Played hooky this afternoon with three of my baseball-loving colleagues. Had a perfect front row spot at 6th Ave/50th St to see the Hall of Famers and current All-Stars. Among the HOFers: Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Bob Gibson, Ernie Banks, Cal Ripken, George Brett, etc., etc. A baseball fan's dream. And it was free. NYC at its best.

Pat's vocal amplitude is a good match for Matthews, but the concept of a dignified withdrawal once the fight has been called in the opponent's favor is not in his vocabulary.

Somehow the pathetic spectacle of a defeated ideology battling beyond the possibility of redemption is glorified in the label "HE'S A FIGHTER." What does that mean? Do you have to literally decapitate your enemy to shut them up?

How exactly does the term CIVILIZATION apply to CONS? The problem appears to be that their hubris is based on a bottomless funding stream that cant be dammed since THEY OWN THE BANKS. The CONS have transferred the US TREASURY to the FRB PRIVATE BANK so the PEOPLE are out of the loop. To get it back, it appears based on their lack of civility, seems to require VIOLENT REVOLUTION.

Why cant the OLD MEN who are willing to send the youth to DIE for their ideals, get in the ring with their peers and settle the progressive redistribution of wealth according to Kelso's "BINARY ECONOMICS" already, so the rest of us can live in peace SUSTAINABLY?

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War.

He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel....

And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" - with his mouth.
~Mark Twain

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
~John F. Kennedy, 1961

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
~Albert Einstein

You want barbarian style combat, great. I say put O'Really and Olbermann in the THUNDERDOME. Then BHO and McBush, followed by Harry Reid ... etc.

http://airamerica.com/node/80801/458196#comment-458196

http://airamerica.com/node/80830/458309#comment-458309

BTW:
The crap about blacks taking responsibility for women who are not on birth control having kids, is a strawman. The fact is that WHITES proportionally have a WORSE RECORD of abandonment despite having fewer obstacles to higher education and advancement in the workplace, besides the hiring barriers that's a given.

Targeting black men for criticism may be politically correct, but it's counter productive to resolving the issues that result in broken and dysfunctional homes.

For that matter, what happened to that gaggle of white girls in Massachusetts who were thought to have made a pregnancy pact? Where's the OUTRAGE about the surplus low pigment kids that the STATE will have to support?

PS:
Maddow on the shrub: "I am loathed to respond to a POTUS candidate" ... HA!!! GREAT CATCH, LOL!!!

"Genius" whispered RM ... HUH? It's FUCKING BRILLIANT re McSame's energy policy differentiation from the shrub. Haven't you seen Boston Legal?

BED BATH AND BEYOND ... THAT's THE TICKET!!!!!!!!!

We have a winner!

"...I think the American people expect more than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light a candle that can guide us....

Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do....The problems are not solved and the battles are not all won -- and we stand today on the edge of a New Frontier -- the frontier of the MILLENNIUM -- a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats....

"Can a nation organized and governed such as ours endure? This is the real question.

Have we the nerve and will? Can we carry through in an age where we will witness not only new breakthroughs in weapons of destruction - but also a race for mastery of the sky and the rain, the oceans and the tides, the far side of space and the inside of men's minds?...

"'Give me your help, your hand, your voice, ... IMPEACH THE EVILDOERS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.orwelltoday.com/jfkmastery.shtml

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Peekskill is NOT NYC!!!

The SAB agreed tonight to advise nmhank that we think he's a great guy and that we hope he continues to contribute to the blog. The blog is a better place when you're here, nmhank.

the comments on this blog just keep getting weirder and weirder.
i miss when it was worth reading the comments.

"You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one."
-John Lennon

RFTWH is swinging away from truth and starting to discuss myths. Mostly Republican-concocted myths. Why can't we educate journalists better, so that they no longer feel a steady diet of soap opera-style political stories is a comfort zone?