A few non-related points
I mention how long it's been since the Royals had a three-game winning streak, and what happens? They sweep the Yankees. So much for that.
While there are several names that come to mind of potential Republican candidates for the nomination in 2008 that I neglected to mention in my previous post on the matter, the biggest one that comes to mind is Mike Huckabee, governor of Arkansas. He's term-limited, so he can't run for re-election in 2006. That would free him up to start campaigning a year before the primaries, if he so chose. He received some national attention a few years back, when he got on a health kick and lost around 100 pounds. Arkansas is considered a swing state, so that could help him (being from a swing state is viewed as positive because it generally moves the state from being a swing state to being in your party's column; this of course does not always work (see Al Gore, 2000 or, for a vice presidential candidate, John Edwards in 2004)).
For those with numismatic interests, one of the 1913 Liberty Nickels was sold for $4.15 million. For those who aren't in the know, the design of the nickel changed in 1913 to the Indian Head or Buffalo design. However, a few (presumably five) Liberty Head Nickels were made by an unscrupulous mint official (who later retired from the mint and sold them for a high mark-up). The five nickels have a rather interesting history -- a couple of them were owned by the king of Egypt, and one was presumed lost for a number of years after its owner was killed in a car accident, and it was just authenticated last year, I believe (members of his family had previously tried to get it authenticated but were told it was a forgery).
British couple Percy and Florence Arrowsmith celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary on June 1. That's just an amazing accomplishment. Guiness lists them as having the longest marriage of a living couple and having the largest aggregate age (he's 105 and she's 100). The queen sent them her congratulations. I must say, though, that whoever did the AP write-up did a lousy job; it was a very poorly written article. Whoever was in charge of editing did a poor job, too.
As you've probably heard by now, Deep Throat has been identified as W. Mark Felt, who had been the number two guy at the FBI. The thing I don't get is all this "hero" talk about him. The guy did it to get back at Nixon for not giving him the directorship of the FBI. That's hardly a noble undertaking. It's more like petty vindictiveness. To further diminish any nobleness that others might want to assign to him, his family says that they came forward to get the money that comes with such a revelation. Plus, the guy had been convicted of authorizing searches without warrants, a true follower of J. Edgar Hoover, and exactly the kind of thing that Nixon got into. How all of this leads to him being a hero, I haven't a clue.
While there are several names that come to mind of potential Republican candidates for the nomination in 2008 that I neglected to mention in my previous post on the matter, the biggest one that comes to mind is Mike Huckabee, governor of Arkansas. He's term-limited, so he can't run for re-election in 2006. That would free him up to start campaigning a year before the primaries, if he so chose. He received some national attention a few years back, when he got on a health kick and lost around 100 pounds. Arkansas is considered a swing state, so that could help him (being from a swing state is viewed as positive because it generally moves the state from being a swing state to being in your party's column; this of course does not always work (see Al Gore, 2000 or, for a vice presidential candidate, John Edwards in 2004)).
For those with numismatic interests, one of the 1913 Liberty Nickels was sold for $4.15 million. For those who aren't in the know, the design of the nickel changed in 1913 to the Indian Head or Buffalo design. However, a few (presumably five) Liberty Head Nickels were made by an unscrupulous mint official (who later retired from the mint and sold them for a high mark-up). The five nickels have a rather interesting history -- a couple of them were owned by the king of Egypt, and one was presumed lost for a number of years after its owner was killed in a car accident, and it was just authenticated last year, I believe (members of his family had previously tried to get it authenticated but were told it was a forgery).
British couple Percy and Florence Arrowsmith celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary on June 1. That's just an amazing accomplishment. Guiness lists them as having the longest marriage of a living couple and having the largest aggregate age (he's 105 and she's 100). The queen sent them her congratulations. I must say, though, that whoever did the AP write-up did a lousy job; it was a very poorly written article. Whoever was in charge of editing did a poor job, too.
As you've probably heard by now, Deep Throat has been identified as W. Mark Felt, who had been the number two guy at the FBI. The thing I don't get is all this "hero" talk about him. The guy did it to get back at Nixon for not giving him the directorship of the FBI. That's hardly a noble undertaking. It's more like petty vindictiveness. To further diminish any nobleness that others might want to assign to him, his family says that they came forward to get the money that comes with such a revelation. Plus, the guy had been convicted of authorizing searches without warrants, a true follower of J. Edgar Hoover, and exactly the kind of thing that Nixon got into. How all of this leads to him being a hero, I haven't a clue.
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