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9/11

Never forget

September 11, 2015

Tribute in Light memorial on September 11, 2014 in New York

This is a day we should never forget. It’s kind of scary to think that seniors in high school this year were infants on Sept. 11, 2001.

This is part of our history and it’s something we should never, ever forget.

9-11 never forget

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Really?

October 8, 2013

‘Tis been a while since I’ve done a post of my “Really?” feature, so now is as good of a time as any, I imagine.

Let’s start in California.

I’m sure everybody knows what 911 is for. If there’s an emergency or something along those lines, dial 911 and get connected to the proper authorities, right? Simple enough.

Apparently, it’s for more than that to one fella.

This dude Jimmy was arrested because he placed more than 100 calls to 911 — in one month!

See, turns out the government is controlling his mind and body, via satellites or some crazy story like that!

Jimmy even keeps a notebook with all the calls he makes to 911!

How nuts is Jimmy? This is what he told CBS Sacramento:

“My brain, I can feel it starting. I’m blasted by the signals, every couple of minutes. I yell and I scream, ‘Stop it, I don’t need this,’ but they never listen.”

Does anyone else think it might be worth somebody throwing Jimmy into a padded room?

Though this was months ago, it makes one wonder if Jimmy kept it up. He told CBS Sacramento he’d keep it up if need be.

He’s probably been fine the last week or so, though. You have to figure with this government shutdown, the people monitoring Jimmy are currently out of work.

****

Look, if you want to go to a strip club, do it.

But leave the kids at home.

Turns out this dude in Florida needed his fix so bad, he decided to bring a friend and his kid — a 3-year old — along. But he was leaving his kid and friend in the truck. You know, to be responsible and make sure the kid is doing OK.

However, somebody who is thinking about going to a strip club when he is watching his kid — at 1 a.m. nonetheless — probably doesn’t have the greatest taste in friends.

See, it turns out the friend couldn’t resist the urge of nekked chicks on stage, either!

In he went.

Where did that leave our little 3-year old? In the truck, of course.

Apparently this little one was left alone for 30 minutes or so when an employee (maybe one of the strippers?) saw the kid alone in the car and called the cops.

Our hero, Jordan, tried to pin it on his friend. The cops didn’t buy it all and Jordan was cuffed and stuffed.

You can’t make this stuff up, folks.

But it gets a tad bit better. According to the Huffington Post story, which is linked above, this isn’t the first time this has happened in Florida. The report lists seven others — including a former NFL player, as well as an actual stripper — who left their kids unattended to visit (or work) in a strip club.

Yes, folks, this is ‘Merica.

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I’m not against Walmart in any shape or form. I know a lot of people are, but I’m not. The company employs many people and offers things at a cheaper rate than many. Personal thoughts aside, this next one makes me shake my head.

A Virginia man went to the retail giant to cash a check, and he brought his three young daughters along.

No biggie, right?

Apparently not in Woodbridge, Virginia, according to a report by MyFoxDC.com.

See, Joseph is in an interracial marriage — for 10 years. His daughters are all age four or under, including 2-year-old twins. In the parking lot, he was on the phone while he made sure the daughters were buckled in. This is where it got a little crazy.

After picking up his wife, he headed home. An innocent day, right? Not so much.

When they got home, a cop was waiting. Turns out Walmart security called the police to make sure the kids were indeed Joseph’s.

Seriously. This is 2013, right?

The cop then looked at their IDs and asked the 4-year-old child to point out who her mother and father were.

As often noted in these posts — you can’t make this stuff up, folks.

Apparently a Walmart security guard thought it was odd, this guy and some interracial kids. We didn’t just warp back to the 50s and 60s, did we?

The wife then called Warmart, understandably so. After speaking with a manager, she was transferred to some security guy, who passed the buck off by saying a customer raised the flag.

The wife told MyFoxDC.com this piece to really think about:

“Well, the customer was concerned because they saw the children with your husband and he didn’t think that they fit. And I said, ‘What do you mean by they don’t fit?’ And I was trying to get her to say it. And she says, ‘Well, they just don’t match up.’”

They don’t match up? Sheesh.

Walmart said it was looking into the situation. The couple said they’ll never shop at Walmart again. Who can blame them?

Hopefully this incident is isolated, but you never can tell in this day and age.

****

This one is fantastic.

We live in a blue-ribbon society. As a sportswriter and a fan of sports, this drives me up a wall.

Let’s get real for a second — when it comes to sports, you win or you lose. Bottom line. I learned at a young age what both were like. But, playing on some bad teams in high school really made you learn what losing was like.

And how to do it right.

When we lost, we lost. My parents — or parents of my friends and teammates — didn’t go up in arms because we lost. They didn’t try and sugarcoat it. It was reality. It happens.

Not these days. See, with so many youth leagues and everything else, everybody seems to get trophies or ribbons.

You finished seventh? Here’s a ribbon. You were last? Here’s a participation trophy.

Blue-ribbon society. And it’s downright ridiculous. Many parents don’t think their kids can do wrong (believe me, many parents think their kids will be the next Michael Jordan, despite the fact they are the 15th kid off the bench, can’t dribble without falling over and haven’t made a basket in their entire life) and then leagues and such get spooked to try and make it so kids don’t have to fully deal with the reality of wins and losses.

Take, for example, this California youth football league.

This league fines — yes fines — teams if they win by more than 35 points.

I once did some freelance work and covered a Pop Warner football game where the one team won like 50-0 and held the opposing team to negative 25 (or something like that) of total yards. There were no issues there. Kids dealt with it as reality.

Not so in this league, apparently.

So it costs a team $200 if they win by this big margin. Not only that, the coaches on the team will be suspended from league activities for two weeks!

Now you have teams doing things different to avoid the fines, like not kicking extra points and field goals.

This is society today, folks.

I’m glad I didn’t get trophies for just being a participant. And I’m also happy I took my lumps as a kid. It made it so I appreciated winning much more and it has helped me realize winning and losing goes way beyond sports — it’s reality in every part of life.

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Filed Under: My world Tagged With: 9/11, 911 calls, fake 911 calls, hoo haa really, leaving a kid to go to a strip club, really, really column, strip club, walmart, walmart security

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Never forget

September 11, 2012

It’s now been 11 years since 9/11.

I can’t think of much more to say for a post today, so I thought I’d just post this photo in remembrance of all who lost their lives that fateful day.

Never forget that day.

And always remember those who lost their lives on that day.

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Filed Under: My world Tagged With: 9-11, 9/11, america, american flag, history, memory, remember, usa

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Remember 9/11 – a contest

September 11, 2011

I opted to make my first contest start on September 11.

It’s been 10 years since the fateful day when terrorists took over planes and crashed into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and in a field in western Pennsylvania. It’s been 10 years since a nation was shaken by this happening on our soil, our land.

It’s been 10 years…

Those images will never leave my head. Of the people running from downtown. Of the firefighters trying to save lives. Of the scene during and after the attacks. Of the emotion and reaction of America.

Ten years…

In that time, it can be argued whether or not we are in a safer world. Or a better world. But there is no more Saddam Hussein. No more Osama bin Laden. The United States got ’em both.

Still, our economy is in the crapper. Things aren’t the brightest. But on this day, we need to forget our troubles. Remember those who died on that awful day. Remember the big picture and what this country stands for.

Do you remember 9/11/01?

Where were you? What were you doing? What went through your mind?

I remember vividly where I was. I was at college. My senior year at Lock Haven. I came out of the bedroom just after the first plane went into the first tower. My roommate was at his computer and said I needed to see this — a plane just went into the Twin Towers.

I thought he was kidding. I soon found out he wasn’t.

I sat down with a glass of water just in time to see the second plane go into the second tower. Then the reports of the Pentagon. And of the plane in western Pennsylvania. It was surreal. I watched for a while longer before getting ready for class.

The campus was quiet, somber. People were crying. Classes were cut short. The sad part is some people took advantage of this by saying they couldn’t be in class. Teachers gave them the OK to leave and then they were seen shortly after out sunbathing and laughing like nothing happened.

Some classes had discussions on what happened. Some watched movies. I had two classes that day and nothing was too different.

The days that followed were a lot of watching the news, reading papers. It was crazy. Soon after 9/11, I went to one of the county fairs in that area and saw Brooks and Dunn. They opened with “Only in America” and one of them had a guitar in the shape of the USA. The crowd went nuts. I was home that weekend, too, and went to a football game. They did a moving tribute before that, too.

The United States got back to business eventually.

But that date will always be there.

Ten years. It’s amazing that it’s been that long.

The contest: Remember 9/11.

The prize

What you have to do: In the comments section, write about where you were, what you remember and everything else about 9/11. How vivid are things? Give a little detail.

Other ways to enter: You have to first do the main thing. After doing that, you can earn additional entries by doing the following (a person can do each one, but only once each. So you can earn a total of five entries into the contest.):

  • Like this post on Facebook (down at the bottom of the post there is a”like” button. Use that (and let me know you did it… the number need to add up!).
  • Like HooHaa Blog on Facebook (on the right side of the blog at the top of the page. If you have already liked the blog, let me know and I can give an entry that way, too).
  • Write a post on your blog about this contest (make sure you let me know!)
  • Tweet about this contest by copying and pasting the following:

HooHaa Blog and @softball29 is having contest! Go to https://hoohaa.com/?p=2233 and enter! #hoohaablog #geocaching #contest #coin

What can you win? A sweet Labor Day geocoin. It’s the closest I had to give for an “American” feel. It’s red, white and blue. Being it was originally part of the Geocoin of the Month club, it also comes with a pin.Even if you aren’t a geocacher, this is a really sweet coin to have and own!

Who can enter: This contest is open to anyone.

How decided? Random draw.

Entry deadline is 12:01 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time) Sunday, September 18. Results will be announced in a blog post here at noon on Sept. 18.

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Is this a “where were you?” moment?

May 2, 2011

The Philly Daily News had the best cover today, I think

Unless you were hiding somewhere for the past 24 hours, you likely know that the United States got the most wanted man in the world last night when some Navy Seals went into Pakistan and took out Osama bin Laden.

Last night, while watching the Phillies and Mets battle it out on ESPN, I checked Twitter and saw a friend has posted the following tweet: “I’ll take “Presidential address at 10:30 on a Sunday night” for $100 under “Unsettling news crawls,” Alex.”

That made me scratch my head.

What in the name of holy hell would Obama be addressing the nation on a Sunday night for. Either we were going to war with someone or they finally got bin Laden.

The wait continued.

I switched back and forth from ESPN to MSNBC and they started making the connection to bin Laden and leaks and sources started to mention that it sounded like bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces.

I will say it’s times like this when I am sad I wasn’t a part of a newsroom anymore. It’s quite an adrenaline rush to watch all this unfold while on deadline. At the same time, it was nice to not have the stress and pressure and be able to sit back and watch history unfold.

This is obviously a major and historic moment in our country. The man behind 9/11 has been killed after being on the run for nearly 10 years. But, is it one of those “where were you moments?”

I discussed this online with a friend last night and I wasn’t sold. Seeing all the front pages today on Newseum made me wonder if maybe it will be. Maybe not so much for me, but for many it likely will be.

Generations are often defined by these moments in history.

  • JFK being assasinated.
  • The Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy
  • The Berlin Wall coming down
  • 9/11

Those are just a few examples. I know where I was for the shuttle and 9/11. I don’t remember for the Berlin Wall. I wasn’t alive with the JFK situation.

Is bin Laden’s death one of those moments?

I remember when Saddam Hussein was hanged that many news outlets were deeming that a “where were you?” moment. Alas, I have no idea where I was when that happened. All I know is I remember it was an historic moment.

No matter if this is one of those moments you’ll always remember where you were or if you won’t, it’s a big historic moment we witnessed.

So I ask you, the readers, is this a “where were you?” moment?

Also, here’s a few cover pages from newspapers on this historic day.

Le Journal de Montreal

New York Daily News

New York Post


The Bakersfield Californian

Edmonton Sun

What are your thoughts? Feel free to post comments. And did you see another front page you liked better? Let me know!

Feel free to leave a comment, or e-mail P.J. at hoohaablog [at] gmail.com.

Filed Under: Current events Tagged With: 9/11, bin laden, current events, most wanted, president obama

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