The Sonics whittled and whittled and whittled and WE SCREAMED AND SCREAMED AND SCREAMED until I, at least, had no voice (for two days following) and we WON THE GAME.

I think that was the year that Denver took us out in the first round, I could NOT watch the playoffs that year (literally made me ill) and I still have visions of Dikembe Mutombo lying on the floor holding the ball in jubilation. Pretty much the greatest upset in NBA playoff history.

Like I say, "IT AIN'T OVER TILL THE FAT LADY SINGS!!!"

REGGIE REGGIE REGGIE

That's all I gotta say!

YUP! I think Kanye's Pretty Darn COOL....

I found this 'crusin''.....

Ever Notice that I Don't Talk About My Home Teams...

Another one slips away
Silva questions Mariners’ effort after fifth straight loss
RYAN DIVISH; ryan.divish@thenewstribune.com
Published: May 25th, 2008 01:00 AM
NEW YORK – On a day when the general manager questioned the lack of leadership and accountability of the players, the Seattle Mariners showed hints of both – well, at least one player did.
It doesn’t change the fact the Mariners lost, 12-6, to the New York Yankees on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, and have dropped all five games they’ve played on this road trip and 12 of their past 17 to fall to 18-32.
But the fact starter Carlos Silva stood up and questioned the team’s recent efforts shows that impatience isn’t limited to fans and front-office personnel.
“If people played hard no matter what, you’re going to see a different game,” said Silva, who took the loss Saturday after giving up seven runs and 11 hits. “If you strike out or miss a play and you keep playing the game, you’re going to see a different game.”
Without naming names, Silva asked for some accountability from players.
“I hope they have that in mind – play hard no matter what,” he said. “If you have a bad at-bat, go out and play hard in the field. Some guys do and some guys don’t.”
There’s a level of acceptance on the team he finds troubling.
“It’s like guys in here have a bad game or whatever, and it’s great that you stay positive and stay with good attitude, but man, feel embarrassed, too,” he said. “I’d feel embarrassed. If you don’t feel embarrassed in this game when you’re struggling bad like this, it’s because you don’t care about it.”
Silva pointed to his last outing, a loss at Detroit in which he was rocked by the Tigers. He was ashamed to look his teammates in the eye the next day.
“The other day when I pitched against Detroit, I felt embarrassed,” he said. “I walked through clubhouse with no smile on my face. How could I smile in front of my teammates after that?”
Silva managed to go six innings Saturday, despite a marathon second inning. No other Mariners starter has lasted as long on this trip.
It’s a minor victory, to be sure, but that’s about the only kind the Mariners can find right now.
“After that inning, I said this isn’t going to get me out of the game. I kept fighting and kept battling and it was good,” Silva said. “And after that I had some success.”
And it allowed the Mariners to crawl back into the game. Seattle tied the score an inning later as Jose Vidro hit a three-run homer to right field and Adrian Beltre hit a sole homer to left.
“We got those runs back and we showed some life with our bats,” manager John McLaren said, clearly searching for positives.
The Yankees (24-25) regained the lead in the bottom of third when Melky Cabrera dropped in an RBI single to make it 5-4. But Silva held the Yankees in check until the sixth.
With two outs and nobody on, second baseman Jose Lopez booted a routine ground ball off the bat of Derek Jeter. Three pitches later, Bobby Abreu knocked Silva’s high change-up over the wall in left for a two-run homer.
Silva flashed his nasty side, stomping around the mound and wearing the look of crazed man. He wasn’t angry at Lopez; he was upset at himself.
“I didn’t pick my team up,” Silva said. “I got mad because I should have got out of that inning no matter what. …
“And I gave up the homer, he comes to me and says, ‘My bad.’ That’s why you always want to pick up your teammates.”
Silva finished off the inning, and his day was done.
“I said to myself today, no matter what happens, I’m going to fight today,” Silva said. “I wish that everybody had that in mind, too.”
McLaren appreciated the effort.
“That’s Silva,” McLaren said. “He battles and gives it everything he’s got.”
Not that it mattered. The game got out of hand as the Yankees tacked on five runs in the seventh, rendering Richie Sexson’s two-run homer in the eighth meaningless.
“It’s a very, very difficult, trying time,” Raul Ibañez said. “This is when you find out what you’re made of. This is a time when you dig deep and find out what the hell you’re made of.”
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SOURCE: The Tacoma NEWS TRIBUNE

Celts Had it From the Opening Bell

It was 11-0 to start the game. Now, I didn't get TOO excited, but you knew from the start the Celts had one thing on their minds, WINNING.

This monkey on their backs, going winless on the road in the playoff up until now, with 6 losses, didn't seem to have gottne in their heads one bit.

I'm down for a SPURS v CELTICS (although it's looking like I'm going to have to settle for LAL) finals. WE'LL SEE.....

My motto is:

IT AIN'T OVER TILL THE FAT LADY SINGS.

Anything can happen on any given Sunday. (You know what I mean!)

Tornado Destroys PIG FARM in Oklahoma

I WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE PIGS ARE??????

I just watched the video on TV....

I'm just sitting here wondering -

Were those PIGS flying all over kingdom come?

OMGosh

China's 7.9 Quake Has Some REALLY BAD Aftershocks AND Devastating Structural Issues

SOURCE: CNN.com

Baseball Players Ratify Tougher Drug Policy (IT'S ABOUT TIME)

SOURCE: ESPN.com
NEW YORK (AP) -- Baseball players approved a toughened drug agreement Friday -- the last possible day for ratification.
The sides announced the agreement April 11 and owners ratified it on May 14. The deal increases the frequency of tests and the authority of the program's independent administrator, among the recommendations made in December by baseball drug investigator George Mitchell.
The new rules -- which mark the third major overhaul since the joint drug program began in 2002 -- went into force immediately upon ratification.
As part of the deal, 15-day suspensions assessed against Jose Guillen and Jay Gibbons were rescinded and commissioner Bud Selig agreed not to discipline players implicated in December's Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.

THANK GOODNESS!!!

Diamondbacks' Doug Davis Pitches 7 innings in First Start After Thyroid Surgery

With his parents in the stands Davis pitched great and had PLENTY of help from his pals, who scored 11 runs last night, winning 11-1.

For all the cancer patients out there, this is GREAT to see.

Myanmar is FINALLY accepting aid.

For GOODNESS SAKE... Relief workers have been waiting holed up just six hundred, if not closer, miles away with tons of supplies; medicines, WATER.

It's said that 180,000 have DIED, and 2 million are homeless. CAN YOU EVEN FATHOM????

Having been a relief worker of sorts, for over 10 years, I know how it can be gearing up to go do what you gotta do. OF COURSE I never had ANYTHING like that, but I had friends who worked for FEMA who have been to some of the hurricanes.

Mine was going and putting out forest fires and "I" stayed in base camp taking care of the finances, like making sure all the fire fighters, trucks, low-boys, helicopers, sanicans, etc., got paid for. Time-on, time-off, Sign 'em in, then sign 'em out and code everything everyday dependent opon whether or not the fire was under control and whether or not the person, or equipment was in route there to back home, it WAS NOT EASY!!! that's for sure. AND, if it was DECLARED a disaster, MORE CODING!!!!!! Go back and CHANGE the coding for 1,000 fire-fighters and all the private's their equipment.

Now, let me tell you, what I did out there was totally ruffing it. Sleep in a tent for 7 -21 days, eat at chest high tables standing up outside under tents. Use sani-cans, work in a HOT HOT trailer. Get bit by mosquitos up the ying yang. YES it was plenty fun... Oh and did I mention we'd start at about 4:30 am, and go to bed about 10:30 at night. Somewhere during the day, after the say, third day, you get a break in the afternoon for an hour or so to take a shower. Now that shower could be in a shower trailer. And it may not be hot or even warm.

Now, the onw good thing about going out on fires is the PEOPLE. The friends I made over the 19 years of being on the same team. Plus, it would be like old home week, every time I'd go out. Plus, in order to get through something like that, 16 hours a day working for up to 10 days straight before they'd try to get you an R & R day at a motel near by, is to have FUN with your co-workers. They are great people or they wouldn't get in this fire business. TOO HARD of work.

Oh yes, the other good thing is the FOOD. Hot breakfast cooked by the inmate forestry camp kitchen that's assigned to your team. Sack lunches bought from a company that're delivered to the fire base camp by refrigerator truck, then a REALLY GOOD dinner cooked by the inmate crew. Usually it would be steak, salad, potatoes, vegetables, cake. I mean the it would be EXCELLENT.

OK, I've got to go shopping so I"m done with all that for now. I've got a picture of the Myanmar government officials.

SHAME OF THEM FOR TAKING SO LONG AND

LETTING THEIR POOR CITIZENS SUFFER!!

Pistons best the Celts at home! FIRST loss at home for the Celtics in...

GAME TWO oh boy....



SOURCE: Sports Illustrated.com

KG and the Celtics Win Game One

Senator Kennedy is Being Released from Hospital

He has a malignant tumor that is most certainly fatal. He wants to go home and go sailing. He could have up to a couple of years. But, who knows.

This is very SAD for me. All I can do a sign....