Makes Me Sick

Incase you haven't heard Michael Jackson died.  Yep the "King of Pop" is gone but it's obvious that he won't be forgotten.  I however can't understand why we are remembering him for what we are remembering him for.  I don't see how everyone is forgetting about Michael's legal issues that he managed to OJ Simpson his was out of. 

No matter how great you think Michael Jackson was you cannot honestly believe that he was innocent on his child molestation charges.  In 1993 he was accused of molesting a 13 year old young man.  Michael got out these charges when an undisclosed amount of money that was estimated to be somewhere between 15 to 20 million was given to the boy and his family.  After the settlement the boy refused to testify of any criminal charges and Michael.  If he's innocent then why in the world to he pay a settlement to this boy and his family?  I'm no expert but most would try to avoid a settlement if they're innocent.  15 to 20 million is a ton of cash and I wouldn't think that you would pay someone this much if you hadn't done anything wrong but this amount of money could also make someone forget a lot of bad things.

In 2005 Michael was tried on his second charges of child molestation and was acquitted on all charges.  I've heard people say that he was never convicted of being a child molester so you can't say he ever did it.  Well of course they found him innocent the people on the jury are these same people that found OJ Simpson innocent.  This was the typical stupid people putting celebrities above the law.  Rather then listening to what happened in the case they were focused on clearing the name of their perverted child hood hero.  In December of 2004 in an interview with CBS Ed Bradley Michael said that even though he had these charges pending against him he still thought it was ok to sleep in the same bed with a child.  Again I'm not sure how dumb people are but what grown man in his right mind would think it was ok to sleep in the same bed as a child.  

Now that Michael has past away he has left Los Angeles with a debt of $1.4 million.  Why in the world do they have this huge unexpected new debt?  Well because we as Americans worship the ground this pedophile walked on.  All these people crying and everything of someone they have never even met.  I don't understand it at all.  At the funeral several celebrities stood up and told how Michael impacted them.  Magic Johnson whom I have always like but he said "Michael made me a better point guard."  I'm no professional athlete but how in the world did Michael Jackson make one of the all time great basketball players ever a better player.  Magic I'm sure you could have come up with a better compliment then he made me a better basketball player.  Then Kobe gets up saying how much Michael impacted him.  Don't know if you know this but Kobe is 30 and that means he would have been like 8 or 9 when Michael was in his prime.  So Kobe he didn't motivate you to do anything so shut up.  Miley Cyrus said Michael was a huge motivator for her success.  Miley is 16 she wasn't even born in Michael's prime.  

I say that the only right thing that Michael Jackson's family could is take his money and pay for this ridiculous funeral.  Michael's net worth is over $200 million so they will have plenty of money left over to donate to a charity that helps children who have been sexually abused.  That's the only thing that would be right to do with some one's money who has obviously hurt some many children at his Neverland Ranch.   I'm truly embarrassed that Americans have put this much trouble into celebrating a child molester.  Instead of saying how great he is just thank the lord he was never around your child.  

I'm sure this will offend someone but you might be one of these people who should be thankful that your child was never in the position that these other children were, and I hope and pray that this will never happen to you or anyone you know.  

I still got it

So it's been a while since my last post, sorry I know how much everyone loves it.  Kinda busy with little miss Landri, work, vacation, and my tennis comeback.  Landri is doing great incase you were wondering.  But today we are going to focus on my tennis comeback.

  I've been back playing for about a year and half now I think.  Everything has been going fine just getting out and getting some exercise and having a good time like I should be.  I decided that after playing in a few tournaments here and there that I was having a good time playing again and joined a men's 4.0 team that played out of Huntington Tennis Club. When this team got put together we thought that we had a very good team that could probably compete at a very high level.  In our area we had to beat Chillicothe, Oh, and Ashland, KY, which we did.  So since we won our section we qualified to play in Louisville the last weekend in June.  Again up until now I'm still having a good time and enjoying the friendly competition.  

Once we got to Louisville and I stepped on the court in our first match it was like my overly competitive side from juniors and college came out.  If you have seen this side of me it's rather interesting, lots of screaming and a bunch of flying objects (rackets, water bottles, and anything else I could get my hands on).  I played doubles in my first match and after lots of yelling and nothing being thrown we won.  I did however disturb half of Louisville with some loud yelling at myself.  Brooke went and was walking Landri around this park and from very far away was able to hear my "battle cry".  She then came over and asked if that was me and when they told her it was she just shook her head and probably asked herself how she ended up with this whack job of a husband.  

The second match we played in was against Lexington, who we had some problems with earlier in our season.  They filed a grievance against me saying I cheated by self rating myself as a 4.0.  I got cleared of all charges because I worked the system.  So in this match we won 5-0 and of course I had to make sure that I knew that they filed the grievance against me.  When shaking hands at the end of the match I told the guy who filed the grievance against me "Hey buddy how bout you file a grievance against me now!"  This completely caught him off guard because he obviously hadn't heard of how big of a jerk I can be.  He then asked me if I wanted the ball to turn back into the official's desk and I politely informed him that he should keep the ball and let everyone know that he met me and he could keep it as a souvenir.  

We then went on to win our semifinal match and again got a little chippy with the guys we were playing against.  For some reason they felt the need to mock some of my screaming.  I didn't appreciate this so we beat the heck out of them 5-0 too.  I didn't get to play in the finals because we had to fly to the beach for family vacation the next day but we won and now go to Birmingham, Alabama to play in the Southerns, if we win there we go to nationals in Las Vegas.

But this all leads me to the question of when if ever will I not be crazy competitive.  I think some people enjoy my antics but I think most people find me very annoying.  I don't mind annoying people though.  I some what enjoy it really.  I have however decided during my comeback that I'm going to have to find something else to throw because it doesn't appear that rackets are made like they used to be.  Right before we left for Louisville while practicing I managed to throw a racket from the service line to the fence in the air and broke a racket.  Breaking rackets sucks when you have to pay for them yourself.  My temper tantrums were more fun on Mom and Dad's dime.