TC the Terrible

I knew this is what those ass clowns at the PGA home office were up to all along. The silly little pricks are all about the dollar and nothing else. How else do you explain the seat of government in the greatest country on the damn planet getting the shaft?  But they damn sure don’t mind having an event named for a drug designed to make an old man’s dick hard, do they?

First they take the big payoff sponsorship money from FredEx to turn the PGA season into a glorified NASCAR event with points and a “chase to the finish” format and shove our tourney into the fall when it will be meaningless. Now the rat bastards jerk it away from us all together.

Let me break the code for you:

• “Commissioner Tim Finchem” = whorish crack head in need of a pimp
• “remains committed” = only if you find a major sponsor with no help from the tour
• “the Tour’s first priority is to upgrade Avenel” = closing your tournament down for a year will give us time to come up with a politically correct reason for completely killing it
• “. . . mixed reviews from professional players . . .cited as a reason for the lackluster fields” = the purse isn’t big enough to get Tiger and Phil to notice
• “Unhappy with the less prestigious spot on the schedule, Booz Allen . . . declined to renew its sponsorship. . .” = Screw you, PGA.
• “hopeful of having an event back in Washington, possibly as soon as 2008” = polite way of telling District golf fans to perform an act that the human anatomy is incapable of doing
• “Finchem was not available to comment.” = chicken shit

Can you tell that I’m pissed?

One of the classes I’m taking this semester is a history course on the American Revolution, but from the point of view of the British. It’s an approach that I’ve never really seen done before and for the most part (plus needing an elective) is the reason that I signed up.

As I’ve started reading the material I couldn’t help but compare it to what is going on these days in Iraq. The version of the Revolution that high schools teach is really a very sanitized approach and most students walk out of history class thinking that the conflict took about two years total (it was closer to eight) and that everyone wanted independence from England (New York was full of loyalists and a British stronghold). And based on that image many Americans are led to believe that the cause is lost in Iraq.

They don’t realize that divisions in Iraqi political factions are normal, despite the level of animosity between some of the groups. There are going to be problems with funding for the government over the next several years. The school system is going to be fucked up for years because they have to build it from scratch. Added pressure is on the nation because Americans are expecting Iraq to become a Mini-Me of America.

It’s not going to happen folks.

We should help them stand up a functional government that can police itself. They are going to need help for years with nations on the border which we are pretty much committed to helping with. But we need to let them determine which version of democracy they want, if that’s even what they want as a nation.

It’s their call from here, not ours.