Thursday, June 27, 2002

All is right in Marinerville. Edgar returns to the lineup, strokes a homer and a two-run single. Edgar adds much needed pop to the team who’ve not scared many teams this season, especially in close games. Hopefully Edgar and other key members of the team who have been dinged up--Bret Boone, Mark McLemore and Jeff Nelson notable among them--will remain healthy. If Jeff Cirillo can continue hitting during the rest of the season as well as he did during inter-league play, we can look forward to the post season again and another shot at the D*&n Yankees.

Did you know that the judge who wrote the opinion on the Pledge of Allegiance ruling was appointed by President Nixon? That explains a great deal. He’s been on that particular bench since at least 1972. He is a "senior judge"--a sort of semi retired status that judges assume while their replacements are confirmed by the Senate. That is, if the Senate would vote on President Bush’s nominees for the many vacancies in Federal courts around the country.

If that’s not reason enough to vote Republican this Fall, I don’t know what is. Get Senator Patrick Leahy of the People’s Republic of Vermont out of the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and let sanity return to the process of confirming judicial appointees. Also, I hope that the people "represented" by those who voted against the House of Representative's resolution in support of the Pledge of Allegiance throw the bums out when they next come up for re-election.

And let's prevent this senior judge from inflicting any more "senior moments" on the people of the United States of America.

In case you need it, here is the Pledge of Allegiance in its entirety:

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.