RC Buford is a mysterious figure.
I have always felt that it was really horrible what happened when the worst of people led the U.S. Govt. to violently support the annexation of northeastern Mexico known then and now as Texas. We openly laud the heroics of Davy Crockett and his ilk down at the Alamo for giving their life for 'country' and all that good stuff, yet I can't help but think another bunch of men died in vain to advance to the cause of those who were pulling their strings all along. This paranoia could easily result in some kind of long-winded conclusion about the diluted and vapid nature of our existence in this day and age, and how similar this is to just about any other time in history (pre-history too for that matter); Pynchon appears to have taken this question to heights previously unseen, vertiginous in their distance in his magnum opus "Gravity's Rainbow". What white settler would have named a town, "San Antonio"? Saint Anthony: Anthony of Padua has been called the most celebrated of the followers of Saint Francis of Assisi. He is the patron saint of Padua and of Portugal, and is especially invoked for the recovery of lost things. For all the fire of the Baptists, Evangelicals and other mega-church groups west of the panhandle, they seem like a pretty godless bunch in comparison to St. Antonio. Just like in Spain, where ancient civilizations tried and tried to leave their mark, only to be preserved somewhere like compounded slush in the Chicago winter; The Vandal's "Vandalusia" has, over time, come to be known as "Andalucía", for example. This is how we have places like "Amarillo" (pronounced Am-uh-rill-Oh) Texas (aka Yellow) and Versailles, Ohio in this chicken pluckin' ridiculous howlin-fantod of a country we got here. Saint Anthony was too sickly in appearance to be accepted in to many of the early monasteries he encountered on his pilgrimage from Portugal to Padua; of course Saint Francis was beneficent and kind enough to take him in. I still support a Mexican annexation of all SouthWest US territories; even if NAFTA isn't exactly a piñata that Rob Schneider wacks with his wiffle ball bat.
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Chad Forcier, not a half-asian:
Joined the Spurs in the summer of 2007 … a 1995 graduate of Seattle Pacific University … started his coaching career while in college, joining the Seattle SuperSonics as an intern in 1992 … spent five seasons with the Sonics, working for head coach George Karl … from 1994–97 served as an assistant coach at Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, Washington … in 1997 was named an assistant coach at Oregon State University … spent three seasons at OSU before moving to the University of Portland for the 2000–01 season … in the summer of 2001 joined Rick Carlisle’s staff with the Detroit Pistons … after two seasons with the Pistons joined the Indiana Pacers in the summer of 2003 … spent four seasons as an assistant coach with the Pacers … his brother, Todd, is the strength and conditioning coach for the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team and his sister, Jade Hayes, is the girl’s basketball coach at Bellevue Christian High School in Bellevue, Washington.
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