Friday, October 5, 2007

Friday Follies: Cubs Must Win, etc.

Picture: August 1962

-In Arizona, the Cubbies dropped a 2nd straight game to the Diamondbacks and put themselves on the very brink of being put out to pasture for the winter. Come on, Cubbies; win one for Ernie, and then another one for your fans, and then the third one for yourselves. The march to the pennant must continue.

-Latest Blackwater incident and Blackwater cowboys getting the attention from the major media that they deserve: link is story from WAPO, and PBS News Hours last night covered story in it's first in-depth segment. Let there be consequences for one's actions - of course, that is something that has been missing these last several years. Guess we're still waiting for the second part of 'what goes around comes around'. Or maybe not - certainly we are seeing a lot of investigations and a lot of screaming and yelling for documents. Too bad impeachment is off the table though what we have in it's stead is a steady stream of bad stuff for this administration, a festering sore that will not heal. And lest we forget, Gonzales and Rove are gone (though not in prison, yet).

-In my reading of The Final Days, it's late in July of 1974 and the Supreme Court has ruled, 8-0, that Nixon must turn over the tapes (those damning tapes!). Nixon, at San Clemente, has issued a statement that he will comply with the ruling and that he has always been a law abiding man. Hmmm...

Enough to get the day started. Heading to the golf course where birdies and eagles are in abundance having been left there by generous and sharing golfers of past days and weeks.

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