Usual suspects gathered around the pool this morning, waiting for the sun to rise with a blanket wrapped around our shoulders. Our three dogs racing around the yard chasing the sleep away.
We are confused.
While waiting for our tea to brew, we made the mistake of turning the television on to catch up on what's happening in the world. As I picked up the remote, I heard Bea and BabaMara whispering to each other. Both believed it was a mistake; both were right.
Never start your week off with Domestic Violence vs NFL sanctions....it's ain't right!
Every channel was showing the video of Baltimore Raven Running Back Ray Rice punching the lights out of his then fiance, Janay Palmer. He knocked her unconscious in an elevator and then, instead of getting down on the floor to make sure she was okay, he drags her out of the elevator.
I'm not sure if the average public is aware that all NFL players except Kickers and Quarterbacks are required to lift 225 pounds but the average Running Back lifts between 340 and 360. Can you imagine the kind of wallop those arms can deliver? Ms. Palmer is probably, tops, 150. She is unconscious and the man engaged to "love and honor" her for the rest of her life drags her out of the elevator instead of lifting her and carrying her out to get help.
The Ravens and NFL suspend the poor guy for two games....boy, that'll teach him! That makes a statement to the world, doesn't it?
This morning the Ravens are saying they didn't see the whole video! They only saw the part of Ms. Palmer laying on the ground, unconscious, with her feet in the elevator door way, while RB Rice paces around. (Do you wonder what was going through his head as his fiance lay unconscious, "Someone call a doctor"? or "Honey, I am so sorry, please be okay"? or "OMG, I've really lost her this time"? or maybe, "Get up, Bitch, before someone sees you and Coach slaps my wrist for being a bad boy"?
Apparently, the world that says it's okay for the good ol' boys in Congress to grab a Congresswoman's belly who has just had a baby and tell her she's getting fat or he likes his women with a little meat on them; the world where female Senators and Congresswomen know which of their workmates to avoid getting on an elevator with; the world that puts rape victims of "asking for it" by the clothes they wear, is up in arms because Roger Goddell, NFL Comissioner only suspended Rice for two games.
By the way, the suspension was only for two "season games". Rice participated in pre-season games and training camp. Goddell is ashamed of the "slap on the wrist" penalty and promises to do better. Any player commtting acts of Domestic Violence in the future will receive at the very least a 6 game suspension to a lifetime ban in the NFL! Six games to a lifetime ban. Now that's what I call a spread!
I wonder if the "or lifetime ban" was some PR person's last minute, "Hey, add this, it'll sound like we mean business!"
So, Rice sat out a game this week, still worked out with the team, still gets paid (just not for game day) and the poor fellow will sit out next week, too.
We saw the pictures of Ray Rice looking "remorseful" albeit a little smile bespeaks more of his entitlement than remorse. It appears that Rice's record of DV will be expunged once he finishes a diversion program, so, most likely, the only fine he will have to pay is the two game suspension and a $500,000 NFL fine.
By the way, Rice received $15,000,000 sign on bonus and his average annual salary is $7,000,000. I bet that $500,000 really hurts.
Tom Sims, a comedian out of Arizona once commented, "I heard that women are attracted to bad boys, so every once in a while, I throw a recyclable item into the regular garbage."
That's my kind of bad boy.
The part of this whole thing that we are confused about this morning is the pictures on the reports. It makes us want to cry. The violence of the attack in the elevator, the dragging of an unconscious woman and, mostly, the picture of Ray Rice sitting at a table afterwards, with a little-boy smile on his face, a huge diamond in his ear, in his high end suit, sitting next to his wife. Her head is down, staring at the table, looking lost, Mrs. Janay Rice, the former Ms. Janay Palmer.
That's the part we just don't get.
We are confused.
While waiting for our tea to brew, we made the mistake of turning the television on to catch up on what's happening in the world. As I picked up the remote, I heard Bea and BabaMara whispering to each other. Both believed it was a mistake; both were right.
Never start your week off with Domestic Violence vs NFL sanctions....it's ain't right!
Every channel was showing the video of Baltimore Raven Running Back Ray Rice punching the lights out of his then fiance, Janay Palmer. He knocked her unconscious in an elevator and then, instead of getting down on the floor to make sure she was okay, he drags her out of the elevator.
I'm not sure if the average public is aware that all NFL players except Kickers and Quarterbacks are required to lift 225 pounds but the average Running Back lifts between 340 and 360. Can you imagine the kind of wallop those arms can deliver? Ms. Palmer is probably, tops, 150. She is unconscious and the man engaged to "love and honor" her for the rest of her life drags her out of the elevator instead of lifting her and carrying her out to get help.
The Ravens and NFL suspend the poor guy for two games....boy, that'll teach him! That makes a statement to the world, doesn't it?
This morning the Ravens are saying they didn't see the whole video! They only saw the part of Ms. Palmer laying on the ground, unconscious, with her feet in the elevator door way, while RB Rice paces around. (Do you wonder what was going through his head as his fiance lay unconscious, "Someone call a doctor"? or "Honey, I am so sorry, please be okay"? or "OMG, I've really lost her this time"? or maybe, "Get up, Bitch, before someone sees you and Coach slaps my wrist for being a bad boy"?
Apparently, the world that says it's okay for the good ol' boys in Congress to grab a Congresswoman's belly who has just had a baby and tell her she's getting fat or he likes his women with a little meat on them; the world where female Senators and Congresswomen know which of their workmates to avoid getting on an elevator with; the world that puts rape victims of "asking for it" by the clothes they wear, is up in arms because Roger Goddell, NFL Comissioner only suspended Rice for two games.
By the way, the suspension was only for two "season games". Rice participated in pre-season games and training camp. Goddell is ashamed of the "slap on the wrist" penalty and promises to do better. Any player commtting acts of Domestic Violence in the future will receive at the very least a 6 game suspension to a lifetime ban in the NFL! Six games to a lifetime ban. Now that's what I call a spread!
I wonder if the "or lifetime ban" was some PR person's last minute, "Hey, add this, it'll sound like we mean business!"
So, Rice sat out a game this week, still worked out with the team, still gets paid (just not for game day) and the poor fellow will sit out next week, too.
We saw the pictures of Ray Rice looking "remorseful" albeit a little smile bespeaks more of his entitlement than remorse. It appears that Rice's record of DV will be expunged once he finishes a diversion program, so, most likely, the only fine he will have to pay is the two game suspension and a $500,000 NFL fine.
By the way, Rice received $15,000,000 sign on bonus and his average annual salary is $7,000,000. I bet that $500,000 really hurts.
Tom Sims, a comedian out of Arizona once commented, "I heard that women are attracted to bad boys, so every once in a while, I throw a recyclable item into the regular garbage."
That's my kind of bad boy.
The part of this whole thing that we are confused about this morning is the pictures on the reports. It makes us want to cry. The violence of the attack in the elevator, the dragging of an unconscious woman and, mostly, the picture of Ray Rice sitting at a table afterwards, with a little-boy smile on his face, a huge diamond in his ear, in his high end suit, sitting next to his wife. Her head is down, staring at the table, looking lost, Mrs. Janay Rice, the former Ms. Janay Palmer.
That's the part we just don't get.
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