On Take Your Child to Work Day I wonder how many cases of Take Your Child Work Day is really another reason for a Kid to Miss School Day. So I ask this question – Why isn’t this day held during the summer? Here is the Wikipedia reference about this day. On President Obama’s First [...]
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On Opinions in the Shorts: Vol. 22
Posted in Opinions in the Shorts, Politics, tagged Arlen Specter, Democrats, First 100 Days, John Demjanjuk, Kevin Huber, Politics, President Obama, Recession, Republicans, Take Your Child to Work Day on April 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
On Torture
Posted in Politics, tagged Bush Administration, Congress, Democrats, Department of Defense, Geneva Convention, GOP, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, Republicans, Senator Leahy, Speaker Pelosi, Torture on April 29, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Unfortunately and predictably, the torture/waterboarding news is playing out on party lines. On one side the partisan Democrats are trying to use the law to get-back-at the Bush administration; and then we have the GOP partisans defending their past judgments while labeling the opposition as un-American and terrorist sympathizers. Of course both sides uses rationale [...]
On 32
Posted in Numbers, tagged 32, Numbers, Numerology, thirty two on April 28, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Earlier this month, my wife and I celebrated our anniversary. With that thought in mind, here’s to number 32. History 32nd U.S. president was Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd VP was John Vance Garner 32 A.D. was a leap year starting on a Tuesday In 32 BC the Roman Senate declares war upon Mark Antony and [...]
On Bits of Baseball
Posted in Baseball, Sports, Trivia, tagged Baseball, Baseball nicknames, Baseball science, Baseball stadiums, Baseball trivia, Bernie Williams, Chris Berman, Jim Bowden, MLB, MLB Cities, Nicknames, Stadium trivia, Take Me Out to the Ball Game on April 27, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Stadium Trivia Baseball has a reach history in these current MLB cities. Match the stadium with the city. Matches occur only once and all are used. Some easy ones, but I believe most something challenging here because not all were MLB teams. By the way, some of these also had other names during their history. [...]
On a Monday for Saturday (4/25/1976)
Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, Sports, tagged 1976, American Flag, April 25, Baseball, Flag burning, Los Angeles Dodgers, Rick Monday on April 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
April 25, 1976 was not a Monday …. not a Saturday … but coincidentally sandwiched between them …. Sunday …. and a Sunday at a ballpark. Rick Monday was a bonus baby signed by the Kansas City A’s out of Arizona State. He played 19 seasons on 4 teams with respectable stats over his 1986 [...]
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