A lot of sports is contained herein so beware.
This is being written before game 6 of the ALCS. I want the Yankees to win but I have to say it is nearly as satisfying that I know the Red Flops are sitting at home. I will add that Mr. Sabbathia is an absolute horse who looks less fit than me and happens also to have a very pleasant attitude. There will be much yakking and hand wringing up here about the Red Flops and what they need to do to get back at the top. I would start by kicking Varitek to the curb and saying bye bye. Enuf said.
Interesting race to replace Ted Kennedy. Two very typical/traditional pols (and I include Ms. Coakley here because, despite being a woman, she is more like Capuano than not) and two outsiders. Pagliucca has all the money in the world (as a partner at Bain along with Romney) but if I see one more ad where he claims some credit for the Celtics championship 2 years ago, I will puke. He is a part owner but come on--pictures of him hugging Paul Pierce in his political ads? Khazei has the moral high ground but I cannot imagine him winning--his big advantage is that he is totally unlike the other 3.
Dan Shaughnessy is covering the Pats in London today and, if we are all lucky, he will end up on the wrong plane and land in Bulgaria never to be heard of again. Allowing the current sports writer version of the "Ugly American" loose in London is pathetic.
I am a little nudgy about Obama et al attacking Fox News. Not because they are wrong--in fact, they are correct. But it seems a bit unseemly to pick one media outlet and go after it. Why not go after some radio station in Pocatello? I would have left it to Olberman who seems to go after Fox News (or as he calls it Fix News) regularly and with more latitude.
We are going to get a health plan and it looks like Olympia might not be crucial in the final tally. Harshly/selfishly speaking, I think it is ok to allow states to opt out. Let all those Senators (the majority from the South) explain to their constituents why they should not have the same access to health care as some of the rest of us. This group of senators includes some Democrats. By the way, mechanically speaking, it is relatively easy to deal with rates for rural health care and get a bill passed. That's a technical problem not a philosophical one. Don't know if any of you are represented by Congressman Wyner (from Queens) or Senator Wyden (Oregon) or Senator Whitehouse (RI) or Senator Rockefeller (W.Va.)--but they have been great.
We happen to get the National Hadassah magazine--my worse fantasies have come true. Eric Cantor is a member of my tribe--that would be the Jewish people. He was interviewed in the latest issue and he is so in bed with the American Israeli PAC, it is ludicrous. Had to write a letter about balance which likely will never get published since Hadassah is also in that bed. He talks to his rabbi regularly--probably the Jewish rabbinic equivalent of Jerry Falwell.
I have deleted myself from Facebook. Anna always was against my "membership" (said I was too old!) but I just did it. Then last week I must have hit the wrong button because all of a sudden I got like 15 emails from people via Facebook--some from folks I don't know. There was one from a kindergarten friend that was worthwhile. But I immediately removed myself after that fiasco.
Lets hope Mr. Brady looks for approaching cars in the correct direction as he crosses streets over the pond in London. If so, the Pats win.
Sayonara.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
A FEW RANTS AND MANY FEWER RAVES
1. Who knew?--Jay Rockefeller is my new hero. He has been clear, concise, and fiercely articulate about the public option. I expected Shumer to play that role (and he has to a certain extent). But Rockefeller? Oh my, I wonder if the Mountaineers in West Virginia know that have a budding socialist in the Senate. I totally agree with him that no bill is better than a bad bill.
2. I know there are many more steps that will occur but I worry about this vote yesterday. It may mean nothing but as iI have said before, thoe Democrats from smllish states (Montana, North Dakota, Arkansas) cnnot be allowed to control this thing. I tell myself daily that Barack knows what he is doing but it sure does not look like that. But Max was given too much time and too much room and I do blame barack for that.
3. It scares me when I get my "news" from Jon Stewart--but he is so good.
4. at the same time, the right blogs and media are going crazy--mentioning the word coup, wondering if Barack can be President and go to /copenhagen. they have really lost it and one can only hope that a bazillion people see it--otherwise we are looking at a Republican house in 2010.
5. Saw a great movie called Amreeka (not sure about the spelling). Do know it was overseen by the Canadian Film Board (way to go Charles/Myra) and filmed in Manitoba. About a Palestinian mother and her son who get papers to emigrate to America. the first l5 minutes or so were shot in the West bank and enraged me. The will is so high, it makes the berlin wall look like one of those we see in the New England country. The depcition of Israeli soliders was accurate but oh so tyrannical. It embarassed me. The movie was about what it was like for the two of them to be plopped down in the middle of rural Illinois. One very funny (yet very telling) scene: at U.S. immigration, she is asked occupation. Her response is yes--for 40 years!!
6. GM and Penske blew up the deal for Saturn. No more saturns will be produced which is very dire news for Steven. Those fools had a very innovative are and screwed it up--then we bailed them out.
7. So I think both the red Flops and the Yanks have serious pitching questions. The big difference is that the Yankees can put lots of runs up on the board. An important factoid: Cano and jter are both batting over 320, both have over 200 hits and both have scored over 100 runs. by the way, sports fans, Jeter is the MVP.
8. Have very little else to say except I probably should write these after watching Olbeman who seems to find the craziest right wingers on the planet to say very crazy and scary things boiling my blood. Really, has anyone ever heard Michelle bachman, the congresswoman from Minnesota. Ugh.
sayonara.
2. I know there are many more steps that will occur but I worry about this vote yesterday. It may mean nothing but as iI have said before, thoe Democrats from smllish states (Montana, North Dakota, Arkansas) cnnot be allowed to control this thing. I tell myself daily that Barack knows what he is doing but it sure does not look like that. But Max was given too much time and too much room and I do blame barack for that.
3. It scares me when I get my "news" from Jon Stewart--but he is so good.
4. at the same time, the right blogs and media are going crazy--mentioning the word coup, wondering if Barack can be President and go to /copenhagen. they have really lost it and one can only hope that a bazillion people see it--otherwise we are looking at a Republican house in 2010.
5. Saw a great movie called Amreeka (not sure about the spelling). Do know it was overseen by the Canadian Film Board (way to go Charles/Myra) and filmed in Manitoba. About a Palestinian mother and her son who get papers to emigrate to America. the first l5 minutes or so were shot in the West bank and enraged me. The will is so high, it makes the berlin wall look like one of those we see in the New England country. The depcition of Israeli soliders was accurate but oh so tyrannical. It embarassed me. The movie was about what it was like for the two of them to be plopped down in the middle of rural Illinois. One very funny (yet very telling) scene: at U.S. immigration, she is asked occupation. Her response is yes--for 40 years!!
6. GM and Penske blew up the deal for Saturn. No more saturns will be produced which is very dire news for Steven. Those fools had a very innovative are and screwed it up--then we bailed them out.
7. So I think both the red Flops and the Yanks have serious pitching questions. The big difference is that the Yankees can put lots of runs up on the board. An important factoid: Cano and jter are both batting over 320, both have over 200 hits and both have scored over 100 runs. by the way, sports fans, Jeter is the MVP.
8. Have very little else to say except I probably should write these after watching Olbeman who seems to find the craziest right wingers on the planet to say very crazy and scary things boiling my blood. Really, has anyone ever heard Michelle bachman, the congresswoman from Minnesota. Ugh.
sayonara.
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