INTERESTING: Baseball rules changes

Sunday, February 18, 2007

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-ruleschanges&prov=ap&type=lgns

Scuffing baseball could lead to 10-game suspension for non-pitchers
February 16, 2007

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NEW YORK (AP) — A major league position player who scuffs or defaces a baseball would be ejected and receive an automatic 10-game suspension under changes approved Friday by the sport’s playing rules committee.

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I like baseball. Don’t know why. Not on tv. Not with distractions. But there are somethings I don’t like. Domes.

Or any game with umpires, referee, or judges. It just seems that the politics of human beings gets in the way of the sport. Was it a foul or wasn’t it. Who did what first. And, my particular favorite in bball, the second foul gets called.

I like games where it’s absolute like how far did you throw that caber. a caber is the big heavy Scottish stick that drunken Scotsmen and other celts throw around for fun. No ref. The contestants measure the divot the darn thing leaves. There are no arguments since it’s usually obvious to the naked eye just whose hole is where. That’s my kind of “referee – less” game!

In baseball, the umpire can really screw a player, manager, and team. The sport needs a feedback loop. I don’t know how to construct it. But, I’m tired of seeing games decided by “zebra ball”.

It’s amusing when the technology shows you the exact path of the ball and the umpire’s call doesn’t match the box. You can usually tell when the call is wrong because the TV folks don’t show the box on THOSE pitches. Only on the ones that confirm the umpire on a close call.

Sheesh, like I didn’t notice it was a bad call. It’s dishonest TV reporting.

And, you trust these guys to report news or entertain you?

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LIBERTY: Stop the gooferment’s indoctrination of future voters into the worship of the gooferment itself

Sunday, February 18, 2007

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/23/
534422-bush-reintroduces-school-voucher-plan?
friends=true&last=1171640533&threadId=70499&cmt=539333

http://tinyurl.com/2jma8b

Bush Reintroduces School Voucher Plan
Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:31 PM EST
Nancy Zuckerbrod, AP Writer
A-P White House correspondent Mark Smith reports the president is looking to domestic issues in tonight’s speech as a possible path for cooperation with Congress.

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The Bush administration is calling on Congress to make changes to the No Child Left Behind law, including placing more emphasis on science and giving poor students private school vouchers.

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(1) The gooferment should have NO role in propagandizing future voters about the “government is your Friend and Protector” (right up until it kills you!)

(2) It’s immoral to steal from taxpayers to “eddeycate” other people’s children (It’s just more welfare!)

(3) One plank of the Commie Manifesto was public schools to make “cannon fodder ready” compliant sheep for shearing and killing as needed.

End socialism now! It will impoverish us, enslave us, and eventually kill us and whatever made America great — liberty.

This is one of my big three demands: End the dole! Give us honest money! Stop “public education”. It one of our three biggest challenges to freedom.

NEWSVINE: http://tinyurl.com/2jma8b

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RANT: Washington Post exposes neglect of the combat vets. Disgraceful.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article
/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172.html

http://tinyurl.com/32sfbd

Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army’s Top Medical Facility

By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 18, 2007; Page A01

Five and a half years of sustained combat have transformed the venerable 113-acre Walter Reed Army Medical Center into a holding ground for physically and psychologically damaged outpatients.

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Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan’s room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.

This is the world of Building 18, not the kind of place where Duncan expected to recover when he was evacuated to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Iraq last February with a broken neck and a shredded left ear, nearly dead from blood loss. But the old lodge, just outside the gates of the hospital and five miles up the road from the White House, has housed hundreds of maimed soldiers recuperating from injuries suffered in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The common perception of Walter Reed is of a surgical hospital that shines as the crown jewel of military medicine. But 5 1/2 years of sustained combat have transformed the venerable 113-acre institution into something else entirely — a holding ground for physically and psychologically damaged outpatients. Almost 700 of them — the majority soldiers, with some Marines — have been released from hospital beds but still need treatment or are awaiting bureaucratic decisions before being discharged or returned to active duty.

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This is inexcusable. And, people think the gooferment “cares”! It cares about itself. Not it’s “castaways”. I’d house the President here for the remainder of his term. And, I’d put the next one there to! Think it’d get fixed? If it didn’t then I’d really wonder what the gooferment could do about anything,

 

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Here’s my note on Newsvine. Please highlight the story by voting it up.

http://reinkefj.newsvine.com/_news/2007/02/18/574593-soldiers-face-neglect-
frustration-at-armys-top-medical-facility-washingtonpostcom?threadId=77695&cmt=539327

http://tinyurl.com/2hhl96

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Maybe the story can get some action if it gets some traction. I’m sure the politicians of both ilks will just wish it away. No votes to be had solving it. No big campaign contributions from these vets or their families. No good can come out of it for them. Maybe it can be voted up into the conscience of America. It we still have one?

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