I got home from work yesterday and caught the last 20 minutes of Barack Obama holding mass in Berlin. And yes, it did completely creep me out. All that was needed was Leni Riefenstahl there to film it.
OK, it wasn't quite that well organized.
So, looking at the content. WOW....great hopes, NO ANSWERS!!
At what point will we finally hear from Senator Obama how is plans on doing all of the things that he talked about yesterday?
The answer is that we won't.
He can't. He was reaching well beyond what he COULD control even IF he was President.
In other words, he is not heeding the advice of Casey Kasem. While he is reaching for the stars, he is NOT keeping his feet on the ground.
When I worked in sales, I learned a key phrase. "Undersell and over deliver."
Barack Obama is EXACTLY the opposite.
Let me be clear. Barack Obama is NOT alone, John McCain and 95 percent of all other politicians do the exact same thing.
But doing so in front of 200,000 people who can't even vote for you?
Just creeps me out.
Maybe it is a bias against large German political rallies.
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The Royals broke their skid by beating the Tampa Bay Rays last night 4-2.
That should help the last day of this promotion.
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Nothing else to add really. Thank you to the folks here at HyVee for having us out the last three days and to the Royals helping us put a great promotion together.
Have a great weekend.
First off, sorry for the delay in get this posted. My internet connection is fine when on remote at HyVee, but just awkward getting all of this written up while on site.
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Do you remember the "Pine Tar Incident"? It was 24 July 1983 at Yankee Stadium. Two outs, top of the ninth and the Yankees leading 4 to 3. Royals shortstop U.L. Washington (and his toothpick) was on first base. Goose Gossage was pitching for the Yankees. George Brett came to the plate and hit it over the fence to score Washington and himself giving the Royals a 5 to 4 lead.
Billy Martin then decided to challenge Brett's bat as being illegal. Home plate Tim McClelland took the bat and measured the amount of pine tar by using home plate (17" wide, the legal limit being 18"). McClelland ruled Brett out.
Cut to the famous video of Brett running out of the dugout.
Dick Howser, manager of the Royals, immediately protests the game.
Later, American League President Lee MacPhail, a one time AND long time Yankees Executive, ruled against the Yankees.
It all comes down to Rule 1.10 (c) and how it is penalized. Since that incident, there is now a further explanation given based on this ruling.
MacPhail ruled that the bat having pine tar, while still illegal, did not impact the use of the bat or the effect of the bat on the ball. And that rule 1.10 (c) did not allow for the batter to be called out.
On 18 August 1983, the game was resumed and completed. Of course, Billy Martin had another trick he wanted to play. He claimed that there was no way to know if Washington or Brett touched all of the bases. However, this was killed when umpire Davey Phillips produced affidavits from the original umpires saying that they had touched them all.
A bizarre little note in the history of baseball...and it all happened 25 years ago today.
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Have you seen Bill O'Reilly's latest rally against MoveOn.org? Apparently, MoveOn.org is stating that Fox News Channel is racist.
George Soros is trying to discredit them, since he can't beat them.
Dirty tricks is not something that a Jew who worked with the Nazi's is above, obviously.
I agree with with O'Reilly on this issue. You do not call someone a racist or bigot without having having a LOT of evidence to back it up. I had a listener try doing that to me, I would not stand for it nor will I ever.
I also agree that if MoveOn.org is funneling money to a political candidate, that candidate needs to return that money and further distance themselves from that organization.
Barack Obama has not done this.
Which leads me to this conclusion.
MoveOn.org in is to the Democratic Party in 2008, what the Ku Klux Klan was to the Democratic Party (specifically in the South) in 1870.
Am I as bad as George Soros for saying that?
The facts are that both act on behalf of the party while attempting to give the party deniability. Show me where I am wrong.
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Have a great rest of your Thursday.
Out on remote at HyVee the next few days, so my entry today will be a little short. I will have longer and more detailed entries in the next couple of days.
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First off, I am soooooo glad to have my sons back in Jefferson City after they spent 3 and a half weeks in East Tennessee with their grandparents. I will joke about having to feed them, but I am very happy to have them back.
I also know that they had a great summer in Tennessee.
It was also nice to see Mom, as brief as her visit was. But soon, we will see them more often when they are only two and a half hours away.
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I did get a chance to see part of the Senator Obama press conference in Amman, Jordan. And it may be my personal biases, but Obama did seem a bit presumptive, not to mention a little less articulate.
Feeding my theory that he is the Democrats "W" and that is why they like him.
So add this to the lexicon of the show and blog, D.W. for Democrats W.
Of course some other terms include:
"Yellow Flag of CaCa" - the FCC compliant way to say that something is...uh, B.S.
"The Ambulance Chaser" - John Edwards, former Presidential candidate and attorney who made his millions from his personal injury law practice.
More terms to be defined as we go on.
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Have a great Wednesday, "Anything can happen day" and stop by HyVee if you are here in Jefferson City.
