“And the Dodgers roll over.” — Vin Scully
Rob Stone is the idiot I quoted earlier, and it was in fact Sid Waddell who’s his partner on the air.
What is this? I turn on the Dodgers/Padres game, and I see it’s 3-3 in the 7th. “Hey, they can win this one,” I think to myself, but NO. When I turned it on, Mike Cameron was down 0-2, but then at 1-2 he hit a three run homer to take a solid San Diego lead.
What is wrong with this team?
I love reducing taxes, so that means I love trade agreements that convince people in Washington to cut taxes on Americans who buy imports.
But upon hearing that the Doha round of WTO negotiations is dead, I’m not bothered. The less the US has to deal with international organizations the better, I say.
After all, while the Doha round has been going on, President Bush has concluded tariff-reducing treaties with at least Singapore, Australia, Morocco, Jordan, and Chile. That’s five separate tax cuts that have gone virtually unheralded.
And the less we fight with Lula over how to treat agriculture in the WTO, the more progress we can make with other countries, and the more import tax cuts we can get through the Senate.
Florian’s on a roll as PrBoom 2.4.3 is out now. Not much from me in this release, though I did add some more touchups to the Mac launcher.
The Dodgers have traded Sandy Alomar Jr. to the White Sox for a minor league pitcher. Jason Repko is expected to come off the DL and take his place with the team.
That scared me for a minute seeing that headline though. I was imagining the Dodgers giving up on the season and selling off players…
I mean sure, they’re now 4 games back in fourth place, are riding a 5-game losing streak, and in fact are 1-10 since the break, but there’s a lot of time left including a lot of games within the division.
Michelle Malkin was famously doubtful of Julie Myers’ ability to do the job well as the head of ICE, as was I in light of the President’s extremist views on open borders, but Myers is trying to put on a show with a series of raids across industries and states.
Employers of illegal aliens have actually been arrested on felony charges. That’s more serious than some of us were even asking for. But, before I start heaping praise on the Bush administration, I want to see this barrage continued indefinitely. Enforcing these laws needs to be a serious effort, not just an opportunity to boost credibility.
Depending on the source you use, the high yesterday in Moreno Valley was either 110, 114, or 119 degrees, and I’d guess it was toward the high end of that range. What a day to watch Blazing Saddles:
They way you boys are lollygagging, you’d think it’s a hundred and twenty degrees! It can’t be hotter than a hundred and fourteen!
Republicans are pandering to the NAACP but all they’re going to do is make Republicans unhappy AND make it harder on Republican states for the next 25 years.
This is frustrating to actually see them repass the Voting Rights Act virtually unchanged from 1982.
Pearls Before Swine is off the list, for going from making political jokes, to devoting a strip just to lecture about campaign finance.
Buzz off, Stephan Pastis. If I wanted to read conspiracy theories I’d read Mother Jones, not the funnies.