Tinker:
On this memorial day
holiday I seem to be whispering a silent prayer into the invisible for
our fallen soldiers from our current and past wars, that their sacrifice
will not be in vain. That the people left behind running our country
finally stops playing their cheap political money game and quit using
our fellow American people lives to further their own political power
struggle all day long.
And for once and for all the American population simply stops looking at their television sets long enough to began to make America the real home of the free and brave...Lord please help us?
And for once and for all the American population simply stops looking at their television sets long enough to began to make America the real home of the free and brave...Lord please help us?
When my father told me this poem as a child about
"little boy blue" I was stunned to realize that our love for other
people and oneself can really die. That mankind really doesn't live on
bread alone.
Little Boy Blue
by Eugene Field (1850-1895)
The little toy dog is covered with dust,
But sturdy and stanch he stands;
And the little toy soldier is red with rust,
And his musket moulds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was new,
And the soldier was passing fair;
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there.
"Now, don't you go till I come," he said,
"And don't you make any noise!"
So, toddling off to his trundle-bed,
He dreamt of the pretty toys;
And, as he was dreaming, an angel song
Awakened our Little Boy Blue---
Oh! the years are many, the years are long,
But the little toy friends are true!
Ay, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand,
Each in the same old place---
Awaiting the touch of a little hand,
The smile of a little face;
And they wonder, as waiting the long years through
In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue,
Since he kissed them and put them there.
Little Boy Blue
by Eugene Field (1850-1895)
The little toy dog is covered with dust,
But sturdy and stanch he stands;
And the little toy soldier is red with rust,
And his musket moulds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was new,
And the soldier was passing fair;
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there.
"Now, don't you go till I come," he said,
"And don't you make any noise!"
So, toddling off to his trundle-bed,
He dreamt of the pretty toys;
And, as he was dreaming, an angel song
Awakened our Little Boy Blue---
Oh! the years are many, the years are long,
But the little toy friends are true!
Ay, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand,
Each in the same old place---
Awaiting the touch of a little hand,
The smile of a little face;
And they wonder, as waiting the long years through
In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue,
Since he kissed them and put them there.
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An evolved observance of America's fallen heroes...
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REMEMBER: FREEDOM...
An evolved observance of America's fallen heroes...
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WHEN DID WE VOTE TO BECOME MEXICO?
May 22, 2013
Before I had resolved which scandal was distracting from which, we found out the Department of Justice was spying on The Associated Press -- not to protect national security, but to prevent the AP from scooping the White House. Then, this week, it broke that the Department of Justice was also spying on Fox News for reasons that remain unexplained.
Meanwhile, Sens. Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and John McCain are working feverishly to turn the country into Mexico.
So now I think all the scandals are intended to distract from Rubio's amnesty bill.
For decades, Mexicans have been about 30 percent of all legal immigrants to the United States, while only a smidgen more than 1 percent come from Great Britain. Is that fair? Granted, their food is better, but why is it the norm is to have nearly 30 times as many Mexican as British immigrants?
We have been taking in more immigrants from Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and Colombia, individually, than from England, our mother country. There are nearly twice as many immigrants from El Salvador as from Canada, and 10 times as many as from Australia.
Why can't the country be more or less the ethnic composition that it always was? The 50-1 Latin American-to-European ratio isn't a natural phenomenon that might result from, say, Europeans losing interest in coming here and poor Latin Americans providing some unique skill desperately needed in our modern, technology-based economy.
To the contrary, it's result of an insane government policy. Teddy Kennedy's 1965 Immigration Act was designed to artificially inflate the number of immigrants from the Third World, while making it virtually impossible for anyone from the nations that historically provided our immigrants to come here. Read More »
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http://www.tigerrag.com/?p=FINAL: No. 2 LSU 5, No. 1 Vanderbilt 4 (11)
May 26, 2013 - © 2013 Tiger Rag
LSU wins the SEC tournament behind reserves and Chris Cotton
By LUKE JOHNSON
Tiger Rag Assistant Editor
HOOVER, Ala. — The Southeastern Conference tournament final between No. 1 Vanderbilt and No. 2 LSU figured to be an instant classic, but some how it was better than that.
Pitchers incited a near-riotous crowds after escaping bases-loaded jams, clutch hits narrowly eluded gloves and the game needed extra innings before a champion was finally crowned. In the end, it was LSU dog-piling on top of its former walk-on closer after he secured a 5-4 win in the 11th inning.
“What a tremendous ball game,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “It was a great ball game between two teams fighting their hearts out to win.” Read more...http://www.tigerrag.
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JOHNSON: Cotton goes from unwanted to unhittable
May 26, 2013 - © 2013 Tiger Rag
Senior closer earns tournament MVP honors after brilliant four outings
By LUKE JOHNSON
Tiger Rag Assistant Editor
HOOVER, Ala. — Utterly unflappable, LSU senior closer Chris Cotton took complete control in the bottom of the 11th of the Southeastern Conference tournament championship game.
He tossed six precise pitches to retire the Commodores’ side and send his teammates sprinting out to the mound to envelop him in a celebratory dog-pile as newly-crowned SEC Champions.
Cotton, the soft-tossing lefty, is a feared closer — and that’s not even debatable.
“You can’t win in this league without a good closer, and that’s what he’s done,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri.
In his first year as LSU’s closer, a role he didn’t even secure until after the season had started, he is one save away from tying the LSU single-season record. But as fine as his season has been, it was his performance in the conference championship game that solidified his standing among the elite.
He was named the Most Valuable Player of the Tournament after the conclusion of the championship game. He only threw 57 pitches to claim that hardware. But let’s take a look at what happened in those 57, shall we?
Cotton struck out five batters, didn’t allow a hit, walk or hit by pitch, earned three saves and won the championship game.
Let’s go back over that. Cotton earned the save in three of LSU’s four tournament wins. The only game he didn’t earn the save? Sunday’s championship game, which he won with 2 2/3 perfect innings.
Perfect innings became kind of his thing in tournament play. Cotton faced 17 batters in the SEC tournament, and 17 batters went back to the dugout wondering just how they were supposed to get on base against the lefty with pinpoint control.
He proved to be untouchable, like when he struck out the side to eliminate Alabama. He proved to be exacting, averaging just under 10 pitches per inning. He proved to be dominant, and was rewarded for it.
His dominance comes from his never-too-high, never-too-low mentality. Some closers are demonstrative, pumping fists or jaw-jacking. Not Cotton. He simply gets the call and runs as hard as he can to the mound where he goes to work.
“Like any other day, like the whole season, I’m just going to sprint out there and get my mind right,” Cotton said.
The easy-going Cotton simply gets the job done. Like he did when he got Vanderbilt catcher Spencer Navin to fly out to center field with one on and two out to end the ninth inning and send the championship game to extras. As soon as the ball left the bat, Cotton just started calmly walking toward the dugout without looking back.
Now that you’ve read this, think back to four years ago and ask yourself if you even knew who Chris Cotton was. He wasn’t a highly sought after recruit. Hell, he wasn’t even sought after.
The only reason he made the squad was because he threw pitches for strikes in his walk-on tryout. His fastball, not great now, was definitely not up to snuff then. His changeup, now filthy, was not very good then according to Mainieri.
You would have scoffed if somebody said to you that four years down the road Cotton would be the MVP of the most competitive conference tournament in the country.
Cotton would’ve joined you.
“Four years ago, I didn’t expect to be here,” Cotton said. “It’s been a long journey. Playing for LSU has been a dream. It’s been fun. We have four more weeks and we’ll see how that goes.”
He said this as the MVP in his oversized white SEC Champions shirt. Not a bad jump in four years.
From unwanted to unhittable.
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Timely hitting, and truly great defense, bases loaded over the shoulder running catch to stop the Vandy rally - strong lock down pitching when it mattered, wins the day and championship for the tigers. Don’t you love it!?
Now all the newspapers will read LSU # 1 Vanderbilt # 2…
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"One potential solution could be only playing six teams within your division and increasing the number of cross-division games up to three."There is a better way. One where the SEC can have its cake (the big-money TV contracts expansion can secure) and eat it too (enjoy frequent matchups between top teams and keep its signature rivalries intact)."
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