No Hogan in 2024......The media and 2020.....Happy # 84 Cookie Rojas...........and other stories......
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Monday, March 06, 2023
Monday's video: No Hogan in 2024......The media and 2020
No Hogan in 2024......The media and 2020.....Happy # 84 Cookie Rojas...........and other stories....
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Another president with a son problem
(My new American Thinker post)
It turns out that President Biden is not the only president with a son in the news. Down in Colombia, recently elected President Gustavo Petro is getting questions about his son too. This is the story:
Colombia's attorney general's office said on Friday it will begin an investigation into accusations that President Petro's oldest son took money from drug traffickers in exchange for including them in his father's peace efforts.
Nicolas Petro, a lawmaker in Atlantico province, has said he has had nothing to do with the president's efforts to make peace or surrender deals with rebels and criminal gangs, and called the accusations "unfounded and harmful."
At least they didn't find a laptop.
The story behind all this is the reality that Petro's government is working on a conditional amnesty: It would allow criminal gangs, including drug traffickers, to surrender in exchange for reduced sentences. The idea reminds a few of us of Mexico's "hugs not bullets" approach. How is that working in Mexico? Look around and you will see a lot more shooting than embracing. During the campaign, a very close election, candidate Petro promised to bring 'peace' to Colombia after six decades of conflict and 450,000 dead.
President Petro's problems go beyond his son. Apparently, there are also accusations against his brother and his sons.
Wonder if President Petro drives a Corvette?
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Happy # 84 Octavio “Cookie” Rojas
Octavio Victor (Rivas) Rojas was born on March 6, 1939, in Havana, Cuba. According to The Society of Baseball Research, his mother gave him the Spanish nickname “Cuqui”, meaning charming or adorable, when he was young. Eventually “Cuqui” became “Cookie” when he got to major league baseball.
Rojas played 4 seasons in the Cuban winter league. He won the last batting title (.322) of the Cuban winter league, 1960-61.
Rojas broke with the Reds in 1962 but was traded to the Phillies. In 1964, Rojas was at shortstop when Jim Bunning pitched a perfect game on Father’s Day. In 1965, Rojas made the NL All Star team, hit .303 and got many votes for the NL MVP award that year. He spent the rest of the 1960’s with Philadelphia.
In 1970, Rojas got a second chance with the expansion Kansas City Royals. He became a team leader and one of the most popular Royals ever. He represented the Royals in the AL All-Star Game four consecutive years, 1971-74.
He retired as a Royal in 1977 with a .263 career batting average, 1,660 hits and a reputation for being a great influence with young players in the clubhouse.
In the 1980’s, Rojas was named the 29th most popular Royal ever.
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Happy # 86 Valentina Tereshkova
On June 16, 1963, Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman in space. She flew 48 orbits and 71 hours.
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The story of the Spanish Civil War & World War II with Barry Jacobsen
Guest: Barry Jacobsen, military historian and blogger..........we will continue our series about World War II..............the outbreak of war after the invasion of Poland.........the German blitzkrieg warfare.........the use of weapons and tactics in The Spanish Civil War...........and more stories......
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