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It's no conspiracy: Benson Henderson has worked to become one of UFC's best

Posted: September 4, 2013 at 12:42 pm

MILWAUKEE, Wis. Meet Benson Henderson: conspiracy theorist, but not Illuminati; business owner, but not businessman; mixed martial arts champion, but not beloved.

The UFC lightweight champion is one of the sport's most engaging, complex and misunderstood figures.

He gets derided for his lack of finishes, though if he beats Anthony Pettis on Saturday at the Bradley Center in the main event of UFC 164, Henderson will set a record for most consecutive successful lightweight title defenses.

He's the co-owner along with his friends John Crouch and Joe Ervin of a highly successful gym, The MMA Lab, in Glendale, Ariz., but takes great pains to stress he's not a successful businessman.

Henderson, who once was so poor that he had to mop the floors and clean the toilets of the gym he now owns, has a unique theory on business success.

"I don't want to be a good businessman, because I think businessmen are low-down, dirty dogs," Henderson told Yahoo! Sports late Wednesday before one of his final workouts. "You can be a good businessperson, but to be good at business, I think you inherently have to become somewhat of a dirty dog. I don't want to be a good businessperson, but I do want to have good, successful businesses. For the Lab being a good, successful business, I am happy about that."

He landed in Arizona by accident, following Crouch, his best friend and longtime coach, and former UFC fighter Alvin Robertson to the desert.

[Anthony Pettis' coach: 'This must be what it was like to coach Michael Jordan']

When Henderson arrived in Phoenix, he had little but what he could hold in his bag. He didn't live day-to-day; he pretty much lived hour-to-hour.

The MMA Lab was under different ownership, and Crouch moved there to teach classes and train fighters. The then-owner agreed to allow Henderson to train for free and to have unpaid access to all of the facility's coaches in exchange for some manual labor.

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Amber Rose Explains Forehead Tattoo After Being Accused Of Repping The Illuminati

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Wed, Sep 04 2013 by Bitchie Staff | Filed Under: Celebrities

Another day, another illuminati rumorand this time theyve snatched up Amber Rose.

Over the weekend, Amber was spotted puffing on some cigarettes and flicking it up with Beyonce at the Made In America Festival while sporting a temporary inverted cross tattoo in between her brows. And of course, the rumors started pouring in. You would have thought she had 666 tatted across her forehead.

As soon as the photos hit the Internet, folks immediately accused her of repping the illuminati and crossing over to the dark side, with tweets like, Need to turn that cross right side up and get with #TeamJesus. The All Hip Hop rumor report also wrote, You cant have an inverted cross on your head and not expect people to talk about Illuminati or SATAN.

Meanwhile, Amber was left wondering if any of her followers were capable of doing research. After being bombarded with tweets, she responded with a Theology lesson:

An upside down cross is a St Peters cross..it is not satanic. Look it up before u speak ignorance. Good Day.

Although the Cross of St. Peter has become associated with some anti-religion groups and metal bands over the years, it represents the crucifixion of St. Peter. When he was crucified in Rome, he requested that he be hung on the cross upside down because he was unworthy of being crucified in the same manner that Jesus died. Some Catholics use it as the upside down cross as a symbol of humility and unworthiness.

Someone paid attention to her bible.

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The Pull List (9/4/13): DC, Marvel kick off events

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Second Amendment doesn't endorse coups d'état

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To the Editor:

In his letter today, Mr. Michael Dow made the common false assertion about the Second Amendment that we hear all the time from people who almost never vote Democratic and almost always vote Republican. (Whether they call themselves Republican or not, they're Republicans by default.)

The Second Amendment is not, as Mr. Dow writes, "all about American citizens being able to defend themselves against an overreaching and tyrannical government." Nowhere does the Second Amendment mention overreach, tyranny or government. It's about a "well-regulated militia," which it does mention. Notice the word, "regulated." Who would do this regulation? The government, of course.

The proof that the Second Amendment is not about being able to make war on our own government and that the government has regulatory authority over the militia lies in Article I, Section 8, Clauses 15 and 16. There, the U.S. Constitution grants the U.S. Congress power to regulate the militia and command it.

Article I, Section 8: "Congress shall have power ..."

Clause 15 states, "To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;" and Clause 16 states "To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress."

Any organized attempt to "defend" against an allegedly tyrannical federal government would become an insurrection, and Congress has the constitutional authority to use the militia, provisioned with arms by the Second Amendment, to put it down. Any unorganized attempts would simply be assault and murder, which are just all-too-common crimes.

This is what we've been reading for a long time from the National Rifle Association with its right-wing talking points. What the NRA has done with its rhetoric is to convince supporters that the purpose of the Second Amendment is to exercise coups d'tat whenever the Republican Party loses elections, which we can expect to continue for at least two more four-year cycles with the election of Hillary Clinton. Doesn't that mean that the right's anger will only continue to mount? In the context of their misguided Second Amendment theories, it's a strong indication that at a certain point, which has yet to be determined, some of them are really going to think that it's time to act like Timothy McVeigh.

Mr. Dow wrote that we should "read the Constitution, know the Constitution and learn from the Constitution about (our) civil rights." He should add the word "understand" and then take his own advice. The theory of the Second Amendment that he endorses is unconstitutional. In the context of American elections, it's virulently antidemocratic. It's intended to reverse voting results. It's also inimical to public order and dangerous to innocent people.

Stephen D. Clark

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Tariq Ramadan, Doha Debate Education pointless without free speech 3 4 – Video

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