The Vote Is In. Brian Shaw: Coach of the Year




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  Carmelo Anthony returned to his original NBA town, but it was the Nuggets not the Knicks, who pulled off a 97-95 victory. The game probably shouldn't have been close at all because 'black hole' Melo showed up to the game. Despite losing 8 games in a row, Melo's personal stats are up this season.  His 27 pts. (no assist) included 11 pts. from free throws but a key miss late that could have forced OT . Ty Lawson on the other side had another excellent game scoring 22 pts. (8 assists)  with minimal shots taken. As I watched I could not help but think about Melo reminiscing on what could have been.

       Now, I realize that some of the Nuggets that beat on the Knicks last night used to be Knicks and came via the trade for Melo. Without the Carmelo trade we don't have  Wilson Chandler, Timofey Mosgov or injured Danilo Galinari, king of the late game free throw. Yet, the most important element  was sitting on the Nuggets bench with a coy smile and a suit.

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      After just 15 games as the Head Coach of the Denver Nuggets, I am convinced that Brian Shaw is noticeably better than George Karl. He has a demeanor that lets the guys feel free to try the things on offense that they've worked on at practice. There is only one obvious way to piss him off.  Don't defend and rebound.....That's it. His demand of defense and rebounding allows for offensive looseness. He never looks like he is second guessing a players decisions and he gives them the latitude to fix it on the court. His play selection is creative and players are executing plays with precision and gaining confidence knowing exactly where the shot/s should come from.

       Last night against the Knicks I could hear (from my radio) as the Nuggets yelled "same play" when a near perfect execuion of a previous play did not result in a bucket.  I was impressed at the confidence these Nuggets must have to essentially say, "you can't stop what we are running".  They forced the Knicks to overplay what they had just saw and took the next option to score with Randy Foye, clearly the result of a team working on the same page. In the helter skelter style of Karl, movement (pass and cut- drive and kick) was often the play and the window on shots opened and closed faster than young players could take advantage of.....which is why he rarely played young players.

       Shaw is an avid fisherman who seems to be fishing and searching each game to identify hot players  while systematically baiting them all into his style of play. He does a lot of catch and release with young guys along the way giving them the time and opportunity to grow into a prized catch. With Evan Fournier and Jordan Hamilton it is so obvious that he has way more confidence in them than they currently have in themselves and that both will reward his confidence soon. If you are going good under Shaw, you will not only be played accordingly, you will be benched appropriately to squeeze maximum value out of your game that day.  In the chess match that is the NBA, line-ups are a big part of it and Shaw plays this to a tee.

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       Under Shaw, starting is insignificant because he will ride a different line-up every night at the close of the half and to close the game. Under Karl, it felt like a fishing expedition hoping to find 5 keepers to close out games.  He usually gave in to sour-face starters or big mouth asses that would cost us victories. Shaw understands what all winners know; that all games will be won or lost on a couple of end game decisions, so he saves Andre Miller  to help make and demonstrate those end game decisions.  Miller can relax until needed under Shaw  because he is doing what Shaw also did as an NBA vet.

       In contrast, Shaw has empowered veteran Nate Robinson to help cultivate Ty Lawson into an All-Star by making the fearless Robinson simulate the style of game that he needs Lawson to perfect. To further satisfy the eager Robinson, he will also put him alongside Lawson to free him up for scoring.  While he is always happy to ride Nate's  hot hand, his ultimate goal with Nate is to turn him into a better end game decision maker and not just an end game assassin (who sometimes kills his own team).

       The Brian Shaw's Nug's  defend better.  By better (@SexyGeorgeKarl) I mean getting the rebound that turns defense into offense.  To Karl's credit, he actually did preach both defense and rebounding, but often looked like he had indigestion on the bench as he frequently got neither at the same time.  A few Denverites  (Vic Lombardi) have resorted to complaining about the lost entertainment value of the former run game.   These Nug's actually run smarter than they ever did under Karl by passing ahead  and then utilizing 1 or 2 secondary trailers to insure points off the break and not just spill out dunks which dry up at the end of games. Karl's teams often tried to out dribble opponents or would run too often and diminish the value while killing their own stamina as well. 

        Nobody disputes that they are better than expected. The question that we all have and can't fully answer yet is..... "How good is this team"?  Last night Melo had that same question. He stared longingly at his old flame Ty Lawson's progression and wished his new steady Raymond Felton could actually get to the hole, much less blow by someone. He had to look curiously at that Manimal guy, Kenneth Faried, who he would love to have as a clean up man for all those missed shots he still puts up. Moreover, I am sure that he remembers that George Karl scowl  every time he looks into the droopy eye'd glare of his current coach Mike Woodson.  If the hand Melo shakes before the game is George Karl he would never imagine a return to Denver.  After the coaching eexhibition of Brian Shaw last night Melo had to be thinking what we all are thinking....."How good is this guy"?





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What we know about Shaw is that he was an excellent, yet understated player in this league. He has  championship pedigree (with the Celtics and then the Lakers) and was a key element in those teams success. What we did not know was how that great player with such a quiet demeanor would do as a coach. So much trepidation existed behind that question that he had to wait to get his chance at coaching.

The fans of Denver should thank God.

Brian Shaw is the real deal and will narrowly beat out his old boss Frank Vogel ( @PacersCoach ) and make the Nuggets ( @denvernuggets ) the first team in history to fire and hire the back to back Coach of theYear....SquareBiz.



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Carmelo Anthony Heads Back to Denver

       

  

       It would be very easy to wait until the New York Knicks come to town with their 7 game losing streak and write this post after they leave on an 8 game losing streak. That would be taking the easy way out. You know, like Carmelo thought he was doing when he gave into his movie star wife and took his act to Broadway. Most of us from a distance realized that he was choosing to leave the love and admiration of a city that nutured the legend of John Elway. He had an opportunity to become the basketball equivalent, and we (Denver fans)would have stood behind his progression as a player and pushed like hell to get him championship support. If he simply didn't keep taking the easy way out. Denver wasn't tired of Melo, but we sure were getting there.

 To understand the demand we place on our teams in Denver, you must know our history. Ours is a history of that little miner who used to adorn the jersey of the Nuggets.

We are a town of overachieving underdogs who derive energy from those who diminish our cow town success. We've moved mountains in order to accomplish our goals. I'm convinced its those majestic mountains that anchor our backsides in the morning and soothes our soul with orange and blue sunsets at night.  While many people say they live in God's country, in Colorado we truly believe it. With Mile-High privilege comes the duty of community so we support what matters to us. Our population deems us a small town but our sports allegiance is second to none. (And yes, I am the unofficial ambassador of Colorado) 

       We knew that we would never win a championship with Carmelo "the black hole" Anthony. Nuggets fan's have supported the post-Anthony rendition of the team in part because seeing the ball move finally after so many years has felt like taking a bag off of our heads. Yet, while many people in Denver felt like Melo would always be the same cat we are seeing in New York, others like myself had a different view on the matter.
      
       I called for the head of George Karl long ago because in my estimation Karl was unable to coach his players, especially Melo, and his lack of control over Melo caused him to over control J.R. Smith and his young players and lose control over a talented and capable team. Many of the real Nuggets fans had begun to apply pressure on Karl to get control of his team and dictate a style of play by dictating who gets to play. Under Karl in those days it did not matter how bad or disruptive players were being, he gave them minutes and important minutes at times. When that player was anyone other than Melo it was painful to watch. When that player was Carmelo Anthony, it was the reason we lost a lot of games (especially in the playoffs) that we otherwise could have won. Sure, he hit some winners at times, and over the course of an 82 game season, if you can pull up 10 highlights of buckets that happen at or near the end of games you can fool yourself into thinking you are the second coming of MJ. Even MJ reminds us all that he missed more of those than he made

    My opinion about  Melo's pressure from home is only an opinion, but I base it upon my quarter of a century of marriage and some odd behavior from Melo. Namely a charity basketball tournament that he did in Denver in 2004. The event was planned to be annual but became a one time event because Melo chose to take the easy way out from the very beginning. This was a celebrity/charity basketball game. At the game he sold t-shirts (one of which my wife purchased) under the guise that only people with the $20 t-shirt would get autographs after the game. The game was boring for the most part, but it was cool to see that Lil' Wayne could actually hoop a bit, and that Champ Bailey can jump to the moon. Based upon Denver's amazing support for community events, this thing would have become a big deal over time. The somewhat disorganized festivities ran long and instead of honoring their commitment and leaving a few folks behind to sign t-shirts, the whole litany of stars left for pre-arranged parties in the lower downtown areas of Denver. Meanwhile a long line of people, including my wife, had formed a line for signatures and waited for nearly an hour before the announcement was fully filtered through the audience (no official p/a announcement was ever made).

My wife's first (and last) annual celebrity charity t-shirt.  Still waiting on a signature......Melo!

       Melo took the easy way out the back door then and he did it again as a free agent when he had to know that winning in New York would be both difficult and demanded ....quickly. Over his career he teases us with images of great individual play, but his championship persona comes from an often forgotten memorable Melo moment. The Olympics.

      What everyone keeps being teased with is not the vision of the Syracuse champ, but the Olympic role player. Moreover, the Olympic role player who Kobe defers to when we REALLY need a bucket or a free throw because even Kobe's immense talent does not compare with 270 pounds of lane driving dominance.

There is no player in the league who can stop Melo one-on-one.  Not Kobe. Not Lebron.  No one.  You either eat the jumper or get bullied to the paint and hope for help.  Both techniques are losing propositions against Melo the player but winners against any team he plays on. Why? Because if he is not scorching hot he can not beat you by himself with jumpshots, and because his teammates never know which shot  he might take and they dare not move and risk jamming the lane by bringing their body (and their man) into it.

       In the Olympics when they send help he finds that open man. He shares the ball until Coach K forces him not to anymore. He passes and cuts and most importantly, rebounds like no one else. In the Olympics he never takes the easy way out and because of the vision I keep of Olympic Melo I am left with many questions about tonights game and about the future of Melo.

       Personally, I still consider Melo a Nugget and imagine that one day he will dictate the moves of his basketball career and find a suitable coach and a suitable home, maybe even returning to the place he started. Would it have been easy to carry Denver to the top? John Elway would say probably not. Will Melo have the courage to stay and fight like hell to achieve the impossible dream of returning the proud Knicks to championship stature? That looks like a tougher deal than what we have here in Denver so I would say probably not. Will Melo come back to Denver and break a 7 game losing streak while still being 'black hole' Melo? Once again, probably not. What I am certain of is that every player with pride finds their fight eventually. At any moment, I expect that Melo will come face to face with his legacy in basketball and have to perfect the habits that have made him succesful.  If he doesn't, the Knicks will be forced to rebuild the rebuild or blow it up and try again.

       But I'm a Nuggets fan so the most pressing question to me is will Olympic Melo show up in the Mile-High City tonight? I certainly hope not because that guy is truly hard to beat.

Man of The Year: Pope Francis Shocks World With Christian Virtue

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       When Pope recently entertained a young child who, so drawn to the spirit of this man joined him on stage during a televised address, Christian's (especially Catholics) rejoiced. Instead of losing himself within the situation, he embraced the child and calmly allowed him to remain with him in the pulpit as he finished addressing the crowd. His very aura and devotion to humanity seem to embody true Christian virtue.  So how is he finding himself in conflict with those who loudly claim to follow him?
       Human's assign reason's as to why people become downtrodden in life (lazy, evil), while Christ pursued these very people to inform them of  freedom from such judgement. Mary, the harlot, was probably not lazy, (if I understand anything about the profession) so how she came to be in her status of life must have been her weakness towards evil. Yet, when Christ came, it was she who clamored to touch the hem of his garment while Right-eous folks denied Christ and clamored for his death. 

       The Bible is full of life fulfilling instructions and several warnings against the impact of sins like killing and drunkenness.  However, when you conclude that a government who allows for sin is indirectly sanctioning it, you end up with Roe .v. Wade and the liquor Prohibition. We can try to relitigate these social ills but the outcome should be the same on both.   Truth is for God to declare and for man to discover and his judgement and rewards are lovingly consistent. Abortion and drunkenness already have their spoken rewards as does the sin of judging.  Capitalism isn't evil even though it is wielded as an evil instrument at times

       Pope Francis did not indict America or exempt America.  Truth is a shoe that finds appropriate feet.   If America doesn't like the image of our government than we should stop breeding it in our families.  Right now both are dysfunctional.  They are also both the backbone and lifeline of our existence as we know it because no nation is ever stronger than it's families (black, white, straight or gay and everything in between).

Iran Agreement Was Israel's Chill Pill

There used to be a time in America where we engaged in politics at home and diplomacy abroad. Now everything is politics.


       Had Benghazi happened in the 70's, we would have rallied together to oppose whoever dared kill 4 Americans. Now it seems that we accuse one another for it ever happening.

News flash: There are people out there that hate us. Hatred is not a religion or a race, it is simply an evil spirit that rears its ugly head in the actions of Bin Laden today and James Holmes tomorrow.

Iran is full of people with such hatred and a growing technology to potentially make a nuclear expression of said hatred. The beauty of American capitalism is that while it probably causes the hatred that we experience it also allows us to strangle the economic life out of any country that threatens the safety of America and it's allies. We have strangled the economic life out of Iran and they came begging for an opportunity to relieve some pressure.

Are they playing games to buy time? Who knows and who cares. The debate on this issue is as silly to me as the healthcare debate. We can return to the status quo let them proceed towards a nuclear weapon, or we can use the sanctions to give ourselves an opportunity to monitor the nuclear program of a country who does not have any duty to allow such monitoring. My point is simple. Imagine the alternative that really exists. Even if we sanction them to the point of near economic ruin will the end game be to try genocide via economic sanctions. At some point you will have to get them to allow you to dismantle and monitor, and you will need this cooperation for the rest of time.  Sanctions won't help us to trust them  Access to verification will.

War is simply not the kind of thing you can develop iron-clad assurances with because every nation has the duty to establish security for themselves. If for any reason Israel escalates their aggression towards Iran, it will be Iran's civic duty to escalate their nuclear program for the sake of their nation and their future. If you are not listening closely, Israel is still talking with aggression toward Iran even while we work to establish security in the region. Put the sanctions back in place as they were and watch how quickly Israel moves to eliminate the nuclear threat from Iran. If we can achieve nothing more than giving Israel a chill pill we succeed with this one.


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Oh No! Not Again! Rose' Knee Buckles Under Bulls Weight

       Now, I do not wish to come across as insensitive to D-Rose and his newest injury. In fact I am terribly sensitive to it. So much so that I have analyzed his latest injury and am offering a reason as to why it occured and how he can avoid future injuries.

       Journey with me if you will back to the yester years when the D-Rose mania had its birth. Lebron had just journey'd across the map to establish roots in South Beach and the entire nation took their seats on either side of the isle to watch the Heat succeed or fail. Thanks to Lebron's televised decision, haters (@RealSkipBayless) abound. The Heat started out rough but found their footing and fought their way into the finals only to fall to a resolute Dallas Maverick TEAM behind Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd. Alongside the eventual flameout of the Heat was an Eastern Bull rush in Chicago. Tom Thibideau instituted a system on defense that made everyone stand up and take notice. In fact, some began to predict a potential Bulls upset of Miami as the two squared off in the Eastern Conference finals. History would not see it that way as the Heat roasted the Bulls in 5 games, but the buzz on the Bulls had grew to a crescendo. D-Rose was in the arguments for league MVP and the Bulls defense garnered Thibideau a Coach of the Year honor.

       For all of you not blessed to be living in Colorado you must know that the beauty of the Mile High air is the 5280 perspective. From my perch I could see clearly what D-Rose was doing and I saw an extremely explosive player beating triple teams to score instead of attracting triple teams to pass. On occasion D-Rose will make a pass within the framework of the offense but rarely does he let go of the ball without a dribble (or 10). Mostly he pulls off the dreaded jump pass when defenses force the ball out of his hands. What I saw was a player who was exciting to watch for his shot making ability but who wasn't scoring at a super high percentage. I saw a player and a team taking advantage of a strong defense & rebounding which allowed them to ride out their MANY cold spells. With Lebron you had a player that many (@RealSkipBayless)  accused of being afraid to take the big shot at big moments. D-Rose is not only taking the big shot, he's initiating every shot and opponents as well as everybody in the free world is watching and expecting the same thing. To his credit, he is amazingly fun to watch whether he makes it or misses it because it is clear that there is enormous weight he carries to the rim with him. 

      

       For most young NBA players, one of the biggest challenges is adjusting to the speed of the game. D-Rose never had this problem. From day one and to this day he is still way too fast for basketball. There are only a couple of players in the world with D-Rose explosiveness (Lawson, Westbrook, Irving...) and even they look wide-eyed at what this cat can do. Yet, with all that you can do, the NBA is a league of big dudes with big egos. In other words, just because you can do an inside outside crossover dribble to freeze one defender, blow past him and get airborne to explode past the help man and keep flying through the air to kiss a reverse layup on the opposite side of the glass (past two more outreaching hands of course) doesn't mean that you should. D-Rose is often landing on one leg while carrying the weight of some spoiled Chicago fan base who thinks 6 championships is hardly enough when my Nuggets have yet to play for one. You can pull such moves off a few times in a season, but they come with inherant risk, especially on 82 games per season legs.

       Will D-Rose undergo the mental transformation that will prolong his career? Altering your game in basketball takes intense work to accomplish and is usually the by-product of a serious failure or a serious injury. Keep in mind that  the sports world is full of stories like Terrell Davis and Greg Oden. All of our bodies have limitations that we will stare at face to face one day.  D-Rose will heal, however if  D-Rose has legs that were meant to carry him into a long NBA career, he had better learn the lesson of discretion being the greater part of valor.  Better yet, just get all of that damn excess weight off of your knees. MJ was a special breed, yet he, like Lebron got it done alongside Hall of Fame players (yes Bosh is a Famer). The Rose is another flower altogether who is currently planted in a somewhat sparse garden.  These Bulls need to fertilize and seed for the future and stop waiting so desperately so da'Rose can stop thinking he has to pull off miracles to carry his team to glory. All of you who keep looking for the second coming of MJ might miss out on the beauty of a Rose.

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After Nuclear War Comes Nuclear Fallout. Did Harry Reid Push The Wrong Button.

Harry "the Warrior" Reid did it. He invoked the nuclear option to destroy the wall of obstruction that had been established against President Obama. If you are reading this post you probably care enough about politics to at least recognize the word filibuster, but I will give the cliff note breakdown of what is going on here.

In the Senate each member has the freedom to delay a vote and continue discussion on a bill or judicial nominee for as long as they deem necessary (the filibuster). This was created to the give minority party of the congress check and balance power against a majority party who could  easily use their majority to implement laws without even a debate.  The only thing that stops a filibuster is a majority vote (the cloture). The nuclear option involved the changing the cloture demand from three-fifths or 60 (of 100) senators to a simple majority vote of 51 senators when invoking the cloture, or stopping a filibuster.

At stake is a balance of power in the district and federal courts. Absent the filibuster, President Obama will fill 90+ judicial seats. All Presidents have judicial seats to fill.  Naturally, they will nominate judges with whom they align with ideologically (even though this does not always work out in the end). Elections matter in great part because the  judicial branch of government is the ladder that each party uses to overcome the hurdle of gridlock. 

The  word 'gridlock' is offended by current stalemates within the halls of congress. Gridlock is what we experience on the way home from work. This is war. When Bush was in office, Harry Reid was a senator in the minority party and a spoken champion of the filibuster. In fact, he personally escalated the use of it against Bush. Republicans, noted for their willingness to play political hardball, have exploded the use of the filibuster as their front line of defense against President Obama essentially using it to wage war against the results of two elections and the legacy of a man. 

At stake is the future of the filibuster which is designed to protect the minority party in the Senate from being bulldozed by the majority party. Harry Reid not only bulldozed the filibuster, he's changed the landscape of the Senate forever. What works for Dem's today could be their death nail in the future, especially if they experience mass Senate casualties in 2014 as a negative consequence of ObamaCare.

Any party who happens to win both the White House and Congress could wield power with little restraint. The filibuster, which Harry Reid functionally destroyed with a press of a button, was an important democratic check and balance to our flawed representative republic. 

Once again, America is trapped in a war that we can't easily escape or readily determine victory. Clearly invoking anything described as a 'nuclear option' represents an act of war. However, given declarations of war and the front line republicans have established against Obama, it might be easy for Harry Reid to claim that the war was already underway, he just finally joined the battle.

But should he have pushed the button?  Will this only make it harder to pursue compromise in the future?

Republicans, desperate for any concrete victory against this president, threatened to de-fund government once, so it is hard to imagine that they won't try that  again in retaliation to Harry.  How far are they willing to let the casualties extend?   The casualties of the last shutdown are debatable because our growing economy masked the impact.  For all that is good in the housing market and in the stock market, we are still struggling to grow our job market and achieve a living wage.  Cuts in food stamps, an unwillingness to pass the Farm Bill or take care of our soldiers will have far reaching impact on  the American working class. Immigration should be voted on today because it already has the numbers to pass, but it is not.  Why?   

War has consequence.....and casualties...... SquareBiz.

Hypocrisy: Are we simply asking for the right to be wrong too.

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I would hate to simplify the arguments of the angry Right like Ann Coulter, Eric Bolling/FOX news...you know, the mad one's, but I have listened closely and I think I hear them loud and clear.

(Coulter as quoted from her book "Treason") .....Is there no traitor liberals won't defend? Liberals attack their country and then go into diarrhea panic if anyone criticizes them.....

Now, I selected this quote by randomly opening the book because the whole book reads like my brothers and sisters crying about how they got yelled at for the same stuff I got away with. Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy. The whole damn book is about the hypocrisy of the left (especially the liberal media).

Nothing. I repeat, nothing that she writes is necessarily wrong. She and all of those who sound like her are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT when they say it is hypocritical to criticize them for things that their opponents do all the time. The problem is she and all of those who stand on this moral high ground are only insisting on the right to be wrong like everybody else. Speaking as they do can garner a great following because people who feel like them are quickly losing a voice thanks to political correctness and the mass proliferation of liberal media agenda's (How did I do? Did I catch the essence?). The question we should ask of them and all who jockey for power with divisive politics: Is America better for it in the end?  Yes Ann.  I know...Of course America is better with less liberalism.

Once again, I repeat. You are right Ann. Eric. FOX. The hypocrisy of liberalism is bad. The hypocrisy of racism is disgusting. Yet, if you take dirty laundry and try to hide it under the bed it starts to stink a bit. Let me bring you into the arena of discourse with this comforting thought. All cries of race are becoming insignificant as we all face similar economic struggles. Even MLK saw that poverty, which transcends color, was blurring the importance of the black movement. I am a black man who hates the cry of racism just as much as I hate that we pretend it has gone away. I hate that some think racism is only the black kid who gets harassed by law enforcement ocassionally and not the little white kid in an inner-city school who gets harassed each day. Acting like the choice of slavery doesn't have consequences and that we are in some post-racial America is like Toronto Mayor Rob Ford insisting that he doesn't need help with substance abuse.

If race is truly keeping us from being the best we can be, then lets face it head on. Oprah Winfrey has transcended race in the eyes of so many people because she has destroyed the underachieving stereotype of blacks that existed until someone achieved on her level (and she be talkin' real proper too). Unfortunately the best of her impact will shine in the generations to come. It will shine in the perceptions of our youth who grew up seeing accomplished blacks. This generation is, sadly, too politically correct to grow. We can't grow if we don't know and we can't know if we won't discuss it.

The more I get to know a stranger, the more they start to look like me, that hypocrite in the mirror.....SquareBiz.

George "the 911 caller" Zimmerman strikes again

It is always so easy at these times to say, "I told you so". Many of those who still believe that OJ got away with murder are happy to say I told you so now as he sits in jail. The fact is, George Zimmerman got tried and acquitted of murder. Did he manipulate the 911 emergency system to create a reasonable doubt? Perhaps. Is he at it again?

Zimmerman has become the poster child for gun laws as those who support the right to bear arms raced to finance his defense in the Trayvon Martin trial. Today, his opponents are using the same poster to make an entirely different statement. Clearly the NRA crowd will stay far away from George this time, but maybe Safe Horizion's (national organization against domestic violence) will start an anti-Zimmerman prosecution fund online to support bringing this man to justice? When children are shot on the street there are no winners and losers. We are all losers from the loss of Trayvon Martin.

This latest action has exposed Zimmerman to every gotcha cliche alive. "What's done in the darkness.... What a tangled web we weave....stupid is as......" In the court of public opinion, George is toast. But he still has one important thing working on his behalf. Once again he put his own story on the 911 record, and now it is a matter of 'he said, she said'. The evidence in this case may only be public opinion and the words of his girlfriend against that of Zimmerman.
Even if convicted, he has no felony record and will get sentenced according to his standing in the community not his image in the court of public opinion.
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Police Shoot at Car With 5 Kids Inside

SEE IT: New Mexico state troopers shoot at woman in speeding in van with five kids

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When I saw this video, I thought to myself how quickly this conversation will get lost in the drama of the video. For me, this is the single best reason to eliminate Stop and Frisk Laws. Had that car been full of white kids and the crazy lady inside their white mother, I wonder if in fact Wyatt Earp attempts to take out the tires or his sidekick break out the windows? At some point widsom told the police to allow this idiot (I will rename her when a better description comes to mind) ride herself to whatever end she eventually rode herself to- without all the taser, tire-shots and broken glass nonsense that might cost someone a job(she was eventually arrested).

I might be reaching a bit, but law enforcement in New Mexico faces the same challenges everywhere. Lawlessness. We always knew we needed police officers. This lady is simply one of the many examples of why. What we do not need is authorized vigilante's. The spirit that causes some people to put principle above human life is prevalent in all walks of life. When it makes its way in to a police uniform it needs reasonable restraint. If stop and frisk was a policy that caused a couple of New York's business professionals to get randomly frisked like jury selection, than poor folks might not protest this law. Of course, if everyone was getting frisked the law would have already been challenged.

The American promise of freedom will erode at Stop and Frisk eventually, but what hope do we have to keep keystone cops from shooting at a van full of kids? Dashboard cams help, but is every action of law enforcement caught on camera? We should end Stop and Frisk today......and stop using mini-van tires for target practice. With five kids in the car it rides too low to get a good shot in anyway......SquareBiz (you can "see it" on the video).SEE IT: New Mexico state troopers shoot at woman in speeding in van with five kids

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Trust Gap?.......It doesn't compute!

What exactly is a Trust Gap anyway? I am somewhat of an etymologist in my spare time. More modestly I can declare myself a 7th grade middle school spelling bee champion. While I have a love of words, I am confident that most people, if given the words "Trust" or "Gap", could both spell them and give the definition without an etymology background or a spelling bee title. For some crazy reason I am totally befuddled when these words are conjoined by Republican's as an explanation for why we endured 2 weeks (and counting) of "you lie'd Obama". Now, I do understand that lies have consequences, and lost trust is usually the negative impact of dishonesty. However, what means a lot in marriages and in friendships has historically not applied to politics. In politics there has always been creative license given to facts. In fact, I assumed that all news outlets who cover politics operated with this same assumption. Why would I assume such a thing? FACT CHECKERS!!! How many times during the campaign did we listen to a 1 hour debate followed by a 3 hour game of BS. Every half truth, part truth, "true..but" or other variation of truth that travels a journey from imperical fact into the pit of outright deception was parsed and dissected. We have always known that politicians create soundbites. When Obama chewed up his campaign approach into the soundbite "If you like it you can keep it", fact checkers did state that he "mostly" told to truth. Republicans who are afraid of the imminent rise of Hillary have pointed out how she too said the same thing until Obama called her out for the statement (and then promplty used it for re-election).

My point! This was not news, this was opportunity. Like Benghazi, the Republicans are up against the ropes and are watching the referee threaten to step in to stop the fight. The worst type of wild animal is the one backed into a corner and overdosed on Tea. Conservatives are now mounting the type of attack you witness in a cornered animal. In other words, they will attack wherever they see an opportunity because, in their eyes, they have nothing to lose. So this is what I know for certain? Trust is defined as an element of confidence that one places in another as a result of consistent positive performance. A gap is, simply put, the distance between what you expect and what you actually have. The Trust Gap must then be the difference between the confidence that we had and that which we have now. Cleary that gap could not have gained so much daylight with conservatives due to a website launch. The actual truth is currently racing towards the aforementioned pit of deception. I challenge any opponent of the President to clarify to me the difference between the trust you had for our Kenyan born President and the trust that you have now that he has made healthcare affordable to most via the ACA? Was your trust reflected in the election booth or is this a lower threshold of trust that we are addressing?

Trust Gap?.......It doesn't compute!.......Square Biz.

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SquareBiz Welcome Address-----------Who Really Runs America?.



2 year old page from the SquareBiz e-magazine

President Limbaugh Declares: I HOPE OBAMA FAILS?

RUSH: There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who this guy was and who should have been saying "I hope this guy fails" right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.

If I didn't follow this stuff so closely I would not be bothering you with my opinions. I love and hate the media at the same time. Only in America can you denegrate the office of the President in a way that would have you executed for treason in most countries in our world.

I can imagine that somewhere in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, U.S.A., when Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, born January 12, 1951, grew to imagine his future, he first imagined himself as President of the United States of America. I know this because I too used to dream of being the President..........and then I heard how bad they spoke about Jimmy Carter. I watched as a young child as the media systematically destroyed the guy I looked up to for his NOBEL prize and the Camp David legacy. To this day they demean a truly great American and my favorite President of all time. As my Carter anger subsided, I found myself eerily aware that the media who controls the presentation and thus the representation of all news is perhaps much more powerful than the President that I longed to emulate.

Unfortunately, Rush beat me to that notion. Back in he early 50's (1951 to be exact), seeded in the humid morning dew of Cape Girardeau, Missouri was the same mystical notion that I thought was my own childhood brilliance. Rush Hudson III discovered that he could take over the world from the meager confines of a simple office building. He did not realize the logistics of course, but President Rush Hudson III would grow to reside over the EIB (Excellence In Broadcasting)kingdom that is the sole licensed distributor of the most powerful elixir known to man. So powerful is this elixir that it could not be bottled or sold and has generated the most significant movement in American politics, the conservative/ Tea Party/ Libertarian/right wing civil war.

I realize that I am offering a glorious build up, but you must realize how badly I wished I could be President when I was young and how sad I grew as I aged and realized that black people can't win Presidential elections anyway. In some ways I sort of settled on the dream of running my own media outlet because I could see that slimy politicians seemed to have slimy media outlets to support their biddings. Rush Limbaugh is the embodiment of shunning corporate slime and garnering world changing power without subscribing to any mandate or party influence. He is....simply stated.....my mentor.

I'm not sure what GOD places in us that makes us strive to be the captain of the team, the President of the class, the editor of the paper or the head of the household (and not just the man of the family). I do know that GOD called the house of Levi for a purpose and blessed his lineage with the necessary gifts for the call. All other answers are HIS. Rush Hudson III was created for a purpose and gifted for the call. In representing the right wing of politics, Rush bears the role of their righteous mouthpiece

Yet, righteous indignation is a kool-aid that causes ones eyes to look down the bridge of the nose. Even Christian liberals suffer from this problem, but within the realm of conservative Christian's, the kool-aid is getting distilled like southern moonshine. In fact, they started to call it Tea because kool-aid is such a cheap drink of the commoner.

When Rush Hudson III got wind of this new drink, he (not a religious zealot) moved to insure that he would maintain and even grow his place within the conservative hierarchy. In a brilliant move of foresight and sacrifice, Rush Hudson III gave up his last name to the production line of his own EIB network and started creating Limbaugh Tea, the most desirable flavor of conservative drink around.

As a result of Limbaugh Tea, Rush is now the undisputed leader of the conservative party and a figure who no potential candidate for any conservative office dare challenge if they hope to win. As a result of Limbaugh Tea, mass numbers of former Republican's by label have rushed to develop new labels (libertarian, moderate, Am. Constitution, etc) in fear of being isolated into such a far right corner that only offers electibility in states and communities where conservative masses have migrated to.

If you look at a modern electoral map it is a scary feeling because you see a picture of a massive exodus away from urban regions or states with strong urban populations. When too many coloreds move into Highlands Ranch, Centennial, Parker, or Castle Rock, Colorado (aka. the suburbs) then conservatives ran to Montana or the Dakota's to get that less integrated prairie lifestyle. Scared city dwellers who are spooked by the massive red on our electoral map need not worry because only wealthy conservatives have the access to the exodus. The rest of them are stuck living next door to your liberal #$$ and are bitter at how terribly useless it is to even go to the polls on most elections (see voter suppression). Limbaugh Tea has given Rush Hudson III power over all that red area you see on the electoral map; a power greater than any politician. Show me a conservative who dares challenge the treason talk of Rush Hudson III and I will show you a former office holder or one waiting to become a former office holder.

If you are curious as to what the conservative agenda truly is given their odd behavior over an overloaded website (a website that they now call ObamaCare), then you need to check with the President. No, not Obama. His ego is much greater than that of myself or Rush Hudson III to settle for being a President. Ask Rush or any bitter conservative. Obama is now Monarch of America and we are all simple subjects. Our President and most influential figure is none other than President Rush Hudson III. President Rush and his ground troops, the Limbaugh Tea party will hold this nation hostage again and again until we all succumb to his bidding, because he has no term limitation.

So what is the EIB mission? Its the same one that Mitch McConnell and others have stated from the bitter morning that they had to read of Obama's first victory in the morning newspaper. Rush HOPE's OBAMA FAILS.  More importantly, he will work to make this happen.

Republicans pretend to be at war with liberalism, but liberalism is a necessary evil that contributes to their fundraising efforts. What would conservatives do if not point out the folly of liberal policy?  We've already decided that trickle down is an unproven theory.

What exactly does the failure of any of our Presidents look like. Is not our success and their failure connected? Even the liberals who feared wasted lives in Iraq did not wish for President Bush to fail, they simply asked what does victory look like. What does failure look like? Dead soldiers? Sick babies and forgotten elderly? School closures and kids that fall further behind the world? What does failure look like? Is it as simple as an asterisk in a history book (do we have history books anymore) or do you want to imprison the President for daring to take on the health concerns of this nation? In the war against liberalism, what should be the punishment for enacting RomneyCare 2.0, and should Mitt and Barack sit in the same cell for a while?

My head hurts!

What the hell is a Reagan Republican anyway?..I Hate Labels....All of Them

If Socialism is the only reasonable counter balancer to the negative impact of out of control capitalism than I am proud to carry the label. The Cold War is over and we won. Yet, the bloody trail of success and failure within OUR pristine example of capitalism leaves many to wonder if American capitalism is such a good path to follow.

I believe that the free-market democracy that we continue to pursue is as necessary as it is difficult. American capitalism upholds the world. I also think that it might be time to stop demonizing socialism and start to ask every person who thinks they are not socialist' to declare which socialized program in America do they promote getting rid of. Police or Military? Public schools and roads that we didn't build ourselves? Corporate welfare or just poor people welfare. What separates social collectivism surrounding unified needs from unadulterated Karl Marx socialism? Have we ever seen a true example of this free market government that they speak of? What the hell is a Reagan Republican anyway? Have we ever seen socialism (which is not an economic system anyway) with the absence of capitalism?


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Either Capitalism does not truly have an answer for what to do with the ever present "have not's" plaguing ALL countries and ALL political ideologies, or we simply need to get out the way and let their ends justify their means.  Sadly, a lot of people feel the pain waiting for your trickle down to reach below the poverty line. I could buy the idea that rising waters raises all boats if I had a damn boat to begin with. If you don't have a boat those waters could smother you. Shall we privatize removal of the people who die through attrition as we de-socialize our Free-Market government? If you collect a tax for it would that not be socialism too?

Does America thrive on apparently opposing forces?

The truth is that we are, and always have been, a reasonable balance of socialist and capitalist ideas. Even President Rush Limbaugh doesn't applaud robber baron's or believe in corporate monopolies (do you). What force came to bear against these capitalistic blunders if not the greatest force of socialistic power known to man.  Government intervention via socialist measures (aka. taxes).

Labels are the tool of division and serve only to allow us all to retreat to our corner of righteous indignation. Human's are just as flawed as our political and religious ideologies. The notion than anyone of them is purely right and righteous enough for us to impose on each other is arrogant. While Obama's so called liberalism did not stop him from using a conservative plan to create ObamaCare, conservative disdain for government does not stop them from taking government tax credits or using loopholes in the code every year around April (although some are claiming that they won't take a healthcare subsidy). 


If I claim to be a socialist but wish God wasn't kicked out of our schools so that we could have an LGBT club instead, is there a label for me? Are there no LGBT Christian's? I hate labels......All of them!