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SPORTS
It’s that time of year again. When I and my wife binge our favorite events. We catch Wimbledon, the Tour de France and the Open Championship of Golf (British Open).
It’s been a pretty fun year so far. As of this writing, Wimbledon is in the can. Nobody does the sport of kings like England.
The finals were colorful to say the least. The women’s final ended with lots of tears on the part the American, Anisimova. While quietly killing it in qualification, she was dropped in straight sets and in straight games. I don’t recall such a sound ass-kicking in a Wimbledon final.
At one point she looked down and said, “OMG! This isn’t my tennis racket! This is my pickle ball paddle!” Not really, but that would have explained a lot. Anisimova cried through the last break, the last two games and her entire speech after the match.
Someone needs to remind this girl she just took second at the friggin’ premier tennis tournament. Wills and Kate were there for Chrissake!
At the awards ceremony, the winner, Swaitek said nice things. But we knew what she REALLY meant. “Cry me river, leetle girl! You are sad because I get big beautiful dish and you get plain little dish. Go sit in corner with your leetle American pickle ball paddle.”
I was happy with the men’s final. That was between Alcaraz of Spain and the Italian, Sinner. I’ve seen Alcaraz before, but I don’t recall seeing Sinner. Alcaraz always reminds me of the whiney bitch song writer in That Thing You Do! He’s a great athlete, but for some reason, I always root against him. And I do like it when a talent I don’t know rises up. So I was pulling for Sinner…who almost blew the match several times.
As it turns out, Sinner has a record comparable to Alcaraz’s. So it was a good match, with Sinner pulling off the win.
Overall, a good year for Wimbledon fans.
The 2025 Tour de France
As of this writing, we are through stage 13. In the early going I was seeing lots of new names. While I like to see up and comers in any sport, there is always something comforting to hear Bob Liggett talking about the vets.
And as the tour progresses, the old standard bearers are rising back to the top. Pogacar, Vingagaard, Roglic, Yates. Sadly, names like Cavendish, Froome, and Thomas are now memories.
Despite a crash in Stage 11, which included a long slide and a collision with a curb, Pogacar is in the catbird seat right now. To be leading at this stage is a good omen for the Tour title, but anything can happen and some of the killer climbs are still ahead.
British Open
The Open Championship is underway. It will be in the can by the time you see this.
Scottie Schffler is, as always, killing it. In 10th place when he teed off today, at -3, Scheffler had 1 bogey and 8 birdies! He finished at -10. Let’s see if he can add yet another major to his record. Rory, my favorite golfer, is not having a banner showing as yet. And he’s not always great down the stretch, so I’m not holding my breath. But wouldn’t it be too cool!
Hatton has done some nice approach work and putting. And Ricky Fowler, although not doing very well, is still the best-dressed 13 year old on the tour with a peach fuzz mustache.
My namesake is -2 right behind Rory. C’mon brother. Don’t shame the name!
My Fani!
And Fani Willis is back in the news baby! [music] She continues to be handed defeat after defeat. If you remember, she was yanked from the Trump case in Fulton County after behavior that might make her New York doppelgänger, La-tittie-ah James blush. She’s a terrible lawyer who hired an even worse lawyer, her boyfriend, to “prosecute” the case. Well, she appealed a number of decisions that went against her and the courts just keep on laughing at her.
To add to the diminishment of her image, Georgia just passed a bill under which they will reimburse all defendant involved with the Willis case for their legal expenses. Fani’s behavior will cost the state a pretty penny.
At some point her friends, if she has any left, might suggest for the sake of her dignity, she give up pursuit of the phony RICO case and resign. I don’t suppose fighting will hurt her politically, her constituents all seem to buy her racist schtick, and they suffer from TDS. But in the professional world, she’s an embarrassing punchline.
And speaking of La-tittie-ah James, I wonder how her case is coming along. She’s under investigation for real estate fraud. I so hope they take her down. But she’s well-connected, inside the wire, in a dirty Blue city, so I might be disappointed.
American Surrender Monkeys
I often call Vichy France, during WWII the “surrender monkeys”. They didn’t even have the good taste to pretend to resist the Germans. They ACTIVELY assisted in the removal of Jews from France to the camps. They were ass-kissers and appeasers on an epic international scale.
Today, on the Left, naked, pathetic, suicidal surrender seems to be all the rage. People like Kier Starmer and his Liberal mob in the UK can’t give away their nation and heritage fast enough. They exhibit absolutely no sense of shame. Lefty governments all over Europe have permitted millions of ungrateful foreigners to shit all over what used to be beautiful countries. Google the beautiful beaches of Belgium today.
And we have more than our share of surrender monkeys in the US. Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams have given away New York. Karen Bass and Hair Gel Newsom have raised stupid to a science. They won’t rest until every last vestige of California, except for where they and the show folk live, looks like Detroit.
En masse, our entire Democrat Party is actively fighting to eliminate the American culture, which they wouldn’t understand, even if their schools had taught them anything about it. They rally to raise up people and religions that WILL eliminate them first, in the event the United States starts to look like Western Europe. When Muslim rapists and murderers, already a problem in this country form gangs, as they do in the EU, they’re not going to ask your daughter if she is LGBT etc, or if she protested for or against Hamas. They’ll just rape her, and maybe kill her, because the religion of peace tells them they can.
Thank people like Gretchen Whitmer - an intense lunatic, Brandon Johnson, Lori Lightfoot, Kathy Hochul, Eric Adams, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries and the rest of the Lefty mob. Thank any voting Democrat. But for them, the problem with illegals and the filth, and the overcrowding, and the freebies, and the crime, would be an entirely European problem right now.
You need to understand, these people haven’t committed these crimes against their own people in a vacuum. None of them govern from competence. They ALL pretend to govern while creating more and more power and money for themselves and their party. They spend all of their time growing their brand by tearing down every last vestige of sound economics and American values they can.
The idea is to grow numbers in Blue shit holes, gain representation for their own party to assume, make the Blue shit holes worse than they are right now. Then they’ll employ the strategy THEY, THEMSELVES have been working toward for decades now. They read 1984 and Atlas Shrugged, looked at what the government in those books did and said, “Damn! This could work!”
Gavin Newsom doesn’t see Orwells warnings as cautionary. He sees them as a blueprint to amass more power unto himself, and his betters in the party, and the Davos/WEF cult. That is what motivates ALL the people I’ve mentioned, and every last skull full of mush with degrees in Women’s Studies, Poli-Sci and DEI.
The idea is to take the nation, or at least the Blue shit holes down to such a point that the people will accept anything other than the life they have been dragged down to. And then, the Lefty cult will “save” them by creating their “smart cities”. With the exception of “Potemkin” neighborhoods, these cities will be as dull and grey as any city Stalin created, but the people will praise their prison custodians because there will be less crime and the average citizen will have no decisions to make. Their lives, work, schools, stores, doctors, recreation, will exist in a 15-minute wide, electronic holding pen. They’ll have their bug paste and lab chicken to eat. They will “own nothing and they will be happy.”
As Stalin did with his Potemkin villages, and the NAZIs did with Theresianstadt propaganda. The early, Blue “smart cities” will have shiny, slick, ultramodern enclaves set up. They will actually be populated with party drones who will happily participate in the presentation of their ecstasy, comfort and general pleasure with life. It will be like living in Vegas with an aura of righteousness blanketing all. By the time YOU realize it’s all for show, you’ll be billeted in your crowded apartment building, serviced with he same government efficiency we see today, eating your bug paste. It will be too late to do anything about it. And, of course, since it’s run by the government, there will be rampant crime and corruption.
With cameras everywhere, tightly controlled transportation, spending restrictions, cell phones…you won’t be able to make a move without Big Brother’s say so. Yo won’t even be allowed to express your unhappiness without risking the government’s wrath.
But wait! There’s more! With the emergence of exhibitionist, often radical Islam now exploding in high population centers, The lunatics with the levers of power will be the Imams and people like Zohran Mamdani! So, forced conversion to Islam looms large in your future. I’d like the opinion of Queer for Palestine in that little detail.
Reaching Beyond Boundaries, by Don Mann and Kraig Becker
You can consider this review as kind of a twofer. Some of the anecdotes and hints of the overall philosophy in Reaching Beyond Boundaries can also be found in the book that brought Mann to my attention, Inside SEAL Team Six.
In the latter, Don spends more time on his biography and war stories. Through all that you see his success philosophies imager without his need to actually spell it all out. You read how he was a kid with plenty of excuses he could have used to experience adulthood as a failure. Trouble with the law, drinking, drugs - general hell-raising of the type that left many of his peers in his hometown burned out, jailed or dead. But there was something inside Don Mann that would instinctively pull him out of all that and put him on a path to the kind of success that is unparalleled in certain, sometimes obscure, respects.
…Beyond Boundaries, on the other hand, DOES spell it all out, which is your good for you to now know. Using some of THE MOST inspirational and exciting stories, Mann takes you step by step through the thought process you can employ to achieve - well - anything.
If you are a young man, understanding the principles in the book might lead to you becoming a member of the U.S. Navy SEALS, for example. If that happened in one case based on this review, I will have considered my entire writing career a success. All 1000 articles and posts and a book. I am certain Don would say the same about …Boundaries if he were to see just that result.
But there is infinitely more to the work than rah-rah, SEALS, NAVY, MILITARY! The principles in the book are universal and the examples provided are the evidence you need to then look in the mirror and say, “So just what the hell DO I really want to accomplish? What is the BIG goal? What are the little goals that will get me there? Is it important enough that I will take it all the way to “the line” (an important term) to get it? Am I willing to endure the requisite pain and failure to get there?
I can attest. I am off my duff and recreating the me I used to be. And I am working on new goals, physical and personal.
Through stories about legendary accomplishments, discussing the failures with the same value as the successes, Don strips you of excuses. You’ll see a blind man scale rock faces, BEFORE shooting serious rapids on the Colorado river. You’ll meet people who rowed solo across ocean - in their 60’s. There will be a politician, kicked to the curb but everyone, who roared back into power to lead a nation through its worst days (you know who I’m talking about).
I could go on all day. But in none of these cases did anyone woke up one day and decided to do the BIG thing that afternoon, and then do it. There is a process behind every success. The process Don lays out, if applied in your personal pursuits will mean the difference between letting a harsh failure or seemingly insurmountable obstacle kill your dream. You’ll learn about goal-setting, bonking (scary) and training like you fight (so to speak).
Worst case scenario. You get inspired. You set a big goal, a macro goal for yourself. I could be anything. We’ll say it is to run in a marathon in a few months and you’re not even an athlete right now. But it can be absolutely anything from sports, to your profession, or even a totally new profession. Every day you’ll get a little faster, a little stronger, a little smarter and happier. Worst case, no matter how things ultimately shake out, when asked what you’ve accomplished in life (channeling Patton)…”you won’t have to say, ‘well…I shoveled shit in Louisiana’.”
But, if you apply what Don will teach you, even that ceases to be a real possibility. Your life will be better. You’ll have proven yourself to the only person that really matters in the end…you.
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