Stay Classy Kentucky

Let's burn a few more couches and set fires like a bunch of backwoods hicks. Stay classy Kentucky! This is in reference to the morons in 2012 that were burning couches in the streets of Lexington after the big University of Kentucky win in the Final Four of college basketball. One of the luminaries had to comment regarding my criticism of such behavior. This is my response to his stupidity.

Wow, you live in Lexington. You should be so proud. We really don't care that you attended college or not. The real question is "Did you graduate?" or are you just another idiot from Kentucky popping his mouth off. You know, what's funny about you boys from Kentucky is that the vast majority of your fans can't even spell worth a damn. Obviously, you spent too much time playing basketball, slopping the hogs, or saying that you didn't need any of that book learning. By the way, I lived in Kentucky for four years and I have to say that of anyplace I ever lived including Indiana, Kentucky had some of the dumbest people I've ever met and I lived in rural Indiana for many years prior to that. Even the city people in Louisville are mentally retarded. Kentuckians don't like the term retarded now as evidenced by the state trying to remove the word from the grammar in their publications. True story. Wonder why? Because most of the rest of the country even outside of Indiana or any neighboring state thinks you're populated by a bunch of dumbasses.

Having lived in Kentucky, I can vouch for the fact that your fan base generally acts irrational and mentally challenged. I went to Nashville several times for my job in Louisville and it was amazing when you pulled into some little gas station or truck plaza along I 65. Maybe one or two people you would encounter acted as if they had some sense. The rest stood around in slack jawed stupor and generally not making a whole lot of sense. By the way, I've been to almost every county in the state of Kentucky or Commonwealth if you like. My interactions weren't exactly the same everywhere but it seems that your fellow men in the Commonwealth and women generally act very unintelligent and generally in a stupid way. It reminds me of going to Columbia, KY which is about 1 hour from the TN border. Not knowing the state very well at the time, I asked a couple of the locals how far it is to Tennessee. Their response was to say it took 4 hours. So I flipped out a map that I found and looked a little closer and it was only like 40 miles to the TN border and maybe a couple hours to Nashville TN according to driving 65 mph and about 130 or so miles. Took the next road south of town and made into Eastern TN in about an hour.

If I went to Nashville via the Louie Nunn Parkway and I 65 it would have been 130 miles and 2 hours travel time. See what I mean? The average Kentuckian outside of the educated class of people who are professionals and have to work in a professional setting are mostly morons. You're dealing with people who can barely read and write much less think of complex problems and come up with a solution. Its about like when I lived in Louisville and seen so many cars that were in such bad shape because the owners either wrecked them or didn't know anything about preventative maintenance. Broken taillights, broken headlights, stuff that didn't work, junked out cars running the roads, etc. The police even take a blind eye to that in Louisville. They don't bother to enforce anything when it comes to traffic laws or even vehicle issues.

Granted, that can happen anywhere but it seems to be quite prevalent in KY. By the way, I've been to Lessington better known as Lexington. Other than the university and a few major businesses like Lexmark who by the way make crappy printers, there isn't all that much there. Maybe a population of 260,000 people and probably a good percentage of that is students at UK which doesn't even rank in the top 100 in a vast majority of college disciplines.

U of L is no better as it ranks 164th in US News College Reports that come out every year. In fact, Azuza Pacific University ranks as high as U of L. Despite the fact that U of L has one of the largest financial endowments in the entire country. My mother in law works at U of L and even she is amazed at how bad the students there are and the school as well. My wife actually grew up most of her life in Florence and then Louisville. Guess what, she's from Kentucky and thinks that a lot of the people in Louisville and around there aren't particularly very bright and I've heard it said by her on a multitude of occasions. That's why she wanted to move to Indiana too and actually have a better quality of life.

People in most every state have farms, factories, mining, etc unless there are no resources available. The comical thing is that a factory worker in Indiana is generally someone who can function in mainstream society and actually act as if they have common sense. See, I worked in a factory full time while pursuing my college degree in business. These people are just salt of the earth type people who are trying to get by and raise their family. The difference between them and your average worker in Kentucky is that they're bred to be stupid as they are in the Bluegrass. If you tried to pay some factory worker in Indiana 9 or 10 bucks an hour, they would laugh at you. In Kentucky, that's supposed to be the norm because most of your backwoods yokel people think its normal to work for the man and get nothing in return. Its the way your Southern hillbilly state has been operated since the Civil War and before. It reminds me of something a Southern redneck from NC told me years ago about small towns in the South being dumps. Its because we don't have much industry and you can't tell other what to do with their money. Didn't make a lot of sense right off until I found out the guy lived in the back of his car about 2 years while living in Western NC. Its that mentality that exists in KY and much of the south that is why that region isn't progressive and won't have anything similar to the Northern States.

There's a reason why a lot of Hoosier as you would call them don't particularly care for Kentucky and especially Kentucky basketball. Under Bobby Knight, he graduated most of his players and never was accused or even brought up on charges of cheating. Its well known that Adolph Rupp paid his players back in the 1940s through 1972 when he had to retire. Same happened under Joe B. Hall and then Eddie Sutton took over and got busted for cheating in 1989 when his assistant Dwayne Casey sent a envelope to a recruit with 1000 bucks in it until it was broken open and the people at Emery Worldwide found the money. That brought about an NCAA investigation into recruiting practices at UK. Including one year of no live TV and two years of probation. This has happened several times at UK. What happened after the entire probation, UK started up getting their players nice vehicles, money, and all the rest again. A friend of my uncle who is from Lexington told all about Jamal Mashburn getting a luxury BMW to drive around Lexington back in 1991 and 1992. Nice at a time when he didn't have that kind of money and his mom was on public assistance back in New York. Who got the vehicle. Same happened many times during the 1990s. Then to have football coach Hal Mumme come around and get their football program on probation along with Clyde Bassett. Now you have Calipari whose associates at UMass and Memphis both landed those programs on probation and led to the forfeiture of games and records.

It was even reported in the Chicago Sun Times that Anthony Davis' father wanted 200k for his son to play at any of three different schools. Then he chose UK over the others. Wonder why? Because Kentucky kicked in the money all over again. That entire story was brought up elsewhere on this site. Of course, UK had to squelch the story because it would mean another investigation into recruiting practices. Just sit back and watch the cheaters at UK get busted again. Its a matter of time before they get caught again. After all, its Kentucky where the vast majority of politicians are as crooked as the day is long and where the UK program has cheated for about 70 years including paying players and the 1951 point shaving scandal as well.

By the way, at one time my dad was a worker in a facility in Louisville and they would hire college athletes from U of L. My dad regularly told stories about how the players wouldn't do anything and sometimes even get caught sleeping on the job. Seems like it was a common occurrence but people turned their head as usual in Kentucky. By the way, it might be added that most of those guys barely got their degree because even he saw that most of them were dumber than a box of rocks. There's no way they didn't get special help from the U of L authorities and coaching at that time.

That's why Indiana puts out quality people and students ahead of basketball. In Kentucky, the only thing you have to take pride in is basketball and that really is all. There's nothing else that your state really produces other than coal that can't be produced elsewhere. Your economy in most of Kentucky is largely in shambles because its 20 years behind the rest of the country. Not to mention the fact is that probably one out of every five or six Kentuckians get some sort of government assistance. In fact, for generations its easier to get a crazy persons check in Kentucky than anywhere else. Just like the percentage of Kentuckians on government assistance is higher than most states and I guarantee you its much higher than Indiana.

Add in the fact that your state is number one in child abuse deaths, number one in elderly abuse, and number one in animal abuse cases. That speaks volumes of what a screwed up society that Kentucky truly is. Every week or so you'll find out about someone around Louisville and they either leave their kids in a bad situation and generally that news hits two to three times a week now. Same goes with animal abusers. Not saying it doesn't happen in Indiana but it seems to happen a whole lot more in Kentucky.

Something else funny I noticed is that when the Colts won the Super Bowl in 2007, there were no riots or major disturbances or outbreaks in Indiana. I even went to Google and looked it up. But in Lexington (Lessington) Kentucky there were 40 fires on Saturday March 31, 2012 and 60 fires on April 2nd, 2012. According to Kentucky Revised Statutes, more than 5 people in a group destroying or vandalizing property is called a riot. To incite someone else to participate in such an affair which was evident is inciting a riot and its a felony to participate or incite a riot. Then to hear the Lexington Police say there was no riot was just another case of damage control. They had to cover their arses because the entire country saw what transpired on the TV sets as well as Youtube. Where the hilljack students at UK filmed their own criminality and stupidity and then put it all over Youtube with pride. Just spend some time looking up Lexington riots and there's plenty of couches burned and some within 5 to 10 feet of someone else's vehicles. That's so classy of you UK fans. Classy that you're going to burn a couch and then catch someone's ride on fire. Then again, it shows the mentality that your people have.