Daily Archives: May 7, 2004

Yuck

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Yep, my first reaction to this is a definite yuck:

A lot of people probably were shocked this week to read Cubs outfielder Moises Alou’s admission that he urinates on his hands to toughen his hands. Jorge Posada was not among them.
The Yankees’ catcher, who along with Alou and Anaheim outfielder Vladimir Guerrero is among a small number of big-league players who hit without batting gloves, said yesterday he does the same thing.
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“A lot of guys like my father, who worked on the land, always used to do it,” Posada said. “It keeps your hands from getting callused and cracking.”

On the other hand, if it works….
Can anyone explain the underlying science?
Via The Sports Frog.

Representing American Values

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From bush’s remarks on May 6:

We also talked about what has been on the TV screens recently, not only in our own country, but overseas — the images of cruelty and humiliation. I told His Majesty as plainly as I could that the wrongdoers will be brought to justice, and that the actions of those folks in Iraq do not represent the values of the United States of America.

But they may represent the values of the highest levels of the administration:

…according to eye witnesses to debate at the highest levels of the Administration…the highest levels…whenever Powell or Armitage sought to question prisoner treatment issues, they were forced to endure what our source characterizes as “around the table, coarse, vulgar, frat-boy bully remarks about what these tough guys would do if THEY ever got their hands on prisoners….”

The buck still stops at the top.

Mother’s Day Campaign

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This arrived last night in email* from the bushcheney04 campaign under Barbara Bush’s name:

Dear Steve,
With Mother’s Day coming up this weekend, I’ve been thinking about how proud I am of our children.
And it’s with a mother’s pride that I’m writing you today to ask you to support our eldest, George W., and his re-election campaign with a donation of $1000, $500, $250, $100 or $50.
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You can read the whole thing in the extended entry.

Well, thanks for asking but NO.
Instead, I will use my potential donation to do something nice for my Mom and for Mrs Modulator.
Oh, one more thing. Though I don’t agree with its other points I think this would have been a ok message if they had left out the solicitation paragraph. It seems just a wee inappropriate to me to try to leverage a nice thing like Mother’s Day with the fund raising detritus.
*It came to the email address I use to subscribe to most things political.
Again, the entire solicitation message is in the extended entry and the text is unchanged from the original. The campaign apparently can not afford an editor.

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