BU 3-0, complaining persists so what's new, and this pink stuff is getting weird...

I know Bradley is winning ugly but last year we were blowing big leads, and this year we're overcoming them -- so you'd think BU fans would all be happy -- nope, again we see the hypocrisy -- still complaining....



Here's a pretty impressive dunk -- although the video is bad
http://is.gd/hmppv



Hoosier fans are having fun over this headline that called Purdue..
"PURRUDE".....it was changed right away but cached versions of the error headline are seen here...
http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%22Purude+makes+it+look+easy+in+blowout+over+Alcorn+State%22&d=1086702028310&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=4c3f0885,3b94ee7b



There's a World Cup reffing scandal -- not being talked about much..
remember all those really bad, bad calls that cost some teams games?
Did you ever doubt the refs worldwide are crooked -- doesn't take much to prove it, just look...

Numerous FIFA officials are clearly corrupt!
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sports/2010-11/18/c_13612717.htm
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/football/11/08/football.world.cup.fifa.timeline/



Now the non-sports stuff.......still on the bad promotions topic from yesterday....
Life is good...amen to that?? But I think I would still enjoy life even if it were not always so good...simply because we are so greatly blessed even when we don't see it.

We are blessed just by being created, we are abundantly blessed with all that we have and are given, and then even when we make a mess of everything we get blessed again with more 2nd chances that we'd ever deserve...and can still be blessed forever because of the selfless acts of Another..


Anyway -- getting back to one reason why I love life -- it's because ...

.....it's SO ENTERTAINING!!!!!!!!!
If you don't laugh at what's going on around you, then you're missing some of the best parts of life...

Just go watch kids play soccer or T-ball, or watch some animals in a park, or just watch typical human behavior for any length of time, and I find humor in all of this.

Just yesterday in this blog, I wrote about a little chuckle I got when I heard that the normally Orange & Black-uniformed Oregon State Beavers were going to wear turquoise jerseys...but I got an even bigger belly laugh out of something similar this morning.

It's the PINK thing we see all around us...
The color pink has taken on a life and a resume of its own!!

Honestly, I have no idea how or why one single color came to mean so much and to tick off so many people!!! and the very same people show an odd hypocrisy about pink -- sometimes it's offensive, but in an identical setting it's GOOD!

First - pink has been co-opted as the honored color of the "breast cancer awareness" throng...and to some extent all women's issues....
But just do some reading and it is pretty clear that the pink-promoting-people may have pushed their pinkishness to the limit...
Just google "pink backlash"...and see how many people are getting fed up with all the pink-hype and pink-promotion -- even people who are friendly to the cause...
It's getting ridiculous and even some are warning that the stuffing of pink down everyone's throats is causing some to not only turn off to the cause but even become hostile about the whole thing.

And -- just as many had predicted, there's a pink backlash in marketing from the overuse of all the pink ribbons, pink football cleats, and pink baseball bats..
people are a little sick of it all...

Here's one person's comments...
"I get nauseated when I walk into a drugstore and
see little tins of mints in pink
“And all those pink products everywhere. You
think, ‘ugh.’ ”
..it’s a commercialization of my disease and I really
object to that.”

... scores of cancer survivors express downright
hostility at Pink October. We’re awash in it: from
food, cars and motorcycle helmets to pink cleats on
football players and pink-clad models.."

In other words -- they're so sick of it they turn it off and will no longer buy those products...
ESPECIALLY since nobody can patent the color pink (not that they haven't tried to or used bullying to try to prevent individuals from using pink) -- then some products are slyly using pink to get a boost in the sales of their products and have NO INTENTION of ever giving a cent of it to any cause...
they're simply cashing in on the commercial boost they get by going pink...so if they aren't giving anything to charity -- then why should I patronize them??
That's what's now hurting the marketing of pink things...

one other commentator says...
“If shopping could cure cancer this would be over by now” ..
...but also issues this warning...
"......be warned -- phonies are cashing in -- just
because something is pink in the store doesn't mean
the seller is doing it for any reason other than trying
to cash in on the phenomenon and sell more stuff --
but they don't give a danged thing to any cause.."


And I am confused about this whole pink thing -- because I thought wearing pink is supposed to be GOOD -- and show support for a good cause???
But not everywhere -- because here's a kid who wore pink cleats and got kicked off his team -- he had to sue (the American way of dealing with any unhappiness) to get back on the team!!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-11-16-pink-cleats_N.htm

And these people all think that making kids wear pink is GOOD not bad like the other people above...
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2851571

But did you know this???
Displaying the color pink is a sort of hate-speech in the eyes of some!!!

Here's an example of a long held traditions being banned because involves the color pink and is perceived to MAYBE lead to teasing??
So if we ban the color pink -- that's gonna solve this bullying and harrassment stuff, right?? Gimme a break!!
http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/school-bans-pink-shirts-from-pep-rally-20101117

..And of course we have this lawmaker who is vigorously opposed to the color pink -- even if it is chosen by someone else to paint a facility that they have every right to choose the color for...
because pink "promotes sexism and homophobia"!

You all remember this issue -- a tempest in a teapot over what color the University of Iowa wants to paint it's opponents' lockerroom..
http://sports-law.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_archive.html
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/10/about-that-pink-locker-room.html

here's their weird logic...
"With a pink locker room, you're saying that 'You are
a girlie man. You are weak, like a girl,'" Buzuvis
said. "That implies that girls are non-dominant,
therefore, lesser. And that is offensive."

Thankfully Iowa did not back down..
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-10-31/news/0510310114_1_room-at-kinnick-stadium-pink-urinals

So --- how about these guys who sell pink urinals -- should we sue them for a hate crime?
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/neo-metro-urinal


So -- someone help me out here -- is pink good or bad??
The pink-pushing people are definitely shooting themselves in the foot with their clear and blatant hypocrisy!!

In some situations they wanna ban pink and claim it's offensive and borders on a hate crime, sexual harassment, bullying, and homophobia (which currently in our politically correct society is said to be a bad thing).

But in nearly identical situations elsewhere -- they wanna promote everyone wearing pink, coloring odd items ilke baseball bats, jerseys, and cleats pink, and they want to encourage everyone to wear pink -- all of which is 180 degrees opposite from those other situations!!

Here's one of those setting where they are trying to push everyone to do the pink think whether they want to or not!
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2851571


So please...someone help me out....how can wearing pink at one school promote and encourage bullying, harassment, and homophobia...
and yet wearing pink at a different school is said to be a ..
"statement against bullying.
Organized by an anti-bullying and leadership group ..
"We just want to show that we're standing up."

"Pink Day makes people realize that bullying is not right."
"Pink has been a colour adopted by anti-bullying groups since 2007.."

soo -- I guess I don't get it....but what I see is a completely schizophrenic approach to this whole thing by a whole bunch of unintelligble people promoting something they really have no clue on in ways that are totally contradictory!!

there -- now you see it clearer, right??

Anyway, there are some facts hidden in all of this that most people don't know...

--almost all breast cancer research is being done by private individuals and the drug companies and they don't ask for or get any of this money raised by all the pink stuff and "awareness campaigns".

--I dare you to try to get an answer from anyone as to where all the money goes that is raised in these "pink campaigns and events".
I guarantee you won't get an answer -- nobody really seems to know! Quite possibly it never ends up where the good-hearted supporters actually want it to.

--also, breast cancer rates are going up and nobody's really asking why or giving answers...but of course I have already told you the answer and how people can reduce their risks in a previous blog...
(scroll to the end of this page)
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2010/10/closing-in-on-start-of-season-few.html

--deaths from breast cancer are going way, way down -- and it all is due to things totally unrelated to the pink campaigns....since it all started 25-30 years ago when mammograms and proper treatment was begun.

So if rates are going up but deaths are going down...maybe all the pink people should change causes!!!
I have an idea for them...since they purport to be compassionate people who care about cancer and suffering...

Since death rates from colon cancer exceed death rates from breast cancer--
EVERYONE should change their approach and have a promotion where all the women and men in their respective pro leagues wear brown (fecal color) headbands, jerseys, and shoes??
2007 figures show breast cancer causes 12 deaths per year per 100,000 population BUT colon cancer causes 34...and lung cancer causes three times as many...

I think for the pink people, time has come to move to a new cause, one that needs you more...



Two last pink thoughts...

--These guys, I think, really missed the boat..
Of all the "Pink"" promotions, I think this one really had the potential of being the best one yet...

Providence College swimming and diving team hosted a
"Pink Out the Pool" in their competition with Rhode Island...
I really thought we'd see plenty of photo spreads of college athletes in pink swimsuits, and a lot of pictures and coverage all over the place!!

But for some odd reason, you can't find any coverage at all on this event.
Maybe they forgot to tell anyone in the press about it...but their biggest mistake is that the only pink they wore were pink rubber swim caps, while their swimsuits were BLACK!!!

I think they totally fumbled the ball on this one..not only was this event extremely poorly covered....I tried to find even one picture of one of the swimmers in a pink swimsuit -- but alas none...they really let me down...
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/prov/sports/c-swim/auto_mainphoto/5961319.jpeg
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/prov/sports/c-swim/auto_mainphoto/5972280.jpeg
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper332/stills/e603g2eg.jpg



-And don't you find this odd, that an entertainer whose name is "Pink" and who used to have pink hair as her trademark, and that's how she became famous -- doesn't bother to do anything pink any more??
Is she a turncoat?? A woman who shuns pink except for what it gains her personally??
I think she's a pink-hypocrite!!
But - ironically -- she will hope and pray her child is born into the world PINK>>>
because that's the color of healthy babies....it's the blue ones you don't want.. ;)
http://foreign.peacefmonline.com/entertainment/201011/107056.php



Here's another issue of inequity between the sexes...
Did you ever notice that women teachers who get caught naked with or having sex with middle school students get off easy maybe not even go to jail at all??
There have been numerous such cases...

But male teachers who simply text obscene pics to middle schoolers gets 150 years in jail!
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/teacher-gets-153-years-for-sending-nude-photos

Now, I am not arguing for leniency here -- I just want to see everyone get the same penalties regardless of sex.



Title IX issue -- of course if even one girl feels slighted in school sports, someone files major Title IX lawsuits..
but isn't what's good for the goose, also good for the gander??
So how come when boys play on the girl's sports teams, everyone who is usually a big time Title IX advocate, then goes balistic arguing that it should never be used to get boys onto girls'teams!!
I think this exposes the real hypocrisy here -- it's now about equality -- it's about feminism and power...
http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Male-star-leads-field-hockey-team-Is-he-an-unfa?urn=highschool-285871
http://title-ix.blogspot.com/2010/11/boys-playing-field-hockey.html