Wow, what an accomplishment
Events in Pennsylvania this past weekend made my chest heave with pride and admiration for old-time Yankee stubbornness, ingenuity and faith. The rescue of the coal miners was another example of the classic line, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." My hat is off is off, not just doffed, to the miners and others who went to the rescue of their brothers in a great demonstration of American determination and technological ability. Those who would do us harm ought to consider this long and hard. (Also appeared in The Post & Courier, Charleston, SC, August 17, 2002, letters section.)
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Friday, July 26
No TIPS
Congress should think seven times seventy times before funding any TIPS. Contrary to AG John Ashcroft's statements that there would be no database maintained, I am fearful that "unofficial" databases would be created and haunt people for decades. The whole idea of turning delivery men, truck drivers and utility workers et. al. into informants on any organized scale is repugnant in a free society. The proposed Terrorism Information and Prevention System sounds like Orwell, but even worse it is a stark reminder of how people lived in the old Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
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Congress should think seven times seventy times before funding any TIPS. Contrary to AG John Ashcroft's statements that there would be no database maintained, I am fearful that "unofficial" databases would be created and haunt people for decades. The whole idea of turning delivery men, truck drivers and utility workers et. al. into informants on any organized scale is repugnant in a free society. The proposed Terrorism Information and Prevention System sounds like Orwell, but even worse it is a stark reminder of how people lived in the old Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
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Tuesday, July 23
The Bushes
“You have to hand it to the Bush family,” says Bob Shrum, a Democratic strategist. “In nearly six years of two Bush presidencies, there hasn’t been any real job growth at all.” (Quoted in NEWSWEEK, July 29, 2002)
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“You have to hand it to the Bush family,” says Bob Shrum, a Democratic strategist. “In nearly six years of two Bush presidencies, there hasn’t been any real job growth at all.” (Quoted in NEWSWEEK, July 29, 2002)
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Thursday, July 18
Some real bad stuff
If Osama bin Laden and his cohorts think the post 9-11 American response was triggered by some pissed-off Americans, they haven't seen anything like the response likely to follow an attack on Disneyland. Spanish authorities have arrested some suspected terrorists and found in a search of their property videotapes of five to seven landmarks in America. The tapes were taken by a highly skillled person and could be use to plan attacks on the landmarks. Included was a tape of Disneyland in California.
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If Osama bin Laden and his cohorts think the post 9-11 American response was triggered by some pissed-off Americans, they haven't seen anything like the response likely to follow an attack on Disneyland. Spanish authorities have arrested some suspected terrorists and found in a search of their property videotapes of five to seven landmarks in America. The tapes were taken by a highly skillled person and could be use to plan attacks on the landmarks. Included was a tape of Disneyland in California.
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Sunday, July 14
The Day of the Jackal
The attempted assassination of French President Chirac today in Paris at the Arc de Triomphe is reminiscent of the story line in The Day of the Jackal.
The gunman is reported to be a young, demented neo-Nazi.
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The attempted assassination of French President Chirac today in Paris at the Arc de Triomphe is reminiscent of the story line in The Day of the Jackal.
The gunman is reported to be a young, demented neo-Nazi.
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Friday, July 5
Ted Williams
Baseball Great Ted Williams Dies
July 5, 2002
Baseball legend and former Boston Red Sox great Ted Williams died Friday at the age of 83.
The Hall of Famer hit .344 in his 19-year career with the Red Sox with 521 home runs and 1,839 RBI. He won the American League batting title six times and baseball's Triple Crown twice, in 1942 and 1947. He flirted with a .400 average again in 1957, batting .388. He served in the Marines during the 1943-44-45 seasons and was recalled to duty during the Korean War.
Williams was inducted to Baseball's Hall of Fame in 1966.
As a rookie in 1939, he hit .327 with 31 homers and 145 RBIs, easily the top batting statistics ever for a rookie. Williams was batting .3996, which would have rounded off to.400, going into the final day of the 1941 season. It was suggested that he sit out the day's doubleheader, but Williams refused. Instead, he played both games and went 6- for-8 to lift his average to .406.
"Teddy Ballgame" went on to manage the Washington Senators and Texas Rangers in 1969-72 and maintained a lifetime connection with the Red Sox.
The Red Sox retired his number 9 in 1984.
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Baseball Great Ted Williams Dies
July 5, 2002
Baseball legend and former Boston Red Sox great Ted Williams died Friday at the age of 83.
The Hall of Famer hit .344 in his 19-year career with the Red Sox with 521 home runs and 1,839 RBI. He won the American League batting title six times and baseball's Triple Crown twice, in 1942 and 1947. He flirted with a .400 average again in 1957, batting .388. He served in the Marines during the 1943-44-45 seasons and was recalled to duty during the Korean War.
Williams was inducted to Baseball's Hall of Fame in 1966.
As a rookie in 1939, he hit .327 with 31 homers and 145 RBIs, easily the top batting statistics ever for a rookie. Williams was batting .3996, which would have rounded off to.400, going into the final day of the 1941 season. It was suggested that he sit out the day's doubleheader, but Williams refused. Instead, he played both games and went 6- for-8 to lift his average to .406.
"Teddy Ballgame" went on to manage the Washington Senators and Texas Rangers in 1969-72 and maintained a lifetime connection with the Red Sox.
The Red Sox retired his number 9 in 1984.
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Thursday, July 4
Spin (n): something between truth and a lie*
A stock transaction in 1990, before President Bush left the oil business and baseball for politics, raised new questions when administration officials acknowledged that Bush had failed to promptly disclose the sale of stock in a Texas oil company as required by federal law. The sale was reported 34 weeks after it occurred, which the White House blamed on a "mix-up, a clerical error" by lawyers - a different explanation than Bush had offered previously.
Before becoming President Bush had been involved in four late reporting transgressions.
Democrats charged Bush’s conduct was typical of the atmosphere his administration creates that encourages today’s malefactors (see Enron, WorldCom and others of recent note) to flaunt the law with a screw the stockholders and the public attitude. Republicans charged Democrats with a desperate attempt to score political points.
Who is spinning?
*(Spin This," Bill Press, Pocket Books, New York, 2001)
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A stock transaction in 1990, before President Bush left the oil business and baseball for politics, raised new questions when administration officials acknowledged that Bush had failed to promptly disclose the sale of stock in a Texas oil company as required by federal law. The sale was reported 34 weeks after it occurred, which the White House blamed on a "mix-up, a clerical error" by lawyers - a different explanation than Bush had offered previously.
Before becoming President Bush had been involved in four late reporting transgressions.
Democrats charged Bush’s conduct was typical of the atmosphere his administration creates that encourages today’s malefactors (see Enron, WorldCom and others of recent note) to flaunt the law with a screw the stockholders and the public attitude. Republicans charged Democrats with a desperate attempt to score political points.
Who is spinning?
*(Spin This," Bill Press, Pocket Books, New York, 2001)
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