This is the one thousandth post on my two public blogs and it has nothing to say. Expect post number 2000 in mid to late 2009.=-
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A fairly regular look into my life, my thoughts, my observations, my circumstances, my wishes, my dreams, my prayers, and the wonderful and good people in my life... and then the not so good and destructive people, elements, institutions, and entities in our own community, in society, and on our planet... My public policy observations and opinions can now be found on my other blog, Mountain Time Zone Perspective.
The National Basketball Association is a subject that I have nothing but scorn and disgust for. This entity has clearly and broadly declined in all aspects in the last decade to two decades as the quality of players on issues of character and professionalism has reached lows in every way. There are virtually no white caucasian Americans in the sport. Among the more evident factors of the league's demise on the playing court and off include a strikingly poor quality of play; lack of fundamentals and teamwork; the emphasis on the individual with all the showing-off and hotdogging with no sportsmanship; the widespread poor character, misbehavior, immorality, and criminality displayed by players across the league; and the very image of the players themselves that openly encourages and supports criminal, immoral, abusive, and irresponsible behaviors and actions by impressionable children, teenagers, and young adults that follow the NBA on many levels. Management and ownership in the NBA are without souls and personify evil on a wide spectrum. The player that best exemplifies this disgusting trend is the rapist Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers, who several years ago used his wealth, power, and influence to stop the prosecution of a heinous ugly crime that he clearly committed, and then paid off the victim and all witnesses to further end the case and cease further discussion and investigation into it. This is among the most ugly and immoral distortions of the criminal justice system outside of from corporations and government officials ever. At least OJ Simpson stood trial for his crimes and only got off due to the arrogance, pride, greed, and blundering by police officials and attorneys from the Los Angeles District Attorneys Office. Bryant should be in the penitentary in Canon City about one-fifth of the way through his long sentence. The corruption and immorality of most of the players and management of this sports league is why I will never watch or follow this organization. Hopefully it will fail in due time. Satan and the anti-Christ indeed is clearly among us Americans and his name is Kobe Bryant.
At an elevation near 6,200 feet above sea level, Colorado Springs is located in relatively flat semi–arid country on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. Immediately to the west the mountains rise abruptly to heights ranging from 10,000 to 14,000 feet but generally averaging near 11,000 feet. To the east lie gently undulating prairie lands. The land slopes upward to the north, reaching an average height of about 8,000 feet in 20 miles at the top of Palmer Lake Divide and Monument Hill.
Colorado Springs is in the Arkansas River drainage basin. The principal tributary feeding the Arkansas from this area is Fountain Creek which rises in the high mountains west of the city and is fed by Monument Creek originating to the north in the Palmer Lake Divide area.
Other topographical features of the area, and particularly its wide range of elevations, help to give Colorado Springs the various and altogether delightful plains and mountain mixture of climate that has established the locality as a highly desirable place to live.
The higher elevations immediately to the west and north of the city produce significant differences in temperature and precipitation. Precipitation amounts at these higher elevations are approximately twice those at nearby lower elevations and the number of rainy days is almost triple.
In Colorado Springs itself, precipitation is relatively sparse. Over 80 percent of it falls between April 1 and September 30, mostly as heavy downpours accompanying summer thunderstorms.
Temperatures, in view of the station latitude and elevation, are mild. Uncomfortable extremes, in either summer or winter, are comparatively rare and of short duration. Relative humidity is normally low and wind movement moderately high. This is notably true of the west–to–east movement of the chinook winds, that cause rapid rises in winter temperatures and remind us that the Indian meaning of CHINOOK is SNOW EATER.
The growing season varies considerably in length but averages from the first week in May to the first week of October.