Category: BIG WEENIE AWARDEES

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Time for ‘Peta’ to go the way of the Dodo

The group called Peta or the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals appears to be anything but. Wikipedia gives us a whitewashed but amusing history of Peta. Peta’s own site presents itself with a little bunny in the browser.

If you check out Peta’s site , you can find links like “10 reasons to go Vegetarian in 2007”. I always thought that these wacked out vegetarians were really after getting the rest of us to stop eating meat… pleeeeease, get a life, folks. One of the reasons to become a vegetarian is ‘meat is gross’… not very convincing, honey…. maybe they didn’t find the right seasoning.

Mug shots of Peta Employees

A couple of their folks are now on trial for butchering a bunch of animals and throwing them in a local supermarket dumpster. Outside of the obvious problems of animal disposal now becoming someone else’s problem, the lack of these folks having anything resembling a moral center is truely disturbing.

An interesting site bringing some light on this rather secretive and — in my humble opinion — obusive and wacky organization called Peta is petakillsanimals.com. It is clear — to me — that Peta is a vegetarian, anti-intellectual and anti-scientific organization… much like another infamous group in history… the Schutzstaffel! They didn’t like people either.Big, Fat and Stupid is no way to go through life... 

 

So, who said Peta vegetarians are thin?

Gosh, after reading all of this stuff it makes me want to rush right out and attend a Peta rally… of course, I gotta bring some of my favorite Colonel Sander’s Fried Chicken!

Eat Meat, wear furs & Enjoy your fried chicken!

Roger Freberg

 

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Congressional Weenies

biparticianship extends only so far... we'll share the blame when things go southOkay, I know some of you are going to say that I am not giving the new congress a chance. After all — you say — listen to all the great things that the news media are saying that were accomplished in the first 100 hours. Sorry, I am not impressed.

I haven’t been really political for a while, so now is the time to talk about it. I just love when politicians talk about biparticianship… what they are really saying is: 1) I really don’t want to be in charge and 2) I want somebody else to hide behind. You really can’t blame the Pelosi Congress, they’re in the car with a lead foot on the gas, but no road map anywhere. Let’s remember that the ‘new and improved’ Congress entered session with only a 43% approval … tough audience out there boys and girls… so what have you done for me today?

I think it is grand when the President talks about taxing the rich, until I remember that they are talking about two teachers or where an automechanic has married a secretary. I don’t think I would put these guys in the same category as Soros, Turner, Kerry or the Kennedys… including any relative who may be governator of California.

the Pelosi Congress... Weenie Award Winner!So, when they talk about taxing health benefits of individuals insured completely or partially by their employer as income… we really are not talking about the ‘rich’ here. By the way, most rich folks are ‘self insured’… that is they reach into their personal vault for cash when they need something. Po’ Folks are self insured too.

I think the new congress is learning that being in ‘control’ is not as much fun as wanting to be in control.  I look to see a lot of hiding… er… biparticianship in the future.

Roger Freberg

Ps. Fortunately, Karla has offerred to take care of us in our old age…
who needs social security when you have a superhero like karla around?

 

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Cal Poly… athletes as property

 Kaylene Wagner was refused a release from Cal Poly San Luis obispo... and sat out a year at Kansas State

I wasn’t too surprised when I gave my first ‘Weenie Award’ for 2007 to Cal Poly State University at San Luis Obispo. They have been the recipient of many such awards in the past… including the infamous U.S. News Report ‘Sheldon Award’ given each year to the worst president.

Sometimes athletes find themselves at universities that are a poor match  socially, athletically or academically and they end up wanting to transfer somewhere else. “Regular’ students transfer… so it seems reasonable that athletes may wish to do the same.

The process of transfering for an athlete is a bit more involved than it is for a regular student. The athlete must first obtain a ‘release’ from their present school before they can begin to talk to anyone else. Actually, I think this is a good idea… coaches and teams deserve to be notified if one of their athletes is unhappy enough to desire a transfer. However, obtaining a ‘release’ should be automatic… but as we will see… it isn’t.

Kaylene Wagner jumped for Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo for two seasons. We noticed she transfered to Kansas State and sat out last year… I discovered asking around that Kaylene did not recieve a release from Cal Poly! Why would any school be so…. nasty & vengeful, and self serving ?

Well, here are some of the reasons I have heard that athletes are not granted waivers: 1) we trained and developed their talent 2) the big programs don’t give waivers to their top talent 3) we don’t want to be treated like a junior college where they ‘move on.’ Hmmmm…

When you have powerful athletic programs like Southern California & Florida & Arkansas providing releases… It’s hard to understand small schools with token athletic programs like Cal Poly not having an athlete’s best interest at heart…

The underlying problem here is some athletic programs view athletes like ‘property’. If this issue emerges in the NCAA… it will be because of schools like Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Now, IF I were an athlete deciding on a school… I would look at how athletes are treated when they want to leave… if they are treated poorly… I would drop them from my list.

 

Roger Freberg

Presented to Cal Poly the first

CAL POLY San Luis Obispo
“Big Weenie Awardee”

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NCAA caves in on Graduate Transfer Policy

Karen Freberg competed as an Undergraduate for the Florida Gators and a Granduate Student for the Southern California Trojans 

Who was it who said — referring to the NCAA’s graduate student transfer rule, “we gotta close that loophole!” ? Yep, it was Florida Gator football coach Urban Meyer… and what seemed like only moments later he brings in a ‘ringer’..er… a ‘graduate’ student.

Ryan Smith, a former athlete under Urban Meyer at Utah transfers to Florida. His reasons seem more athletic than academic… but so be it.

“Unhappy with his position coach and his playing time at the University of Utah, the cornerback wanted a chance to come to Florida to reunite with former position coach Chuck Heater.“

Here’s how one of Urban’s local papers reported the recent NCAA decision to eliminate the Graduate transfer rule:

 The override came despite overwhelming support by the NCAA’s Student-Athletic Advisory Committee.

“I think a lot of coaches and athletic directors are very frightened. Fear drove the circumstances and won,” said David Goldfield, a professor and faculty athletic representative from North Carolina-Charlotte. “All of us here — coaches, athletic representatives or administrators — are in the business of helping students fulfill their dreams, whether they’re academic or athletic. This override contradicts that objective.”

As the NCAA Advisory committee said: “fear drove the circumstances and won.”

Karen wrote a nice blog about the NCAA transfer policy back in August.

As Karen said: “The main reason that athletes go to college is to get a college education– sometimes coaches and others in the athletic department sometimes forget that.”

This policy also hurts female athletes :

“Transfer policies make it difficult, if not impossible, for athletes to escape an unprofessional coach without sacrificing their athletic careers.”

 

Art by Karla Freberg

The issue is not as simple as many coaches would like everyone to believe… and they really can’t offer any justification for blocking or penalizing someone who wants to leave or pursue their academic career.

  Very few athletes who went on to graduate school this year (less than 1%) took advantage of the former transfer rule…

Let them go, Urbans out there..  It shouldn’t all be about you.

Roger Freberg

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the Ballad of Urban Meyer …..

it was once called the BCS National Championship Bowl... but not in Urban's mind

It used to be called ‘look for the open man’… but in Meyers ‘playbook’ it is called the ‘spread offense’… or ‘run the qb’ if no one is open… Texas-style.

Every great or wacked Coach neeeeds a song worthy of recalling his deeds and battles… and Urban Meyer is no exception… so with apologies to Johnny Cash and sung to the tune ‘the Rebel’ ( ‘Johnny Yuma’ for you fans of fifties T.V.)… here is:

The Ballad of Urban Meyer

 

Urban Meyer was an ego
He roamed through the BCS
Did Urban Meyer, the ego
think his mouth was enough?

He got Whinin’ mad
This ego’d lad
When they laughed
at his AA coachin’ skills
Where the only play he knew
Was a fake and a qb run
The ego, Urban Meyer

 (Repeat 1st verse)

He searched the BCS
This restless ego
For a bowl quick
that he could win
If he figured he’d get that
if he’d whine just enough
The ego, Urban Meyer

(Repeat 1st verse)

 Whinin’ mad
This ego’d lad
With a dream he’d hold
‘Til his dyin’ breath
He’d claim a win
Just him vs. Ohio State
The ego, Urban Meyer

(written by Wally Mart & the Greeters)