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From Michelle Wie to LeBron James to 9/11 conspiracy believers, there are haters amongst us

Wednesday September 13, 2006 | 09:43:47 am 519 words, 3271 views  

I see hating people. They’re everywhere. They walk around like everyone else and don’t know they’re haters.

Nonetheless, the haters are out there. Fo’ shizzle.

In golf, Michelle Wie is putting the finishing touches on a year that has taken her from the most beloved young player in the game to the most hated by the haters. Yesterday, a TravelGolf.com column “Who’s the culprit in the obsessive Michelle Wie circus: the sports media or golf fans?” there were 16 comments. Every one of them negative.

“I would be very happy never to hear her name again! Great golf is being played by many women on the LPGA Tour and they are not receiving the kudos they deserve.”

“Just because you can hit the ball a country mile doesn’t mean you can play the game. Michelle can’t putt. Period.”

“Short Skirts don’t win tournaments, a short game does.”

And on and on. Personally, I believe the worst thing that happened to Wie was that Tiger Woods went nuts and started winning everything he entered. Again. When the best in the game takes the game to a higher level - again - it’s kind of hard to get overly excited about the potential of a 16-year-old who is now missing cuts at men’s events by a country mile.

It was Wie’s missed cut at the Omega European Masters that got Jennifer Mario hating on Golf for Beginners, after they wrote:

“The only men’s event Wie qualified for was the SK Telecom Open … a third world event. Come on, let’s be serious, she was at least a foot taller than the other guys in that tournament - five foot tall men with eight foot sticks.”

Mario shot back with:

“Not only was this not your best blog, Solomons, but it was just plain embarrassing. I know you can do better.”

Yes, the great Wie backlash is in full swing while Chris Baldwin convulses in giggles, causing his great quantities of man-flesh to jiggle like so much uncontained gelatin. So now, Wie-hater No. 1 has moved on to hating those that believe in 9/11 conspiracies, and they really hate him for that.

Like Max, who wrote: “Stop playing golf long enough to exercise your brain a little bit there golfer man,” followed by more than 2,000 more words on the subject.

Of course, not to be outdone, reader Dubya Shrub (GET IT!!!!) added his two cents, which came out to a 10,000-word, one-paragraph diatribe.

Finally, I happened to find someone hating on a blog I did a while back, comparing NBA star LeBron James to Tiger Woods.

“I could be wrong, but doesn’t Tiger Woods *win* stuff quite often? As in, like, always? Clearly, this is a totally flawed comparison,” wrote Bernard G. Watkins.

Of course, I didn’t take Mr. Watkins’ insults too personally, being that he writes for, and created the “I Hate LeBron James” Web site.

In the end, where does all this hate get us, my friends? Nowhere, that’s where. But it’s fun to read, so if you must hate, feel free to hate here. Unless you write in one long paragraph. I hate that.

–WKW

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Comment from: Norman [Visitor]
Very good blog William.

The most interesting thing in it is where the Solomons described the Asian Tour guys as at least a foot taller than Michelle.

That is just ridiculous and shows the ultimate in stupidity on their part. The Asian Tour guys are at least 5 feet 8 and many of them are 6 foot tall.
It is examples of that where indeed the hating can be very humourous. It is interesting when the Solomons make such jackasses of themselves and it makes good fun.
PermalinkPermalink 09/13/06 @ 11:39
Comment from: Shanks [Member] · http://www.travelgolf.com/blogs/shanks
Ya know what I hate? This mental image I now have of Baldwin's jiggling man-flesh ... yeesh! Thanks, Wolfy.
PermalinkPermalink 09/13/06 @ 11:39
Comment from: jaypee [Visitor]
Just so you know, the paragraph separations get eliminated in the transfer from one computer to the other, due to some technical formats not totally compatible. This is were my second paragraph starts, but you are not getting it. I absolutely HATE it when that happens.
PermalinkPermalink 09/13/06 @ 14:13
Comment from: Brandon Tucker [Member] · http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker
Jaypee,

Was a that a joke or is your computer the only computer that can't transfer paragraph breaks?

If you're being serious, try using the html tag "

" for a new graph and "

" to end one.
PermalinkPermalink 09/13/06 @ 14:28
Comment from: Brandon Tucker [Member] · http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker
As you can see, by entering the code it doesn't show up and breaks my sentence. Basically it's a "p" enclosed in arrows (or whatever their official name is).


PermalinkPermalink 09/13/06 @ 14:30
Comment from: Merrin [Visitor]
I dont think the recent Michelle Wie displeasure is true hate for Wie, it's more like being fed up with a constant barrage of publicity when some feel it would be more warranted in 5 years or so.
you know, when she's actually reached her potential. Not following her every move on the learning curve.
PermalinkPermalink 09/13/06 @ 14:40
Comment from: JoeR [Visitor]
You wrote

"In golf, Michelle Wie is putting the finishing touches on a year that has taken her from the most beloved young player in the game..."


I think you must be delusional. Only among Wie warriors was MW "beloved". They are mostly new to golf and certainly do not represent the world of golf.

You seem to blame anyone who does not agree with the unorthodox path the Wie family has chosen. I like MW but I do believe she will never fulfill the potential her god given skill should achieve. Just because of this does not mean I hate her.

I think the post above by MERRIN tells it all. Many people are simply sick of all the unjustified hype.

Of course the Wie family and MW herself keep the hype going. They got the money and did a great job. In the week that she finished last she said she wants to play on a Ryder Cup team....give me a break. I would also like to play on that team.

You usually write better columns or blogs. This one is surprisingly misguided. Thankfully the winter will give us time off from the hype unless she plans to play in the Super Bowl also.
PermalinkPermalink 09/13/06 @ 15:12
Comment from: John Doe [Visitor]

Comment from: jaypee [Visitor]
Just so you know, the paragraph separations get eliminated in the transfer from one computer to the other, due to some technical formats not totally compatible. This is were my second paragraph starts, but you are not getting it. I absolutely HATE it when that happens.


Brandon here gave you the expert solution, however you can just leave an empty line between the paragraphs and that will do it for you.

Try it and see that it's not a computers against humans conspiracy.

PermalinkPermalink 09/13/06 @ 21:21
Comment from: pw [Visitor] · http://www.911blogger.com
What times were the attacks on
WTC 1 ? 8:46am
WTC 2 ? 9:02am
pentagon ? 9:40am

Conclusion, The acting Joint Chief of Staff(highest position for military personel in our govt) did not order to send up intercepts until 90 min after first known hijacked and nearly an hour after the first attack on the WTC

Can you say StandDown!

FAILURE TO DEFEND THE SKYS ON 9-11

What is NORAD hiding with these conflicting notification times, and absurd "scalded ape" statements? Remarkably, it is possible that the story of fighters scrambling from Otis could be a complete fabrication. Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers was the acting head of the US military on 9/11 because the Chairman was out of contact on an international flight. [Washington Post, 1/27/02] Two days after 9/11, under oath and in front of a Congressional committee, Myers was asked when the order to scramble planes was first given. He responded, "That order, to the best of my knowledge, was after the Pentagon was struck [at 9:37]." [Myers Senate Confirmation Hearing, 9/13/01] If true, the claim that fighters were ordered scrambled at 8:46 is incorrect by almost one hour! This idea was not simply Myers's confused recollection. The next day, NORAD spokesman Marine Corps Major Mike Snyder also claimed that no fighters were scrambled until after the Pentagon was hit. Only then did the military realize the scope of the attack and order fighters into the air. [Boston Globe, 9/15/01 (D)] NORAD's current story of two fighters being scrambled at 8:46 was first reported on CBS Evening News on September 14, hours after Snyder agreed with Myers's assertions. [CBS, 9/14/01] But even after that, in early October 2001, NORAD commander General Ralph Eberhart stated, "We did not anticipate this threat would take off from inside the United States and it would be a matter of double-digit minutes" to respond. [AP, 10/7/01] So in other words, even though NORAD fighters were supposed to be able to take to the sky within 15 minutes of being ordered to do so, NORAD claimed it was unable to respond unless it was warned more than an hour (or does he mean 99 minutes?) in advance!

http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/essayairdefense.html



The day you show me a Boeing 757 attacking the # 1 defence facility in the whole world (pentagon)9:40 am,84 videos surounded the pentagon, nearly an hour after the first attack on the WTC 8:46am.

I may concede to everybody that a Boeing 757 attacked the pentagon,if there was any pictures of it, but with 84 cameras surrounding the pentagon and the FBI admitting that none of the 84 videos that surround the pentagon shows that a boeing 757 attacked the pentagon i don't think i will ever have to concede this point to anybody but just in case if there was a picture of a boeing 757 attacking the pentagon.....I would ask how in the world did the # 1 defence facility(pentagon) in the whole world get attack by a commercial boeing 757 nearly an hour after a supposed commercial airliner attacked the WTC.

The only logical answer for this is that the Bush/PNAC adm. order the US airforce to STANDDOWN.
And purposley let the pentagon get attack and blame others.
Thats what you call a false flag operation and false flag operations have been conducted throughout history but this one happened on my watch and i refuse to stick my head in the sand while knowing that under the Bush/PNAC adm. that its gonna get worse with each passing day and the only way to stop it is to expose the 9-11 truth.

Now if there was no sudden total collaspe
or if they had not fallen on there own footprint
and had not fallen at free fall speed or the collaspe
was not so total and had there not been great quantities of molten steel or had the firemen of the day not told the world that they saw and heard (boom boom boom) explosives going off.

You mabey could argue that the WTC was not brought down by controlled demolition

But because

the collapses began suddenly. Steel, if weakened by fire, would gradually begin to sag. But as one can see from videos available on the Web,72 all three buildings are completely motionless up to the moment they begin to collapse.

and

if these huge buildings had toppled over, they would have caused enormous death and destruction. But they came straight down. This straight-down collapse is the whole point of the type of controlled demolition called implosion, which only a few companies in the world can perform.

and

with these buildings collapsed at virtually free-fall speed, which means that the lower floors, with all their steel and concrete, were offering no resistance to the upper floors.

and

as mentioned earlier, the collapses were total collapses, resulting in piles of rubble only a few stories high. This means that the enormous steel columns in the core of each building had to be broken into rather short segments---which is what explosives do.

and

great quantities of molten steel were produced, which means that the steel had been heated up to several thousand degrees. Witnesses during the clean-up reported, moreover, that sometimes when a piece of steel was lifted out of the rubble, molten metal would be dripping from the end.

and

according to many fire fighters, medical workers, journalists, and World Trade Center employees, many explosions went off before and after the collapses. For example, Fire Captain Dennis Tardio, speaking of the south tower, said: "I hear an explosion and I look up. It is as if the building is being imploded, from the top floor down, one after another, boom, boom, boom." Firefighter Richard Banaciski said: "It seemed like on television [when] they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions." Thanks to the release in August of 2005 of the oral histories recorded by the Fire Department of New York shortly after 9/11, dozens of testimonies of this type are now available. I have published an essay on them, which will be included---along with an essay on "The Destruction of the World Trade Center," which I am here summarizing---in a forthcoming book on 9/11 and Christian faith.

and

another feature of controlled implosions is the production of large quantities of dust. In the case of the Twin Towers, virtually everything except the steel---all the concrete, desks, computers---was pulverized into very tiny dust particles.

The WTC came down do to controlled implosions

Peace,pw
with help from David Ray Griffin


http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060405112622982
PermalinkPermalink 09/14/06 @ 10:07
Comment from: Judge Smails [Visitor]
pw,

I won't call you a nut; I'll simply say that you aren't very bright.

Have a great day, you sheeple.
PermalinkPermalink 09/14/06 @ 10:21
Comment from: 0cranky1 [Visitor]
PW... don't drink the bong water!!!!
The colapse of the tower's (pancaking as described by an expert structural engineer on 20/20)was due to the weaking of the main INNER support columns. Those most affected by the heat of a fire started by Jet fuel once the Aircraft slammed into the towers.
The outer columns are not structurally supportive as the inner main columns are and so as the inner ones weakened and buckled, the weight of the floors above could not longer be supported. Since the columns are not one continuous length, but assembled from smaller sections, it stands to reason that as the weight above became too much for the columns to support in their weakened conditions. A domino effect of cascading increasing weight, and inability of the next lower section being able to support that weight, caused the ultimate collapse!
Whew.. that took a lot outta me.. OK maybe yer right, I thought I saw Dick Cheney and his Haliburton cronies scaling the towers planting explosives!
What size tin-foil hat do you wear?
PermalinkPermalink 09/15/06 @ 06:54
Comment from: Alex [Visitor]
Most of these crackpots couldn't keep a job at the local burger joint, but now all of a sudden thay are experts in the fields of structural engineering, architecture, controlled demolition, sophisticated aerial defenses and military science. What they are are experts in the field of unintended comedy.
PermalinkPermalink 09/15/06 @ 08:42
Comment from: Judge Smails [Visitor]
Generally speaking, having a penchant for conspiracy theories is a characteristic born of ignorance.

For instance, take the conspiracies involving the assassination of J.F.K. The truth is that every assertion of the conspiracy theorists has been refuted by modern science and investigation. "Why, what about the 'magic bullet'?" say the conspiracy theorists. Well, it's a funny thing about that magic bullet. The notion that the round would have had to have taken a number of turns in order to strike the president and Gov. Connolly the way in which it did is predicated on the idea that the latter was sitting directly in front of the former. And that certainly is the way it was portrayed in Oliver Stone's movie about the event.

In reality, however, while the governor was seated in front of Kennedy, he was also THREE inches lower and SIX inches to the left of the president, as this was the way the seats were situated in that make and model vehicle. And once you factor this into the equation, it becomes apparent that the bullet's trajectory was EXACTLY as it should have been. It turns out that it wasn't so magic after all.

Oh, I'll also mention that when Stone was asked about this reckless disregard for the truth, he justified it by citing "artistic license."

What a good liberal, huh? He'll never let the facts get in the way of good propaganda.
PermalinkPermalink 09/15/06 @ 12:21
Comment from: Alex [Visitor]
Judge Smails, What the conspiracy kooks can't understand is that sometimes some very unlikely things actually do happen. Concerning the JFK murder, immediately after it happened I was very skeptical of the contention that Lee Harvey Oswald, a man who had failed to even qualify on the rifle range at the lowest level, could have fired three shots from a $19 bolt-action riflefrom the sixth floor of a building at a moving target in a few seconds and hit his target with all three. Since nothing could refute it, I accepted the finding. That is something which the kooks refuse to do. Instead they dream up some crackpot reasons to assure themselves that Bush did it. The Muslim fanatics simply got lucky, for lack of a better word, when the WTC towers collapsed after being struck by the aircraft. Nobody, not even the architects and structural engineers who worked on those buildings, had any idea that that would be the result of the attacks. What was virtually impossible happened.
PermalinkPermalink 09/16/06 @ 17:00
Comment from: Judge Smails [Visitor]
Yes, Alex, in fact, it even was said that Bin Laden (who is an engineer)himself was surprised that the towers collapsed.

Concerning Oswald, I'm not sure what the genesis of the notion that he was a poor shot was, but his marksmanship was addressed in a recent documentary about the assassination. (It was on one of the channels that show documentaries, such as TLC and Discovery; I don't remember its title, however.) They actually produced his marksmanship books from the military, and they show conclusively that he was not only a competent shot but a sharp-shooter. It's a fascinating work, as it uses modern science, when necessary, to ferret out the truth behind the event.
PermalinkPermalink 09/16/06 @ 21:56
Comment from: Concerned Filipino [Visitor]
Just keep talking to each other, sheeple. Amazing how you misuse the word. For openly accepting the US government's version and closin your mind to other versions, doesn't that make you the sheep, or am I the only one who can see that? Oh, and by the way, didn't I see the two of you already at worldgolf? Boy, you guys should really get out of the basement and contribute to the world somehow.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/06 @ 11:55

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