Pair up in threes. -- Yogi Berra
Hit your bomb and go. Is it any wonder why I think the Red Sox should LOSE this game? Outside my theory of the universe being torn to shreads if they meet the Cubs in the World Series...it just could not withstand that much misery and fussing and general complaining about their “Whoa is us” histories.
**Update- On second thought, the Bay Area has it’s share of fans/jags...and it’s biggest one looks like a adult-magazine distributor…
Saturday, we got to celebrate my grandson’s birthday. He’s one hell of a nice young man, and it was fun getting to see everyone and take some time off from the craziness of the election. Yesterday, I was working my ass off trying to get ready for the election (not to mention the hassles getting connected).
But today is the final day for Gray Davis to try and smear Arnold. People are seeing these accusations of “groping” for what they are - political hatchet jobs, not worthy of being taken into account.
Imagine - if you will - what must have been going through the minds of these women. They allege that they are so traumatized that they didn’t say anything for years and years (28 years in one instance), and (strictly as a coincidence, mind you, since they all deny any connection to Arnold’s political rivals) only a week before the election, they all happen to contact the same reporter on a notoriously left-leaning newspaper, and decide to come forward with their stories. Their stories are so firmly established, with such rigorously documented facts, that more than 2/3s of the women refuse to identify themselves.
I’m not saying that all of them are lying. I’m not saying that any of them are lying. I’m asking why didn’t they file a report at the time? If it was such a traumatic act, why was no one told until it could do the maximum damage (leaving no time to adequately defend against the charges) to the accused? The story came out less than five days before the polls open, and with lots of incomplete information - no details about when, who, any other witnesses, or anything that would alow Arnold to adequately respond.
Hell, even Democratic strategist and UCLA Law Professor (and former adviser to then-Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis) Susan Estrich said it was obviously nothing more than a smear campaign that it doing more damage to the media than to Arnold’s campaign.
Michele (of A Small Victory) put together a column (I don’t have a link for it - sorry!) that basically asks “What do you stand for?” (I’m paraphrasing, I know.)
That’s a very good question, and one that everyone should be asking their respective political candidates. Not why the other guy is a total snot-nosed sh*thead who strangles kittens while running over Boy Scouts and little old ladies who will raise taxes, cut services and burn a flag on every street corner, but what they stand for.
In other news: Roy Horn (he of “Siegfried and...") is doing better, and is now reported to be able to move his hands and feet (so no peripheral nerve damage - always a hazrd when dealing with neck damage). The show, however, has been closed indefinitely, and all 267 workers in the show have been told to seek other employment. The wife and I were planning on going on a vacation later this month, and were planning on seeing their show while in Vegas, too. Our thoughts and prayers go to his speedy recovery.
Finally, Go Cubbies! It’s about freakin time…
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Hopefully everyone knows that Roy, of Siegfried and Roy, has been hospitalized after being attacked by a tiger during one of their acts.
And hopefully, Congress will act swiftly to repudiate President Bush’s tax cut for the rich. Obviously that is what caused this to happen. I mean, come on, you cannot blame the innocent tiger to revert to his primal urge to feed on flesh.
We should also urge Howard Dean and Wesley Clark to call upon Congress to ban the use of microphone bashing and the use of fire extinguishers on tigers...think of the beast’s feelings!
