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Last year at this time the world was great; Chandra Levy was still missing, oil and power prices were starting to get out of hand, and there were no big missing children cases anywhere in the United States that I can remember. About a week from now last year, the world was a far cry from normal, two of the most famous buildings in the world had fallen to the ground, and countless people lost their lives - some of whose bodies were never to be found months later.
Right after those events on that eerie day last September, the United States, as well as the entire human population, tried to get back to normal, and live life as it was before that day. It was a struggle. It still is a struggle. It's hard to get back to normal when "The Nation's Pastime" is fighting with itself over money.
After the players in baseball decided to ask for even MORE money than their average 2 million dollars a year salaries entitle them to, many people decided to say, "Ok, that's enough of this shit!" and decided to find something else to occupy their time, most of which costs very little money, and very little shoes and glasses to do so. Sure, some of them may be dumb, pointless, and a waste of time according to your views, but a lot of these actually work in doing what they're supposed to do - PASS TIME! NEW PASTIMES TO PASS TIME
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Cheese Eating
Everyone loves a good cheese. Lacerda says he likes a good cheese, I think Cheez-Itz are great, and you probably think that, too. Even people who are lactose intolerant enjoy a good hunk of cheese every now and then to make their lives more... lively. After the collapse of the Twin Towers last September, many people got depressed, and turned to food for comfort and love. They couldn't turn to the TV for comfort since that would be not much unlike them opening up a door and walking into flames behind that door. So they ate, and they ate. And when they were out of food like potato chips, crackers, raw meat, and whatever else they could find that looked good, they started eating whole blocks of cheese that they just happened to have lying around their house. Sharp, Mild, American, you name it, they ate it. People got so used to the taste of cheese that they now have huge hearty chunks of it everyday, some in their morning Bowles of cereal, some for lunch, and huge slabs of it for dinner. Behold the power of cheese.
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Cheerleading
Have you ever noticed that baseball doesn't have any cheerleaders? That's because cheerleading isn't about money, it's about big Pimp Daddies like Kobe Bryant and Emmit Smith who can "bring home the bacon". After baseball players threatened to rob their fans blind, many of them ran for safety and quickly found something else to entertain them. No, they didn't find cheese eating, they instead found the glory of cheerleading. A real sport that doesn't revolve around money or people grabbing their crotches to "look cool", but instead around big Pimp Daddies like Kobe Bryant or Emmit Smith who can "bring home the bacon". Fans in cheerleading aren't just some number like 48,259 like the fans are to the Yankees, or maybe 1,137 like the fans are to the Expos, in cheerleading you're part of the action. You never know when a cheerleader is going to be thrown out of bounce into the crowd and you have to stop them from hitting the ground and possibly dying. It's action like that that keeps the fans on their toes and itching for another cheerleader to come flying towards them. Personally, I think most fans just have bad cases of what I'd call "wishful thinking". They insist that they are not there to "check out hot chicks", but are there for the action. Whatever.
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Kidnapping
I don't know what it is lately, but it seems like many people have decided to take the "If I can't have it, no one can" path and decided to kidnap a poor little kid from the west whose family has a lot of money, countless photos and video tapes of their child at a park, family reunion, or a funeral and later kill the kid, dumping it on the side of a road, leaving about a billion pieces of evidence that all point back to them. After Chandra Levy went missing more than a year ago, was later found about three months ago and now they don't know who killed her, everyone wants to be like Gary Condit. People know he did it, but the law can't do anything about it since there is nothing pointing back to him. Except, the people that do these amateur kidnappings and kills leave too many pieces of evidence behind and are caught within a month's time. In this case it only takes up a month's time, there is only once chance to do it and "get it right", and there is no second season. I've never engaged in any of the above pastimes, they're far too weird and far too bothersome to actually THINK about doing any of them, besides, why would I want to kidnap someone and then later be caught, or even kidnap someone and never be caught.
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