Hardworking Baseball Fans…
Posted by TFG on 5th October 2006
…can follow the action on the very cool Sportsline MLB GameCenter. I might just as well leave because I’m doing nothing but staring at this screen.
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October 5, 2006
Aussies think bigger than Texans
Posted by TFG on 5th October 2006
Medium being 55,000 (fifty five thousand) acres and small being 16,000 (sixteen thousand).
I wonder if there’s even a small spread left in our Great Republic.
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Congresscritters and Our Yoots
Posted by TFG on 5th October 2006
I’m pretty much with Big Bill Quick on this one:
My last take: It wasn’t sexual relations, it wasn’t illegal, and they weren’t helpless children.
But it was gay, and that’s the real source of almost all of the hyperbolic outrage.
And I’ll add this — where are the parents of these poor little lambs? The whole thing’s driven, stem to stern & port to starboard, by paid political operatives. Literally the only word on parents that’s bubbled up was very early in the story, when it was revealed that at least one set of them didn’t want to make any waves for Their Precious or Themselves. One Mike Seate types a little bit about that:
Worst of all, when the page let his parents know that Foley had been sexually harassing him over the Web, mom and dad made a scary decision.
The parents reportedly decided that they would rather drop the matter than pursue charges against Foley.
Now a kid sharp and mature enough to work as a page in the halls of Congress might not be some innocent babe in the woods. But a 16-year-old is still a kid. And like all kids, this one needed the protection of his parents in a difficult, potentially threatening situation.
Instead, mom and dad declined to get involved, possibly because they feared making waves against a powerful elected official. This kid’s parents invested energy and schooling to ensure their son would have an inside line to the world of political power and the privilege that comes with it. Their investment was large enough that they didn’t want to squander it on anything, not even when it came to inappropriate contact from a congressman.
Sad, innit, that papa weren’t man enough to take either a shotgun or a megaphone to the steps of Foley’s office?
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