tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61948812011-04-21T15:34:24.219-04:00Baseball and Politics, America's two greatest gamesRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01062074795654991318noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194881.post-1115253649839718422005-05-04T20:27:00.000-04:002005-05-04T20:40:49.886-04:00

Okay now I have been sucked in. I like watching the Devil Rays. I don't know why.Sure watching Carl Crawford is wonderful fun. But I must confess something.I was listening to sports talk radio and some bonehead caller stated that "we have to come out and support this team." No we don't! Look if they want my support they can put some players I want to watch on the field.CrawfordRocco (injured

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The news just broke that Charlie is now a cat 4 with 145 and headed for Ft. Myers. Pray for Lee county.

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Well, see what happens if you get all excited to early. It now looks like Lee County is going to take the brunt of the storm. And I had some home improvement projects that I wanted the insurance company to pay for. I would check in with Donna over at Florida Cracker and wish her luck. BTW Charlie has been upgraded to Cat 3 with 125 mph winds. With 3 hours to go before possible landfall in Lee

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Things are starting to get fun. It has just started to rain, very light rain, but rain none the less. A little breeze but we are still 3 hours from the time it is going to get interesting and 6 hours or more away from a landfall. But on the good news the homemade salsa and dip was just finished and the fresh bread will be done in 20 minutes. And most importantly the supply of fresh drinkable

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01062074795654991318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194881.post-1092410266939364412004-08-13T11:16:00.000-04:002004-08-13T11:17:46.940-04:00

The all important 11 am report just came out and it now seems that landfall will occur in Manatee County. Just my lucky day. Guess I can start drinking now. :)

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Well Manatee County is located on the southern side of Tampa Bay. Bradenton, where I live is just south of the Manatee river and at the mouth of the bay. From the islands you can look east to the Sunshine Skyway bridge, up into Tampa Bay, or West to nothing but the Gulf of Mexico. Also if you want a report from further south you can go see Donna at Florida Cracker.net, she is about 60 miles

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What is life like in a hurricane? Well it is about 11 am. No breeze to speak of here in Manatee County. The police have shut down the bridges to the outlying islands, by 2 pm they expect all support and rescue services to be unable to reach anyone who refused to leave their home. (There has always been an interesting private property rights angle to hurricanes, but I will leave that for the

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I left this comment over at A Small Victory. Another person left this comment: Let's elect a president that promises to be a uniter and not a divider...oh sh*t we did that already. Seriously though, it seems to me from my small corner of the world that the only success we've had with bring about democracy is to introduce some prosperity. When I was a kid I was horrified that we did nothing

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Espn is a little rough to start but with Jon and Joe it should be smooth sailing. Hey here is a question. How much better would the world series be if we had Jon and Joe instead of Tim "don't know much about anything" McCarver? just wondering

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A flower breaks through the darkness of winter..... Birds sing trees bloom First pitch. There is a God. Baseball is back and all is right with the world

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Lets take a look at what folks have to do to pass this amendment through Congress. Let us start with the HRC's congressional ratings: (note these are from the 107th Congress so not exact, but they should give us a good idea about the House.) During the 107th congress 155 members received a 100% rating on HRC's issues. (151 Democrats, 3 Rs and 1 Ind) In addition another 54 members voted with

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Since Andrew has suffered a meltdown, and the blogsphere is running amok and the Democrat race is all but over, I guess it is time for me to lay out the reasons I am using to judge the 2 applicants for the job of President. 1. The Economy: By this I include the deficit, taxes and proposed spending and jobs. I fancy myself an economic conservative to begin with. On this Issue Bush has been

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BTW, I am going to try to make this an empire free zone. I will try to refrain from talking about the NY baseball teams at all. Because, and trust me when I tell you this people, nothing good can come from it.

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Since baseball and politics are about the two most important things in my world, I thought I would draw some parallels Most obvious is that being behind the in the polls right now is like losing 5 straight spring training games. You may not be happy but it is utterly meaningless. Just like in baseball your position in the standings does not really matter until after the break, either the

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Hope Springs Eternal. Birth of a new year. Soon all will be right with the world. Pitchers and Catchers report this week. Praise Allah!

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Some more thoughts on Dean. Steven Taylor stated today that his first reaction to Dean's Iowa Yell, was "perhaps the worst political observation of my career". Well, maybe. No I don't mean that he has made worse observations, but that it was not that bad of an observation. The more I thought about the situation and the speech and the event itself, the more I thought Dean gave a very good

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this may be the funniest thing I have ever seen.

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Count me as a member of the Hale DeMar Fan Club I don't have a gun in my house, not because I don't belive in them but because I just don't feel comfortable around them. They freak me out. But I am not worried if folks like Mr. DeMar have them. More power to ya, Hale.

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Andrew Sullivan is talking about the Pre-emption doctrine today. I think he could be wrong. (I may be wrong about my interpretation.) Andrew states "But - and it's a big but - we made the case on the existence of actual, operational WMDs and stockpiles of the same. We did so publicly, openly, clearly to as big a global audience as we could find.? Actually didn't Bush and Powell make the case

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"And you know something? You know something? Not only are we going to Miami, we're going to Oakaloosa and Ona and the Daytona Beaches and Naples and Wachula! We're going to Yulee and Christmas and Havana! And we're going to Tampa and Seabring and Homestead and Key Largo! And then we're going to Tallahassee. To Take Back The Florida Capitol! YEEEAAARGH!! " Thanks to Tim Blair for the Dean

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So on MSNBC you can watch Tim Russert and Chris Mathews. Is this going to be their line-up for the rest of the year? If so then I have a new prediction; the biggest winners this year is going to be MSNBC. I can watch this all night long. Cool. God, I am a dork.

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Looking into my crystal ball, I see; As far as Dean is concerned, I think he has had his high-water mark. A major story out of Iowa will be the fact that the undecided went to other candidates. Dean can’t seem to expand beyond his 25-30%. Granted his third of the party will make him a player in all the primaries but as others drop out look for those voters to go away from Dean. Why? I think

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Iowa and some new polls could spell trouble for Gov. Dean and Sen. Clinton. A new poll claims that most democrats would be happy with Dean or Clark. If Dean has problems and losses the nomination and Bush wins relection then many Democrats will rally behind Dean as the defacto party leader. Clinton is sitting back and waiting to be the uncontested leader in 08. If Dean can continue to offer

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Actually, I think I can state that the race is half over. Well at least the Republican nomination is over. Allow me to present GOP nominee Mel Martinez. Why, well lets look at the facts. 1 - Backed by Pres George Bush (and will raise money, lots of money) 2 - From the ever important I-4 corridor 3 - Hispanic (can pull crossover votes in the General and command Dade County's Cuban population in

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Sinc MoveOn.org is now stuck on the Bush is Hitler thing, Michele at A Small Victory is calling on Democrats to be more creative. How bout Bush is; here is a link to the American Fim Institutes top 50 villians Bush is "the Leader"

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Why are there not more studies like this one done by Va Tech? Study: Football Hits Similar to Crashes I really think that the NCAA and the NFL Players association should mainstream this type of study next year. At least 10 college teams, in each division, should participate and every team in the NFL should participate. And don't tell me that between the NFL and NCAA they could not find the

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A couple of interesting post on the coming election 1st, Professor Taylor has a piece on why Dean’s lead may be safe. 2nd, Steven Den Beste has a piece on why no democrat seems to be in position to beat Bush (because of the white male vote) They are both interesting looks at different perspectives on the upcoming campaign. Taken together both Prof. Taylor and Mr. Den Beste look at the

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Look folks, there is no way that anyone can explain how the Arizona Cardinals can with 2 minutes left: score a touchdown, recover an onside kick and then throw a 4th down and 25 yards touchdown pass (where the receiver only get one foot down in bounds) to beat the Vikings and send the Green Bay Packers into the playoffs. The only explanation is that the Football Gods willed it. Place your bets

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Professor Taylor over at PoliBlog is talking about 2004 being the year of the south. However he missed one fact, Florida is not really part of the south. The evidence Sure we had a governor commit suicide because the Confederacy losing the war but that does not mean we are still southern. In West Palm, Broward and Miami-Dade it is easier to find a good bagel than grits. And here is the

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Since everyone is trying to fit Dean into a roll of a past Dem President or Candidate, I guess that it is my attempt. Dean is Carter. (audible gasp from the audience) Here is what I mean. In 1972 and 74 Carter sent letters to every losing Democratic candidate in a primary. In almost every race in the country. He engaged them and thanked them and then used that list to create political

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01062074795654991318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194881.post-1072195040767058042003-12-23T10:57:00.000-05:002003-12-23T10:57:35.926-05:00

How long has Pat Oliphant been drawing Condi Rice as a black crow with big lips and buck teeth? Hey why not put a bone through her hair, Pat. (go to the washington post and click oliphant dates Dec. 22 & 18) Is it because she is a republican or black or is it that she is a black republican that pisses you off so much? And why do newspapers print those "cartoon" with figures like that in them?

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01062074795654991318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194881.post-1071862212630769242003-12-19T14:30:00.000-05:002003-12-19T14:30:27.170-05:00

Okay lets put it this way, I have never been on the opposite side from the Major League Baseball Players Association. That is until now. The Players Union has finally been defeated. And by their own greed. This could be the start of bad things for the PU. I mean this ranks right up there with Grady Little leaving Pedro in. How could they as a third party step in and stop the biggest and

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01062074795654991318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6194881.post-1071860833344372652003-12-19T14:07:00.000-05:002003-12-19T14:09:41.203-05:00

Were to start, were to start? What a week the presumptive Democratic nominee has had. First we catch Saddam and thereby take away a leg of his campaign's stool. Then his "major" foreign policy speech is widely panned. Then the Washington Post eviscerates him in an editorial. And now people from the left and the right are starting to predict his downfall. What in God's name is going on you

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Andrew Sullivan and many folks are unsure what to make of W's statement last night on the subject of the FMA. I think that his message was very direct and straight forward, if you understand the audience he was targeting. He was talking directly to the conservatives who are pushing this amendment. His message - I understand and I am with you but do not make this an issue right now. Do Not

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Here is to the birth of a new blog, and the death of an old one. "May the new be a damn sight better than the old" - Sherman T. Potter

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