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Re: Lobo women fall at NMSU and drop third straight game

abqwoman — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:44:51 -0000

Coach Yvonne Sanchez caught the blame for her team's missed free throws. In her first season with Bradbury's record the fans would have been screaming for her to be fired. Now after losing 4 consecutive winnable games, Bradbury is still getting the love. Amazing.

Re: Lobo women place last in Thanksgiving Tournament

abqwoman — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:37:06 -0000

Sad to watch. They are a hard-working bunch and you see the flashes of athleticism and talent, just not consistently from the team working together. Does anybody have the year that they last lost both games in the tournament? I have had season tickets since 1997-98, and I'm sure I have not seen that happen in any of the 19 years I've been going to games.

Their FORMER coach is working at El Dorado High School. She was a class act and some of us fans miss her very much. But Coach Bradbury has a system that has worked for him in the past. He will insist that the players adjust to it rather than he adjust his system to them. As testimony to his commitment to the fast game rather than the power game, he loses two tall post players next season but has 5 smaller guards coming in. This may be hard to watch going forward.

Re: Don’t wear a campaign shirt to the polls in New Mexico

abqwoman — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:27:00 -0000

I'd be so happy if President Obama were running for a third term. Since he is not, I think the order to cover the mural not only is un-informed but also petty.

The school was right to refuse to cover a mural of the current President of the United States.

Re: Local gay bar updates security policy

abqwoman — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:25:21 -0000

I apologize. I reworded my post.

Re: 2 years in prison for man who sent spam to Facebook users

abqwoman — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:59:59 -0000

You're saying that this is a victimless crime? Only the duped Facebook users can agree or disagree. To me it makes sense to prosecute anybody who is a hacker, and hackers deserve jail time. Victims of hackers have lost too much because of these hurtful and unfeeling individuals.

Re: Local gay bar updates security policy

abqwoman — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:40:59 -0000

The victims are not the problem. People who use guns to express their outrage are the problem.

Re: Clinton, Trump take opposite tacks as shooting shakes race

abqwoman — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 08:14:31 -0000

Well, there I see your logic. I say "Any Gun" has no place on our streets. But I'll tone down my argument a notch and say that "Any Gun" has no place in a drinking establishment (but I could make a longer list of places in which guns and poor judgment have an inevitably bad ending). Or maybe overpasses with high fences and guns without bullets increase the odds of one or two more people getting home safely at the end of the day.

At the end of the day, I trust HRC's thinking and I do not trust DT's thinking and, regardless, I stay home as much as possible. Outside my home is a very unsafe world.

Re: Clinton, Trump take opposite tacks as shooting shakes race

abqwoman — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:46:54 -0000

That doesn't sound clueless to me. It sounds sane.

Re: Clinton, Trump take opposite tacks as shooting shakes race

abqwoman — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:28:36 -0000

Let me try again to explain my concern. First, I restate that I think that it is very unfortunate that anybody can own a gun, because anybody can get upset about something, and shouting is then so much less satisfying that shooting.

Moving on ...

Sunday the response to a mass shooting was, "A Muslim did it." Is anybody concerned that 49 gays died because, once again, somebody who hates gays decided that as many as possible should die and a knife or six shooter just wasn't going to mow down as many people as an automatic weapon? Their deaths would have been trivialized if Donald Trump were not fanning the flames of Islamophobia among his supporters.

I have a set of concerns: 1) straight people going into a gay safe haven, 2) guns going into a bar, and 3) the anti-gay repercussions that are inspiring legislation that sends the message that gays have not ceased being fair game for discrimination, therefore the insidious suggestion that gay lives don't matter. To say all of a sudden that the Muslim intolerance of gays is a terrible thing is to ignore the historic American intolerance of gays, which is spoken with as much religious zeal by Baptists as is felt by people who have reverence for Muhammad.

I don't like guns, and I don't like the rationalization for Saturday night's violence as "Muslim" behavior when we all know that Americans are no better when they are outside a Planned Parenthood Clinic, inside a Black prayer meeting, or anywhere near a couple of men who are dancing or holding hands. Omar Mateen's religion doesn't make the crimes of other gay bashers excusable. I repeat, his religion is irrelevant. Why characterize this murderer as an "extremist" and a WASP murderer as "just crazy." Mateen's just another bigot in a country that is full of bigots. If we want to pass judgment on somebody for his or her intolerance, we need look no further than a mirror.

Re: Clinton, Trump take opposite tacks as shooting shakes race

abqwoman — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 21:58:28 -0000

Ah. You get it.

Re: Clinton, Trump take opposite tacks as shooting shakes race

abqwoman — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:16:42 -0000

This was an attack on gays and lesbians. Hate crimes against the LGBT community are not unique to Muslims. The fact that Omar Mateen's parents were born in Afghanistan is irrelevant. More relevant to me is that guns are available to everyone with a beef of some kind.

Re: Army’s gay civilian leader calls his promotion ‘remarkable’

abqwoman — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 10:20:43 -0000

How wonderful it will be when sexuality ceases to be part of any news story. Good for you, Eric!

Re: UNM will no longer host Gathering of Nations

abqwoman — Thu, 05 May 2016 00:57:11 -0000

Puzzling that you got abusive with me for waxing nostalgic regarding the fun I've had watching both men's and women's NIT and NCAA Tournament games in the Pit. I wasn't saying that UNM SHOULD stop hosting the lucrative PBR. I just miss watching basketball at the Sweet Sixteen and Elite 8 level. I know that you must not be ignorant like me, so I'm sure you know that the most famous NCAA Championship game ever (Houston and NC State) took place in The Pit on April 4, 1983. I'm sure you also know that two high points in UNM Women's basketball were witnessed by sellout crowds in The Pit, the WNIT Championship game that UNM lost to Ohio State by one point in 2001 and the team's advance to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 in the Pit in 2003.

Albuquerque is a basketball town and The Pit was built for basketball. But that's my heart talking, not my brain.

Gathering of Nations at the University Arena in the spring is another tradition that will be missed by many. Taking place at the end of April or the beginning of May, it doesn't stomp all over Division 1 basketball tournaments like a PBR Bull. I don't know about expenses or revenue for that extremely large and prestigious event, but I'm sure that the event will thrive wherever it goes.

I thank Jarrod Thomas for the explanation of the finances and logistics for the PBR and the advantage for UNM. I felt less ignorant after reading your post, Jarrod.

Re: UNM will no longer host Gathering of Nations

abqwoman — Wed, 04 May 2016 20:24:22 -0000

I'd rather UNM quit hosting Professional Bull Riding during March Madness.

Re: Police: No charges for man who dumped woman’s body in dumpster

abqwoman — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:40:51 -0000

I hope the family has a civil case. This was wrong. It should be treated seriously. This guy's got to pay for what he did.

Re: UNM hires new women’s basketball coach

abqwoman — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:57:37 -0000

I'm all for supporting Bradbury. But let's not exaggerate the record of Yvonne Sanchez as too overly dismal. Her first year, most of the time with only 7 players, she had an 11-20 record but took the team to the championship game of the tournament. Three of the next four years were winning seasons, but they were not enough to dig out of the hole that the team started with in her first year: 17-14, 11-19, 21-13 and 17-15.

The team had had 5 consecutive years without a 20-win season (2 of those years under Coach Flanagan) before last year's 21-13 season when Coach Sanchez was voted Coach of the Year in the MWC and took the team to the championship game of the tournament after a regular season standing of 2nd place.

Year 1 was 11-20, but years 2-5 amassed a record of 66-61. OK, she wasn't Pat Summit. But her 5-year record of 77-81 had some exciting times, including this year's decisive road win in Minneapolis and last year's near defeat of Stanford.

The Don Flanagan era rode a different wave in NCAA women's basketball that has been dissipating over the last 10 years. The WNBA likewise has seen lower attendance except in cities where the likes of Lisa Leslie and Brittney Griner have played. I hope that Bradbury will ride a new wave of Lobo Women's Basketball support, but I will be very surprised if he can do any better than Coach Sanchez and her gutty teams did during 2011-2016. A good start would be for the town and the UNM students and especially the athletic department to get behind the team.

Re: UNM hires new women’s basketball coach

abqwoman — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:24:37 -0000

The Lobo Women already had that. What they didn't have was a supportive athletic director. The new coach will find that out pretty quick.

Re: New Mexico governor travels to basketball tournaments

abqwoman — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:06:19 -0000

It would have been nice of her to go to the Lobo Women's games. They played on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Re: Santa Fe takes ‘radically different approach’ to cut down on 911 calls

abqwoman — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:39:52 -0000

The elderly, homeless or not, who have diminished cognition from aging, need this kind of help. The mentally ill, who are as incapable of going to a job every day, need this kind of help. And,.of course, the homeless of both descriptions, need this kind of help. Medication management is tricky if your brain is convinced you haven't (or have) taken your Coumaden. As the article points out, visits by people in a team of professionals who can explain "the system" to frequent 911 callers save the City money. It would be wonderful if advisors were at all senior centers to answer questions from anybody who wanted to know some of the things that are explained by visitors from a special task force.

My own experience with "the system" is 1) Senior Affairs does not go out of its way to invite use of certain of its services, and 2) does anybody know how to make a NON-emergency call to the police?

Re: Low gas prices good for consumers, not for state budget

abqwoman — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:46:43 -0000

So why be so dependent on oil for revenue? Oh. I forgot. The way we encourage corporations to establish in New Mexico is we give them tax advantages.

Re: President to take wilderness trip with Bear Grylls

abqwoman — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 15:06:44 -0000

Well, I feel passionate about all such issues, too, and if the U.S. Congress fails to send some bills to the President for signature, I won't feel like renaming Mt. McKinley Mt Denali or the President urging action on global climate damage will be the cause.

Re: President to take wilderness trip with Bear Grylls

abqwoman — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:43:56 -0000

BUT we can't ignore any issue. Gotta multitask. Mount McKinley being renamed Mount Denali was long overdue.

Re: President to take wilderness trip with Bear Grylls

abqwoman — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:02:46 -0000

The environment is an important issue in any country. It deserves a share of the President's time.

Re: President to take wilderness trip with Bear Grylls

abqwoman — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:59:20 -0000

Would you please explain? Is this Bear-Grylls-speak? From the article I gather they will talk about the environment, especially the Alaskan environment, and survival in the wilderness. Will they also talk about British vs. American pronunciation?

Re: The Latest: Kentucky clerk invokes ‘God’s authority’

abqwoman — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:47:16 -0000

Oh, my, if I could pick and choose the parts of my job that I will do and the parts that I won't do... hiding out in my office with the door locked and the blinds drawn sounds like a sweet way to make a living.

I hope that her office doesn't decide that they should forego issuing motor vehicle licenses or setting up elections or taxing property for reasons only people who talk to God can fathom. That county would be in a world of financial hurt.