Jason Pierre-Paul of New York Giants -- Blood will be spilled vs. Dallas Cowboys - ESPN New York

Really?!?!

"We're going to put it on them, man. I'm pretty sure.......?!?!?

I like JPP, but seriously Dude ?!?

First off, talking trash when you're 4-6 is somehow inherently stupid.

Secondly, I don't think Ali would have been Ali, if he had blathered

"I AM THE GREATEST!! I AM PRETTY SURE ABOUT THAT...."

from ESPN New York:
Jason Pierre-Paul of New York Giants -- Blood will be spilled vs. Dallas Cowboys - ESPN New York:

"We're going to put it on them, man," Pierre-Paul said after the Giants' 27-13 victory over the Green Bay Packers, in which he returned an interception 24 yards for a touchdown. "I'm pretty sure the offense is going to get going. The defense is going to get going even more. And the special teams will contribute to it.

"It's going to be a fight. It's going to be a dogfight. There's going to be a lot of blood spilled out there."

'via Blog this'

Oh, OK my bad. Maybe you are supposed to talk trash before you're sure certain about the trash you're spewing. Hey, WDIK????

I guess some version of the following is my fall back response to all this nonsense -- a quote attributed to Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln among others -- but as we see below, its wisdom is as old and authoritative as the Bible in some fashion.

from the quoteinvestigator.com:
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/

Quote Investigator: There is a biblical proverb that expresses a similar idea, namely Proverbs 17:28. Here is the New International Version followed by the King James Version of this verse: 1

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

HOW ABOUT THAT?!?!? 

Seriously JPP, just shut up and play!!! You guys are 4-6 and not that far removed from 0-6. It's enough fun for the Cowboys beating the Giants -- and vice-versa -- without adding the fuel of shoving your words right back down your pie hole to the fire of this rivalry.

The Language of Sports...Trash-Talking??

It is difficult to talk about a topic such as the language of sports and not touch upon the growth, prevalence and even the acceptance of trash-talking in sports. It has in recent years risen to an admired and reviled practice depending on the observer. Trash-talking is defined as the practice of boasting or insulting an opponent during a game. Many sports, especially at the youth and high-school levels, have formal rules discouraging and penalizing trash-talking with so-called "no taunting" rules.

Proponents of trash-talking see it as basically a harmless device to give players a mental or psychological edge over their opponents. It's the "getting in his head" method used to throw an opponent off his game. Some players and coaches accept it as not only an effective form of gamesmanship, but a little bit of showmanship as well.

Opponents feel that it has led to a progressive decline in the level of sportsmanship in particular and a general decrease in civility in society at large. Philosophically, it has become a battle of old-school vs. new-wave.

Another divide among coaches, players and spectators is the question of "does trash-talking even work"? Is it effective? Some think that it is a mere temporary distraction and that playing the game well is the best way to get in opponents heads and negatively change their game.

Others feel that it can rock an opponent, especially when you get them down in the score. By contrast, a team that relies on trash-talking as a psychological method has nothing to fall back on when they are behind; the opponent merely has to point at the scoreboard.

Historically, the practice seems to have evolved from the rise of Muhammad Ali from a counter-culture, anti-establishment figure to a popular iconic figure. Winning certainly helped bring about acceptance and many athletes tolerate the practice as part of the competitive atmosphere with the logic that "it's OK if you can back it up".

It is interesting that some point to the biblical story of David slaying Goliath as an example of one of the first trash-talkers. Before his battle, David is documented to have "taunted" his opponent with the warning "I will strike you down and cut off your head".

I don't believe that this was the example that ushered in more widespread social acceptance of the practice--any more than the success Ali, Reggie Jackson or any other athlete--but it is still more acceptable in some sports than others.

Sports like baseball and hockey have a self-policing mechanism in place to deal with players who step too far off the sportsmanship reservation. In individual sports or sports where contact is discouraged to a greater degree, the burden falls to the rule-makers and enforcers to decide the level of sportsmanship that will be tolerated.

It's definitely been a phenomenon that has grown across the sports landscape over the last generation. Time will tell where it goes in the future.

LANGUAGE - Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. - Ephesians 4:29

WAFA SULTAN - AMAZING VIDEO

Heads Up to the blog site Carpe Diem for this video (they are a favorite!!). You have to wonder why this Al-Jazeera offering does not find it's way to CNN or any of the mainstream media outlets (interesting, even provocative). Perhaps Ron Paul, and anyone else who would say "we need to understand why Muslims hate America", should give this one a look. And then come back and tell me if you understand the issues that Ms. Sultan is articulating. I know somebody's compass is way off on this issue, I just don't happen to think it is hers. - TheSlav
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafa_Sultan

Wafa Sultan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wafa Sultan (Arabic: وفاء سلطان) (born 1958, Damascus, Syria) a Syrian-born American psychiatrist and a vocal critic of Islam.

Life and career

Sultan was born in Damascus to an Alawi family.[1]She resides in Los Angeles, California. She emigrated to the United States in 1989, and is now a naturalized citizen. Sultan has become notable since the September 11, 2001 attacks for her participation in Middle East political debates, with Arabic essays that circulated widely and some television appearances on Al-Jazeera and CNN.

On February 21, 2006, she took part in Al Jazeera's weekly 90-minute discussion program The Opposite Direction. She spoke from Los Angeles, arguing with host Faisal al-Qassem and with Ibrahim Al-Khouli about Samuel P. Huntington's Clash of Civilizations theory. A six minute composite video of her remarks was subtitled and widely circulated by MEMRI on weblogs and through e-mail. In this video she scolded Muslims for treating non-Muslims differently and for not recognizing the accomplishments of non-Muslim society, while using its wealth and technology.

The New York Times estimated that the video of her appearance was viewed at least one million times as it spread via weblogs and email.[2] Sultan revealed to the Times that she is working on a book to be called The Escaped Prisoner: When God Is a Monster.


Political views

Sultan describes her thesis as witnessing "a battle between modernity and barbarism which Islam will lose". It has brought her telephone threats,[3] but also praise from reformers. Her comments, especially a pointed criticism that "no Jew has blown himself up in a German restaurant", brought her an invitation to Jerusalem by the American Jewish Congress.

Sultan believes that "The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam [is] also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force."[citation needed] In a discussion with Ahmad bin Muhammad, she said: "It was these teachings that distorted this terrorist and killed his humanity".[4]

Sultan said she was shocked into secularism by the 1979 atrocities committed by Islamic extremists of the Muslim Brotherhood against innocent Syrian people, including the machine-gun assassination of her professor, Yusef al Yusef,[citation needed] an ophthalmologist renowned beyond Syria, in her classroom in front of her eyes at the University of Aleppo where she was a medical student. "They shot hundreds of bullets into him, shouting, 'God is great!' " she said. "At that point, I lost my trust in their god and began to question all our teachings. It was the turning point of my life, and it has led me to this present point. I had to leave. I had to look for another god."[citation needed]

Riyad Asfari, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Aleppo, stated in an interview that the assassination took place off campus, and that no one had ever been killed anywhere at the university. Asfari's comment was also confirmed by Syrian expatriates Adnan Halabi and Ghada Moezzin. Moezzin, who attended the University of Aleppo in 1979, commented "We would’ve known about the killing if it had happened. It would have been big news on campus and I do not recall ever hearing about it." Moezzin added that government security was always present around the university at the time.[5]

Awards and recognitions

In 2006 Wafa Sultan was named in Time Magazine in a list of 100 influential people in the world "whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world."[6] Time stated that "Sultan's influence flows from her willingness to express openly critical views on Islamic extremism that are widely shared but rarely aired by other Muslims."[6] In this interview she still described herself as a Muslim: "I even don't believe in Islam, but I am a Muslim."[6]