Dear Yu: Welcome to North Texas and make sure you get Ichiro out the first time you see him!

According to news reports, Yu Yardish is a Ranger and that's good. 

Yu is the celebrated young Japanese pitcher setting baseball records over there.  His statistics are staggering even if you discount for the difference in the quality of major league baseball and the Japanese league.

This is from The Dallas Morning News:

"Darvish had a 93-38 record with a 1.99 ERA over the past seven seasons in Japan.   The 6-foot-5 right-hander was a two-time Pacific League MVP and a five-time All-Star.  He led the league in strikeouts three times, in ERA twice and won two Gold Gloves.
Rangers President Nolan Ryan, a Hall of Fame pitcher and strikeout king who pitched a record 27 major league seasons, was impressed by Darvish's size and attitude about wanting to compete when they met for the first time earlier this month.
 “To me, he represented all I had been led to believe, so I felt really good about it,” Ryan said last week. "

I trust Nolan Ryan's judgement on this one. I understand the skeptics but it's hard to overlook those numbers, i.e. specially that 1.99 ERA over 7 seasons!

The Rangers will quickly become the # 1 team in Japan because Yu is a national sensation over there. Furthermore, can you imagine the TV audience in Japan when Yu and the Rangers play Ichiro and Seattle.  (The Mariners will be here for second series of the season)

Dear Yu: Welcome to North Texas!

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Welcome to the Age of Obama: Fantasy is truth and truth is racist.

Today, The NY Times jumped on "the Newt was condescending" bandwagon and called it all racist.  What else could it be when you disagree with Pres BO?  What else could it be if you point out some uncomfortable statistics?  What else but racism?  I guess that we are all racists now! (....mixing falsehoods with racial condescension....) 

It all started at the GOP debate.  I guess that you are now "a racist" for speaking the truth about Pres BO and food stamps:

"Food stamp use has exploded during the Obama administration, reaching an all-time high of 45.8 million in August. 

This chart, prepared by Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee, depicts the extraordinary growth in the program that began when Barack Obama took office in 2009..."  (Power Line)

Sadly, all of this "racist" stuff overlooks the very negative impact of Pres BO's policies on black Americans & Hispanics:  

"Notably, blacks have been suffering another depression under Obama, with unemployment today, 49 months after the recession started, still at 15.8%. 

Black unemployment has been over 15% for 2 ½ years under Obama.  

Black teenage unemployment today is over 40%, where it has persisted for over 2 years as well."  (Ferrara)
 

It is bad for Hispanics, too:

"Hispanics have also been suffering a depression under Obama, with unemployment today still in double digits at 11%.  
Hispanic unemployment has been in double digits for three years under President Obama."

So here we are.  You are now motivated by race if you point out that the first black president has been a disaster for blacks.  

Or, you are a "racista" if you point out that our president has been all about "5 de Mayo" speeches rather than delivering results to Hispanics.
 

Welcome to the Age of Obama: Fantasy is truth and truth is racist.

Get ready for the most negative campaign in memory.  Pres BO can not run on his record so they will try to paint all of us who disagree with him as racists or "racista" in my case.  It will very ugly and the country will be more divided than ever!

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I am SICK and TIRED of candidates whining about the other guy attacking......

As long as I can remember, political campaigns have been rough, difficult and included negative advertising.  

Take a minute and read about the 1800 presidential election between challenger Thomas Jefferson & Pres John Adams.  It was very nasty: The Election of 1800: The Birth of Negative Campaigning in the U.S.

It got so bad in 1800 that retired First Lady Martha Washington called Jefferson: "......“one of the most detestable of mankind.”"

The 2012 GOP primary is really driving me crazy with candidates complaining about advertising: Newt: Romney camp is 'dirty and dishonest')

Sorry but that's the way campaigns are.  Also, this is nothing compared to what waits the GOP nominee in the fall.  So get ready because this is Disneyland compared to what lies ahead.

Last, but not least, I hate these PACs because they are totally unaccountable to the candidate.  We need to throw these campaign laws in the trash and replace them with a simple standard:  Contribute & disclose.

In other words, let people invest as much as they want BUT force the campaign to disclose the name of the contributor & amount contributed.

Nevertheless, we are where we are.  We have a lousy  and dishonest system that allows unarmed people to attack without accountability.

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