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Work, baseball, and politics have taken precedence over the blog for a week or so - and will continue to do so as long as the Brewers stay alive and the election is close (is it still close enough to call 'close'?). City budget time is also around the corner - as soon as we get the Mayor's budget....
Spent a couple days up in Osceola (Osceola, Wisconsin --) and St. Croix Falls this week for work. Too bad there isn't more railroad activity up there, it's beautiful area around the Dalles of the St. Croix River. Interstate State Park - WDNR. The Saint Croix National Scenic River.
Here's a link to somebody else photos: St. Croix Interstate Park/St. Croix River pictures from national ... and a book on the geology: Geology of Ice Age National Scientific Reserve of Wisconsin ...
And gas was 'only' $3.32 a gallon (and now Area gas prices fall as low as $3.15 per gallon). It made me want to drive around so I needed to buy more gas....
Listening to a book on CD is a great way to while away the time while tooling down the Interstate. Sherlock Holmes a Baker Street dozen / , a collection of BBC radio shows from 1954 featuring John Gielgud as Holmes, Ralph Richardson (screenonline: Richardson, Ralph (1902-1983) Biography) as Watson, and Orson Welles as Moriarty, is just about perfect. Richardson captures the essence of Doyle's intelligent Watson and not the bumbling fool portrayed in the movies by Nigel Bruce.
Amazon: Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Did OJ get convicted because he was guilty or was it 'just payback'? Jurors disagreed with O.J.'s '95 acquittal I assume when he said 'just payback' his attorney meant 'mere' payback, as in unfair retribution, and not that the payback was in fact a just and fair balancing of the scales. Let's hope he was factually guilty and that the jurors were able to separate their opinions from their judgment.
If I buy juice from Karleton Armstrong am I 'palling around' with domestic terrorists? (Sterling Hall bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). The McCain campaign is assailing Obama's 'connections' to a 1960's radical, but it's just another silly and desperate attack that does not hold up to scrutiny. Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths
Now that an Obama presidency looks more and more likely, I expect a brief McCain bounce in the next few weeks as voters reconsider their choice one last time. Projections: http://www.electoral-vote.com/ and RCP Electoral Map and http://presidentforecast.andreamoro.net/. Political markets: http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/quotes/Pres08_Quotes.html and Intrade Prediction Markets
The Senate made the bailout/rescue/thingy worse and then the House bought it. Actually some of the changes were positive, but had nothing to do with the financial crash. Barrons has some of the best analysis of what is going on and you don't have to buy their viewpoint to appreciate the insights. You do have to buy the magazine, however, because the best stuff like Randall Forsyth's column isn't free. How dare they charge for stuff on the Internet!
Was Sarah winking at me personally? Watch the video in the previous post.
Brewers win without a homerun!?! And I was there. They really should pay me to go. Bunch of pessimists in the stands. There's a core of Milwaukee fans that turns brutally negative at the first sign of adversity. I wonder how the guy who screamed "F**k you Torres!!" feels this morning. A win today with Suppan and CC goes on full rest in Philly.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
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If I buy juice from Karleton Armstrong am I 'palling around' with domestic terrorists?
ReplyDeleteWell, if Karl hosted a fund raising party at his home for you when you first ran for city council and if you and Karl served on a foundation together for several years, then I'd say, yes,like Obama, you are palling around with domestic terrorists.
What is that Ayers and Dohrn saw in Obama?
How do you know he didn't?
ReplyDeleteSo the passage of more than a quarter century of time makes no difference?
"What is that Ayers and Dohrn saw in Obama?" Nice smear.
Are you seriously arguing that Obama supports domestic terrorism?
And is the basis of the allegation that he first met and associated with Ayers more than 25 years after Ayers crimes?
At this point, I happy to forgo all of it and vote for Obama.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the current President "this sucker could go down" and in more ways then one. Perhaps, this is the reason that he has been buying land in South America.
Do you have any suggestions about catching mice? Peanut butter OR Cheese?
For mice, try a cat. The cat will catch and dispose of properly.
ReplyDeleteUnless you want to eat the mouse yourself.
Are you saying Bush is buying land in the bush?
A Cat?
ReplyDeleteHave you lost your mind? Our last CAT would not stop peeing. It was sent to monona to torture me.
I am going with Peanut Butter.
Yes, he owns and has bought a big chuck of land in I believe Paraguay.
Perhaps, he wants to raise dexter cattle and chickens.
Henny Penny
My cat just eats the heads of mice, leaving me with the disgusting torso to deal with. I think maybe we feed him too much.
ReplyDeleteIs there a fund to which I can contribute to help Bush buy that land and move away? Hey, wait a minute - South America? Isn't that where all the fascist war criminals run to so they can avoid prosecution for war crimes?
South America? I thought it was South Africa (thus the bush comment).
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