In His Will, Dean Smith Left Every Former Player of His $200 to Enjoy a Good Meal

Dean Smith. Legend.  Not really much else to say here.  Such a savvy move from one of the greatest coaches to ever live.  Sneaky dig at the NCAA, legitimate appreciation for his guys.  Love every bit of it.  Almost two months after he dies the guy is still putting on a clinic in the dick swingin' department.  


Q:   Who is the only person who could keep Michael Jordan from scoring 20?


A:   Dean Smith.


That's alpha and omega type shit.  You wanna talk about presence?  Try reigning in one of the most arrogant, competitive, demanding athletes in the history of sports without hearing so much as a peep from him in college.  Nothing, Nada, Zilch. Dean Smith owned his gym and very few will ever match the type of influence he had on the game of basketball as a whole.  RIP

California Named Number One State for Business, Not Really Shocking Because We Sorta Dominate in Most Categories

Source - There are plenty of reasons to presume that California must be a bad place to do business. The Tax Foundation says the state's tax structure is the third worst for business in the U.S. Forbes ranks California's business costs fifth highest among the 50 states and its regulatory environment the eighth most burdensome.

Why then does the market, where buyers and sellers determine relative value, show otherwise? California-based companies surpass their competitors in the U.S. by most measures of performance favored by investors.

Since January 2011, when Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr., became governor for the third time, the 63 publicly traded California companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 produced the best total return among the five states with the largest populations. California companies in the S&P 500 delivered returns of 134 percent; the closest big-state challenger was Florida, whose S&P companies had an 82 percent return, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Texas-based companies delivered 52 percent during the period.

The revenue from technology companies may be the most revealing measure of how successfully California business deals with disruption. As of this month, the trailing 12-month revenue of technology companies in the state was $715 billion, or 52 percent of technology company sales in the U.S. New York was No. 2 with 11 percent, followed by Washington's 7 percent, Massachusetts' 4 percent and Virginia's 3 percent.

The exceptional performance of California companies helps explain why (with no official gross domestic product data available yet) the state would have the world's seventh largest economy if it were a country, bigger than Brazil's, which saw its GDP decline in 2014. Here's the rough calculation: Companies based in California grew 4.7 percent during the first three quarters of last year. Using 4.7 percent as a proxy for the growth of the market capitalization of California, the total market cap of the state grew to $2.3 trillion from $2.2 trillion in 2013. (Brazil’s GDP declined 1 percent from $2.25 trillion in the first three quarters of 2014 as its exports of raw materials fell.) As of March 10, 33 California companies are included in the 500 largest companies in the world. At the end of 2009, when the U.S. was recovering from the worst recession since the Great Depression, there were only 24 California companies in the Global 500, according to Bloomberg data.





Call it snobbish, call me a dick, facts are facts.  California just crushing life as per usual.  I'm not saying that I understand what all of that stuff means because believe me I don't, but I definitely like what I'm hearing.  More productive, better work, accounting for over half of the technology company sales in the entire county, almost five times as much as second place.  We added 8 new companies to the top 500 in the world list during one of the worst recessions in the history of our country.  Can't stop, won't stop bitches.  Add that to the lost list of accomplishments.  Best weather, best scenery, best nightlife, best food, hottest girls.  And the crazy thing is we are only going to get stronger.  Pretty much every successful tech company aims to make the move out to the west coast, those numbers are only going to continue to grow.  Think about it.  California is the greatest farm system of all time, it just so happens to be for the tech industry.  California is to computers what Cuba is to baseball.  There's just something in the water*.


Pretty crazy that a state full of stoners can produce at such a high level.  It's like watching Doc Ellis throw that no-no while he was zonked out of his skull on LSD.  Every part of this doesn't really make any sense but here we are. 100 years from now California will be so rich that they'll be able to buy the rest of the country if that is even possible.  I saw the word "trillion" and my brain just took over for a minute.














*What little water we have

ISIS is Apparently Teaming Up With Another Group of Crazy Islamic Extremists from Africa

Source - In an audio message purportedly from an ISIS spokesman, the group announced that a pledge of allegiance from Nigerian-based Boko Haram has been accepted by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The 28-minute message, which cannot be independently authenticated by CNN, was posted online by ISIS supporters.

The message says that the caliphate, or Islamic State, has expanded to western Africa and congratulated "our jihadi brothers" there.

The spokesman, Abu Mohammed al Adnani, encourages people to join fighters in Africa if they cannot make it to Iraq or Syria.

Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, announced in an audio message last week that the Islamist terror group was going to ally with ISIS.

Jacob Zenn, a terror expert who lives in Nigeria, told CNN on Saturday the alliance would make sense for both groups.




Now I know what a lot of you guys are probably thinking.  This is trouble.  ISIS teaming up with these nutjobs in Africa is bad news for everyone.  It means they are moving, it means they are expanding, so the fuck what?  This doesn't change a thing about anything.  One small psychotic terrorist organization teaming up with another small psychotic terrorist organization means barely anything in the grand scheme of things.  ISIS is still priority one.  They publicized the alliance as an intimidation tactic and instead ended up giving us a new hunting ground.

 Seriously though, what is the deal with the public announcement of this alliance?  Am I the only one who thinks that seems like a bush league move for an international terrorist organization.  Kinda desperate really.  Oh look at me I'm ISIS and I'm making alliances with a group whose name translated into english means "Western Education is sin."  That's cool. Western education might be sin, but it's also a really big part of why western culture has things like running water, electricity and the internet.  Not just a few of us either, I'm talking like everyone.  

I'm sorry but I just can't take a group seriously when they go to war in flip flops.  






PS - It's probably just dirt but all I could think about when I looked at their sandals/feet was Ashy Larry.  That racist?  LMK.

Clippers Status: Fourth Quarter Update

Right now we are essentially 75% done with the NBA regular season.  This is where the playoff picture comes to form.  Right now, we are sitting in the middle of the pack with the 5 seed.

In an ideal world, we manage to stay around 4-5 and meet up against Houston or Portland in the first round.  We can control the ball with CP3 and overpower the smaller Houston front court.  Yes, Dwight is huge but so is Deandre Jordan, and Blake Griffin versus Terrence Jones is not even a real debate.  Portland is the same story.  Too big, too strong, too easy.

I want to say we match up well with the Spurs too, but they are just one of those teams that can turn it on in the playoffs.  They play team basketball, they have depth, and they have the best coach in the league.  I know better than that, the Spurs are an absolute threat, Dallas on the other hand is not.  For whatever reason, the Rondo trade doesn't seem to be having any positive impact on the Mavs.  As far as I'm concerned, us against them is a no brainer.  We walk all over them.  Dirk will get worn out by the athleticism of our bigs, he's too old to bang with guys like D and Blake.  Rondo is manageable, Chandler Parsons hasn't done anything to 'wow' me since he got paid, and even if he had, Matt Barnes can hold him in check.

And despite being the current 8 seed, OKC scares the living shit out of me.  Russell Westbrook has been playing pretty well the last few weeks, he got the team back to their winning ways in February, but they are still playing without Kevin Durant.  After the development of Kevin Durant last year in Westbrook's absence and the current evolution of Westbrook himself, the idea of those two together on the court in the postseason is a bone chilling thought.  Two of the most ruthless assassins basically giving it one last push for a title.  Russell will be off to succeed Kobe as the heir to the Laker throne and KD supposedly is interested in heading back home.  Assuming they are together for the playoffs, watch out.

But, in reality, seeds 3-7 are all separated by 3.5 games so it's a total crap shoot.  It looks okay for now, but something tells me we will get stuck with the Spurs to kick it all off.  We can definitely beat them.  We have the size, depth, and athleticism.  And with Chris running point and controlling the tempo of the game, that takes a little wind out of their sails.  At this point, it's all theoretical anyways.

A Couple Immigrants Threw Out 400 Pounds of Weed While the Cops Chased Them and Caught it on Camera

Source - A dash-cam video released by Arizona’s Pinal County sheriff shows officers in high-speed pursuit of a white 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer. Someone inside is tossing bales of marijuana from the car’s window not just once, but over and over and over again.

Exceeding speeds of more than 100 mph, the car chase ended after deputies deployed spike strips, forcing the suspects to continue on foot before being taken into custody, according to the sheriff’s office. The suspects, identified as Mario Perez-Paz and Juan Aguilar-Zavala, indicated to police that they were offered $1,000 by a woman to drive the car to pick up “unknown packages.” Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said in a statement: “These foreign drug smugglers try to outrun our deputies and even throw bales of marijuana from their vehicle. We caught these criminals who put our deputies and our local citizens in harm’s way and now they will go to prison for their crimes.”

A total of 374 pounds of marijuana was recovered from the road, but four or five other vehicles took the opportunity to stop and grab bales for themselves. Those bales were not recovered, the sheriff’s office said.




Lots of criminal related stuff today.  Death penalties, immigrants chucking giant bricks of weed out of windows.  Whole world is going to hell.  Just as an added note, having a white Chevy Trailblazer is basically like shouting from the rooftops that you are somehow involved in illegal shit.  Such a scumbag car.  But not bad scumbag.  I'm talking good scumbag, like degenerate burnout scummy.  Not like rapey scummy.  Come on guys.

Also, I think we need more detail about the personal thoughts of the "suspects" while this whole fiasco was occuring.  Were Mario and Juan ditching this shit because they were afraid of the drug charges, or were they trying to get rid of it to make the cops stop?  Seriously think about it, what's worse - getting caught with 400 pounds of pot or being an illegal immigrant in the state of Arizona?  That is legitimately a great question.  Arizona despises illegal immigrants.  And weed is getting more and more legal as we speak.  













PS - I would bet all the money in the world that Juan was the one throwing heat out the back window.  Whoever it was, they were flat out slingin' 'em.  Mario's can't throw like that, they just can't.  Driving 100+ mph and dodging traffic, on the other hand, is the perfect job for a Mario.

Utah to Become the Only State to Allow Firing Squad to Carry out the Death Penalty

Source - Lawmakers have passed a bill that would make Utah the only state to allow firing squads for carrying out a death penalty if there is a shortage of execution drugs.

The passage of the bill by the state Senate on Tuesday comes as states struggle to obtain lethal injection drugs amid a nationwide shortage.

The bill's sponsor, Republican Rep. Paul Ray of Clearfield, touted the measure as being a more humane form of execution. Ray argued that a team of trained marksmen is faster and more humane than the drawn-out deaths that have occurred in botched lethal injections.

The bill gives Utah options, he said. "We would love to get the lethal injection worked out so we can continue with that but if not, now we have a backup plan," Ray told The Associated Press.

Opponents, however, said firing squads are a cruel holdover from the state's wild West days and will earn the state international condemnation. "I think Utah took a giant step backward," said Ralph Dellapiana, director of Utahns for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. He called firing squads "a relic of a more barbaric past."

Utah is one of several states to seek out new forms of capital punishment after a botched Oklahoma lethal injection last year and one in Arizona that took nearly two hours for the condemned man to die. Legislation to allow firing squads has been introduced in Arkansas this year. In Wyoming, a measure to allow firing squads if the lethal drugs aren't available died. In Oklahoma, lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow the state to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates.



Check out Utah trying to swing some dick over here.  So itchy to kill motherfuckers that they are trying to reinstate illegal forms of execution.  Whenever I think of Utah it's just Mormons and skiing, and then there's the Olympics but it just jumps back to skiing.  So weird to see the other side of it all.  The side where they are actively pursuing new and improved ways to end the lives of the world's worst.  Turns out Utah is basically just Texas with snow and mountains and stuff.  And instead of football they have The Church of Latter Day Saints.  Instead of Roger Staubach, they have Joseph Smith.  I get it now.  Same dynamic, different focus.  Still not sure about Mormons, no legitimate distaste them, just wary is all.  I feel like you gotta keep you head on a swivel around a Mormon.

The bigger issue here might be the fact that we are experiencing a nationwide lethal drug shortage.  That just flat out is not true whatsoever.  People are dying from drugs literally all over the place.  Every hour of every day of every week of every month of the year.  Why not just take all of the confiscated heroine that's just sitting in evidence (according to both television and movies) and dope those suckers up.  It's basically like morphine right?  Wouldn't it be painless?  Did I just solve the crisis?  Where do I pick up my medal?