the president must have had a distorted vision

BALTIMORE, April 27, 2013 - At the conclusion of his speech at the Planned Parenthood "Gala," obama said to the assembled, "God bless you."  
       Were I he, I wouldn't hold my breath while waiting for the Good Lord to make that move.

the nightmare that is obamacare and the hound dogs responsible for it

BALTIMORE, APRIL 27, 2013 - Word is spreading at a rapid rate about the "secret" Capitol Hill talks aimed at exempting members of Congress and their staffs from the ghoulish muck of obamamess; i.e. obamacare.  The Dingemeister himself, Sleezy Harry Reid, along with "getalong john beiner" and unnamed members of the obama administration are said to be trying to work out some kind of understanding that gets Senators and Congressmen out of obamacare.  As for the rest of us, all that can be said is 'God help us."  God knows obama didn't.

Orioles surge

BALTIMORE, April 27, 2013 - Said Jim Palmer, the Hall-of-Famer turned broadcaster: "trying to sneak a fastball by Steve Pearce is like trying to sneak dawn by a rooster."  And the Oakland Athletics did not have a rooster on the mound Friday night.  Pearce, who started out terribly for the Orioles, has suddenly caught fire.  In a scoreless pitchers' duel, he had a long double that didn't result in a run in the fifth, but a clutch two-out single in the seventh to score J.J. Hardy and propel the Birds to a 3-0 win.  The real story was Wei-Yin Chen, who spun eight shutout innings, surrendering only two hits.  He improved to 2-2, but has pitched so much better than that.  Jim Johnson came on in the ninth to earn his ninth save.  The Orioles scored two essential insurance runs in the ninth.  The first scored on Nate McLouth's ground ball that A's second baseman Jed Lowry booted.  That error also put pinch runner Chris Dickerson at third base, where he scored on Nick Markakis' sacrifice fly.
       The Orioles, who beat Oakland 10-2 on Thursday night after taking two out of three earlier in the week from Toronto, are back at it today at 1 pm when Chris Tillman takes the mound.  The Friday win improved the Orioles record to 14-9 and kept them in second place, two games behind Boston and one-half game ahead of the Yankees.  The Birds are a solid 7-4 on the road.

Ravens Make Defense a Priority in Draft

BALTIMORE, April 26, 2013 - The Ravens used their first round pick (32nd overall) to begin to rebuild their defense after it was decimated by salary cap-forced defections.  Having lost both starting safeties, the Ravens selected Florida's Matt Elam, a six-foot, 206-pound tackling fool who wowed Raven GM Ozzie Newsome and was said to be a consensus pick among the Ravens' brass.  Raven coach John Harbaugh said Elam has a chance to team with free agent acquisition Michael Huff as the starting safeties for the defending NFL champions.  Hopefully, Elam's career will mirror the departed Ed Reed in personal achievements but not team results.  While Reed had become a consensus Hall-of-Famer during the years he played for the Ravens, he had never played in a Superbowl until the game the Ravens won this past February.  Reed was drafted by the Ravens right after they won their previous Superbowl in 2001.

In the second round Baltimore selected inside linebacker Arthur Brown, a 6', 241 pounder from Kansas State.  Like the safety position, the Ravens linebacking corps was also annihilated after the Superbowl. Ray Lewis retired, and Paul Kreuger and Jameel McClain signed with other teams. With Brown, the rebuilding there begins.

The defense was also addressed in the third round when Baltimore selected big Brandon Williams, a 336-pound defensive lineman from Missouri Southern State.  Williams has been named to the small college All-American teams an astonishing three times.

The poor bereft bomber

BALTIMORE, APRIL 24, 2013 - On CNN they talk of the "kid" who has had such a tough life.  Tooling around Boston in his Porsche and BMW is tough for anyone.  And even though all of the networks have pictures of the surviving suspect taken within the past year, they continue to use one of him that was taken when he really was a kid.  It's five years old.  So the folks on the far left are trying to create an anti-hero for this new age, one with the "courage" to act against the evil capitalists. Or something like that.  Back in dear old Chechnya, mother bomber blamed America for ruining her sons.  dad bomber said his sons were innocent and had been framed.  left unsaid or unexplained is how the two darlings managed to afford expensive cars and other luxuries, and how the now-dead older bomber financed a trip back to Chechnya last year, during which he spent six months doing what?  So many questions.  Here in the USA, the obama media continues its campaign to paint the two as unconnected "lone wolves" who are not in any way connected to islamic terrorists around the rest of the world.  Such things as the trip home, the ten warnings from Russia about the older bomber, and the expensive cars don't fit well with this narrative and are left, for the most part, unspoken.  It is totally true that if you want to flesh out this sordid tale you might have to do it yourself.  Start by avoiding such venues as the New York Times, which front-paged the Lone Wolf nonsense just yesterday.  If I were you, I'd start with Drudge and Powerline and go from there.

On a day when obama honored President Bush

BALTIMORE, April 25, 2013 - The Presidential Library honoring President George W. Bush was dedicated yesterday in Dallas and those in charge followed protocol and invited the sitting president, even though he has done everything imaginable to ridicule and trivialize his predecessor.  When obama spoke at the ceremony, he took the occasion to seek support for his immigration legislation currently winding its way through Congress.  The crowd, which had been enthusiastic up to that point, suddenly grew less so.  Many think obama doesn't even want his bill to pass.  Instead, he wants it to be approved by the Democratically controlled Senate but voted down in the GOP-controlled House.  Then, obama would use it as a campaign issue next year as he seeks to return total control of Congress to his party.  That would give him two years of far-left mayhem to top off his eight miserable years.  Talk about Armageddon!

Credible and Incisive in Statement of Future Goals

BALTIMORE, 23 APRIL 2013 - Beginning today there will be posts at least daily in this space with additional supplements on Twitter.    There will continue to be posts on politics, news and sports. There will also be more posts on art and music and on history and science.  
       Today is eight days after the Boston Marathon bombings and in the interim federal authorities apparently broke up a plot to derail a passenger train en route to New York City from Canada.  Common sense dictates that there has been no cessation in terrorist plots.  If you take comfort from the fact that the plots of 2013 are not as advanced and technical as were the nine-eleven horrors, so be it.  But turn your back and let down your guard and you will pay dearly.