Want $25 Chicago White Sox World Series Tickets?

Anonymous local lottery winner announces large block of World Series tickets to be sold for $25 apiece, limit two per person, per night, no exceptions, for White Sox home games at U.S. Cellular Field only.

Preference given to those bringing a child under the age of 15.

Eligibility requirements:

1) Must be able to produce ticket stubs for 1 person at 15 games in at least 10 different years in at least 5 different sections.

2) Season ticket holders not eligible because they have tickets already.

3) Must be able to name at least 5 members of the current White Sox lineup when claiming tickets.

4) Must be able to name at least 5 players from the years 1959 - 1990 who are not now part of team management when claiming tickets.

5) Cribsheets will not be allowed.

6) Must be able to produce identification proving residence. Must be a resident of the State of Illinois. 75% of tickets will be reserved for residents of the City of Chicago who live South of Madison Street, 15% for City of Chicago residents who live North of Madison Street. 9.95% are reserved for those who live in other parts of the 6 county area and .05% for NW Indiana.

7) 12 Tickets for "hot babes" will be held beneath the "Hot Babes Here" sign at the NE corner of the park. These lucky girls will be invited to join the donor in his luxury skybox for the game and an after party on each night of the series. If the sign is not present, this promotion has ended early due to participant enthusiasm. Non-random selection is entirely at the discretion of the donor.

8) Known ticket scalpers who attempt to apply may be given tickets with a hidden explosive ink packet that will explode three hours before game time, hopefully while they are in or near the presence of the police. If possible a wedgie will be administered as they leave.

9) Qualified members of the Red-headed League will be allotted 2 tickets, provided that certain conditions are met. If tickets are not claimed within 12 hours before game time, using the secret password and handshake, same will be turned over to the Baskerville foundation for significant use.

10) Employees, family members, bookies and health practitioners of all teams, leagues, networks, syndicates, groups, nationalities, programs, pogroms, pomegranate, peninsulas, involved or not involved in the production of baseball of any kind are ineligible for participation in this program at any time.

11) Participants must be gullible enough to believe that the Sox could have won the Pennant in any of the 45 seasons prior to this, and that this offer is legitimate, and that applications will be taken in person only at the foundation offices at 1060 West Addison, Chicago, Illinois, 60613. Once tickets are gone, no other acknowledgement of the program will be made, either fictional or non-fictional of any kind. Staff will disavow any knowledge of this offer once tickets are fully distributed.

12) All applicants must wear a yellow piece of paper approximately 3" x 4" with a hand drawn image of a sock on it somewhere on their person when applying. The name SOX must be spelled correctly on the sock. Extra credit is not given for realism, cubism, existentialism, or Dadaism. However Na-Na-ism is encouraged at all games, especially when the other team makes a big boo-boo or has to call in a relief pitcher.

13) Residents of Bridgeport are given no special advantage in this promotion but the secret tunnel entrance into the secret seats will be open at the usual time. As usual, the password is "Ritchie is our Pal!" and the donor is sponsoring free beer and pizza for the first three innings.

14) No one with a threatening sounding nickname need apply.

15) Those in any form of direct or indirect contact with persons seeing versions of this notice that have ever been transmitted or posted on the internet are disqualified for all time. The same software that allows Bill Gates to monitor who has forwarded his emails and rewards them with cash for doing so as part of a technology experiment knows that you have seen this notice and are now ineligible to apply for the tickets. It has been now modified so that it works with paper copies as well via new Amishlabs Papertrack, the new way to keep track of your papers.



Peter

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White Sox Take The American League Pennant 4-1 in 6-3 Comeback Bombing

Da White Sox. American League Champions. 2005

Yes, it has finally happened. The dream has become real. The Chicago White Sox have won the American League 2005 Championship Pennant and are resting up for the World Series starting Saturday at White Sox Park at 35th and Shields.

Many of you from other cities have heard over and over by now that this is the first time since 1959 that the Chicago White Sox have won the American League Championship Pennant. But this statistic is meaningless unless you let it sink in and think about how many Chicagoans it has affected and on such a visceral level for most, if not all of their lives.

Chicago, the region, but especially the city is a proud city, full of many accomplishments that make it one of the nation's finest cities. But for sports fans, especially those born on the South Side since about 1957, too young to remember the last World Series in 1959 at all, there has always been a little crack in the armour, a little soreness deep in a corner of the heart, a little unfilled spot, where year after year October would come and go without a White Sox pennant and often without a season of any kind to be greatful for.

We took a perverse pride in it of course and still do. If you were from the South Side and really grew up here you were a Sox fan. That was it. I was told that by both of my Grandfathers who made a point of taking my brother and I to old Comiskey park as soon as we no longer needed diaper changes and could manage to eat a hot dog and coke without a bib for one reason, one very important reason, to make very clear to us, that we were South Siders and therefore, sine qua non, we were White Sox Fans.

My dad's father was particularly urgent about the matter as his father had been around when the team started playing in the first place. This was not just a matter of geography, though that was the argument he used, as I grew older I came to understand that it was a matter of family legacy and honor. We need not be season ticket holders and we need not hate the Cubs, after all, we were Chicagoans with a capital "C" but, we were SOX fans before anything else in baseball.

Of course, they both took religion MUCH more seriously than baseball. That should tell you something. But they both loved the White Sox too. After all, a God of infinate love has room for love of the White Sox too, true?

A Matter of Faith

One has to wonder if the perpetual White Sox losses had something to do with the incredible number of prayers the team generated each season, season after season after season. I have no idea myself how many came from me each year over the years.

But if there is such a thing as prayer energy that pleases God. Wow! The problems of the Chicago White Sox have had to have been the motherlode of prayer. Maybe we just had too many other good things going for us what with not having hurricanes and giant floods, yes, we had a small one downtown but it could have been lots worse, and no plauges of locusts and whatnot. Perhaps the fates of the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs were just the price we've been paying for all of the other wonderful things we have here.

Or maybe this is God's way of making up for Macy's buying Marshall Fields. Perhaps some Field family legacy has always been in the way all these years and now its gone.
Or maybe the White Sox management finally spent enough money on the right players and hired a brilliant and charismatic Team Manager who is going to make the Chicago White Sox look like the old New York Yankees.

Of course, we still have the World Series ahead of us.

I am trying very hard to maintain the same semblance of old time Sox "be wary, be very wary, disaster could strike at any moment so be prepared, you remember what happened last season, but things look good now so let's be positive, but not too positive, because you've been crushed so many times you can hardly stand it, but man can they play baseball, and everyone knows that the National League teams are pathetic so this should be a cakewalk, but.....". But it is very hard to do with these White Sox.

The team is just too good. Da Sox.

It used to be that you could single out a name or two, and of course Crede comes to mind. But the truth is his name is easy to spell when I'm tired and the fact is that the pitching is incredible and the whole team is playing nearly perfect ball against other teams doing the same thing. Many of the Sox teams I remember watching in my youth would have been murdered by the Angels of 2005. Yes, there were many individual players who were great and fun to watch, but this, this is a TEAM.

Wow. With this much heat on, they are amazing to watch.

In some ways it is like seeing the Chicago Bulls, but instead of one Michael Jordon you have 3 or 4 pitching, 4 to 5 batting, and nearly everyone fielding, and then the rest are playing like Scotty Pippen. And the magic part is that you never know WHO will surface to make the amazing pitch, play, steal, hit, or run to first after the third strike.

Now all I have to do is wait for the Cardinals and Astros to play out as many games as possible. With a little luck they will go to game 7 that will run to 24 innings.

Well, there is supposed to be some comedy in here somewhere.

Speaking of comedy, for those who missed it Monday night, with two outs and one strike to go before the Astros could make dinner reservations all over Chicago, the St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols paid back 43,000 Texans for sticking us with George W. Bush by smacking a 3-run homer to push the Cardinals to a 5-4 victory over Huston. Game Six here we come.


The ultimate for me would be for it to be a Chicago White Sox vs. the St. Louis Cardinals World Series. With games five and a half hours away by car the ramp up in excitement would lead to an amazing battle like none the Midwest Baseball scene has observed in a long, long time.

I have heard it said that Sox vs. Cardinals would be an "easier win" for Chicago and Sox vs. Astros would be "better baseball". I don't agree. I just think that there is something classic about a Sox-Cardinals match up.

I have a reason for putting this photo up, Steve. Not to embarrass you further, I know you are a really nice guy who caught a bad break and I hope you get a book out soon about your experiences to make up for all the extra attention you've had to deal with.

I just want to say to everyone in Chicago.

DON'T DO THIS!
KEEP YOUR HANDS INSIDE THE FIELD PLEASE!

Tank you berry much. I feel much better.


Note to Mr. Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live.

I am sure that your team is working hard on your show this week (which will not be another re-run much as I enjoy David Spade's work) and has the amazing novelty of having the Chicago White Sox starting in the World Series the same day. Gee I wonder if John Goodman or Jim Belushi will be seen sneaking around your studios that night?

Da Sox!

Anyway, I had this thought about a dream skit where some die-hard Cubs Fans kidnap Steve H(B)artman (who reached for and caught the foul ball in Game Six of the 2003 National League Pennant Championship that Moses Alou was tring to catch) and tell H(B)artman he has only one way to redeem himself for interfering with the Cubs waltz to the World Series. They present him with front row tickets in the same approximate seats he sat in at Wrigley for all 7 games of the World Series.

All he has to do is sit in them for each and every game of the World Series and try to interfere, with, the special glove that they will provided him with.

They then drag in a giant 20 foot foam glove which takes up half the stage.

H(B)artman asks "But do I help the Sox win or lose"?

At that one of them says "You mean you don't know?" and the psycho music comes up in the background with red lights and he screams "Nooooooo, you have to teeeellll meee!"

At which they start laughing.

Blackout.


Well, I think it would be a pretty funny sketch anyway. Perhaps you could even hire Steve to play himself, now that would be funny.

Another funny sketch would be ghosts of players Chicago "almost wins" past and their fans, except that since there are so few of them, it would be a really short sketch. Though you could exaggerate how long its been since the Sox won by having Lincoln as one of the fans.

I put the photo in for another reason.

Notice that at the moment of the shot, Steve is looking up at the ball and cannot see Moses. Notice also that at this instant in time when he is reaching for it, the ball seems to have already passed the point where Moses can catch it, so at least from this angle it appears that there is no way that Moses could have caught the ball, Bartman or no. Notice also that while one or two have now noticed Moses, right behind Bartman there are any number of others zooming in for the ball.

My memories of the shot from the screen were that for 100 feet on either side nearly everyone was lurching to grab it. He was the unlucky one. Besides, if the game had been more tightly played it would not have been an issue. No game can really be weighed on a single play, although it can appear that a single play is decisive. The fact is, you cannot have a three run homer in the ninth unless two other players get on base and let the big hitter get into the batters box when he should not have. And, it would not have mattered (back to the Cubs) if the Cubs pitching could have controlled what followed or managing had switched pitchers in time. Ah hindsight.

These things are why baseball strategy is so akin to chess with dice.


Brewski and Brats Break


All right, I've been writing for an hour now and I am still reeling with it all. This is a staggering moment for me. One that has taken me a few days to put into words and I still can't quite get it all together.

White Sox. World Series. 46 years of waiting are over. OK, technically it was a little less than that for me because while I was alive, I do not really remember the 1959 playoffs. Still, I've been waiting since I knew what a base is.

Let's give a little prayer that the White Sox make it home this time.

Peter

P.S. One of my out of town friends was not sure whether he could root for the White Sox because they were such a good team and he always rooted for the underdogs.

I wrote back "They haven't won a pennant since 1959, and a World Series since before WWI, how much more 'under' does your dog have to be?"

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THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT

And now, E-Mail SF Theatre brings you:


THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT

(Cue space music)


"They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?"

"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."

"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."

"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."

"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."

"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they're made out of meat."

"Maybe they're like the orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."

"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take long. Do you have any idea what's the life span of meat?"

Click here for the rest of this exciting story....




If you get jokes from writers as well as everyone else in your email like I do, you get a few things that everyone else does not. With a little luck I was able to track down the author (not attached) and it turned out to be SF writer Terry Bisson who has the whole text posted on his web site.


THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT by Terry Bisson was in fact nominated for a 1991 Nebula award, one of the highest awards in Science Fiction. I have posted a segement just to get you to go see the rest. Since it is apparently circulating around the internet without attribution, I thought the least I could do is point some people back to him and his website which tells about several new interesting books he has coming up.




If you have not already right clicked on the link above to check out the rest of the story, please do, its really worth it.




While you're at it, you might check out his story Incident at Oak Ridge. I'd tell you about it, but it's classified. Let's just say that its your Op to take a visit to the twilight zone.





Live long and prosper,






Peter

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Pankaj Prakash: Bush Betrays Base

I found this article startling coming as it does from the Sierra Times, an unabashed pro conservative internet newsie that includes daily features such as "Border News", "Gun Defense News" and "Whack'em & Stack'em" a mind-boggling feature about those who are killed by Police Officers, almost reveling in the stories of the deaths.

The latter feature has article headlines like:

"Clearly a good shoot - in the back",
"Teen-age driver shot and killed",
"Former First Dog Whacked (and we don't mean Hillary)",
"Whackin' Old Abe (Lincoln)",
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/04/14/ap_article1.htm
"Whack'em & Stack'em: How to Rid a City of Homeless Bums" and possibly, the worst of the bunch
"Whack'em and Stack'em - Kill the Unarmed; No questions Asked".

Yet this self-proclaimed internet News source for "Real Americans" has decided to run an article critical of President Bush, and explaining just how far the seemingly invincible has fallen in public and party esteem.

Here's an excerpt:

Bush Betrays Base
Pankaj Prakash

Two days after winning re-election last fall, President George W. Bush declared he had earned plenty of political capital, "Now I intend to spend it." As the events of the last six months suggest, he might have already spent all of it.

Mismanagement of a national disaster, soaring gas prices, a series of investigations and indictments, a failed initiative to reform social security, a quagmire in Iraq and now his worst nightmare - his recent appointment of his crony, Harriet Miers, to the Supreme Court. Bush's second term is on a downward spiral. His approval ratings have hit a new low of 37 percent, according to a recent CBS news poll.

Bush has become a "trust me" president whom nobody trusts. Democrats never trusted him on anything anyway. But now even his own base, the conservatives, doesn't trust him anymore. All for good reason, though. They trusted him on fiscal responsibility but what they got was a president who is a spendthrift. A president who has done more discretionary spending than even Lyndon Johnson and who hasn't vetoed a single spending bill in his entire tenure. They trusted him to fight and win the War on Terror, but got a war fought with incompetence and complete lack of planning, resulting in the endless meandering in Iraq. They also trusted him to hire competent people, and above all, to appoint more justices in the mold of Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, who can move the highest court of the land decisively to the right. Instead, what they got were sometimes purely incompetent and sometimes just mediocre cronies, at every place in the government from FEMA to the Supreme Court.

Last week, after Miers' appointment, Charles Krauthammer, an arch-conservative, wrote in his weekly syndicated column, "If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the President of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her. Nominating a constitutional tabula rasa to sit on what is America's constitutional court is an exercise of regal authority with the arbitrariness of a king giving his favorite general a particularly plush dukedom." Harsh words indeed - especially when coming from his own troops on the right.">Pankaj Prakash: Bush Betrays Base: "Bush Betrays Base
Pankaj Prakash

Two days after winning re-election last fall, President George W. Bush declared he had earned plenty of political capital, and 'now I intend to spend it.' As the events of the last six months suggest, he might have already spent all of it.

Mismanagement of a national disaster, soaring gas prices, a series of investigations and indictments, a failed initiative to reform social security, a quagmire in Iraq and now his worst nightmare - his recent appointment of his crony, Harriet Miers, to the Supreme Court. Bush's second term is on a downward spiral. His approval ratings have hit a new low of 37 percent, according to a recent CBS news poll.

Bush has become a 'trust me' president whom nobody trusts. Democrats never trusted him on anything anyway. But now even his own base, the conservatives, doesn't trust him anymore. All for good reason, though. They trusted him on fiscal responsibility but what they got was a president who is a spendthrift. A president who has done more discretionary spending than even Lyndon Johnson and who hasn't vetoed a single spending bill in his entire tenure. They trusted him to fight and win the War on Terror, but got a war fought with incompetence and complete lack of planning, resulting in the endless meandering in Iraq. They also trusted him to hire competent people, and above all, to appoint more justices in the mold of Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, who can move the highest court of the land decisively to the right. Instead, what they got were sometimes purely incompetent and sometimes just mediocre cronies, at every place in the government from FEMA to the Supreme Court.

Last week, after Miers' appointment, Charles Krauthammer, an arch-conservative, wrote in his weekly syndicated column, 'If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the President of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her. Nominating a constitutional tabula rasa to sit on what is America's constitutional court is an exercise of regal authority with the arbitrariness of a king giving his favorite general a particularly plush dukedom.' Harsh words indeed - especially when coming from his own troops on the right."

How soon will it be before 2006 republican candidates start seperating themselves politically with the Commander-in-Chief? Methinks it has already begun. But is it already to late?

And you thought that his wasn't a comedy piece....

Peter

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Sox Win, Video I-Pod and Desperate Housewifes, Oh My!

What a great day!

First come the headlines about the new video iPod. I can't check it out until after the game, but it sure looks sweet to me when I see a brief glimpse of it on Channel 7 (ABC) in Chicago.

Next, the White Sox teach the Angels the meaning of "Winning Ugly" in a 2-1 9th inning win. Have to hand it to the Angels manager for a graceful way of handling it, but still, we've been on the receiving end of so many bad calls and disasters over the years, it was truly bizzare to see one go our way for a change. Of course, it would have all been meaningless without all the rest that happened in the rest of the game. But still, I haven't had that kind of feeling at the end of a sports game since Ditka switched William "The Fridge" Perry to offense and had him carry, sail, let the force be with him and levitate, yes, will the ball through the defense and over the line into the end zone for a touch down. Super Bowl shuffle indeed.

My guess: the White Sox karma is changing because that Lotto Millionare is giving money every time the Sox hit a home run to charity and it is adding up to charity's benefit, our joy is just a side effect.

Yes, with iTunes 6, I found, whether you get one of those new, sleek, sexy, thinner, $299 or $399 video iPods with their white or black shells and a great color screen, you can still now download music videos and episodes for 5 TV series with I am sure more to come.

From ABC you can get episodes from Lost, The Night Stalker, and of course, Desperate Housewives. Two kids shows from the Disney Channel are also available.

STEVE JOBS: ADD ALIAS THIS WEEK PLEASE! I MEAN IT! COME ON! LET'S GET A MOVE ON HERE! WHY ADD NIGHT STALKER WHEN WE NEED OUR ALIAS FIX! SOME OF US HAVE KIDS TO PUT TO BED AT 7 PM!

What a brilliant idea.

The video announcing all this can be found at The Apple Special Event website but you will need Quicktime 7 to see it which can be downloaded free there.

Don't miss the free 20 jazz number by Winston Marsalis and friends at the end, awsome.

Jobs is funny and it is the best explanation of the new Mac tech you are likely to get.

Oh, the new flat Macs are tres cool, thinner and do more too.

Steve, This blog would be happy to review them for you, just send them on.

What a day!

Oh, the iTunes 6 download if free, did I mention that? It now has the music player market by the throat. As does the iPod have the flash player by the throat. Of course, the new iPod IS the flash video player market, and holds 25,000 photos.

Wow.

Santa, you know where to find me.

Peter

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Delaware Supreme Court Extends First Amendment Protection to Online Comments

If you are a blogger or are thinking about making a comment on a blog the ruling of the Delaware Supreme Court this week extends First Amendment Free Speech Protection to those who write or make comments on blogs whether signed or anonymously.

The ruling may not be to everyone's favor, because the posting in question contained numerous obscenities, however, as a protection of our rights of freedom of expression it comes at a time when many Americans are concerned about whether our rights are being usurped by the current administration via the Patriot act and their direction in appointing U.S. Supreme court justices.

This is no small ruling. This puts the home publisher on the same footing as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal or The Chicago Tribune when it comes to the protections guaranteed in the First Amendment of the constitution. It may also imply other protections awarded to the Fourth Estate for bloggers who publish regularly, such as the right to confidentiality of news sources, though the Judith Miller case has once again placed this in doubt.

Why is this important? Because for most of printing history, the ability to communicate messages to a large audience was restricted to a very few, mostly the wealthy, who could afford printing presses or scribes and the people to manufacture and distribute the news.

Today, it is obvious that the internet provides an international audience to a blogger, should he or she find it. What is not so obvious are the implications of the low cost of entry into the distribution of each individual's opinion and the impact that can have on the spread of ideas, ideas that can change the world.

True, once mass media was established, news could travel worldwide overnight. But the media was a self-governing filter for ideas, one controlled by commercial and other interests.

The internet however, lacks those controls for better or worse. This means that it is both a slush pile and fertile ground for new ideas. However, the best of those ideas can spread extremely quickly bypassing the media if desired. Of course, bad ideas can spread too.

So it is worth thinking about this historic week. The U.S. Supreme Court could still weigh in with a different opinion on this issue, but it is very unlikely. The protection of the Constitution of the United States is of course is that Court's job, and it is usually only the state courts that would seek to erode those rights somehow.

Were the U.S. Supreme Court to attempt to erode this right would reflect a very serious problem with the constitution of the court indeed. Here's a link for further reading:

“Delaware Supremes extend First Amendment Protection to online Comments” by Bob Cauthorn

Thanks to The Lorelle on Wordpress Blog for bringing this to my attention.

Peter

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Darpa Robot Race Update: Standford Racing Team's Stanley Crosses Finish Line First

The Stanford Racing Team's Robot vehicle "Stanley" was the first to cross the finish line today with a current adjusted time of time of 7 hours and 55 minutes. However, their final tally will wait until all the vehicles come in with their times, as the times for each vehicle were staggered 5 minutes apart and other factors are considered.

Red Team's Sandstorm, which crossed the finish line at 4:18pm Central is currently in first place with and adjusted time of 7hrs and 54 minutes.

Red Team Two and their Robot Vehicle Highlander are currently in third place in the DARPA grand Challenge 2005 race which is still ongoing, having crossed the finish line in 8 hrs and 1 minute after 132 miles traveled.



Click on the link to see then the STATUS BOARD to see current adjusted times, or the course to see the progress of the last three teams in the running, Grey Team running Graybot 5h 51M apporaching marker G, Team Terra Max running Terra Max 5h 25 minutes approaching marker F, and Insight Racing's Desert Rat 5h 17 minutes approaching marker D.

Final racing times are impacted by the finishing times of other vehicles are determined, taking into account their start times as well.

Bear in mind that the 16 teams who washed out all passed marker A, last year's 7 mile milestone.

This year, officials say, contestents who rely on GPS only to complete the contest will probably not suceed due to the tunnels and obstacles on the course.

Webcasts from the Darpa site will continue through the day.

Peter



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Sox Win! Sox Win! Sox Win!

Solves the whole Dewey beats Truman headline fiasco don't it?

But it was the Chicago White Sox who in another nailbiter of a game, especially the sixth inning, which lasted almost an hour, beat the Boston Red Sox, 5 to 3, making a three game sweep of their American League East Division Playoffs. The last time the White Sox made it this far was before World War I.

I think, I think, I think, this is the year I can hope again, says the little boy within me.

Peter

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DeLay Unsportsmanlike Conduct?

Starting to look like a double bogey to me.

If they go after congressmen for these kinds of things, seems to me the lobbyists and their clients should be equally liable.

After all, we don't just want to create a Government of fall guys do we? Well maybe the lobbyists do so that they can sneak away to play another day.

But here are some key questions.

Why should we let them?

Do lobbyists already have far too much power?

Why do we tolerate that?

After all compadres, given the right circumstances, this could easily be an add about a Democrat.

Less likely, maybe, but still. Always good to take a look at primary causes.

For those hiding under a rock, DeLay was indicted last week by a Texas Grand Jury in a Federal Conspiracy charge that he denies vigorously that states that he and others planned to go around election funding laws to move money by corporations into his last election campaign. The charge is essentially that the corporations donated money to a political group that was eligible to receive it and that this group, which if it had passed along appropriate individual donations would have done no wrong, mixed in the corporate gifts with the individual gifts illegally and with DeLay's knowledge. Confusing the matter is that the leader of the fight brigade is a long time Texas Democratic Political Combatant and Texas State Attorney General Ronnie Earle who has been a longtime foe of DeLay and whom DeLay has claimed has launched this indictment purely for political reasons.

Oh! How Shakespearke would have loved to be alive this year.

In other late breaking news: Federal Auditors determined Friday that the Bush Administration broke the law when it bought that really nice news coverage from that really sweet Armstrong Williams. The GAO called it covert propaganda, and told the U.S. education department that it must turn in handwritten sheets with "I will not hire an outside news media person to write propaganda for the education department ever again." written 1000 times for ever person in the U.S. Department of Education.

Peter

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