Posted on 10/28/2009 12:35:01 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
Another silly photo-op for Michelle. Too bad the majority of military personnel/veterans are too gracious to behave toward Michelle in the way that she deserves.
Hey, Michelle, Iraq was Bush’s war. Why not a veteran from Afghanistan ... you know, back them to the hilt?
Growing vegetable gardens.
and what on earth does she do for them
Pose for photo ops with some kids planting veggies in contaminated ground. (She especially likes posing in clothing which is inappropriate for the occassion.)
Too gracious, but there will be some crossed fingers.
OT: Anyone know the names of the UN personnel killed today?
> You can’t expect the Queen to work, can you?
Sure you can. The (real) Queen is a WW-II war veteran and one of the busiest women on this planet.
Put Michelle out to work! Make her earn her keep!
(Maybe give Barack a job while you’re at it. A real job, like pumping gas or flipping burgers. He has far too much time on his hands as POTUS, and as we know “the Devil makes work for idle hands.”)
I didn't know his son had been badly wounded - there is a family that is giving everything for freedom. I salute them both.
...the first lady is superfluous to the whole operation.
Same would hold when the set moves to Philadelphia. Robin Roberts, who pitched stoutly in that 1950 Series---it isn't remembered much because of the sweep, but the first three Yankee wins were one-run games, and Roberts should get to throw out the first pitch. It was Roberts who'd beaten the Brooklyn Dodgers in a final-day tiebreaker for the pennant, though he almost didn't---with Cal Abrams taking a lead off second and future Hall of Famer Duke Snider at the plate, Roberts missed a pickoff play and fed Snider a fat fastball that got lined into center for a base hit. Future Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn, fleet but with a weak throwing arm, somehow threw Cal Abrams out at the plate (the Dodgers never thought of holding him at third with the pennant in sight) with what would have been the winning run, before Dick Sisler ended it with a tenth-inning bomb for the pennant. Roberts then went the distance in a ten-inning, 2-1 loss in Game Two of the World Series.
By the way, none of the Whiz Kids' starting lineup (minus pitchers) is still alive. Of the entire team, only Roberts, reserve catcher Stan Lopata (who was a late inning replacement for Seminick in the Roberts World Series game), reserve outfielder Jackie Mayo, reserve infielder Putzy Caballero, and pitchers Curt Simmons (whose draft induction into the military on the threshold of the World Series probably hurt those Phillies the most; he missed the next two seasons because of it as well; late career, Simmons got his shot at a Series with the 1964 Cardinals and took particular satisfaction in beating the Phillies down the stretch of that crazy 1964 collapse, since the Phillies cast him off at last), Bob Miller (not even remotely one of the two Bob Millers who turned up pitching for the 1962 Mets!), and Paul Stuffel, remain alive.
“Michelle Obama and Jill Biden will attend Game One of the World Series
in NYC Wednesday”
Well, gotta’ find something to do while Barak (and probably Joe as well)
twiddle their thumbs and American military personnel perish while
up to 40,000 troops are NOT rushed to their sides.
I feel very sorry for those warriors out there on the tip of the
spear in Afghanistan.
Go Yankees!!
Yogi Berra was my favorite Yankee in the 50s & 60s
He was also at D Day.
Gen. Odierno from New Jersey, wonderful his son is being honored.
Personally I am glad, do we really want to hear both of them every day?
You are a true baseball fan, to the bone, recalling all the details. Yogi Berra is an icon and I’m frankly surprised he is still with us. Snider came to L.A. with the Dodgers and was (and is) my all-time favorite.
Snider came to L.A. with the Dodgers and was (and is) my all-time favorite.
Duke Snider ended up on the 1963 Mets, where he was a sentimental favourite. The Mets gave him a night in his honour later in the season. I remember Snider saying to the Polo Grounds crowd, "The Mets are wonderful. But you can't take the Dodgers out of Brooklyn."
Snider, by the way, hit the 400th bomb of his major league career as a Met.
To add to the intrigue, the Mets shipped him to the Giants, of all people, early in the 1964 season.
Ugh, I did not remember the teams he went to after the Dodgers. I only recall he retired to an avocado farm/business here in SoCal and did quite well, I believe.
Ugh, I did not remember the teams he went to after the Dodgers. I only recall he retired to an avocado farm/business here in SoCal and did quite well, I believe.
He did for a short while, but by the time Roger Kahn caught up to him while writing The Boys of Summer, Snider (a California native) had had to sell that avocado farm. In due course, Snider found his calling---he broadcast for the Montreal Expos for many years. (A kind of homecoming, if you remember Montreal once being the site of the Dodgers' top farm team, the team to which they repaired Jackie Robinson to break him into formally organised baseball before bringing him up to Brooklyn.)
wonder what she will wear? rme
what DID she wear is more like it.....
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