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ADDENDUM, December 5, 2007 --- Hillary's Glass Jaw : Was it Mike Tyson who said " Everybody has a plan until they get hit. " ( ? ) What is an extremely cogent philosophy in the sport of Boxing is also an excellent philosophy that applies to the art of Politics. If Michael will allow me to interpret --- Boxing, like Life, is not all about actions of an Offensive nature, but Defense is sometimes called into play, particularly when a body gets hit. Hillary Clinton received a hammer blow of her own device when she walked into the world of Eliot Spitzer's Driver's License Fiasco. You remember, don't you? During another boring campaign debate she responded to a question about Driver's Licenses and Illegal Aliens by humming and hawing through at least five different shades of meaning, in such a way as to make Ralph Kramden appear to be a brother of Demosthenes. From that moment on, the Hillster has been on the wrong foot, always on the defensive, and sinking in the polls in every state. In her political career away from Bill, Hillary has always had an easy time of it in her own election campaigns. In 2000, surrounded by circling rings upon rings of Secret Service agents, Hillary crawled, ever turtle-like, to an easy win in her NY Senate race. In 2006, there was no campaign for re-election because there was not opposition. One year later, something like 99 out of 100 New Yorkers are still uncertain about the fact whether the Republican Party nominated a woman rather than a man to oppose her ( or was it an aardvark? ). Because aardvarks usually don't beat humans in New York, Hillary won in a rout. But that Ralph Kramden moment has knocked Mrs. Clinton for a loop and she seems unable to get up. With Huma Abedin ( Hillary's rumored inamorata ) constantly by her side, and dummy questions spooned to Hillary by staff and supporters, she has yet to right herself. Her head hanging low and her arms never off the ropes, she had become a semi-conscious Balooka, desperate to land a wild haymaker, all panic and no science. Her latest pathetic attempt at self-defense has been her claim that Obama was such a bad boy in Kindergarten that he couldn't stop telling lies about wanting to be President someday! If she ever finds out that he might have cheated during an open-book test in the Third Grade, Obama had better run off to Illinois and never come back!
There has always been something of the turtle about the way Hillary campaigns --- slow and steady. Amphibians are wonderful creatures. When a terrapin is swimming in a pond and suddenly senses danger, it takes in a big gulp of air, filling its lungs, and then slowly sinks to the bottom; after a few minutes beneath a pile of old tires, it surfaces topside, only to repeat the process until the danger finally goes away. Can Hillary continue to imitate the amphibian? Does she have the lung capacity? Will she get stuck under a pile of old tires? Stay tuned.
ADDENDUM, December 1, 2007 --- Shapeless & Empty ( Informe et Vide ) : That's the phrase the French Press often uses when discussing a backwoods politician who, having come to Paris on a day-trip, gets up to speak in the National Assembly only when the most insignificant and trivial laws are brought to the floor for debate. The two front-running Republican Presidential Candidates, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, can be said to suffer from the same political disease. They both have fathers who distinguished themselves by doing louche things : in 1968, having come back from South Vietnam, and declaring that he had been " Brainwashed " there, Gov. George Romney of Michigan promptly saw his Presidential Ambitions sail down the toilet; in the thirties, Rudy's Pa, who couldn't make the cut on the Mafia Varsity, mugged a Milkman in Manhattan and did a stretch upstate for it. Son Mitt has gone about his political life in much the same manner as his father --- in a perpetually confused state. By running to left of Senator Ted Kennedy in 1994, he lost. By running to the right of President George W. Bush in D. C. for Governor of Mass. in Boston in 2002, he won and for four years managed to do very little in office, waiting for marching orders from legislative Democrats through the entire length of his term. The only cops Rudy's father knew, except for the cop who busted him, were crooked ones. What a disappointment Son Rudy turned out to be! Tough Federal Prosecutor, Tough NYC Mayor, ever at the ready to dole out life sentences to his father's Mafia Heros and send up the river, for 3 to 9, anybody so much as caught spitting in the street! But, on Wednesday, it was revealed that, when he was Mayor, Giuliani directed that his out-of-town expenses be juggled ( scroll down ) because that's just something you do when you're married and your girlfriend lives in the Hamptons, even if you have to take money away from cripples and paupers to do it ( did somebody say " Misappropriation of Public Funds, " by any chance, hmmm? )! Rudy, you'll make your father proud yet!
What have Republican voters done to deserve such buffoons? But judging by the full throated cheers heard at the debates, Republicans, those who have bothered to show up anyway, seem captivated by the spectacle of two clowns mouthing stupidities and doing tricks for audience approval. Reminiscent of a fat mother stuffing her fatter son with candy bars, and who stands over his shoulder and smiles when he belches, Republican debate audiences seem to be egging Mitt and Rudy on, hoping that they'll make complete asses of themselves! Disgusting.
ADDENDUM, November 29, 2007 --- On 9-12, The World Was Still the Same : It Stayed Crooked! More than any other American politician, Rudy Giuliani, on September 11, 2001, then in his final four months as NYC's Mayor, profited politically and financially from that tragic day. Nothing but a glorified undertaker, he presided over hundreds of funerals in his ebbing time as Mayor. After he left office he became a multi-millionaire through speaking engagements and by selling himself as the Mr. Clean of " Security Consultants. " The Corporate Media, ever obedient, worshiped him as a new 21st century Jesus, tough but fair and Time's Man of the Year®. The chickens may have been scattered by the explosions of 9-11 but they have now come home to roost. It seems that St. Rudy billed New York City for out-of-town police protection by using bookkeeping of a highly dubious nature. Like many men who are married and want to keep a little bit on the side, Mayor Rudy wished to hide his comings and goings; so that he might visit his girlfriend in the Hamptons and still have access to the public purse, Mayor Rudy directed that any money spent in his wayward romancing be juggled over to other Mayoral agencies where evidence of his downtime activities would be difficult to find. Now some of those bills have floated down from the skies : $10,054 to the NYC Office for People with Disabilities ( wheelchairs ); $29,757 to the NYC Procurement Policy Board ( gold-plated paper clips ); $34,000 to NYC Loft Board ( derelict housing reclamation ); and $400,000 to NYC Assigned Counsel Plan ( legal defense for paupers ). All money spent in a good cause --- to show a girl a Rudy good time! Hey, Pat Robertson, how does your 21st century Jesus look now? --- a little tarnished around the halo?
ADDENDUM, November 28, 2007 --- Mince! Relative calm has returned to Villiers. The " Forces of Order, " so the French term for police goes, have proven too great and too numerous for the Third World marauders in Villiers and in the few adjoining towns to contend with. Unlike the Paris Ring Riots of October & November, 2005, the riots in Villiers have not spread. What was a major exercise in muscle-flexing for the Third World in France in 2005 is only a minor bit of throat clearing in 2007 --- so far. There is already talk of a " dialogue with the youth " coming out of the mouths of politicians so a NEXT TIME is guaranteed. Of course, the only way to settle the hash of France's foreign marauders is a healthy programme of deportation or 90 days in the pokey for rioters caught in the act of rioting, but French politicians are afraid that stern measures will be welcomed by the Third World mobile guerrilla army, which is ever ready to march into the streets and commit mayhem. Thus the day of reckoning is postponed just a little longer. But that day is not far off. France knows that the debate over Immigration has long since ceased. The Third World & France have not succeeded in mixing. It is a worsening situation of vinegar and water. The last dog has already been hung.
ADDENDUM, November 27, 2007 --- Just Ten Miles North of the Eiffel Tower : The Butcher's Bill, thanks to Third World Immigration, keeps coming due. Villiers, and its neighboring towns, continued to go up in smoke on Monday, and into the small hours of Tuesday morning. Third World hatred of the West continues to wound and to burn --- here are the latest reports, some of them confused and inexact : Scores of police & fire vehicles have been put to the torch ... 77 policemen have been brought in wounded, 5 of that number have injuries of a grave nature ... entire streets in Villiers now stand in smoldering ruins ... as dawn broke, Snipers throughout Villiers continued to take potshots at any white ( usually government ) face, foolhardy enough to be on the streets ... one TV news crew escaped Villiers after receiving a gentle beating; their lives saved, they were lucky to lose only their camera equipment ... those Gas Stations, that have not yet been wrecked or firebombed, owe their survival to their owners, who have stood guard over their property with brandished rifles and clubs, the latter usually studded with nails and barbwire ... throughout the night police have liberally used concealing-fog grenades, teargas cannisters, and rubber bullets; no marauders have been reported killed ... will tonight bring yet another opportunity to challenge the West for turf? Stay Tuned.
ADDENDUM, November 26, 2007 --- Villiers ( France ) : Latest Dispatches ( Translations - Italo ). Last night ( Sunday ) cars were set alight right after a collision between a motor scooter and a patrol car took place. Two teenagers, on the scooter which was racing through Villiers streets at high speeds, were killed instantly upon impact with the patrol car. An angry mob soon gathered at the scene of the crash. Early reports this morning ( Monday ) indicate that twenty police and firemen have been wounded during the small hours by a combination of hurled debris, smoke rockets, and Molotov Cocktails. The local police station, at Villiers, has been damaged by fire in what appears to have been a coordinated mortar attack. The police station in nearby Arnouville has been looted --- part of the invading mob was seen exiting the Arnouville station sporting police caps and helmets. One Arnouville resident claims to have witnessed a gang of toughs wearing full police uniforms and making obscene gestures at retreating police. However there are other reports indicating that the young residents of Arnouville are in a generally jolly mood, unlike those of Villiers, who seem bent on wholesale destruction. So far, reports indicate that there have only been seven arrests in Villiers; these arrests were effected at the scene of a jewelry store, its windows smashed to shards.
In
the " Infiltration Period " of the Seventies,
when black irregular forces from Mozambique crossed into Rhodesia to
burn white farming plantations, kill isolated white farmers and
engage Rhodesian Army forces ( consisting for the most part of Umtali
region and Que Que " Rented " troops, White Rhodesian conscripts and
White and Black South African mercenaries ), the term constantly used
in the West for a new Black Rhodesia ( Zimbabwe ) was " rollback. " It
was as if the roads, the plantations and the White-only government
of Rhodesia's settler population could be speedily rolled up and placed
in a carpet bag and chucked out of the country, to be replaced by a
government and a geography more modern, more African, and much better.
Mind you, all this pie-in-the-sky talk was going on in the same time
period in which General Idi Amin Dada was lashing Uganda back into the
stone age! ... ( I intend to continue the line of this day's post in my
next post if no other more pressing event elbows its way to the head of
the queue ).
ADDENDUM, November 17, 2007 --- Dr. Hep. A doctor on Long Island ( New York ) has been exposed for reusing syringes for five years ( 2000 - 2005 ). It took that long for his filthy medical habits to be discovered because it took that long for his first victims ( patients ) to come down with Hepatitis! You would think that a Doctor as bad as Dr. Hep ( his new found nickname ) would be facing a long stretch in prison after losing his medical license --- after he has potentially exposed hundreds, if not thousands, of his patients to disgusting and painful diseases, through his willful use of dirty needles? Well, think again! This is New York, the land of Driver's Licenses for Illegal Aliens, and a Dirty Spike in the Rear End! The Bad Doc gets to keep his License and he never even sees the inside of a jail! After he was caught, he said he was sorry, didn't he? He just meant to save some money! A $1.20 syringe, if reused once, saved Dr. Hep 60¢; if reused twice, he saved 80¢! Dr. Hep sure was frugal : he liked to count his pennies! Did I mention that he said he was sorry?
ADDENDUM, November 16, 20007 --- Ron Paul Dollars : The Federal Case. First let's talk a little history; The US Constitution gives the US Congress the exclusive power to coin and issue money. That power was taken away from the several states, which had this power formerly under the Articles of Confederation. But in the early years of the newly constituted country, the federal government was too weak to assert its authority over domestic coinage --- for every US Silver Dollar in circulation, there were 100 Spanish Dollars ( pieces of eight ) elbowing it aside. It was not until the Coinage Act of February 21, 1857 that Congress formally banned the circulation of Spanish & Mexican silver within the borders of the United States, but it was not until the 1880s that the US Mint finally managed to drive out all foreign coins from everyday circulation. Congress farmed out its authority to a private central bank, known as the Federal Reserve, in 1913. Some say, Ron Paul among them, that Congress did not have the authority under the Constitution to surrender its power to coin and print money to a private banking cartel. Congress permanently suspended the gold standard in 1933. Congress agreed to the " pot nickel " standard in 1965, when the dime and quarter became base metal, and the half dollar turned into silver billon ( all silver to be removed from the half in 1971 ). Richard Nixon issued an executive order on August 15, 1971, closing the gold window to foreign central banks that were cashing in their paper US currency for gold under the 1944 Bretton Woods Treaty.
Enough of the history lesson, let's talk current events! Coin World has more than 70,000 subscribers. Each and every week faux dollars are advertised in its pages. Depending on the season, readers are offered a variety of newly minted coins by private companies: Chinese New Year has its Pig Dollars; Thanksgiving has its Let's Talk Turkey Dollars; at Christmas there are Claus Dollars & Snow Dollars; and what would Valentine's Day be without its Kiss Me! Dollars, worth One Million Kisses, No Refunds! The moral of yesterday's confiscation of Ron Paul Dollars? The makers of Claus Dollars never went to jail. Privately minting a Ron Paul Dollar just might earn one a stretch in the federal gray bar motel. Why? --- because even if the existence of Santa Claus is questionable, Santa never questioned the right of the Federal Reserve to exist. If Ron Paul picks the Easter Bunny for his Vice Presidential running mate, go and bet your Federal Reserve Dollars that Mr. Whiskers will become a Most Wanted Rabbit.
ADDENDUM, November 14, 2007 --- Spitzer Spits the Bit. After recently announcing that he would postpone his scheme of Driver's Licenses for Illegal Aliens until next year, New York Gov. Spitzer has told the New York Times that he is throwing in the towel altogether. Nobody in New York will be issued a Driver's License without first presenting a real or phony Social Security number, as state law mandates. At this final fiasco, it would appear that Spitzer has Hillary Clinton to blame for the ultimate cause of the collapse of his utterly rotten plan. The spectacle of the Hillster, behind a debate podium, sweating bricks while attempting to explain the intricacies of Spitzer's Licenses for Illegals, greatly embarrassed the senator from New York and hobbled her campaign for President.
It soon became clear in September that the Spitzer plan for New York vehicular amnesty was doomed because an overall federal amnesty scheme had failed to pass Congressional assent in June. Democrats must content themselves with the more gradual plan of turning the United States into a Third World Bus Station. About 3 million foreigners, from the Third World, enter our borders and stay every year. In the not too distant future there will be enough newly minted Democrat voters so that not only Driver's Licenses can be had for sixpence and a bribe! Le puits de Tiers Monde --- c'est nous!
ADDENDUM, November 10, 2007 --- Rome Overrun by Gypsies. Perhaps the most annoying thing about covering the invasion of the West by onrushing immigrants is the extremely annoying reminder that the Corporate Media has deemed certain unpleasant facts about immigration to be racist. Did you know that, according to Rome's police force, 76 Gypsies murders have been committed there so far this year, along with 300 Gypsy rapes and 2,000 Gypsy muggings, committed by Gypsies against Italians and Gypsies? Gypsies came to Rome at the beginning of the year when Romania became a full-fledged member of the EU and its nationals where granted the right to enter all other EU countries without need of a passport. There are now more than half a million Romanians resident in Italy, almost all of them Gypsies.
But Gypsies have undergone a name change. After many centuries of being called Gypsy, the Corporate Media has redubbed them. The new PC name for Gypsy is now " Roma, " and anybody caught using the old name is a now a Racist! The temptation to rename things that might be unpleasant has also given rise to the temptation to rearrange the facts. That this year's new arrivals in Rome have been the occasion of a constant crime wave against Romans, is a fact the must be constantly ignored because anybody paying attention to the crime wave is a Racist! And as the famous sign says, RACISM KILLS! But is Killing a good thing when only racists are the 76 people being killed, most of them even Gypsies? Double Speak comes to Italy!
" Roma " Moths
ADDENDUM, November 6, 2007 --- Huma & Hill Got a Thing Going On? If Hillary Clinton is elected will she try to get a Three-Tier National Driver's License through Congress? ( 1 ) One for American Citizens. ( 2 ) One for Illegal Aliens. ( 3 ) One for Lesbians over 60 who only drive cars with tinted windows because they need to hide their girlfriends from the campaign press ( Huma & Hill below; what a lovely couple they make! ) »»»
In the UK, today is Guy Fawkes Day, or Bonfire Night. Fawkes might have been the first modern version of what we would call, these days, a TERRORIST. Fawkes was the head of a band of Papists who wished to destroy the Protestant Aristocracy of England. In a cellar, directly under the House of Lords, the Fawkes Gang secreted a cache of 1,800 lbs. of gunpowder in 36 barrels. They hoped to blow the King and all the members of Parliament to Kingdom Come. But before they could light the fuse, the explosives were discovered on the morning of November 5, 1605. Fawkes and his pals were captured, and all who weren't killed on the spot, were tortured, in a variety of incredibly painful ways, before they were formally hung, and then drawn and quartered for the crime of Treason ( Fawkes jumped from the scaffold on that day, breaking his neck, thereby cheating the hangman ).
The Celebration of Guy Fawkes Day has evolved in Britain. At first it was the capper to the Harvest Festival Season in an agricultural country. In the urban England of the 19th Century it became a community event. Bonfire Night took on huge significance. Children would go through the streets pulling or pushing an effigy of a " Guy " ( roped together sacks stuffed with straw ) and beg for pennies. In the Hokey Hollywood movie, Hangover Square, the Guy Fawkes celebrations were a crucial part of the garish plot --- with young boys going about the streets reciting this bit of doggerel:
Remember,
remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder, Treason & Plot.
I Know of No Reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be Forgot!
ADDENDUM, October 30, 2007
--- Madness Postponed? The
word coming down from flunkies in NY Gov. Spitzer's office is that the
Gov.'s scheme of Driver's Licenses for Illegal Aliens
has been postponed until
July, at the earliest and maybe longer --- but who knows? Spitzer has
worked hard to create this Burst of Political Mayhem. Go to
wikipedia.com.
Look up " Hare-Brained Scheme. " If you see Spitzer's
photo next to the definition, don't be surprised!The Gunpowder, Treason & Plot.
I Know of No Reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be Forgot!
But these are not
days of Celebration in an England that is being invaded by the Third
World. New Labour has new fire laws to discourage the English from
celebrating a day that is essentially English in character. Why
celebrate a day on which the King of England and the English members of
Parliament had their lives spared? After all, Captain Smith was never
arrested for raping Pocahontas! There is nothing to celebrate. Move
along, keep your heads down and your tongues out, you miserable
peasants!
ADDENDUM, October 28, 2007 --- Has Spitzer Thrown In the Towel? For the last five weeks NY Gov. Elliot Spitzer ( a common nickname for him in these parts is " Idiot Spitzer " ) has been wallowing in a political morass of his own making ( scroll down to Sept. 22, 2007 on this page ). Back then, Spitzer made his base happy by offering state Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens. Through a barrage of name-calling and outrageous lies, the NY Gov. hoped to conceal the glaring fact that, in New York, § 502 of the Vehicle & Traffic Law mandates an applicant must present a Social Security number before a Driver's License application can be processed (scroll down to Oct. 10, 2007 on this page). This huge Meteorite of Reality turned out to be an insurmountable boulder standing in the Governor's path to Illegal Alien Heaven. A host of law suits, promised by Republican Town Clerks, were certain to be trotted out at the first sign of any implementation of the Gov.'s crazy and eminently illegal scheme. What Spitzer now proposes is a two-tier system in which Illegal Aliens will be issued a " special " Driver's License meant for their use alone in New York state, but which cannot be used either to register to vote or board an airplane. The only obstacle that remains before Elliot's new scheme is put into operation is the Republicans. Will they let Elliot go over their heads as he has been trying to do for the last five weeks, pretending that NYS VTL § 502 does not exist? Will they rubber stamp this new hare-brained scheme of the Gov.'s? Stay Tuned!
ADDENDUM, October 24, 2007 --- " Only a Cigarette Burn : " The Fortieth Anniversary of a very important event in the history of Yale University is fast approaching. How will it be celebrated? Will the President Himself make a momentous speech, commemorating the occasion?
From the Wednesday, November 8, 1967 editions of the New York Times:
( Headline --- BRANDING RITE LAID TO YALE FRATERNITY, New Haven ) A Yale Fraternity, accused by the student newspaper of burning its initiates with a branding iron, will have its fate decided Friday by student fraternity leaders. The fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilion, could face the temporary closure of its house and a $1,000 fine resulting from alleged violations of rules previously passed by the Inter-Fraternity Council of Yale's five fraternity Presidents.
The Charges Against Delta Kappa Epsilion were made last Friday in a Yale Daily News article that accused campus fraternities of carrying out " sadistic and obscene " initiation procedures. The charge, that has caused the most controversey on the Yale campus, is that Delta Kappa Epsilion applied a " hot branding iron " to the small of the back of its 40 new members in a ceremony two weeks ago. A photograph showing a scab in the shape of the Greek letter Delta, approximately a half inch wide, appeared with the article.
A Former President of Delta [ said ] that the branding is done with a hot coathanger. But the former President, George Bush, a Yale senior, said that the resulting wound is " only a cigarette burn. "
ADDENDUM, October 22, 2007 --- Immigration Restrictionists Gain in Switzerland : Good News! The Swiss People's Party picked up 7 seats, for a total of 62, in the federal parliamentary elections, while the Open Borders Social Democratic Party lost 9 seats, down to a total of 43. Sunday's Results promise to bring a new measure of sanity to Swiss Immigration Policy. The Campaign featured the Swiss Left throwing about accusations of " Racism ! " as wildly as the arms of a six year tossing Ju Ju Bees against the walls of a candy store. But --- alas, for the Left --- this brand of constant hollering has worn itself out. Wisdom comes late, but it comes. Here in Third World Bus Station, Senator McCain's jaundiced eyes most likely flopped over at reading the Swiss election news. In the Winter he embraced Third World Immigration on the campaign trail. In the Spring the issue hugged him back, and his campaign for President disintegrated faster than a wet peanut. Yes, some people catch the flu sooner than Wisdom, but that old Owl, with the glasses and the sharp yardstick, can be heard hooting in every season!
ADDENDUM, October 18, 2007
--- Who Let the Bugs Out ! For
those of you who thought that insect swarms only occurred at Grayson
Stadium, home of the Savannah Sand Gnats in the Sally League, well,
think again! Bug Infestations go way back in the history of the Major
Leagues. Bill Madden wrote an interesting little ditty about it in
Sunday's editions of the ( New York ) Daily
News:
There have been at least two notable precedents in which umpires delayed or called games because of bug invasions. On June 2, 1959, the Orioles' Hoyt Wilhelm was suddenly surrounded on the mound by flying insects in the first inning of pitching against the White Sox at old Comiskey Park. When dousing himself in repellent failed to curtail the swarm, time was called and White Sox owner Bill Veeck produced some smoke bombs from his fireworks closet and detonated them at home plate. As the stadium became engulfed in smoke, the invading bugs were dispatched into full retreat. Wilhelm then went on to pitch a complete-game victory. And on Sept. 15, 1946, in the second game of a Cubs-Dodgers doubleheader at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, twilight was approaching in the sixth inning when Dodger pitcher Kirby Higbe, leading 2-0, was attacked by a swarm of bugs. Throwing up his hands, Higbe shouted to the umpires that he couldn't pitch and the field was cleared. Watching the fans waving their scorecards to fend off the bugs, the umpires ruled it to be a hazard to the players because they couldn't easily see the ball. As as result, they called the game with the Dodgers the beneficiaries of a 2-0 "bug-shortened" win.
Said crew chief Beans Reardon afterward: "Anyone who thinks we called this game because of darkness is bugs!" Then there was the inimitable Jimmy Piersall who, upon being besieged by mosquitoes while at-bat in Cleveland during a game between the Tigers and Indians in 1960, called timeout and ran into the dugout. Upon returning, Piersall whipped out a can of mosquito repellent and frantically sprayed the ball as it came to the plate, drawing laughter from all.
There have been at least two notable precedents in which umpires delayed or called games because of bug invasions. On June 2, 1959, the Orioles' Hoyt Wilhelm was suddenly surrounded on the mound by flying insects in the first inning of pitching against the White Sox at old Comiskey Park. When dousing himself in repellent failed to curtail the swarm, time was called and White Sox owner Bill Veeck produced some smoke bombs from his fireworks closet and detonated them at home plate. As the stadium became engulfed in smoke, the invading bugs were dispatched into full retreat. Wilhelm then went on to pitch a complete-game victory. And on Sept. 15, 1946, in the second game of a Cubs-Dodgers doubleheader at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, twilight was approaching in the sixth inning when Dodger pitcher Kirby Higbe, leading 2-0, was attacked by a swarm of bugs. Throwing up his hands, Higbe shouted to the umpires that he couldn't pitch and the field was cleared. Watching the fans waving their scorecards to fend off the bugs, the umpires ruled it to be a hazard to the players because they couldn't easily see the ball. As as result, they called the game with the Dodgers the beneficiaries of a 2-0 "bug-shortened" win.
Said crew chief Beans Reardon afterward: "Anyone who thinks we called this game because of darkness is bugs!" Then there was the inimitable Jimmy Piersall who, upon being besieged by mosquitoes while at-bat in Cleveland during a game between the Tigers and Indians in 1960, called timeout and ran into the dugout. Upon returning, Piersall whipped out a can of mosquito repellent and frantically sprayed the ball as it came to the plate, drawing laughter from all.
ADDENDUM, October 13, 2007 --- Le Parti ( de droite et de gauche ) Continue ! Two Leftie Environmentalist Groups have just obtained a federal court injunction that calls to a halt the building of a section of a barrier on the American side of the border with Mexico. That Conservationists should seek to protect fauna and fawn by getting a court order to allow border jumpers from Mexico to go on trashing the American side of the border --- there are sections of the border that look like garbage dumps thanks the invading horde from Mexico! --- is the most supreme of ridiculous ironies. That the Director of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, will not ignore an illegal court order calling to a halt in building the Great Fence shows that the provisions in last year's legislation, which stripped jurisdiction from the federal courts regarding " environmental impact, " when it came to constructing the Great Fence, were just for mere show. It bears repeating : le parti continue. And it is all the same party, and all same farce, and they go on and on and on . . .
ADDENDUM, October 11, 2007 --- Living a Life of Illusion : Do you mean to say that Jack Bauer gets to save the World every week, torture nasty-looking terrorists and be TOASTED all the time? Sweet! Do you mean to say that the actor who plays Jack Bauer spits on his probation and drives three sheets to the wind again and gets all of 48 days in a pretend jail?? Double Sweet!!
ADDENDUM, October 10, 2007 --- Governor Gone Wild : NY Governor Elliot Spitzer has a plan to get Driver's Licenses to ILLEGAL ALIENS who want them! But do NY Republicans have the intestinal fortitude to fight him? After all, it is against the law in New York to issue a Driver's License to any applicant who does not have a Social Security Number! Section 502 of New York's Vehicle & Traffic Law reads, in part, as follows »»»
NYS VTL : § 502.
Requirements for licensing. 1.
Application for license.