Saturday, July 10, 2004
Random Stuff catching my eye and brain this morning
There's a section of "Most Emailed Photos" on Yahoo Yahoo News - Most Emailed Photoes that has had this one picture on it for probably two weeks now. It is a picture of a blonde woman looking at what is supposed to be the preserved penis of Rasputin.
Come on, people! Aren't you tired of sending that photo around? It's a woman. It's a penis in a jar of formaldehyde. It's great fun for caption writers. Isn't that enough? As you can see, I'm getting bored seeing the same dumb picture up day after day.
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I see that Fred Couples has withdrawn from the British Open that will be played next week. He makes the fifth American so far to have withdrawn. Fred's got a trick back that I don't think likes playing in wet and cold. Can't hardly blame him for that.
As for the others, well I've played links golf, and it is way harder than inland golf. You never know from shot to shot sometimes what the conditions will be. I don't know what we'll see on television next weekend, but I doubt it will fully convey just how hard it will be for the golfers out there.
Speaking of golfers, has anybody else noticed that Tiger Woods, even when he's playing well, cannot seem to play well in crummy weather? If the wind stays up the first two days, don't be surprised to see Tiger's cut streak come to an end. As great a golfer as Tiger is--and make no mistake about that even in his current so-called slump--Tiger is not a mudder.
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I see a Reuters story today quoting a BBC story that Tony Blair considered resigning as British Prime Minister. Well he might. His popularity is pretty low after his part in the fiasco of Iraq.
The Senate Report issued yesterday blasted the CIA and by implication other intelligence agencies including I'm sure the British over the failure to realize that Iraq had NO WMD in the run up to the war to oust Saddam Hussein.
I think Blair let himself be dragged along on the Bush-Cheney vendetta train. I remember a story in the New York Times just a few weeks before the war was launched in which the White House changed the bar for invasion from getting rid of WMD to Saddam and his sons must step down. At that point, I realized that no matter what, Bush was going to war with Iraq. (If I was really smart, I would have realized that the previous fall.)
An interesting comment in the story about Blair is that when they hold elections next year, Blair's Labor Party is expected to hold onto Parliament, though by a smaller margin than the overwhelming majority they currently have. I wonder if that will be true, especially if, as I expect, Bush gets turned out this fall in our elections. The only thing I can see that Blair has going for him at the moment is that the other parties are in disarray and have no palatable candidates. At least we have an organized alternative to Bush-Cheney.
There's a section of "Most Emailed Photos" on Yahoo Yahoo News - Most Emailed Photoes that has had this one picture on it for probably two weeks now. It is a picture of a blonde woman looking at what is supposed to be the preserved penis of Rasputin.
Come on, people! Aren't you tired of sending that photo around? It's a woman. It's a penis in a jar of formaldehyde. It's great fun for caption writers. Isn't that enough? As you can see, I'm getting bored seeing the same dumb picture up day after day.
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I see that Fred Couples has withdrawn from the British Open that will be played next week. He makes the fifth American so far to have withdrawn. Fred's got a trick back that I don't think likes playing in wet and cold. Can't hardly blame him for that.
As for the others, well I've played links golf, and it is way harder than inland golf. You never know from shot to shot sometimes what the conditions will be. I don't know what we'll see on television next weekend, but I doubt it will fully convey just how hard it will be for the golfers out there.
Speaking of golfers, has anybody else noticed that Tiger Woods, even when he's playing well, cannot seem to play well in crummy weather? If the wind stays up the first two days, don't be surprised to see Tiger's cut streak come to an end. As great a golfer as Tiger is--and make no mistake about that even in his current so-called slump--Tiger is not a mudder.
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I see a Reuters story today quoting a BBC story that Tony Blair considered resigning as British Prime Minister. Well he might. His popularity is pretty low after his part in the fiasco of Iraq.
The Senate Report issued yesterday blasted the CIA and by implication other intelligence agencies including I'm sure the British over the failure to realize that Iraq had NO WMD in the run up to the war to oust Saddam Hussein.
I think Blair let himself be dragged along on the Bush-Cheney vendetta train. I remember a story in the New York Times just a few weeks before the war was launched in which the White House changed the bar for invasion from getting rid of WMD to Saddam and his sons must step down. At that point, I realized that no matter what, Bush was going to war with Iraq. (If I was really smart, I would have realized that the previous fall.)
An interesting comment in the story about Blair is that when they hold elections next year, Blair's Labor Party is expected to hold onto Parliament, though by a smaller margin than the overwhelming majority they currently have. I wonder if that will be true, especially if, as I expect, Bush gets turned out this fall in our elections. The only thing I can see that Blair has going for him at the moment is that the other parties are in disarray and have no palatable candidates. At least we have an organized alternative to Bush-Cheney.
posted by Tom | 9:05 AM
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