Racial Issues? De-Juiced Balls?

Racial Issues
I was watching SportsCenter this morning when they showed a clip of one of the Duke Lacrosse players walking into the court building place. (yes, I have the vocab skills of a 7-year-old) They were a bunch of bunch of activists there from what was described as a Black Panther group taunting him. From what I've heard, this attack was in no way racially motivated. I could be wrong, but I have yet to hear that being tossed around. Yes, it was a black girl that got (allegedly) raped. But that doesn't mean it was racial. They could just of easily raped a white girl. But because it was a black girl and white guys, it suddenly becomes a race issue and all kinds of groups have to jump in. If it had been a white girl and black guys, would it be acceptable for the local KKK chapter to show up and taunt them? And if the white girl had gotten raped, do you think we'd be having rallies about white-on-white crime?
Now then, if it turns out that this was a racially-based event, then nevermind. The Black Panther guys have every right to be there making their accusations. But that's a big if at this point.
It just seems to me that any time a crime occurs that involves a white person and a minority, it's suddenly a racial issue. Just because a minority was involved, doesn't mean that had anything to do with it. Maybe the aggressor wasn't a bigot and just views everyone as an equal target. If you're going to rape a stripper, do you really have to care what color she is? Of course not.
I will say this...the minorities have every right to be wary in American. We have a long history of abuse towards minorities here. Slavery being the most blatant. But we've put down Native Americans, Irish, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, you name it. Any other group that comes here is liable to be hated by some group of idiots here. So I can understand their concern. But they just need to be a little more careful about when they start making their blanket acqusations. Take a little time and try to figure out if it was a racial issue before the protests start. Otherwise, you just water-down the effects. We'll never know which rallies are legit and which ones are just a reflex. I want to be supportive, I just don't want to jump to conclusions about people.

De-Juiced Balls
I read a funny conspiracy theory yesterday. It was presented as a joke, but it's still funny. It involves Bonds and the newly marked baseballs from MLB. His numbers, while never good, have greatly dropped off since hitting #713. Which coincides with MLB using the specially marked baseballs to commemerate #714. So the theory is that MLB had the balls de-juiced, making it even harder for him to hit them out. Personally, I think it'd be funny if it was true. Selig doing something so clearly unethical and immoral to get back at a player who blatantly cheated and lied about it. He used steriods and admitted it. Didn't know what he was putting on/in his body. Bullshit. No pro athelete just blindly uses a product like that. Their bodies are their whole lives. I can go to work cripled and injuried. Atheletes can't. I just don't believe a word coming out of his fat, juiced-up mouth. Jerk.

New Computer
Well, the new PC is up and running smoothly. I still need to get a few 64-bit drivers, but everything works. I did mess up the drive partitioning, but that's not a big deal. We set aside 40GB to be used for all the set-up stuff, then didn't set up Windows correctly to use it. I *may* just completely scrap it and start over. I have to get my own version of XP-64, as M'Soft has blocked people from using in on multiple PCs. So when I get that I may just start over. I really don't have alot of things loaded up on here, so it wouldn't be so bad. Probably a good 1/2 day job, but that's not bad considering it'll make me happy forever. And really drive home that learning experience.
Okay, my DSL keeps getting interrupted by this lightning storm, so I'm out. I'll just watch the BoSox, have a few adult beverages, and go to bed early to get ready for tomorrows festivities. Festivities which will be documented here.
PEACE!!