Comments Posted By Larry your brother
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COULD CONSERVATIVES WORK WITH A PRESIDENT OBAMA?
#10:
You can talk about what you think a Democratic president may be like, but blaming the stock market fall on Obama is witless.
-5% unemployment
-Rising inflation
-Slowing inudstrial sector in the economy (the one bright spot to that point)Obama's victory dragging down the stock market? Really?
Comment Posted By Larry your brother On 7.01.2008 @ 09:51
Nice column, Rick. I don't know if I feel the same sense of betrayal. Maybe I've just become too much of a cynic. But baseball is really the only sport I follow these days, and I probably always will. There's just something about the rhythm of the game, almost the fluid dance, that mesmerizes me.
You're not the first person that called Clements the best pitcher of his generation, and maybe he is. But for a pure pitcher (not won-lost or championship stats) I have to go with Nolan Ryan. Seven no-hitters, 12 one-hitters, 18 two-hitters, all those strikeouts including 27 games with 15. He could start for me anytime.
Comment Posted By Larry your brother On 14.12.2007 @ 10:42
I think the issue is pretty clear cut. You can argue about whether a crime was committed at all (kinda like what Clinton did in the White House) but once the investigation started, the law says you can't lie to the grand jury. Scooter did. He was convicted. He was sentenced, using the guidelines prescribed by law. Guidelines this administation has forcefully argued should be followed by judges. So how can the president claim that the punishment was "excessive?"
And by the way Sirius, I think us crazy liberals asked the same question when Bill Clinton left office. Now you simply rail against anyone who doesn't agree with you.
Comment Posted By Larry your brother On 3.07.2007 @ 13:35
OF GRASSY KNOLLS AND BLOOD FOR OIL
While Helgerson uses a little too colorful language and goes too far for my taste, I have to agree that it constantly amazes me that there is an assumption that liberals are anti-American. Kennedy's assasination does NOT control my world view and, being in my 50s, I think I'm probably the "average" liberal out there. Liberals I know--the classic "government as a potential source of good for those in need"--are not anti-American. They may be unhappy with the direction America is going (has been taken?), but they don't hate America. As for joining the war on terror, many liberals I know are extremely worried about the consequeces of Islamic terrorism. But few are convinced being in the middle of a civil war is the solution. One of the most liberal people I know--former head of an international NGO--worries all the time about terrorism. But he sees part of the solution in solving issues like AIDS, so that the terrorists don't have a breeding ground in orphaned children. Or finding a way for the Palestinians to live in proximity to Israel--recognized by Israel. The list can go on, but the only solution, at least the one so vocally advocated by the conservatives, is to take up arms and fight. But fight who? We need to fight the reasons people are so desperate they will drive a truckload of explosives into a mosque, not arrest everyone who we think may want to do it someday.
Comment Posted By Larry your brother On 20.06.2007 @ 09:11
Thank you, Drongo. I've been quoting that scene since 2001. I think this country, since the founding, has taken the attitude that the laws are meant to protect the innocent. Their experience demanded this approach.
Now, are these bad guys? Of course they are. But there must be a law somewhere that allows us to arrest, try, convict, and incarcerate these people. Aren't we doing that with Padilla in Miami? And Judge Motz provided legal circumstances under which al-Mari could be held. We can't keep them in a prison forever.
Comment Posted By Larry your brother On 13.06.2007 @ 08:32
MY 10 FAVORITE MOVIE VILLAINS OF ALL TIME
Good list, great movies with one major exception: Darth Vader. If you take all three of the first movies as a whole, you are really seeing the story of the redemption of Darth Vader. You see his continued downward spiral and bounce off the bottom until he works for good and not evil. Most of the moments when he is evil he is REALLY evil, but near the end of the second movie you start to see a change. Is it Lucas' belief in the ultimate goodness of humanity, and his optimism in seeing that goodness surface? Or am I just reading too much into it? Who knows....
Comment Posted By Larry your brother On 29.05.2007 @ 16:07
