Month: August 2007

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Only YOU can invest in YOUR future!

What, me worry?

Here is my daughter  Karen  relaxing at our home in San Luis Obispo. My girls often take over my favorite spots when they come home… and that’s fine with me. They work hard, play hard and from time to time they let me spoil them…. they make me proud.

On Saturday, I am fixing a South African ‘Welcome Home & Happy ‘SC Graduation’ Celebration… a little respite from Jenny Craig… a ‘planned’ excursion into gastronomical delights! Oh yes,  Kristin  gets the same treatment when she comes home in December: Dad’s pancakes, Turducken, barbecued ribs & specialty baked beans.  They tell me, these are the ‘smells and sounds of home that they love.

I believe that parents are the ‘pit crew’ for the ‘next …  greatest generation.’ As I have often said to young people,” if you are standing on the podium having a gold medal put around your neck… then someone was successful in seeing that you got your chance… but it was your hard work that got you there.”

Fight On!

Roger Freberg

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Soccer will RULE the World!… so she says

Got Soccer? I am so sorry... 

The other day while we were enjoying a bit of coffee at a local shop, we witnessed a meeting of what only could be part of what I jokingly refer to as the failing ‘world soccer conspiracy.’ Four women and one petite, quiet & beaten on man entertained the coffee shop… they took themselves so seriously… which made this ol’ boy smile.

It was evident that they didn’t have an agenda …nor could any of them run a meeting. It was just like sitting at the local ‘PTA.’ ….Pointing fingers and laying blame for alleged attendance failures, poor refs, not generating enough ‘buzz’ or ‘hype’…. and the inevitable ‘why isn’t my kid playing more?’ whine. Sheeeeesh… it was a sad momment!”

Fortunately, using their collective brain works, they ‘discovered’ why soccer is failing and why other sports ‘surprisingly’ succeed… in one word…it was all due to “ice.” These ‘soccer ballers’ claimed that sports succeed by having the right amount of ice on hand, without enough ice… all sports fail. Huh? Hmmmm, I always have enough ice on hand, so maybe they’re right.

Seriously, in America, sports is more than a political statement… it’s entertainment and a way of life… and a uniquely competitive cultural arena for our time, interest and money. With all this competition, Soccer just doesn’t ‘make the cut’.

Yes Ma’am, soccer may someday may succeed in America… but not today.

 

Roger Freberg

Trojan Football is coming… “Mui Macho!”

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“Taxorcisms” and other great ideas

Our cat Fuzzy is the same!

There are a few comic strips & cartoonists that I have found amusing, Dilbert, the late Jeff MacNally’s political cartoons and “Get Fuzzy” has someone for everyone to chuckle about.

The mangy Siamese cat “Fuzzy” had a few lines today that… got me laughing out loud… “wanting to perform a “Taxorcism” on Democrats and knowing the the Bible scares “Liberals.” If only it was so easy.

Roger Freberg

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Trojan Football is Coming! Step 1 — get tickets!

worth their weight in gold!

Step 1: Get the tickets!

For those who know and care… the time is arriving when your long awaited Southern California Trojan Season Tickets will arrive! This happened to me today!

Step 2: WHO gets to go?

This is always a challenge. Karen has graduated from USC and is now heading for her Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee , so she’s not in consideration. Kristin will probably attend one of the games, my guess will be the USC-UCLA game — which should be a tale of revenge and city bragging rights.

Left over tickets? heh heh, silly bruins.

Step 3: Fight on! Let the season begin!

Roger Freberg

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Is Arianna Huffington asking us to “Watch Our Neighbor?”

watch thy neighbor?

Well, I just got my daily email from Arianna Huffington announcing that I could now look into my neighbor’s political donation history. I find this a bit disturbing, some might find it intimidating… even threatening. Arianna is quick to qualify her support of this new system by saying: 

“We’re just using technology to make the public record much easier to access and, therefore, much more public.” However, I am a bit concerned with who and how this information will be used. I am not interested in seeing where the big boys & girls donate… they seem to play all sides.. I am worried about exposing all the little folks. I can just see one of my left wing nut neighbors dropping by with a little chat about my donation to  Rudy Giuliani  or the NRA while they attempt to exert a little neighborly pressure on the ‘incorrectness’ of this or that donation. This is not America. 

Yep, sounds a little like how folks used to watch each other back in the old days, right Comrade? Roger Freberg