Happy # 53 Luis Gonzalez

We say happy birthday to Luis Gonzalez who was born in Tampa on this day in 1967.

Luis was a great hitter from very recent memory.    He broke with Houston in 1990 and ended up with the D-Backs in 1999.

As you may remember, Luis had the winning hit in game 7 of the 2001 World Series over the Yankees.  It kept the Yankees from winning their 4th straight title.

Luis put together some great numbers:   .283 career batting average, 354 HR, and 1,439 RBI over 2,591 games.     

He hit .298 over 8 years in Arizona.  Great hitter!

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2019: Beto is just a 4-letter word

A post from 2019:

As I understand it, Dylan never released a recording of it, but Joan Baez gave us a wonderful rendition of “Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word.”

Nowadays, it sure looks like Beto is nothing but a four-letter word.  He is certainly using them in the campaign trail.  Maybe he thinks that this is how he will get the youth back in the game.

Speaking on CNN, he referred to the situation related to the shootings as “f—” up.   The transcript goes like this:

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke again dropped an F-bomb Sunday morning, calling Saturday’s deadly shooting rampage in Odessa and Midland, Texas “f*cked up.” On CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, O’Rourke told host Dana Bash that “the rhetoric that we’ve used, the thoughts and prayers you just referred to, it has done nothing to stop the epidemic of gun violence.”

O’Rourke continued: “To protect our kids, our families, our fellow Americans in public places. At a Walmart in El Paso where 22 were killed. In Sutherland Springs, in a Church. One or two a day all over this country. A hundred killed daily in the United States of America. We’re averaging about 300 mass shootings a year. No other country comes close.”

And he dropped the four-letter word.

Again, maybe he is hoping to get the young back.  Of course, he got the young in the contest against Senator Ted Cruz because they spent $80 to sign up everyone in Texas. At one point, we had more Beto offices than gas stations around here!

So Beto is down to using four-letter words to express his anger.  Watch for Beto to drop another one at the debate.  It’s all that he has left in the tank!

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2010: Let's talk with Joel about the World Cup

Back in 2010, we recorded this with our late friend Joel Akerman........click to listen:

Pelosi's shampoo plus the debates are on schedule and Japan surrenders 1945

Pelosi's shampoo plus the debates are on schedule and Japan surrenders 1945 09/02 by Silvio Canto Jr | Politics:

Pelosi's shampoo.....Portland needs regime change....The rioters from out of town...The debates are on the schedule.....Japan surrenders 1945...... 

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Wednesday’s video: 2020 like 1968 and law & order

 

Wednesday’s video:

2020 like 1968 and law & order

Click to watch: pic.twitter.com/WBv0R30cnP

— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) September 2, 2020

No ‘sister’ moment for Joe

On Monday, Joe Biden looked at the camera and said something like this:  “Do I look like a guy who supports lawlessness”?

Frankly, he doesn’t.  What he looks like is: a man who has said nothing since the riots started and then suddenly decided to talk about because the polls are changing.

Some in the media are claiming that this is “Joe’s Sister Whatever” moment.  He finally stood up to the violent mob or something like that.

In fact, Biden looked awful, as Eddie Scarry wrote:    

After three months of violence, vandalism, and arson in our biggest cities, all of it excused and encouraged by Democrats, we’re supposed to be impressed that the party’s presidential nominee released a statement calling it “unacceptable.”

The national media will no doubt declare the note, posted Sunday night on Biden’s campaign site, a display of true leadership — because nothing arouses them more than a statement with words like “unequivocally” and “condolences.”

But it’s far too late for Democrats to pretend that they didn’t overtly advocate for and make excuses for this horror show. They’ve only changed their tune now because street violence, chaos, death, and fiery destruction are not exactly political winners — who knew?! 

So nice try, Joe, but you didn’t score.   

Joe Biden made a pact with the leftist devil in order to secure the nomination.  He bought into all Sanders’ and Sandy O’s ideas to buy their support.  Suddenly, he wants us to think that he is the old Joe, but it’s too late for that.

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2008 post: The mask is off: They hated Bush, not war

Maybe anti-war demonstrators are unemployed, back home & getting on their parents' health insurance policies.   Or, maybe they've all decided to watch President Obama talk "hip hop" on MTV rather than care anymore about premeditated wars without Congress or international coalitions.   Or, maybe they don't want to be reminded of that "global test" that then Senator Kerry spoke about in the 2004 campaign?  Or, maybe they don't want to hear that we are starting wars that we can't afford?  Or, maybe they just can't believe that the man who told them what they wanted to hear in 2007-08 would start a war in Lybia.  

We do know that the anti-war left is mute and out of business now that "hope and change" is the one starting wars.   

The silence or indifference is that Obama is a liberal Democrat, as Keith Wagstaff points out:

"Part of the reason, the study says, is that Democratic politicians in the Bush era found it politically useful to co-opt the anti-war movement for votes. That all changed after Obama was elected:      Ultimately, the study suggests, the anti-war rallies of 2003 weren't just about Iraq -- they were also a way to register disapproval with the Bush administration. Now, even with most Americans wary of military intervention in Syria, the Democrats who marched a decade ago are mostly staying home."     

The left has been exposed.  It was always about Bush and not war.   

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Biden speaks plus red Minnesota and talk of reparations in California

Biden speaks plus red Minnesota and talk of reparations in California 09/01 by Silvio Canto Jr | Politics:

Biden speaks and it gets more confusing....Minnesota turning red?.....Who will explain reparations to Hispanics?....Poland 1939.....

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Tuesday’s video: No sister moment for Joe

 

Tuesday’s video:

No sister moment for Joe

Click to watch: pic.twitter.com/TURhs7uGSH

— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) September 1, 2020

Who is going to explain reparations to Hispanics?

California keeps going out of its way to drive residents to Texas or somewhere else.  

We learned that California has set up a panel to study reparations.  This is the story:       

The panel would study the effects slavery had on California and recommend to the legislature no later than 2023 what type of compensation would be appropriate, how it might be dispersed and who could be eligible to receive it.

The task force could also recommend other forms of redress besides money.

According to a state lawmaker, slavery is responsible for higher rates of incarceration, homelessness, and unemployment for African-Americans.  No one asked the lawmaker about March 2020, when the African-American unemployment rate was the lowest ever.  I guess that happened in another planet.  

The lawmakers took this vote on the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.   My guess is that Dr. King would have a few things to say about incarceration and so many young African-American men growing up without fathers.

“Reparations” faces a big test and it will be Hispanics.  It’s possible that many Hispanic legislators supported the creation of the panel but it won’t be so easy when they explain it to their constituents.   

In other words, I have not met a single Hispanic who supports the idea.  Maybe I’m hanging around with too many Cubans and Venezuelans but I don’t remember any Mexicans crazy about the idea.  I do recall a fellow from Guatemala saying this:  “Why do I have to pay taxes for something that happened centuries ago”?

We will wait for the panel’s report.  In the meantime, more people will leave California behind.

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