boring life update

Currently Watching: X-Files-Season 8

Currently Listening to: The Walkmen-You & Me

for about the past month i’ve been going through “Foreman” training here in the kansas city yards.  basically learning all the industries the railroad services, watching what guys do.  i’ve had a set schedule, about 5-6 days a week and working anywhere from 4-12 hours a day depending on the job.  i’ll be happy when this is over, i dont like working this much lol.

not really sure where i’ll end up after the training.  i’ve got bids on jobs for the road and yard.

not much else going on.  my freetime has mostly been spent with Abbie or watching football.

Obama throws teachers union under the bus; admits muslim faith

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080909/ap_on_el_pr/obama_education_4

Floundering in the polls due to conservatism put on display by Palin-McCain, Obama does what clinton did and started to embrace some conservative principles, one being charter schools.  charter schools are privately run schools that receive public money…something the teachers unions have valiantly fought because it actually holds schools/teachers accountable for what they do.  

its well known how much money the teachers union gives to democrats and our public education has suffered due to liberals running the show and accepting mediocrity.  it is only a matter of time before this joke of a system is broken up and we have more private schools and more voucher programs.   Good for Obama realizing the writing on the wall.  too little too late though, your campaign is a sinking ship. 

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Hilarious clip…

My Prayer to God

Please God, just allow 2 weeks to go by where the university of kansas doesn’t embarrass itself and the state of kansas as a whole.  i realize its hard for a school that emerses itself in sleaze and thugs and soul-selling in order to win, but I plead that somehow, someway, just a few short weeks will go by and i dont have to read or hear about another player arrest, athletic dept violation, or recruitment of a felon/ineligible player from this trash heap of a university.

Amen

KU’s Chalmers, Arthur booted from NBA program after marijuana found

http://www.kansascity.com/166/story/780112.html

By J. BRADY McCOLLOUGH
The Kansas City Star

LAWRENCE | Former Kansas basketball players Darrell Arthur and Mario Chalmers were kicked out of the NBA’s rookie transition program on Wednesday after being caught with marijuana in their hotel room in Rye Brook, N.Y., sources told ESPN The Magazine.

Sources told the magazine that Chalmers, a Miami Heat point guard, and Arthur, a Memphis Grizzlies forward, were also fined $20,000 apiece and will begin the season on the league’s suspended list. McIntyre would not confirm that to the magazine.

The initial ESPN report said that former Kansas State player and No. 2 overall pick Michael Beasley was in the room, but later reports removed the reference to Beasley being present. The earlier report said Beasley was deemed not to be connected to the marijuana.

Thus far, the decision to leave early for the NBA has not benefited Chalmers and Arthur. Both players were picked later than they would have liked – Arthur fell to New Orleans at No. 27 overall and Chalmers fell out of the first round before being taken at No. 34 by Minnesota.

Now, they have been asked to leave the NBA’s rookie transition program, a four-day seminar which informs 69 rookies about life in the league.

The magazine said that Chalmers and Arthur will have to go through the program again next season.

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i’m sure they were totally clean while at ukans too….i’ll give their athletic dept credit, they know how to keep this stuff under wraps…couple this with talib’s admission there is nothing else to conclude but that this school continues to follow a path of complete disregard for rules or the law in general.

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on a related note:

Drug charge filed against KU worker

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=122FEC7073B70F38&p_docnum=11

Matthew D. Schmidt, suspected of trying to make a drug similar to ecstasy at a campus laboratory, has been charged with the attempted manufacture of a controlled substance, Douglas County prosecutors announced today. The crime allegedly occurred while he worked part time for the University of Kansas.

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