Another Tragity for a NASCAR family

FOX Sports - NASCAR - Gibbs praying for his grandson:

"On this Saturday, he wasn't Coach Gibbs, the man who led the Washington Redskins to three Super Bowl titles. He wasn't the NASCAR owner who celebrated Cup championships with Bobby Labonte and Tony Stewart. He was simply Pat's husband, J.D.'s dad and grandfather to Jackson, Miller, Jason and Taylor.

And on this Saturday, on the eve before the biggest game in football, the Super Bowl couldn't be farther from his mind. Gibbs and his family are facing a different kind of battle. Four weeks ago, his grandson Taylor, 2, was diagnosed with leukemia. Taylor, who recently started a three-year treatment plan, is the youngest son of Melissa and J.D., Gibbs' oldest son, who oversees Joe Gibbs Racing."

NASCAR has lost Benny Parsons and Bobby Hamilton Sr. to cancer in the last month. Now this from the owner of the cars that Tony Stewart and Denny Hamilton drive. Take time to pray for this young child. The link has some specific prayers for him.

Ever wonder what happens to the t-shirts that were made for the loosers of the Superbowl?

Far Away, Super Bowl’s Losers Will Be Champs - New York Times:

"The Super Bowl will end about 10 p.m. Sunday, and by 10:01 every player on the winning team — along with coaches, executives, family members and ball boys — could be outfitted in colorful T-shirts and caps proclaiming them champions.

The other set of championship gear — the 288 T-shirts and caps made for the team that did not win — will be hidden behind a locked door at Dolphin Stadium. By order of the National Football League, those items are never to appear on television or on eBay. They are never even to be seen on American soil.

They will be shipped Monday morning to a warehouse in Sewickley, Pa., near Pittsburgh, where they will become property of World Vision, a relief organization that will package the clothing in wooden boxes and send it to a developing nation, usually in Africa."

This is cool that they would do this. It would be just as easy to destroy them, but instead, someone has a shirt and cap to wear that needs them. Thanks for thinking of the other half of the world NFL.

February 2007 at the Home Depot

From Feb 2007 Home...

This month the Home Depot had left overs from all the projects they had done so far. Here is Israel making a holder for the Declaration of Independence, which they did not provide a copy of, so he will be using it for a tray for his toys. Annie is making the project for last December that she did not get a chance to make in December because of the snow storm we had. Click on the link to go to Picassa and view the rest of the pictures from our outing.

Finally an article that lays the Boston Mistake where it should be

"The whole atmosphere is charged with stupidity," said Lou Colasuonno, senior vive president at Financial Dynamics, a business communications and PR firm. "There is enough to go around between whoever conceived the promotion and Boston's reaction to it.

"On one hand, "who in today's world would dream of leaving unattended packages lying around as part of a promotion?" he asked. Then again, "Boston shut down half the town, while other cities didn't even notice or saw them for what they were. That seems to indicate they were over the top."For Clarke Caywood, a professor of public relations at Northwestern University, "anyone with a sense of recent history and any peripheral vision would have said, 'We are in level orange or whatever, and these are kind of mysterious looking things.' I can't imagine there was enough oversight on this project."For their part, the authorities "were doing the typical overreaction to make themselves look tough," he said. "There were two mistakes here rather than one, and there are going to be two good case studies out of it on law enforcement's error and the Cartoon Network's error."

PR blunders abound in Boston promo stunt - MarketWatch

To be honest there is enough guilt and stupidity to go around on this incident. Turner, its companies, and marketing firms are to blame to put something like this all over not only Boston but several citties. Boston did over-react to some degree. Someone should have been able to look at it real quick on a bomb squad and tell it was not a bomb. It really should have been a footnote in a slow news day. Instead, it bacame the news. It went on all day. While I work days and do not have a TV close by that I can scan the news on I can tell you there were lots of news stories coming from various news sources in my RSS feeds. The story really took on a life of its own.

KOTV.com - The News On 6

KOTV.com - The News On 6:

For those who want to sing along with my previous post:

"'Snow-klahoma, where the cold fronts sweepin' down the plain; And the piles of sleet beneath your feet Follow right behind the freezing rain.

Snow-klahoma, Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I Travel home from work and hope some jerk Doesn't wreck our car in passing by.

We know we belong to the land But it could use more salt and more sand!

And when we say Yeeow! Ayipioeeay! We're only sayin' you're slick as snot, Snow-klahoma! Snow-klahoma, Oy Vey!'"

Snow-klahoma

KOTV.com - The News On 6

Watch this video. One of our own news people making fun of us and our weather.

KOTV.com - The News On 6

"An 18-year-old Chickasha woman is charged with child endangerment after police found what they say appears to be beer in her baby's bottle."
Proof once again that the gene pool is not to deep in some places. Problem is she will probably get the kid back in the future and do something stupid again. I pray that she does not.

Another Change to the Sidebar

I decided to put a link to Amazon.com with the book that I am currently reading. I have not gone commercial as I am pretty sure that I will not make much money off of it, but if it interest you, then link and buy. Also through a banner ad at the bottom of the page. If I make a few cents a month, it will be worth the time and effort that I put in. I may even consider putting in a link or two to them in my posts if I think appropriate for the topic. Anyway, just letting my few readers that read regularly about the change.

Should the Super Bowl be a U.S. holiday? You make the call - MarketWatch

Should the Super Bowl be a U.S. holiday? You make the call - MarketWatch:

"Potato chip and beer sales skyrocket. Big-screen televisions suddenly go from being mere objects of desire to absolute necessities. Parties are plentiful. And there's also that little matter of crowning the best football team in all of creation.
Sure, the Super Bowl is widely treated as a de facto holiday. But is America's obsession with the pigskin worthy of parlaying the National Football League's championship game into an official American celebration and three-day weekend?"

So what is next? World Series Weekend. Why should we be celebrating a sport as a holiday? People are weirding me out lately.

Miami Plans Castro Death Party in Orange Bowl - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

FOXNews.com - Miami Plans Castro Death Party in Orange Bowl - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News:

"MIAMI — With Fidel Castro seriously ill, the city of Miami is making plans to throw a party at the Orange Bowl when the Cuban president dies."

So we as citizens are planning a big part when a foreign head of state dies... I guess we are now no better than the people all around the world who partied when 9/11 happened. We as Americans should be ashamed of what we have allowed ourselves to become.