Andre Agassi’s new book describes his crystal meth use while he was competing for tennis' top prizes. He makes the distinction between performance enhancing drugs and performance degrading drugs. He claims the drugs he took degraded his performance and were done because he had a drug problem not because he was cheating.
This brings up the case of Doc Ellis, a pitcher for Pittsburgh Pirates who pitched a no-hitter in 1970 while tripping. He was partying with some girlfriends and thought he had the day off. He had dropped some acid and had difficulty seeing. The catcher had to place reflective tape on his fingers so that Ellis could see the signals. A no-hitter in baseball is a big deal. Only 263 occurred in major league ball between the 1800s and 2009. Who knows how many boring baseball games have been played during that same time interval.
So is acid a performance degrading or performance enhancing drug? Watch the video. Even if you don't like baseball it's entertaining.
1. I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back;
2. You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.
3. Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
4. Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.
5. Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.
6. The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
7. They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?
8. Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller).
9. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.
10. Limbaugh attacks on Obama. Limbaugh has called Obama a ‘halfrican American’ has said that Obama was not black but Arab because Kenya is an Arab region, even though Arabs are less than one percent of Kenya. Since mainstream America has become more accepting of African-Americans, Limbaugh has decided to play against its new racial fears, Arabs and Muslims. Despite the fact Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law school, Limbaugh has called him an ‘affirmative action candidate.’ Limbaugh even has repeatedly played a song on his radio show ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ using an antiquated Jim Crow era term for black a man who many Americans are supporting for president. Way to go Rush.
The White House called him out on it. Beck doesn't fact check - he talks from his big gut -and FOX pushes the story without question. Move over Drudge and Rove.
Besides, the Seattle World's Fair in '62 and the Vancouver BC Expo in '86 were both profitable.
The White House blog post did some clearing up of the wingnut BS:
RHETORIC: BECK SAID VANCOUVER LOST $1 BILLION WHEN IT "HAD THE OLYMPICS." Glenn Beck said, "Vancouver lost, how much was it? they lost a billion dollars when they had the Olympics." [Transcript, Glenn Beck Show, 9/29/09]
REALITY: VANCOUVER'S OLYMPICS WILL NOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL 2010. Vancouver will host the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games from February 12 - 28, 2010 and March 12-21, 2010, respectively. [Vancouver2010.com, accessed 9/29/09]
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